Have Canadians wearied of Trudeau’s vapid wokeness?

Will the world’s wokest leader be reelected? When Justin Trudeau called the election to Canada’s 44th Parliament at the end of August, he was comfortably ahead in the polls. Crises bolster all but the most obviously useless incumbents, and Canada has had, as measured by deaths, vaccine rollout, and economic impact, a better pandemic than many comparable countries.

The pleasant, handsome, vapid prime minister, who has been leading a minority government since the 2019 election, understandably saw an opportunity to give himself an absolute majority.

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Complaints About ‘Vote-Splitting’ Falsely Implies Parties Are Entitled To Voters

It’s easy to get locked into the ‘vote-splitting’ narrative during federal elections.

Most analysts, pundits, and commentators – myself included – find it easy to talk about vote splitting because it’s such a simple narrative when looking at polls.

One party goes up, another party goes down, margins rise, margins fall.

And when parties on a similar side of the spectrum move in the polls, ‘vote-splitting’ is the quickest way to describe the potential impact.
However, when we think more deeply about it, ‘vote-splitting’ is a tired and anti-democratic narrative.

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OLIVER: A Liberal hidden agenda of tax hikes?

The Liberal Party has a hidden agenda. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is plotting a middle class tax hike.

How could I know, since a Liberal insider such as Gerald Butts has not taken me into his confidence? The secret is contained in the Liberal platform and economic reality, which are there for all who care to see, which apparently the mainstream media do not.

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Green Party – “Segregation now, segregation tomorrow and segregation forever”

Annamie Paul says some of her candidates don’t want her to visit their ridings

TORONTO — Green Party Leader Annamie Paul said on Friday that she’s staying out of other ridings in part to avoid being a distraction and to honour her candidates’ wishes.

At a press conference on Friday, Paul addressed why she hasn’t been travelling to various ridings around the country, acknowledging that some candidates might not want her to visit.

“I still want to make sure that if I travel somewhere first, that I’m wanted, and that’s not a given, and then secondly, that it is going to help our local candidates and that’s also unfortunately, not a given,” she said a press conference on Friday.

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John Ivison: Trudeau is struggling to save his campaign from collapse

MISSISSAUGA, ONT. — On the 20th anniversary of 9/11, Justin Trudeau reflected on the enormity of the events that changed modern history.

“Canadians of a certain age remember that extraordinary day clearly. I was teaching in Vancouver and remember talking to my Grade Nine students all that day, and in subsequent days, about what it meant for the future,” he said at media availability on Saturday morning.

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Ousted Conservative candidate Lisa Robinson denies writing racist posts, says party is ‘throwing me under the bus’

Lisa Robinson, who was dropped by the Conservative Party as a Toronto-area candidate over the weekend, says she never wrote the online posts that led to her dismissal and that she’s gone to the police because fake posts continue to appear under her name online.

… Ms. Robinson said those Twitter posts, which appear to be from 2017, first circulated when she was running for city council in Ajax, Ont., in 2018. She said she filed a police report about it at the time and had informed the Conservative Party about the issue as part of her screening process as a candidate.

WTF? Go incognito

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Inside the election showdown in the Toronto suburbs that could make Erin O’Toole prime minister

About an hour before Erin O’Toole, the man many believe will be Canada’s next prime minister, appeared in the ballroom, a blue van sat blocking the exit lane outside the Crystal Fountain Event Venue in Markham, Ontario. Inside, visible behind a propped up trunk door, lay a stack of blue campaign signs, all bearing the name Melissa Felian. Nearby, two Felian volunteers, blue masks around their chins, struggled to sink another sign into the hard ground beneath the late summer grass.

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Rupa Subramanya: The People’s Party of Canada’s rise is more complicated than anti-Trudeau rage

As the federal election campaign heads into its last lap, the People’s Party of Canada, led by Maxime Bernier, has been moving up in the polls. According to the latest Nanos numbers, PPC support has more than doubled during the campaign and sits at 5.0 per cent, while Bernier’s support for preferred prime minister is at 5.5 per cent.

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Record-High Use of Mail-In Ballots Could Mean No Clear Winner on Election Night: Elections Canada Official

Record-high numbers of mail-in ballots in this federal election may well leave Canadians wondering who won when they go to bed, hours after the polls have closed on Sept. 20, if there are a lot of tight races.

“In places where the races are tight, we may not know who won on election night,” Elections Canada spokesperson Natasha Gauthier told The Epoch Times. “We may not have an outcome.”

With only 10 days to go before the election, polls show the Conservatives and Liberals in what is essentially a dead heat.

We’ve seen this movie before.

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Why the Conservatives aren’t worried — at least not yet — about vote-splitting with Maxime Bernier’s PPC

Here are two statements that may or may not be true, depending on who you ask.

One: Maxime Bernier’s hard-right populist People’s Party of Canada is seeing a surge of support in this election. Two: the rise of the PPC will cause vote-splitting on the right, and potentially cost the Conservative Party seats in close battleground ridings.

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