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Offline waldo

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Re: Federal Election 2019
« Reply #855 on: October 23, 2019, 12:34:32 am »
PM Trudeau/Liberals kept 92% of promises made... keep whining about electoral reform! Try to target the CPC for insisting on a referendum... and the NDP for insisting on the failed PR system... and the Parliamentary committees and public consult that arrived at NO consensus. Start there, hey!
Someone has been studying the propaganda.
It was actually an independent analysis - 50% in full and 40% in part.


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One way to draw a conclusion on Trudeau’s promise-keeping records is to combine pledges fully met with those partially kept — which gives Trudeau a score of 92 per cent


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Re: Federal Election 2019
« Reply #856 on: October 23, 2019, 01:02:20 am »
Coyne nails it once again:

during the election night coverage, nothing was sweeter than to watch Chantal Hebert repeatedly put ConMedia's darling Coyne in his place! Here try this one: Andrew Scheer's narrow vision of conservatism was his party's failing: Robyn Urback

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Conservatism in Canada doesn't necessarily look like Andrew Scheer's concept. It doesn't have to, anyway.

Andrew Scheer's version of conservatism... was about as narrow as Conservatism gets, with the obligatory concern about the economy and affordability, and not much else. He made perfunctory statements about the environment and awkwardly dodged questions when asked about social issues.

The result was a candidate who would appeal to a Conservative base, which is not enough to win an election — not in the way we elect our Parliaments, anyway. Earning super-support in concentrated areas — 64 per cent in Saskatchewan or 69 per cent in Alberta — doesn't matter if you can't siphon enough votes away in Ontario, Atlantic Canada and Quebec. And that's hard to do when you make practically no effort to reach voters beyond those who are already loyal.

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Re: Federal Election 2019
« Reply #857 on: October 23, 2019, 01:34:42 am »
whaaa! ROFO came out of his cave to offer congrats to PM Trudeau. Apparently, Alberta's Kenney has a presser scheduled for this afternoon - time to stoke the SeparatistSentiment for all the rubes and morans!

apparently... with a straight face... Jason Kenney put PM Trudeau/Liberals on a 2-year notice to make progress on the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion and to redraft bills like Bill C-69, which he said will be detrimental to Alberta's interests --- if appropriate results (to Kenney) are not realized within that 2 year period, Alberta will hold a referendum on the province's participation in the equalization program! A threat to hold a referendum on the very Harper Conservative equalization formula that he approved of and defended as a former Harper cabinet minister!  ;D

on edit: Why equalization is not unfair to Alberta - Trevor Tombe - associate professor of economics at the University of Calgary, and a research fellow at the School of Public Policy
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Re: Federal Election 2019
« Reply #858 on: October 23, 2019, 01:54:28 am »
on edit: Why equalization is not unfair to Alberta - Trevor Tombe - associate professor of economics at the University of Calgary, and a research fellow at the School of Public Policy

Also from waldo:

The Sky is Red:  a research paper by professor of natural science at the University of British Colombia
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Re: Federal Election 2019
« Reply #859 on: October 23, 2019, 08:42:46 am »
is it a strong minority - well... is it?


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Re: Federal Election 2019
« Reply #860 on: October 23, 2019, 09:00:35 am »
Another wall o waldo. Yawn.
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Re: Federal Election 2019
« Reply #861 on: October 23, 2019, 09:09:15 am »
you CPC old stockers don't likee the waldo, right member wilber!  ;D


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Re: Federal Election 2019
« Reply #862 on: October 23, 2019, 09:22:18 am »
is it a strong minority - well... is it?



Doesn't matter. In 2 years the NDP will be tired of propping JT up and we'll be back to the polls.

Always looking for the silver lining in losing the popular vote to that awful dimpled man.

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Re: Federal Election 2019
« Reply #863 on: October 23, 2019, 10:33:15 am »
Doesn't matter. In 2 years the NDP will be tired of propping JT up and we'll be back to the polls.

oh really! The NDP lost 20 seats and has no money... or realistic opportunities to raise any significant amounts. For all the media tire-pumping, Singh/NDP are not positioned to force a confidence vote... any time "soon".

Always looking for the silver lining in losing the popular vote to that awful dimpled man.

the dimpledDoofus managed a staggering... huuuuge... 238K votes more - your silver lining!  ;D (hey member Boges, know anything about vote efficiency?)


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Re: Federal Election 2019
« Reply #864 on: October 23, 2019, 10:54:11 am »
I would like a new moderate centrist party, a bit to the right of the Liberals, that can compete with the Liberals and aren't filled with bible-thumping conservative wing-nuts.

They existed.  They willingly merged with the 'bible-thumping conservative wing-nuts' circa 2003.
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Re: Federal Election 2019
« Reply #865 on: October 23, 2019, 04:51:21 pm »
Alberta will hold a referendum on the province's participation in the equalization program!

Since the program is a federal program, I take this as more treasonous threats of separation from Alberta.
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Re: Federal Election 2019
« Reply #866 on: October 23, 2019, 05:03:29 pm »
Since the program is a federal program, I take this as more treasonous threats of separation from Alberta.

I heard Jason Kenney in a recent interview claim he has no intent to do that. Let's hope he is sincere.

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Re: Federal Election 2019
« Reply #867 on: October 23, 2019, 05:12:48 pm »
Since the program is a federal program, I take this as more treasonous threats of separation from Alberta.
Since when did a referendum become treason in Canada?
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Re: Federal Election 2019
« Reply #868 on: October 23, 2019, 05:15:05 pm »
Since when did a referendum become treason in Canada?

A referendum on what? Exactly what will Alberta do to a 100% federal program that it has no control over?

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Re: Federal Election 2019
« Reply #869 on: October 23, 2019, 05:18:10 pm »
A referendum on what? Exactly what will Alberta do to a 100% federal program that it has no control over?

I don't know.
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