The elites will always protect their own interests, and that’s what they’re doing by trying to give Trudeau a free pass for his horrendous foreign policy failures.
“Another Damn Election”
Leaders debate
NatPo – Lacklustre second leaders debate short on emotion, heavy on talking points
Just like during the first debate last week, Trudeau was repeatedly grilled by opposition leaders about his decision to call a ‘selfish’ election
Global – Federal leaders trade barbs on COVID-19, Indigenous rights in French election debate
Indigenous reconciliation, climate change and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic sparked fiery but mostly peaceful exchanges among the federal party leaders in the Canadian election‘s French language debate.
The Star – Leaders clash over character and credibility in French-language election debate
OTTAWA—Political promises were on the menu, but hot takes on character and credibility were the dishes served up at the French-language debate staged in Gatineau Wednesday night.
Toronto Sun – Leaders gather in Gatineau, drill Trudeau about ill-timed election
As five federal party leaders squared off in the second French-language debate of the election campaign, Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau again found himself attacked for calling an election at the beginning of a fourth wave of COVID-19 infections.
CBC – This election is tight — and last night’s debate likely did little to change that
There were some sharp elbows on display but nothing that suggests a pivot point in the campaign
BBC – Party leaders spar in first national debate Yea it’s the second of 3 the Beeb got it wrong
Canadian federal party leaders clashed over vaccines, climate policy and the economy in the first national TV debate of this general election campaign.
The Conservatives target the swing voters sick of Trudeau — but wary of change
When Erin O’Toole released the Conservative Party’s list of election promises last month, at least one experienced political strategist was stumped.
“I saw nothing that would help them win the election,” David Herle, the well-known Liberal adviser, told Politico. “No big tax cut. No serious affordability initiative.”
O’Toole’s people would no doubt quibble with such a broad dismissal. The 83-page document is full of bullet points, and nearly every section is presented as a “detailed plan” to address one concern or another.
Rex Murphy: It’s a hollow election without national purpose
This election is hollow. It is without centre. It is without national purpose. It is idle, contrived, opportunistic, premature and cynical. It is just a Liberal game.
Everyone knows it is. The public, the press, the politicians, and if a pandemic could be said to have a personality, the pandemic knows it, too.
I think it has united people to hate Trudeau, so there’s that.
Erin O’Toole is the most Liberal leader the Conservatives have ever had
On Aug. 15, the day Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau launched the federal election campaign, Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole’s chief strategist made a prediction.
“Once again, @erinotoole begins a campaign as the underdog,” Dan Robertson tweeted. “This isn’t the first time he’s been underestimated, but it will be the last.”
No one is underestimating Mr. O’Toole today, not least the Liberals. The two leaders and the two parties are running neck and neck in the polls. Either leader could be prime minister after Sept. 20.
Go incognito
GOLDSTEIN: Medical journal says Trudeau government muzzled scientists
Over the past 18 months of the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s become readily apparent that the Public Health Agency of Canada is a politicized arm of the Trudeau government.
Corbella: The vaccine hesitant are typically 40-something women in Ontario who tend to vote Liberal
… According to Abacus Data, in a 30,000-person poll taken over months, the typical vaccine hesitant Canadian is a 42-year-old Ontario woman who votes Liberal.
As Abacus chair Bruce Anderson wrote in an Aug. 11 Maclean’s magazine article, “almost half of (the vaccine hesitant, 46 per cent) live in Ontario and well over half of them (59 per cent) are women. A quarter were born outside Canada. Their average age is 42 and the plurality are between 30 and 44 years old. If they were voting in a federal election today, 35 per cent would vote Liberal, 25 per cent Conservative, 17 per cent NDP, nine per cent Green — pretty similar to overall voting intentions for the entire population.”
David Staples: Canada can no longer do the big, important things. Can Erin O’Toole change that?
It’s what we fear that largely propels how we will vote on election day. For this reason, political leaders are constantly mashing on the fear button.
It’s why Justin Trudeau brings up abortion, gun control and unruly mobs of angry white voters. He hopes to drum up fear about Erin O’Toole and the Conservatives. He does it because it works and I get the tactic, in part because I am driven in part by fear myself.
No.
