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So you're lying then, because no one else would put leftist logos on cars:

Poilievre’s own party is forcing him to turn his back on his Alberta base with the secession talk. It’s Conservative vs Conservative! Imagine having to fight with other leaders in your party over whether secession is a good idea! Poor Poilievre! https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.7502543 Smith's exuberance over the tariff announcement did not sit well with two members of former prime minister Harper's cabinet, who pointed out that Quebec and Ontario are still facing 25 per cent tariffs on steel and aluminum, and automotive exports to the U.S. "With respect, Premier, this is not a good day for Canada or the world," James Moore said in a social media post. "When Alberta is economically attacked, it is bad for Canada. "Thousands of Canadians in the auto, steel, aluminum and other industries may be losing their jobs. This is not a 'BIG WIN.' Canadians stand together." Describing the tariffs on auto imports as a "devastating blow to hundreds of thousands of good, honest, hard-working Canadians," Jason Kenney, also a former Alberta premier, told Ontarians in a social media post that "the vast majority of Albertans stand proudly with you, and have your back." Kenney even went on to challenge Smith's position on energy, saying that "everything should be on the table" response-wise in order to "defend all industries and jobs" from U.S. trade action

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/conservatives-lead-first-time-federal-223147507.html Conservatives in the lead for first time in federal campaign, new poll shows It has taken a lot of stupid comments, lies, gaffes, the revealing of several of Carney's conflicts of interest, and Carney getting caught with his hands in the US gov't and China cookie jars during this trade war, plus a lot of near-perfect campaigning from Poilievre, in order for the polls to start tilting back towards the PC's in the upcoming election. No doubt the Nanos polls, controlled by ex-LPOC staffer Alexander Nanos, will continue to skew the overall polling results in favour of Nanos's leader of choice, but no intelligent human takes those into consideration. Theoretically this new conservative lead would still translate into another LPOC minority gov't (and another pre-election windfall of LPOC-directed taxpayer money for our MSM to help them in the next election), but I think the polls will swing even further after the debate. Poilievre has a ridiculous number of arrows in his quiver, and Carney has so many things to answer for, that no moderator will be able to deflect every topic away from his laundry list of lies and conflicts of interest. Poilievre will beat Carney like a rented mule on that stage. CBC will no doubt do their best to make the debate (and this election) another referendum on climate change they'll back Carneys false assertions that the PM and Finance Minister had almost nothing to do with Canada's success at avoiding the recession that the US experienced in 2008, because they love the $2,000,000,000.00 taxpayer dollars that the LPOC gave them to help them in these elections the NDP, Bloc and Greens will no doubt see Poilievre as the guy guy to beat, and gang up like the bunch of jackals they are but PP is the most skilled debater that Canada has had in the last 50 years.

I want a prime minister who lives and retires in Canada. After 1984, Pierre Trudeau could have lived anywhere in the world. Instead, he bought a home in Montreal. I remember a famous discussion about Quebec independance in the late 1970s when he was pushed: "I suppose someone will have to negotiate but it won't be me." He wrote somewhere that if he hadn't been born a Quebecer, he would have chosen it. ===== René Lévesque, he had a condo in Nun's Island. Jean Lesage retired to Quebec City. Duplessis lived and died in Quebec. ======= I have no objection to living, working abroad. I have done this. I have had the possibility to have foreign citizenship. I have always refused. My country is Canada. I am not a nationalist but I have only had one passport in my life: a Canadian passport.

LMAO! Sure, Queen Rosie over at CBC rubs her antenna together and everyone just follows orders.

Perhaps you can share more on your idea....what are the founding principles of our country and are any of them still practiced today....All that drives this country is money or the quest to have it....nobody does anything for nothing or patriotism anymore...everyone wants everything for nothing....

Well I'm not dumb enough to believe what you say.

I feel bad for you if you're dumb enough to believe what you said.

