Recent content by IKnowNothing

Will they bother using it if he issues a backroom warning that amounts to a more eloquent equivalent of "f you, I have the membership/delegates- if you vote me out I will run and win in the resultant leadership contest and I will remember my friends/enemies"

Like I said last night- it depends more on the extent of the grassroots/social media hold PP has on the membership and whether he's willing to throw that weight around against a caucus that hypothetically wanted him out.

I'm ok with that. He's not being dishonest, you are.

Dishonesty is dishonesty, that means you have a bigger audience for it. I don't consume any long form commentary via AV media- takes too long. Neither do I consume anything with hyperbolic clickbait/ragebait titles/thumbnails etc. Nothing- but again for the 3rd time- his paid job as a...

“As a Nova Scotian, we’re always trying to find ways to work together, to solve issues that are important to our communities,” he said. “I didn’t see it by sitting in the opposition, I saw it by being a part of the government caucus.” “I didn’t find that I was represented there, that my ideals...

Looks like he decided that he could better work to fix it as a potentially high leverage voice in the governing party than as an opposition back bench chorus member in the Question Period Theatre Show.

Not sure if you're being facetious, but it would likely be better than the current situation yes. With a majority he would have the latitude and safety to make the deeply unpopular "hard choices" early in a mandate without fear of the government falling. As it is he has to play politics- both in...

Point of clarification- when people see a financial/economic opinion assigned to "Moody's" it gets taken with the weight one would assign to the internationally trusted and counted upon credit rating / analytics firm. Canada has an interesting interpretive wrinkle in that we have Kim G.C...

Except in this case it's actually blue vs BLUE, and ironically he's in the line of fire this time specifically because he chose to try and score his points via political theatre rather than constructively work to influence that figure for the better.

There's two angles A- there's a distinct irony in the supposed "free market champion for the working man" being a career white collar public servant that has zero experience drawing a private paycheck in the market, free or otherwise B- having never been accountable for nor, having demonstrated...

That's what they (you?) said about choking away the lead and losing the 2025 election. He shouldn't survive caucus review, but... Barring him losing his grassroots/social media grip would caucus even bother deposing him if/when he's got the delegates to be re-instated at the convention level...

The meme reflected my feelings- it would be too good to be true, I'm in no way predicting it as likely. That being said... A. CPC strong hold or Michael Chong stronghold? He won 2004 ~43-38, since then it's only ever been close in 2015 B. If a floor crossing created an LPC majority, he'd be 57...

Michael Chong as the leader of an unofficial "PC Caucus" playing kingmaker/influencer to a Carney lead government..?

Vacation money for the affluent =/= life saving medical care.

No sir. No OAS cuts. "OAS cuts" are scary, mobilizing, political grenades. "A re-assessment and re-calibration of means tested welfare across the board"(CCB should be tweaked as well), with clearly articulated new thresholds vs. old, #/% of recipients impacted etc. Start the clawback at max...