The chart below looks like there has been a huge jump up and down in “no choice” and a corresponding big change in party choice but actually there is some consistency across the board. Click to enlarge As SRBP has been saying for a couple of months, the Conservatives and
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The Sir Robert Bond Papers: Election 2019 – First Poll #nlpoli
While the MQO poll shows the Liberals in the lead, a new poll from Abacus – released with an hour of this appearing – will likely show that since the debate, the political landscape of the province has changed dramatically. The latest poll from MQO showed that after a week
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Why Andrew Scheer Will Never Have A Climate Plan
It's been about a week since Andrew Scheer shocked many Canadians by announcing that he now believes that climate change is a real problem.For obvious reasons. A few more inches of rain and he might have been floating down a river with so many others in Ontario and Quebec.But if you remember,
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: The Financial Reality of Election 2019 #nlpoli
The reality confronting any administration after May 16 is the same regardless of which party wins the election. The government is unlikely to balance the budget in 2022, regardless of who wins the 2019 election. In 2019, as in 2015, the last government budget before the election did not accurately
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Andrew Scheer’s Scary Climate Change Nightmare
For Andrew Scheer it must have seemed like a religious revelation, of the very wrong kind. The kind born in the hell of his own making.For years he has tried to ignore the subject of climate change, and flagellated the very idea of a carbon tax as only a kooky Con could.But
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Voter Turn-out and Popular Vote Shares of Parties, 1949 – 2019 #nlpoli
Election turn-out has been declining steadily for provincial elections since the mid-1990s. The 2019 general election is on track to show a record low turn-out at 44% of eligible voters. Party share of eligible vote had declined in the same period. The Liberal victory in 2015 went against the pattern
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Where do elections come from? #nlpoli
From fixed election dates to the number of candidates that run in an election, what Newfoundlanders and Labradorians believe about one of the basic institutions of their democracy is as much myth and rumour as reality. Here are some facts to help you navigate the world of post-Confederation elections in
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Scheer Cons and the New Far Right Extremists
For years I have warned that hate was on the rise in Canada. And I should know since I first started fighting the hate mongers and other bullies when I was about thirteen.But ever since Andrew Scheer became Con leader, and started whipping up hate for crass political purposes, I
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Andrew Scheer and the Koch Brothers’ Connection
When Andrew Scheer had that secret meeting with some Big Oil bosses at a fancy hotel just outside Calgary the other day, he must have been praying up a storm that nobody would ever find out about it.Never find out what they talked about, never find out who was there.But
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Andrew Scheer and the Oily Conspiracy (Continued)
In one of my last posts I looked at how Andrew Scheer and Big Oil were secretly working together to try to defeat Justin Trudeau.In what can only be described as a sinister oily conspiracy. And I predicted that Scheer and his Cons would pay a heavy political price for that perfidious behaviour.And
Continue readingMontreal Simon: How the Anti-Carbon Tax Cons Were Made To Look Like Idiots
Some in our bought media have called them The Resistance, as if what they are doing is brave even heroic.When they are just a grubby gang of Con climate change deniers who never saw a carbon tax they didn't want to kill.And even though a recent Nobel Prize winner says carbon
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Racist Cons and the Fake News Election
I spent most of the long weekend far from the madding crowd, recovering from a particularly gruelling exam.With only the sound of the rain beating down, and a passing yacht club boat chugging along to remind me that Spring had finally arrived.But what I was also reminded about was that there
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Justin Trudeau and the Great Carbon Tax Battle
Justin Trudeau has had to fight all kinds of battles since he came to power. He's has to fight the Cons and their grubby stooge media. He has had to fight the racists, the misogynists, the gay haters, and other bigots and far-right extremists who are slowly poisoning this country.And of course
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Will Jason Kenney Lose His Pipeline War With Justin Trudeau?
Ever since he became the Premier-elect of Alberta, Jason Kenney has wasted no time giving his enemies the finger, and preparing to declare war on them.From "foreign funded" environmental groups, the government and people of British Columbia and First Nations, to union groups, student activists, the liberal media etc etc.And of course
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Nathan Cullen And The Slow Death Of The NDP
I was sitting on a bench overlooking the beach at Ward's Island this weekend, when I suddenly thought of Jack Layton. And how I used to see him all the time cycling around the island on a bicycle made for two. Back in the giddy days when an orange wave had made
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Will Andrew Scheer’s Con Friends Help Justin Trudeau Defeat Him?
In Alberta the advance polls are open, and Albertans have started voting in a provincial election Jason Kenney and his United Conservative Party are favoured to win.But the UCP has been hit by one bigot eruption after the other. The RCMP is looking into allegations of voter fraud during Kenney's leadership
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Andrew Scheer, Faith Goldy, and the Right-Wing Extremists
It was one of the most grotesque interviews I have ever seen. Two right-wing Christian fanatics on the bigot Rebel, discussing why they could never support a harmless motion condemning islamophobia, not long after a gunman killed six Muslims in Quebec City.And then cheerfully making plans to go duck hunting together.Andrew Scheer
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Does All Of The West Really Want To Separate?
About two years ago I predicted that if or when Jason Kenney became Premier of Alberta he would eventually try to get that province to separate from Canada.And two years later, with Alberta still seething with resentment over low oil prices, not enough pipelines, and too many Muslims, I'm even more
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Michael Coren On The Shocking Behaviour Of the Con Media
Ever since the fake scandal erupted, I've sometimes felt like that other Simon in William Golding's Lord of the Flies. The one who could see what others couldn't, or didn't want to see.The one who knew who the real monster was.Because for me the real monster was the way the Con
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Trudeau Slams Scheer Over the Pizzagate Scandal
Yesterday I wrote about how Andrew Scheer was asked a question about the far right-wing conspiracy theory known as Pizzagate.And how despite the fact the Con crowd in the room loudly applauded that question, he claimed not to have heard it, while his handlers pleaded ignorance.Scheer's press secretary told CBC News
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