Day One is a Disaster for Carney - agrees to and then backs out of french debate, mistakes his own riding, several other gaffes

[Aristides]

1 minute ago, CdnFox said:

There's no doubt it'll hurt him. And if they're smart pp and jaggers will capitalize on it.   "We had no problem but i guess carney didn't think quebec was worth 70,000 dollars."  "if he flip flops on a promise to debate running the country, what will he do if he actually runs the country?" i mean the jabs pretty much write themselves  

It wouldn't be so bad if he hadn't agreed to it earlier. 

That might have flown if he hadn't been all " why not yes yes" earlier. If he just said "look, short campaign, we're not doing any extra debates i'll go talk to the people directly' it would have been no big deal.  But he handled it very very badly and quebec will see it as a snub. 

Maybe, I don't know. We will find out April 28.

[Goddess]

2 hours ago, ironstone said:

When the french debate happens, the network really should have one empty podium on the stage.

Or they could use one of these:

[Barquentine]

3 hours ago, CdnFox said:

Refusing to debate in french?

What am I missing her? Those are your exact words.

12 minutes ago, CdnFox said:

And find something else to try to be right about other than grammar for gods' sake.

I didn't say anything about grammar. That's your weasel excuse to try and look good. FYI: doesn't work.

18 minutes ago, CdnFox said:

Quebec will see that as a major slap in the face. Watch his polling numbers over the next week.

I gotta hand it to ya - hope springs....

[CdnFox]

Just now, Aristides said:

Maybe, I don't know. We will find out April 28.

will probably find out a lot sooner than that based on the polling. But it's still a long campaign and 38 days is a long time in politics so we'll see what else happens. But it's a bad start, he needed to ride the momentum he's got into the campaign very strongly.

I'll say the same thing about carney that I said about Kamala. Basically they're gliders, something pulled them fairly high up and release them and they have to ride that momentum to stay aloft. They can catch the odd updraft here and there but by and large if they lose altitude its generally extremely difficult for them to recover it, and if they get too slow they'll start to go down fast. 

Carney started about neck and neck with pp in the polls, probably slightly under, and can't afford any gaffes like that if he's going to glide all the way to the finish. 

This was a bad first day. He lost a little speed.  Not fatal yet but he can't have more like that. 

[CdnFox]

1 minute ago, Barquentine said:

What am I missing her? Those are your exact words.

A brain apperently. 🙄

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I didn't say anything about grammar.

 

nobody said you did, ,

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That's your weasel excuse to try and look good. FYI: doesn't work.

I gotta hand it to ya - hope springs....

 

Sure kid. 🙄

One cool thing about you, despite my expectations that you've absolutely maxed out your opportunities you always seem to find a new and exciting way to look a little more silly every day. 

[Barquentine]

46 minutes ago, CdnFox said:

49 minutes ago, Barquentine said:

What am I missing her? Those are your exact words.

A brain apperently. 🙄

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I didn't say anything about grammar.

 

nobody said you did, ,

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That's your weasel excuse to try and look good. FYI: doesn't work.

I gotta hand it to ya - hope springs....

 

Sure kid. 🙄

One cool thing about you, despite my expectations that you've absolutely maxed out your opportunities you always seem to find a new and exciting way to look a little more silly every day. 

So you're just a blatant liar. Not even a good one at that.

Keep drinking. I'm done with you.

[CdnFox]

1 minute ago, Barquentine said:

So you're just a blatant liar. Not even a good one at that.

Keep drinking. I'm done with you.

Everything i said was true kiddo.  Sorry you tried to turn it into some sort of weird 'gotcha' and it didn't work  for you. 

And once again a leftie looks like a loser and wants it to be all my fault.   

You get to bed early. School night. 

Edited March 25 by CdnFox

[CdnFox]

And the blunders kept coming. 

Look how he handled this simple question.  first off the 'banker' couldn't explain his point and he looks flustered, laughs nervously, and the woman in red behind him is desperately trying to follow what he's saying and very obviously even SHE can't figure it out. This simply does not look prime ministerial

Also, median family earning 50 k? that's what he thinks the average family earns in Canada? or does he mean everyone over that is getting screwed

Edited March 25 by CdnFox

[WestCanMan]

1 hour ago, Goddess said:

Or they could use one of these:

I think a bobblehead would be more apropos. 

[CouchPotato]

Well, if he backs out of a debate with his fellow Canadian politicians he won't be very good at dealing with Trump.

[CdnFox]

22 minutes ago, CouchPotato said:

Well, if he backs out of a debate with his fellow Canadian politicians he won't be very good at dealing with Trump.

That's the truth. Also he just signaled to Quebec that he doesn't think they're worth $70,000

[ironstone]

It seems that a lack of French for Ruby Dhalla and Chandra Arya was a rather big deal for the Liberals. But with Mark Carney? Nothing to see here folks!

How will the other candidates react? Will they all gang up on Poilievre and ignore the no-show Liberal Prime Minister?

The sitting Prime Minister, refusing to do a televised French debate.

[CouchPotato]

9 hours ago, CdnFox said:

That's the truth. Also he just signaled to Quebec that he doesn't think they're worth $70,000

I am hearing today that Pierre is offering to pay for Carney to participate.

Edited March 25 by CouchPotato

[CdnFox]

48 minutes ago, CouchPotato said:

I am hearing today that Pierre is offering to pay for Carney to participate.

I thought about that    How brilliant would it be if he came out and said "i'm not sure if the libs are too broke to participate or just don't think quebec is worth 70,000 dollars but either way we certainly do and we'll pay for him to go. We believe quebec is worth it"

[CouchPotato]

1 hour ago, CdnFox said:

I thought about that    How brilliant would it be if he came out and said "i'm not sure if the libs are too broke to participate or just don't think quebec is worth 70,000 dollars but either way we certainly do and we'll pay for him to go. We believe quebec is worth it"

It's a retweet, but it basically says the conservative party is ready to provide the funds for his participation and Carney has no excuse to continue hiding.

[ironstone]

18 hours ago, Aristides said:

They also weren't happy with him visiting India and meeting with Modi on his own. The guy has a history of being a loose cannon.

What's interesting is that Chandra has a son named Siddanth. And there is a Siddanth Arya who just happens to work at Brookfield Asset Management.

https://www.zoominfo.com/p/Siddanth-Arya/9822209979