Canada General Discussion

[Holmes]

Does this link to the BC poll work for you guys?

Here's another national Forum poll with 37 NDP/30 CPC/22 LPC. With Trudeau, it's 32 NDP/28 CPC/28 LPC.

[Holmes]

He literally suffers from foot-in-mouth syndrome though. Calling Peter Kent of piece of sh**t, saying Quebec should separate if Harper changes how he sees Canada... heh.

[Holmes]

I know little about Canadian Politics. One question, is the Liberal Party socially and fiscally liberal, or is it one of those "liberal" parties which aren't really fiscally right wing, like they would have been at the start of the 20th century.

Depends of their leaders of their mood.

And also the mood of voters. And region.

[Holmes]

Your first error was believing Harper is capable of rational and sound decisions. You've much to learn.

[Holmes]

Newfoundland federal, Environics

NDP 49%
LPC 34%
CPC 17%

Provincial

NDP 38%
PC 35%
Libs 26%



The only thing is that the NDP have huge numbers in northeast Avalon and are pretty much tied in the rest of the province - which is still an improvement, I believe, and has room to grow.

[Holmes]

Well, ok, even if we look passed all the blunders the government has made, Newfoundland's main source of revenue is fishing, which is mostly seasonal work. Cuts to employment insurance is not popular there. And pensions too, lots of olds in the Atlantic.

[Holmes]

It just might be people voting against the provincial government just for the fact that they have a majority (who would probably come back to the PC's in a scandal-free, uneventful election), plus some support spilling in from those supporting the federal NDP.

[Holmes]

May is being pathetically transparent, if her actions during her time as MP didn't make it clear enough. This is why I hate strategic voting because this is the next "logical" step. Someone please defeat her in 2015.

Maybe she should follow her own advice and be the only Green candidate during the next election, as the party is pathetic and has no chance anywhere. Then maybe more of her precious Liberals can be elected? Assuming the 2% of Green voters would even bother voting.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-notebook/may-greens-and-ndp-should-stay-off-etobicoke-by-election-ballot/article4424700/

Maybe the Greens and Liberals should bow out of Durham and Calgary Center under this logic? But I doubt May has the balls to boss around her Liberal overlords.

[Holmes]

I just think it's sad how the Greens have such a poor leader that doesn't even believe in her own party and doesn't want Green voters in Etobicoke to have their first choice available. I wouldn't vote for her during the next Green convention if I had the choice. The Green Party under Elizabeth May has been all about her, ever since the beginning.

[Holmes]

Of course regular Canadians don't know anyone else with prospects of running for the leadership, other than our lord and savior Justin Trudeau.

[Holmes]

Pray real hard!

[Holmes]

I don't know how I feel about that. I mean I would obviously support her 1000% no matter what she plans to do, and a return to municipal politics and becoming mayor of Toronto would be awesome (anyone could defeat Ford at this point). But I love her in the House of Commons, and the people of Trinity-Spadina and Toronto would be losing an amazing representative and advocate.

[Holmes]

Ew, Beav, tell me you don't read Warren Kinsella's crappy blog. I mean, just look at his most recent post. He wrote a Trudeau speech, and it begins with him likening himself to Abraham Lincoln.

[Holmes]

I think the only reason that the Liberals did so "good" in the previous election was Hudak, and because McGuinty is no novice, and was able to siphon quite a bit of NDP-leaning voters to give him his minority. But he's even more tainted now, and on his way out, so Ontario is aligning itself with the rest of the country and becoming orange versus blue (although, since Dexter sucks so much, Nova Scotia is orange versus red at the moment). Just interesting that it took this long. The final holdouts seem to be New Brunswick and PEI.

[Holmes]

Forum Ontario numbers with different Liberals leaders.

Dwight Duncan
PC 40% / NDP 39% / LIB 16% / GRN 4%

Deb Matthews
PC 38% / NDP 36% / LIB 20% / GRN 5%

Kathleen Wynne
PC 35% / NDP 36% / LIB 22% / GRN 6%

George Smitherman
PC 36% / NDP 35% / LIB 23% / GRN 5%

Michael Bryant
PC 39% / NDP 37% / LIB 18% / GRN 5%

Brad Duguid
PC 36% / NDP 38% / LIB 20% / GRN 5%

The moral is, the Liberals need a leader from Toronto... in order to get above 20% support. Someone got a fork?

[Holmes]

40% approval for Ford!?!!?!?!???! Do I live in the same city as these people??

42% think he's been a good influence! Good grief!! Even my family in Northern Ontario talk about the embarrassing stuff he's done and they can't even name another Toronto mayor.

[Holmes]

McGuinty is such a whiny, lying, self-entitled asshole who thinks everything should just be handed to him on a silver platter. Maybe he'll never go down electorally, but hopefully the gas plant scandal is brought to everyone's attention during his retirement.

[Holmes]

Yes, consecutive elections are very unpopular, and the Opposition's supporters probably wouldn't reward them for forcing another one so soon.

[Holmes]

From that same interview, Trudeau demonstrates his stairs tumbling skill. (at the end of the video) I forgot about the Alberta part but remembered the stairs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xyiiR2ZSNs

His manner of speech and everything he does says attention whore. Maybe he'll do the stairs trick at a debate when the attention isn't on him, or his Alberta bashing is brought up to change the subject.

[Holmes]

Yesterday was a marvelous day. Truly the end of an era of ridicule and embarrassment (alright, I'm from Toronto, there'll never be an end to that). But I truly believe that we can put the Ford years behind us and return to sane and competent municipal gouvernment. No more do I have to turn on the news and watch Ford stumbling over, or saying something embarrassingly stupid, or stalk journalists. Maybe we can have a mayor who doesn't skip town duing Pride and actually attends again! I think Toronto is finally free. We're free.


I do expect the ruling to be appealed and overturned. But this will be such a dark stain on his administration, just like his rule has been a dark stain on Toronto. Fitting.

[Holmes]

Can MacLeans' use any less flattering pictures? Well, either way, Angus is there, so I'm glad.

[Holmes]

Why does Speaker Scheer hate democracy?

[Holmes]

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/olivia-chow-diagnosed-with-viral-infection-that-causes-partial-face-paralysis/article6939315/

[Holmes]

Remember this when it happens.

I predict a mass exodus of NDP MPs from Quebec to the Liberals under Trudeau, knowing they will not be able to win reelection as NDP candidates in Quebec.

Mark my words.

We're gonna need to see your credentials first before you can make any predictions about Canada.

[Holmes]

Even the Star wants Trudeau to release economic policy.

Who cares? He smoked pot. He understands average Canadians such as myself.