Canada General Discussion (2019-)

[LabourJersey]

Andrew Scheer is texting people in the Atlantic provinces saying that gas prices are going up and to fill their tanks lolol

Why are the Tories sending texts out in the Maritimes? I was under the impression that it's mostly a Liberal region. Are the Tories that confident?

[LabourJersey]

Andrew Scheer is texting people in the Atlantic provinces saying that gas prices are going up and to fill their tanks lolol

Why are the Tories sending texts out in the Maritimes? I was under the impression that it's mostly a Liberal region. Are the Tories that confident?

The Liberals are hemorrhaging support in the Maritimes lately

To add to what Joey said, there is something of a tradition in the Maritimes of swinging hard against a government after it wins its first majority. E.g. the federal elections of 1997 and 2015.

Interesting, thanks for info.

[LabourJersey]

BC Liberals are like the Australian Liberals. 

why is this the case though? And why are BC liberals such an anomaly--it doesn't seem like any provincial Tory or provincial Liberal party in other provinces are as out-of-sync with their national counterparts as the BC liberals

[LabourJersey]

How exactly do interim leader elections work in the Canadian Tories?

[LabourJersey]

https://twitter.com/CanadianPolling/status/1489275288970223624?s=20&t=Zcm5GP...

I know in last election we saw some Green -> PPC swings under the hood, but the thought then was that this was just anti-establishment voters. But maybe there is more too it?

Do the Greens have a strong anti-vax contingent?

[LabourJersey]

This is probably a massive nothingburger, but Gurratan Singh is a lobbyist for Metro?

For those uninitiated, Metro is a grocery store chain, and the main competitor to Loblaw, a company that has been a huge target of the NDP's attacks. Gurratan Singh is a former Ontario NDP MPP and the brother of Jagmeet Singh. The two of them are known to be very close, including in a political capacity.

Guys, I'm not alleging that Jagmeet is a Metro plant lmao. Gurratan is a defeated politician, and defeated politicians turn into lobbyists. It's more the fact that NDP's line is always some sanctimonious rendition of "we're not like those other politicians, we care about people, not profit. Between this and NDP supporters acting like landlords are earthly manifestations of the devil (while Jagmeet's wife is gasp a landlord), come on guys. Let's stop pretending that you're above wanting to make money like the rest of us.

A politician's brother being a lobbyist could cause a conflict of interest if, somehow, Singh became PM or a Minister regulating supermarkets like Metro, but otherwise I don't see this as a particular issue.

And the piece about landlords reminds me of NOVA politics (in fact the housing-centric nature of urban Canadian politics reminds me quite a lot of DC and NOVA politics). A lot of talk about how landlords and developers are evil, terrible etc - but many people around here are involved in that line of work. They can't all be bad!