Federal Election Called for Oct 19, 2015

[Parallex]

Mulclair's zingers went from amusing to dickish pretty quick.

[nik-]

Originally Posted by Makarov

2% of the emissions in the world. 0.4% of the people in world. One of the wealthiest countries in the world.

Its hardly preposterous to argue that Canada is badly failing its duties with respect to climate change.

and 4% of the total Oil produced.

[Drak]

When Mulcair speaks I feel like drinking a smooth scotch by the fire.

[nik-]

Originally Posted by Parallex

Mulclair's zingers went from amusing to dickish pretty quick.

Yup ... he's retained some of Layton's style at least.

[Dion]

Originally Posted by Jacks

Trudeau the interrupter gets shut down, good.

and he's starting to get a bit flustered.

He's like the kid at the HS debate who interrupts everyone to get all his talking points in before he forgets them.

[rubecube]

Trudeau hasn't been very good tonight. Definitely was stronger in the previous debates.

[Blaster86]

If only one-liners were what we needed in a leader. I am sure Thomas Mulcair could cow ISIS and North Korea with a couple scathing remarks...

[KootenayFlamesFan]

Can't believe I have to vote for one of these three candidates. Not a fan of anyone up there.

[Blaster86]

Trudeau needs to shut up when he isn't the one speaking.

Edit - Another quip by Tom at the end. He's so clever.

[killer_carlson]

Did Mulclair just ask who we want to sit across from Merkel?

Wow.

[Drak]

That entire debate was pretty poor and messy.

[Blaster86]

As someone who leans left traditionally, Thomas Mulcair did an amazing job at making sure I don't even consider looking at strategic voting in my riding.

[Jacks]

Audio issues aside I thought that was a good debate. Just getting Trudeau to shut up while other people were talking was worth it.

[Makarov]

Originally Posted by 2Stonedbirds

How did we become one of the wealthiest countries in the world again?

I suspect by pumping quite a lot of greenhouse gases into the air (in part anyway). I also suspect that this is why people in poor countries who pump far less greenhouse gases into the air, are far poorer, and are far more likely to be negatively affected by global warming might resent Canada's rather embarrassing greenhouse gas record.

[2Stonedbirds]

Feel like Harper and Mulcair came out of that round of debates looking the best.

Trudeau I felt talked in platitudes and didn't really come across as informative.

[puckedoff]

Pretty sure a big part of why Ontario lost manufacturing jobs was because the provincial government retired coal plants and drove their electricity costs through the roof...

[nik-]

Originally Posted by killer_carlson

Did Mulclair just ask who we want to sit across from Merkel?

Wow.

Yup. In a recession economy, he went with who do people want to sit across the table at a Climate Change conference.

[rubecube]

Originally Posted by 2Stonedbirds

Feel like Harper and Mulcair came out of that round of debates looking the best.

Trudeau I felt talked in platitudes and didn't really come across as informative.

I think Trudeau held his own but the stammering and stuttering he gets caught doing doesn't make him look strong.

[killer_carlson]

Originally Posted by Makarov

I suspect by pumping quite a lot of greenhouse gases into the air (in part anyway). I also suspect that this is why people in poor countries who pump far less greenhouse gases into the air, are far poorer, and are far more likely to be negatively affected by global warming might resent Canada's rather embarrassing greenhouse gas record.

and I suspect that you are grossly mistaken.

[Parallex]

I hope the consortium is back next time. The debates this go around were either terrible or via only being broadcast on CPAC virtually unwatched or both. IMO the best debates were the Global debate and the French debate.