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Alberta MP stepping aside to let Pierre Poilievre run for seat
Toronto Sun ^ | May 02, 2025 | Bryan Passifiume

Posted on 05/05/2025 5:37:00 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

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1 posted on 05/05/2025 5:37:00 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

Pierre Poilievre is apparently too wimpy to save Canaduh.


2 posted on 05/05/2025 5:39:19 PM PDT by Paladin2 (YMMV)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Kerry Diotte also offered to step aside to allow him to run.
Hopefully Polliviere can win.


3 posted on 05/05/2025 5:40:24 PM PDT by Jonty30 (If the life of a fish is as valuable as a human, why can't humans eat fish when fish eat fish?.)
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To: Paladin2

Canadians are too socialized to warrant salvation. In order to turn Canada around, it must suffer the consequences of liberalism.


4 posted on 05/05/2025 5:41:39 PM PDT by Jonty30 (If the life of a fish is as valuable as a human, why can't humans eat fish when fish eat fish?.)
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I sadly believe you are right.

When I wuz a kid in the 50s and 60s and even as a young Adult in the 70s, I ventured across the Border frequently and found it to be a Great Place.


5 posted on 05/05/2025 5:45:05 PM PDT by Paladin2 (YMMV)
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To: MinorityRepublican

If P.P. was anything other than an ineffectual milquetoast as party leader then this would be good news, I suppose.


6 posted on 05/05/2025 5:45:35 PM PDT by PermaRag (Facts, context, and more facts)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Carpetbagger.


7 posted on 05/05/2025 5:54:25 PM PDT by Mr. Blond
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To: MinorityRepublican

Another Mitt Romney, pretend opponent.


8 posted on 05/05/2025 5:57:02 PM PDT by cotton1706
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Poilievre was born and raised in Calgary. He’s not from Quebec.


9 posted on 05/05/2025 5:58:28 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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So he was carpetbagging when he ran for a seat in Ontario.


10 posted on 05/05/2025 6:06:01 PM PDT by Mr. Blond
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To: Paladin2

How the hell do you get “Polyev” ” out of Poilievery. That’s the first problem. You can’t even pronounce his stupid F’n name in English.


11 posted on 05/05/2025 6:07:37 PM PDT by technically right
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Hopefully Polliviere can win.

The people apparently already spoke, and what they said was they did not support the weakling. What happens if they convey the same exact message?

12 posted on 05/05/2025 6:27:42 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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No, the people did not speak. What happened is that the liberals redistricted the riding to ensure that immigrants would be the primary voters and then the liberals had added 85 people, at least, to the choices of the ballot. All of them pretend conservatives, who gave a false message.

It was pure manipulation that cost him the seat.


13 posted on 05/05/2025 6:34:02 PM PDT by Jonty30 (If the life of a fish is as valuable as a human, why can't humans eat fish when fish eat fish?.)
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That’s hardball politics that the Conservatives should have been ready for. They were caught flat-footed.


14 posted on 05/05/2025 6:43:00 PM PDT by Fury
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I don’t think, when you increase the riding’s population by 50% by redistricting so it has at least 50% of immigrants, that there is anything that you can do to get the support needed to over come that.

Being out of power means that you can’t contest the redistribution of a population. Poilievre actually increased his support, as a percentage, but it wasn’t enough to overcome the immigrant factor. Immigrants almost also vote liberal.


15 posted on 05/05/2025 6:46:25 PM PDT by Jonty30 (If the life of a fish is as valuable as a human, why can't humans eat fish when fish eat fish?.)
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Understand, but that could not have been unanticipated.

May be inside baseball, but seems he could run in a riding in Alberta to begin with? He’s from there and a known quantity.


16 posted on 05/05/2025 6:52:13 PM PDT by Fury
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I assume that Poilievre was well aware of what was happening. There just wasn’t anything he can do about it. Immigrants from countries, where government power is a thing to seek, for the common good, for are not going to be receptive to the idea of reducing government.

If you were a politician and it was my vote alone that would determine whether you get to keep or your seat or not and I loved government and you explained to me the virtue and advantaging of reducing government and I said, “I’m voting for government anyway.”

What are you going to do about that?

He had his seat for 20 years, so it seemed the lowest cost to stay there.


17 posted on 05/05/2025 6:55:40 PM PDT by Jonty30 (If the life of a fish is as valuable as a human, why can't humans eat fish when fish eat fish?.)
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Understand, thanks for the info.


18 posted on 05/05/2025 6:56:40 PM PDT by Fury
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To: technically right

The French stole most of the vowels from the Slavs some centuries back....


19 posted on 05/05/2025 6:57:20 PM PDT by Paladin2 (YMMV)
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...the liberals had added 85 people, at least, to the choices of the ballot.

Ranked Choice Voting on steroids.

20 posted on 05/05/2025 6:57:36 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Democrats are the Party of anger, hate and violence.)
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