tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-123450492025-07-02T14:44:32.282-04:00Canadiannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07987833950676519609noreply@blogger.comBlogger395125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12345049.post-40788412656668160152021-07-27T15:23:00.002-04:002021-07-27T15:26:58.389-04:00

Justin Trudeau is 'deeply disappointed' with the Montreal Canadiens for their choice of pick Logan Mailloux in the first round of Friday's NHL draft. Mailloux as you might be aware, has been under fire for having distributed photos of a sexual encounter with a young woman without her consent.Not to justify Mailloux's extremely poor judgement. He was wrong. But is Justin Trudeau really the

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. . . is the one who engages in gossip about him. The CPC is walking a dangerous path -- before Monday's English debate, they said there were still lingering questions about why Trudeau left his teaching job and suggested he would have the opportunity to answer those questions at the debate. Nothing came of it. People kind of murmured and let it go.... but now today they've put out a press

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Jonathon Kay wrote a piece in Foreign Policy magazine about how this election has turned so dumb. He says that in absence of any real, substantive issues, parties have drawn on tribalism, identity politics, cancel culture, etc., saying and doing anything they can to make the other guy look bad for things that happened a long time ago, or things that maybe, really don't matter. If you read

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If this doesn't take him down, nothing will. How can my fellow Canadians, people who howled at the 'homophobia' of Andrew Scheer, whose recently revived speech echoed the sentiments of the vast majority of the Western world in that time period -- how can the people who reviled and cheered the cancelling of an SNL comedian for repeatedly using racial epithets -- how can those same people dismiss

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Much as I disagreed with Michael Cooper's grandstanding at the Justice Committee, expunging his statement from the record is plain stupid, and it's been done to give the impression that what Cooper said, was far worse than it actually was. This is the problem with the world today - people aren't content to disagree, or disavow, or dissect and discuss -- they feel the need to erase points

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You'd think by now, Canada's (C)onservatives would understand that they can't just speak, they need to think first -- how will this be heard? And  -- how will my words affect conservatives in general. No other party seems to have that issue. Liberals all speak as one giant unit these days, but if one goes off message, no one tries to tie the whole brand to the words. Same with NDP and

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I can think of only one reason that the Trudeau government held the opening ceremony quietly, without inviting the families of those being honoured, without media attention, without any sort of public observance. There can be only one reason that the memorial will not be open to the public, and might only be open to veterans and their families, or interested groups, by

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The last provincial election was tough for me. The Liberals deserved to be booted. The NDP didn't deserve to govern, but I really don't like Doug Ford. He strikes me as ham-fisted and thoughtless. He thinks he's like his brother, but he isn't. Whatever you thought of Rob Ford, he helped people. He was in the job for two reasons -- to be liked and to be of service. He was well liked by those he

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Often we see that a politician peaks too soon before an election for his own good. Then he'll plateau or even drop in the polls and when the vote finally comes, everyone recalls those high numbers back when, and wonders what happened that the bottom fell out. Timing is everything in politics. A six-week election cycle is too long for many candidates. After four, the wheels start

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I used to just think Justin Trudeau was an airhead. Nice enough guy - if he'd done the Ben Mulroney thing and gone into entertainment, a harmless sort of fellow that you couldn't help but like. His ascension to power has proved him anything but. There seem to be a lot of people willing to just brush past the SNC-Lavalin thing because it isn't a world-class scandal. Its elements

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So he said it. For once in his life, Justin Trudeau said 'sorry' for something he did. This apology came swiftly and almost seemed real -- but here's why I'm not impressed: It was at that $1,500 per person fundraiser where Justin Trudeau was at his most authentic. This wouldn't have happened at a townhall -- he'd have known it was public. But there, with his fellow Laurentian

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He's shown often, that he is the Prime Minister for Liberals -- and not all Liberals -- Liberals who agree with him. His contempt for his own MPs and fellow liberals when they don't fall into line with Trudeau-think is well known. Don't dare even try to run for the party if you have any reservations about abortion whatsoever. You're not allowed. You must think along party lines -- Fine - anyone

