@MeatPolitics @JJ_McCullough What JJ is saying is that Poilievre is a bridge between the establishment and the populists and without him, these factions won’t be able to work together.
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Roman Wolfli
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Roman Wolfli
@RojanePresident
Advisor to the Board for Children First Can | Youth Amb. for 5Rights | VP Com. for CPC McGill | Policy Dir. for CDN Youth for Fiscal Resp. | Opinions = Mine
Montréal, Québec Katılım Ekim 2023
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@JJ_McCullough what is the definition of populist? Are people suggesting that PP is anti-establishment when he caters to several lobby groups and during his run for CPC leadership he was going to large corp asking for donations for this campaign? both parties are establishment
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If they were somehow able to get Pierre to resign it would be terrible for the Conservative Party. You’d probably get a very polarized leadership race where establishment people would back Jason Kenney and the more populist people would support a non-politician outside person.
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@fastfish3 A country isn’t a person. It isn’t capable of love. Governments, I suppose, are. But they are rarely if ever worthy of love.
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@RojanePresident It has to love you back, otherwise you are in a disfunctional relationship.
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We need to fall in love with Canada again.
If you don’t love something, why would you try to conserve it?
Geoff Russ 🍁@GeoffRuss3
I too enjoy watching those nostalgia-wave edits on the feed. The images of Vancouver, Toronto, and Calgary in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s motivate me, even if I could barely walk at the time. People say the edits show a false vision of the past. I say they show a better country, and an ideal worth striving toward. We can all feel it slipping away piece by piece, and the fact that it coincides with our economic malaise only makes it hit harder. My latest for @WDiminishment. withoutdiminishment.com/publish/post/1…
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Much said on the tension between Reform/Western/lib and Tory factions in the Conservative Party. Another key unmentioned faction: non-ideological pragmatists. They saw Cons as a means to an end (personal or political). If they now see the Libs this way, of course they’ll flip.
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The floor-crossers were all once Conservatives but they weren’t really conservative. Mark Carney appeals to non-ideological politicians who previously saw the Conservatives as a vehicle for either their own good or the country’s good but no longer do.
Harrison Faulkner@Harry__Faulkner
Floor-crossing Liberal MP Chris d'Entremont calls himself a "recovering Conservative" at the Liberal Party Convention: "I don't know whether to introduce myself as a recovering Conservative, or just that I was a Liberal and I didn't know it."
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I can't believe I spent hours of my life rewriting the illiterate memos Marilyn Gladu sent out. I could have bashed my head against a wall instead.
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@RojanePresident @CoopTory @Prominent_Bryan There is also no reason then to not just have the leader vote their full set of parties votes, without bothering with placeholder MPs…
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"no you don't understand. MPs are delegates and have full agency. This is why I'll defend their rights to change parties and then just vote the way their new party is asking them to"
So many dumbassed on this site
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- “liberal, not Liberal.”
- Alberta separatist
Yeah, checks out
Kyle Riley 🇨🇦@Smileyyeg
I think the first referendum result in Alberta will shock people. They are going to wake the fuck up very fast.
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@TreborRhurbarb I think it will be a Tory-Reform coalition, but I'm not sure who the junior and senior partners are, respectively.
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Reform peaked too early. Greens will probably peak too early. My god the tories are going to win the 2029 general election. Small but workable majority.
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@JefferyPetts The Bloc and PQ are leftist parties that appeal to a conservative political impulse.
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It's in a coma, it's not dead
Selwyn 👑🇬🇧🌊☀️@Selwyn1750
Traditional conservatism, in the Canadian sense, is extinct at the political level.
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@CoopTory @Prominent_Bryan For most of our political history, it was not a given that MPs would always vote in line with their party. If MPs are just party operatives, there is no reason not to have proportional representation and vote directly for a political party.
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@Prominent_Bryan They’re not delegates. They are trustees.
Yes, they will vote in line with their new party, but they have the option to leave and caucus with whoever they wish.
This is a quiet check on power and provides them leverage within whatever party they sit with.
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Canada should have its own stamp series to commemorate those on the right side of this so-called Revolution.
J.J. McCullough@JJ_McCullough
An unexpectedly diverse lineup of people in the @USPS heroes of the revolution stamps released in commemoration of the 250th birthday of the United States.
