Three stewards a-waiting … The latest IPSOS-Reid poll shows that the Harper new Tories maintain their lead amongst voters when it comes to the critical issue of who is the best choice to manage the country’s economy. Voters believe that Harper and his Conservatives are the best by a whopping
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CuriosityCat: Thomas Mulcair’s NDP: Butting Heads against a Brick Wall
Consider for a moment two facts. One, the NDP is sinking in the polls, with the tide that started ebbing with Layton’s passing still receding from the distant shoreline of possible government. And two, the old saying that the definition of insanity is to keep doing the same thing, hoping
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Stéphane Dion: Let our MPs take a pocketful of votes to Parliament
A pocketful of votes Dion gave an interesting talk at Joyce Murray’s meeting in Vancouver this morning, dealing with the different kinds of electoral reform that we could adopt. One new idea that he dropped on the table is interesting, and, I believe, novel: that our MPs votes in Parliament
Continue readingCuriosityCat: The most plausible reason for the NDP loss in BC
Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion in BC I think Gordon Gibson’s take in the Globe & Mail on the vote-shifting caused by the position-shifting of Dix in the last week of the campaign is the most plausible explanation of why the polls were so different from the actual results: The NDP
Continue readingCuriosityCat: The Harper Government lacks a strategic vision for Canada’s oil industry
400 parts per million … Those Albertans who have voted for Harper’s Conservatives in election after election must be starting to wonder whether Stephen Harper and his Cabinet are the best choice for their main industry: oil. They should start to worry, because the Harper Tories are displaying yet again
Continue readingPolitics Canada: Trudeau ends hope for Canada with decision not to fight attack ads
I am in complete and utter shock and sadness at the news that Justin Trudeau will become the third Liberal Party leader in a row defined by the formidable Reform-Conservative attack ad machine. This means that Stephen Harper has just won the 2015 election campaign. I can not believe
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Justin Trudeau, read Andrew Coyne if you are a bold, serious leader
Andrew Coyne The debate is gathering steam, and Andrew Coyne has posed several questions which every candidate for leadership of the Liberal Party of Canada (and particularly Justin Trudeau, whose father modernized the Canadian democracy almost beyond compare with his priceless gift of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms): Fundamentally,
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Liberal Leadership Race: Joyce Murray’s Electoral Reforms Promise
Joyce Murray – Progressive Reformer MP Murray’s position on pre-election cooperation between the Liberal, NDP, Green and Blog parties in order to remove Harper’s right wing government from power, and her commitment to serious electoral reform, bears repeating in full: Our principal challenge is to give Canada the 21st century
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Stephen Harper’s Oil Industry Mismanagement costing Canada dearly
Harper Firewall Blinkers The Harper new Tories keep plugging the line that Harper’s government is a sound manager of Canada’s economy, and is doing all the right things all the time, hoping that constant repetition will persuade Canadian voters to believe this mantra. Unfortunately for Canada, the Harper government is
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Andrew Coyne gives a good reason for choosing Joyce Murray as Liberal Party leader
Andrew CoyneAt last we have some candidates for leadership of the Liberal Party who – unlike Justin Trudeau – are prepared to deal with the reality of Canadian politics: our democratic deficit. And journalist Coyne does us all a favour by dis…
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Justin Trudeau: Latest poll debunks Quebec myth about Trudeaus
Justin Trudeau – The Healer? The good news for Justin Trudeau and the Liberals just keeps pouring in, with the latest Decima poll showing that the Trudeau name is poison in Quebec is a myth: The latest Canadian Press Harris-Decima survey released Friday says 36 per cent of those who
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Justin Trudeau and tic-tac-toe politics
Justin Trudeau does not believe in tic-tac-toe (noughts and crosses to some of us) politics: As for Stephen Harper’s policies now, Mr. Trudeau says they are dividing the country, as are NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair’s. “Mr. Harper put an X over Quebec and is anchoring himself in the West. Mr.
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Justin Trudeau: Will Toronto go Liberal? Poll says Yes
A Forum poll taken this past weekend (before Trudeau confirmed he is running for leadership of the Liberal Party), shows a huge shift in votes in Toronto, the major city of battleground Ontario: Toronto 2015 ridings With Trudeau as their leader, the Liberals would claim 40 per cent of the
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Justin Trudeau: A Political Tinkerer or a man with a Bold Vision for Canada?
Lawrence Martin in today’s Globe & Mail raises a very important question about what Justin Trudeau might do to change the system: Idealism is the currency of the young and, if Justin Trudeau is to succeed and the Liberal Party to have new life, a new sense of it is
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Conservative Party machine still dominates the Canadian political space
The Conservatives have maintained their muscular advantage over both major competitors in fundraising in 2011: The Liberals raised $10,119,908.62 from 49,650 donors last year, according to their annual financial return. The NDP raised $7,427,060.63 from 37,778 donors, according to the party’s annual return which was filed late with Elections Canada…
Continue readingCuriosityCat: How Justin Trudeau can leave a legacy as great as his father did
Ask anybody about Pierre Trudeau’s major contributions to Canadian politics, and you will find many who will point to the repatriation of the constitution, and the enshrinement in our new constitution of our now world-famous Charter of Rights & Freedoms. That Charter has resounded throughout the world, and is used
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Justin Trudeau: Well said, Andrew Cohen!
Andrew Cohen reflects in the Ottawa Citizen upon the Trudeau brand, and its impact on Justin Trudeau, in a good summary of what Pierre Trudeau means to Canadians: Andrew Cohen on Trudeau His name is Trudeau. In political currency, his name is a promissory note of hope, expectation and sentimentality,
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Justin Trudeau: The Tide Turneth
The National Post has an exclusive poll that shows that the Liberal Party would win a national election if Justin Trudeau became its leader: In an exclusive poll conducted for the National Post, Forum found if Mr. Trudeau were leader of the Liberal Party and an election were held today,
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Kay on Justin Trudeau: He’s not just a Pretty Face
Jonathan Kay of the National Post has an interesting reply to those commentators who describe Justin Trudeau as a lightweight politician: Justin Trudeau into the ring? It’s fashionable to write off Mr. Trudeau as a lightweight, and his party as a spent force. But recent events in Quebec — specifically,
Continue readingCuriosityCat: John Ibbitson gives some good reasons for choosing Justin Trudeau
In today’s Globe & Mail Ibbitson sets out some reasons why Justin Trudeau deciding to run for Liberal Party leadership is a good thing for the party. His point about Trudeau’s Quebec roots is especially relevant, in my view: Justin Trudeau There is the storied name, of course. For better
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