The options for Prime Minister of Canada from March 9th to, well, at least March 24th are limited, and there are only two contenders that really matter in this race: Chrystia Freeland and Mark Carney.
Thanks for your take on the options, David. Poilièvre would be a disaster for Canada, even though I'm pessimistic about his chances of losing. But can you please be a little more all-sided when listing the qualities of Chrystia Freeland.
People deserve to know that she has long whitewashed and denied the proven (and known to her) Nazi leading collaborationist activities of her grandfather, calling it "Russian disinformation" when the media finally figured it out. I'm 100% certain she, and the revanchist Ukrainian organizations she supports, were instrumental in getting the government to recently refuse yet again to make public the "secret" list of 900 names of war criminals admitted to Canada from Ukraine, some 40 years after it was developed by the Deschênes Commission. She chaired the Lima Group, bent on helping the U.S. overthrow the government of a sovereign state, Venezuela. She is such a shameless apologist for Netanyahu and his crimes that she has earned the backing of the likes of Anthony Housefather.
What I'm going to say now may shock you, given our history together. Last week, in response to a public call by the Canadian Foreign Policy Institute, I joined the Liberal Party (yup!) and registered to vote in the leadership race. Their call is essentially, "anyone but Freeland". I can live with that. If we can't beat Poilièvre, at least let's consign her to the trash bin of history (not the recycling bin).
Yeah, it's a bit personal. I owe it to my many relatives in Galicia, including grandparents, uncles, aunts, cousins, and my older brother whom I was never privileged to meet, who perished at the hands of the Nazis and the Ukrainian collaborators incited and supported by Freeland's grandfather, and whitewashed by her to this day.
Yes, hope. I see his point about how we need the outsider and I agree that we need him. We also need to tell everyone we know to sign up - by tomorrow!
If he wins and becomes Prime Minister, we may still have a chance to save what Canada is, but we all have work to do.
I just signed up although I haven't been a member for a while. I suspect Carney is our only hope, faint though that is. Maybe the race will change if he has a new team that knows how to be more aggressive and better communicators. And then perhaps the Cons can be held to a minority.
The idea that a person that has never been elected to the House of Commons can be claimed to be the Prime Minister is in my mind pure corruption.
So much focus on the honesty of the Trump and upcoming Poilievre regimes, but not enough on all the other corporate parties (as you call them, fan clubs) and politicians that have been hacking away at British North American democratic institutions for generations.
I know other parties also do it, but it is still corruption that someone who isn't already a sitting MP is allowed to run for leadership of that caucus. I lost all remaining faith in the Green party of Canada when they had two sitting MPs and yet an external process appointed some outsider as the leader. They claimed when I was a campaigner in the 1990's and early 2000's that they would do things differently.
I didn't register to vote in the Liberal leadership race as I might have in the past (and had previously for PC and Conservative leadership races). I'm tired of participating in and effectively condoning a corrupt process.
I agree that Carney has the best chance at beating Hoi Poloi! Whoever gets the nod had best focus on better communication. They need to pull the "little guy" that Poilievre seems to have got in his pocket, away from the sirens. How? Trudeau lost connection with his false gravitas and arrogance. The Libs better get a more effective communication team together to fight this perception of aloofness and the party of the rich. In the three weeks leading to Trump's win, I watched both his and Harris's TV ads on my Detroit-based US channels in the Laurentians. Kamala is a grad from my high school and I was rooting for her. The Dems strategy completely backfired. She came across as pie-in-the-sky platitudes. Trump came across as a man with a plan. For people on the fence who don't do much of their own research or thinking, it is easy to see why they chose him. Most people know that his plan is BS, but unfortunately, in today's world, it's all about perception, not reality. The Republicans had a much better team of strategists and communication/Ad people....let's learn from it....
Thanks for your take on the options, David. Poilièvre would be a disaster for Canada, even though I'm pessimistic about his chances of losing. But can you please be a little more all-sided when listing the qualities of Chrystia Freeland.
People deserve to know that she has long whitewashed and denied the proven (and known to her) Nazi leading collaborationist activities of her grandfather, calling it "Russian disinformation" when the media finally figured it out. I'm 100% certain she, and the revanchist Ukrainian organizations she supports, were instrumental in getting the government to recently refuse yet again to make public the "secret" list of 900 names of war criminals admitted to Canada from Ukraine, some 40 years after it was developed by the Deschênes Commission. She chaired the Lima Group, bent on helping the U.S. overthrow the government of a sovereign state, Venezuela. She is such a shameless apologist for Netanyahu and his crimes that she has earned the backing of the likes of Anthony Housefather.
What I'm going to say now may shock you, given our history together. Last week, in response to a public call by the Canadian Foreign Policy Institute, I joined the Liberal Party (yup!) and registered to vote in the leadership race. Their call is essentially, "anyone but Freeland". I can live with that. If we can't beat Poilièvre, at least let's consign her to the trash bin of history (not the recycling bin).
Yeah, it's a bit personal. I owe it to my many relatives in Galicia, including grandparents, uncles, aunts, cousins, and my older brother whom I was never privileged to meet, who perished at the hands of the Nazis and the Ukrainian collaborators incited and supported by Freeland's grandfather, and whitewashed by her to this day.
Yes, hope. I see his point about how we need the outsider and I agree that we need him. We also need to tell everyone we know to sign up - by tomorrow!
If he wins and becomes Prime Minister, we may still have a chance to save what Canada is, but we all have work to do.
I just signed up although I haven't been a member for a while. I suspect Carney is our only hope, faint though that is. Maybe the race will change if he has a new team that knows how to be more aggressive and better communicators. And then perhaps the Cons can be held to a minority.
Thank you, David. I have just watched the Daily Show interview with Mark Carney.
I am so impressed. He even has a sense of humour.
He brought me hope.
The idea that a person that has never been elected to the House of Commons can be claimed to be the Prime Minister is in my mind pure corruption.
So much focus on the honesty of the Trump and upcoming Poilievre regimes, but not enough on all the other corporate parties (as you call them, fan clubs) and politicians that have been hacking away at British North American democratic institutions for generations.
I know other parties also do it, but it is still corruption that someone who isn't already a sitting MP is allowed to run for leadership of that caucus. I lost all remaining faith in the Green party of Canada when they had two sitting MPs and yet an external process appointed some outsider as the leader. They claimed when I was a campaigner in the 1990's and early 2000's that they would do things differently.
I didn't register to vote in the Liberal leadership race as I might have in the past (and had previously for PC and Conservative leadership races). I'm tired of participating in and effectively condoning a corrupt process.
insightful and helpful in a sea of noise.
I agree that Carney has the best chance at beating Hoi Poloi! Whoever gets the nod had best focus on better communication. They need to pull the "little guy" that Poilievre seems to have got in his pocket, away from the sirens. How? Trudeau lost connection with his false gravitas and arrogance. The Libs better get a more effective communication team together to fight this perception of aloofness and the party of the rich. In the three weeks leading to Trump's win, I watched both his and Harris's TV ads on my Detroit-based US channels in the Laurentians. Kamala is a grad from my high school and I was rooting for her. The Dems strategy completely backfired. She came across as pie-in-the-sky platitudes. Trump came across as a man with a plan. For people on the fence who don't do much of their own research or thinking, it is easy to see why they chose him. Most people know that his plan is BS, but unfortunately, in today's world, it's all about perception, not reality. The Republicans had a much better team of strategists and communication/Ad people....let's learn from it....