Canadian Politics

[blue_gold_84]

Fleury's brain is tepid mush. He needs serious help.

[rebusrankin]

Theo has a clear lack of formal education and serious mental health issues. Dangerous combo especially since people listen to him.

[Wideleft]

3 hours ago, Fatty Liver said:

Oh great, Telus doesn't make nearly enough profit from overcharging for phone services in BC with the assets they "stole" from BC Tel, now they're getting into health care. 

Oh look, they're in the pharmacy business now too!

www.teluspharmacy.com

These huge corporations are like vampires, their life blood is money and they can never get enough.  

Telus Health has been around since 2008.

TELUS Corporation established its TELUS Health division in 2008 shortly after its acquisition of Quebec-based Emergis, a health and pharmacy technology company. Since then, the division has grown through acquisitions and maintains investments in health technology companies through its TELUS Health Ventures division.

Edited April 27, 2023 by Wideleft

[Brandon]

6 hours ago, Tracker said:

 On a related note, Khan deserves to be challenged about why he would join a party that has a long and sad history of racial and other intolerance.

[blue_gold_84]

More textbook whataboutism.

Whilst running to the defense of a liar.

[Tracker]

15 minutes ago, Brandon said:

ONE regrettable college party event and you try to generalize it? 

[Mark H.]

3 hours ago, Tracker said:

I would bet the farm that if you spent the time to do the research, you would find the Cons have committed more such gaffes than the rest of the political parties combined. 

I have researched plenty, and I teach gr. 11 Canadian History - you would lose your farm:

Wilfred Laurier, Mackenzie King, Tommy Douglas - just off the top of my head

Anti-semitism, eugenics, Etc.

 

[blue_gold_84]

11 minutes ago, Tracker said:

ONE regrettable college party event and you try to generalize it? 

Was he even a member of the LPC back then?

No. Of course he wasn't. But smoothbrains gonna smoothbrain.

[blue_gold_84]

Speaking of smoothbrains: https://pressprogress.ca/conservative-mp-repeatedly-refuses-to-say-if-pierre-poilievre-supports-giving-workers-a-raise/

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Asked by CTV Power Play host Vassy Kapelos if Poilievre’s Conservatives “support PSAC’s position that they would like to see a 13.5% raise over three years” to keep pace with “the rate of inflation,” Conservative MP Stephanie Kusie refused to answer.

“I’m not going to comment on hypotheticals,” Kusie replied. “This rests on Justin Trudeau and his incompetent government.”

“I don’t think it’s a hypothetical though to ask what the Conservative Party supports,” Kapelos responded. “Do you support the union’s position that they should get a 13.5% raise — why won’t you answer that?”

Kusie again dodged the question about the Conservative Party’s position on giving workers a raise and repeated talking points attacking Justin Trudeau:

“As long as the strike is ongoing, as long as they continue to be at the negotiating table, it is a hypothetical, and as such, we will rest the blame with the prime minister and with the Liberal government and their incompetence.”

“Ok, I’m just going to register that’s not an answer to the direct question,” Kapelos replied.

Nothing tangible. No solutions. No ideas.

Just outrage. Useless, petulant, insufferable outrage.

[17to85]

Huge difference between Trudeau playing dress up and putting make up on and actually being racist  

[Brandon]

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In 1952, the government of Liberal Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent agreed to allow American troops to be stationed in Canada for the manning of radar stations only as long as Black soldiers made up less than 10% of the troop total.

In August 1911, Liberal Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier signed an order in council regulation which banned Black immigration for a year. The order stated that Black immigrants were “deemed unsuitable to the climate and requirements of Canada.” The regulation was repealed in October of that year after the Conservatives won the election and Robert Borden had become prime minister.

Laurier even hired agents to warn off Black farmers in the United States who thought of moving north to Canada as free land was being handed out there.

This wasn’t the only racist immigration policy Laurier pushed. While the Chinese head tax was instituted by the Conservatives under Sir John A. Macdonald, Laurier raised the tax over the course of a few years from $50 in 1896 to $500 in 1903.

In 1908 a young civil servant working in the Laurier government proposed stopping immigration from India by passing a regulation that said no one could immigrate to Canada except from their country of origin on a ship that did not need to refuel. That stopped immigration from India and what would become Pakistan.

That young civil servant’s name was William Lyon Mackenzie King.

 

Once in office himself, Mackenzie King put in an actual ban on Chinese immigration and his government’s position on Jewish immigration has been described as “none is too many.” In fact, in 1939, the Mackenzie King government turned back a ship with more than 900 passengers, mostly Jews, fleeing Hitler’s Germany.

Many of the passengers perished in the Holocaust.

By comparison, it was the Conservative government of John Diefenbaker, the first PM of German ancestry, which in 1962 stopped race and ethnicity from being the driving forces of Canada’s immigration policies. That happened under the stewardship of Ellen Fairclough, the first female cabinet minister in Canada.

