[Canada] Canadian Politics Redux

[crazy canuck]

More good news for the NDP - and bad news for the Conservatives.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-more-canadians-believe-ndps-singh-would-make-a-better-pm-than-tories/

Who would be the best PM?

Trudeau 25%  Singh 19%  O'Toole 13%

[Barrister]

Green Party sends out a note to members confirming there is ongoing litigation between the Green Party of Canada, and the Leader of the party.  Cooler heads have definitely not prevailed.

https://twitter.com/aballinga/status/1417923031947780097

[crazy canuck]

Idiots

[crazy canuck]

Speaking of idiots, the Alberta government is removing the requirement to quarantine for people who test POSITIVE.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/alberta-covid-requirements-1.6121002

[Josephus]

Green party running out of green.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/green-party-legal-battle-finances-1.6121566

[Jacob]

That certainly puts the Greens out of consideration for any sort of support - financial or otherwise - as far as I'm concerned.

[crazy canuck]

Looks like the election call is coming on Sunday.  Most of BC will have just gone through another heat dome.  It is 11:13 am and already 29C on our backdeck and heading to the high 30s by late afternoon - in the shade.  I am going out on a limb to say that climate change will be an election issue.

[Rex Francorum]

More than ever.

[viper37]

I am going out on a limb to say that climate change will be an election issue.

It's been an issue since the early 2000s.  Not that the Libs have done anything about it while in power.  Save for signing Kyoto accord and not respecting it.  And having a carbon tax with no plan while our emissions are still increasing.

Since I'm in favour of reducing our carbon emissions, I shall vote for the only party who has done so in the past.

[Neil]

Alberta's got municipal elections in mid-October too.  Seems like there's a lot of voting in my future. 

Still, I can't get excited about any of my elections.  Municipally, the council is extremely weak and most of the power is in the hands of the city manager, who is responsible but not responsive to council.  Federally, I don't really love Erin O'Toole.  He doesn't have Harper's quiet confidence.  I guess that's supposed to make him more approachable, but he just seems to keen.  I'd never vote for a party led by Justin Trudeau, the NDP is a non-starter and the Green Party seems to be battling over whether or not it's OK to hate Jews.  There seem to be two insane offshoots of the Conservative Party as well.  One is led by legendary flake Maxime Bernier, and the other is a band of hardcore populists that buy into all the stuff they see on Facebook.  It's not a very encouraging situation when you have an extremely challenging physical, social, economic and international environment.

[crazy canuck]

Yeah, the options for this important time in history are not what one might hope.

[Jacob]

They typically aren't.

[viper37]

They typically aren't.

sometimes they are, but some people get easily swayed by leftist propaganda.  Meh.

[crazy canuck]

They typically aren't.

sometimes they are, but some people get easily swayed by leftist propaganda.  Meh.

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[viper37]

They typically aren't.

sometimes they are, but some people get easily swayed by leftist propaganda.  Meh.

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Lots of people are scared by the supposedly hidden agenda of the Conservative party.  At least some on this forum who've expressed it directly.

Since it never happened in the years they governed, I say it's a myth.