Category: 2021 Federal Election

You Know Max is Popular

2021 Federal Election CBC Media 89 Comments

When the CBC sends one of their senior reporters (conspiracy theorists) out to do data driven “research”.

Bernier’s talk of ‘tyranny’ echoes far right militia group’s slogan, say experts

People’s Party of Canada Leader Maxime Bernier has been using a phrase in speeches and in tweets similar to one used by members of a far-right militia group — some of whom participated in the storming of the Capitol Building in Washington earlier this year.

Experts who monitor online extremism say Bernier’s repeated use of the phrase — “When tyranny becomes law, revolution becomes our duty” — could be interpreted by members of some far-right extremist groups like the Three Percenters as an endorsement.

It’s a popular quote from Thomas Jefferson but our moral and intellectual betters have other notions.

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Vote Liberal Because We Need A Housing Tax

2021 Federal Election Shiny Pony The Libranos Turtle Island 33 Comments

A Liberal candidate claims that a housing tax will come under a new Liberal government. Blackie has denied this in the past, so it must not be true. You can trust the Liberals. They wouldn’t lie.

Update on the book burning school board. It seems the consultant who worked with the Ontario school board to burn books, is a fake Indian. Not only that, but she recently had to resign from the Liberal Party’s Indian advisory group because of questions on whether she is an Indian. She states she resigned so as not to embarrass her buddy Trudeau or the Liberals. I think that ship has sailed.

Oh, Surly Pony!

2021 Federal Election Shiny Pony 77 Comments

Ivison;

Trudeau has looked frantic and sounded shrill. The leader who propounded “sunny ways” and the hopeful narrative has been reduced to accusing his rival of saying anything to get elected. Lest we forget, this is the Justin Trudeau who promised electoral reform, the return of peacekeeping, pharmacare, clean drinking water on reserves, Access to Information in ministerial offices, two years of deficits before a return to balanced budgets etc, etc.

This is dangerous territory for the Liberal leader — as is the politicization of vaccination. His position on those who have not been vaccinated is hardening, as he tries to link “anti-vaxxer mobs” stalking his campaign events to O’Toole.

“The vague position taken by Mr. O’Toole is an issue. He will not demand that people taking a plane or a train are vaccinated. He will not demand that the federal public service be vaccinated and he doesn’t even expect that his candidates be fully vaccinated — and that shows that, yes, he’s trying to get votes from anti-vaxxers,” he said.

Can anyone remember a time when the prime minister of a country demonized and delegitimized so many of his fellow citizens?

More of the same

2021 Federal Election Tommy Douglas: Not Dead Enough 30 Comments

Change may be in the air, but how substantive will it be? Judging by the agenda being promoted by this CPC candidate in Nova Scotia, not much. The solution to Canada’s health care woes is apparently even more money and micromanagement from Ottawa:

But issues with the health-care system pre-date the pandemic. The physician workforce is aging, Ellis explains, an issue complicated by younger doctors who want a better work life balance with a smaller patient load, while patient needs are getting more complex. He says there’s a need for “federal oversight in terms of how we begin to look at recruiting and retaining primary care providers.”

 

So Basically The Same

2021 Federal Election CPC Leadership 191 Comments

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Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole is the latest federal party leader to promise a national system for proving residents have been vaccinated against COVID-19.

O’Toole says he would work with provinces to devise a national proof-of-vaccination system, adding such a setup would help Canadians during international travel.

O’Toole says he wants 90 per cent of eligible residents vaccinated against COVID-19, and is pledging to cover the cost of time off for employees to get a shot, free transportation to vaccine clinics and a national booster shot strategy that would initially target seniors and the immunocompromised.

Anyone have anything different on the table? 

A Chicken in every Pot

2021 Federal Election 17 Comments

Conrad Black goes over the party platforms.

Erin O’Toole’s platform is imaginative, but Maxime Bernier is the most impressive leader. The Liberals offer plenty of extra spending but don’t say how it will be paid for.

Bleary-eyed and almost gasping for air, I can confirm to the 99.9 per cent of Canadians who don’t read the platforms of political parties at the onset of an election campaign that they are not missing a great deal in profound thought, stylish composition, or uplifting incitements to patriotic exaltation of the soul. I did not go beyond the Liberals and Conservatives because they are the only parties that have any chance of forming a government, and in any case I protest against the exclusion from the debates of Maxime Bernier who is probably the most impressive of the party leaders and has the best program in many respects. He is being discriminated against by the debates commission.

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