Queenmandy85

If PP doesn't follow the same policies, he will run into problems. By the next election, inflation should be back under control, but that is in the Bank of Canada's jurisdiction. I would hope that PP will curtail immigration drastically and start building dozens of nuclear power plants, but I've been in the rodeo enough that all the promises that are made are swept away by events. Spikes in inflation follow every calamitous plague and war. They are global in scope. It happened in the 1350's, and so on into the "roaring" twenties. The housing crisis will take decades to resolve. We have more people than homes. That drives up the prices. We are running out of land in urban centres where people want to live. It is cheaper to pay people to leave the country than to spend a trillion dollars to build massive apartment buildings to house people. They are called projects. Dens of crime. But no government can get away with paying people to leave in order to drive down the population. You don't believe Clark is a Red Tory? He brought in measures to privatize the state owned oil company and support Israel. His budget to eliminate the deficit he inherited from Trudeau, failed because the Ralliement Creditiste under Real Caouette(what you call the CPC or Social Credit) broke their promise to support the budget. MacDonald was not afraid to have the government involved in free enterprise when the CPR was being built. Pierre Polievre will win the next election. It is easy to perform infront of reporters yelling "I want to go to work have get homes for people." Sure. He will magically axe the carbon tax and yet come up with a trillion dollars to build 1.5 million homes in Toronto and Vancouver. Of course pouring that kind of money into a system where we don't have enough trades people won't be inflationary. Is he planning to pave over our wilderness, the very thing that defines Canada? His promises are so unrealistic that it is obvious deception. These are the things the grits are going to call him out on in the next election. What specifically do you believe he will do differently than Trudeau?

Trump is American. JT is on the left side of centre. I worry you may have fallen int the grips of Social Credit. Save yourself before it’s too late.

What will that accomplish? Mr. Poilievre will continue the same policies as Prime Minister Trudeau with a few cosmetic tweaks that will only appease the base for a short time. Only one person has ever defeated a Trudeau. Joe Clark. It was the CPC that betrayed their word and put Pierre Trudeau back in office. Apparently, eliminating the deficit, supporting Israel, and privatizing the state owned oil company went against their goals. The CPC has a history of attacking free enterprise, and bloated deficits. Prime Minister Harper was sort of an exception. He did clamp down on corruption within the party and went against the party's anti sementic history. Both Trudeau and Poilievre treat the voters with distain. They both are strangers to the truth. But the blatant lying by Mr. Poilievre shows a total contempt for the voters intelligence to a much higher degree than his liberal opponent. I have nobody to vote for. I love my right to cast a ballot, but unless something changes, I have no one to vote for. I'll likely sit this one out.

Some people are so far right, they couldn’t see the centre with the James Webb telescope. In politics, the votes that win elections are in the centre.

I am a proud Red Tory. How can you call that being a Liberal? Sir John A. was a Red Tory. Diefenbaker and Clark were Red Tories. Most Conservative Prime Ministers were Red Tories. I have never voted liberal in my life. I have worked on campaigns for Jim McFarlane, Allan McKinnon, Don Ravis, Joe Clark, Scott Wallace, Darryl Warren, Erik Nielsen, and John DeWolfe. I supported Scott Briton in his leadership Campaign to lead the Progressive Conservative Party, only to witness the Judas, Peter MacKay, sell out the party to Socialist Credit. I supported Jean Charest to lead the CPC in hopes we could make it a Conservative Party again to defeat the grits.I ran for the Progressive Conservatives in BC when Scott Wallace was leader. fyi- Charest was pressured to lead the Quebec Liberals because he was best able to defeat the separatist government. I have never voted for the CPC either. I lived under those thieving communist scoundrels in BC for 25 years.

I envy your innocence. If Pp actually believed what he is saying, I would be worried. However, he has been in cabinet before, so I trust he understands the score. Remember the grits promise to get rid of the GST? Historically, the liberals have been the ones who reduced deficits and the PC’s and later the CPC increased the deficit. The current liberal government is an anomaly. If you believe we are heavily taxed, you should visit the Mother Country or Norway. If you think inflation is high in Canada, check out the Mother Country. My point is if Mr. Poilievre was Prime Minister now, you wouldn’t be able to tell the difference. By saying it would be is dishonest and hypocritical.

I don't choose Trudeau. He is forced on us because the CPC drives anyone competent out of the party. Ambrose, Brison, Raiatt, Charest. How long are they going to let Chong hang around?

I am not an expert on AI, but my understanding is that it will eventually be smarter than humans. I am told that Professor Suzuki is a leftist. I am told that Professor Hawking is a leftist. I am told that Dr. Fauci is a leftist. I am told Dr. Tam is a leftist. So, what this says is smart people are leftists I am told that President Trump is a rightist. I am told Maxime Bernier is a rightist. I am a rightist. Yah, that pretty much says it all. ?

