Canadian Federal Politics Thread v5

[Zarley]

Are they only removing the tax from home heating oil or all forms of home heating?

[Doctorfever]

Originally Posted by Zarley

Are they only removing the tax from home heating oil or all forms of home heating?

Sounds like only the heavy polluters, not the lighter ones.

[calgarygeologist]

Originally Posted by Zarley

Are they only removing the tax from home heating oil or all forms of home heating?

Just the dirty heating oil.

[GordonBlue]

Liberal bill updating sex-offender registry in response to court decision becomes law

https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/libe...-law-1.6619538

A Liberal bill that adds victims' input to the process for publication ban decisions and changes how the national sexual offender registry works has received royal assent.

The new law requires judges to ask prosecutors if they have sought a victim's input when seeking a publication ban, and requires victims' preferences about receiving information about their case after an offender's sentencing to be entered into the record.

[CliffFletcher]

Andrew Coyne has some advice for journalists.

The best way to break Pierre Poilievre’s media-baiting strategy: ask actual questions

… Still, if journalists would like to avoid making themselves props in Mr. Poilievre’s media-baiting strategy, there’s a simple enough remedy: Don’t ask loaded questions! In fairness, it’s difficult to avoid falling into this trap. It’s all too easy to imagine the confrontational, accusatory style (“Isn’t it true your company has been dumping toxic waste in the river?”) is how you “get tough” with an interview subject.

In fact, it’s the simplest thing for the interviewee to flip to his or her advantage. A question that is not really a question offers cover to give an answer that is not really an answer. A breezy “not at all,” a pivot to your preferred talking point (“in fact we care deeply about the environment”), and you’re away.

Many years ago I had the good fortune to attend a seminar by the great John Sawatsky, the reporter and biographer of Brian Mulroney, who in the latter part of his career became something of a guru on the art of the interview.

His technique is simplicity itself: Ask a series of short, open-ended questions. Don’t lard them with lengthy preambles, or pack several questions into one, or disguise a statement as a question. Just let the questions do what questions are supposed to do: elicit new information.

It’s effective, because it isn’t really a technique: It’s an attitude. Mostly, that attitude boils down to humility. An interview is not about you, the interviewer. It’s about the interviewee. So get your fat self out of the way.

And: You’re a journalist, not a prosecutor. Your job is not to put people away. It’s to get news: to learn something new about your subject, and how he or she sees the world...

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opin...-strategy-ask/

[Zarley]

Originally Posted by Doctorfever

Sounds like only the heavy polluters, not the lighter ones.

Makes sense!

[Zarley]

Interesting new poll here. Other pollsters have been showing a Conservative uptick in Quebec since their convention in Quebec City but this is the first one showing significant momentum, with them tied with the Liberals and BQ.

This won't translate to many seats due to poor vote efficiency but interesting nonetheless.

https://twitter.com/user/status/1717137871629336850

[transplant99]

What a difference a year makes.

[CliffFletcher]

Originally Posted by Zarley

Interesting new poll here. Other pollsters have been showing a Conservative uptick in Quebec since their convention in Quebec City but this is the first one showing significant momentum, with them tied with the Liberals and BQ.

This won't translate to many seats due to poor vote efficiency but interesting nonetheless.

https://twitter.com/user/status/1717137871629336850

I had no idea the gender gap has gotten so wide. This is pretty incredible.

As for the gender gap, it is, for lack of a better word, astonishing wide. Among female voters, the Conservatives (34%) and Liberals (32%) are all tied up, while the NDP is a distant third with 20%. Among Canadian men however, the Conservatives hold a crushing 31-point lead (!) over the Liberals — 52% CPC, 21% LPC. Only 12% of Canadian men support Jagmeet Singh’s NDP according to Pallas Data.

[Weitz]

So if you live out east you get a carbon tax break on heating your home? But not if you live out west?

Seems fair.

[rubecube]

Originally Posted by CliffFletcher

I had no idea the gender gap has gotten so wide. This is pretty incredible.

Yeah, who woulda thought that the party that doesn't believe in bodily autonomy for women and universal child care would struggle with female voters.

[Fuzz]

Originally Posted by Weitz

So if you live out east you get a carbon tax break on heating your home? But not if you live out west?

Seems fair.

Presumably it costs a lot more to heat with heating oil, and they don't have low cost natural gas as an option. Seems fair enough to me.

[Weitz]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

Presumably it costs a lot more to heat with heating oil, and they don't have low cost natural gas as an option. Se fair enough to me.

That’s fine. I agree with notley though. Should be equitable across the country.

[CliffFletcher]

Originally Posted by rubecube

Yeah, who woulda thought that the party that doesn't believe in bodily autonomy for women and universal child care would struggle with female voters.

The gender gap in attitudes towards abortion is small: 57 per cent of Canadian women agree that a woman should be able to have an abortion whenever she wants vs 55 per cent of men.

https://www.ipsos.com/en-ca/news-pol...ight-to-choose

[Doctorfever]

Originally Posted by rubecube

Yeah, who woulda thought that the party that doesn't believe in bodily autonomy for women and universal child care would struggle with female voters.

According to the numbers, they have more female votes than the Liberals.

[Harry Lime]

Evangelism doesn't have the stranglehold on conservatives like it does in the states. Abortion just isn't the issue up here, as much as it makes for good headlines.

[Doctorfever]

Originally Posted by Harry Lime

Evangelism doesn't have the stranglehold on conservatives like it does in the states. Abortion just isn't the issue up here, as much as it makes for good headlines.

Ya, and the way the polling is going, you can bet people will try and make it an issue.

[Fuzz]

Originally Posted by Weitz

That’s fine. I agree with notley though. Should be equitable across the country.

I think it's actually a good indication that if the carbon tax is overly punitive in some markets/pollutants, that the government is willing to be flexible. It actually bodes well for Alberta in the future.

[Weitz]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

I think it's actually a good indication that if the carbon tax is overly punitive in some markets/pollutants, that the government is willing to be flexible. It actually bodes well for Alberta in the future.

Or it’s a government desperate as their numbers crater in a certain region.

[OldDutch]

Originally Posted by CliffFletcher

The gender gap in attitudes towards abortion is small: 57 per cent of Canadian women agree that a woman should be able to have an abortion whenever she wants vs 55 per cent of men.

https://www.ipsos.com/en-ca/news-pol...ight-to-choose

How tired is the left wing “if you’re this,you vote this” strategy getting?