[Canada] Canadian Politics Redux

[viper37]

@CC Because Trump appreciates toughness more than anything. Ignoring the USA is stupid.

Only when you can scare him.  Like Iran, Russia, NK.  Or if you can buy him.  Like Russia, Saudi Arabia.

[viper37]

On a funnier note, there was an ice&snow storm last week-end (snow on Friday, rain&ice on Saturday, lots of snow Sunday), and some people took to social media to complain about Hydro Quebec not being quick enough to restore power (in nearly all cases, it took less than 24 hrs).

Some Liberal MP also complained how HQ was a very bad company for not prioritizing her neighbourhood of Brossard instead of the countryside.  Typical Liberal crap.  Sadly, she ain't in the lot here...

So, here are some of Hydro-Quebec social media management team answers:
Link
Some are really funny

[Josephus]

That's OK.

Here in Ontario on Sunday morning we got an alert that there was some kind of accident at the nuclear power plant in Pickering, which is a 10 minute drive from my house. Took them two hours to issue another alert saying, "nah, just kidding."

https://globalnews.ca/news/6400665/pickering-nuclear-generating-station-emergency-alert/

[HVC]

The first warning said no release of nuclear material so I nodded my head rolled over and went back to bed. Most people probably didn't even read it. Sad to say they ignore those alerts assuming it's an amber alert

[Josephus]

I didn't ignore it. I didn't panic, but I was annoyed that there was a chance I was going to have to spend Sunday evacuating and having to spend the night in some high school gym with 200 other people.
At the very best, I was hoping to get super hero powers out of it.

[Malthus]

That's OK.

Here in Ontario on Sunday morning we got an alert that there was some kind of accident at the nuclear power plant in Pickering, which is a 10 minute drive from my house. Took them two hours to issue another alert saying, "nah, just kidding."

https://globalnews.ca/news/6400665/pickering-nuclear-generating-station-emergency-alert/

They should adopt Homer Simpson as their mascot. 

In all seriousness, the implementation of the alert service is ... really bad. Starting with the decision to use only the highest level of alert for all messages, which creates a 'boy crying wolf' situation where people ignore them, assuming it's another custody battle gone to the cops. Though a nuclear alert would be a good example of a message that *should* be on the highest level of alert ... so screwing one up is even worse.

[Barrister]

Peter MacKay confirms he's running.  News reports say Rona Ambrose is not.

So contenders so far sound like MacKay, Charest, O'Toole and Poilievre.

[Grey Fox]

Harper quit his position on the board of the conservative fund to be free to block Charest.

Milk Cartel, this is your cue.

[Barrister]

WHat's funny about that list is that it contains the last two leaders of the old PC Party - which disappeared in 2003!

[Oexmelin]

I think it reflects that the uneasy truce between the two factions - PC and Alliance - that Harper managed to handle, is quite fragile. Scheer's defeat signalled the limits of the sort of Conservatism the West nevertheless favors.  I think Ambrose could have been someone capable of repeating the feat.

[Barrister]

I'm reluctant to put too much weight on a PC/Reform division - the parties have been merged for 16 years by now.  MacKay in particular served as a senior minister in Harper's government, so he certainly has bona fides with western conservatives.

I too wish Ambrose was running.  I may or may not have voted for her, but she would be a solid contender and certainly someone I would be comfortable to see as leader.

Here's a fun factoid: before Christmas CHarest called up Harper to ask for his blessing to run for leader.  Harper of course did not give that blessing, and in fact resigned as a board member of Conservative Fund Canada (the party's fundraising arm) in order to try and block Charest.

https://www.macleans.ca/politics/ottawa/stephen-harper-resigns-from-the-conservative-fund-board/

[Oexmelin]

I too wish Ambrose was running.  I may or may not have voted for her, but she would be a solid contender and certainly someone I would be comfortable to see as leader.

Oh, I do not wish for Ambrose to run. :p I can't really imagine a world right now where any flavor of Conservatives would get my vote. But she did seem to me like someone competent enough to manage both sides of the CPC.

Here's a fun factoid: before Christmas CHarest called up Harper to ask for his blessing to run for leader.  Harper of course did not give that blessing, and in fact resigned as a board member of Conservative Fund Canada (the party's fundraising arm) in order to try and block Charest.

(yes, Greyfox posted it a couple of messages above...)

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[crazy canuck]

I'm reluctant to put too much weight on a PC/Reform division - the parties have been merged for 16 years by now.  MacKay in particular served as a senior minister in Harper's government, so he certainly has bona fides with western conservatives.

Payoff for Mackay doing what he promised he would not when he was elected leader of the PCs.  I can understand why Reformers would want to wish away the divide.  But it definitely exists.

[Barrister]

In BC's appeal of the BCCA decision which struck down BC's anti Trans-Mountain legislation, the SCC dismissed the appeal from the bench.  They didn't even bother with written decisions.

That's pretty unusual in as high a profile case as this.

[crazy canuck]

In BC's appeal of the BCCA decision which struck down BC's anti Trans-Mountain legislation, the SCC dismissed the appeal from the bench.  They didn't even bother with written decisions.

That's pretty unusual in as high a profile case as this.

Not really.  BC was asking the Court to overturn every decided division of powers case since confederation as reflected in the BCCA decision.  The SCC signaled exactly what they thought of the appellant's argument.