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 New Brunswick Progressive Conservative MLA Dominic Cardy, left and New Brunswick Progressive Conservative MLA Jake Stewart, talk prior to the Throne Speech at the New Brunswick Legislature in Fredericton, N.B., on November 20, 2018. Photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS/James West

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Kevin Borthwick a lancé cette pétition adressée à Justin Trudeau (Prime Minister of Canada/Premier ministre du Canada) et à

In 1974, the House of Commons passed a motion of no confidence and brought down Pierre Elliott Trudeau’s Liberal government. It is time to stand up to the current Liberal Government and vote Justin Trudeau out of office. Since he has taken office he has only shown the Canadian people that the only province he cares about is Quebec. He attacked the idea of a protest heading from all parts of Canada to Ottawa to bring the dissatisfaction of the people to his door step. Calling them a "fringe minority with unacceptable views". It is far from a minority, the majority of Canada wants him out and now we can show this fact by joining this petition to make our voices be heard.

 

 

 

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Deja Vu??? 
 
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YO Dominic Cardy how can you Conservatives brag of buying Butter Tarts when CBC tells me you dudes have to sell your HQ? Yet you wackos want control of our provincial economy?

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Monday, October 24, 2016

Higgs Wins -- What It Means, and Free Advice

Well, I called the plot twist, but got the ending wrong.  I may have predicted that there would be a surprise endorsement from a Central NB candidate for Monica Barley that would take her to a 3rd ballot win over Mel Norton. But the win, and congratulations, go to Blaine Higgs. 

When Cleveland Allaby and Margaret-Ann Blaney chose Bernard Lord over Norm Betts, they delivered nearly 70% of their delegates to a bilingual Dieppe lawyer with a fresh face. Jake Stewart and Brian MacDonald had, together, nearly 21% of the vote, and less than a fifth of it followed them to Barley, a bilingual Dieppe lawyer with a fresh face.  

 

"So, if Monica has 940 votes, and we have 1200 votes between us, after our endorsement she should have....860 votes? Are you sure that's right?"

I'd predicted that type of endorsement because in party contexts, it makes sense.  It is the perfect meeting of self-interest and party’s interest. Parties are broad coalitions, and they need leaders of their most divergent factions to join together. And the leader least able to speak to a given faction needs that faction’s leaders more than anyone. The establishment of the party needed Jake Stewart to embrace Monica Barley and bring their people together. And for Jake and Brian, it made sense – they might have more in common with Mike Allen, but for the same reason, Mike Allen doesn't need them as key lieutenants like Monica Barley does. 

This will be a column of threes, and let’s start with THREE REASONS THAT THIS TIME, THE PARTY ESTABLISHMENT COULDN’T PULL IT OFF – “it” being the shotgun wedding between Team Jake and Team Monica.

1. Parties should get used to grassroots rebellions.  From Trump to Corbyn, party members are less likely to follow traditional power-brokers.  Tory voters aren't immune from this global trend, and when Jake Stewart tried to turn his followers’ passion for issues to personal trust, he found out that voters don't follow so easily anymore.

2. The language divide is broader. This would be the most worrisome Tory trend. In 1997, the PC electorate was reflective of the language demographics of New Brunswick (after all, the Valcourt election results were bad, but evenly bad across NB). If the party membership has become disproportionately Anglophone, members may feel less inclined to compromise for the electoral necessity of a leader who bridges the divide.

3. No trend, just timing.  Of course, it might have all been about this particular moment. After all, in 1997 Tories had been thumped three times by McKenna and might have been more willing to consider compromise to win than now, two years removed from power and believing that Gallant may fall on his own. And Lord was a cagey political savant, and handled those divides more easily than Barley seemed to in her impromptu comments on the language commissioner. 

Before the vote, I said Blaine Higgs was like the veggie tray at a Christmas party, in that everyone thought he was good for governing but feared his baggage and dislike of kowtowing to political expediency/necessity (depending on your view). His colleagues find him smart but inflexible, and he has the brand of a smart, straight shooter who also bears scars of Irving employment, CoR membership and pension reform anger. 

Some veggie tray, Lamrock. Don't doubt me again. 

Yet, he prevailed – and he prevailed over a field that had at least two plausible versions of the Lord/Graham/Gallant floor model, a new face with a certain ideological flexibility and limited baggage. So, I might bring forward THREE THINGS THAT HIGGS’ VICTORY MEANS.

1. The experience pendulum is swinging back. A series of short-lived governments led to parties following a bad beat with a new leader who couldn't be tied to the last gang. As governments fell more quickly, that meant parties were discarding past generations of ministers very quickly and the talent pool was increasingly shallow.  Higgs reverses that trend – he managed to sell the idea that he would still represent change if he were the boss, instead of a senior minister. There are ominous signs here for Gallant – the opposition didn't think “we need to find our own Gallant”. They thought – “we need to offer up something that doesn't look at all like Gallant”. We shall see if this reflects a good read on the electorate or just PC opprobrium for the Premier.

2. The bilingual test has been suspended, pending outcome. Ever since John Crosbie flamed out saying that he could deliver for francophones even if he couldn't talk to them, there has been a minimal standard of bilingualism required to be considered for the big job. It may be a sign of the times and tensions that a majority of Conservatives were willing to set that aside, buying Higgs’ argument that he could learn French faster than a bilingual neophyte could learn how to govern.

3. Parties don't just want to win once. The flip side of getting a leader without baggage to have an easier win seemed to exact a price – leaders who had no experience and promised to simply “consult and listen” arrived in office unprepared to make decisions.  When inevitably the world moved on without them, the economy and public services suffered and they grew quickly unpopular. Blaine Higgs may be a tougher sell for a first term, but if he wins, he will have a clearer mandate and be more ready to deliver. After a few weak governments, Tories seemed to be thinking of governing. 

Every new leader changes the political landscape, and so the amateur strategist in me has THREE PIECES OF POLITICAL ADVICE for the parties.  First, for our new Opposition Leader. 

1. Find something you care about beyond the bottom line. Higgs speaks passionately about the need for government to make smart business decisions, and there is an understandable hunger for managerial competence and common sense right now. But one shouldn't let arrogance set in – just as a minister of health can't take over a large company and know everything, a business leader can't assume everything is the same.  A government balance sheet isn't the end in itself – good fiscal management is what allows government to do its vital tasks like health and education well. I'd advise Blaine to not only be passionate about accounting, but to find one big public goal like literacy, senior care or poverty reduction where better management can also make a difference. Talk about this as well. If the Liberals are incompetent, but the only party that cares, that's an even fight. If they're less competent even when delivering liberal goals, then you'll have a big advantage. 

2. Build a team.  People trust you, Blaine. Some don't like you or agree with you, but they think you are smart and sincere. This will horrify you, but take a page from Jean Chrétien and Shawn Graham, two likeable, down-to-earth politicians who weren't afraid to be told their weaknesses and find lieutenants who reassured people. The presence of Paul Martin, John Manley and Marcel Masse next to Chrétien in 1993, and the presence of Mike Murphy, Roland Hache and, well, me, by Shawn Graham’s side in 2006 were not accidents. Some of Gallant’s advertising has echoes of a messiah complex – the leader handles all big announcements, the leader alone is in the ads. You have smart francophone lieutenants, some solid progressive conservatives, some emerging young people to draw from.  Trust me, when your opponent has Don Arsenault as his most visible minister, you can win the team battle.

The Liberal Team, both of them.

