johnefrancis, (edited )
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A fine Graham MacKay from Saturday...

I'm thinking PP's going to stick with the strategy:

  • blame vulnerable minorities for everything
  • say little to nothing in campaigns. Offer no solutions.
  • after the election, pivot to a Doug Ford style kleptocracy.

The "working class" supporters get nothing. They got nothing from Harper. They got nothing from Ford. They got not much from Trudeau.

Crispius,
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@johnefrancis

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The number of stories I’ve read recently that lead with “Poilievre tight lipped about” lately is troubling.

He’s ’right lipped’ because he knows that if his actual agenda gets leaked it’s going to cost him votes. This is straight-up deception and he needs to be called out on this at every opportunity. Our #CDNMedia is letting us down on this big-time.

Crispius,
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A non-comprehensive list of things is ‘tight lipped’ about:

  • trans/LGBTQIA rights
  • SOGI/sex-ed in schools
  • privatizing healthcare
  • privatizing education
  • tax cuts for the wealthy
  • reproductive freedom
  • weakening environmental laws to favour the oil & gas industry
  • scuttling the national dental care plan
  • scuttling the $10/day daycare program
  • repealing the new capital gains tax
  • basically anything the is doing to the south, since the is basically a subsidiary.
Crispius,
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Another thing that should be on this list (I did say it was non-comprehensive) is #indigenous rights & title; you can expect a #Poilievre led Conservative government to steamroll over indigenous sovereignty as this has been a long-standing thorn-in-the-side to the #FossilFuel and other resource-extraction industries that bankroll them.

#WhenTheyShowYouWhoTheyAreBelieveThem

cjmoorehead,
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@Crispius That quote is particularly ironic given that #Poilievre hasn't worked a day in his entire life. Which raises the obvious question — where did his $25 million in net worth come from? #cdnpoli #NeverVoteConservative

Flux,
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@johnefrancis nothing? Pharmacare? Child care?
It's popular in the press to downplay these successes. Don't do PP's work for him!

johnefrancis,
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@Flux dragged kicking and screaming by Jagmeet Singh...to do the minimum possible, slow rolling it as much as possible...so that it can be undone as easily as possible by PP...

True, these are not nothing. The carbon tax is not nothing, at least for now.

At this point...nothing seems like it will be permanent, nothing to tilt the fundamentals of power in Canada away from money.

A real lack of total war against conservatism.

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