Nice takedown of Jagmeet Singh's inability to say anything.
i don't understand why he didn't go into the house of commons immediately. He could be yelling at Trudeau everyday.
People still don't know who he is nearly a year.
Nice takedown of Jagmeet Singh's inability to say anything.
i don't understand why he didn't go into the house of commons immediately. He could be yelling at Trudeau everyday.
People still don't know who he is nearly a year.
Perhaps because there isn;t a single safe NDP seat?
A stunned, nay, devastated Alberta government is staying silent for now, perhaps wondering how its candidates can run election campaigns from the fetal position.
Something about this catty passage from the story is very fitting...
At an event at the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology, a technical college, where he’d donned a lab coat and purple nitrile gloves to look at test tubes of clay...
Re: Canadian Politics Thread
Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2018 10:02 am
by degenerasian
what a joke.
Re: Canadian Politics Thread
Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2018 4:39 pm
by Pruitt
degenerasian wrote: ↑Thu Sep 06, 2018 10:02 am
what a joke.
You know, I love Trudeau when he appears in the media outside Canada. When all that matters is that he represents Canada's better angels.
The reality though - as pointed out in Macleans recently, is that his government has accomplished nothing. For all his talk and tears and apologies to the indigineous population, the fact that they weren;t consulted properly on the pipeline project is an inexcusable bureaucratic oversight. Maybe if he spent more time at his desk instead of making cutesy photo ops, this wouldn't have happened.
Re: Canadian Politics Thread
Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2018 5:10 pm
by degenerasian
They overlooked an entire section! Tanker Traffic!
Re: Canadian Politics Thread
Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2018 7:28 pm
by Pruitt
degenerasian wrote: ↑Thu Sep 06, 2018 5:10 pm
They overlooked an entire section! Tanker Traffic!
As we say in Ontario - "Oy vey izmir!"
Let's remember to recycle some of this when the Americans are wondering how the world's favourite handsome politician lost the next federal election.
degenerasian wrote: ↑Thu Sep 06, 2018 5:10 pm
They overlooked an entire section! Tanker Traffic!
As we say in Ontario - "Oy vey izmir!"
Let's remember to recycle some of this when the Americans are wondering how the world's favourite handsome politician lost the next federal election.
He's not going to lose the next election because the other two leaders are "Schmucks" as you would say.
Now if Bernier can fund raise like a mad man and get a new party going with good candidates then that might get interesting. He's got over a year to do it and he recently campaigned across the country during the Conservative Leadership Race that he ended up losing on a stupid ranked ballot.
degenerasian wrote: ↑Thu Sep 06, 2018 5:10 pm
They overlooked an entire section! Tanker Traffic!
As we say in Ontario - "Oy vey izmir!"
I love Santaneh.
Re: Canadian Politics Thread
Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2018 10:43 am
by degenerasian
On one hand I keep hearing the Liberals are coming out with a plan to fast track the pipeline, but on the other Trudeau has a tense meeting with Notley and a long grab-ass session with Horgan in Surrey.
Alberta separation talk is not intended as a threat. Yet.
It's the sort of grumble which rumbles when Albertans feel they're undervalued as a mere gas tank for Canada's economic engine.
But the man who wants to be Alberta premier if the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion stays above ground told Power Play that the volume of separation talk is suddenly way up and Alberta MPs echo United Conservative leader Jason Kenney's pointed observation.
Alberta separation talk is not intended as a threat. Yet.
It's the sort of grumble which rumbles when Albertans feel they're undervalued as a mere gas tank for Canada's economic engine.
But the man who wants to be Alberta premier if the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion stays above ground told Power Play that the volume of separation talk is suddenly way up and Alberta MPs echo United Conservative leader Jason Kenney's pointed observation.
Trudeaus and the west... crazy to see history repeating itself.
Re: Canadian Politics Thread
Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2018 11:22 am
by degenerasian
Former PM Stephen Harper's take on current events.
Just a day earlier it was revealed Clement was among the 10 MPs named to the new National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians, which provides oversight of Canada’s national security and intelligence agencies. As one national security expert noted, Clement’s behaviour and the blackmail attempt is a devastating blow to an oversight body already facing skepticism from security agencies.
Re: Canadian Politics Thread
Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2018 7:28 am
by A_B
I’ll allow it!
Re: Canadian Politics Thread
Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2018 10:20 am
by Pruitt
A_B wrote: ↑Thu Nov 08, 2018 7:28 amI’ll allow it!
Fun part is that he's a former cabinet minister who (for a Canadian politician) often played the morality card.
But reports now say that he wasn't targeted because of his place on the Security Committee.
From the Globe and Mail:
Two federal security sources said there are no indications at this point that Mr. Clement was preyed upon because he was a politician or for his work on the committee, which he officially left on Wednesday. Instead, Mr. Clement was likely the victim of an individual or group that baited him for financial profit, said the two sources who were granted anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter publicly.