It was inevitable. Every right wing party seems to face the same problem in a democracy - their most hard-boiled supporters don't know when to quit and their party can't keep up. The right wing is a direction not a place.

The illiterati strike again....

www.fakenews.com/joe-can't-know If this is true, it's a scandal for the ages. A WH intern may have accidentally texted actual war plans to Joe Biden while he was president, instead of his fake daily briefing. "A WH intern may have accidentally texted actual war plans to Joe Biden while he was president, instead of his fake daily briefing." - no one The plans could have easily been shared with his Chinese banking associates, or he may have even tried to launch "nukuler weppins" on Ukraine, while not even knowing what continent it's on. "This is nonsense!", an angry Adam Schiff fired back. "His phone was never plugged in!"

Well, at least he said it! Carney had stated recently that pipelines won't be built unless ALL indigenous chiefs agree to it. What's new? And........ Carney won't repeal anti-pipeline legislation https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/lilley-unleashed-carney-wont-repeal-anti-pipeline-legislation That means........... It'll be the same freakin' bureaucratic bullshit! In other words - we can all forget the dream of pipe-lines and the road to self-reliance! It won't happen! isn't this what they're saying? That, this is an EXISTENTIAL threat? So....whats he on about all chiefs must agree? We need a DECISIVE leader! How many chiefs are going to be the deciding factor whether we sink or float? And, you bet - environmentalists will also be in the equation! 😁 BULLSHIT!

Liberals didn't start the trade war. You sound like someone who blames Ukraine for its invasion.

Everyone is angry. What Albertans apparently need is a rocket scientist to explain why they should focus their anger in the same direction. Maybe whoever Danielle Smith called to get the skinny on the UFO's buzzing around Alberta knows something.

It's not so much a question of what as of when. There was a time when 78 seats would have been more than all of the western provinces combined and then some. However, the western provinces now have over 100 and are gaining new seats faster than any other region. We have another census coming up shortly and once again western provinces will likely walk away with the largest share of the increases. Stephen harper managed to get a majority without needing any of the Quebec seats. Now that is not entirely easy to do, but every 6 years Quebec becomes less and less relevant. And considering the upcoming almost inevitable economic slowdown is going to hit Ontario the hardest, we may see the largest jumps yet to come. Especially if the CPC wins and we see oil and gas development increase again in the prairies and in British Columbia. And like I said, deep down Quebec is quite aware that it can't make it on its own. The numbers just don't work. That's why they try stuff like sovereignty association and such. Quebec is the slowest growing population base. Before too long it's going to be worth more politically to shut them up and put them in their place if they are too demanding then it is to support them

The "next guy" will be Vance or Ramaswamy. It's save this country now, or watch it bleed out under the democrats. Those are the choices.

Bigotry? I have great difficulty understanding how that word applies here. I have no hostility to Trump based on his wealth, nationality, race or religion or membership of any other group but merely to his actions over a lifetime and particularly as a feckless head of government clearly hostile to our country. My anger is perfectly reasonable under the circumstances.

Nope. With Goddess however, who knows what she knows? She certainly doesn't.

Your lack of comprehension has achieved Olympic standard. Keep up the good work. Her?

In the immortal words of robo...Duh.

Setting your 'orange rage' aside for the moment, this is one of the biggest problems with his current tactics regardless of their intent. He has created the firm and unshakeable impression that there is no stability. If he had just come out earlier and said "we will be imposing the following tariffs, this is our intent and goal, we will be adjusting our policy over time to meet that goal as necessary but this is what's happening" and then STUCK with it, then at least businesses would say "we know what we're dealing with, lets plan". But intead it's "we're taxing canada and mexico feb 1. No, it's march 1. And its 25 percent on everything. Maybe. Including all cars made in Canada. Well.... only those parts made in canada. Maybe. No actually it's the whole world AND their damn penguins.. Except russia. Maybe. And england gets ... (rolls 2d10) 40 percent tariffs!! That wasn't your worst roll england, well done. Now no matter what his goal is, all business and investors will think about is "pull back, we have no idea what's going to happen. " THeir money will come out of the market and go somewhere safe for now and that is an instant recipe for a recession. And no Manufacturing jobs will be moving ANYWHERE while that's happening. I'm afraid that while it's possible he had some good intentions and perhaps even some good ideas about moving jobs back to the usa (although it's not like unemployment was high), any chance of a positive outcome went out the window based on how he implemented it. He's not incentivizing business, he's scaring the bejiggers out of business and they are going to run and hide till he's gone or proves he can be stable. And by then it's almost guaranteed within a month or so that it'll be a recession either way.

