Secret tape increases pressure on Trudeau in SNC-Lavalin affair BBC link - http://tinyurl.com/y34chx94
Tinkerbell continuing to lose his tink - bigtime. https://globalnews.ca/news/5134636/...icle&utm_medium=MostPopular&utm_campaign=2014 Pretty mixed bag there. A yellow vest protester, a Make Canada Great Again protester, and the Lavin Scandal protesters. So much love. Better get it all in before the elections in October. His party will probably win again, not sure he will be PM though. They will be agitating for a female PM right on schedule at some point soon.
US social issues are actually far more life changing and messed up for it's citizens then anything going on in Canada. Reminds me of the US health care debates, and how some of you think Canadians have it worse then Americans ( absurd but whatever floats your boat you can pay the consequences of your personal choices ). Canadians are more fluid about how they vote for the various parties then Americans. Our world didn't fall apart when we voted in the NDP and Trudeau will be voted out if enough Canadians think he hasn't performed well as a leader. There is no left wing right wing bs in this country beyond some fringe elements. The whole SNC Lavelin thing would hardly be a story in the US.
I have him on ignore but I see that Nine-Ender the faux canadian has posted. Ask him what his country of origin is before arriving to squat in Toronto to be an expert on all things Canadian and American. Heh. Silence is golden for him when it comes to that question. You would need to use the Jaws of Life to get an anwer out of him on that.
My background is fairly typical of many long term Canadian residents, born in England, immigrated at an early age to Canada and lived here ever since. A proud Canadian who would kick your ass if you spoke to me in this way in person. Not that I don't doubt your mouth hasn't gotten you in a lot of trouble numerous times in your life, and the internet allows you to make cowardly attacks of a groundless nature to get your kicks in life. So just fuck off with your bs, and if at all possible go back to school or something to improve yourself there is nothing redeeming about being a dumb ass in life.
Under no circumstance anyone should accept your opinion to represent "canadians" You are a terrible human being.... just like Trudeau.
Your opinion on any matter means nothing to me, you are clearly a person with issues and you need to grow up. At no point have I said I represent "canadians", but I am a proud life long ( basically ) Canadian who wouldn't want to live anywhere else on the planet. After repeated false claims that I am supposedly not a real Canadian, whatever that is supposed to mean ( a bigoted concept in itself ), I addressed that opinion. Maybe go back to your American wannabee ways and stop pretending you care about Canada because you don't seem to genuinely care for Canada yourself. And please stop bashing women on this site it's unbecoming of an adult male. Trudeau is a far more respectable person then Trump will ever be and I have a hard time respecting anyone who strongly supports Trump on any level. A reasonable person could decide that Trudeau is a mediocre leader ( or not ) based on his track record and background. To claim he's a terrible person only indicates your own complete lack of judgement in these matters.
Looks like Mr. Transparency is going full Nixon. Yeh, tell us again how you will "never give up your Canadian values." That is one of his favorite lines particular when speaking about Americans. Meanwhile, his cabinet officials have had to resign because they could not work with him and maintain their Canadian values too. =============================================== Canada’s Trudeau threatens libel suit over SNC-Lavalin crisis, opposition says On Sunday, Conservative leader Andrew Scheer released a letter he said he received a week ago from a lawyer representing Trudeau. It referred to statements made by the opposition leader on Facebook on Mar 29, which the letter called "beyond the pale of fair debate" and "libellous." The letter is to be "treated as a notice" and will be referred to "in any subsequent action," it said. The Conservatives have repeatedly accused Liberals of trying to "interfere in ongoing court proceedings," and have sent a letter to federal police urging them to launch a criminal investigation. In response to the opposition leader's comments, the prime minister's office said in a statement on Sunday: "Andrew Scheer and the Conservatives have repeatedly made false and defamatory statements. We put him on notice that there are consequences for making completely false and libellous statements." Scheer said the prime minister's complaints were "without merit," adding he hoped the libel case was brought "immediately" because it would mean Trudeau would have to testify publicly and under oath. My emphasis added in last sentence above, so that you would not miss the entertainment value. https://www.channelnewsasia.com/new...-snc-lavalin-crisis--opposition-says-11421856
