Not sure I would say he’s popular. But the opposition is a mess. Teachers hate him, health care workers hate him. His pandemic response approval rating is mixed.
But…
He’s still leading in the polls and broke through the GTA last time. So we’d have to see how that could translate nationally. But his messy thing with Franco Ontariens didn’t endear to Quebec. Mind you he backtracked but it did damage him a bit.With our broken seat distribution being unpopular in Ont is a huge detriment.
He’s still leading in the polls and broke through the GTA last time. So we’d have to see how that could translate nationally. But his messy thing with Franco Ontariens didn’t endear to Quebec. Mind you he backtracked but it did damage him a bit.
Not that I can tell. He was taking lessons but stopped during the pandemic. Winning without QC is hard but it is possible and has happened before.Does he Parler Vous ?
My prediction is that Ford will go down in flames, aided by the federal Liberals. Trudeau would love a provincially red Ontario.I’m curious how this could play out. A provincial election is coming. So let’s say he wins (I think he will).
After he's burned at the stake, as articulated above, his reputation in ON will be tarnished and his electability nullified. The federal Cons won't touch him.Then he makes a run for the CPC. Nothing says he has to have a seat in the HoC until it’s time for an election which could be two years from now.
Possible yes. I saw a few Doug Fraud signs at the protest.My prediction is that Ford will go down in flames, aided by the federal Liberals. Trudeau would love a provincially red Ontario.
After he's burned at the stake, as articulated above, his reputation in ON will be tarnished and his electability nullified. The federal Cons won't touch him.
Everyone in that crowd, including Poilievre, Lewis, and O’Toole had the chance — nay, the obligation — to call out the intolerance. Not after the images hit Twitter, but immediately. On the spot.
If you stand shoulder to shoulder with people who display racist symbols, and don’t tell them right then and there to leave your protest or take them down, you are not standing up for freedom. You are standing with hate. If you stand with people who verbally abuse hotel clerks and inflict 24-7 mayhem on an entire city, you are not standing up for freedom. You will be tarred with their hatred and become complicit in their agenda.
Tasha Kheiriddin: Erin O'Toole's leadership is over
Conservatives need to take a long hard look at themselves, what they stand for, who’s leading their parade, and whose company they keepnationalpost.com
Conservative MPs Pierre Poilievre and Leslyn Lewis were working the crowd all weekend, giving coffee and sympathy to protesters and yammering about “freedom” until their vocal cords gave out.
Organizers of the protest said O’Toole should quit and be replaced by Poilievre or Lewis.
Shots of people hoisting confederate flags, “Trump 2024” signs, and Canadian flags adorned with swastikas.
If reasonably intelligent people, let’s call them Blue Liberals, who most-likely had moved to the LPC because the CPC was policy-wise measurably further right than the PCs were, see that they can unplug their nose enough and rejoin the PC party, knowing that the farther-right CPC wouldn’t get their vote, even if a PC-CPC coalition would form Government, then the yellow-bit above may still be something acceptable to at least some of the original PC->LPC transferees.Up to the bit in yellow, intriguing idea. What would the chances be, though, of Peter M being able to bridge the gap that would be in place between a slightly-redder Team Blue 2.0 and the existing Team Blue 1.0?
If reasonably intelligent people, let’s call them Blue Liberals, who most-likely had moved to the LPC because the CPC was policy-wise measurably further right than the PCs were, see that they can unplug their nose enough and rejoin the PC party, knowing that the farther-right CPC wouldn’t get their vote, even if a PC-CPC coalition would form Government, then the yellow-bit above may still be something acceptable to at least some of the original PC->LPC transferees.
Yup. I don’t know where they think they’ll get to, but an ‘anointment’ of anyone other than Ambrose at this point (so we know it won’t ne successful in the end) is going to be a mess and will likely hand Trudeau a fourth term (and probably a majority too).
I was a PC lifer until the Reform/Alliance hard-core faction brought out whatever blackmail material it had on Harper and their appreciation of the boost the PCs gave them post-merger was conveniently forgotten and MacKay never became the shared PM after Harper. We’re going to have to accept that at least for the next half decade or so, socks, hair and virtue signaling will be something we live with.
Xi Jinping has entered the chat:I don't think any federal party plays a long game like that.