Canadian Politics Thread

[Pruitt]

Ontario's Premier Doug Ford (brother of the late buffoon Rob Ford) ...



The ex-Finance Minster was such a low life that while he was in St. Barts for two weeks, his twitter kept putting out updates showing him in and around his house and hometown.

[Pruitt]

Toronto area MPP (Representative in Provincial Parliament) Kicked out of Caucus for AAnti-Lockdown Stance

Hey! That's my MPP. I Didn't vote for him, but you never want your area represented by an Independent MPP. Guy's a twat.

[Pruitt]

Canada’s embattled governor general resigns amid bullying, harassment allegations

From astronaut to asshole.

[Johnny Carwash]

Canadian Amy Klobuchar.

Also--Canadians are allowed in space?

[Pruitt]

Canadian Amy Klobuchar.

Also--Canadians are allowed in space?

Fer sure bud!

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[degenerasian]

What makes it worse is that Trudeau hand-selected her. He bypassed the selection committee.

[brian]

[The Sybian]

How can anyone hate Toronto? I love Montreal, but I could see hating it if I was Canadian.

[Pruitt]

How can anyone hate Toronto? I love Montreal, but I could see hating it if I was Canadian.

Those maps are hilarious.

In terms of perception from the rest of Canada, Toronto is New York City and L.A. combined. The traditional financial and cultural hub. And when you live in a place like Edmonton there is tremendous jealousy of a city that people actually want to be in.

Only those who've never visited Montreal hate it. But in Canada, "Montreal" is often synonymous with "French Canada"

[Steve of phpBB]

How can anyone hate Toronto? I love Montreal, but I could see hating it if I was Canadian.

That's like asking someone in Southern Illinois "how can anyone hate Chicago?"

[Johnny Carwash]

I would have guessed that Saskatchewan would be the one who gets the treatment Manitoba gets here.

[Pruitt]

I would have guessed that Saskatchewan would be the one who gets the treatment Manitoba gets here.

Kind of a tie - but the best known place in Manitoba is Winnipeg where 60% of the people live. And Winnipeg is known for ridiculously cold winters and mosquito infestations and the occasional flood.

I only spent a couple of hours there when I was a teenager, so who am I to judge? But I have never met anyone other than a Winippegger who has anything good to say about the place.

[MaxWebster]

(hey i've spent a few days in Winnipeg! I liked it a lot*!)



*n.b. 'twas in summer. may be relevant.

[degenerasian]

Meanwhile in Alberta, the government's been trolled.

[MaxWebster]

aka young Jason Kenney -> anti-abortion activist and free speech opponent:

[brian]

Meanwhile in Alberta, the government's been trolled.

You seldom see ass-clownery of that level in Canadian politics, no. We've come to take that for granted in the U.S. It literally took me a minute to realize what the controversy was about because that level of nuttery is just everyday shit in the States.

[sancarlos]

I would have guessed that Saskatchewan would be the one who gets the treatment Manitoba gets here.

I may have posted this before, but I’ve co-opted this witticism of my father’s:

Other (American) person: So, your parents are from Saskatchewan? What’s it like there?
Me: It’s like North Dakota. But, without the glamour.

[Pruitt]

Meanwhile in Alberta, the government's been trolled.

Fun reading - they actually set up a tax payer funded "war room" to counter anti-oil company opinions in the media.

(The headlines in this story are hilarious)

Alberta energy minister defends ‘war room’ petition against children’s ‘Bigfoot Family’ movie

And it's staffed with Alberta's best and brightest:

The war room was given a $30-million annual budget and immediately stumbled into several high-profile gaffes. It was found to be using another company’s logo and its staff had referred to themselves as reporters when speaking with sources.

It also attacked, and later apologized, for a series of tweets about the New York Times, saying the newspaper had been “called out for anti-Semitism countless times” and had a “very dodgy” track record.

[Steve of phpBB]

Meanwhile in Alberta, the government's been trolled.

Fun reading - they actually set up a tax payer funded "war room" to counter anti-oil company opinions in the media.

(The headlines in this story are hilarious)

Alberta energy minister defends ‘war room’ petition against children’s ‘Bigfoot Family’ movie

And it's staffed with Alberta's best and brightest:

The war room was given a $30-million annual budget and immediately stumbled into several high-profile gaffes. It was found to be using another company’s logo and its staff had referred to themselves as reporters when speaking with sources.

It also attacked, and later apologized, for a series of tweets about the New York Times, saying the newspaper had been “called out for anti-Semitism countless times” and had a “very dodgy” track record.

Suddenly I’m a tiny bit less embarrassed by the Utah legislature.

[rass]

Streisand eh-ffect

[Pruitt]

Liberal MP caught stark naked during House of Commons video conference



Luckily not doing a Toobin.

[degenerasian]

Liberal MP caught stark naked during House of Commons video conference



Luckily not doing a Toobin.

Again!

[Pruitt]

Looks like he just pissed away his career!

[MaxWebster]

Pruitt FTW

:D

[degenerasian]

Pruitt, Trav, we gotta get into government consulting.

https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/ ... -3-billion

OTTAWA — Fees paid by the federal government for third-party consultants have continued to increase, with costs expected to be $1.3 billion higher this year compared with an earlier estimate just two months ago.
According to a government estimate released in March, the annual cost of outsourcing engineering, legal and other services would reach $16.4 billion in 2022, up from $8.3 billion in 2016. An updated document released on Thursday adds another $1.3 billion to that estimate, bringing the 2022 projection to around $17.7 billion.

