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Trudeau goes on attack as polls show Liberals losing ground
National Post [Canada] ^ | August 22, 2021 | John Ivison

Posted on 08/23/2021 6:29:48 AM PDT by canuck_conservative

When Justin Trudeau called the federal election, he probably envisaged selling Liberal policies in Conservative-held ridings. A week later, he finds himself attacking Conservative policies in Liberal ridings that may flip to his political opponents if his fortunes don’t improve.

As the first public opinion poll showing the Conservatives overtaking the Liberals appeared, so Trudeau’s assault on Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole became more furious.

In a baking parking lot bordering the Miramichi River, in front of a couple of hundred broiling New Brunswickers, Trudeau’s stump speech assailed O’Toole for his position on pandemic relief, mandatory vaccination, childcare and private health care. “Shame on you in a pandemic,” he said, with the mock fury that only a politician whose prospects are heading in the same direction as his polling numbers can summon up. “His instincts and values are not aligned with helping vulnerable Canadians.”

The comments were based on an interview with O’Toole in which the Tory leader made the case for health-care reform within universal coverage, such as the use of private diagnostic clinics in Saskatchewan that former premier Brad Wall said had improved service and reduced waiting times....

The problem with turning it up to 10 this early in the campaign is that Spinal Tap was a satire and you can’t really turn it up to 11. In 2006, the Liberals used strong, sometimes questionable language in their attacks on Stephen Harper and it backfired....

The fact we were in Miramichi before heading to Charlottetown, P.E.I., and then Halifax — all Liberal-held ridings — indicates how markedly things have changed in the past week....

A campaign to pick up 15 new seats has quickly become one where the focus is as much on not losing what is already held....

(Excerpt) Read more at nationalpost.com ...


TOPICS: Canada; Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: conservatives; erinotoole; justintrudeau; liberalparty
Justin Trudeau currently has a "minority government", so he was trying get a quick election win to secure those extra 15 seats in Parliament to have a majority.

But Afghanistan has suddenly put him on the defensive, people are tired of lockdown lectures, plus he's just an arrogant jerk ... so things aren't going quite as Justin planned ...

1 posted on 08/23/2021 6:29:49 AM PDT by canuck_conservative
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To: canuck_conservative

These commies need to go back to their freak shows that they escaped from.


2 posted on 08/23/2021 6:31:51 AM PDT by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.)
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To: canuck_conservative

Not to worry, he has tens of thousands of People’s Liberation Army troops stationed in-country if he needs them.


3 posted on 08/23/2021 6:34:10 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy." ― Mao Zedong)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

https://exonews.org/china-amassing-tens-of-thousands-of-troops-in-canada/


4 posted on 08/23/2021 6:35:20 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy." ― Mao Zedong)
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To: canuck_conservative

If Canadians reelect Trudeau, that country is lost.


5 posted on 08/23/2021 6:35:57 AM PDT by Ge0ffrey
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To: canuck_conservative

and Trudeau even shaved off his Beard ,LOL


6 posted on 08/23/2021 6:39:44 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: canuck_conservative

Bring back Stephen Harper - what a change to have an adult as PM.


7 posted on 08/23/2021 6:44:17 AM PDT by nuconvert ( Warning: Accused of being a radical militarist. Approach with caution.)
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To: canuck_conservative

Do they have ‘Dominion’ voting machines in Canada?...................


8 posted on 08/23/2021 6:48:39 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: butlerweave

He finally got old enough to grow one?............


9 posted on 08/23/2021 6:49:09 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: HighSierra5

He has plenty of Nazi brownshirts wearing police uniforms attacking pastors. Not to worry, Little Boy!


10 posted on 08/23/2021 6:56:53 AM PDT by alstewartfan ("She looks like she's 19 years old, sitting there like a lady with her legs crossed." Creepy Joe)
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To: canuck_conservative

Is a “Federal election” the same as a national election? That is,could Trudeau lose his title as a result?


11 posted on 08/23/2021 7:00:42 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Covid Is All About Mail In Balloting)
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To: canuck_conservative

He will do what ever is needed to get reelected, including colluding with china and/or the mullas.


12 posted on 08/23/2021 7:03:13 AM PDT by I want the USA back (We have more to fear from our government than from the bug that the chicoms made for us. )
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To: nuconvert; canuck_conservative
Bring back Stephen Harper - what a change to have an adult as PM.

I don't know much about Harper but I *have* seen a speech he made before the Australian Parliament. Very impressive indeed.

13 posted on 08/23/2021 7:04:24 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Covid Is All About Mail In Balloting)
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To: Gay State Conservative

Yup, if his Liberal Party gets fewer Members of Parliament than the Conservatives, Erin O’Toole becomes Prime Minister and Justin goes back to being Opposition Leader ... that’s how he started, when Stephen Harper was PM

and IF that happens, there’s no 3-month transition either, the Government changes within 2 weeks


14 posted on 08/23/2021 7:11:29 AM PDT by canuck_conservative
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To: canuck_conservative

When Just not ready Trudeau opened the election with ‘mandatory vaccinations’... His goose was cooked. The man is a lunatic and obviously smoking more pot than he should have. It must be refer madness.


15 posted on 08/23/2021 7:36:35 AM PDT by jerod (Nazi's were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: Red Badger

Dominion vote steeling machines come from Canada and they use them in Provincial and Municipal elections... They’ll never be used for Federal elections... We mark a ballot by hand, put it in a box, then that box is opened by representatives from all the parties and the votes are counted openly. BTW - You need ID to vote in Canada.


16 posted on 08/23/2021 7:40:54 AM PDT by jerod (Nazi's were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: jerod
You need ID to vote in Canada.

But that's so racis!.....................

17 posted on 08/23/2021 7:44:27 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: canuck_conservative

The other parties and big media are all terrified of the PPC and are doing whatever they can to keep Maxime Bernier from getting a message out. As an ex-Conservative, yes he will split the vote but the Conservatives under O’Toole have gone CINO.... i.e. the way of the RINOs south of the 49th.

https://www.peoplespartyofcanada.ca/


18 posted on 08/23/2021 7:55:41 AM PDT by hecticskeptic
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To: canuck_conservative

Trudeau pays price for taking Hillary’s advice who knew.


19 posted on 08/23/2021 8:51:45 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: canuck_conservative

I tend to be a skeptic about these kinds of reports, BUT, it is true that I was on a hiking trip in Jasper National Park in Sept 2019,, and decided to do a popular not-too-strenuous 8-9 mile hike (I’m in my 70’s so slowing down) to the the top of Mt Baldy. On the way up I encountered a group of a dozen Chinese guys. I enjoy connecting with people from other places, so was conversing with many of them, most of whom were fairly competent in English, though quite accented. They were tall and mostly brawny, mosthad had similar back packs that looked to me military, half of them had the same matching military-looking boots. I asked what brought them to Canada. They said they were summer students studying cartography. At the top they were charting all the many peaks that can be seen from that viewpoint. Seemed very odd to me (I mean, invading Western Canada seemed a preposterous explanation, but Now …I’m beginning to wonder


20 posted on 08/23/2021 9:39:59 AM PDT by cookcounty (Susan Rice: G Gordon Liddy times 10.)
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