3. Define yourself quickly. You won't be able to use the dodge that Alward and Gallant used when their opponents began to implode. You can't just promise to consult on everything. It isn't you, and you won't be good at it because you know better. But the Liberals are already going through your public utterances, ready to describe what makes you different from them. These wedges won't be to your advantage. So you need to define yourself. You need a quick, simple answer on language questions, even if it's a shield and not a sword. If you are going to blast their deficit spending, you need to quickly find something – corporate welfare, local project pork – that you will do differently. You do have baggage, like anyone who served and tried to actually do something. They will want to frame every cut you'd make as something that people lose. Be ready to frame anything you'd cut as something that allows you to do something they haven't, such as balance the budget or fund education.

Now, three unsolicited tips for Liberals

1. Don't overplay the language card. This election may come down to a few swing ridings, likely suburban anglophone ridings. These voters will be afraid of an election that is wholly polarized on language lines, and they will notice your opponent’s unilingualism on their own. But if they see you venturing into demonizing him for it, or suggesting that no accomplishment is worthy of respect if the person doesn't know French, they may decide that you're polarizing things.  The early shots at Higgs were too strong for a government that already has a perception problem. Trust Swing voters to weigh all this. 

2. Curb your appetite for pork. You've got a federal cousin who wants to help. No doubt you've envisioned ribbon cuttings galore to help win a second term.  Just be aware that, if your MLAs give in to a natural politician’s wont to serve your own ridings first, there will be an unbecoming geographic imbalance there. Someone will be adding up roads paved, schools closed, businesses funded, cuts levied – and those already have some serious imbalances that may look like an attack you didn't intend.  You also have an opponent skilled at making an example of the first wasteful project you greenlight and using it to undercut your leader as too green and weak to say no to anyone. You may have to say yes to good projects in Tory ridings even if it ticks off a minister or two with a pet project. Remember that it may put the government at risk if you only say yes to your own. 

3. Get ready to choose. Somewhere, there's an old memo from me to the 2010 Liberal campaign team urging the party to embrace a left-right campaign. The thinking was, if two-thirds of people want your leader gone, issue divides are your friend. David Alward did this in 2010 – having won power as a guy who would consult and find consensus, he ran as a premier taking a tough-if-divisive stand on fracking. It was smart – fracking was a 50/50 issue, which was a better focus for the PCs than just asking voters to re-elect a premier with a 29% approval rating. 

 

 

2010 was "Say Maybe". 2014 was "Say Yes". 29% approval ratings do that. 

The Liberals have tried to indulge the dream of being beloved by all.  In a time when people generally don't like their governments, incumbents need to embrace the fact that elections will be 60-40 fights, and to choose to focus on issues where they have the 60%. If there's a weakness right now, it's that the Liberals haven't defined themselves enough to give people something they'll fear losing if they turf the  government – at a time when voters love to turf governments. 

Finally, it bears repeating that New Brunswick had a record-high third party vote last time, and polls still show that holding (if not growing) right now. I have pointers for third parties too, but you'll have to guess what those are by what lies ahead. 

Posted by Kelly Lamrock at 9:54 AM

 

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Pablo.Rodriguez@parl.gc.ca, francis.scarpaleggia@parl.gc.ca,
Steven.MacKinnon@parl.gc.ca, Marc.Miller@parl.gc.ca,
Yves.Robillard@parl.gc.ca, Angelo.Iacono@parl.gc.ca,
Annie.Koutrakis@parl.gc.ca, Emmanuella.Lambropoulos@parl.gc.ca,
Patricia.Lattanzio@parl.gc.ca, Stephane.Lauzon@parl.gc.ca,
Joel.Lightbound@parl.gc.ca, Soraya.MartinezFerrada@parl.gc.ca,
Sherry.Romanado@parl.gc.ca, Peter.Schiefke@parl.gc.ca,
Brenda.Shanahan@parl.gc.ca, Sameer.Zuberi@parl.gc.ca,
Michelle.Rempel@parl.gc.ca, Tim.Uppal@parl.gc.ca,
mike.lake@parl.gc.ca, "." <Ron.Liepert@parl.gc.ca>,
chris.warkentin@parl.gc.ca, Len.Webber@parl.gc.ca,
Arnold.Viersen@parl.gc.ca, Martin.Shields@parl.gc.ca,
blake.richards@parl.gc.ca, blaine.calkins@parl.gc.ca,
Shannon.Stubbs@parl.gc.ca, Gerald.Soroka@parl.gc.ca,
Michelle.Boutin@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, Info@gg.ca,
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Blaine.Higgs@gnb.ca, Jagmeet.Singh@parl.gc.ca, Erin.OToole@parl.gc.ca,
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PREMIER <PREMIER@gov.ns.ca>, premier <premier@gnb.ca>, premier
<premier@leg.gov.mb.ca>, premier <premier@gov.nl.ca>, premier
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<JPetrie@nbpower.com>, Newsroom <Newsroom@globeandmail.com>, Norman
Traversy <traversy.n@gmail.com>, "steve.murphy" <steve.murphy@ctv.ca>,
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<Katie.Telford@pmo-cpm.gc.ca>, "Kevin.leahy"
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Subject: Automatic reply: YO Erin O'Toole and Jake Stewad What Do ya
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---------- Original message ----------
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Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2022 20:53:39 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: YO Erin O'Toole and Jake Stewad What Do ya
think Joel Lightbound will finally return my calls or answer my emails
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Députée d'Ahuntsic-Cartierville.

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From: "Rempel, Michelle - M.P." <Michelle.Rempel@parl.gc.ca>
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2022 17:24:20 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: YO Patty Baby King do ya think Trudeau The
Younger and his minions remember my old blog titled Harper and
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---------- Original message ----------
From: Premier of Ontario | Premier ministre de l’Ontario <Premier@ontario.ca>
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2022 17:26:55 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: YO Patty Baby King do ya think Trudeau The
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Subject: RE: YO Patty Baby King do ya think Trudeau The Younger and
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---------- Original message ----------
From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2022 13:24:08 -0400
Subject: YO Patty Baby King do ya think Trudeau The Younger and his
minions remember my old blog titled Harper and Bankers? Better yet do
your lawyers?
To: Melanie.Joly@parl.gc.ca, David.Lametti@parl.gc.ca,
Pablo.Rodriguez@parl.gc.ca, francis.scarpaleggia@parl.gc.ca,
Steven.MacKinnon@parl.gc.ca, Marc.Miller@parl.gc.ca,
Yves.Robillard@parl.gc.ca, Angelo.Iacono@parl.gc.ca,
Annie.Koutrakis@parl.gc.ca, Emmanuella.Lambropoulos@parl.gc.ca,
Patricia.Lattanzio@parl.gc.ca, Stephane.Lauzon@parl.gc.ca,
Joel.Lightbound@parl.gc.ca, Soraya.MartinezFerrada@parl.gc.ca,
Sherry.Romanado@parl.gc.ca, Peter.Schiefke@parl.gc.ca,
Brenda.Shanahan@parl.gc.ca, Sameer.Zuberi@parl.gc.ca,
Michelle.Rempel@parl.gc.ca, Tim.Uppal@parl.gc.ca,
mike.lake@parl.gc.ca, "." <Ron.Liepert@parl.gc.ca>,
chris.warkentin@parl.gc.ca, Len.Webber@parl.gc.ca,
Arnold.Viersen@parl.gc.ca, Martin.Shields@parl.gc.ca,
blake.richards@parl.gc.ca, blaine.calkins@parl.gc.ca,
Shannon.Stubbs@parl.gc.ca, Gerald.Soroka@parl.gc.ca,
Michelle.Boutin@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, Info@gg.ca,
fin.minfinance-financemin.fin@canada.ca, pierre.poilievre@parl.gc.ca,
Blaine.Higgs@gnb.ca, Jagmeet.Singh@parl.gc.ca, Erin.OToole@parl.gc.ca,
john.tasker@cbc.ca, premier <premier@ontario.ca>, premier
<premier@gov.ab.ca>, Office of the Premier <scott.moe@gov.sk.ca>,
PREMIER <PREMIER@gov.ns.ca>, premier <premier@gnb.ca>, premier
<premier@leg.gov.mb.ca>, premier <premier@gov.nl.ca>, premier
<premier@gov.pe.ca>, premier <premier@gov.yk.ca>, "Petrie, Jamie"
<JPetrie@nbpower.com>, Newsroom <Newsroom@globeandmail.com>, Norman
Traversy <traversy.n@gmail.com>, "steve.murphy" <steve.murphy@ctv.ca>,
sheilagunnreid <sheilagunnreid@gmail.com>, info@ipolitics.ca,
oldmaison <oldmaison@yahoo.com>, "freedomreport.ca"
<freedomreport.ca@gmail.com>, kingpatrick278
<kingpatrick278@gmail.com>, "jake.stewart" <jake.stewart@parl.gc.ca>
Cc: motomaniac333 <motomaniac333@gmail.com>, "Katie.Telford"
<Katie.Telford@pmo-cpm.gc.ca>, "Kevin.leahy"
<Kevin.leahy@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>, pm <pm@pm.gc.ca>, "Bill.Blair"
<Bill.Blair@parl.gc.ca>

