SpankyMcFarland

Denmark, the Netherlands and Switzerland are micro-countries compared to ours. They don’t have the challenge of delivering care across a subcontinent. The country I’d like us to match is Australia, similar in magnitude, politics and culture with an indigenous population that has special challenges. We’re falling behind them too. They have a mixed system of public and private care.

The lesson so far is that they haven’t been prepared to go beyond their tribal base. It’s not exactly news that 40% wouldn’t be enough this time.

The electoral mood has switched from angry to frightened. Have the Tories really addressed that?

Poilievre has to sparkle tonight but he would have been better off establishing a warmer persona before this and ‘reluctantly’ going into full snark mode in the debates. As it is, any sharpness now may deter some of the voters he needs against his reassuring, avuncular opponent.

Sir, have you no decency? Will you ignore criterion as the singular form of the noun?

This night wasn’t just about attacking the Liberals of course. Poilievre needed to depress the BQ vote and Singh needed Poilievre to scare people on healthcare. Carney won by not losing.

They’ve got the seats and they’ve got the polling numbers.

I keep on mixing up the Greens and NDP in my head which shows how far the NDP have fallen.

It’s a matter of opinion. I just feel Ford comes across as warmer than Poilievre or Carney, less liable to criticize or correct.

That would elevate Poilievre and give both him and Carney more time to speak which is not what Carney needs, obviously.

You can get French lessons in both of those countries.

The Green co-leader is blaming Tory and BQ supporters for the decision: It looks like the Greens never intended to run all those candidates.

If I was harbouring dreams of leading the country I’d be taking French lessons every day. Carney should have been at this years ago. Both true. His imperfect French is well known to everybody. He just has to avoid saying something ridiculous which can easily occur.

It’s going to be tested more rigorously in a debate where multiple people are sniping at him at once. Even in English, he sometimes takes a long time to answer questions and can pause in the middle of a sentence for what seems an eternity. He wasn’t chosen for his eloquence. Blanchet could easily switch to incomprehensible remarks and turns of phrase to show Carney up although that might backfire.

Trump is a lawless fraud who has been stiffing anybody near him all his life.

The Greens failed to meet the criteria to qualify. If they’d been let in the PPC should have been allowed too. I can’t see how this benefits Carney at all. The fewer the candidates, the more attention on the French lessons.

He’s a likeable extrovert which is the best place to start as a politician. In addition, he has an everyman persona despite his privileged upbringing. When brother Rob ran against Miller you wouldn’t have guessed who was raised in modest circumstances.

Do you think he could ever lead the federal Tories? His mix of policies is clearly highly successful at the ballot box but he’s burned a lot of bridges in this campaign.

This growing alienation created the opportunity for the current charlatan in the White House. It’s nearly all bad.

Bitcoin represents something more than that. It looks preposterous at first glance but it is significant. There is a growing distrust of our financial system, especially among younger people.

Basically, Carney has to avoid some gruesome verbal pile-up en français. Expectations are in the basement for him already.

Wouldn’t Ford struggle to unite federal Tories behind him if he went for the post after this? Plus many Tories don’t consider Ford a Conservative. It is weird to air such divisions in a campaign. One would expect silence from one’s enemies in the party if they can’t bring themselves to support the leader. https://www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/article/sometimes-the-truth-hurts-ford-defends-campaign-manager-who-criticized-poilievre/

I don’t know why the Tories haven’t shown more of this side of PP: By contrast, the more he goes for the law and order stuff, the more he gets out the other side’s vote which is potentially much bigger. Underlying message I think would be better: a good man, one of us, tough when he has to be.

To clarify, the Liberal guys with the fake badges should have been fired, pure and simple, not reassigned.

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