Simon Belmont
Banned
This is a really frightening situation that needs to be taken seriously. Trudeau really needs to push electoral reform through. Is there someone I can write to about this?
...your MP?
This is a really frightening situation that needs to be taken seriously. Trudeau really needs to push electoral reform through. Is there someone I can write to about this?
Handsome is better than funny in any election. Pictures don't talk.
Ontario is going to hand O'Leary the election
Write to your local mathematician so he can clear things up for the federal government.This is a really frightening situation that needs to be taken seriously. Trudeau really needs to push electoral reform through. Is there someone I can write to about this?
Jack Layton was pretty handsome, and look where that lead us
I have a lot of conservative friends and they all like Ford because he said he would lower taxes, and he did.
Jack Layton looked like a bald badger. He was a lot of things but handsome was not one of them.
...your MP?
Write to your local mathematician so he can clear things up for the federal government.
Guess that should have been obvious. I think I know who that is for my area, so I'll write to them.
Trudeau should do more grassroots handshakings and local BBQs stuff. Earthy people love that stuff and grow loyalty and fondness from human touches. It's how Ford had such a loyal following despite being such a screwup.
My cousin who is a social worker that works in Ford's old district says so many people there are loyal to him because he showed his face around and was chummy.
People don't care about "systematic" changes. The "system" and its failings and successes are abstract and cold and inhuman. They need human touch and presence. Show up and help fix a broken sink or two. People will love you thinking they can win the lottery one day and get a personal visit. That kind of thing builds loyalty even if it's "inefficient" and based on irrational feelings.
They'll be more than offset by the angry Francophones who don't like that a party that wants to form government is led by a unilingual anglo.
Nope. 2011 was a vote for Jack not the party.Will they vote NDP? My concern is the amount of vote splitting by the left that led to a harper majority creep up again.
I think this nails it. Ford kept winning because people knew him and believed he was authentic. Knocking on doors and meeting people helps a lot, and it's severely underrated. If O'Leary does win the CPC leadership -- which I maintain is still a longshot -- I very much doubt that he's willing to put in the work going to community BBQs and coffee shops and seniors residences out in the middle of nowhere. It doesn't have the same glamour as going on Fox and CNN live from Fort Lauderdale, but it's the necessary work that has to be done. There's no reason to believe O'Leary understands that, let alone that he's willing to do it.
US officials met with Canadian counterparts in Calgary yesterday...
coincidentally, Trump this morning pushes executive order to allow Keystone XL to go ahead.
hmmm
http://thehill.com/policy/energy-en...vance-keystone-dakota-access-pipelines-report
Ok, that's enough.
How do I sign up for a membership in the conservative party so I can vote against this guy?
Ok, that's enough.
How do I sign up for a membership in the conservative party so I can vote against this guy?
US officials met with Canadian counterparts in Calgary yesterday...
coincidentally, Trump this morning pushes executive order to allow Keystone XL to go ahead.
hmmm
http://thehill.com/policy/energy-en...vance-keystone-dakota-access-pipelines-report
I wonder if there's a site for fake Conservatives to direct all their votes to one person. lol
I like my mailman and he still has a route,
no way am I going to get Conservative mail enter my mailbox to see my mailman's face sad
O'Leary's not going to win next time is he?
Trudeau did piss off some Angryphone Anglos in his Sherbrooke Town Hall.
Max is that he gets a minority. The dude doesn't even speak French.
Pretty much. His campaign was all about "fighting for the little guy to stop the gravy train as a political outsider" despite being a former councillor of Toronto who came from a rich family. People to this day remember Ford more for his football antics and for smoking crack than they do that time he said that "the Asians are taking over because they work like dogs" or him accumulating about 800,000,000.00 more in debt for Torontonians to pay off in the coming decades. That said, I imagine O'Leary could take advantage of this with a campaign along the lines of 'I'm coming back to take Canada back" as a means of presenting himself as an outsider given he's been living in Boston for some time now. Whether or not that would work is unclear since the obvious response is "you didn't even consider Canada good enough to live in, what makes you think that you should run it?"
As an aside, Rob's campaign manager just so happens to be working for Kellie Leitch, hence why she's been using similar language in regards to "draining the canal/decrying the liberal elite establishment"...doesn't explain why she started tweeting like Trump but I digress.
Oh no no no I ain't voting for crazies. I'm talking people like maybe Chong who actually believes in climate change and all that. Moderate the Conservative party should be a goal.So we're all freaking out about what happened in the US because of a "Pied Piper" strategy to elevate a "beatable" candidate, combined with a lack of Democratic focus in key states... and the inoculation to this is to focus on the Tories by joining their party and doing the same thing?
People should focus on supporting their own parties and making issues the #1 concern, and spend less time arguing about the merits of, and giving coverage to, reality TV stars.
the US had just elected the first black president... twice. and Clinton was about to be the first women president without a doubt in anyones mind
stop pushing O'Leary aside trying to justify how he's going to lose and how different we are from them. We are but anything is possible right now, take lessons from what just happened instead of being in denial
the US had just elected the first black president... twice. and Clinton was about to be the first women president without a doubt in anyones mind
stop pushing O'Leary aside trying to justify how he's going to lose and how different we are from them. We are but anything is possible right now, take lessons from what just happened instead of being in denial
No one is in denial. And no is justifying how how he's going to lose.
The point is that there are so many variables in play that its completely stupid to already have a defeatist attitude at this point. People need to be realistic and think logically.
If people want to keep a progressive agenda, then start by promoting scientific facts and present data driven arguments to your peers. More informed people mean less chance of these people being elected.
Hello, first time I come in this thread.
Glad to see many of my fellow citizens are not very warm to O'Leary. Oh god, I don't want to see that asshole on the political stage ever. Hopefully the Conservative Party will do the right thing (hahaha one might hope).
So we're all freaking out about what happened in the US because of a "Pied Piper" strategy to elevate a "beatable" candidate, combined with a lack of Democratic focus in key states... and the inoculation to this is to focus on the Tories by joining their party and doing the same thing?
People should focus on supporting their own parties and making issues the #1 concern, and spend less time arguing about the merits of, and giving coverage to, reality TV stars.
I have no idea who is running, but don't people want someone specific to win? Yeah you rank O'Leary and Leitch last, but what about the others?It's a ranked ballot, so this isn't really a concern.
The Conservatives only did well in Toronto proper in 2011 because of Liberal/NDP vote-splitting.Don't under estimate Toronto giving him a majority.
The Conservatives only did well in Toronto proper in 2011 because of Liberal/NDP vote-splitting.
Right here is how (Do so before March 28th, the vote is on May 2017)
You can do it through their site. Alternatively, if you're signing up for a specific candidate, sign up through their site - they may delay registering you with the party for awhile, since they won't want other candidates to get your contact info. You'll get to vote, but it'll cut down on the campaigning directed at you.
Not really, basically without Layton, they all went Liberal. The fact that Chow couldn't win, admittedly in her redistrubted riding, kind of affirms that.And i can see it happening again.