Canada Ping!
Posted on 10/09/2014 8:53:08 AM PDT by Squawk 8888
Justin Trudeau’s opponents constantly try to brand him as unready for office, and the Liberal Leader keeps proving them wrong. Until lately, that is. Suddenly we’ve been hit with the temptation to say, Quiet, Justin. The adults are talking.
It’s hard to imagine what Mr. Trudeau was trying to prove when he said the government should provide humanitarian aid and non-combat support to the coalition taking on the Islamic State – “rather than whip out our CF-18s and show them how big they are.” Did he think his remark was funny? Hip? Accurate?
Between that comment, his reference in the Commons to the CF-18s as “a few aging warplanes” and his party’s weakly reasoned argument against a combat role for Canada in Iraq and Syria, Mr. Trudeau has performed poorly on the biggest file to cross his desk since becoming party leader.
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Canada Ping!
The Liberals took the cowards’ way out to avoid being overshadowed by the socialist New Democrats to their Left.
It hasn’t been the once Natural Governing Party’s finest hour. People expect more from the Liberals than to duck the question of Canada’s place in the Western alliance.
I’ve seen a few of his campaign videos etc. He’s following the Obama 2008 campaign tactic of aiming at the empowered/unemployed/self deserving young voter. Lots of vision thingies. Makes moms have naughty thoughts.
And as with Obama, the kid has never done anything in his life except suck off the hind teat of the tax payer. That makes him the perfect Liberal candidate.
Now that you mention it, that Doonesbury strip has been looking a little sloppy lately.
His claim to fame is family nepotism. He is the son of Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau.
Justin’s main problem is the Liberal brand and his father - are both loathed in Quebec and Western Canada and no party can win a Commons majority today without being competitive in both regions.
Justin’s Liberals face a huge uphill road back to power.
Justin’s main problem is the Liberal brand and his father - are both loathed in Quebec and Western Canada and no party can win a Commons majority today without being competitive in both regions.
At present the NDP holds the majority of seats in Quebec.
Next year’s election will be decided by Ontario - the classic Canadian swing province will have 121 seats in the House Of Commons.
Conservatives have a majority there now and they can expect to make significant gains in fast growing British Columbia and Alberta.
The Liberals have only 39 seats so the road to a strong minority government means the NDP has to fall off its current all-time high.
Odds are better for Canada’s first federal NDP government than it would be for a Liberal return to power.
You left out the fact his mum was the Vancouver society town bicycle
Lots of land area/few relative votes.
You may be right that the PQ/ON/Vancouver voter mass will give at "best" a minority government or at worst, some coalition one.
The fact that he sounds like a child when he talks doesn’t help they guy much either... And by the way... The Globe and Mail calling out Trudeau for being amateurish and unready to lead is like the Washington Post or the NY Times doing the same for Obama. It’s the Liberal national newspaper of Canada.
Canada will never trade in Harper for this man-boy Trudeau based on his name alone, and his public performances have been disastrous. Meaning Canada will remain solidly in Conservative control for the remainder of this decade.
I don’t think that the NDP is going to hold all of Quebec—parties starting from all-time highs more often than not decline. I think a Liberal majority more likely than a Conservative one, but a minority of either more likely than a majority of either.
It almost like Justin is trying to poach votes from the NDP, by being a ridiculous pacifist. If he wins the next election, Canada is done.
It seems he is going for the radical imam vote.
Another “Child-in-Charge”
Yeah, like we here thought the same of an ill equipped candidate on the basis of his skin color alone.
Voters get that "tingly" feeling running up their leg and that do odd things.
I wish that you were right. In a first past the post multi party system, many things can happen. I don’t see another PC majority as likely.
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