https://www.facebook.com/therealpatking/videos/1242175006308618


The Real Pat King was live.
  ·
WELL THE GOVERNMENT OF CANADA JUST CROSSED THE LINE.


http://davidamos.blogspot.com/2006/05/harper-and-bankers.html


Tuesday, May 16, 2006

Harper and Bankers
Just Dave

May 10th, 2006
Prime Minister Stephen Harper,
Minister of Public Safety, Stockwell Day,
President of the Treasury Board, John Baird,
Ministers James Flaherty, and Vic Toews
C/o Bill Casey MP
103 Albion Street South,
Amherst, NS, B4H 2X2

Franky Boy McKenna, Deputy Chair,
John Bragg and John Thompson, Directors
Chris Montague Legal Counsel
C/o Jill Crosby, Bank Manager
TD Financial Group
620 Main Street
Sussex, NB, E4E 5L4

W. Geoffrey Beattie, Director
David Allgood, Legal Counsel,
C/o Sharon Armstrong, Bank Manager
Royal Bank of Canada
644 Main Street
Sussex, NB, E4E 7H9

John Manley PC, Director and
E. Jennifer Warren, Legal Counsel
C/o Maria Cormie, Bank Manager
Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce
761 Main St,
Moncton, NB. E1C 1E5

RE: Blowing the whistle on big banks and corrupt politicians too.

Hey,

Flaherty’s budget looming on the horizon tonight is gonna get the big
OK from the Bloc EH? Well a mean old bike mechanic in the Maritimes
has been waiting to chuck a wrench in the works of many a crooked
beancounter. I just served your offices in hand some of the same
material that Andre Arthur MP and Senator Kinsella received before the
39th Parliament began. I am also giving you other material and a
political rant that they did not receive. The legal counsel of all the
monstrous Canadian banks have shown me their arses, two for a month
and three for almost two years. It is high time to boot you bankers
out off bed with the corrupt politicians you depend on to cover up
wrongs or sue you bastards too. N’est pas?

Melanie Joly vs Hubby Lacroix.pdf 29K View as HTML Scan and download

On 2/8/22, David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com> wrote:
>  Deja Vu Anyone???

 

---------- Original message ----------
From: "Lightbound, Joël - Député" <Joel.Lightbound@parl.gc.ca>
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2022 20:53:38 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: YO Erin O'Toole and Jake Stewad What Do ya
think Joel Lightbound will finally return my calls or answer my emails
before Trudeau The Younger gives him the boot???
To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com>

Bonjour,
Nous vous remercions d'avoir communiqué avec le bureau de Joël
Lightbound, député de Louis-Hébert.
Vous recevez ce courriel pour vous informer que votre message a été
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Cordialement,
Bureau du député fédéral de Louis-Hébert
3700 rue du Campanile #110
Québec QC Canada G1X 4G6
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---------- Original message ----------
From: "Joly, Mélanie - M.P." <Melanie.Joly@parl.gc.ca>
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2022 20:53:39 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: YO Erin O'Toole and Jake Stewad What Do ya
think Joel Lightbound will finally return my calls or answer my emails
before Trudeau The Younger gives him the boot???
To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com>

Bonjour,

Nous accusons réception de votre courriel et vous remercions d'avoir
pris le temps de nous écrire.

Veuillez noter que nous recevons actuellement un volume élevé de
courriels. Veuillez prévoir un délai dans nos réponses.

Pour toute demande de renseignements concernant le Département des
affaires étrangères, veuillez envoyer votre courriel à
melanie.joly@international.gc.ca<mailto:melanie.joly@international.gc.ca>.

Sincèrement,
L'équipe de circonscription de l'honorable Mélanie Joly,
Députée d'Ahuntsic-Cartierville.

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---------- Original message -----------
From: "Schiefke, Peter - Député" <Peter.Schiefke@parl.gc.ca>
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2022 20:53:39 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: YO Erin O'Toole and Jake Stewad What Do ya
think Joel Lightbound will finally return my calls or answer my emails
before Trudeau The Younger gives him the boot???
To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com>

-English Follows -

Je vous remercie d'avoir communiqué avec mon bureau. J'apprécie que
vous prenez le temps de m'écrire.

Un membre de mon équipe fera un suivi avec vous sous peu. Veuillez
noter qu'en raison du volume élevé de messages reçus, la priorité est
accordée aux commettants, aux entreprises et aux organismes situés
dans Vaudreuil-Soulanges auxquels nous répondons en priorité. Veuillez
fournir votre nom complet, votre adresse postale,  votre code postal
et votre numéro de téléphone afin de recevoir une réponse plus
rapidement.

Bien à vous,

Peter Schiefke

Député de Vaudreuil-S​oulanges

450-510-2305


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Kind regards,

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Member of Parliament - Vaudreuil-Soulanges

450-510-2305



---------- Original message ----------
From: "Shanahan, Brenda - M.P." <Brenda.Shanahan@parl.gc.ca>
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2022 20:53:39 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: YO Erin O'Toole and Jake Stewad What Do ya
think Joel Lightbound will finally return my calls or answer my emails
before Trudeau The Younger gives him the boot???
To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com>

Bonjour/Hello

Merci d'avoir écrit à la députée Brenda Shanahan.  Votre courriel sera
lu avec soin et fera l'objet d'une attention particulière.

