AlvinofDiaspar
Moderator
Hopefully she will earn the title of "also-ran" very soon.
Don't bet on it, judging from the cognitive dissonance from some of the MAGA wannabes on this side of the border.
AoD
Hopefully she will earn the title of "also-ran" very soon.
And now, curtesy of CPC candidate Deepak Obhrai, another hilarious episode from "My Dinner With Vladmir"...
O'Leary mulls auctioning off senate seats...
http://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/senate-seats-for-sale-o-leary-says-he-d-consider-it-1.3240864
Kevin O’Leary is continuing to float unconventional ideas as he mulls a bid for the Conservative leadership -- including allowing people to buy Senate seats.
“I don’t know why we can’t have a hundred thousand or a couple of hundred thousand committed each year per senator,” the businessman and celebrity investor said in an interview with Evan Solomon, host of CTV’s Question Period.
“Instead of it being a cost centre to Canada, why can’t it be a profit centre?”
If the federal Conservatives want a shot at regaining power in 2019, their best bet would be with Kevin O’Leary as leader, a recent Ipsos poll results suggest.
“Head-to-head, it’s competitive between [Prime Minister Justin] Trudeau and O’Leary,” said Darrell Bricker, CEO of Ipsos, which conducted the poll on behalf of Global News.
- With O’Leary as leader, the Conservatives would sit at 37 per cent, the Liberals at 38 per cent and the NDP at 17 per cent.
- With Bernier at the helm, the Conservatives would earn only 28 per cent of the vote, moving the Liberals up to 42 per cent and the NDP up to 20 per cent.
- And if Kellie Leitch was elected leader, her party’s support would shrink to 26 per cent, while the Liberals sat at 42 per cent and the NDP would have 21 per cent.
Though the vast majority of decided voters indicated they’d vote their party regardless of who’s leading the Conservatives, more than two in 10 NDP voters appeared ready to jump ship to the Conservatives if O’Leary was leader.
“We’ve seen this trend elsewhere. The idea that it’s exclusively people from the right that are attracted to the populist message is incorrect,” Bricker said, pointing to former Toronto mayor Rob Ford, the successful Brexit referendum in the U.K. and America’s election of President Donald Trump as examples.
And probably most interesting:
Populism is on a winning streak around the world and could come to Canada in 2019 (or earlier in some provincial elections).
Populism is on a winning streak around the world and could come to Canada in 2019 (or earlier in some provincial elections).
David Akin
@davidakin
Asked about #TrumpBan: @KellieLeitch tells me no comment "domestic affairs of another country," repeats calls for Cdn immigration reform.