Justin Trudeau, a Prime Minister of symbols, falls to Earth SCOTT REID SPECIAL TO THE GLOBE AND MAIL PUBLISHED APRIL 11, 2019UPDATED 4 HOURS AGO 134 COMMENTS Open this photo in gallery Prime Minister Justin Trudeau responds to a question during Question Period in the House of Commons on April 10, 2019 in Ottawa. ADRIAN WYLD/THE CANADIAN PRESS Scott Reid is a political analyst and principal at Feschuk.Reid and served as director of communications to prime minister Paul Martin. Justin Trudeau is a mortal now. That might seem like a ridiculous observation. What right-thinking person ever considered the Prime Minister to be something other than an actual flesh-and-blood, breathing mammal? But if you consider the unique political space he occupied until only recently – if you acknowledge the symbolism and implied promise that so fundamentally shaped his leadership – then you begin to recognize that mortal was the precise opposite of how many Canadians have regarded our present Prime Minister. Even in 2015, from the unimposing perch of third-party leader, Mr. Trudeau stood apart and above from his political rivals. They sought electoral success. They craved power. He was something else – a creature of pure aspect, a vehicle for principles and the principled alike. He wasn’t political in the standard sense of that ambivalent term. He was someone who would use politics to transform and uplift. To deliver, as his own campaign slogan suggested, “real” change. Frequently, he backed that up: A Liberal leader who expelled Liberal-appointed senators from his own caucus. A self-declared feminist who built an unapologetically gender-balanced cabinet. A leader committed to redress and reconciliation. And, of course, a Prime Minister who selected a rookie MP to serve as Canada’s first female Indigenous Minister of Justice. Even as he settled into the complexities of running the country, this brand sustained. Yes, Mr. Trudeau walked away from the promise of electoral reform when consensus proved elusive. Sure, he bit his lip in the presence of that philistine Donald Trump in order to secure a new trade deal. But, for most of his followers, these were understandable, acceptable compromises. Slight concessions to the practicalities required of anyone burdened with national responsibilities. None of it much changed his standing in their eyes. Of course, his critics never bought any of it. But they made fools of themselves by persistently dismissing him as a lightweight and pretender – ignoring the indisputable fact that Mr. Trudeau was routinely kicking their ass by winning every contest from the boxing ring to the general election. Despite their best efforts, they never really laid a glove on the guy. That’s all changed now. The removal of Jody Wilson-Raybould and Jane Philpott from the Liberal caucus – and the messy spectacle of fighting with two of his own valued recruits – has accomplished what three years of governing and many years of opposition attacks could not. Mr. Trudeau has been remade into a mere mortal, a regular old politician – as someone concerned with the calculations and machinations that no office holder can actually afford to ignore, but which his most ardent admirers somehow imagined he was invulnerable to, at least partly because they had been encouraged in that belief. This does not mean, as some excitable observers have insisted, that Mr. Trudeau is done. He’s not. But his relationship with voters has been irretrievably altered and, with only a few months before the campaign launches, that fact will reshape the coming election. The implications for the Prime Minister and his team are particularly profound. Gone are the days of pronouncing from on high and equating his own actions with the uncontested public good. His right of assertion has been surrendered. That’s the bitter price of the past two months. From here on out, he must, like the rest of us, go forth and compete for the right to claim his way as the superior path. Trudeau defends tougher stand on border crossers as refugee advocates express outrage Opinion: Liberals’ immigration plan is sound policy delivered poorly Globe editorial: Did Trudeau have the power to dump two troublesome MPs? He can, and should, maintain the priorities he has championed for years – building a stronger middle class and including everyone in that journey. But he will need to find a new way to campaign: one with less swagger and without assumption. He invites too great a backlash of cynicism – even from constituencies he has traditionally counted as allies – if he makes his appeal from a place of unqualified principle and higher calling. Humility is a great tonic with voters. A few drops will be necessary to cut the sharp taste left in the mouth of Canadian voters after the past few weeks. It is worth noting that there is a historical precedent to which he can turn. In that tight, tense period from 1972 to 1974 another prime minister named Trudeau was also forced to refashion his approach after the euphoric start of 1968. He proved it can be done, but man oh man, it was close. For the opposition, there is an equally important caution to be observed. Many Conservative and NDP operatives, spurred on by a small number of peculiarly enraged columnists, wish to believe that Mr. Trudeau has been exposed as the phony they always imagined him to be. They flirt with the great risk of repeating past errors – of once again underestimating the Liberal leader and of assuming that non-partisans share their antipathy. They have to remember that just because Canadians might see him differently does not mean that voters will automatically prefer what they see when they look to Andrew Scheer and Jagmeet Singh. In 2015, Mr. Trudeau had the luxury of campaigning as a symbol, as a cause. In 2019, he will have to campaign as a candidate. That will make for a different kind of election – and a different kind of Trudeau. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opi...u-a-prime-minister-of-symbols-falls-to-earth/