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Offline Squidward von Squidderson

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Sloan has been given the boot!!

https://globalnews.ca/news/7588477/derek-sloan-conservative-caucus-membership-vote/amp/

Will this be a rift in the CPC?  Is this enough of a move to appeal the party to mainstream Canadians?
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Offline wilber

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Sloan has been given the boot!!

https://globalnews.ca/news/7588477/derek-sloan-conservative-caucus-membership-vote/amp/

Will this be a rift in the CPC?  Is this enough of a move to appeal the party to mainstream Canadians?

It's the kind of thing the party needs to be more electable.
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Offline Queefer Sutherland

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I read up on Sloan.  He's an evangelical Christian nutbar, believes in LGBT conversion therapy, and from wikipedia:  "Sloan began a law degree at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, and he finished articling in 2018. Sloan has said he pursued law because he was interested in "defending religious liberties against political correctness."

The number of **** Christian nutbars in the CPC is alarming.  The federal PC party should have let these Christian weirdos in the Canadian Alliance die on a hill.  Remember the federal PC's?  They weren't so bad.  Remember Joe Clark and Brian Mulroney?  They seemed not crazy.
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Offline Queefer Sutherland

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It's the kind of thing the party needs to be more electable.

ya i think this was the last straw.  Sloan is too rightwing, he's bonkers.
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Offline Michael Hardner

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  Remember Joe Clark and Brian Mulroney?  They seemed not crazy.

I hated them at the time.  I had no idea what was coming.

We need to KEEP the Peoples' Party of Canada as a magnet to these people.  Secondly, a centrist conservative needs to win big to show them that such a thing is possible.  ( Does ANYONE out WEST speak FRENCH ?)

Then.... all party leaders smoke weed together and have an ****.

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I hated them at the time.  I had no idea what was coming.

We need to KEEP the Peoples' Party of Canada as a magnet to these people.  Secondly, a centrist conservative needs to win big to show them that such a thing is possible.  ( Does ANYONE out WEST speak FRENCH ?)


If the CPC gets rid of the nutbars, then who are they? Just the Liberals.
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Offline Squidward von Squidderson

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If the CPC gets rid of the nutbars, then who are they? Just the Liberals.

Well, no....   they may be a more liberal (small ‘l’) party, but they’re not Liberals. 
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Well, no....   they may be a more liberal (small ‘l’) party, but they’re not Liberals.

From a policy standpoint, what's the dif?

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From a policy standpoint, what's the dif?

I think the policy documents of the parties are quite different.  However, I think the Libs do govern very similarly to the CPC did, except a little better.  On the pandemic, there’s no comparison.  Judging from what the Cons have put forward, they would’ve been a complete shitshow. 

On their large promises, the Libs have been a no-show. 

But they remain 2 distinct parties.
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Offline Queefer Sutherland

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From a policy standpoint, what's the dif?

They would be right of centre Red Tories as the PC Party usually was and the social conservative blue tories centering in Alberta would do their wacko Reform Party/Canadian Alliance stuff.
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Offline Michael Hardner

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Saying the Liberals and Tories are very similar is by no means an insult.


Offline Squidward von Squidderson

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Saying the Liberals and Tories are very similar is by no means an insult.

Until you list the reasons why they’re  both shitty.   
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just sayin'

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and now the guy who so trumpeted his Canada First policy/strategy is quite concerned over the Buy America positioning of the U.S. - go figure!

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