blackbird

No I was doubtful of Trump before he was elected again.

The oil and gas and pipeline industry has been greatly cut down in Canada by Liberals with the support of the NDP. They killed pipelines and put heavy regulations on the energy industry. This costs Canada billions of dollars in lost revenue and taxes.

You're another liar on here. Nobody or practically nobody in Canada likes Trump or what he does. So right there you are totally out of the real world. I suspect you are an American Democrat. That is a useless discussion here because Canadians do not support Trump and Conservatives in Canada do not like or agree with Trump. He is in his own world

What matters in politics is one's ideology on personal freedom versus government control. You obviously blindly believe government is your savior and you trust them for everything.

Everything he said about PP is assumption and twisting the truth to fit his agenda of a liberal lefty. Read it yourself. Not factual. It is purely a leftist perspective with a phony attack on PP. Again conservative believe in individual freedom and less government intervention in society, business and every facet of life, while liberals and leftists believe in big government (big brother) control and intervention in everyone's business and life. It is because of liberal tax and spend and control of society that Canada is such a mess and investment is driven away.

Universities seem to be a natural attraction for liberal lefties who believe in government liberal ideology and control of society. That means they hate conservatives which believe in personal, individual freedom versus liberal/big government intervention and control of society, every individual, and every thing that goes on in society.

You should know universities are full of radical lefties and Marxists. Take what he says in that light. Especially a "politics professor". That should tell you right away he is a radical leftist and therefore anti-conservative. But then again, maybe that is how you are too, eh.

If you think Trump and PP are the same, then you don't know a thing. Even a kindergarten kid would know the difference is like night and day.

No, Trump's madness is not conservative ideology in the Conservative Party of Canada. Go to the CPC website and read their policy document and learn the facts instead of lying as you always do. You might learn something and maybe someday make an intelligent comment.

Nonsense! How do you know Conservatives admire Trump? Did some fairy tell you or was it a Liberal lie ad on TV? You are just another liberal or lefty trying to use Trump as an excuse to re-elect the lefty liberals. Very few people even support the PPC although they would likely be better than any NDP or Liberal government, which has made a total mess out of our fine country. Probably less than 5% of voters would support the PPC and probably around the same support for the Green Party, another left wing fringe party. Now since Trump was elected and his true madness has been revealed almost nobody in Canada would support him. But if you want to support a pack of liars go ahead. The country could still be wrecked further by the liberal left. We know the liberal left has made a total disaster out of the health care system. But it could get worse if the Liberals are re-elected and realize how easy it is to lie and get away with it.

You're full of lies. Liberals hope lies will enable them to win. Well they might but that is only because people like you will believe anything. Trump and what he claimed or does has nothing to do with how PP wish to solve the problems caused by the Liberals in Canada. Building a better country has nothing to do with Trump. Canada is a sovereign nation. It was Trudeau and Liberals like yourself who don't believe in Canada and opened the border to every migrant who wanted to walk in and put them on the dole. You allow all the criminals to have free reign in Canada. Canada is a joke under you liberals.

The constant TV political ads trying to tie PP to Trump is the biggest proof of all how low Liberals will stoop. There is no similarity at all between PP and Trump. PP promises to rebuild Canada and our economy versus Liberals squandering billions of dollars on other countries and everything under the sun. Liberals have spent more on trying to placate first nations than they have spent on health care, which is in a crisis.

What a liar! Everything you and a couple others say is just a lie. The price of homes has doubled under Trudeau or even higher and the cities are full of homeless people and mental cases, drug addicts and criminals. Thank the Liberals you liar.

You are nuts. This has nothing to do with Trump. Can't you find something more intellectual to contribute to the forum? Same old worn out smears and lies.

The problem is he is doing what Carney wants to do to try to get elected, not representing the interests of Canadians. His one goal now is to become the new PM. Therefore everything he does must be geared to achieve that goal.

