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AlvinofDiaspar said:
Let's not be so cute. Worst case scenario is who has the need to pay off a troubling senator - which is bribery, and then covered their tracks and have his Chief of Staff serve as a sacrificial lamb, vs. taking a vacation trip on someone elses' helicopter. Lest I remind you - bribery is criminal.

AoD
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Investigation into Wright is complete and no charges laid.
Investigation into Trudeau is ongoing
 
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One of Paul Wells' rules of Canadian politics is that the party which auditions for the role of opposition will get the job. This is the fate that bedeviled the Liberals for so long during the Harper years ("let's mainly complain about Harper and assume everyone is as outraged by him as we are"). The CPC has taken on this whiny role. Hopefully, post leadership race they will pick up their act.
 
Skeezix said:
One of Paul Wells' rules of Canadian politics is that the party which auditions for the role of opposition will get the job. This is the fate that bedeviled the Liberals for so long during the Harper years ("let's mainly complain about Harper and assume everyone is as outraged by him as we are"). The CPC has taken on this whiny role. Hopefully, post leadership race they will pick up their act.
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Was having a beer with a general who visited 24 Sussex a few days before the election to discuss some policy matter with Harper. What shocked him was that the Conservatives really believed they were going to win. They didn't seem to have a shred of doubt in their mind. He couldn't believe how tone deaf they were.

That explains a lot of why they are struggling with the Opposition role. They really have no strategy to it, because they never considered the likelihood they'd end up in the role. Incidentally, I think their best prayer is Trudeau. He set the bar so high for himself, that's he going to inevitably disappoint. Especially if housing tanks the economy. And maybe the Conservatives are hoping for just that! For Trudeau to screw up and deliver them to government.
 
Trudeau set the bar so low that putting his shoes on the right feet was a success. How else could he get away with saying that a deficit is a measure of the strength of the economy and that small business is for cheating taxes.
Based on the Conservatives producing the best economy in the G7 during Harper's term and the embarrassment that was Trudeau, it should have been an easy Harper win, but years of biased, negative press made the Trudeau win predictable by the end.

That's the lesson of the past ddecad. Attack the Conservative leader for any trivial or made up reason, and either they will be driven to drugs (Ford), or the negative attacks will have their effect on naive, low information voters regardless of how well they perform (Harper).
 
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Trudeau set the bar so low that putting his shoes on the right feet was a success.
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Yes, that excuse, plus the usual excuses about media bias and naive voters, is what helps the Conservatives sleep at night. A recipe for four more years on the Opposition benches. See rule above.

Plus, Conservatives are absolutely the last people who can complain about negative attacks.
 
She was a moderate, rational voice in an increasingly irrational party. Now the CPC members will probably elect some nut job and dash their hopes of winning in 2019.
 
Surprise, surprise:

Inquiry into missing and murdered women a failure: Indigenous group

The organization that was the loudest voice in calling for a public investigation of why so many Indigenous women have been murdered or gone missing in Canada says the inquiry launched to determine the societal causes of the tragedy has, so far, been a dismal failure.

The Native Women’s Association of Canada (NWAC) will issue its second report card on the national inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women on Tuesday, a copy of which was obtained in advance by The Globe and Mail. The discouraging appraisal follows repeated complaints by advocates, family members and others that the process announced in late 2015 is falling far behind its intended pace and that communications to those who are most anxious for its findings have been insufficient or non-existent.
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https://www.theglobeandmail.com/new...ailure-indigenous-group-says/article35003027/
 
It looks like somebody brought along an 8 year old child to the NATO meetings in Brussels. Here he is showing off his socks.

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It looks like somebody brought along an 8 year old child to the NATO meetings in Brussels. Here he is showing off his socks.
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Really? This is what has got your echo chamber all tied up in knots these days?

I fear for Canadian conservatism if this is the level of political discourse.
 
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Really? This is what has got your echo chamber all tied up in knots these days?
I fear for Canadian conservatism if this is the level of political discourse.
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Well, beats focusing on the antics of the 80 yo child Orange Cheeto at the summit and the substantive impact it has on foreign policy and the future of the alliance I suppose.

AoD
 
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No, it's part of a carefully cultivated image Trudeau is creating:

Stop running from the truth: Justin Trudeau is playing us with his PR stunts
Canadian and global media fawn over what appear to be candid images of the prime minister, a social media savant one journalist described as ‘the political equivalent of a YouTube puppy video’

Trudeau is a social media savant, the Toronto writer Jesse Brown wrote in the Guardian last year, and he has used this to position himself as a sunny antidote to the turbulent news spilling out from other parts of the world. “Trudeau is the political equivalent of a YouTube puppy video,” he wrote. “Each week, Trudeau feeds the news cycle a new sharable moment, and our Facebook feeds are overwhelmed with shots of the adorable young statesman cuddling pandas and hugging refugees and getting accidentally photographed in the wild with his top off, twice.”

The result is a media frenzy that has at times overshadowed the crucial questions being asking about his government, such as how they can claim to fight climate change while throwing their support behind two pipelines in Canada and Keystone XL or why they signed off on a C$15bn deal to sell weaponised military vehicles to Saudi Arabia despite critics who worry the vehicles will be used by the House of Saud against its own citizens. Others wonder whether Trudeau’s self-described feminism will result in tangible change for the families of the thousands of missing and murdered indigenous women or those who left behind in a country where the cost of childcare and the gender pay gap rank among the highest in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/26/justin-trudeau-jogging-yoga-shirtless-photos-pr-stunts

Also the CBC:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/opinion/trudeau-photo-ops-1.4130208
 
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