The Conservatives also elected the first Black MP in Lincoln Alexander, the first Chinese-Canadian MP with Douglas Jung, the first Muslim MP Rahim Jaffer, the first Hindu MP Deepak Obhrai, and the first Japanese-Canadian MP Bev Oda.

 

[Tracker]

2 hours ago, blue_gold_84 said:

Was he even a member of the LPC back then?

No. Of course he wasn't. But smoothbrains gonna smoothbrain.

It was stupidly tasteless but unremarkable among college (and high school) students and did not seem to have been targeted at vulnerable minorities. I am willing to cut him a bit of slack on that one.

[Fatty Liver]

During the televised portion of the Freedom Convoy inquiry held in Feb. I thought James Bauder came across as the looniest of the toons on display, apparently God speaks directly to him and told him to start a convoy.  For Danielle Smith the chance to rub shoulders with him prior to an upcoming election is better than a bee to honey.  Oh and apparently Theo attended the same event, can't wait for that photo to turn up.

 

Edited April 28, 2023 by Fatty Liver

[JCon]

It was an invite only event but, of course, DS has no idea who these people are. 

[rebusrankin]

There is a video circulating on twitter of her today talking about Alberta partnering with Florida and DeSantis or other red states.

[Fatty Liver]

5 minutes ago, rebusrankin said:

There is a video circulating on twitter of her today talking about Alberta partnering with Florida and DeSantis or other red states.

Here's the quote. 

Smith also compared politics in Canada with politics in the United States.

"I look at the Americans. I look at Ron DeSantis in Florida and Kristi Noem in South Dakota," said Smith. "They've been able to create little bastions of freedom, and we can create a little bastion of freedom in Alberta as well."

 

There's no containing her "I don't give a **** attitude", at least she's being openly honest about what she believes in.

https://fortsaskonline.com/articles/danielle-smith-visits-gibbons---carbon-tax-health-care-and-a-small-protest

[JCon]

Just now, Fatty Liver said:

Here's the quote. 

Smith also compared politics in Canada with politics in the United States.

"I look at the Americans. I look at Ron DeSantis in Florida and Kristi Noem in South Dakota," said Smith. "They've been able to create little bastions of freedom, and we can create a little bastion of freedom in Alberta as well."

 

There's no containing her "I don't give a **** attitude", at least she's being openly honest about what she believes in.

https://fortsaskonline.com/articles/danielle-smith-visits-gibbons---carbon-tax-health-care-and-a-small-protest

Bastions of freedom? If you're a white racist, for sure. 

Book burning, attacking children and parents, culture wars, protecting pedophiles and the ability to shoot people you don't like. 

This does sound like something the UCP and Smith would want. Also seems to the be the CPC/PPC position as well. 

The ****ing worst people. 

[HardCoreBlue]

22 minutes ago, JCon said:

Bastions of freedom? If you're a white racist, for sure. 

Book burning, attacking children and parents, culture wars, protecting pedophiles and the ability to shoot people you don't like. 

This does sound like something the UCP and Smith would want. Also seems to the be the CPC/PPC position as well. 

The ****ing worst people. 

But rolling eyes emoticon comes in hot with 'yea but, what about' adding nothing but deflection and minimizing the severity and actual danger this will cause to the sane people of Alberta from all backgrounds of life.

Hey Rolling Eyes Emoticon did you read the above bolded part? That's serious shite with real F'ng consequences to me, my family, my friends, people I don't even know.

Rolling eyes emoticon lecturing me about how others are equally bad adds nothing of substance. It just adds bluster and no appreciation of what's going on here.

That is a FULL STOP in my books.

[iHeart]

 

[Bigblue204]

12 minutes ago, iHeart said:

 

Are you telling me Chris Sky isn't the run away favorite?

[iHeart]

4 minutes ago, Bigblue204 said:

Are you telling me Chris Sky isn't the run away favorite?

there is a poll in the replies that places Sky ahead of her by .6 points last time I checked...but Twitter polls don't matter

[HardCoreBlue]

34 minutes ago, Bigblue204 said:

Are you telling me Chris Sky isn't the run away favorite?

I literally thought you were joking he's running for Mayor until I google his name to see what he's been up to lately.

We need desperate help as a species.

 

 

[GCn20]

13 billion in corporate welfare to Volkswagen by Trudeau...but hey...it's a battery plant so I guess in his mind that offsets it. Ugh....I hate corporate welfare. 

[Fatty Liver]

Danielle Smith's fixation with Trudeau and her attempts to tie Rachael Notley to his apron strings is beginning to look totally loonie, but I sense a glimmer of desperation in this strategy.  I hope they get their asses blown off.

 

[blue_gold_84]

What a vapid moron.

I can't believe we're at a point in this country where that braindead ghoul could retain political office.