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Re: People’s Party of Canada launched
« Reply #106 on: July 10, 2019, 01:43:02 pm »
And yet he's a threat to a conservative victory.

That's his only redeeming quality...
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« Reply #107 on: July 10, 2019, 01:46:45 pm »
And yet he's a threat to a conservative victory.
Will Andrew Scheer try to woo moderate racists back to the fold or drive conservatives even more nuts by wooing...well, apparently there's nothing but commies in the other direction so.  It seems they're sort of stuck between a rock and a stupid place.
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« Reply #108 on: July 10, 2019, 08:29:17 pm »
So stupid.

Maybe we will see why extreme nutbars should be ignored (especially by Conservatives) again.

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« Reply #109 on: July 11, 2019, 01:11:00 pm »
Maybe we will see why extreme nutbars should be ignored (especially by Conservatives) again.

Big tent party, all nutbars welcome.
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Re: People’s Party of Canada launched
« Reply #110 on: September 05, 2019, 05:25:10 pm »
Bernier promotes his Twitter followers to “attack” a 16 year old child via twitter.  Apparently he’s walked it back now... after he was called out for it.

I think Parliament should censure this nitwit.  What a lowlife dirtbag.

https://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/2019/09/04/how-low-can-maxime-bernier-go.html

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It would be bad enough if Bernier had kept his remarks to the insults he flung at her, calling the teenager “deeply disturbed,” “clearly mentally unstable,” and a “threat to our prosperity and civilization.” (Thunberg has been diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome, a condition she calls her “superpower.”)

But what is even more unacceptable is that in a world filled with Twitter trolls Bernier urged others to attack her.

“She has become an influential figure in a movement that is a threat to our prosperity and civilization,” he wrote. “If she wants to play that role she should be denounced and attacked.”

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Re: People’s Party of Canada launched
« Reply #111 on: September 05, 2019, 07:09:48 pm »
Lowlife.  You said it. 
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Re: People’s Party of Canada launched
« Reply #112 on: September 05, 2019, 07:58:46 pm »
I really think the guy is a wingnut hot-head.
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« Reply #113 on: September 05, 2019, 09:21:20 pm »
Bernier is a tool.
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« Reply #114 on: September 16, 2019, 01:20:57 pm »
Bernier added to the official debates.  Commission proves they're spineless and that their criteria were meaningless.

But it will hurt the Cons if the PPC picks up a few more votes because of the publicity Bernier gets from this.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/maxime-bernier-debates-commission-election-1.5285162

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Re: People’s Party of Canada launched
« Reply #115 on: September 16, 2019, 02:11:21 pm »
Bernier added to the official debates.  Commission proves they're spineless and that their criteria were meaningless.

But it will hurt the Cons if the PPC picks up a few more votes because of the publicity Bernier gets from this.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/maxime-bernier-debates-commission-election-1.5285162

LOL they broke their own rules.
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Re: People’s Party of Canada launched
« Reply #116 on: September 16, 2019, 03:05:21 pm »
LOL they broke their own rules.

Dang you are hard to please, they made that change specifically to make you happy --

...I'm saying you said the official debates were created to be inclusive.  One of the rules the commission set up (i believe the debate rules were set up last year) is that no party leader, even if already an elected MP, can be in the debate who is from party that doesn't hold seats in the HoC at the time. ...  It also is a means to prevent Bernier was speaking, even though his party is polling with the same % as the Greens usually pulled in during prior elections, including the last election.
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Re: People’s Party of Canada launched
« Reply #117 on: September 16, 2019, 07:45:02 pm »
Bernier added to the official debates.  Commission proves they're spineless and that their criteria were meaningless.

But it will hurt the Cons if the PPC picks up a few more votes because of the publicity Bernier gets from this.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/maxime-bernier-debates-commission-election-1.5285162

the weak Andy team are taking the decision well!  ;D


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Re: People’s Party of Canada launched
« Reply #118 on: September 16, 2019, 08:10:51 pm »
Dang you are hard to please, they made that change specifically to make you happy --

I'm honoured they specifically listen to me!  LOL just kidding.

I am happy the party is now included, it seems like the right thing to do democratically, it just doesn't make sense if the rules say something else.  I haven't read up on the story, but if they've permanently change the rules i think that's a good thing for our democracy.  If they've made an exception to the rules that's not right, they need to permanently change the rules.
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Re: People’s Party of Canada launched
« Reply #119 on: September 16, 2019, 08:37:09 pm »
Does the government have any control over this debate commission?  Have we handed the keys to our election debates from the media to the government itself?  Are they including Bernier for democracy's sake or politics sake?  Call me skeptical.

The fact that there seems to be "decision makers" who "decide" who gets into the debates or not is very worrisome.  Inclusion should not be based on subjective decisions, it should be based on consistent rules with clear criteria based on #'s and facts.  This will keep politics, or even the suspicion of politics, out of these decisions.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/maxime-bernier-debates-commission-election-1.5285162

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The commission was charged with considering three criteria as it decided on a final list of debate participants: whether a party is represented in the House of Commons by an MP who was elected as a member of that party; whether a party is planning to run candidates in at least 90 per cent of ridings; and whether a party has a "legitimate chance" of electing more than one MP.

To be included in the debates, a party must satisfy at least two of those criteria.

Bernier and the People's Party have nominated candidates for more than 90 per cent of the country's 338 ridings, but the party has not yet elected an MP under its banner (Bernier was elected as a Conservative MP in 2015).

That left the commission to decide whether the People's Party had a "legitimate chance" of electing multiple MPs this fall.

"At this time in the electoral cycle, we do not consider that the People's Party of Canada has a legitimate chance of electing more than one candidate in the next federal election," Johnston said in a letter to Bernier in August.
Bernier was invited to submit to the commission a list of three to five ridings where the People's Party had a chance at success.

In addition to Bernier's riding of Beauce, the commission reviewed opinion polling results for the Ontario ridings of Nipissing-Timiskaming, Etobicoke North and Pickering-Uxbridge, and the Manitoba riding of Charleswood-St.-James-Assiniboia-Headingley.

The results of those riding-level polls, conducted for the commission by Ekos, showed that between 24.5 per cent and 34.1 per cent of respondents said it was "possible" that they would vote for the People's Party candidate.

According to a separate analysis, drafted by Nanos Research for the commission, it's possible for a party to win a riding if a quarter of voters there are willing to consider voting for the party's candidate.
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