[Canada] Canadian Politics Redux

[Zoupa]

I was once in a random village in Lebanon buying bread and a dude walks in "calisse ca sent bon icitte". I was like wtf are you doing here buddy. But then I thought well wtf am I doing here?

[mongers]

I was once in a random village in Lebanon buying bread and a dude walks in "calisse ca sent bon icitte". I was like wtf are you doing here buddy. But then I thought well wtf am I doing here?

 

[crazy canuck]

Looks like the election is going to be called within days for a April 28 election day.

[mongers]

Looks like the election is going to be called within days for a April 28 election day.

Canada, watch out for election interference fromPutin, maybe Trump, sorry more accurately 'Team Putin/trump'

[HVC]

Looks like the election is going to be called within days for a April 28 election day.

Canada, watch out for election interference fromPutin, maybe Trump, sorry more accurately 'Team Putin/trump'

They'll have to compete with China

[Razgovory]

Finally, on the attack.

I find that entirely unpersuasive.

So they use some similar phrases.  Big whoop.

Don't worry, when that guy wins they will be saying it's not the same as Trump.

[Neil]

The Trumpists have been put on notice-we are everywhere 

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DHZCDgqpS4h/?igsh=MTdsc3BhOTVlaTVtdA==

That guy under the tent is ALWAYS there, for quite a while, playing anthems from every country in the world from under his tent. 

Honestly, I'm surprised he hasn't been arrested and disappeared yet by Patel's Gestapo thugs.

[Neil]

Looks like the election is going to be called within days for a April 28 election day.

Canada, watch out for election interference fromPutin, maybe Trump, sorry more accurately 'Team Putin/trump'

They'll have to compete with China

And Modi. 

I'm going to have to work out how to do advance voting, since I'll be in Japan.

[Barrister]

https://x.com/TomGazzola/status/1902760243999937006

So apparently I am now two degrees of separation from PM Mark Carney.  Dustin Schwartz is the Oilers goalie coach, I coached his kid (with his wife being an assistant coach) and met Dustin several times, and now Dustin has met Carney.

This means absolutely nothing, of course.

It's funny that it's nothing but criticism in the posts below, of course.  It'll be no surprise that Alberta sports fans skew rightward, and Dustin has long been a whipping boy in Edmonton for the faults of Oilers goaltending, real or imagined.

But for Carney this is Politics 101.  He's playing up his very real Edmonton connections.  He grew up here after being born in NWT and graduated high school.  That being said he left for university and hasn't called Edmonton home for 40 years, so it does come across as pandering.  If I were to suddenly run for Parliament in Winnipeg it would seem strange, and I only left 25 years ago.

[Barrister]

Looks like the election is going to be called within days for a April 28 election day.

So on the one hand - good.  It would have been much worse if Carney promptly prorogued again, and slightly worse if the NDP suddenly cut a deal with the Libs after saying they'd vote No Confidence.

But for the "Why won't Poilievre get a security clearance" crowd... (or for that matter, why won't Trump disclose his taxes)

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/carney-assets-questions-1.7486242

Mark Carney has put all of his assets into a blind trust, as is required.

That being said he has 60 days to disclose what those assets are (or were), and a further 60 days before that information becomes public.

By calling an immediate election, Carney's assets won't be made public until after the election date.

After his time at Goldman Sachs, early in his career, plus Brookfield and Bloomberg (without even going into his assets as Bank Governor in Canada and England), you know those assets are going to be high.

He's been asked several times a version of "OK so your assets are in a blind trust now, but please tell us what they were when you put them into a blind trust" only to receive testy non-answers.

[HVC]

What assets would affect the election though? I guess Tesla

[crazy canuck]

https://x.com/TomGazzola/status/1902760243999937006

So apparently I am now two degrees of separation from PM Mark Carney.  Dustin Schwartz is the Oilers goalie coach, I coached his kid (with his wife being an assistant coach) and met Dustin several times, and now Dustin has met Carney.

This means absolutely nothing, of course.