With liberal left government, Canadians pay far more than other countries which have more conservative type of governments. The reason is liberal left ideology means INTERVENTION, fees, regulations, and taxes for everything they can possible do. This went as far as taxing the carbon dioxide that people released in the air in their normal life of driving their vehicles and heating their homes. Although it reportedly has been dropped on the consumer side, it will continue big time in the corporate or industrial side and be passed on through the price of goods and services. An example of the cost we must pay for a liberal left type of Socialist government is in the air fares in Canada. " Why are ticket prices so high? For starters, taxes and fees imposed by governments and airports account for 25 to 35 per cent of airfare costs in Canada. For example, “airport improvement” fees average $32.20 per departing passenger at Canada’s largest airports — compared to $6.47 in the United States and $16.38 in Australia (all figures here and below are in C$). For air traffic control (ATC), airlines pay charges based on distance, geography and other factors, and these costs are passed on to consumers. In a typical example, to fly a Boeing 777 in Canada, airlines must pay an estimated $802 in ATC fees, compared to between $192 and $478 in the United States and $493 in Mexico." Opinion: Bad federal policy increases airfares in Canada The interventionist, Socialist, type of government extends to everything in society. The health care system is another example. The costs associated with health care that the government pays are high for a number of reasons, which one can find through a little investigation or searching on the internet. This same principle can be applied to everything that government has their hand in and their hand is huge. Other examples are the cost of housing in Canada. The cost of homes has doubled in a relatively few years as a result of government's actions. The fact that Socialist policies are popular in Canada is because people demand every service imaginable. While many people's medications are covered by employer extended benefits plans and paid for through monthly premiums, the NDP and liberal left still want to replace all that with a government-funded pharmacare system. So a well-established private system would be abolished and a new system that might be a bad system would be funded by taxpayers. Nothing is free. Taxpayers must pay for the huge bureaucracy that would be required to run a public pharmacare system. If we could see the bureaucracy that runs the public health care system and the amount of money that is paid to bureaucrats we would probably be shocked. It is in the billions or tens of billions of dollars. What percentage actually provides health care to patients versus what percentage goes to administering the system would likely shock most people. The public service has been increased by a large percentage under the liberals and left-wing governments in Canada and you can be sure a lot of money is going to administration of the public services including health care. All of this must be paid through taxation. So when people vote for more government services, they are really voting for a tax and spend type of government. That also means more government debt, higher amounts of the annual budget to service the debt. At present Canada must pay as much money in interest payments of the federal debt as they contribute for the federal share toward health care, tens of billions of dollars.

It seems the polls can shift a lot in a matter of a few weeks. So if the election is held in for example six weeks, the polls could shift a lot either way. Carney has reportedly made some blunders in answering questions from the media. He apparently refuses to answer some questions. If this occurs during the campaign, Carney could blow it big time and support could shift away from the Liberals and toward the Conservatives. I don't think Carney would do very well in a debate either. He has no experience as a politician, which is necessary for the top job.

With the U.S. and China putting 25% tariffs on Canadian seafood and other things, the main objective of Carney's visit to the UK and France should have been to remove trade barriers between Canada and Europe and try to get a deal to trade our seafood and other things. Carney did nothing for trade. Canadian seafood producers are facing a serious situation now with a lack of places to sell their seafood. This is urgent; Carney should have done something.

Instead of going to the GG right away and showing he believes in democracy by calling an election, he jets off to Europe just like Trudeau. Throwing away taxpayer money to jet around the world and wine and dine on taxpayer's expense. Accomplished nothing. Didn't even attempt to remove trade barriers between Canada and the UK/France.

The fact you don't accept he has no mandate is not relevant.

Because he is has no mandate to represent Canada as a PM. He should have called an election as soon as he became leader of the Liberal party. He is going to Europe to bolster his image.

He is going to Europe to meetings with heads of state.

I never said he shouldn't govern at all. He just should not be doing any major things until after an election.

Normally it would apply during an election, but we are in different situation now. In a normal election, the sitting government would have a PM and party that was elected and the PM would hold a seat in Parliament. We are not in that kind of situation now. Trudeau resigned and the party chose a new leader. So that means the Liberals with their new PM do not have a mandate to act the same as a government which has a PM that won a mandate in an election.

The situation at present is Carney is a tentative PM chosen by the Liberal Party. He has no mandate to make any significant decisions or take major roles because he and his party has not yet been elected with the new PM and they are only in a minority position in Parliament. In fact, all indications are that the Liberals will lose a confidence motion if Parliament is recalled. Therefore he does not have a mandate from the Canadian people to do anything of any significance. That means he is restricted to act as a caretaker PM and an election must be called ASAP so Canadians will have a government with a real mandate. It is really simple. If he does anything major before an election, he will be seen as overstepping his authority.