Posted on 08/15/2021 7:22:47 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has called snap elections for September 20 in an attempt to gain an outright parliamentary majority — something he’s lacked for the last 15 months.
Trudeau has been governing with the help of minor parties that allied with his Liberal Party to form a shaky coalition government. The prime minister is banking on the voters’ positive view of his government’s response to the pandemic, which has played out favorably in local elections, as well as going up against a relatively unknown opposition leader, Erin O’Toole, a former helicopter navigator for the Canadian Armed Forces.
Polls are uncertain about Trudeau regaining an outright majority.
Washington Post:
The next fixed election date was in October 2023, but a prime minister here may at any time request the governor general dissolve Parliament — the step that triggers an election. Trudeau, 49, met Governor General Mary Simon, Queen Elizabeth II’s representative in Canada, on Sunday, and she granted his request.
The campaign follows months of speculation among political analysts about a possible election call this year. They’ve viewed everything from cabinet shuffles to Trudeau’s decision to shave the beard he’s sported for more than a year as signs that one was imminent.
Trudeau appears to have weathered the scandals that plagued him from a couple of years ago. As in the United States, liberals who are caught in blackface easily evade political harm as Trudeau did when a blackface photo of him from his younger days surfaced. And he sidestepped a potentially serious scandal over interfering in the prosecution of an executive for an engineering company.
But his biggest potential obstacle to his campaign was another ethics complaint — the third in five years — about a no-bid pandemic relief contract to a charity.
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No doubt by using dominion or its likeness. There is no other way he could do anything but lose seats at this point.
You seriously think that O’Toole is going to rally the troops?
The only good thing about the snap election is that O’Toole should be gone as leader by October.
Didn't Theresa May try that in the UK ("let's inconvenience all the citizens and call a random election to strengthen my hand in Parliament"), and ended up with the exact OPPOSITE results, with the far left wackjob Jeremy Corbyn nearly toppling her government?
Let's hope the same thing happens to Poo-dough in Canada (effectively gutting his power as PM), though not enough to put CINO Erin O'Toole (the guy lives up to his name, he IS a tool) in as his replacement.
Canaduh seems to need a young Don Cherry clone as a candidate.
Dominion Voting Systems is ready and able to help!
The opposition is weak.
Derek Sloan, who came in 4th place of the 4 candidates who stood in the Conservative Party leadership election (Erin O’Toole won, of course), was described by the media as some “far right” candidate who has “extremist” views on abortion and gay rights, and is a nasty bigot who supposedly “embraces white supremacists”.
Given the media’s hysteria and negative portrayal of him, I’m assuming Sloan was the only “conservative” candidate who would govern as an ACTUAL conservative.
Of course, the Conservative Party later ended up expelling him because he was too “controversial”:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Sloan
I’m hoping that’s an actual media smear job and he’s a decent guy, instead of a genuinely nasty neo-NAZI loon like Jean-Marie Le Pen.
Most of the Canada “conservatives” are Mitt Romney types ideologically.
He knows the writing is on the wall for Dominion and wants use it while he still can.
This donkeys ass born to a groupie whore and a liberal ass-hole should be the leader of Canada, Why ?
/Cause he is handsome?
You stoopid Canucks are pathetc.
Lewis might work out ok too. Given that she had zip political experience, Sloan was perhaps a more logical choice.
She had at least a plurality, if not a majority, of actual votes on the second ballot, but because of the way ballots are weighted, was eliminated.
Westerners don’t really matter too much, at least to the Conservative party.
Has Justin proven that he is NOT Castro’s Love Child?
a liberal ass-hole
Surely you can come up with a better way of describing Fidel?
Dominion is a Canadian corporation, but Canada only uses hand-counted paper ballots in federal elections. They have been used in provincial and local elections.
You stoopid Canucks are pathetc.
Your beer sucks, you can’t play hockey, and I’d be willing to bet that Trudeau could beat Biden 3 out of 5 in tic-tac-toe
Sloan is clearly a normal, mainstream guy, which is an existential threat to the (Canadian) Derp State. Offering a paler version of Turd Dough’s Stalinazism Totalitarianism is a recipe for an electoral rout, and under O’Toole, this fake opposition should be removed from Parliament absolutely to the last man, woman and tranny.
Kanadians are dumb enough to give him a majority gov.
Alas, the "Conservative" leadership choice came out to Erin O'Toole or Peter McKay, which would be a bit like the Republican Party here picking between Charlie Baker or Lisa Murkowski to be "Opposition leader" to Joe Biden. In a "debate", they'd probably agree with him Poo-dough 80% of the time!
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