Canadian Politics
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We need a separate Trudeau thread
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Ronnie Wood fucked his mum
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@mariner4life said in Canadian Politics:
Ronnie Wood fucked his mum
I have a suspicion that Ronnie Wood fucked a lot of people's mums. Amazing what being a rock star can do despite your looks.
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@mariner4life said in Canadian Politics:
Ronnie Wood fucked his mum
So did Fidel Castro. She didn’t even bother wearing underwear at Studio 54 .
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@jegga somehow I don't think she'd be alone in rolling commando!
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@paekakboyz said in Canadian Politics:
@jegga somehow I don't think she'd be alone in rolling commando!
She was pretty demure in comparison to Grace Jones
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Canadian taxpayer to give $500 million to support journalism
Media sector gets $595-million package in Ottawa’s fiscal update
The federal government said it wants to assist Canada’s news industry, which is struggling to adapt to new media consumption habits and the migration of advertisers toward foreign digital platforms
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@jegga said in Canadian Politics:
Canadian taxpayer to give $500 million to support journalism
Media sector gets $595-million package in Ottawa’s fiscal update
The federal government said it wants to assist Canada’s news industry, which is struggling to adapt to new media consumption habits and the migration of advertisers toward foreign digital platforms
Unbelievable...basically just trying to kill alt-media. Just like youtubes new algorithm which now priorities mainstream outlet videos to the point where you can't even find videos you want any more.
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This left wing manipulation of truth and reality is surely going to end in a big fucking punch up ( with guns) innit?
Not just this Canadian example but across the western world. But limited access to news and viewpoints is worrying
The roots are in deep now
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Trudeau's former Attorney General, just testified in Parliament, in meticulous detail, how Trudeau and his staff tried to get her to drop criminal charges against a corrupt company that he liked.
Andrew Coyne on Jody Wilson-Raybould: Damning testimony from a principled witness
Either Wilson-Raybould is flat out lying about this, or Trudeau and his people are. It is difficult to see why she would. It is easy to see why they might
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@jegga said in Canadian Politics:
I see the Soyboy has a -20% approval rating and there’s an election this year.
I wouldn't read too much into it; the Conservative leader Andrew Scheer is not well enough known to have a meaningful approval/disapproval rating. He is a political tomato can, plus the other prospective leader who he narrowly defeated after the last election, Maxime Bernier, has formed his own party and will likely wedge the conservatives if they decide to play the centre.
Quebec went conservative for the first time in decades last year, as did New Brunswick, and Ontario pushed the Libs out of power to a point where they were defunded holding less than 5 seats - the tide does seem to be going that way. But I still think it is very likely Trudeau is returned and the NDP (a party further left than Trudeau in a three party system) will take the real pounding.
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The other issue to consider is much like NZ, part of Canada's identity is being "not USA". Given the distribution of most power to the provinces immigration is the only vexing issue currently and it's going to be very tricky for a conservative to run hard against Trudeau on that issue without veering uncomfortably far into Trump territory for the Canadian public.
Say what you like about Trudeau but he does have a statsmanlike pedigree/appearance that is appealing to those that keep only a cursory eye on proceedings. I think Canada would prefer a seemingly well meaning empty suit than an abrasive type.
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@rotated said in Canadian Politics:
The other issue to consider is much like NZ, part of Canada's identity is being "not USA". Given the distribution of most power to the provinces immigration is the only vexing issue currently and it's going to be very tricky for a conservative to run hard against Trudeau on that issue without veering uncomfortably far into Trump territory for the Canadian public.
Say what you like about Trudeau but he does have a statsmanlike pedigree/appearance that is appealing to those that keep only a cursory eye on proceedings. I think Canada would prefer a seemingly well meaning empty suit than an abrasive type.
Good post . Harper was around for quite a while though wasn’t he?
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@rotated said in Canadian Politics:
The other issue to consider is much like NZ, part of Canada's identity is being "not USA". Given the distribution of most power to the provinces immigration is the only vexing issue currently and it's going to be very tricky for a conservative to run hard against Trudeau on that issue without veering uncomfortably far into Trump territory for the Canadian public.
Say what you like about Trudeau but he does have a statsmanlike pedigree/appearance that is appealing to those that keep only a cursory eye on proceedings. I think Canada would prefer a seemingly well meaning empty suit than an abrasive type.
Do you think the Frenchiness of Bernier will count against him? I saw his interview with Rubin and he seems pretty clued up..just hard to listen to.
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Problem for Trudeau and the boomers is that they remember his father. He was polarizing, half of them hated Pierre, but NONE of the people who hated Justin’s father EVER believed he was a lightweight. The people who hated him knew best how formidible an opponent he was, truly a giant. By contrast the kid is a featherweight, and those boomers — even the ones who voted for him — don’t see him as a chip off the old block or the apple falling far from the tree, they see him as crazy flower-child Margaret’s kid, maybe a little too much reefer hanging out with the Stones at a young age turned his brain to porridge, and they know he’s not a tough brawler with an acid tongue like his dad.
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@jegga said in Canadian Politics:
Good post . Harper was around for quite a while though wasn’t he?
Yep for sure; I only turned up in Canada for the final few years of his run but he was very much a conservative whose strong suit was his economic credentials not unlike Howard in Australia and was voted out in much the same way; partly fatigue, partly the hot new thing and partly they just got too draconian on a few issues.
@Rembrandt said in Canadian Politics:
Do you think the Frenchiness of Bernier will count against him? I saw his interview with Rubin and he seems pretty clued up..just hard to listen to.
Frenchiness is almost mandatory. Seven of the thirteen post-WWII PMs were from Quebec ridings, with two of those non-QC PMs being mid-term replacements of less than a year. It is an unofficial requirement for all party leaders to speak French - so it is pretty much expected.
Bernier is going to have issues because he on the outside in a three party system and is the hardest on immigration (therefore the easiest to compare smear) and is deadset against supply control in the dairy and poultry industry which leads to big lobby dollars coming in against him.
He would thrive in MMP though.
‘Trudeau won’t stop $12bn of arms sales to Saudi after Khashoggi’s death because money always wins over murder’
