Name the one Liberal initiative that Parliament has denied to Justin Trudeau and his party because they have a minority government.
There isn’t one. Every time the minority Liberals have wanted an expansion of the already enormous federal budget, one of the other toady leftist parties has obliged by casting their lot with the Trudeau-ites.
The Conservative Party of Canada today released its full 160-page election platform — an ambitious agenda that promises billions of dollars in new spending to prop up an economy ravaged by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Unlike past Conservative platforms, this one embraces a robust role for government in the economy through large cash injections to help businesses weather the pandemic crisis over the next two years.
“You’ll probably notice ideas that you haven’t heard from Conservatives like me before. It’s time for Conservatives to take inequality seriously, because that’s becoming more of a problem in our country,” Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole says in the opening paragraphs of the document.
And the theme of this year’s election is Spend! Spend! Spend!
For Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole, what could be a make-or-break effort to define himself in the eyes of voters starts now.
Polling suggests his party begins a summer campaign behind the governing Liberals, who are eyeing a majority. The numbers also show that O’Toole, a former veterans affairs minister from a riding in the battleground Greater Toronto Area, is not particularly well-known or popular.
It hasn’t always been easy for O’Toole to get a word in edgewise since winning the Conservative leadership last August.
OTTAWA — Let’s get the obvious rant out of the way – the Sept. 20 federal election is not necessary, has no coherent rationale to justify Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau’s $500-million bid for a majority mandate and, worst of all, puts the federal government on hold at the precise moment when a fourth COVID-19 wave will hit the youngest the hardest.
Throw in the tragic Taliban storming of Afghanistan’s capital, leaving behind the hundreds of endangered interpreters and aid workers who helped Canada during its combat mission with no prospect of rescue, and there was a major wobble in the Liberal campaign rollout.
There is a theory, recently expounded by Reuters Ottawa correspondent David Ljunggren, that the weakness of Justin Trudeau’s political opponents might actually work against him.
Trudeau won his initial majority in 2015 partly because of his own charisma, but also largely because of animus against Stephen Harper at the end of his long time in government.
Justin Trudeau calls a federal election for Sept. 20
OTTAWA—Prime Minister Justin Trudeau plunged Canada into a federal election campaign on Sunday after Gov. Gen. Mary Simon agreed to dissolve Parliament and set voting day for Sept. 20.
The official start of the 36-day summertime campaign ends weeks of speculation about whether Trudeau would pull the plug on the 43rd parliament he called “dysfunctional” while claiming he did not want an election until Canada got through the COVID-19 pandemic that is now seeing a fourth wave of infections.
Evidently even broom retentive Cons are complaining about this ad.
It really isn’t that bad and the alleged revulsion very serious people have expressed for the ad makes me suspect the Cons suffer Stockholm syndrome.
The election hasn’t even officially started and already their allowing Trudeau’s media to shape the narrative.
Conservatives launch attack ad called ‘dumb’ by their own party members
The only reason for an election is because Trudeau wants a majority. pic.twitter.com/g3zxKSHc7F
— Conservative Party (@CPC_HQ) August 13, 2021
