When it looked like Doug Ford was heading for a crushing majority, him and Andrew Scheer were the best of buddies.And Scheer even made plans to hit the campaign trail with him.But what a difference a few weeks can make.Now when the wounded Ford needs him the most, Scheer has
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Alberta Politics: Pipeline politics in Canada circa 2018: Destroying the rule of law in order to save it
Obviously, we have to destroy the rule of law in order to save it! With Kinder Morgan Inc.’s do-or-drop-it deadline set to arrive on Thursday, that seems to be the idea behind the argument advanced by the increasingly furious Canadian pipeline lobby that the Trans Mountain Expansion project must be
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Strange Return of Stephen Harper
A few weeks ago he was spotted at an Ottawa McDonald's, trying hard not to be recognized, and apparently content to be living in well deserved obscurity.But appearances can be deceiving.For in fact Stephen Harper has been desperately trying to raise his shrinking profile,As the new chairman of the right-wing
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Andrew Scheer and the Abortion Question
Last Wednesday Justin Trudeau was answering a question about abortion, which ended with him declaring that his government would always defend a woman's right to choose.When the Con MP Ted Falk shouted out "it's not a right!"And caused a commotion in the Commons.Now Andrew Scheer has finally addressed the controversy,
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Andrew Scheer and the Con’s Cowardly Fear Factor.
For many months Andrew Scheer has been making a fool out of himself by trying to scare Canadians with the idea of a carbon tax.But it's just not working, the economy is too strong.Unemployment is lower than it has been in forty years, and the good news just keeps on
Continue readingMontreal Simon: How Andrew Scheer Is Trying To Kill The Marijuana Bill
I watched Andrew Scheer's appearance last night on Tout Le Monde En Parle, Quebec's biggest talk show.And although I thought his French was (slightly) better than I had imagined it would be, his fifteen minute appearance can only be described as a bust, or a snooze fest.If you understand French you can
Continue readingdaveberta.ca – Alberta Politics: UCP draws huge crowds, huge controversy to its first policy convention
(Photo credit: @Alberta_UCP on Twitter) With more than 2,500 party members in attendance, this weekend’s United Conservative Party founding convention was one of the biggest political events in Alberta’s recent memory. It was a big show of force for the official opposition party, which continues to dominate in the polls
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Andrew Scheer and the Day the India Story Died
For months Andrew Scheer tried to keep his hyper inflated India story going, in the hope that it would make him more popular than Justin Trudeau.And for a while it seemed to work. Just a few weeks ago an Ipsos poll suggested him and his Cons were heading for a crushing victory, maybe
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Michael Harris On Why Andrew Scheer Will Never Be Prime Minister
I used to admire Michael Harris. During the grim years of the Harper regime he was a bright candle in the darkness.But then when Justin Trudeau became Prime Minister, Harris started acting weird. Started attacking him the same or harder than he had attacked Harper.And became just another angry old man spewing
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: Scheer Won’t Make It
Conservatives in Alberta and Ontario are poised for a come back. In Ottawa, they’re hoping that Andrew Scheer will bring them back from the wilderness. But, Michael Harris writes, there are several reasons why Scheer and the Conservatives will continue to wander in the desert: Reason number one, Harper deja
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Many Lies of the Con Artist Andrew Scheer
As you may know, I consider Andrew Scheer to be a serial liar, a man who lies almost as much as Donald Trump does.A liar who should have a flashing red light attached to the end of his large pointy nose to warn others he's coming.But this latest lie is so
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Andrew Scheer’s Most Miserable Birthday
It will be his birthday soon. One year since since he became Con leader and began his crusade to become Prime Minister.After a Con leadership race marred by the lack of decent candidates, allegations of massive corruption, including claims that a small army of "fake conservatives" came stumbling out to vote for
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: Chuckles brings home a report card.
Andrew ‘Chuckles’ Scheer has spent the better part of a year in Ottawa as leader of Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition. A report card is due. Will we like the report on that purportedly placid Prairie politician? Will he reprise the docile and easy-going speaker of the house role he played
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Toronto Tragedy and the Trump Party Cons
It was already a horrible tragedy, an act of insane violence or murderous misogyny. The alleged attacker had posted praise for a mass murderer in the United States who was part of the “incel” movement – a women-hating collection of “involuntarily celibate” men in online forums and other sites frustrated
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Jason Kenney joins attack on David Suzuki; complains too many U of A honorary degrees go to progressives
Where is the Globe and Mail, the National Post, federal Opposition leader Andrew Scheer? After all, they were all such convincing defenders of intellectual freedom on campus when the barbs were being directed at Jordan Peterson, the University of Toronto professor who is “the Darth Maul of tenured campus bad
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Andrew Scheer Reaches For The Racist Card
A week ago I wrote that Andrew Scheer was looking a little desperate. And I'm sorry to report that since then his condition has deteriorated.And now he's even more desperate.He can't use the fake India story him and the Con media cooked up. It died of old age, and Scheer
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Day Justin Trudeau Struck Back At Andrew Scheer
For almost a year Andrew Scheer has gone after Justin Trudeau like a creature out of Hell.He has attacked him day after day after day, as only a religious fanatic and alt-right sympathizer could.He has made frothy Trudeau hate normal, he has corrupted the very soul of this country, and made
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Tory canoe and Trudeau too* – Liberals take advantage of Jason Kenney’s “Canada is broken” Tweet
Alberta Opposition Leader Jason Kennedy’s now famous “Canada is broken” Tweet a week ago may turn out to have been the symbolic starting point of the 2019 federal election campaign. Canada is broken. https://t.co/7tVwbAKPmc — Jason Kenney (@jkenney) April 15, 2018 Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his federal Liberals were
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Total Humiliation Of Mad Max Bernier
As you know Maxime Bernier likes to portray himself as the hero of the Mad Max movies.Or at least the extreme libertarian version of that series.Where the lonesome hero wanders through an apocalyptic landscape dodging Big Government agents who are always trying to tax Canadians to death, or control their minds.But
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Why Andrew Scheer Is Looking So Desperate
Oh dear, poor Andrew Scheer has that desperate look on his face again. And no wonder, everything is going wrong.Last night his "emergency pipeline debate" went nowhere, after all he could do was shout "Mr Trudeau build that pipeline!!!!"Which seemed a bit ridiculous, considering the situation, especially since the Prime Minister
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