That's true of virtually every death you've associated with COVID. It's always been death by implication.

There will never be a workable Canada/country as long as Quebec is involved. Quebec sandbags the rest of the provinces in every way, and whines about everything. The albatross 'round the neck of Canada.

Trudeau ordered it to close. The businesses who stayed open made a killing for those 3 weeks - enough to keep them afloat a bit longer after Trudeau's shutting down of all small businesses (but not big box stores) during the scamdemic.

You are ^LYING as USUAL. The Next President Inherits a Remarkable Economy WSJ https://www.wsj.com › Economy › Capital Account Oct 31, 2024 — The high quality of recent economic growth should put a wind at the back of the White House's next occupant.

The funny part is she’s hurting Poilievre’s chances of being elected. He doesn’t need more fringe votes from separatists. He needs votes from normal Canadians outside of the Prairies. The Conservative brand being angry separatist if they don’t get their way won’t help him. Manning forced Poilievre to imply that a Liberal 4th term isn’t the end of the world! He had to defend Carney winning! But he couldn’t say anything that even implied he is pro-secession; that would have sealed the Cons’ electoral fate. https://ca.news.yahoo.com/poilievre-disagrees-ex-reform-boss-171850864.html Manning wrote: “Voters, particularly in central and Atlantic Canada, need to recognize that a vote for the Carney Liberals is a vote for Western secession — a vote for the breakup of Canada as we know it.” While campaigning at a manufacturing plant in Kingston, Poilievre was asked whether he agrees with Manning’s statement. “No, we need to unite the country,” he told reporters. “We need to bring all Canadians together in a spirit of common ground.

Some MSM Star Chamber got together, had a meeting and decided this? Do you have a copy of the list of attendees, meeting agenda, minutes, motions etc?

Smith is a low functioning narcissist who has brought unnecessary conflict to everything she’s been involved in.

Hell, up until last month patriotism was a dirty word to the media and the Left. It suggested (gasp!) nationalism. And that might as well be ADOLPH HITLER! AHHHHG! AAAGHHh! Now we see all these brainless lefties and liberals frantically waving maple leafs as if they weren't so recently calling it 'so-called Canada' the illegitimate, genocidal, racist state on stolen land with 'no core identity'. Now the same people who sneered at gun owners and wanted to ban all guns are bravely declaring they would fight to the last man to keep Canada independent. Yeah. Okay.

Drivel That's not happening. But that you'd find this shocking just so drearily exemplifies the rigid, hierarchical dictatorship of parties that has become largely the custom in Canada - and almost nowhere else. The party leader is the absolute dictator and how dare anyone disagree in even the slightest way. If they do it's a scandal! Shocking! It's like you can't imagine the give and take of ideas and this even wandering into the public sphere the way it does in other countries. Like the UK, for example, where MPs will give interviews or even write newspaper columns critical of their leader and party policy. And they don't get expelled! Shocking! Scandalous! Otherwise known as state-owned, state-funded, state-controlled media. You... do understand that Smith is not a member of the Conservative party, don't you? You do get that, right? You get that it's not a national party but a provincial party concerned with the well-being of Alberta? Nobody seems to be surprised when the Quebec Liberal party disagrees with the federal Liberals but somehow they pounce eagerly on any deviation between Alberta's United Alternative and the federal Conservatives. Yes, but it's the right direction. And the United Alternative is not the same party as the Conservative Party of Canada. I really don't get how you people don't understand this.