Rachel Curran, a former senior Conservative aide in the Harper government, said Mr. Clement was known for sending “multiple unsolicited” direct messages to young women, characterizing the behaviour as “harassment.”
Mahoney was a genius in hiding his tracks compared to this moron.
The casino he was gambling (or cleaning) all that money in is maybe 10 minutes from Parliament Hill.
Re: Canadian Politics Thread
Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2018 2:25 pm
by Pruitt
degenerasian wrote: ↑Wed Nov 28, 2018 11:27 am
There is so much going on with this government right now.
pipelines, GM, Canada Post, french services in ontario etc....
Not to defend the federal liberals, but isn't the French services uproar a provincial thing?
degenerasian wrote: ↑Wed Nov 28, 2018 11:27 am
There is so much going on with this government right now.
pipelines, GM, Canada Post, french services in ontario etc....
Not to defend the federal liberals, but isn't the French services uproar a provincial thing?
yeah but the federal parties are meeting over it. The Feds may try to save/fund the french university.
degenerasian wrote: ↑Wed Nov 28, 2018 11:27 am
There is so much going on with this government right now.
pipelines, GM, Canada Post, french services in ontario etc....
Not to defend the federal liberals, but isn't the French services uproar a provincial thing?
yeah but the federal parties are meeting over it. The Feds may try to save/fund the french university.
China threatens Canada with "grave consequences", Canadians are like "How grave, eh? Do your worse. Perhaps all the astronaut families will repatriate and we'll have our affordable housing back?"
Australia should arrest some Chinese billionaire next.
Re: Canadian Politics Thread
Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2018 7:05 am
by Pruitt
degenerasian wrote: ↑Tue Dec 11, 2018 7:23 am
China threatens Canada with "grave consequences", Canadians are like "How grave, eh? Do your worse. Perhaps all the astronaut families will repatriate and we'll have our affordable housing back?"
Australia should arrest some Chinese billionaire next.
Even U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo didn’t hesitate to say last week that the arrests of Kovrig and Spavor were obviously retaliations, and that they should both be immediately released. But Trudeau couldn’t even bring himself to admit that much.
The NDP leader Jagmeet Singh still has no seat in the house. He runs in the Vancouver suburb of Burnaby in a few weeks.
Re: Canadian Politics Thread
Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2019 6:54 am
by Pruitt
degenerasian wrote: ↑Thu Jan 03, 2019 11:30 am
The NDP leader Jagmeet Singh still has no seat in the house. He runs in the Vancouver suburb of Burnaby in a few weeks.
He reminds me of an unprepared student trying to bluff his way through an assignment...
The big political news north of the border is out west where a federal by-election is being held. One that is getting lot of attention because the leader of the NDP (our 3rd party) is running for the seat (even though he lives 2,500 miles away.
The Liberal Candidate is the daughter of Chinese immigrants. She caused a fuss in a message to her supporters when she pointed out that the NDP candidate is of Indian heritage.
The big political news north of the border is out west where a federal by-election is being held. One that is getting lot of attention because the leader of the NDP (our 3rd party) is running for the seat (even though he lives 2,500 miles away.
The Liberal Candidate is the daughter of Chinese immigrants. She caused a fuss in a message to her supporters when she pointed out that the NDP candidate is of Indian heritage.
Yes, politics up here is this small-time!
I was about to pose the question why would any in Burnaby vote for Singh? A guy parachuted in to get a seat in the house, over the Liberal candidate Wang who has worked in the Burnaby community for years. I thought she would win for sure.
Until this happened. She's so dumb. Burnaby is 30% Chinese. She didn't have to say a thing.
The big political news north of the border is out west where a federal by-election is being held. One that is getting lot of attention because the leader of the NDP (our 3rd party) is running for the seat (even though he lives 2,500 miles away.
The Liberal Candidate is the daughter of Chinese immigrants. She caused a fuss in a message to her supporters when she pointed out that the NDP candidate is of Indian heritage.
Yes, politics up here is this small-time!
I was about to pose the question why would any in Burnaby vote for Singh? A guy parachuted in to get a seat in the house, over the Liberal candidate Wang who has worked in the Burnaby community for years. I thought she would win for sure.
Until this happened. She's so dumb. Burnaby is 30% Chinese. She didn't have to say a thing.
Well, there's more than ethnicity at play, but you could be right.
Just looked it up - it's a fairly new riding that (according to Elections Canada) voted 44% NDP to 40% Conservative in 2011. 35% NDP 34% Liberal last time out (when the NDP spent way more than the other 2 parties combined to narrowly hold on to the seat...)
I guess this is as safe a seat as there is for the NDP these days.
Re: Canadian Politics Thread
Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2019 6:49 am
by Pruitt
degenerasian wrote: ↑Tue Nov 06, 2018 9:50 pm
Tony Clement? Sexting?