I have some back-dated stuff to call back to because I've been wrapped up tight dealing with some work stuff, but first, to the Bernier tidbit:
Millennials are not a monolith and there are a contingent of them who get snookered into social conservatism, it's unavoidable. So let's not pretend that it's anything more than Bernier capitalizing on Scheer's minimal support from that generational cohort who would rather see a leader and a party that isn't trying (and failing miserably) to talk out of both sides of his mouth. For that voter group, only the direct approach and the loudest of dog whistles will suffice. It's the dark mirror of millennials who find Liberals too centrist for their taste, but those voters have enough election experience to know when alternatives might not be electable. Given that this is the first time many of these younger right-wing voters have had another option, they don't have that experience and are going to take the opportunity to vote elsewhere for the first time, with the same end result as it typically is for left-wing voters.
And the primary difference between Scheer and Bernier is the level of blatance in their proposals, very little else. Scheer will apply his veneer of acceptability to appeal to moderates and then immediately betray them as earliest opportunity, just like Harper did.
Does he realize that impeachment doesn't mean removal?
Does he know that impeachment doesnt mean removal?
I'm sure he knows this, but it's entirely feasible that, even if the Senate doesn't complete the impeachment (which is still a bit of a maybe, since Republican Senators might see it as their only way to maintain their electability as time goes on), it can serve to delegitimize the President in such a formal way that other world leaders may/will be less inclined to hold their tongues or couch their disgust and be able to get away with it.
I still don't agree with the decisions Singh has made regarding how he discusses how his relationship with Trump and the US would look like, but there's something to be said about how mere perception changes the nature of our relationship with Trump.
You want to finish the quote at least.
climate change is a real issue but it's unrealistic to think the country is going to completely change at the snap of a finger.
No one would suggest that, not even Thunberg. But there's no roadmap to get us where we need to be, either, and being disappointed by that lack is entirely realistic.
Yeah I got into a row with Tiktaalik about this. I think I'm done with the subject lol.
TBH(and I've spent too many hours the last few months reading on this) that's why JT bought the pipeline and won't let it die. We will be sued.
I'm not certain about why he approved it given that he cancelled Energy East and Northern Gateway with no apparent problems.
The full text of that agreement is confidential and you won't find it anywhere. A law professor with expertise in international trade read it before it was ratified and wrote many articles(and a book which I'm slowly reading) slamming it as did May and Mulcair at the time when the CPC was about to agree to it.
Like the Saudi deal It's very possible Harper left poison pill agreement like this forcing Canada to do things or be sued outside the courts. Both of these deals have a lot of non-disclosure clauses which prevent the government from saying much, which isn't normal at all.
So they can't even acknowledge that their arm has been twisted into buying the pipeline? If so, given how it would be extremely useful information to the public to know how Harper boned us, not being permitted to speak to the reason decisions are being made during an election is tantamount to foreign interference, in my book, because we would have been openly prevented from making an informed choice by having vital information hidden behind a gagged government.
But if not, or if there is a way around that, the government needs to air this dirty laundry in short order. And I think there absolutely should be a way to do so, even if it is not immediately apparent. Nothing's preventing the media from asking questions about it, even if only to get a no-comment, so they absolutely should be and touting it as election interference from an authoritarian regime regardless of the answer.
If this is such a pivotal aspect of this major wedge issue, where the hell is the reporting? China can't penalize a government for the independent media, after all.
Greens in second place in SK too tho.
I saw a lot of shock over this result in that one poll, but I've looked into it on the ground here, and GPC is actually running legit non-paper candidates in some key ridings here, which is very unusual for them and seems to have made a difference for reasons I'll explain shortly.
My mother is actually personally acquainted with the Green candidate in Desnethe-Missinippi-Churchill River (I hate how spelling this riding name autocorrects in "Mississippi") and the Green candidate has been working hard on the campaign trail, which is a first there. Less surprising is Shawn Setyo, leader of the SK Green Party, running in Saskatoon West, who had the benefit of being the only PoC candidate in a much more diverse riding than it was even 4 years ago, but that went away when the LPC FINALLY appointed a candidate in the riding and followed the Greens' lead. (just a side note on the reason I bring that up: many 1st-generation Canadians born of immigrant families and younger immigrants who are applying for citizenship in huge numbers are going into their first election and I can see that having a significant impact on demographics here.)
And campaigning to left-leaning households in SK that aren't exactly enamoured with Liberals at the best of times and could be reasonably worried about a very weak NDP feel like they need another party to pin their vote to. When the main left-wing party that gets elected here is so notably weak and the Liberals are a non-starter, for some left-wing voters, there's only one viable option left.
