Canadian Politics Today

the waldo feels warranted in congratulating Erin O'Tool in his monumental CPC leadership victory result: yes, 3 rounds..... and a whopping 57% of the nearly 175,000 total ballots. Clearly a win for the ages! 

Conrad Black has penned an editorial called "O'Toole's historic march toward Sussex Drive."

I'm not going to read the column, but the headline is the funniest thing I have read all week.

 -k

Wow. Looks like that "historic march toward Sussex Drive" is off to a fantastic start.

 -k

A lawyer who doesn't fact check.

It's not a question of fact checking, it's that the tweet showed the world what's going on in her head. Telling Canadians that they need to be alarmed that Chrystia Freeland interviewed Soros doesn't say much about Chrystia Freeland, but it says a lot about Kerry-Lynn Findlay.  It's like a Rorschach blot test. The blot itself doesn't actually mean anything, but your interpretation of it gives some insight into your thought processes.  In the case of MP Findlay, it suggests that she's the kind of person who swallows a lot of American right-wing infotainment and conspiracy-theory nonsense.

 -k

You could just give her the benefit of the doubt in that she may not be stupid enough to believe the conspiracy nonsense. She may just be one of those horrible politicians that understands the dumb-**** stupidity of her base and is willing to exploit that.

Just playing to a base is not going to put them in power.

- CPC leader O'Tool won't comment on the tweet by CPC Shadow Cabinet member MP Kerry-Lynne Findlay - one that included a video of Chrystia Freeland interviewing billionaire George Soros when she was a journalist with the Financial Times in 2009. Dog whistle... and perpetuating a long standing anti-semitic trope. To top it off, #pigeonPierre retweeted it!

A lawyer who doesn't fact check

member wilber, you made me look: yes, CPC MP Findlay has a long... distinguished legal career prior to entering politics - one that included stops with both the national and provincial branches of the Canadian Bar Association... and... a 5 year stint with the B.C. Human Rights Commission. Perhaps it was the latter that allowed CPC MP Findlay to hone her anti-semitic chops! 

so, you say a 'failure to fack check'! That CPC MP Findlay actually thought it true, in keeping with her peddling & perpetuating the anti-semitic trope, that Soros' $30 billion dollar philanthropic history is really just the foundation for the mastermind manipulator Soros, as just another rich and powerful Jew, to work behind the scenes, plotting to control countries and manipulate global events!

even more telling was CPC MP Findlay's "apology" - that says not word one about her actual words/intent... that CPC leader O'Tool still refuses to comment on!


for completeness, the actual short video from the initial tweet - then Financial Times journalist Chrystia Freeland interviewing George Soros:

yes, many are saying (including the waldo)... that the NDP leader has lost his way on so many things - including the rights of women & the LGBTQ community!