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Justin Trudeau’s lousy week
Globe & Mail ^
| October 8, 2014
Posted on 10/09/2014 8:53:08 AM PDT by Squawk 8888
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posted on
10/09/2014 8:54:46 AM PDT
by
Squawk 8888
(Will steal your comments & post them on Twitter)
To: Squawk 8888
I guess he will sleep tonight.
To: Squawk 8888
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.
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posted on
10/09/2014 8:56:54 AM PDT
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
To: Squawk 8888
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.
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posted on
10/09/2014 9:01:31 AM PDT
by
llevrok
(Straight. Since 1950.)
To: Squawk 8888
Now that you mention it, that Doonesbury strip has been looking a little sloppy lately.
To: llevrok
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.
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posted on
10/09/2014 9:05:51 AM PDT
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
To: goldstategop
Justins 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.
You haven’t been paying attention to things in Quebec recently. The Bloc’s support is down with the PC’s, which means that the liberals are poised to win a ton of seats unless the NDP really cleans up. MB, SK, AB, and the BC interior may be an obstacle, but not an insurmountable one on the road to a majority. In the very least, he is well-poised for a minority government, which still counts as being in power.
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posted on
10/09/2014 9:13:34 AM PDT
by
Hieronymus
( (It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged. --G.K. Chesterton))
To: Hieronymus
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.
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posted on
10/09/2014 9:20:48 AM PDT
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
To: goldstategop
Justins main problem is the Liberal brand and his fatherYou left out the fact his mum was the Vancouver society town bicycle
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posted on
10/09/2014 9:26:03 AM PDT
by
llevrok
(Straight. Since 1950.)
To: Hieronymus
MB, SK, AB, and the BC interior may be an obstacleLots 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.
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posted on
10/09/2014 9:31:07 AM PDT
by
llevrok
(Straight. Since 1950.)
To: Squawk 8888
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.
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posted on
10/09/2014 9:32:24 AM PDT
by
jerod
(Pro-Abortion Gun Control Freaks & Environmental Nuts who hated Capitalism? The Nazi's)
To: llevrok; goldstategop
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.
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posted on
10/09/2014 9:48:32 AM PDT
by
Hieronymus
( (It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged. --G.K. Chesterton))
To: goldstategop
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.
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posted on
10/09/2014 10:28:56 AM PDT
by
Sam Gamgee
(May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't. - Patton)
To: jerod
It seems he is going for the radical imam vote.
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posted on
10/09/2014 10:30:23 AM PDT
by
Sam Gamgee
(May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't. - Patton)
To: Squawk 8888
Another “Child-in-Charge”
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posted on
10/09/2014 10:32:55 AM PDT
by
Polyxene
(Out of the depths I have cried to Thee, O Lord; Lord, hear my voice.)
To: jerod
Canada will never trade in Harper for this man-boy Trudeau based on his name alone, and his public performances have been disastrous.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.
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posted on
10/09/2014 10:48:29 AM PDT
by
llevrok
(I fear the US government more than I do Syria)
To: jerod
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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posted on
10/09/2014 11:57:19 AM PDT
by
Hieronymus
( (It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged. --G.K. Chesterton))
To: Squawk 8888
Support for legalizing marijuana is increasing and the dope vote may increase with JT running. Thomas Mulcair was Member of the National Assembly of Quebec as a Liberal from 1994 to 2007. There's often talk of the two leftish parties doing a deal, and the next election might be when it happens - A LIB-NDP coalition.
As well, in 2011 the Bloc Quebecois lost 44 of the 47 seats it held when the election was called, losing official party status, while the Conservatives dropped from 11 to 5 seats in PQ. The Conservatives are working hard and spending lots of money on Quebec, but even if they should win a dozen or so seats in PQ in the next election it wouldn't count for much against a LIB-NDP coalition.
From August 2014. Dark blue = Conservatives.
To: Squawk 8888
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posted on
10/09/2014 12:48:47 PM PDT
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kanawa
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