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Canadian General Election (OT) - #elxn42: October 19, 2015

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No, don't shy away from it! Take a stand on this issue.

I don't even know how to rank that. Justin came out swinging and handled that as best as he could, but the optics on that will definitely bite Justin in the ass by the end of the week, you can tell because Harper came out and specifically phrased his question to Justin in a way that will allow them the perfect soundbite in an attack ad.

I'm happy he called out Harper, but there is no way this is going to go well for him
 

SRG01

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I don't even know how to rank that. Justin came out swinging and handled that as best as he could, but the optics on that will definitely bite Justin in the ass by the end of the week, you can tell because Harper came out and specifically phrased his question to Justin in a way that will allow them the perfect soundbite in an attack ad.

I'm happy he called out Harper, but there is no way this is going to go well for him

All the Liberals need to do is to screencap the last part where he gestures to Harper and saying 'The Politics of Fear'.
 

lupinko

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Also the "Fair Voting Act", which prohibits Elections Canada from telling people that hey we have an election coming up!

I swear I hate the Harper Cons.

And this is coming from me who as a kid liked the Charest PC, Manning Reform and Day Alliance.
 
I'm surprised Trudeau hasn't said something like "We take away citizenship for terrorism now...what is next? Murder? Theft? Tax fraud? Political dessent? We can't allow a political government to determine who is a Canadian and who is not."
 

Firestorm

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I'm surprised Trudeau hasn't said something like "We take away citizenship for terrorism now...what is next? Murder? Theft? Tax fraud? Political dessent? We can't allow a political government to determine who is a Canadian and who is not."
Yeah. This could have worked better. The ability to remove my citizenship just because my parents immigrated here is incredibly scary to me.
 

Kinitari

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Did anyone ever actually say 'big sled no dog' or did Trudeau make that up? If real, they got the slang game on lock up on the arctic.
 

Kinitari

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I've only been watching for a few minutes, but it seems like.... Trudeau and Mulclair are not at each other's throats this time?
 

Vamphuntr

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Trudeau is much stronger tonight. Harper is sitting in the back and let them fight as usual and Mulcair is kind of terrible so far. This is a much interesting debate so far than the last one but I guess very few people are watching this one.

Next big one is on TVA friday.
 

Cmerrill

You don't need to be empathetic towards me.
Every time Harper is done speaking he gets a round of applause, is this debate in Alberta?
 

Kinitari

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C51. Never forget.

No way I can. I get that it's an important issue, but Mulcair brings it up every chance he gets, even if it makes absolutely no sense. One debate he got asked a tax question and he brought it up. He didn't even tie it into taxes, he was just like "I want to make sure I handle taxes smart, unlike Trudeau, who also didn't handle bill c51 very smartly!". I paraphrase, but like dude... pick your moments.

edit: Trudeau did a lot of this too with taxing the 1%, it was weird when he just brought it up at seemingly random moments to answer only mildly related questions.
 

Walpurgis

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Like I said, Muclair is going to try and hammer home the issue that got them in the lead originally.

It wasn't that issue that got me to swoon. It was his strong stance against everything Harper and his utter fury (a fury that I shared). I also respected that he was telling it like it was despite polls against him. While, that issue definitely separated the boy from the man but it was more of the promise of hope that got me. I remember thinking, this is a guy who can fix everything that Harper has ruined these past 9 years. This is a guy who will get shit done. I don't really think that anymore. The NDP bores me now and I've been feeling pretty apathetic these past few weeks.
 

Vamphuntr

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did Mulcair just tell Alberta that Trudeau loves oil as much as Harper?

It would be so much better if they could act as adults and explain that they are ideologically against it but they need the money associated with it. Mulcair likes it as much as the other two. It's kind of late to backpedal.
 
Please, will someone rebut Harper with "Its better to make hard targets and miss them by a third than to establish narrow targets and miss them entirely"
 
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