Conservative byelection win in Quebec

[Michael Hardner]

25 minutes ago, Centerpiece said:

They really were just unproven allegations but yes -  your opinion of Ford is now coarsely clear. You detest the man. Got it.

I think 'dislike' is more like it.  But I can still be someone objective about him, daresay more than your average Trudeau hater.  It would actually be pretty easy for me to be ambiguous about DoFo and I would consider myself 'on the fence' as I largely was with Harper, with a couple of exceptions.

I am really hoping John Tory runs federally once Sheer is done his turn.

 

[cannuck]

On 6/20/2018 at 5:13 AM, Michael Hardner said:

Also - teaching drama is an honourable profession and not illegal, I might add.

Yes, it could be an honourable profession for someone without the desire and ability to do anything else.  Unfortunately, our drama teacher stepped WAY out of his league and ceased to be an honourable and worthwhile member of society by stooping so low to become a deceitful and inept politician.

[Michael Hardner]

1 minute ago, cannuck said:

1) Yes, it could be an honourable profession for someone without the desire and ability to do anything else. 

2) Unfortunately, our drama teacher stepped WAY out of his league and ceased to be an honourable and worthwhile member of society by stooping so low to become a deceitful and inept politician.

1) I don't think that follows.  The standard-bearer for the conservative revival in America was a performance artist you know.

2) Well, just say he's deceitful and inept.  Don't bring his other jobs into it.

[cannuck]

9 minutes ago, Michael Hardner said:

1) I don't think that follows.  The standard-bearer for the conservative revival in America was a performance artist you know.

You assume that the "conservative revival" was significant.   It was IMHO merely another chapter in the Uniparty being directed by their masters on Wall Street to continue to shift the once productive economy into an orgy of unregulated speculative activity.  He may have made Americans THINK that things were moving right (and certainly PATCO thought so!), but the big picture was one of same-same.

In his defense, though, I will point out that THAT "performance artist" had managed to accomplish a great deal in leading in many facets of the entertainment business, whereas our "performance artist" had accomplished basically nothing on his own merit except to get hired into a low level civil service job..

Edited June 21, 2018 by cannuck

[Centerpiece]

52 minutes ago, Michael Hardner said:

I think 'dislike' is more like it.  But I can still be someone objective about him, daresay more than your average Trudeau hater.  It would actually be pretty easy for me to be ambiguous about DoFo and I would consider myself 'on the fence' as I largely was with Harper, with a couple of exceptions.

I am really hoping John Tory runs federally once Sheer is done his turn.

 

Interesting. I like Ford's "aspirations" at this stage of the tenuous Ontario.Canada/Global economic and fiscal position. How he selects and manages his team - and how much he listens to them will be the telling point. I'm a little on the fence with Andrew Scheer - he certainly has room to grow. I find him a little rushed in his delivery - needs to be a tad more deliberate - he can get a little excitable. If he falls by the wayside, my choice would be Rona Ambrose if she chose to run - wish she would have been able to run for the leadership the first time. As things stand now, there is a very real chance that Trudeau may be one and done. 

[turningrite]

40 minutes ago, Centerpiece said:

I'm a little on the fence with Andrew Scheer - he certainly has room to grow. I find him a little rushed in his delivery - needs to be a tad more deliberate - he can get a little excitable.

He needs to rein in his grin. Too often, he appears to look like the cat that ate the canary, which undermines his seriousness. It's an improvement on Harper's condescending smirk, though. His ability to extemporaneously speak and answer questions in English seems an improvement on Trudeau's halting verbal skills. It'll be interesting to see how Scheer's stump speech style works as the 2019 election approaches. Trudeau has mastered a theatrical, artificial, too-enunciated and overly-rehearsed stump speech style that scored him a lot of points in 2015. I find it irritating, but it seemed to convince a lot of voters that he was more competent than reality suggests is the actual case.

[August1991]

10 hours ago, turningrite said:

He needs to rein in his grin. Too often, he appears to look like the cat that ate the canary, which undermines his seriousness. It's an improvement on Harper's condescending smirk, though.... 

Whatever.

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There is a rumbling in Quebec, like in the rest of Canada (rest of North America? Europe?) and so-called analysts ignore it at their peril.

They are wrong to dismiss these rumblings as "racist/backward/nationalistic".

Walls? There's a fundamental difference between the Berlin Wall and a prison wall; one is designed to keep ordinary people in and the other is designed to keep bad people out.

[turningrite]

12 hours ago, August1991 said:

There is a rumbling in Quebec, like in the rest of Canada (rest of North America? Europe?) and so-called analysts ignore it at their peril.

They are wrong to dismiss these rumblings as "racist/backward/nationalistic".

Walls? There's a fundamental difference between the Berlin Wall and a prison wall; one is designed to keep ordinary people in and the other is designed to keep bad people out.

I too believe there is unrest in much of the West relating to various aspects of progressivism and the globalist agenda. Personally, I think politically correct progressives naively serve the interests of the corporate globalists.

Do you think any of the (federal) political options on offer in Canada provides much hope for change to the current globalist paradigm? I'm not convinced any of them does. I think the Conservatives are probably the least dangerous of the options at the present time, but they too are in some respects participants in the corporate globalist agenda. What else is out there? In other countries movements and parties are emerging that offer different perspectives but I don't see that in Canada. And the U.S. has Trump, who in many respects seems confused by his conflicting corporate and populist loyalties. Perhaps that's why his approach seems so incoherent and scattershot?

Finally, I don't understand your question about 'Walls'. I don't believe I raised the word in my post.