It's funny that it's nothing but criticism in the posts below, of course.  It'll be no surprise that Alberta sports fans skew rightward, and Dustin has long been a whipping boy in Edmonton for the faults of Oilers goaltending, real or imagined.

But for Carney this is Politics 101.  He's playing up his very real Edmonton connections.  He grew up here after being born in NWT and graduated high school.  That being said he left for university and hasn't called Edmonton home for 40 years, so it does come across as pandering.  If I were to suddenly run for Parliament in Winnipeg it would seem strange, and I only left 25 years ago.

I'm not sure what your point is. Do people lose a claim to being raised in a particular place unless they were born there, and they spend their adult life there.

Sorry, but I'm going to continue to claim that I grew up in a town that's different from where I was born and where I spent my adult life even if you think that might be pattering. In fact, I mention it on many occasions. I'm actually pretty proud of where I was raised.  I hope you're not going to be this petty the whole election.

[Barrister]

I'm not sure what your point is. Do people lose a claim to being raised in a particular place unless they were born there, and they spend their adult life there.

Sorry, but I'm going to continue to claim that I grew up in a town that's different from where I was born and where I spent my adult life even if you think that might be pattering. In fact, I mention it on many occasions. I'm actually pretty proud of where I was raised.  I hope you're not going to be this petty the whole election.

You're quite something.

How is it "petty" when I say a politician is doing Politics 101?

Yes, you're proud to be from Prince George (or wherever it was).  You should be.  I'm proud to be a newspaper man's son from Winnipeg.

But at our ages, or Carney's age - where we were raised hardly defines us, and putting too much focus on that risks coming across as pandering.

Poilievre was born and raised in Calgary, which is something he's never shied away from acknowledging.  But he's lived in Ottawa for 20 years and represented an Ottawa-area riding.  If he were to suddenly lean in heavily to his own Calgary roots it would also risk coming across as inauthentic.

[Grey Fox]

Looks like the election is going to be called within days for a April 28 election day.

So on the one hand - good.  It would have been much worse if Carney promptly prorogued again, and slightly worse if the NDP suddenly cut a deal with the Libs after saying they'd vote No Confidence.

But for the "Why won't Poilievre get a security clearance" crowd... (or for that matter, why won't Trump disclose his taxes)

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/carney-assets-questions-1.7486242

Mark Carney has put all of his assets into a blind trust, as is required.

That being said he has 60 days to disclose what those assets are (or were), and a further 60 days before that information becomes public.

By calling an immediate election, Carney's assets won't be made public until after the election date.

After his time at Goldman Sachs, early in his career, plus Brookfield and Bloomberg (without even going into his assets as Bank Governor in Canada and England), you know those assets are going to be high.

He's been asked several times a version of "OK so your assets are in a blind trust now, but please tell us what they were when you put them into a blind trust" only to receive testy non-answers.

 

[crazy canuck]

I'm not sure what your point is. Do people lose a claim to being raised in a particular place unless they were born there, and they spend their adult life there.

Sorry, but I'm going to continue to claim that I grew up in a town that's different from where I was born and where I spent my adult life even if you think that might be pattering. In fact, I mention it on many occasions. I'm actually pretty proud of where I was raised.  I hope you're not going to be this petty the whole election.

You're quite something.

How is it "petty" when I say a politician is doing Politics 101?

Yes, you're proud to be from Prince George (or wherever it was).  You should be.  I'm proud to be a newspaper man's son from Winnipeg.

But at our ages, or Carney's age - where we were raised hardly defines us, and putting too much focus on that risks coming across as pandering.

Poilievre was born and raised in Calgary, which is something he's never shied away from acknowledging.  But he's lived in Ottawa for 20 years and represented an Ottawa-area riding.  If he were to suddenly lean in heavily to his own Calgary roots it would also risk coming across as inauthentic.

You said it was pandering. If you wanna take back the comment that it's pandering I will take back the comment you were being petty.

But it just dawned on me that you might think that doing politics is pandering. That actually explains a lot, including your view that  it is ok for PP to play footsie with fascists.