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Like with most things, a sincere acceptance of culpability and an apology likely would have washed the SNC-Lavalin scandal away. People like moments when other people genuinely admit their humanity: "I made a mistake." Justin Trudeau doesn't know how to do that. We've all noted that he is an ace at apologizing for the wrongs of others, the problem is, he has no ability to see wrongs committed

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My younger daughter and I commute to and from downtown together every day, and lately many of our conversations have been about politics. Yesterday, I told her what I thought about Jody Wilson-Raybould and Jane Philpott remaining Liberals in the wake of all that's happened. I was surprised that she a had a completely different take, and it's shifted my perspective some. My daughter

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Paul Wells' interview with Jane Philpott left me with the same feeling as Jody Wilson-Raybould's statement to her constituents. Nice sentiments, but conflicting. Put in terms of a personal relationship, since this scandal broke, the behaviour of the PM and his closest people, toward Jody Wilson-Raybould (and frankly, many other women in his sphere) parallels an abusive partnership. I don't

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So, I guess it's pretty much over. It's hard to sustain outrage without coming off as unhinged. Much as the Conservatives were right to be outraged during AdScam, their reactions to the scandal hurt their leader and their brand, causing the then, unknown entity of Stephen Harper, to be labeled 'angry' -- a perception that stuck amongst a lot of average Canadians. They're facing the same

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For all those conservatives bleating on Twitter, how the mainstream media, politicians etc. have made a big deal over the New Zealand mosque terror attacks, and have not shown similar emotion for Christians slaughtered in Nigeria -- you already know the reason. Whenever anything horrible happens in a western democracy, we watch, we weep, we grieve alongside -- because we see

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Jody Wilson-Raybould's letter to Liberals and other citizens is uplifting, inspirational and very conflicting. Much as I agree with her sentiments, I find they don't mesh well with staying in the party. It seems incongruent to me that she could find they behaved so egregiously that she quit cabinet, but that she feels she can somehow work within the party for change. Trust has eroded --

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So the Liberals did what Liberals do, and have adjourned the Justice Committee until next week, budget day -- so they can ponder 'next steps' and bury their vote behind budget coverage. This is where Sheer needs to remain calm and not get all accusy and irrational. He should not be making demands or acting indignant.... he should simply say that the Liberals are behaving in a

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Although we keep getting news on the repercussions of the SNC-Lavalin affair, I honestly don't see it affecting the PM's chance at re-election. He seems to have weathered the storm, mostly by just doing what he always does, which is saying a bunch of nothing. There have been suggestions that without Gerald Butts in the PMO, that going forward with be hard for PMJT, but Butts didn't die. He

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Liberal MP Celina Caesar-Chavannes says when she met with PMJT to discuss leaving politics, she was "met with hostility", but we all know she got it wrong: Matt Pascuzzo, a spokesman for the Prime Minister’s Office, said, “The Prime Minister has deep respect for Celina Caesar-Chavannes. There’s no question the conversations in February were emotional, but there was absolutely no hostility. As

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You have to read Brad Wall's column in the National Post. This government is vile. I remember non-conservatives weeping and wailing about how Stephen Harper was divisive, going to change our country and destroy our institutions, but Stephen Harper's Canada felt little different from Paul Martin's or Jean Chretien's or Brian Mulroney's (which often made me angry). In terms of our

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So that's the new talking point. Yesterday, Gerry Butts parroted PMJT's oft said - two people can experience the same event differently, which means: she's a liar, but I'm not saying that. This tactic is useful when the 'truth' is up for debate - an unrecorded conversation for example. It gives you leave to imply someone is a liar. And the cool thing about implying things, rather than saying

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Gerry Butts refused to comment on incidents/conversations for which he was not present, and frankly, that was most of them. He suggested that none of the players, even those who worked directly for him, ever relayed information about those conversations to him. He maintained he was unaware of them, and completely unaware of the fact that the former AG had made, what she considered, a final

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So, to sum it up: her won't call her a big fat liar, but everything she said was wrong, and she didn't bother to make any of it up until she lost her prized appointment as AG. She was also arrogant, because she refused to take advice from eminent jurists on a matter of 'public policy' regarding a new law, because she felt she'd done her due diligence, which, according to Mr. Butts,

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