You don't think Pierre is the type to make concessions and deals with Trump in an attempt to appease him(being desperate for a win) that Pierre wouldn't end up handing out concessions that ultimately leave us much worse off?
No, because I think bowing to Trump is very obviously bad for any Canadian politician. It costs votes here. PP is a quintessential politician. He is motivated by winning elections above everything else. He understands what the electorate thinks of Trump, which is why he has in recent days tried to suggest that Trump being nice to Carney after their call is somehow an indication that Trump wants Carney to win.
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It may not be selling out all of the country, but he would for sure kowtow to Trump on demands for removing DEI type protections and cause a great deal of harm to many communities, the moment Trump told him to.
Trump doesn't give a #### about DEI protections in Canada. He has made no such demands. PP will probably remove those protections, or some of them, or otherwise change laws that he would characterize as "DEI-related", as a nod to "fighting the woke movement" or some such, but not because Trump tells him to. He'd have done that no matter who the President was, because he's a conservative populist. That's a completely separate criticism.
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No, because I think bowing to Trump is very obviously bad for any Canadian politician. It costs votes here. PP is a quintessential politician. He is motivated by winning elections above everything else. He understands what the electorate thinks of Trump, which is why he has in recent days tried to suggest that Trump being nice to Carney after their call is somehow an indication that Trump wants Carney to win.
Trump doesn't give a #### about DEI protections in Canada. He has made no such demands. PP will probably remove those protections, or some of them, or otherwise change laws that he would characterize as "DEI-related", as a nod to "fighting the woke movement" or some such, but not because Trump tells him to. He'd have done that no matter who the President was, because he's a conservative populist. That's a completely separate criticism.
I disagree on your first paragraph, I don't think Pierre is able to distance himself from the policies he himself supports.
The CPC is rotten to the core. These two ####os potentially adding to their own troubles because they think they are somehow still relevant is icing on the cake. Andrew should be ejected. See if Pierre is willing to go that hard against his own base.
I'm really hoping one of the parties steps up with a coherent plan to recruit American professionals. This is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to restock our medical and academic research fields with some of the brightest minds in the world. It would also help alleviate some of our health care officials.
Bureaucracy has its place, but this is one of those instances where the red tape needs to be cut as quickly as possible and funding provided to setup a nerd pipeline.
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And actually there's another reason why the CPC is the wrong party to lead the country. All of their bull#### about canceling funding to universities that are "too woke" is more Project 2025 nonsense and would basically cancel out Canada as a destination for doctors, etc., looking to leave the U.S. for the same reasons.
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What an effing smug moron. If the Libs wanted to run this stupid crowd size attack ad they might win 250 seats.
Nah, they need to stay the course and stay out of the mud. Keep hammering the message of maturity and competence. Keep telling me why you are the ones to lead… every time the left tries to through mud with the right, they lose.
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Nah, they need to stay the course and stay out of the mud. Keep hammering the message of maturity and competence. Keep telling me why you are the ones to lead… every time the left tries to through mud with the right, they lose.
Naw I'm good. We've had to listen to this piece of rightwing kyit for the past 3 years.
Pound him to the sand and let the career politician find a real job for the first time in his life. I want him to lose his effing riding.
Anyone who votes for PP is a deplorable idiot.
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“For the most part, the promises are basically unworkable,” said Emmett Macfarlane, a political-science professor at the University of Waterloo specializing in constitutional law, governance and public policy.
“The Supreme Court has made clear over the last decade or so that, generally speaking, most mandatory minimum sentences will not be constitutional.”
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“We saw an explosion of mandatory minimum penalties, including through the Safe Streets and Communities Act in 2012, where the number of mandatory minimums in the Criminal Code almost reached 100. There used to just be nine mandatory minimum penalties in 1987,” Perrin said.
He called mandatory minimums a “failed policy.”
Research shows they’re not effective at reducing crime and may actually increase recidivism, Perrin said.
“They increase delays in an already overburdened system, and they perpetuate disproportionate incarceration of Indigenous and Black people,” he added.
Not to worry, Ben. You sound like an expert someone like Pierre has no interest in listening to. Note this is the Benjamin Perrin who was "Special Adviser and Legal Counsel to the Prime Minister," one Stephen Harper. So he's not some bleeding heart liberal.
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I’m a senior reporter covering the Conservative campaign this week.
We've seen unprecedented efforts at message control from the Poilievre campaign that have broken with tradition in a number of ways.
The CPC is the only party to bar media from its campaign plane and buses. The Stephen Harper, Andrew Scheer and Erin O'Toole campaigns all allowed media to travel with the leader, and charged sometimes exorbitant amounts of money for the privilege. The other parties do the same, and also charge.
Poilievre takes fewer questions than other leaders, a maximum of four per event, and insists on choosing which reporters are allowed to ask. After a week following the campaign, neither I nor my CBC colleague Tom Parry have been permitted to ask any questions.
Sometimes, CPC staffers try to get reporters to say what they plan to ask — a question a reporter is not supposed to answer. However, we have seen local media pressured into answering. Obviously, if a reporter declines, that could factor into the decision of who gets to ask questions at all.
The decision on who asks questions is always last-minute. A CPC staffer holds the microphone, ready to pull it away. No follow-up questions are permitted.
On occasion, CPC staffers have gotten physical with journalists, such as on the public wharf at Petty Harbour, N.L., where there was pushing and shoving.
Today, in Trois-Rivières, we asked to be allotted a question. Party staffers said yes, so long as it was asked by my colleague Tom Parry. We responded that I would prefer to ask it. At that point the party took away our question and gave it to another outlet.
The difficulty of trying to keep up with a campaign that has its own chartered aircraft is a logistical problem that can be mitigated to some extent. But the extreme message control makes it all but impossible to bring the same level of accountability to the Poilievre campaign that other campaigns are subject to. It also protects the campaign from having to answer tough questions and is a marked departure from previous Conservative campaigns I have covered.
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Carney fields questions from outlets like the Western Standard in the conservative hotbed of Alberta. PP is afraid of even being asked a question by the CBC or anyone who doesn’t tell him what the question is going to be beforehand, and has his cronies assault reporters.
Can’t wait until Trump-lite gets kicked to the curb for good.
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I cannot believe anyone thought this dude was a legitimately good choice to run the country. How embarrassing for those that did.
He is such a loser. Could you imagine that stupid hair and that voice representing is on the national stage. Those dumb eyes when someone asks him a question and he can’t process what is happening. Him beside the G7 leaders
If Vote Compass is any guide then I would fall just right of centre. This is easily the most difficult decision in a federal election I have had and this is my twelfth. Frankly both main parties have huge warts, for me it's deciding who is the best of two poor options.
You're probably close to me on the compass.
What exactly are the points of difficult decision for you?
I don't see PP running a centrist campaign at all; he has even laughed off the idea.
Aside from fear that the Trudeau liberals and MPs will still run the show, I don't see any difficult decision.
I really am struggling with the about face when it comes to pipelines in this country from the Liberal perspective. There could have been so much infrastructure completed by now, we are so far behind. Many businesses have abandoned the idea because of how difficult it was to get anything done. Policies were about carbon capture and reduction, and shifting away to renewables, which is fine, but how do you fund that? And does that not all take time, like decades?
And now its all about Canadian independence when it comes to our resources?
Like I said, really struggling with that. I hate this election.
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While my vote is already spoken for this time, I'm interested to see what you/ your party has to say.
