Canadian Federal Election - Page 23

Dartguard · #**441** Posted **Jan 30, 2025, 8:35 PM**

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Originally Posted by YOWetal

Is 1 liter of orange juice unreasonable? The cost is about the arrangements we have and not bringing sufficient supplies on board. Though obviously all involved learned their lesson.

It's so embarrassing when Canadians focus on this nickel and dime nonsense.

What is ridiculous is that no one on board Her aircraft took out their phones and googled locations for Tesco or Sainsburys then local cab services.

theman23 · #**442** Posted **Jan 30, 2025, 8:45 PM**

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Originally Posted by samne

I like that Singh has a quasi sense of high style. Tailored double breasted pinstripe suits and a Maserati. Very Brampton of him, like “I got here and Im gonna do it up”. Unlike all the other typical frumpy looking MPs.

Politics aside, it’d be fun to hang with Jagmeet 😄

The suits and watches are nice, but Maserati is pretty cringe. Hope he bought it used. Most likely he got the NDP to pay for it.

Jagmeets style could have been an advantage or disadvantage. I really didn’t expect him to be this ineffective a politician. The first few years he was largely invisible and seemed to spend most of his time shilling for advertisers on social media to get free merch. His pact with the Liberals has raised his profile, but not in a good way.

kool maudit · #**443** Posted **Jan 30, 2025, 8:56 PM**

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Originally Posted by MonctonRad

No one likes champagne socialists.

What? They are immensely popular and electorally successful.

They are even more successful in the vast world of appointed positions surrounding elected officials.

Singh is just a piker. The hypocrite thing isn't holding him back. No one cares. "Doing Good By Being Good".

EnvisionSaintJohn · #**444** Posted **Jan 30, 2025, 8:57 PM**

I’ve heard claims of bias regarding EKOS, like can be said for many pollsters, but it’s still interesting to see such a reversal in the polling since Carney’s emergence on the Canadian political scene.

MolsonExport · #**445** Posted **Jan 30, 2025, 9:22 PM**

^Apple-munching intensifies...

shreddog · #**446** Posted **Jan 30, 2025, 9:40 PM**

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Originally Posted by MolsonExport

^Apple-munching intensifies...

Or not ... in the past week, Nanos (x2), Leger and Abacus all have the CPC in the mid 40's and the LPC stuck in the mid-20's. Only Ekos (robodialing) has them both in the 30's.

I dunno, maybe everyone else is wrong and Ekos is right, or ....

shreddog · #**447** Posted **Jan 30, 2025, 9:42 PM**

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Originally Posted by EnvisionSaintJohn

... it’s still interesting to see such a reversal in the polling since Carney’s emergence on the Canadian political scene.

You mean since last September??

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Mark Carney joins Liberals' economic growth task force

Former BoC governor to speak at party's caucus meeting in B.C.

Posted: Sep 09, 2024

CBC

Acajack · #**448** Posted **Jan 30, 2025, 9:43 PM**

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Originally Posted by shreddog

Or not ... in the past week, Nanos (x2), Leger and Abacus all have the CPC in the mid 40's and the LPC stuck in the mid-20's. Only Ekos (robodialing) has them both in the 30's.

I dunno, maybe everyone else is wrong and Ekos is right, or ....

Mainstreet also had the LPC modestly closing in on the CPC.

EnvisionSaintJohn · #**449** Posted **Jan 30, 2025, 9:47 PM**

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Originally Posted by shreddog

You mean since last September?? CBC

As a public figure on the Canadian political scene? I’d say his debut on the Daily Show is where most people would pinpoint his emergence as a Canadian politician in the context of Trump’s aims on Canada.

shreddog · #**450** Posted **Jan 30, 2025, 9:48 PM**

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Originally Posted by Acajack

Mainstreet also had the LPC modestly closing in on the CPC.

The latest national poll from Mainstreet - 17 January - shows
CPC at 44.7%
LPC at 25.6%
NDP at 13.0%

YOWetal · #**451** Posted **Jan 30, 2025, 10:04 PM**

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Originally Posted by shreddog

The latest national poll from Mainstreet - 17 January - shows
CPC at 44.7%
LPC at 25.6%
NDP at 13.0%

Huge lead still but does show a lot of movement. It's also a 13 point Liberal over NDP lead which is larger than we have seen for some time and must give the NDP pause.

