Justin Trudeau needs to stop pretending we aren’t already in the middle of an election campaign.
In fact, I think the PM should come back from his trip to the G7 and make it official, call the election.
Instead I’m hearing the election won’t be called until September 15, which would be the last day Trudeau can call it.
It’s a bizarre technicality that we are not “officially” in an election campaign right now.
We all know that voting day will be October 21 and we know the parties are making promises and announcements — even leaking old videos to try and embarrass each other.
So why isn’t this considered an election campaign already?
Because the PM has yet to visit the Governor General to make the formal request to dissolve Parliament and start the election.
In 2015, Stephen Harper made that visit to the GG on Aug. 2 and we heard complaint after complaint about how the 79-day campaign was the longest in history.
Yet Stephen Harper’s reasoning for making it official so far ahead was simple — the parties and their leaders were already campaigning, mostly on the public dime, he just made it official and said the parties should pick up the tab.
He could have just left it and waited until the middle of September.
I mean that would have been to his advantage since the PM has more travel perks and opportunities than opposition leaders and he could have kept making spending announcements to buy voters with their own tax dollars.
That’s what Trudeau is doing right now.
Before leaving for the G7 in France the PM spent the past few weeks crisscrossing the country making all kinds of announcements, often re-announcing funding or making new promises that will only happen if he is re-elected.
When it isn’t him it’s his ministers or MPs.
They all travel to these events at taxpayer expense, they have the official stamp of the government of Canada on them but let’s face facts, this is about campaigning.
And you are paying so that Justin Trudeau can try to keep his job?
Trudeau and his Liberals are committing fraud. He hasn’t received as much in donations from the few Liberals, so he has to steal from Canadians, pretending to do Prime Minister stuff. Canadians are not as stupid as he thinks we are.
Since I am not the kind of person to call Trudeau a fraud artist, I won’t call him a fraud artist.
…Commented the PM: “Um, er, ah, like no way, eh, ah, um.”
He won’t do it. He knows he has the edge because he can spend millions of taxpayer dollars campaigning while the other parties can’t. Why put a stop to a good thing?
In other news, drunken slop Lizzie May wants to lower the voting age to 16. For benevolent reasons, of course.
The Millennials may vote for the Liberals but Gen Z and the True Generation won’t have anything to do with either the CPCP or the Liberals. Letting the 16yr olds vote would be good, even better would be following Australia’s example and making voting mandatory.
Those are two of the stupidest ideas ever to make it into the public discourse.
Why would they be stupid? I would think you’d want to see the kids become more mature and involved in their futures. Or do you want to see things remain just as they are for the next decade?
The CCP’s base are a bunch of bigoted, old, rich white people who are rapidly going senile and losing their grip on the reins of government. There are 18 female and 77 male members in the Conservative party and the average age of these members is 51.39 years. Their main voter base is people over 50 yrs of age-let’s say there are around 7 million old farts who are able to get out and vote. How many of them will? How many of them can’t be bothered and will say “Fuck it!” and pull another beer out of the fridge instead of getting up and going to vote. Mandatory voting is a stupid idea? Talk to me again about this after Namby Pamby has to form a coalition government.
It should be mandatory that if a person votes for a leftist candidate they are subject to a year in psychiatric facility.
So, you want to play that game…
It should be mandatory that if a person votes for a right wing candidate they are subject to an automatic lobotimization.
People who vote left are not in need of lobotomies.
Meh
Sounds like goat is on the menu tonight.
The biggest joke of any elected PM in my opinion since his maybe father Pierre or Fidel or the rolling stones ….
Littlepotato’s so-called government is as corrupt as they come and, bizarrely, they are actually PROUD of this.
There’s nothing they enjoy more than rubbing it in our faces.
I would love to watch the RCMP put the handcuffs on him, seconds after his concession speech in October.
Hypocrisy is the ultimate power move. It is a way of demonstrating that
one plays by a different set of rules from the ones adhered to by common
people. Hypocrisy demonstrates how unaccountable one is to conventional
morality and laws. They are for little people, not elites.
Those Dudley Do-Wrong Praetorian whores won’t cuff that traitor.
Im starting to think we just need a fucking asteroid to hit us and wipe out all the filth. Even though that is not my general point of view for the many misanthropes I run into.
I just hope there really is a Hell and I can get a chance to see the monsters tormented for eternity.
So I’m seeing his photo and I’m wanting to puke! Get on with it already.
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