If he ran and won the LPC would win a supermajority in the next election. Harper won't run because he knows he is damaged goods to the general electorate right now.
Yah the Globe outline he was ready to launch on Sunday. Something came up, there's no way it's a "I want to have another child" thing. Oppo research found something. Maybe he's an american and forgot to file his papers...
It's funny. This basically puts any decision you have to make in perspective, because no matter how badly your choice turns out, you probably can't fuck up as much as Bernier.In an alternate timeline, Mad Max reacts to his 2017 loss like a big boy, bites his tong and bides his time, becomes CPC leader in 2020, becomes Prime minister amid a devastating recession in 2021, realizes his long-life dreams of ending supply management and defunding the CBC in 2022.
Singh could have made a better case but the USMCA doesn't do a great job at raising current standards for environmental regulation. It being "the best we could get under Trump is only an indicator that we should maybe wait until 2021 before ratification for obvious reasons.The coalition specifically lamented that the trade agreement "does not even mention climate change, fails to adequately address toxic pollution, includes weak environmental standards and an even weaker enforcement mechanism, supports fossil fuels, and allows oil and gas corporations to challenge climate and environmental protections."
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Democrats did negotiate certain environmental standards into the deal, including the adoption of multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs) and the restoration of a provision in the old NAFTA that prioritizes the MEA commitments.
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However, the green groups were not satisfied.
"We cannot afford to lock ourselves into a multi-decade deal that ignores climate change and helps corporate polluters," they wrote. "Instead, as we negotiate and renegotiate trade deals, we need to meaningfully address the climate crisis and ensure we're leaving a safe, healthy planet for our communities and for generations to come."
The environmental community asked for a renegotiated NAFTA to require each country to adopt, maintain, and implement policies to fulfill their obligations under top-priority Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs), including all of the MEAs to which the U.S. is a party and other critical MEAs ratified by most countries in the world. Otherwise, countries will continue to have the incentive to violate their MEA commitments in order to boost trade or investment, spelling threats to air, water, climate stability, and ecosystems.
What's in NAFTA 2.0: The deal replicates the same, inadequate list of seven MEAs that were reinforced in the last four U.S. trade agreements. (The 2019 revision returns to the inadequate status quo after the 2018 deal took a step backwards by only effectively reinforcing one MEA.) The deal makes no mention of additional top-priority MEAs that serve critical roles for trade-related environmental protection, including other MEAs ratified by the U.S. and/or nearly all countries in the world concerning climate change, transboundary air pollution, mercury pollution, protection of the Caribbean, and other environmental priorities.
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The Trump administration's 2018 text included a new "rule of origin" that would make it cheaper for oil corporations to export climate-polluting tar sands oil to the U.S. through dangerous oil pipelines like Keystone XL. The text also failed to include a provision that is needed to preserve the U.S.'s autonomy to determine if gas exports to Mexico and Canada are in the public interest. This provision is necessary to fix NAFTA's automatic gas export guarantee, which has contributed to a five-fold surge in gas exports to Mexico since 2010, fueling increased fracking in the U.S. and expansion of controversial cross-border gas pipelines.
What's in NAFTA 2.0: The deal's 2019 revision keeps intact both of these handouts to corporate polluters. As such, the deal would promote reliance on fossil fuels, undercutting our transition to a clean energy economy.
You missed the part where he puts us back on the gold standard. I'm not kidding, he wanted to do that.In an alternate timeline, Mad Max reacts to his 2017 loss like a big boy, bites his tong and bides his time, becomes CPC leader in 2020, becomes Prime minister amid a devastating recession in 2021, realizes his long-life dreams of ending supply management and defunding the CBC in 2022.
Singh could have made a better case but the USMCA doesn't do a great job at raising current standards for environmental regulation. It being "the best we could get under Trump is only an indicator that we should maybe wait until 2021 before ratification for obvious reasons
We tell him that such a super bill has passed, with the biggest (so big, it's beautiful just how big and strong it was) vote in Canadian history.And if Trump wins?
Which I think he will, then what?
And if it's not Trump then it's Biden who's GOP lite. You ain't getting much out of him either.
If the NDP were to ram through pharmacare tomorrow and remove private coverage that would screw me over pretty good if it's anything like Ontario's drug program from what I read.
If he wasn't too old, he'd be a senator the moment the cons get into power. I know you're joking, but he's better used as a Con prop than as an actual politician.
Your employer could have a bad quarter and decide to remove your pharmacare plan at any moment
The difference with public pharmacare is that it's democratically run instead of being driven by private, for profit interests. If a government scales back on the quality of heathcare, citizens cans influence that decision through protest or at the polling booth
CNN has now noticed doughnut-gate
lol how did he give Canadians something to ridicule him for? Buying donuts for your staff from a local store is ridiculous?
Which is the stupidest thing considering Tim Horton's has been majority owned by a Brazilian investment firm for over 5 years now.
Opposition supporters had lost their collective minds.
Another op-ed speculating who goes in the race.
Despite the headline, it mainly talks of Christy Clark.
Which is the stupidest thing considering Tim Horton's has been majority owned by a Brazilian investment firm for over 5 years now.
You should check out this opinion piece.
This only serves to strengthen his support.
If anything, that would help them with the base
Americans who yearn for the days when "wearing a tan suit" and "asking for too-fancy a mustard" was the best complaints they could muster.This CNN take is so full of shit... It's puzzling, who is this opinion piece even for?
This CNN take is so full of shit... It's puzzling, who is this opinion piece even for?
Why would we get news from CNN?I think it's largely for Canadians who read CNN. I can't imagine many Americans give a shit what happens up here.
And it's a clickbait worthy headline too.
One day we're going to have a politician refuse to speak french just to be an asshole. lol
I'm starting to think Rempel is the chosen one among the Harper toadies. She obviously has his ear considering yesterday's tweet. Then there's her whole "They're only talking about French, Québec and Ontario. Won't anybody think of the West!?!" routine. Expect her to announce soon and become the defender of western values.
Plus, I'm sure "Ackchyually, we're the real feminist here" is a hit in the CPC focus groups.
Gimme the deetsapparently Poilievere has multiple skeletons and one of them as about abusing public servants with verbal abuse.
Scheer ran on a pro- West platform. What's gonna do for them in an election?
I was seeing these ads in Ontario during election why would anyone in this part of Canada care?