Changing City · #**452** Posted **Jan 30, 2025, 10:05 PM**

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Originally Posted by shreddog

The latest national poll from Mainstreet - 17 January - shows
CPC at 44.7%
LPC at 25.6%
NDP at 13.0%

Compared to Main Street's December poll, the Conservative Party lost three points, the Liberal Party climbed seven points and the New Democratic Party lost two points.

338 says they have a more recent federal poll, only taken in Ontario, which shows the Liberals and the Conservatives within a point of each other, at 40% and 39%.

wg_flamip · #**453** Posted **Jan 30, 2025, 10:30 PM**

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Originally Posted by Dartguard

The RCAF on behalf of the GG paid over 120 Pounds for 1 Litre of freshly squeezed Orange juice at Stanstead airport on her way to the Middle East.
Much flushing to do.

IIRC, it was apple juice.

The term is "fresh squeezed", by the way. It's a bit misleading in that all it means is that the fruit was fresh when it was squeezed and bottled (rather than made from concentrate, etc.). The bottle may have been sitting on a shelf for months afterward. Almost nothing marketed to you as "fresh squeezed" is made from freshly squeezed juice.

Not an excuse, just a fun fact.

That said, the Canadian impulse to quibble over a few dollars in our politicians' expenses is one of the many reasons our best leaders steer clear of politics.

kwoldtimer · #**454** Posted **Jan 30, 2025, 10:38 PM**

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Originally Posted by wg_flamip

IIRC, it was apple juice.

The term is "fresh squeezed", by the way. It's a bit misleading in that all it means is that the fruit was fresh when it was squeezed and bottled (rather than made from concentrate, etc.). The bottle may have been sitting on a shelf for months afterward. Almost nothing marketed to you as "fresh squeezed" is made from freshly squeezed juice.

Not an excuse, just a fun fact.

That said, the Canadian impulse to quibble over a few dollars in our politicians' expenses is one of the many reasons our best leaders steer clear of politics.

Any politician who doesn't understand the thin-lipped Presbyterian at the heart of the Canadian psyche really needs to find another line of work.

Build.It · #**455** Posted **Jan 31, 2025, 1:34 AM**

I just realized the past day that for me as a business owner I would benefit from Carney's inflation in terms of higher profit and a higher barrier of entry for anyone who wants to start a competing business. I am now considering voting for him.

casper · #**456** Posted **Jan 31, 2025, 2:35 AM**

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Originally Posted by Build.It

I just realized the past day that for me as a business owner I would benefit from Carney's inflation in terms of higher profit and a higher barrier of entry for anyone who wants to start a competing business. I am now considering voting for him.

While we can disagree on how you got their, good to see your coming to the correct conclusion. Hopefully it causes you to vote Liberal in the next generally election.

We just can't survive the deflation that will be caused if the conservatives ended up in office. A strong fiscally responsibility government lead by an economist is the way to go. Carney's has entered the race at just the right time.

Trump says he will impose tariffs on Saturday. JT will lead the initial response. Hopefully it is rigorous and immediate.

EnvisionSaintJohn · #**457** Posted **Jan 31, 2025, 3:09 AM**

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Originally Posted by Build.It

I just realized the past day that for me as a business owner I would benefit from Carney's inflation in terms of higher profit and a higher barrier of entry for anyone who wants to start a competing business. I am now considering voting for him.

In the leadership race, or the federal election?

acottawa · #**458** Posted **Jan 31, 2025, 3:14 AM**

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Originally Posted by MolsonExport

^Apple-munching intensifies...

This new Liberal talking point that we should only believe one robo pollster, consistently the least accurate of the major pollsters that has shown a miraculous surge that no other pollster is showing is very self-destructive for the Liberal Party.

EnvisionSaintJohn · #**459** Posted **Jan 31, 2025, 3:19 AM**

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Originally Posted by acottawa

This new Liberal talking point that we should only believe one robo pollster, consistently the least accurate of the major pollsters that has shown a miraculous surge that no other pollster is showing is very self-destructive for the Liberal Party.

Angus Reid also indicated a huge swell in Liberal support since Carney’s debut on the political scene.

acottawa · #**460** Posted **Jan 31, 2025, 3:19 AM**

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Originally Posted by WarrenC12

Nothing like PP, man of the people, wearing his $1500 Canada Goose parka.

How terrible to support Canadian manufacturers.