Thank you for writing to MP Brenda Shanahan.  Your email will be read
witth care and receive every consideration


Bureau de | Office of Brenda Shanahan
Deputee | MP, Chateauguay-Lacolle (QC)

Bureau | Office : 450-691-7044
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---------- Original message ----------
From: "Soroka, Gerald - M.P." <Gerald.Soroka@parl.gc.ca>
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2022 20:53:37 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: YO Erin O'Toole and Jake Stewad What Do ya
think Joel Lightbound will finally return my calls or answer my emails
before Trudeau The Younger gives him the boot???
To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com>

Thank you for your email. I sincerely appreciate you taking the time
to write. I have received your message and will review it as soon as
possible.
Due to the substantial volume of correspondence, I will get back to
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Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2022 16:53:27 -0400
Subject: YO Erin O'Toole and Jake Stewad What Do ya think Joel
Lightbound will finally return my calls or answer my emails before
Trudeau The Younger gives him the boot???
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 Deja Vu Anyone???



https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/stewart-defends-trucker-support-1.6340068


New Brunswick MP defends his support for truckers protesting COVID rules
Conservative Jake Stewart says he didn't see any bad behaviour by
protesters in Ottawa

Jacques Poitras · CBC News · Posted: Feb 07, 2022 7:00 AM AT


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David Amos
Welcome to the circus




David Amos
Methinks Higgy enjoyed the circus today and no doubt chuckled as much
as I did when he saw the photo of a wannabe PM sitting on the trailer
with his former leadership opponent and couple of truckers from the
liberal version of "The Place to Be" N'esy Pas?


Kyle Woodman
Reply to @David Amos: me thinks Higgs is not above licking the boots
of Mr. Poilievre. N’est pas?


David Amos
Reply to @Kyle Woodman: Methinks everybody knows he with the gold
makes the rules Hence if Poilievre becomes the leader of the blue
coats Higgy will lick Jake's jack boots with relish N'esy Pas?




Bob Ols
Content deactivated
Perhaps those who don't understand our right to protest should listen
to Brian Peckford's explanation of our Charter of Rights & Freedoms.
He was one of the authors. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iU1__TCbhs


Bob Smith
Content deactivated
Reply to @Bob Ols: Charter doesn't protect an individual from breaking
the law. Fact.


George Burton
Content deactivated
Reply to @Bob Ols: They do not have the right to infringe upon others'
freedoms, as they are doing through their 100-decibel honking,
assaults upon medics and homeless shelter volunteers, and blocking
traffic throughout Ottawa for days.


Dave Mack
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Reply to @Bob Ols: Brian Peckford had a long and colorful history.
Many people have accused him of many things. Nobody ever accused him
of being same47 minutes ago


Dave Mack
Content deactivated
Reply to @Dave Mack: being sane. He has unstable then. He's more so now


David Amos
Content deactivated
Reply to @Bob Ols: Amen


Bob Ols
Content deactivated
Reply to @Dave Mack: Again Dave, you are on one side and I am on the
other. However given Mr. Peckford's long list of public service,
calling him unstable is unwarranted.


Bob Ols
Content deactivated
Reply to @Bob Smith: The vast majority of these people protesting are
not breaking any laws. Sometimes freedom is a hard fought battle. None
of us got anything for free.


https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/liberal-mp-politicization-pandemic-1.6343730

 

Liberal MP Joël Lightbound says his party's COVID policy 'stigmatizes and divides people'

'The tone and the policies of my government have changed drastically,' Quebec MP says

 

John Paul Tasker · CBC News · Posted: Feb 08, 2022 12:51 PM ET

 

 

Liberal MP for Louis-Hebert Joel Lightbound speaks about COVID restrictions during a news conference, Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2022 in Ottawa. (Adrian Wyld/Canadian Press)

Liberal Quebec MP Joël Lightbound says he's uncomfortable with the federal government's handling of the ongoing COVID-19 crisis, saying its pandemic response has become "politicized" and "divisive."

Pointing to more than a dozen developed countries that have started to do away with restrictions already, Lightbound said Tuesday it's reasonable to rethink Canada's COVID-19 approach as it becomes increasingly clear that the world will be dealing with this virus for years to come.

Lightbound said people who question existing policies should not be "demonized" by their prime minister.

"I can't help but notice with regret that both the tone and the policies of my government have changed drastically since the last election campaign. It went from a more positive approach to one that stigmatizes and divides people," Lightbound said.

• Canada needs to adopt a 'more sustainable' approach to COVID-19, Tam says

• 'It has to stop': Trudeau accuses protesters of blockading democracy during Commons debate

Lightbound said the Liberal government's decision to put vaccines at the centre of the political debate risks undermining public trust in the country's public health institutions.

"It's becoming harder and harder to know when public health stops and where politics begins," he said. "It's time to stop dividing Canadians and pitting one part of the population against another."

WATCH: Liberal MP says he's 'uncomfortable' with politicization of vaccines, pandemic

Liberal MP says he's 'uncomfortable' with politicization of vaccines, pandemic

4 days ago

Duration 1:50

Liberal MP Joel Lightbound is speaking out against provincial and federal vaccine mandates and COVID-19 policies, many of which were implemented by his party. 1:50

Although he's criticizing the government's approach, Lightbound said he has no desire to leave the Liberal caucus.

Liberal MP Steven MacKinnon, the government whip, said Lightbound resigned his position as the Quebec caucus chair over these "disagreements with government policy." MacKinnon said Lightbound would remain a Liberal MP.

Lightbound — a former parliamentary secretary to the minister of finance — said he hopes his comments will push Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his cabinet to "adapt to the changing reality of the pandemic and of the world."

Speaking briefly to reporters before Tuesday's question period, Trudeau said he understands there's a lot of frustration with the current suite of policies.

"We're all frustrated. We're all sick and tired of restrictions, of mandates. It's been two years and it's really, really tiring for all of us," he said, adding that his government will stay the course.

"Mandates are the way to avoid further restrictions. This government has been focused on following the best science, the best public health advice, to keep people safe and, quite frankly, it's worked," Trudeau added, citing Canada's lower COVID-19-related death rates compared to many other countries.

WATCH: Trudeau says his government is following 'the best science'

Trudeau says 'government has been focused every step of the way on following the best science'

4 days ago

Duration 1:02

The prime minister says he understands the frustration over vaccine mandates but insists that the only way out of the pandemic is through mandates and vaccinations. 1:02

With Omicron case counts on the decline, some provinces, notably Alberta and Saskatchewan, have signalled they will begin to drop restrictions in the weeks ahead. Dr. Kieran Moore, Ontario's chief medical officer, said last week Canadians will have to "learn to live with this virus and to be less fearful of it."

Ottawa must offer a 'roadmap,' MP says

Speaking to reporters on Parliament Hill, Lightbound said COVID-19-related restrictions have wreaked havoc for too long and the federal government needs to provide some sort of "roadmap" for lifting pandemic measures, such as the strict limits on travel. He said measures that were reasonable in a previous phase of the pandemic should not be "normalized with no end in sight."

While he didn't call for an immediate end to all public health measures, Lightbound said the federal government should establish "clear and measurable targets" for lifting pandemic measures to offer hope to Canadians tired of living with some of the most restrictive rules in the developed world.

Lightbound said the federal government should heed the advice of experts like Dr. Theresa Tam, Canada's chief public health officer, and "reassess" pandemic programs like vaccine mandates once the Omicron wave is under control.

Chief Public Health Officer of Canada Dr. Theresa Tam is seen via videoconference as Minister of Health Jean-Yves Duclos looks on during a news conference on the COVID-19 pandemic and the omicron variant in Ottawa on Friday, Jan. 7, 2022. (Justin Tang/The Canadian Press)

Last week, Tam said the country needs to find a more "sustainable" way to deal with the pandemic and future variants of the virus.

