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[–] Amuletta@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 day ago

Imagine being dumb enough to think that those convoy loons are representative of Canadians as a whole, instead of being the lunatic fringe embarrassment that they are.

[–] sndmn@lemmy.ca 21 points 2 days ago

Little PP is soft of crime. Like 10-ply soft.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 15 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Well he's now campaigning for an election in Alberta so presumably there's audience for this. It didn't work well Canada-wide. Come next federal election, the media cycle would ensure people don't recall this episode. If he passes leadership review.

[–] bowreality@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

There is not.

[–] LoveCanada@lemmy.ca -1 points 2 days ago (3 children)

It didn’t work well Canada-wide.

You mean when he lost the popular vote by less than 2% and gained 25 seats while the Liberals only gained 9? Yeah, obviously nobody liked him or the Conservatives, eh?

[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

Compared to the predicted devastating loss that had been predicted for the Liberals just a couple of months earlier?

Yes the conservatives failed miserably. The only reason they did as well as they did was the animosity that had been built around Trudeau.

Their success (such as it was) isn't a ringing endorsement of PP or his party, but rather a retreating from who they were running against.

[–] grte@lemmy.ca 21 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

That's sort of ignoring the context where they were sailing to an easy majority a few months before the election.

[–] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago

And is why Carney is allowing the by-election so soon. The sooner pp is back in the house, the sooner he opens his damn mouth, and the faster his support falls.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Yeah, exactly. An Erin O'Toole would have killed it this election.

[–] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I’ll never understand the right’s fixation on certain characters.

For people who believe in meritocracy, you think they would be more okay with just going down the list.

Or maybe it’s because they don’t have a passable list, looking at your Andrew Sheer

[–] Amuletta@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

I forgot about Sheer. Another career politician who has never had a real job. Okay, his dad did get him a job in his company's mail room. I guess that's more real world experience than PP has had.

Call me crazy, but I suspect that the former head of two national banks just might know more about managing an economy than some guy who went into politics straight after college.