Category: Shiny Pony

Oh, Shiny Pony!

Justin, Justin, Justin…

Grace Batchoun says she doesn’t have a problem with losing. But she does seem to have a problem with pretty near everything else that happened during last Sunday’s vote to choose a Liberal candidate for the federal riding of Ahuntsic-Cartierville. And that could prove to be a problem for Mélanie Joly and, ultimately, Justin Trudeau.
Yesterday morning, Batchoun, a project manager who was one of three opponents contesting Joly for the nomination, announced that she had filed an appeal of the Sunday’s vote. Her challenge is based on several factors, the most worrisome based on simple arithmetic. On Sunday organizers of the vote announced that 2,065 ballots had been cast, including spoiled votes. But according to Batchoun’s reading of the list of ballots cast that she says was provided to her by a Liberal Party official, only 1780 people actually showed up to vote.

h/t Kevin B

Oh, Shiny Pony!

Justin Trudeau is a strange and nearly unprecedented figure in Canadian political history: A dynast. Even his staunchest admirers confess that, lacking the Trudeau name, this gaffe prone man with the post-it note resume would likely still be teaching drama in suburban Vancouver.
Given his work experience and education a responsible business executive or entrepreneur would not hire Trudeau to sell, manager, engineer, service, maintain or negotiate anything of any real importance. Yet as of the writing of this piece Justin Trudeau has a very strong chance of becoming Canada’s next Prime Minister.
Paul Tuns, a veteran political journalist and long-time editor of The Interim, has taken up the task of exploring this paradox in his latest book: The Dauphin: The Truth About Justin Trudeau. Let’s be clear about what this book is not: It is not a rant, screed or a litany of loosely connected gossip.

Oh, Shiny Pony!

PURELY A SCHEDULING ERROR.

Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau’s office says his decision not to attend an event in Nova Scotia amid a social media backlash over a provincial government decision to cut the province’s film industry tax break was made because he’s meeting with the prime minister of India, Narendra Modi.

h/t Mike

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