- Reaction score
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- Points
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Old Sweat said:Sometimes I think JT is a seventies throwback minus the bellbottoms and Fu Manchu moustache.
.....and the charisma. He definitely does not have the flair of the elder.
Old Sweat said:Sometimes I think JT is a seventies throwback minus the bellbottoms and Fu Manchu moustache.
MCG said:I find Mr Trudeau comes across as an orange Liberal ... he may even be better fit for the NDP but ended up in the family party because of his name. On the other hand, Mr Mulcair is a red to blue NDPer, and I have read a few commentaries about some of the party's base not being happy about it. It is like the two parties stole each other’s leader.
E.R. Campbell said:If I'm reading this column by the Globe and Mail's Jeffrey Simpson correctly then the anti-Harper factions, the Laurentian elites, if you like, are worried that the "loss" of the Duffy trial for a few weeks, until after the election, will seriously benefit Prime Minister Harper and the CPC.
I expect to see a rough copy of Mr Simpson's column, albeit by someone else, every week or so in various national media outlets. I think the LPC and NDP need the Duffy trial to distract voters from fiscal and economic issues, especially given a reported $28Billion gap in M Mulcair's promises and M Trudeau's $60 Billion dollar deficit promise.
MCG said:I find Mr Trudeau comes across as an orange Liberal ... he may even be better fit for the NDP but ended up in the family party because of his name. On the other hand, Mr Mulcair is a red to blue NDPer, and I have read a few commentaries about some of the party's base not being happy about it. It is like the two parties stole each other’s leader.
E.R. Campbell said:I was wrong ...
I said a version of this would reappear every week or so; make that every couple of days: as with this, from Lawrence Martin in the Globe and Mail.
It's the same story ~ Duffy is the issue, folks, not economics ~ being spun by the same gang now that the Duffy trial is in recess until after the election.
Thucydides said:Too bad people are not looking at the "reporters" jumping up and down screaming "pay attention! pay attention!" but are looking at the economy.
My own pocketbook is much more important to me than Duffy's, and at least he isn't promising to reach into my wallet, unlike the Young Dauphin (or indirectly Mr Mulcair, or even to a certain extent the Prime Minister....)
E.R. Campbell said:I have frequently said that M Trudeau's road to 24 Sussex Drive, even to Stornoway, runs through Quebec where he must defeat M Mulcair's NDP.
A new story, from the Montreal Gazette via Canada.com suggests that he's struggling, even in Montreal, proper.
E.R. Campbell said:I have frequently said that M Trudeau's road to 24 Sussex Drive, even to Stornoway, runs through Quebec where he must defeat M Mulcair's NDP.
A new story, from the Montreal Gazette via Canada.com suggests that he's struggling, even in Montreal, proper.
Bird_Gunner45 said:To be honest, I can see a NDP majority government having a repeat of the PC split in the early 1990s. At this time they seem split between their quebec MPs, the traditional left of centre base, and the leadership pulling them into the centre. Tom Mulclair appears to have the ability to keep it together for the time being, but for how long? How many of the left leaning MPs will stay on course if the budget is balanced at the expense of social programs? How many quebec MPs stay if Quebec isnt given priority?
E.R. Campbell said:I have frequently said that M Trudeau's road to 24 Sussex Drive, even to Stornoway, runs through Quebec where he must defeat M Mulcair's NDP.
A new story, from the Montreal Gazette via Canada.com suggests that he's struggling, even in Montreal, proper.
jollyjacktar said:If anyone's interested in trying it out, CBC has a vote compass on it's website to try out.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/vote-compass-2015-canada-election-1.3204489
This one put me to the right of the CPC on most issues so I'd say it's not as biased as last time :nod:Thucydides said:I recall the last CBC "election compass" which somehow would point to Liberal regardless of how you answered. No bias here, no siree....