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Originally Posted by Mr.Coffee
Who is more sleezy, Trudeau or Poilievre?
Also, does it matter? Canadians don’t seem to really think so, unless you’re conservative.
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In the list of questions I think people should as before voting in order of Priority Trudeau is worse.
Number 1) Is the person a threat to democracy.
Turdeaus obstruction of Justice in the SNC Lavalin affair is disqualifying. Regardless of options you can’t vote for someone who stomps all over these Norms and then use’s parliamentary procedure to prevent the proper investigation of said norm breaking. We can keep going through all of the Norm breaking but just this one is and has to be disqualifying. The Trump era and beyond of US politics and the current Trudeau rule has shown that Norms are so important in making a democracy function.
Pierre doesn’t appear to be a threat to democratic norms yet.
Number 2) Is the do you follow some sort of data driven decision process or are you a populist.
Here is where Pierre fails. The entire platform is based on what sounds good rather than any kind of evidence. This is also disqualifying so I don’t think you can vote for him either. Like comments around the central banks are dangerous and not evidence based. You can’t elect someone like that.
So neither are acceptable to vote for but Trudeau is worse.
As I have said before I’m glad I don’t have a vote that matters this federal election and can just vote for a palowski because it’s funny.
I also don’t think anyone who was saying you can’t vote for Smith because of the ethical obstruction of Justice issues as a primary reason can credibly vote for Trudeau and anyone who voted for Smith can’t use Trudeau’s ethical lapses as a reason to vote against them. They are surprisingly equally terrible on ethical and democratic norms grounds.