Posted on 09/13/2019 8:38:33 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was hailed as a new kind of leader when he took power in 2015. At that point, the power of the Conservative Party was at low ebb and Trudeau appeared to be a fresh face that was promising a new kind of politics for Canada.
Sound familiar?
Alas, it was not to be. Trudeau became embroiled in scandal that resulted in the resignations of two cabinet members.
NBCNews:
The cause of his diminishing star power stems from one of the biggest scandals in Canadian political history, which arose when Trudeau's former attorney general said he improperly pressured her to halt the criminal prosecution of Quebec company SNC-Lavalin. Trudeau responded saying he was standing up for jobs that could have been lost if the company was convicted.
That's his story and he's sticking with it -- mostly. Of course, no one but liberals and five-year-old children believes him.
Trudeau has since admitted fault — but stopped short of apologizing — after being charged by the ethics commissioner of political interference in the legal case.
The scandal resurfaced this week when the newspaper The Globe and Mail published a story suggesting the federal Royal Canadian Mounted Police were being blocked in their attempts to interview potential witnesses related to the matter because of cabinet confidence policies.
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It’s “Justine”.
Well Justine...........honey is that you? Justine. Why can’t you be true-DOH?
My Intel sources say Trudeau rode to his position on “Dude, Weed.” Now it’s legal up there there is no longer any reason for anyone to vote for him and some of the people who supported him in the past may not vote again. They may not be able to find the polls.
This darling of the Toronto corporate media who did not bother showing up at last night’s debate so he could be at a rally in Edmonton instead.
If he loses, he can always re-unite with his old boy band and go on tour. Which one was he in?
I worked for Atkins NA, purchased by SNC-Lavalin just a couple of years ago, until I retired. Atkins was a purchase of an American firm - PBS&J - that went through its own problems of having senior management convicted of paying political bribes, and one going to prison for multiple years of embezzlement. I could tell stories of how management made terrible decisions based on greed and arrogance that turned a great company with exceptional reputation, growth, and profitability, into just another multinational corporation with average profitability and growth, and questionable reputation.
I hope the bitch burns in hell......
At the moment, conservative type internet forum pundits on a Canadian blog predict (by consensus of about 50 guesses) that Justin will lose enough of his majority to create a deadlocked result.
Our conservative opposition party (the government before Justin Trudeau was elected in 2015) has the reputation of being CINO and only marginally better than the Liberals anyway. The pundits say the two parties will be virtually tied with fewer than 150 seats out of 338 total. So either would need a coalition partner to govern.
Our smaller parties are mostly leftist. There’s the Bernie Sanders type NDP who seem to be headed for a lower number of seats, around 20 from their current 38. There’s a Green party currently holding only one seat, possibly on the way up to five or so. There’s also a regional Quebec separatist party holding ten seats and perhaps gaining a few. They are not likely to be a coalition partner in any scenario.
Then we have a new breakaway right wing party, the PPC which is closer to the Trump brand. They currently have only their leader as a member of parliament, he being Max Bernier, who had lost the leadership race in the main conservative party before creating this alternative voice.
Currently even the supporters of this party generally don’t see it electing more than perhaps four or five additional members but the dilemma is that the better we do (I am a member of it by the way) the more the anti-Trudeau vote splits and while the Conservatives are lamentable, most would prefer to have them replace JT who is acting more like he is Fidel’s son than Pierre’s (and perhaps there’s a reason for that if you catch my drift).
The collapse of the further left NDP is not really good news for conservatives because that was always a drain on Liberal votes in the past. But they went with a rather flamboyant Indo-Canadian leader who does not seem to be connecting with their voter base (sort of like if Kamala Harris bought the Sanders franchise, only far more so).
The Green Party is the usual turgid nonsense, but there’s always that 10% fringe ready to pay a lot more taxes for bad weather that is said to be good. We call this phenomenon insanity.
I read that as well a year or more ago. The meme showed the photos side by side and it is at least as clear as Chelsea Hubble.
The stupid candy-a$$ liberal is destroying Canada.
His downfall started the second his eyebrow crawled off his face
Edmonton's entire economy is about the provincial government and the provincial university. Think of it as a cross between Sacramento and Boston ... which explains why the 2019 provincial election results in Alberta looked like this:
In political terms, the darkest blue would be the U.S. equivalent to Kentucky, West Virginia, Oklahoma and Wyoming in the 2016 election. And that orange gonorrhea sore in the central part of the province would be the District of Columbia.
Liberal pajama boy...maybe he needs to campaign in Indian robes while chanting or something....
Can’t wait until Justine False-do is bounced.
Yes, but the polls still have in neck in neck with Scheer. Scheer sadly can’t seem to offer anything new, which he must do to break ahead of Trudeau. My prediction is Trudeau, who many Canadians see as a shiny pony, will win a minority government.
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