Highly-scientific poll™️: who should be the next Tory leader?
Who should the #CPC pick?
— Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) December 12, 2019
BREAKING: Andrew Scheer resigns
Wow. Justin Trudeau’s life has just become more complicated.
From the Globe:
Andrew Scheer has decided to resign as Conservative leader after a disappointing election loss and facing internal party divisions over his ability to lead the party, sources say.
Mr. Scheer called a special caucus meeting Thursday morning where he announced he was stepping down.
The decision comes as former Conservative cabinet minister John Baird tabled a highly critical report on the party’s election campaign to Mr. Scheer’s office on Wednesday.
The Trudeau Liberals lose
Politics is all about symbols. And, this week, the federal government was defeated, symbolically.
Canadians, and the Opposition, are deeply dissatisfied with the government’s approach to China. Two Canadians are still being held hostage by the Chinese; the Chinese government has slapped trade bans on key Canadian imports, like canola and beef; and we’ve been caught in the middle of a seemingly endless US-China extradition spat.
This week, all of that led to the Trudeau Liberals being embarrassed in the House of Commons. The government wasn’t defeated – but it was humiliated.
Governing like you have a majority, when you have a minority, is dangerous. Just ask this guy.
John Ivison has more, here.
Person of the Year vs. A Nobody
Maxime Bernier said Greta Thunberg was “clearly mentally unstable.” He said she was “not only autistic, but obsessive-compulsive, eating disorder, depression.”
Today Greta Thunberg was named TIME’s Person of the Year. She will be remembered.
Will anyone remember him?
Donald Trump will be impeached
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He believes in free speech, except when it’s about him
Just found out from a reporter that Maxime Bernier, that proud free speech absolutist, is suing me for libel.
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Throne Speech tweets
I’ll be on Charles Adler’s national radio show tonight, discussing more about the Speech from the Throne – and maybe some of this, too.
The GG has a very compelling reading voice. #SfT2019
— Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) December 5, 2019
#SfT2019 was beautifully written until they got to that part about being on a spaceship together
— Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) December 5, 2019
Just two sentences, by my count, about natural resource workers in the west. That will not go over well. #SfT2019
— Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) December 5, 2019
I’m listening on the radio, so I cannot see the face of @Puglaas as all of these fine-sounding promises are made about indigenous people. It would be interesting to see her reaction.#SfT2019
— Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) December 5, 2019
This #SfT2019 is basically a love note to the NDP and the Bloc.
— Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) December 5, 2019
The #SfT2019 is designed to avoid an election. It will probably do that.
— Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) December 5, 2019
As he reacted to the #SFT, Scheer kept talking about #elxn43. Not sure that’d be a good strategy, given the result.
— Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) December 5, 2019
Other world leaders make hot mic missteps, too
Obama, Reagan, Bush, Sarkozy, you name it. Happens to the best (and worst) of them.