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Sometimes I get concerned that the right is too focused on purity tests. Then I remember that these people exist.
Marxist777 📕🇵🇸@Marxist777
“I’m a lefty anti-imperialist but Argentina is wrong on the Falklands”
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If the Liberals can absorb both former Tories and Dippers, then their only principle is winning. Call it pragmatism if you want, but all it means is that they have no real beliefs other than pandering and winning.
Mark Carney@MarkJCarney
I am honoured to welcome Matt Jeneroux to our caucus as the newest member of Canada’s new government. Building a stronger, more resilient, and more independent country will require ambition, collaboration, and occasionally, sacrifice. I am grateful to Matt and his family that he will continue his service as a strong voice for Edmonton Riverbend in Parliament. For more than a decade, Matt has been entrusted by Albertans to help shape a stronger future. He was first elected to Alberta’s Legislature in 2012 and to Canada’s Parliament in 2015 — earning four consecutive mandates in the House of Commons. In Ottawa, he has taken on portfolios that are central to Canada’s economic strength, security, and national resilience — including as Shadow Minister for supply chains, innovation, infrastructure, health, and housing. He is a strong voice in international engagement and parliamentary diplomacy, having served as Vice-Chair of the Canada-UK Interparliamentary Association and Founder of the Canada-ASEAN Parliamentary Group, and building direct working relationships with lawmakers across NATO, Europe, Asia, Africa, the United States and the OSCE. As a new special advisor on economic and security partnerships, Matt’s leadership will contribute to strengthening Canada’s alliances and trade partnerships, advancing Canada’s leadership in global security cooperation, and building our strength at home. The world has changed, and Canada must change with it. This is a time to come together — and together, we will build a stronger future for Edmonton, Alberta, and all Canadians.
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@SpencerFernando Agreed. But, as a compromise, we should have a recall process.
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Were Canada to ban floor crossing, we would be suppressing the individual minds of those we elect, and further concentrating power in party leaders. As things stand now, floor crossing protects independence and keeps pressure on leaders to treat their colleagues well lest they watch those colleagues head elsewhere. Floor crossing – and the threat of it – protects us from a system where those we elect turn into mindless drones serving nothing more than the centralized will of ‘the leader.’
So, whether you agree with Gladu’s decision or not, it is essential to protect the right of MPs to cross the floor. The individual mind is the most precious resource we have.
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@mlxYYZ @RomanFisher__ It’s not as if his current cabinet is a super serious bunch.
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I can’t see the “serious central banker and investment fund executive” PM granting her a cabinet seat. Then again, he has to have figured out by now that there will be unlimited mental gymnastics to support his government from the legacy press so why not give her Veterans Affairs or something?
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Thank you for being one of the most committed MPs to our parliamentary system. It is a tragedy that the Reform Act did not go as far as you intended. I hope one day all its intended provisions will be implemented.
Michael Chong 🇨🇦@MichaelChongMP
1/ Prime Minister Carney is wrong. In our parliamentary democracy & constitutional monarchy, MP Marilyn Gladu has not joined the Liberals as “a member of the government”. #cdnpoli
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I think Canada is undergoing a realignment, where the Liberals are Big Tent centrists leaning centre right, Conservatives are gonna entrench the Reform party values and the NDP is moving further left
idk how to feel about it tbh
Marc Lévesque@MarcLevesqueEco
If my understanding is correct, the LPC now essentially has its majority. They don't need Terrebonne anymore. The issue now is what happens to PP. Can he survive? My wish is that they use the next 3 years to rebuild the party into something I can vote for.
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@scottmhayward @JefferyPetts Classical liberal means supporting individual liberty as the primary political goal.
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@JefferyPetts The pro-life, anti-COVID restrictions, pro-Convoy, anti-conversion therapy ban MP is a "classical liberal"?
If that's the case, maybe I am too 😆
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Wherein the pro-life, anti-COVID restriction MP is a *checks notes* "piece of shit".
Maybe it's time for some more serious self-reflection from the CPC...
Gurv@GurvSC
Good riddance, leave. I swear to god, I’m so tired of electing these piece of shit MPs. Can we start nominating good people?
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@dscanlon_d @KevinVuongxMP Carney will call it early when he still has the Trump issue to play off of.
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The next federal election will be in 2028, when Trump is still President.
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