Lightbound said he supported the Liberal push for vaccine mandates in the last election but has since soured on this policy choice because the data suggest two doses of an mRNA vaccine do little to prevent an Omicron infection. 

The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) has said that two doses of any of the mRNA vaccines — which were made to target the original strain of the virus — are not very effective against infection and symptomatic disease due to Omicron. It has described vaccine efficacy against an Omicron infection as "low to very low."

• Second Opinion
  Why Omicron shows it's time to update our COVID-19 vaccines

Tam was more blunt in a press conference last week. "The protection against infection is certainly reduced with two doses. It doesn't protect you against infection," she said.

People with two doses of a vaccine are less likely to be admitted to hospital, however. PHAC data suggest unvaccinated people are 19 times more likely to be hospitalized with COVID-19 than people vaccinated with two doses.

A third booster shot provides superior protection, dramatically reducing the likelihood of severe outcomes, according to PHAC data. A third dose might also help to prevent an actual infection.

WATCH: Booster doses offer 'superior' protection, Tam says

Receiving mRNA booster 'superior' protection against COVID-19, Tam says

8 days ago

Duration 3:20

Dr. Theresa Tam, Canada's chief public health officer, highlights the importance of vaccines, specifically booster doses, in the fight against COVID-19. 3:20

Lightbound said the country's leaders can't lose sight of just how damaging restrictions like lockdowns have been for many aspects of daily life.

"A population's health, it's kind of like a pie and Omicron is but a slice of that pie. Economic health, social health and mental health must also be accounted for," he said.

The Quebec MP said the government's hard line on the vaccine mandate for cross-border truckers is not based on science. Lightbound said the government has produced no research to suggest this sort of mandate — which could sideline 12,000 to 16,000 commercial drivers — will have a meaningful impact on the pandemic's trajectory.

Lightbound said the vaccine mandate has become a "wedge" issue designed to score political points off the government's opponents.

Echoing concerns raised by industry groups like the Canadian Chamber of Commerce and the Retail Council of Canada, Lightbound said the policy is too disruptive to the country's supply chains and pushes up the price of goods.

Trudeau has strongly defended the policy, saying a wave of COVID-19 cases is doing more to disrupt Canada's supply chains than any vaccine mandate could.

People stand in the Ottawa anti-pandemic rule protest 'red zone' in front of Parliament Hill on Feb. 8, 2022. (Simon Lasalle/Radio-Canada)

The opposition Conservatives have made arguments similar to what Lightbound advanced Tuesday. Candice Bergen, the party's interim leader, has called on Trudeau to present Canadians with a "pathway out of the pandemic" now that vaccination rates are high and Omicron case counts have dropped.

Bergen has called for an end to all vaccine mandates, including those that apply to travellers by air or rail, cross-border essential workers like truckers, and federal public servants and workers in other federally regulated industries.

"It is time to depoliticize the response to the pandemic," she said.

While he questioned the usefulness of vaccine mandates, Lightbound condemned the ongoing demonstration in Ottawa — a protest that a number of Conservative MPs and senators have embraced.

"I have absolutely no sympathy for them," he said of racist elements in the convoy. "It's time to stop the occupation. It's time for truckers to leave."

Lightbound also said the federal government should immediately enter discussions with the provinces and territories about increasing the Canada Health Transfer. He said Ottawa should focus its financial firepower on the root cause of lockdowns and restrictions: the country's limited hospital capacity.

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John Paul Tasker

Parliamentary Bureau

J.P. Tasker is a senior writer in the CBC's parliamentary bureau in Ottawa. He can be reached at john.tasker@cbc.ca.

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> Subject: Automatic reply: Oh My My I read the news in CBC again today
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> Subject: Automatic reply: Oh My My I read the news in CBC again today
> about Erin O'Toole versus Shannon Stubbs Deja Vu Anyone???
> To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com>
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> Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2021 01:10:13 +0000
> Subject: Automatic reply: Oh My My I read the news in CBC again today
> about Erin O'Toole versus Shannon Stubbs Deja Vu Anyone???
> To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com>
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> Subject: Automatic reply: Oh My My I read the news in CBC again today
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/stewart-defends-trucker-support-1.6340068

 

New Brunswick MP defends his support for truckers protesting COVID rules

Conservative Jake Stewart says he didn't see any bad behaviour by protesters in Ottawa

 

Jacques Poitras · CBC News · Posted: Feb 07, 2022 7:00 AM AT

 

 

Miramichi-Grand Lake Conservative MP Jake Stewart, far right, and Ottawa-area Conservative MP Pierre Poilievre, centre, posed for photos with truckers on Jan. 29. (Jake Stewart/Twitter)

New Brunswick Conservative MP Jake Stewart is defending his support for protesting truckers in Ottawa, saying he didn't encounter any of the "repugnant and despicable" behaviour that marred the movement.

The former provincial cabinet minister and first-term MP for Miramichi-Grand Lake said he only met about 20 truckers on the outskirts of the capital leading up to the start of the protest.

"Pretty much all of the ones I met were actually vaccinated and they were more interested in mandates and lockdowns than they were vaccinations," he said in an interview with CBC's Information Morning Fredericton recorded on Friday and broadcast Monday.

He said he didn't see any swastika-bearing protesters that have been shown in news reports.

"I didn't notice anything like that where I was, but I obviously know some of those things happened," he said.

"Negative ideology will always find a way to attach itself to something like this." 

• Trucker convoy needs to lose extreme rhetoric, says association head as group reaches Toronto

Stewart and Ottawa-area Conservative MP Pierre Poilievre posed for photos with truckers on Jan. 29, the day before the protest began in earnest. The two MPs also joined crowds on highway overpasses supporting drivers as they headed into the city the next day.

Stewart said it's "never a bad idea to stop by a demonstration" and hear what people have to say, recalling his encounters with anti-fracking protesters when he was a Progressive Conservative MLA.

One spit on him and another started contacting him at his home.

"There might have been 400 people in that protest, but there were only two or three that I actually worried about."

He said being "a good public figure" means listening. 

"You don't have to support it. You don't have to think it's 100 per cent accurate. You just have to understand what people are saying."

People and vehicles fill Wellington Street near Parliament Hill. (Justin Tang/The Canadian Press)

Stewart at first questioned the fact some of the protest organizers espoused white nationalist and Islamophobic views. "Has that been proven?" he asked. 

Stewart said he did not agree with racist or Islamophobic views and said truckers he knows in Miramichi-Grand Lake are good people.

"So clearly there's a large amount of truckers in this country who don't know what you're talking about right now," he said. "Maybe they're just finding it out."

He blamed Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for provoking the more extreme elements of the protest by generalizing about the truckers.

He accused Trudeau of calling "every one of them" racist before the protest even began. 

"I think that did add to it and I think that maybe potentially brought out some of these more negative elements." 

Trudeau said Jan. 26 that "the small fringe minority of people who are on their way to Ottawa who are holding unacceptable views" did not represent the vast majority of Canadians willing to get vaccinated to protect each other.

Vehicles line Wellington Street just west of Ottawa's Parliament Hill. (Blair Gable/Reuters)

The protest has been pegged to federal policies that require cross-border truckers to be vaccinated to enter Canada. The U.S. has the same requirement.

Conservatives including Stewart argue this disrupts supply chains, including for food. But experts say with the vast majority of truckers vaccinated, shortages of some grocery items have been caused by a combination of factors.

