2019 Canadian federal election

The video of his 5 major lies/broken promises is a good one.

The debate thing is weak tea. They set up a debate commission for an official debate list (after the whole 2015 debacle by the conservatives, it was inevitable). He is going to those. The others are private debate invites.

The Green party plan on oil is interesting. I sort of get it - first ban foreign oil, then refuse to increase domestic production and so force everyone to convert to renewables. I'm not sure it is a realistic approach though. As a short term sop to the oil companies though, it means they have a cornered market for those years as production ramps down and so they get a soft landing. IT isn't crazy.

May isn't talking about an energy corridor. Unless she has changed her tune, she is explicitly *against* an energy corridor.

Sheer is arguing only domestic product and build the corridor to ship it all over the country.
May is arguing only domestic and don't build the corridor so people have to stop using it because it is hard to ship.

(Unless she has changed her pitch completely)

Singh has been a disaster.

I don't think he is as stupid or as arrogant as Trudeau, but he got the benefit of the same sort of "he is pretty and knows social media, he should be our future" bullshit Trudeau did.
He then thought he could sit out parliament for a couple of years and still be relevant by being on social media. That was stupid. (That only works if the press decides to cover your tweets and they just ignored him instead.)

Since then the popularity has gone down, he hasn't been impressive in question period, and his own followers aren't happy with him. He just never recovered momentum. I think unless they perform much higher than the polls predict, he is out as leader after the election no matter what.

Sol Tee Nutz said:

The NDP has cratered since Mulclair was ousted.

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Nah. The NDP was at its strongest when Jack Layton was there when he lefr Mulcair cratered the NDP and he had no choice but to step down. I do agree with Singh he is smart but I do not think he will ever get support wearing a turban. I am for Max Bernier. Trudeau has to go. This whole country will get over populated with immigrants and refugees. We will have a massive housing and rental crisis if this influx is not stopped soon.

Max Bernier!!! My god! He is an idiot!

Housing and rental crisis is unfortunately due to booming economy. Montreal is doing quite good right now.

Cheers,

The failure of the Liberals to get First PAst the Post replaced does mean that no matter who ends up in charge, it will probably be with <40 percent of the vote.

Mulcair dropped off of Layton's highs, but the NPD still had more seats than any other election than 2011. I think people overreacted at calling it a cratering. Still, he lost the leadership and it is what it is.

Bernier splitting off votes for the conservatives is probably a big hope of the Liberals, but I don't know if it will happen. I suspect if Bernier starts to get some traction with the anti-immigrant stuff the Cons will just start adopting more anti-immigrant positions and freeze him out. I don't think Bernier can break through.

As I said in another thread, Scheer lost already the vote of most women with his position on abortion. It was an old speech but this will haunt him forever. We'll face another liberal govt, and if it doesn't win a majority, will have to compromise with the Ndp and the greens. They hate too much the separatists to deal with the Bloc.