GT: Federal Election

[FlamesAddiction]

Originally Posted by Weitz

This is exactly it.

It's not a matter of paying 15$/hr or whatever to a babysitter. its the "do as I say not as I do" attitude he is portraying.

If you want to compare hypocrisy, this is nowhere near the level of Stephen Harper.

• He pledged government transparency and then led one of the most secretive governments in Canadian history.
• He criticized the Martin Liberals for meeting Chinese leaders and "letting down" Tibet and Taiwan. Then as PM, he went on to make it easier for China to operate in Canada.
• He pledged senate reform when the Liberals were in power, but then went on to appoint 58 senators, including some pretty scandalous ones.
• He complained when the Liberals rescheduled Opposition Days. Then when he was PM, he cancelled and re-scheduled Opposition Days at least 3 times, including proroguing government to avoid non-confidence votes.

I am sure that those complaining about Trudeau using a service that was made available to him, as well as past PMs, probably didn't complain about the bigger issues of hypocrisy listed above.

[Senator Clay Davis]

CPC supporters spent the last 4 years listening to the majority of the country trashing the CPC at every single turn with every single issue, minor or major. It's not at all surprising that they now intend to spend the next 4 years doing the same to the LPC. It's what the GOP just did for 8 years with Obama after the Bush years. It's the whole "sports team" thing again, coupled with some bizarre "lets show them how it feels" approach. Of course considering US America is a total debacle because of this approach, it'd be nice to avoid it. Seems unlikely though.

[PepsiFree]

Originally Posted by zamler

lI would do no such thing I openly criticized Harper on many issues I hated his crime bill and his refusal to address most any environmental concerns. Harper went full idiot with his marijuana comments....

Harper criticisms: War on crime, war on drugs, lack of environmental actions

Trudeau criticisms: Hired a nanny

Seems on the level.

[Tinordi]

Originally Posted by PepsiFree

Harper criticisms: War on crime, war on drugs, lack of environmental actions

Trudeau criticisms: Hired a nanny

Seems on the level.

#bothsides

[Weitz]

Sorry guys, I forgot that because Harper sucked so much you can't point fault at JT for his "do as i say, not as I do".

[zamler]

Originally Posted by PepsiFree

Harper criticisms: War on crime, war on drugs, lack of environmental actions

Trudeau criticisms: Hired a nanny

Seems on the level.

Agreed, after nine years in office Trudeau has shown much better restraint and much better judgement his record speaks for itself.

Originally Posted by Weitz

Sorry guys, I forgot that because Harper sucked so much you can't point fault at JT for his "do as i say, not as I do".

Better get used to it, anything Trudeau does that is questionable will be trumped by, "but look what Harper did!".

[MrMastodonFarm]

Originally Posted by zamler

I find it very hard to believe your vitriol came from a position of political neutrality.

Well, you'd be wrong.

I hate ignorant partisan ranting more than anything.

[PsYcNeT]

I'll reserve my righteous indignation for when JT tries to strip away my rights and freedoms.

[Hemi-Cuda]

Holy crap, 6 pages blathering on about Trudeau's nannies? This is ridiculous, optics or not this registers so low on the "give-a-####" meter that it isn't even worth picking a side on. So what's next, the media jumps on Trudeau for chewing gum or for bowing too low to the Japanese prime minister? The Americanization of our politics really sucks

[northcrunk]

Originally Posted by PsYcNeT

I'll reserve my righteous indignation for when JT tries to strip away my rights and freedoms.

Agreed. This is small. We have bigger things to worry about than our PM having a nanny for his young kids.

[PsYcNeT]

Can I just say I love that we can refer to our PM as JT?

It makes me think of him as a 90s teen heartthrob on the cover of Tigerbeat.

I find it very comical.

[CliffFletcher]

I'm starting to wonder how many people posting in this thread are 19 year olds who are totally new to following politics. This is the sort of story the opposition and the media pick up on 100 per cent of the time. Regardless of the party. Since forever.

[zamler]

Originally Posted by Hemi-Cuda

Holy crap, 6 pages blathering on about Trudeau's nannies? This is ridiculous, optics or not this registers so low on the "give-a-####" meter..

If you do a Google on Trudeau the 1st or 2nd result is the nanny thing so the give-a-crap meter is pretty high apparently, rightly or wrongly.

[Fire of the Phoenix]

Originally Posted by CroFlames

The Justin can do no wrong crowd is coming out.

The people skewering Trudeau wouldn't have a damned thing to say if it was Harper (or someone from their 'team') doing this. It's just another case of blind partisanship as far as I'm concerned.

[Blaster86]

Originally Posted by CliffFletcher

I'm starting to wonder how many people posting in this thread are 19 year olds who are totally new to following politics. This is the sort of story the opposition and the media pick up on 100 per cent of the time. Regardless of the party. Since forever.

Correct.

It also makes it no less stupid.

[Kavvy]

As much as my party may wish it, this will not be an election issue during the next election.

If the CPC was smart, they would pull a Sanders and come out and say it is a non-issue as Justin is the Prime Minister.

The get credit for being the party that focuses on issues, not noise, and bringing Canadians together, when in the end, all they did was end and issue which wouldn't of given them any political cash anyway.

[Nufy]

Originally Posted by Fire of the Phoenix

The people skewering Trudeau wouldn't have a damned thing to say if it was Harper (or someone from their 'team') doing this. It's just another case of blind partisanship as far as I'm concerned.

Bull crap !!!

Hypocrisy is not left or right...

I have an issue with those types of perks for anyone...

Say one thing and then double back on it and you will get my goat every time.

[ae118]

This is ridiculous. How many sharks must this thread jump before someone shuts it down?

[CroFlames]

Why shut the thread down? Because not everyone agrees on something?

No rules were broken chief.

[Jacks]

The thread would probably be on page 2 by now if the beliebers weren't trying to shout down anyone who says something mean about Justin.