[Canada] Canadian Politics Redux

[HVC]

Sheilbh is a separatist

[Sheilbh]

What can I say, I think at this stage about 90% of my political views is basically "mon général avait raison"

[Syt]

But ... I'm somewhat against Quebecois independence!

[Grey Fox]

I'm a lot less progressive in Federal polls like this because, while I vote NDP, I don't think all those social progressive policies should be in the Federal's purview.

[Razgovory]

I took this test and this question confused me

"People who break the law should be given harsher sentences."

Harsher sentences than what?  People who obey the law? You give people prison sentences for obedience to the law in Canada?

[crazy canuck]

I assume harsher than they are receiving now

[Duque de Bragança]

I'm also annoyed they have azorean and Portuguese as two different options. Trying to foment separation

That's the Anglo-Canadian-Açorean pidgin speaker lobby for you. 

[HVC]

I'm also annoyed they have azorean and Portuguese as two different options. Trying to foment separation

That's the Anglo-Canadian-Açorean pidgin speaker lobby for you. 

Franco

[Duque de Bragança]

I'm also annoyed they have azorean and Portuguese as two different options. Trying to foment separation

That's the Anglo-Canadian-Açorean pidgin speaker lobby for you. 

Franco

He was pretty hard on Galician separatists.  

[HVC]

Boo I know what I mean

[Barrister]

So one of the bits of news is Mark Carney pulled out of a TVA debate - which naturally would have been in French.

So franco-Languishites - how good are the leader's French?

None of the big three party leaders are francophones[1].  As a unilingual anglophone I went out and listened to each of them speaking French.  All three spoke with what sounded like an English accent to me.  Singh seemed like he struggled finding words, but Carney and Poilievre at least seemed like they could carry on a conversation.


[1] Poilievre grew up in a franco-Albertan household (he was adopted), but I gather he did not grow up with French as his first language.

[Grey Fox]

Singh sometimes struggles for words but is accent is very good and uses the right verb times.
Carney accent and his grammar are pretty good but he uses words that don't mean what he thinks they mean. Often misunderstand what he's been asked about.
PP's french is quite good, almost perfect. His mistakes are usually about putting emphasis on the wrong syllable. He sounds more like his wife than someone from Franco-Alberta.

Carney can't really go against YFB in a Quebec centric 1-1 debate and come out ahead. Pulling out is cowardly but a sound strategy.

[crazy canuck]

The report by CSIS that PP's leadership bid was aided by India is having an effect here in our largely Sikh community of South Asians.  Not so much because of the allegation, but the fact that PP has always refused to get the security clearance necessary to learn the details of what happened.

[Barrister]

So the "Poilievre doesn't have security clearance" is a valid story - but it's one thats months and months old.

But I want to talk about CBC bias.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics

4 of the 5 videos at the top of the page are about Poilievre's security clearance.

The lead story is about Poilievre's security clearance.


https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/

No stories about Poilivre's security clearance.

[HVC]

I'm more upset that ctv doesn't have anything about clearance. It's a big red flag that he won't get it.