Stewart wouldn't say whether he voted for the removal of Conservative leader Erin O'Toole last week. MPs voted 73-45 to replace O'Toole.

The vote took place under rules established by the Reform Act, which gives party caucuses in the House of Commons the power to vote out their leaders without the involvement of grassroots party members.

Stewart described the experience as "kind of surreal" and unlike anything he'd seen during 11 years in provincial politics, where caucuses don't have the power to oust a leader.

Stewart won Miramichi-Grand Lake last fall after O'Toole travelled to New Brunswick to promise a Conservative government would fund construction of a bypass road around Miramichi to address congestion.

Stewart, a former provincial cabinet minister, was elected to Parliament last fall. (Jacques Poitras/CBC)

At the time, Stewart said the promise was "really good for me as a candidate, but it's also very good, more importantly, for the citizens here."

The new MP said he was unsure what drove the anti-O'Toole sentiment in the federal Conservative Party.

"Every political party has dissent. Dissent is part of our system," he said, adding the unhappiness "had been brewing for a while and it just got there."

He said the federal party is "a big blue tent," and he's confident a new leader can unite the party in a way that makes it open to a range of opinions.

Stewart endorsed Poilievre on Saturday after the Ottawa-area MP announced he was running for the job.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Jacques Poitras

Provincial Affairs reporter

Jacques Poitras has been CBC's provincial affairs reporter in New Brunswick since 2000. Raised in Moncton, he also produces the CBC political podcast Spin Reduxit.

With files from Information Morning Fredericton

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David Amos 

Welcome to the circus

 

 

 

 

David Amos 

Methinks Higgy enjoyed the circus today and no doubt chuckled as much as I did when he saw the photo of a wannabe PM sitting on the trailer with his former leadership opponent and couple of truckers from the liberal version of "The Place to Be" N'esy Pas? 

 

 

Kyle Woodman   

Reply to @David Amos: me thinks Higgs is not above licking the boots of Mr. Poilievre. N’est pas?

 

 

David Amos   

Reply to @Kyle Woodman: Methinks everybody knows he with the gold makes the rules Hence if Poilievre becomes the leader of the blue coats Higgy will lick Jake's jack boots with relish N'esy Pas?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bob Ols

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Perhaps those who don't understand our right to protest should listen to Brian Peckford's explanation of our Charter of Rights & Freedoms. He was one of the authors. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iU1__TCbhs

 

 

Bob Smith

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Reply to @Bob Ols: Charter doesn't protect an individual from breaking the law. Fact.

 

 

George Burton

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Reply to @Bob Ols: They do not have the right to infringe upon others' freedoms, as they are doing through their 100-decibel honking, assaults upon medics and homeless shelter volunteers, and blocking traffic throughout Ottawa for days.

 

 

Dave Mack

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Reply to @Bob Ols: Brian Peckford had a long and colorful history. Many people have accused him of many things. Nobody ever accused him of being same47 minutes ago

 

 

Dave Mack

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Reply to @Dave Mack: being sane. He has unstable then. He's more so now

 

 

David Amos

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Reply to @Bob Ols: Amen

 

 

Bob Ols

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Reply to @Dave Mack: Again Dave, you are on one side and I am on the other. However given Mr. Peckford's long list of public service, calling him unstable is unwarranted.

 

 

Bob Ols

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Reply to @Bob Smith: The vast majority of these people protesting are not breaking any laws. Sometimes freedom is a hard fought battle. None of us got anything for free. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kyle Woodman 

All press is good press eh Jakey boy! 

 

 

David Amos

Reply to @Kyle Woodman: Methinks many folks would agree that you fail emulating me N'esy Pas?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ward Lowe

Singh says protesters want to over throw the government....this is how out of touch with reality he is with the situation

 

 

Kyle Woodman

Reply to @Ward Lowe: that’s literally in their mou. Pat King says as much in his many ramblings on video.

 

 

Ward Lowe

Reply to @Kyle Woodman: BS...and you know it!

 

 

David Amos

Reply to @Kyle Woodman: Methinks many folkks agree that you dudes and Patty Baby King deserve each other N'esy Pas?

 

 

BD Morgan

Reply to @Ward Lowe:
From the Canada Unity MOU "SCGGC will represent itself as The Government of Canada as a whole and not party related."

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

BD Morgan

Once again the Cons are cheering for something ill to befall Canada. This time with the Ottawa occupation. 

 

 

David Amos

Reply to @BD Morgan: BS

 

 

BD Morgan

Reply to @David Amos: But they keep spreading it. Bergen even put it in an email

 

 

Michael Winiarz

Reply to @BD Morgan: Bergen wants to make Portage La Prairie great again

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kyle Woodman

Skippy and his $1300 Canada goose working man’s parka. A man who’s only job has been politician can’t possibly be part of the elite.

 

 

Ward Lowe

Reply to @Kyle Woodman: like your boy had a real job? Lol

 

 

BD Morgan

Reply to @Ward Lowe:
So you don't think high school teacher is a real job?
The right belittling education. A usual theme.

 

 

Kyle Woodman

Reply to @Ward Lowe: yeah teaching isn’t a real job. Right on man.

 

 

David Amos

Reply to @Kyle Woodman: Methinks your favourites part time drama teacher embarrassed himself wth his blackface antics long ago However he embarassed us all actig like Mr Dressup in India N'esy Pas?

 

 

Michael Winiarz

Reply to @Kyle Woodman: Pierre Pollivre has absolutely no record of employment, at least that I could find.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

John Noble

Looking for a good solid law and order conservative party. This ain't it.

 

 

David Amos 

Reply to @John Noble: Oh So True

 

 

 

Michael G. McKay

If the Hon. member of Parliament for New Brunswick truly supports our truckers convoy and what their purpose is, then he needs to support his fellow New Brunswick or‘s, and all Canadians, and so does his party to drop and nullify all apparatus concerning Covid the QR codes must be destroyed no more vaccine proof of vaccine by coercion vaccinated, and unvaccinated people must be treated equally and not treated as one against the other. If this is his true belief then I support him.

 

 

Alexandro Leikastro

Reply to @Michael G. McKay:
It must be done, the sooner the better.

 

 

David Amos 

Reply to @Alexandro Leikastro: Yup

 

 

Darnell Stuffer

Reply to @Alexandro Leikastro: Agreed. It must be done. Time to move the protest to New Brunswick.

 

 

Alexandro Leikastro

Reply to @Darnell Stuffer:
Hehe. Good luck with this.

 

 

Marcel Belanger

Reply to @Michael G. McKay: you have a university degree ????????????

 

 

David Amos

Reply to @Marcel Belanger: Do You???

 

 

Marcel Belanger

Reply to @David Amos: Have I claimed that I did?? McKay has in another post on another story in this chat room.  

 

 

David Amos  

Hard telling not knowing. However when I attended UNB the wealthy lawyer Colin B MacKay who was its President was made an Officer of the Order of Canada "for his services to education" Although I was not impressed with his school and quit without getting a degree but I did get MacKay's sweet 1962 Buick Invicta with only 29 thousand miles on the clock. I often drove it down the highway named after the snobby clan from Rothesay

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Robert Knight 

Having a deja-vu type of experience, this Conservative MP sounds like the Republican psychopaths denying the January 6th insurgency.

 

 

David Amos   

Reply to @Robert Knight: Methinks your Deja Vu is much different than what many folks have perceived N'esy Pas?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

BD Morgan

Bergen was trying to pin the occupation on Trudeau then a Liberal MP reminded her of this email
"I don’t think we should be asking them to go home.”

