Jagmeet Singh, probably the biggest political loser?

[Remius]

There are so many polls showing the CPC riding high yet there are a few polls that are looking at individual leader likability and Pierre doesn't do as well. So people don't like the leader but they like his ideas and proposals in other words NOT a cult of personality.

Or they are sick of the current government and ready for change.

PPs ideas have no depth and are for now mere slogans and surface level plans with few details.

But it is definitely not personality.

 

[SeaKingTacco]

The CPC have a pretty in depth policy statement on their website.

That the CPC have not exactly launched a full campaign plan at this point is just smart politics. The Liberals have not called an election and there is no point in having your “best” ideas either stolen or disected by your opponent a year in advance is just smart politics.

 

[Good2Golf]

That the CPC have not exactly launched a full campaign plan at this point is just smart politics. The Liberals have not called an election and there is no point in having your “best” ideas either stolen or disected by your opponent a year in advance is just smart politics.

Precisely. Campaign Plan A vs Campaign Plan B, depending on the US election outcome in Nov.

 

[dimsum]

I thought Poilievre was going to call a vote of non-confidence on Tues (or was it last Tues)?

If so, the campaign will be half over by the time the US Election happens.

 

[Good2Golf]

He doesn’t think the government will actually fall under a confidence vote, but it forces the Bloq and NDP to weave a complex web of contradictions that will serve him later down the road, once the campaign actually kicks off.

 

[YZT580]

He doesn’t think the government will actually fall under a confidence vote, but it forces the Bloq and NDP to weave a complex web of contradictions that will serve him later down the road, once the campaign actually kicks off.

from the news stories, he has worded the non-confidence beautifully to achieve just that. By voting with the liberals against the motion both the bloc and the NDP have eliminated their ability to argue against any of the liberal party's positions and their ethics and their scandals and marked those positions as CP territory. I can't figure out why, after the Bloc had already committed to supporting Justin, Singh didn't either shutup and vote present or actually side with the conservatives since their motion basically repeats his explanation as to why he was tearing up the agreement

 

[brihard]

He doesn’t think the government will actually fall under a confidence vote, but it forces the Bloq and NDP to weave a complex web of contradictions that will serve him later down the road, once the campaign actually kicks off.

Yup… Like I called it after the election, the LPC won the election with the most stable conceivable minority; one where any of three other parties’ support is sufficient to prop up the government. They may not run the full four years. I could see the spring budget maybe being a chance for NDP and BQ to both show their willingness to oppose the government with minimal real remaining time in which to achieve policy objectives, and so less opportunity cost. But none of the strategic math on the confidence of the house has changed a whit. LPC have slow rolled the policy reforms sought by the NDP so as to basically hold them to supporting the minority most if not all of the way.