Liberal Party Takes Lead in Polls

[eyeball]

28 minutes ago, CdnFox said:

In other words there doesn't need to be a big meeting.

LMAO!

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

[CdnFox]

48 minutes ago, eyeball said:

LMAO!

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

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You said you'd given up drinking on the weekends?

[-TSS-]

Usually in a two-party system people start yearning for a change for the sake of change after two terms of one of the two parties. Only if the alternative is for some reason unelectable as was the case in the UK in both 1987 and 1992 the party in power remained in power but as soon as the alternative got its act together there was a massive swing in 1997.

Then the pendulum swung back 13 years later. And then it swung back 14 years later.

That's the dynamic of a two-party system..

[Goddess]

The Liberal government kept prodding at the notion of taxing the home equity of primary residences. They repeatedly paid to study it & brought an "expert" to explain to their cabinet how it would work.

They were drooling at the thought of taxing gains on Primary properties.

 

They even had CMHC survey all lending institutions who issued insured mortgages and submit equity reporting (estimates) in 2020, so they could assess the potential haul of tax revenue. Don't think for one minute that they have given up on this potential revenue source. They haven't.

Carney was advising the Lib gov't in 2020.

Seniors considering a Liberal vote may want to remember this.

Edited April 7, 2025 by Goddess

[TreeBeard]

40 minutes ago, Goddess said:

the notion of taxing the home equity

Did they do it?

[Moonlight Graham]

The Liberal Party of Canada sucks hard.

[CdnFox]

2 hours ago, TreeBeard said:

Did they do it?

Have they said they won't? 

They're going to need money from somewhere to pay for Carney's promises. 

[TreeBeard]

2 hours ago, Moonlight Graham said:

The Liberal Party of Canada sucks hard.

And yet, voters seem set to give them another chance under a new leader.  Does that tell you anything about the CPC and/or Poilievre?

[Barquentine]

6 hours ago, CdnFox said:

They're going to need money from somewhere to pay for Carney's promises.

But of course, Magical PeePee's promises won't cost anything (except a willing suspension of disbelief).

[CdnFox]

10 hours ago, TreeBeard said:

And yet, voters seem set to give them another chance under a new leader.  Does that tell you anything about the CPC and/or Poilievre?

Tells me more about eastern Canadians to be honest

5 hours ago, Barquentine said:

But of course, Magical PeePee's promises won't cost anything (except a willing suspension of disbelief).

Which of his promises do you think are going to cost more money than we can afford?

He intends to gain money by reducing red tape, improving business which improves taxable revenue both through corporate and personal income tax, getting rid of useless programs that are a waste of money like diversity improvement in Africa, and canceling the corrupt CBC

Carney hasn't provided any source of funding for his promises

Do you think we can just keep borrowing tens if not hundreds of billion dollars for forever? That won't come back to bite us will it? That couldn't possibly prose a problem for future generations right?

[Army Guy]

14 hours ago, TreeBeard said:

And yet, voters seem set to give them another chance under a new leader.  Does that tell you anything about the CPC and/or Poilievre?

Ya canadians are short sighted or are really stupid...to give the liberals another chance...

[Goddess]

18 hours ago, CdnFox said:

Have they said they won't? 

They're going to need money from somewhere to pay for Carney's promises. 

The lower-middle class and the middle-middle class has been decimated.

They will just keep going up the ladder, grabbing the feet of Canadians and pulling them down.

It's mainly the boomers that are the next ones on the rungs that still have some money left, and the Liberals have been eyeing it for a while now, trying to figure out how to get it.......

[TreeBeard]

9 hours ago, Army Guy said:

Ya canadians are short sighted or are really stupid...to give the liberals another chance...

If everyone else is stupid and an a-hole, it’s likely you who is the issue. 

Edited April 8, 2025 by TreeBeard

[CdnFox]

3 hours ago, Goddess said:

The lower-middle class and the middle-middle class has been decimated.

They will just keep going up the ladder, grabbing the feet of Canadians and pulling them down.

It's mainly the boomers that are the next ones on the rungs that still have some money left, and the Liberals have been eyeing it for a while now, trying to figure out how to get it.......

It looks like people are starting to remember that and not thinking as much about trump. 

The polls are narrowing across the board and honestly there's a  lot of reason to believe the CPC is tied or moving ahead, 

12 - 15 thousand at the rally tonight.  12-15 THOUSAND.  That will be one of the largest political events in our history. Harper pointed out that he's the only person who's had BOTH candidates work for him and carney is not the man for the job. 

The momentum feels like it's shifting.  Everybody in the media said that canada "dodged a bullet' with trump and now people are worrying less about him.  PP's approval is in the positive territory while carney's is falling. 

