- Reaction score
- 10,030
- Points
- 1,360
QV said:Specific to Trudeau, I think what we are seeing this week is reporting because they have to, not necessarily because they want to. As we get closer to election day I think we will see a flurry of positive reporting to diminish all the negatives in the last many months, just in time for everyone to head to the polls.
This hypothesis of mine isn't all encompassing, it's not everyone, but enough involved to sway public opinion. In many instances public opinion doesn't have to sway much to change the outcome.
Mario Dion’s report, which found that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau violated the Conflict of Interest Act by improperly pressuring Wilson-Raybould to prevent the Montreal-based company from being prosecuted in a bribery case.
Jarnhamar said:The guy pressures and harasses one of his members to try and stop her from preventing a shady as crap company from being procecusted and it just causes him to wear thin on you?
What would Trudeau have to do to upset you?
Remius said:He's been wearing thin on me for while. I'm not a rabid partisan one way or another so politics rarely upset me.
It highlights my point as to why Trudeau might actually survive this with at least a minority. It isn't enough to get people that upset, sorry but that is just the way things are going. I give this maybe two weeks before it goes away again unless the RCMP lay charges. There really isn't much more in there that wasn't there before a few months ago. Nothing we didn't already know or suspect.
He's got several things going for him:
Support in Quebec (where people seem to side with him on this)
He's portrayed as the anti-Trump. That seems to play well for him in Canada
Weak opposition
People believe or drink the kool aid of what he says. (Jon Robson this morning described him as Trump with a smile and I think wasn't far off the mark).
I don't like Trudeau
I don't like Scheer
It will boil down to who I dislike less. I don't think I am the only one who will vote that way.
Humphrey Bogart said:I disagree that it isn't enough to get people upset. This is the same crap that got the Liberals in hot water last time they formed a Government. Sponsorship Scandal 2.0 and regardless of what the media says, this is going to affect Trudeau at the voting booth.
QV said:I find the conduct of this government appalling. I am not sure what bothers me more; the conduct, or the perceived public indifference (which I base on his present polling). I blame the media for this indifference (as I see it).
Remius said:I said it isn’t enough to get them THAT upset.
Remember that Paul Martin still won the election with a minority a year after adscam broke. Also several factors played into that that are not currently at play this time around.
I expect it will hurt them at the voting both. It needs to happen as that is as that is the only thing politicians understand. But I suspect that JT will still be PM. Probably a minority.
Humphrey Bogart said:The guy is what I would classify in Football Coach Terms as, "A Bag of Milk"
Remius said:Agreed. But I think, QV, that when we talk about ethics commissioner findings and committee appearances etc etc, most Canadians think of these things as political administrative things. If the RCMP lays charges then maybe that will wake some people up as that is something they understand or can relate to.
QV said:The RCMP investigated Nigel Wright in the Mike Duffy affair. Are they going to investigate this?
Loachman said:RCMP looking at SNC-Lavalin affair 'carefully,' promise to take actions 'as required'
Jarnhamar said:A bag of milk is not very exciting until you're a parent then you'll find yourself driving across down to a 24 hour store at 4am