— Musings —04.24.2025 06:42 AM
Live from Tel Aviv! Campaign notebook
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— Musings —04.24.2025 06:42 AM
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That was so depressing it was funny! Next time get the dogs in the pic. We are going to need more of that soon.
I grew up on a farm. I loved it, but the thing we missed, as an immigrant family, was diversity. Rural Canada in my youth wasn’t exactly diverse. I’d hear all kinds of racism in the school yard, but there weren’t any minority groups to fight back, so
I did and I can tell you the my first encounters with antisemitism we’re in rural Canada from
Conservative supporters. I remember a friends father telling me he heard my father was a Jew – antisemitism is entrenched in the conservative base I’m sorry to say – so every major party has a problem with antiemetic elements.
Warren,
Mainstreet: Liberals +3;
Nanos: Liberals +4.
Got three brothers: two voted Liberal, I’m voting Conservative and the last one is in the States on vacation.
My family will all vote liberal – some of them might have voted NDP, but the threat to this country posed by Poilievre is too severe to risk wasting your vote.
Hyperbole alert. What threat?
Well, Martin, I really like the CBC. As for the news I watch both the CBC and CTV National news, and they’re both pretty good. What I really like about the CBC is the programming – I find it so entertaining. I can’t live without the CBC
You “can’t live” without the CBC? You do realize how silly that sounds, right?
I personally think the CBC thing was a political own goal by the Tories, but that’s just my opinion. Provides an easy excuse for centrist and swing voters (who are gettable) from voting CPC.
Martin,
Curious should change his name to highly reliable Liberal windbag.
Lol
Martin, they want to cancel the CBC, use the notwithstanding clause to normalize it at the federal level, in effect delegitimizing the charter, and they’ll cut into important programs. I want a party that fights for the poor, and has a robust vision for the economy. I don’t want a madman like Trump and Elon Musk slashing our services and cutting transfers – Poilievre will work for that group of radicalized conservatives and that’s a threat to Canada.
If you didn’t want the Charter “delegitimized” via use of the notwithstanding clause, then maybe Liberal God Icon Pierre Trudeau shouldn’t have put the notwithstanding clause in his glorious superawesome Constitution Act, 1982.
And I fail to see how using a clause that’s in the Constitution “delegitimizes” that same Constitution. Seems like a non sequitur to me.
It’s like this in Alberta – we have a premier who appears on far right-wing podcasts, she references Russian propaganda, she’s held hostage by a radical group called take back Alberta – I don’t want a federal leader who represents more of the same as I see at the provincial level. They’re delusional, incompetent and brainwashed.
The consistent theme I get from that wing of the conservative party, at the provincial and federal level, it’s that they’re cruel. The use they notwithstanding clause to pick on trans kids for christ sake – vulnerable people they attack – no way are they fit to lead this country.
I know the conservatives cater to a white male base, and they have all kinds of stereotypes about what manliness is. I can tell you this, I’ve never backed down from a fight, physical or otherwise, and I’ve never picked on a vulnerable person, but that’s what the conservatives do. Real men don’t do that – It’s the weaker men who pick on vulnerable people, real men don’t pick on vulnerable people.
Warren,
Mainstreet: Liberals +2;
Nanos: Liberals +5.
Ronald,
I remain perplexed that the Liberals are sounding anxious, and increasingly nasty.
EKOS and Nanos are beholden to the Libs, and so I pay their polls zero attention.
But Mainstreet, having the Libs up by only two, makes me wonder if we’re headed for a razor-thin Carney majority with added breathing room, courtesy of the NDP.
Might be a late night, like it was in ‘72.
Douglas,
I’m probably full of shit but my gut is screaming that the Trump Factor is overrated and less important in the average voter’s calculus. That’s why the polls are tightening, and IMHO, tightening FAST. I think we can pull off a surprise upset. Maybe, just maybe.
Ronald,
I don’t recall a time when you’’ve been wrong, and so I like what you’re saying.
Yesterday, Carney made a pit stop in Cambridge, Ont., a riding that the Libs barely held onto in 2021, thanks to the high PPC vote.
These kinds of riding must have Team Carney worried, and quite frankly I’m surprised he went there unless ….
Douglas,
Now, this Nanos is interesting. From: Reuters.
“A poll by Nanos on April 24 found 49.3% of VOTERS AGED 18-34 [Emphasis added.] support the Conservatives, compared to 30% support for the Liberals. When all age groups were considered, the Liberals led 42.9% to 39.3%. Filtered for men of all ages, 45.5% prefer the Conservatives compared to 36.7% for the Liberals, the poll found.
It surveyed 1,307 Canadians from April 21 to 23, and is considered accurate plus or minus 2.7 percentage points, 19 times out of 20.
To Canadians under 35, Poilievre represents change after nearly 10 years of Liberal rule under Justin Trudeau – what Poilievre often refers to as the lost Liberal decade. How to afford a house and general living expenses, rather than relations with the United States, are their top concerns.”