You don't know anything about the guy but are quick to denigrate. To sum it up......if anyone says something you do not like then they are to be belittled and cast off into the "I don't care" bin.

Thanks. It's always nice to wake-up to a good chuckle.

Well. I see you managed to hook a couple of bottom fish pretty good there At this rate you're going to need a bigger boat And btw, Not only was biden's phone never plugged in but his laptop computer was the latest generation that didn't even NEED to be plugged in. It didn't run on conventional power at all. Fortunately i understand that it was "wiped" regularly.

If there was a hypocrisy award on this forum, it would win herbie.

I never supported the burning of Tesla's or anything close to the sort. In fact I feel the exact opposite, the burning is stupid. Please stop lying. What I said is that Elon complaining about Tesla's being burned while supporting the POTUS that pardoned all the Jan 6 rioters is a hypocrite. Karma's a beeyotch. Then everyone on here who lives 6 inches up Elon and Trump's rear-end took a hissy-fit. Every single person who decries the Tesla's being burned while supporting Trump need to zip it, they have no leg to stand on as the giant hypocrites that they are. Me on the other hand does not support Tesla's being burned or Trump pardoning criminals & trying to steal elections because i'm a sane and rational human being that believes in the rule of law. *Eeeek*

If there was a hypocrisy award on this forum, you would be the undisputed champ year after year.

No, they manufacture a lot because they have infinite cheap highly repressed labor and 76 years of intense government projects to build up industries.

I could have said he manufactures razors.

Yeah but you have to buy it twice, first one broke.

The handful of ingrate Albertans has been given 10,000 X more press than they deserved since Day One. They deserve a good smack down and to be out in their place. Merely a handful of shameless traitors who think For A Few Dollars More is a founding principle to build a country on.

Go ahead, dig into it. Find every fault in it. Then try to tell us how someone else's housing plan is better. Ya look at what's on the table, and your supposed to pick the best one.

That doesn't ring very true in light of this;

Brilliant. Now 'e's gonna change 'is password and we'll have to hack it again.

Most of the Nobel Laureates in Economic Sciences since 1969 have been American. https://www.statista.com/statistics/262901/nobel-prize-winners-in-economics-by-nationality/ What a humiliation for the country that produced them to inflict such a moronic tariff formula on the world. An amateurish effort - grade F.

Why, are you looking for a friend?

I've always had respect for Coyne's thought on things. Way back in the day when the old now defunct National Post forum from which our forum is rooted he once mused on At Issue while covering a corruption scandal that he could understand why someone might suggest using cameras and microphones to keep politicians honest. I had recently written a letter to the Nat Post editor that made letter of the day on the topic. They're still there, apparently in a state of disarray but trying to find a voice that articulates a rational counter to the dingbats. Another similarly rational conservative I respect is David Frum. Rex Murphy was great back in the day too but lost it near the end.

Yes, individuals who are on the political left right now are attacking Teslas, vandalizing them, torching them, and they are openly cheering it all on during late-night talk shows. To sit here pretending like this targeted violence is not politically motivated by one side of the spectrum right now is just dishonest.

Let's count all the ways donalds been f___ing with Canada together, shall we? 1. Donald has waged an unprovoked trade war on Canada. 2. Donald gone on incessantly about Canada annexation, making it the 51st state. Completely disrespecting Canada's sovereignty. 3. Donalds cronies have floated the possibility of restructuring the Canadian/American border. An act that would take Canadian land. I know a lot of yall here are true trumpie cultists. So I'd like to know, how do yall like having Donald attack you like this? Are you starting to see donald for the felonious piece of shit he is? Or, are you still a brown-nosed suck-up to "king" donald?