2022 Conservative Party of Canada leadership election

[DC Al Fine]

Conservative leadership fundraising info is out. Bryan Bregeut has released rough projections based on it.



It's a 75/25 weighted average of # of donors/total raised. If you think total donors is all that matters, bump Lewis up and Charest down. If you value total fundraised do the opposite.

Either way if fundraising data is at all predictive, Poillievre should have an easy win.

Also as a noted Patrick Brown hater: LOL!

[DC Al Fine]

Total mess. Bad format, bad moderator, bad questions, and I'm certain they didn't do a soundcheck before going live.

The debate has been a sh**tshow with the moderator making me feel bad with Poilievre and I think Baber was the winner.

Oh, did they bring back Shachi Kurl?

Nah they got some retired news anchor to do it.

[DC Al Fine]

https://twitter.com/GinnyRothTO/status/1525828603686027264?t=F33u73b8cbXzn-iCNTX...

Lol

[DC Al Fine]

I was just thinking about this - is there any major politician in Canada who jumps around the political spectrum as much as Brown does? In the 90's, he starts out as a young PC activist who disapproved of Reform's social conservatism. Then from 2006-2015, he serves as a so-con CPC MP. He runs for the PCPO leadership as a soft so-con...and after winning, almost immediately becomes a progressive who has no time for so-cons. Then he gets me-too'd, goes into hiding for a few months, becomes the mayor of Brampton, and now he's an ethnoburban brokerage politician. Who knew he had such quaint views about the Tamil Tigers, or the desperate need for the Canadian government to build more cricket fields?

Paul Hellyer is the only one who comes to mind.

[DC Al Fine]

How did Brown become mayor of Brampton in the first place since he has no connections to the area and he was the MP for Barrie?

He's always had the knack for politicking with ethnic minorities. He burned the bridge with the religous right portion of his base but kept the Toronto ethnoburbia portion.

[DC Al Fine]

The organizational culture of slinging mud and eating their own is one of the CPC's greatest internal weaknesses. Now we're in the "calling other candidates white supremacists" phase of the campaign.

The Poilievre "anglo-saxon" scandal is the dumbest thing ever. First of all, saying "I believe in communicating in plain, simple, anglo-saxon words" is really dumb on Poilievre's part, because who uses the term "anglo-saxon" on a daily basis? It sounded like he was trying to sound overly intellectual/pretentious.

Yeah this has a very simple explanation.

Poillievre is a nerd, like everyone who's into politics before age 30. Being a conservative nerd, he is fond of Churchill, and the Anglo-Saxon word choice thing is a known Churchill trope. *shrug*

Was it a dogwhistle? I've come to really hate that term because it's literally impossible to qualify if something is or isn't a dogwhistle, because by definition, "normal people" aren't supposed to hear it.

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But then Patrick Brown (who else, right?) uses that opportunity to call him a white supremacist.

If anyone knows about subtle distinctions it's Patrick "she was nineteen not seventeen" Brown

[DC Al Fine]

Garnett Genuis, who was reportedly behind the coup to oust Erin O'Toole, has endorsed Leslyn Lewis.

[DC Al Fine]

Will note that it was revealed after Brown resigned from the Ontario PC's, that he had pretty blatantly overstated how many members he had signed up.

[DC Al Fine]

Will note that it was revealed after Brown resigned from the Ontario PC's, that he had pretty blatantly overstated how many members he had signed up.

Wait, weren't both the criminal & party probes into that (namely, in only 1 Hamilton(?) riding, IIRC?) dropped after the alleger withdrew his charges?

Seperate issue. You're talking about a criminal probe that he rigged a nomination. I'm talking about him lying about how many members he signed up for the party provincewide.