Canadian Politics Today

CPC leadership committee (LEOC) opts for a 3rd campaign debate... but skippy exercises his freeedom to refuse to attend!

yes! Yes Harper is endorsing Freedom Clownvoy skippy!

So Stephen Harper thinks Pierre Poilievre is the best choice to lead the federal Conservatives, on the grounds that he is the candidate most likely to win the next election.

This is big news. After all, who knows more about winning elections than Stephen Harper: the leader who took a certain Conservative victory in 2004 – the year of the sponsorship scandal – and turned it into a Liberal minority; who in 2006 turned a certain Conservative majority into a Conservative minority; who eked out another minority in 2008 against the historically inept Stéphane Dion; and who, after finally winning a potentially realigning majority in 2011 threw it away over the next four years.

At the end of which – after nearly 10 years in power – he departed with next to nothing in the way of a policy footprint: at least, of a conservative policy footprint. The Harper Conservatives jettisoned every principle that he or they had ever stood for, from democratic accountability to a strong defence to balanced budgets to free markets. And they still won but a single majority in five attempts. They sold their souls, and got nothing in return; swung for the lowest common denominator, and missed. All that remains of Mr. Harper’s legacy, the sole basis for his reputation as an unbending conservative, is his scowl: a petulant Cheshire cat.

So Mr. Harper’s endorsement of Mr. Poilievre is a big deal, especially among those who think Mr. Harper’s example is to be emulated or his judgment is to be trusted. Still, the supposition, apparently widespread, that the most unpopular minister in a deeply unpopular government has now become an unstoppable political phenomenon, based solely on his ability to turn out the anti-vaccine vote, seems to have emerged from the same strange universe in which Mr. Harper is a master strategist and principled conservative.

but hey now, surely you haven't forgot about 'power broker' Singh (as in the coalition... err, Confidence & Supply agreement... to 2025, doncha know!)

it's obvious you don't understand a/this Liberal/NDP 'Confidence & Supply Agreement'!

waldo splainer: in exchange for expedited progress on shared priorities (sans ball-lickin'), the NDP has agreed to uphold the government on budgetary matters of confidence and supply (typically formal confidence motions and votes on budgets and spending plans.) ... shared priorities like pharmacare, dentalcare, and childcare - key issues which the Liberal government campaigned on and was elected to enact.

the waldo is always here for you... particularly to help with your lack of understanding and to counter some of the plethora of misinformation that you spew! Carry on!