She added: “I understand the mood may shift soon. So we need to turn this into the (prime minister’s) problem"

 

 

Al Clark

Reply to @BD Morgan: imagining Steve and Preston doing a fauci facepalm when she demonstrated control of only half the party ;-)

 

 

David Amos  

Reply to @Al Clark: Imagine Trudeau The Younger taking a long walk in the snow like his Papa Pierre did long ago 

 

 

Al Clark 

Reply to @David Amos: after the cons ejected their faint hope I don't think he'll be taking that walk for a decade or so lol

 

 

BD Morgan

Reply to @David Amos:
I think he did last Wednesday and checked his shadow, only eight more years of Trudeau.

 

 

David Amos  

Reply to @BD Morgan: Methinks the Truckers and legions of fellow Canadians in his neighbourhood are easily proving that NOW is the winter of discontent brought on Papa Pierre's strange son N'esy Pas?

 

 

BD Morgan

Reply to @David Amos:
LOL Whose discontent? The only discontented I see, once again, are the leaderless Cons. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Craig Thomas

There’s lots of diversity amongst the “truckers” - some have beards and some have goatees. And some are men!

 

 

Chuck Farley

Reply to @Craig Thomas: some are elitist with GEDs

 

 

Craig Thomas

Reply to @Chuck Farley: Too bad nobody can mandate common sense.

 

 

Robertt Avro

Reply to @Craig Thomas: But diversity has absolutely zero to do with the main issue of covid policy going forward. Why should diversity even be an issue here?

 

 

David Amos

Reply to @Craig Thomas: I agree you certainly need it

 

 

Al Clark

Reply to @Craig Thomas: some smell nice......

 

 

David Amos

Reply to @Al Clark: You should know

 

 

Al Clark

Reply to @David Amos: thanx! you do too after your annual bath 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wes Gullison

Glad I supported Stewart to become an MP!

 

 

David Amos

Reply to @Wes Gullison: Perhaps he will give you a job in Ottawa some day

 

 

Dotty Gaudet

Reply to @David Amos: Ah....that's a Liberal thing.

 

 

Al Clark

Reply to @David Amos: but alas no more shovel leaner job!!

 

 

Marguerite Deschamps

Reply to @Wes Gullison: You must be from the Chipman neck of the woods.

 

 

David Amos

Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: We first crossed paths when he was the PANB spin doctor

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Al Clark

A real brain trust in that pic, fosho! ;-)

 

 

David Amos

Reply to @Al Clark: Try again

 

 

Al Clark

Reply to @David Amos: A real brain trust in that pic, fosho! ;-) 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Al Clark

Jake would more at home in higgy's original party so maxi and maverick are his kinda people!

 

 

David Amos

Reply to @Al Clark: Spoken like a loyal Red Coat

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kyle Woodman

The PM should just march down to their shed full of jerry cans, propane tanks and fireworks and try to have a civilized conversation with them. What could possibly go wrong.

 

 

Bort Smith

Reply to @Kyle Woodman:
Sir John A got into fights on the street. Chretien throttled 2 guys.

 

 

Kyle Woodman

Reply to @Bort Smith: ok bort. The PM should get in a street fight. Will Patrick Brazeau be there. What are the rules of combat?

 

 

Bort Smith 

Reply to @Kyle Woodman:
It’s not that he should. It’s that such things come with job and power he is given.
Justin is not a head of state. He is NOT owed deference. If he can’t face angry protesters then he’s weak. It’s that simple.

 

 

Chuck Farley

Reply to @Bort Smith: nice.... same goes for the medical officers of health with protesters in front of their houses too I guess

 

 

Bort Smith

Reply to @Chuck Farley:
Politicians and powerful bureaucrats are public people. I can’t believe that needs to be explained.

 

 

Al Clark

Reply to @Bort Smith: stevey weeed in a cupboard

 

 

Al Clark

Reply to @Kyle Woodman: Justin vs PP ! I'd pay for that!!!

 

 

Chuck Farley 

Reply to @Bort Smith: with private lives - there is a time and place for everything - in front of a private residence is not one of them

 

 

Al Clark

Reply to @Bort Smith: Protesters whose main demands, over and over, are things he has zero jurisdiction over. Like me, he doesn't suffer fools gladly. Kudos

 

 

Bort Smith

Reply to @Al Clark:
International borders are his responsibility actually and secondly he’s the HEAD OF GOVERNMENT. He is ultimately responsible. Fairly or not. That’s just the way it is.

 

 

Chuck Farley

Reply to @Bort Smith: you know he can only control our side of the border yes?

 

 

Bort Smith

Reply to @Chuck Farley:
Yes, it would have been a start though.

 

 

Marguerite Deschamps

Reply to @Bort Smith: Less yellow than the 🍊🤡 down south❗

 

 

Chuck Farley

Reply to @Bort Smith: we can always vote the powerful out...I think that's how it works rather than honking your horn until they cede control to you

 

 

David Amos

Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: Yellow is Yellow

 

 

Al Clark

Reply to @David Amos: genius is genius

 

 

Al Clark

Reply to @Kyle Woodman: Im taking my plumbing torch down in case they need any plumbing done ;-)

 

 

Al Clark

Reply to @Bort Smith: IF you ever cross the border you will find nobody stops you from leaving. The other countries border patrol may not let you in though. Ever watch tv?

 

 

David Amos

Reply to @Al Clark: Not True 

 

 

Al Clark

Reply to @David Amos: absolutely true ;-) 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yves Savoie

Pierre Poilievre for PM...........

 

 

Chuck Farley

Reply to @Yves Savoie: too Elite for me!!!

 

 

Derek Hartley

Reply to @Yves Savoie: lol, soft spoken dork will lead the unfree to salvation!

 

 

Kyle Woodman

Reply to @Yves Savoie: Skippy and his $1300 Canada goose working man’s parka. A man who’s only job has been politician can’t possibly be part of the elite.

 

 

Al Clark

Reply to @Kyle Woodman: you mean like cons harper, Ford, and Moore ? It's like a key job requirement never to have had a job

 

 

David Amos

Reply to @Al Clark: Say Hey to your MP for me will ya?

 

 

Al Clark

Reply to @David Amos: I keep waiting for him to walk on my property but no such luck! :(

 

 

Al Clark

Reply to @David Amos: Your MP also.

 

 

David Amos

Reply to @Al Clark: Nope

 

 

Al Clark

Reply to @David Amos: yup! Maybe he's still mad you took away 47 of his votes though...... Careful!

 

 

David Amos

Reply to @Al Clark: Methinks everybody but you knows that Rob Moore was NEVER because I have not lived in Fundy Royal since 1987 N'esy Pas?

 

 

Al Clark

Reply to @David Amos: isn't your proudest achievement a local cable debate with Robbie?

 

 

Al Clark

Reply to @David Amos: when I voted for a different throwaway candidate because I didn't see your vid til after I voted....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bob Ols

I am sure Trudeau and his inner circle are loving this protest. It takes the attention away from runaway inflation, trillions of dollars of debt, the negative impacts of lockdowns.

 

 

Dan Coffey

Reply to @Bob Ols: they should go home then and start talking about those issues then instead

 

 

Will Van Teunen

Reply to @Bob Ols: Huh? All the stuff the Conservatives voted for?