And we still have the debates, and carney will be catching it from Jaggers just as hard as he fights  to stay relevant. Jaggers knows where his people are going. 

By the end of week three the tide may well have turned and Carney will be in trouble, then it's the debates. 

 

[Barquentine]

8 hours ago, CdnFox said:

12 - 15 thousand at the rally tonight.  12-15 THOUSAND.  That will be one of the largest political events in our history. Harper pointed out that he's the only person who's had BOTH candidates work for him

Big surprise! Conservative rally in Alberta! Who'd of thunk?

Carney did not work for Harper as Governor of the Bank of Canada.

Edited April 8, 2025 by Barquentine
fact check

[Barquentine]

Ottawa, Ontario. Prime Minister Stephen Harper today issued the following statement regarding Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney’s appointment to the Bank of England:

“In this time of global economic uncertainty, Governor Carney has done an admirable job in fulfilling the Bank of Canada’s mandate and has been a valued partner as the Government has worked to steer Canada away from the worst impacts of the global economic recession. As a result, Canada remains an example to the world with its strong banks, effective regulatory environment and sound economic policy.

[Barquentine]

https://youtu.be/th11fufTKRI

Harper praises Carney.

[Goddess]

8 hours ago, CdnFox said:

12 - 15 thousand at the rally tonight.  12-15 THOUSAND.  That will be one of the largest political events in our history.

Being an Alberta girl, I tried to watch it - it was amazing.

There was so many people, the cell phone towers crashed, the livestreams didn't work.  Even the Polievre team had trouble with it.

I had to watch the rally this morning.

[CouchPotato]

10 hours ago, CdnFox said:

12 - 15 thousand at the rally tonight.  12-15 THOUSAND.  That will be one of the largest political events in our history.

They all sang O Canada - with the real lyrics.

Edited April 8, 2025 by CouchPotato

[Barquentine]

1 hour ago, Goddess said:

There was so many people, the cell phone towers crashed, the livestreams didn't work.  Even the Polievre team had trouble with it.

Watching PeePee's press conference right now. He won't answer questions, just brags about his crowd size (just like Trump) and spouts slogans.

[CdnFox]

3 hours ago, Barquentine said:

Big surprise! Conservative rally in Alberta! Who'd of thunk?

 

No conservative leader has ever got those numbers out.

And this is following the rallies in the east which were also approaching record-breaking. In fact no matter where it is each rally is bigger than the last one.

Is that the quiver of nervousness I hear in your voice?  

[TreeBeard]

The latest polls haven’t budged….  Libs still most likely to form government.   
 

What can PP do to increase his chances?   Bragging about crowd sizes doesn’t seem to be a winning formula.   Is that giving Cons, and their supporters, a false sense?  
 

 

[CdnFox]

48 minutes ago, TreeBeard said:

The latest polls haven’t budged….  Libs still most likely to form government.   
 

What can PP do to increase his chances?   Bragging about crowd sizes doesn’t seem to be a winning formula.   Is that giving Cons, and their supporters, a false sense?  
 

 

Are you Egyptian tree beard? You certainly like living in de-nial 

And Poilievre is definitely on the winning formula as far as he can be. He's running a good campaign for the most part, I can definitely pick a few details but keeping on message and it's a message that still resonates with Canadians is important. And being seem to be popular by hundreds of thousands of people is valuable and important.

So what he can do is stay on message, pressure the hell out of Carney in the debates, and fine tune his performance. That's the only way he's going to fight through the noise that trump is making.

Being the actual prime minister at a time of Crisis is obviously a huge massive advantage that carney has and there's no getting around that. But Carney's campaign is not great so all you can do keep on track, keep on topic and fine tune, and it does look like the people are coming around. 

CTV National News: Liberal lead over Conservatives shrinks in recent polls

CTV National News: Liberal lead over Conservatives shrinks in recent polls – CTVNews

[Barquentine]

3 hours ago, Barquentine said:

Watching PeePee's press conference right now. He won't answer questions, just brags about his crowd size (just like Trump) and spouts slogans.

Shortly after I watched Carney taking questions from the Press. He's definitely not a glib politician, and stumbles in his answers occasionally, but at least he answered the questions and didn't just pivot to 'talking points' and slogans.

[CdnFox]

21 minutes ago, Barquentine said:

Shortly after I watched Carney taking questions from the Press. He's definitely not a glib politician, and stumbles in his answers occasionally, but at least he answered the questions and didn't just pivot to 'talking points' and slogans.

But he doesn't answer the questions he dances around them. People are already comparing his word salads to Kamala.