I choose the King. Mr. Poilievre's warm and fuzzy ad campaign is effective until he opens his mouth to reporters. He blames the government for inflation yet blames the government for high interest rates. He blames the government for long wait times for government services, yet wants to cut the taxes needed to reduce the wait times. It costs just under 1 trillion dollars to run the government of Canada and even with that, healthcare, education and defence are underfunded. In one encounter with reporters, Mr. Poilievre proved himself to be a liar. Every time he speaks he contradicts himself and insults the intelligence of voters. He has accomplished what I thought was impossible. He makes Prime Minister Trudeau look good. Mr. Poilievre will win the next election. That is a given. But how on earth is he going to justify all of the back tracking he will have to do once he is in office. He will have to do pretty much exactly what the grits are doing and explain that to the voters who voted CPC.

The Saskatchewan government is bringing in these measures as well. Ironically, part of these measures are driven by the anti-abortionist lobby (banning planned parenthood from the schools) but over all, if you wanted to design a plan to kill children, this is the way to go. I was my department's liason with the local Pride Centre for many years. By the time a child is in their early teens, they know if they are gay, or if they are in the wrong body for their psychological gender. Unfortunately, they are often, rightly or wrongly, terrified of their parents. Too often, the burden of their situation leads to self harm. Offering support for gay or transgender children is not promotion of homosexuality or gender dysphoria. These are part of a person when they are born and nothing will change it. How old were we when we decided which gender identity we would like to be? Maybe it would be fun to make a choice that would result in daily sh*t -kickings at school or in the home. I would like to think that councelling parents would work, and in many cases, that is or would be helpful, but in the situations where it is most critical, there are some parents who would refuse to participate, and they are the ones who would place their children in the greatest danger. The decision to pursue this course must have significant input from the child before proceeding. The safety of the children takes precedence over everything else.

I will add that Mr. Poilievre seems like a nice guy and reasonably intelligent. If I were judging a good politician, off the top of my head, Premier Ford comes to mind, but for a good Prime Minister, Michael Chong would be my choice. (previous rant deleted. Not constructive.)

There comes a point when government must take measures to protect the people including future generations.

If Mr. Poilievre commits to building nuclear power plants in Canada as well as partnering with any nation wanting to build nuclear power plants, I would have no hesitation about voting for him.

Then it won’t change. How many times has BC had a referendum on this issue and the voters turned it down?

I’m not sure you understand how Canadian elections work. When the Governor General calls an election, it is not just one writ. There are 338 writs dropped. Each writ is a separate election. The candidate that gets the most votes gets to take a seat in Parliament. I’m not sure what you mean. How do we change the system without Parliament?

The problem is PP says he will “fix things” without any substantive viable plan on how he is going to do that. He will cut the carbon tax but what is he going to do to cut emissions? What will he do differently to reduce inflation? He says he will cut spending but Defence, transfers to provinces to deal with underfunded education and healthcare, Veteran’s Affairs, the transition off fossil fuels to nuclear power, and the restructuring of transportation infrastructure are all urgently needing more funding. I have repeatedly asked him for answers and all I get in response is crickets. I am a Conservative not a Socred. But if the socialist credit CPC could give me a reason to support them, I would. But I don’t vote for vague slogans. So far, I don’t see any difference between Mr. Trudeau and Mr Poilievre. All flash and no bang.

Whether they had a majority or not, no government can ram through a major change in the voting system without all party support. By run off election, I meant have a second vote two weeks later in those ridings where no candidate received a majority. Nobody has explained how PR would work in the Canadian system. Most elections in Canadian ridings have about three or four candidates. How do you proportion them out?

Oh, and he seems to forget there’s a war on. The whole planet is in the grips of inflation because of Putin’s vanity project. Canada is fairing better than most.

So, Mr. Poilievre’s solution is to raise taxes. Defence, Education, Health care, and Veterans Affairs are all underfunded so cutting services citizens demand is not going to happen.

With regard to the PR debate, the actual promise the grits made in2015, was for electoral reform, not PR. The parties met for months to try and come up with an agreement but in the end, they could not find a consensus. In order to change the system, you must have support from all parties. It was clear in the end that was not going to happen.

I’m stuck. The choice is between the socialist NDP, the Grits or the socialist credit CPC. As a Conservative, I have no party in the race. I have a good hard working MP, but he is committed to gutting CBC television. His leader is full of glib sound bites but no substance and refuses any actual engagement with the party rank and file. I don’t know who to vote for.

That is incorrect. A sudden drop in temperature brought down the western Roman Empire. climate change has nothing to do with politics.

The difference is the speed of the warming this time. Previous changes took tens of thousands of years. This change is happening in centuries. The effect of greenhouse gases is not theory. You can test it with equipment found in any undergraduate lab. If you want an example of what happens in a rapid change in climate, just look at what happened in Europe in the 4th and 5th centuries when the temperature dropped slightly. It was called the little ice age and caused the dark age. The other problem we face is the speed at which we are consuming resources future generations will need to survive. I won’t repeat what I have said many times before. What we are experiencing today is just little tickle. The effects of our actions today will really hit in the next couple of centuries.

So, the prospect of the greatest mass extinction since the Permian isn’t a concern to you.

I tend to agree with most of what you say Snowflake believes, but without the level of passion you attribute to him. But, at least this gives me the chance to get in the last word. ?