Canada is being slowly strangled to death. Quebec is an extortive albatross and few in the ROC could care less if they left. The Maritimes have long been a federal welfare case and mostly vote accordingly. Ontario exists only as woke Toronto and that is not a good neighborhood. The divisions widen daily, oil rich provinces versus the virtue signaling eco-taliban, socialists versus the other socialists versus the minority of conservatives. An elite as destructive and corrupt as any to be found anywhere continues to force mass immigration and weaponized multiculturalism down our throats, all the better to enrich themselves and impoverish the rest of us. Consequently our social fabric has been torn to shreds.
We are reduced to tribes scrambling for crumbs.
Gradually and then all at once Trudeau’s vision will be realized and Canada will be the world’s first post-modern state. Unfortunately that entails being a failed state.
That’s why we can’t do the “Big Important Things.”
Campaign stop protesters are succeeding in shutting Trudeau’s BS down says Nanos
Protesters at Trudeau’s campaign events are ‘punching above their weight’: Nanos
TORONTO — The small but vocal groups of protesters that have dogged Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau at his political rallies are disrupting his messaging, according to pollster Nik Nanos.
“It’s been a distraction for Trudeau. He’s not been able to get his message out,” Nanos said on Wednesday’s edition of CTV’s Trend Line podcast. “These folks are punching above their weight.”
Trudeau loses again
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— DonaldBest.CA (@DonaldBestCA) September 8, 2021
Could People’s Party of Canada convert social media traction into votes?
The People’s Party of Canada got a handful of its election signs on TV newscasts over the past few hours. The PPC signs were in the background as Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau made his way to the bus in London and got showered by a handful of gravel.
In one shot you can clearly see a sign for Chelsea Hillier, the PPC candidate from Elgin-Middlesex-London. Last night Hillier tweeted “Justin Trudeau had quite the warm welcome tonight in London!” That was last night. Tuesday Hillier’s tone shifted a little.
Conservative lead growing slightly as Liberal, NDP election campaigns hit wall: poll
The federal election race remains tight, a new poll suggests, but the Conservatives’ momentum appears to be building as the Liberals and NDP campaigns are stalling.
The Ipsos poll conducted exclusively for Global News found that 35 per cent of decided voters would vote for the Tories, up three points from last week. The Liberals would earn 32 per cent of the vote, up one point, while the NDP went down two points to receive 21 per cent.
Doesn’t appear that Justin has garnered much sympathy support despite being attacked with a couple of pebbles. Try as the media might it was hardly an assassination attempt.
Guns didn’t work, abortion failed, hidden agenda bit the dust, Justin’s laughable call to elect a real “leader” boomeranged. I expect Justin’s media will label everyone not voting for Trudeau to be the Taliban next. But not the “Changed” Taliban the old “right wing extremist” Taliban.
Even CTV’s Nanos tracker has swung back to a Conservative lead after it showed Justin slightly ahead yesterday.
Will it translate to enough seats for a win? A close call but at this point it’s still likely to end in a diminished LPC minority.
Erin O’Toole Betrays Gun Owners Despite Being Ahead in the Polls
The Conservative Party of Canada is currently leading the Liberals by wide margins in the majority of officially published polls so far in the 2021 snap election, and polling aggregators like 338 Canada are also projecting that the Conservative Party will likely win the most seats in Parliament.
In spite of the lead, Conservative Party leader Erin O’Toole has been jumping from foot to foot over the past week when it comes to the issue of firearms.
No mention of Afghanistan or other foreign affairs issues in Leaders’ Debate topics list
A recently released theme list of the upcoming English Leaders’ Debate completely left out any mention of Afghanistan, the two Michaels or other pressing foreign affairs matters.
The Trudeau Liberals’ only philosophy is to spend, spend and spend some more
The Liberal party has so embraced increasing the size of government that even the appearance of principles to justify profligacy has been abandoned. After nearly doubling the size of public debt while in power, the party’s platform promises to grow the budget by another $78 billion, with new revenue to cover hardly a third. Barely any of this new spending would be in service of a coherent set of beliefs honestly held about the role of government. When faced with two competing, or even contradictory, policy options aimed at achieving the same goal, the Liberals will inevitably refuse to decide and instead choose both.