[travzilla]

Seems obvious that the consultants should form their own party and run on the platform that simply electing them would save the country $17 billion.

edit: If they need help with this I would be happy to consult them... for a fee.

[Pruitt]

Seems obvious that the consultants should form their own party and run on the platform that simply electing them would save the country $17 billion.

edit: If they need help with this I would be happy to consult them... for a fee.

Brilliant!

The only thing worse than Trudeau is every other party leader. What a bunch of complete and utter zeroes.

[Pruitt]

I may be rethinking my previous post...

Questioning government policy on China is not fomenting racism, Prime Minister

Last week, Conservative MP Candice Bergen asked Prime Minister Justin Trudeau why scientists at the Winnipeg infectious-diseases laboratory had been collaborating with Chinese military scientists. Two Canadian scientists have been fired from the lab, so Ms. Bergen’s question was reasonable. Mr. Trudeau’s response was not.

“The rise in anti-Asian racism we have been seeing over the past number of months should be of concern to everyone,” Mr. Trudeau replied, from left field. “I would recommend that the members of the Conservative Party, in their zeal to make personal attacks, not start to push too far into intolerance toward Canadians of diverse origins.”

[Pruitt]

Looks Like We're Getting A Fucking Election

No need for it, just empty suit Trudeau realizing that he's running against three stooges.

[degenerasian]

Looks Like We're Getting A Fucking Election

No need for it, just empty suit Trudeau realizing that he's running against three stooges.

He wants his majority and not be controlled by Singh. And he's going to get it.

[degenerasian]

Well. Not entirely sure if this is any sort of foreshadowing for the federal election but the CBC has just projected that the PCs have upset the Libs in the Nova Scotia election tonight

[Pruitt]

Well. Not entirely sure if this is any sort of foreshadowing for the federal election but the CBC has just projected that the PCs have upset the Libs in the Nova Scotia election tonight

It is interesting (and maybe coincidental) that the Liberals in Nova Scotia had a massive lead in the polling when the campaign started. Could the Federal election call have pissed off a lot of voters?

Unless this O'Toole fella messes up and serenades the cranks, I can see a Liberal minority at the end of this.

However, that is a big if.

[travzilla]

Well. Not entirely sure if this is any sort of foreshadowing for the federal election but the CBC has just projected that the PCs have upset the Libs in the Nova Scotia election tonight

The Conservatives here actually ran to the left of the Liberals on a bunch of issues. Once they kicked off the campaign by promising a fuckton of money into healthcare, they had all of rural NS in the bag. Where as the liberals kicked off the campaign by vaguely disclosing their new leader’s two DUIs and removing a popular candidate for past (tame) sexy photos. All that plus a healthy dose of vote splitting with NDP and here we are.

While I’m pretty bummed out about PCs with a majority (they smartly never talked about their “huge tax and regulation cuts for corporations” platform), at least we’re a long way from a Doug Ford or Jason Kenny style conservative government.

Federally, I think with some low turnout NS goes from Liberal sweep or near sweep the last two times to an even split.

[travzilla]

Find someone who loves you as much as the NDP love getting 20% of the vote and 10% of the seats. They live for that shit, all over the country.





Also, some of the hot takes about how wrong the polls were could have waited until the early and mail-in votes were counted, which were heavily Liberal. While the Libs did have a 8-10 point lead in a poll before the campaign started, the two or three polls done during the campaign showed a steadily narrowing gap.

[Pruitt]

Also, some of the hot takes about how wrong the polls were could have waited until the early and mail-in votes were counted, which were heavily Liberal. While the Libs did have a 8-10 point lead in a poll before the campaign started, the two or three polls done during the campaign showed a steadily narrowing gap.

Ah, so nothing at all to do with backlash against the federal election call.

Whereabouts are you located in Nova Scotia?

[travzilla]

Also, some of the hot takes about how wrong the polls were could have waited until the early and mail-in votes were counted, which were heavily Liberal. While the Libs did have a 8-10 point lead in a poll before the campaign started, the two or three polls done during the campaign showed a steadily narrowing gap.

Ah, so nothing at all to do with backlash against the federal election call.

Whereabouts are you located in Nova Scotia?

Around Digby, in the southwest of the province (or, the Alabama of the province, if you will).

[Pruitt]

Also, some of the hot takes about how wrong the polls were could have waited until the early and mail-in votes were counted, which were heavily Liberal. While the Libs did have a 8-10 point lead in a poll before the campaign started, the two or three polls done during the campaign showed a steadily narrowing gap.

Ah, so nothing at all to do with backlash against the federal election call.

Whereabouts are you located in Nova Scotia?

Around Digby, in the southwest of the province (or, the Alabama of the province, if you will).

Been there a couple of times - once as a young teenager and then three years ago for lunch. We were on our way to Trout Point Lodge and had no idea of the horrors that awaited us on the Nova Scotia roads.

ETA: Not monsters or anything like that - the roads themselves are horrifying.

[degenerasian]

It all comes down to how many three-way races can the Conservatives win in the federal election? In Nova Scotia, 55 provincial ridings turn into 11 federal ones. Maybe all the rural ridings get combined into one.

Last federal election Liberals won 10 of the 11 ridings.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_ ... ova_Scotia

I think the Greens are irrelevant this federal election (internal fighting), that hurts the conservatives.

[degenerasian]

Trudeau is running a shit campaign and O'Toole is running positive progressive ads. This might be a total shift.

[degenerasian]

Wowwow. Trudeau catering and it's only been two weeks.