Journalist Campbell Clark sums up the cynicism behind Justin Trudeau’s reckless abandonment of a central election promise: He calculated it was better to drop it. That’s probably not a cost-free calculation. Left-leaning voters cared more about electoral reform, and the NDP will make it a cause; the Liberals always fare
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CuriosityCat: Canada’s Trudeau about to make a colossal mistake re Trump Inauguration
False compass? Trudeau and his advisors have decided to snub the most powerful nation in the world by staying away from the inauguration of its next president on January 20. Despite the fact that Americans voted in a free vote for their next president, and Donald Trump won the presidency
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Canada’s Trudeau about to make a colossal mistake re Trump Inauguration
False compass? Trudeau and his advisors have decided to snub the most powerful nation in the world by staying away from the inauguration of its next president on January 20. Despite the fact that Americans voted in a free vote for their next president, and Donald Trump won the presidency
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Trudeau’s Liberals pay a 20% price in poll of their bungling
Lack of Leadership takes a toll The Pay for Access scandal coupled with the incredible bungling of the very important electoral reform initiative, has led to a 20% drop in Liberal Party support: After soaring in public approval for more than a year, Justin Trudeau’s Liberals tumbled last month in
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Trudeau’s Liberals pay a 20% price in poll of their bungling
Lack of Leadership takes a toll The Pay for Access scandal coupled with the incredible bungling of the very important electoral reform initiative, has led to a 20% drop in Liberal Party support: After soaring in public approval for more than a year, Justin Trudeau’s Liberals tumbled last month in
Continue readingCuriosityCat: How Trudeau’s Liberals failed Canada on electoral reform
The miscalculation that Justin Trudeau made regarding his solemn promise to bring about electoral change, is shown in this summary: The Liberals, however, decided to go one step further in eschewing conventional political practice: Instead of stacking their side of the table with wily veteran MPs, they assigned four first-timers
Continue readingCuriosityCat: How Trudeau’s Liberals failed Canada on electoral reform
The miscalculation that Justin Trudeau made regarding his solemn promise to bring about electoral change, is shown in this summary: The Liberals, however, decided to go one step further in eschewing conventional political practice: Instead of stacking their side of the table with wily veteran MPs, they assigned four first-timers
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Electoral Reform: How Clustered are You?
I took the MyDemocracy test of my “values” today, and was place in one of the “clusters” chosen by Vox Pop Labs as representing all those who participate in the Trudeau Liberals reaching out to all Canadian households to find out their views on a few issues about reform. I
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Electoral Reform: How Clustered are You?
I took the MyDemocracy test of my “values” today, and was place in one of the “clusters” chosen by Vox Pop Labs as representing all those who participate in the Trudeau Liberals reaching out to all Canadian households to find out their views on a few issues about reform. I
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Brexit surprise ahead for Trudeau Liberals if they break electoral reform promise
The Trap of Broken Promises We’ve seen in the UK, USA and now Italy, just how out of touch ruling elites are with the discontent bubbling below the surface of their citizens. And now Canada’s newly minted Prime Minister is apparently starting to substitute his election victory for the deeply-held
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Brexit surprise ahead for Trudeau Liberals if they break electoral reform promise
The Trap of Broken Promises We’ve seen in the UK, USA and now Italy, just how out of touch ruling elites are with the discontent bubbling below the surface of their citizens. And now Canada’s newly minted Prime Minister is apparently starting to substitute his election victory for the deeply-held
Continue readingCuriosityCat: PM Trudeau summed up by Chantal Hebert on electoral reform
Here’s the devastating article she wrote on how the Liberals, lead by Justin Trudeau, have mismanaged the election commitment to electoral reform: As for the Liberals, they have managed to turn a secondary policy front into a field of ruins. With the logistical clock ticking on moving to a different
Continue readingCuriosityCat: PM Trudeau summed up by Chantal Hebert on electoral reform
Here’s the devastating article she wrote on how the Liberals, lead by Justin Trudeau, have mismanaged the election commitment to electoral reform: As for the Liberals, they have managed to turn a secondary policy front into a field of ruins. With the logistical clock ticking on moving to a different
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Last Rites #nlpoli
This week Premier Dwight Ball became the punchline to a joke.Ball spent yet another day not giving straight answers to simple questions about what they knew and when they knew about Ed Martin’s severance. For good measure, the opposition Co…
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Tom Mulcair explains how the NDP Swiss Cheese Plan came about
Dramatic disclosures on the campaign trail today! A respected numbers man has called the campaign plan prepared by Tom Mulcair for the NDP, a “Swiss cheese plan.” He likes it, but thinks it’s a bit skimpy: Even though Canada’s former budget watchdog called the NDP’s fiscal plan “Swiss cheese,” leader
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Election 2015: Is the Liberal Party ready for October 20th?
Who will be our next PM? Probably Harper We vote on October 19. It will be a cliffhanger, with final results only out early the next day. A minority government is possible, as the Poll Tracker shows with today’s results: The Poll Tracker’s polling average currently awards the Tories 29.3
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Duffy senate scandal: Nigel Wright says PM Harper “good to go” on coverup points
As expected, the now famous words “good to go” were front and centre in the cross examination of state witness Wright by Duffy’s defence counsel yesterday (my underlining): It gripped a packed courtroom, not because Wright dropped bombshells but because the top insider finally told the story behind one of
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: For want of a nail… #nlpoli
Dwight Ball demonstrated last week how very simple things can turn into problems very quickly. He handed his political opponents a stick they can use to beat him with. The fact they really don;t have much more than innuendo and speculation doesn’t matter. He’s given them a weapon. Ball confirmed
Continue readingCuriosityCat: From My Quotes Cupboard: China’s leaders could have ruled the waves, but blew it
Decisions made can impact centuries, as China found out when its leaders made a shortsighted decision in the early 1400’s: In Nanjing today you can see a full-size replica of the treasure ship of Admiral Zhen He, the most famous sailor in Chinese history. It is 400 feet long –
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Canada, want a good Deputy Prime Minister? Look for the man with the hardball in his office
Two of these men could be PM in the next 18 months Thomas Mulcair says he and his NDP have learned from the disasterous provincial NDP election: “It’s not enough to look at the electorate and say, ‘vote for me, I m good.’ You have to say, ‘vote for me,
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