 

 

Dan Coffey

Reply to @Will Van Teunen: shhhh everything is supposed to be Trudeau's fault

 

 

Will Van Teunen

Reply to @Dan Coffey: Great socks to boot

 

 

Bob Ols

Reply to @Dan Coffey: Why? Trudeau has had it too easy sitting in his cottage and failing to show up at Parliament. It was well past time this occurred.

 

 

Bob Ols

Reply to @Will Van Teunen: meh...not that great! lol

 

 

Dan Coffey

Reply to @Bob Ols: right. its all Trudeau's fault eh.

 

 

Bort Smith

Reply to @Dan Coffey:
He is the head of government. SO he would be accountable.

 

 

David Amos

Reply to @Bob Ols: I agree furthermore it has decimated their opposition

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Craig Thomas

These “truckers” are trying their hardest to turn the Canadian flag into a symbol of ignorance and hate.

 

 

David Amos

Reply to @Craig Thomas: BS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Al Clark

Had a laugh at one of the "truckers" educating a reporter about spring brakes. "All 18 wheels are locked, can't move em" The reporter lapped it up.
Give me a loaded dump truck and a tow strap and I'll drag any empty ones anywhere you want in ten minutes, twenty if it's loaded and some springs need to be caged. Warning to grampy back in alberta that owns that pete; I won't be too careful ;-)

 

 

Steve Maclean

Reply to @Al Clark: I laughed at that alsoo

 

 

Bob Smith

Reply to @Al Clark: The towing companies have been intimidated by truckers. The same folks who say "freedom" want to stop towers if they are asked to do their business

 

 

Al Clark

Reply to @Bob Smith: That's why you need p,,,ed off truckers like me with a tow strap and and a dump truck!

 

 

David Amos

Reply to @Al Clark: Yea right

 

 

Al Clark 

Reply to @David Amos: soo right! Thanx!

 

 

Paul North 

Reply to @Al Clark: I like that idea. go get 'em Al.
Removing their commercial licenses seems a good idea , too. Is that not Provincial jurisdiction, though?

 

 

David Amos

Reply to @Steve Maclean :Higgy et al know why I am laughing at you all

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

George Smith

Do the math the first wave of protesters (occupationists) in Ottawa numbered .026 of the Canadian Population. Across the country it's still less than 1 or 2% of Canadians involved. Don't you think it strange the Republicans in the USA are pushing these protests and donating large sums and are suing Go Fund Me for stopping the funds. The politicians are correct to not engage these people in any dialog. They certainly don't represent enough Canadians to make changes to the rules that well over 80% have obeyed. 

 

 

David Amos

Reply to @George Smith: Yea right

 

 

George Smith

Reply to @David Amos:
Glad to see you agree. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pete Moss

Take your issue up with the politician, don't hold innocent people hostage. Disgusting.

 

 

Alexandro Leikastro

Reply to @Pete Moss:
How?

 

 

Mike Delaney

Reply to @Alexandro Leikastro: vote them out legitimately

 

 

Bob Ols

Reply to @Mike Delaney: Protests are allowable methods of expressing our opinions. Just ask any indigenous Canadian!

 

 

Alexandro Leikastro

Reply to @Mike Delaney:
They can not wait that long, but I am partially agree with this.

 

  

Bob Ols

Reply to @Pete Moss: Protests are allowable methods of expressing our opinions. Just ask any other Canadian that has participated in a protest!

 

 

Dan Coffey

Reply to @Alexandro Leikastro: so if a small fraction of people dont like the government that means you dont need to wait for a legitimate election?

 

 

Alexandro Leikastro

Reply to @Dan Coffey:
They waited for a long 2 years and they running out of patience.
They are not government or office workers who did not miss a single paycheck.

 

 

Dan Coffey

Reply to @Alexandro Leikastro: so that makes ignoring democracy legit i guess. Its not like the government provided any money to lose who lost their job during the pandemic.

 

 

Dave Mack

Reply to @Alexandro Leikastro: two, long years. Wow. The folks who endured the depression would surely be impressed by such grit. Right after that they endured several years of war. Yes sir. Those folks would certainly admire these truckers. I bet the people who spent five years in a German POW camp would certainly admire them.

 

 

Alexandro Leikastro

Reply to @Dave Mack:
I understand what they doing and why. But who I really not admire is the our government. They are the reason why it happened, the truckers are just consequences.

 

 

Robert Taylor

Reply to @Pete Moss: - how do you take your issue up with politicians that will not show their faces?

 

 

Mike Delaney

Reply to @Robert Taylor: with your votes - sheesh

 

 

Lily O'Loughlin 

Reply to @Bob Ols: True. I've participated in lots of protests but I didn't arrive there in a semi-truck.

 

 

Lily O'Loughlin 

Reply to @Alexandro Leikastro: No, their "freedumb" is why it happened

 

 

Lily O'Loughlin

Reply to @Bob Ols: Yes, they are allowable methods of expressing our opinions, but not with hundreds of semi-trucks spewing fumes and honking horns for 11 days.

 

 

David Amos

Reply to @Bob Ols: Hear Here

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

BD Morgan

Conservative's complaining in the House over the supply chain problems and the lack of access to health care caused by COVID while people block hospitals and roadways where ambulances need to travel.

 

 

David Amos

Reply to @BD Morgan: Nay not so

 

 

BD Morgan 

Reply to @David Amos:
Did I mention blocking access to fire truck? Add that one.

 

 

Derek Hartley

Reply to @BD Morgan: arsonists as well

 

 

BD Morgan

Reply to @Derek Hartley:
Arson and no clear route for fire trucks. And an MP is out supporting these people.

 

 

David Amos

Reply to @BD Morgan: Nope and many MPs are supporting the Truckers and legions of associates

 

 

BD Morgan

Reply to @David Amos:
Conservative MPs and Canadians won't forget.

 

 

David Amos

Reply to @BD Morgan: Nor will I

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jim Green

That's a pretty fringe-looking minority in that photo of the protest.

 

 

David Amos 

Reply to @Jim Green: They made cringe and grin at the same time

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Julie Robichaud

Wear your mask if you want to. Dont wear it if you dont want to.
Get your vaccine if you want. Get your 8th booster if you want. Dont get it if you dont want.
Whats so hard in doing just that ? Body autonomy.

 

 

Steve Maclean 

Reply to @Julie Robichaud: now I’m calling bs that you work in a hospital

 

 

Dan Coffey 

Reply to @Julie Robichaud: you dont want to wear mask, dont go to places that require you to wear one. Whats so hard in doing just that?

 

 

David Amos 

Reply to @Steve Maclean : There was no bs in that very legitimate question

 

 

Bob Smith 

Reply to @Steve Maclean : Oh, she'll claim anything and everything to "legitimize" her pov.

 

 

Steve Maclean  

Reply to @David Amos: you missed the question…

 

 

Julie Robichaud 

Reply to @Steve Maclean : i dont!

 

 

David Amos 

Reply to @Steve Maclean : Nope You did "Whats so hard in doing just that ?"

 

 

Steve Maclean  

Reply to @David Amos: your in the wrong conversation

 

 

Steve Maclean  

Reply to @Julie Robichaud: I’m patient in the mental ward I get it

 

 

Julie Robichaud

Reply to @Dan Coffey: my kids dont deserve the nonsense of wearing a mask all dag in school, outside and in gym class.

 

 

David Amos 

Reply to @Steve Maclean : Now I’m calling bs on YOU

 

 

David Amos 

Reply to @Julie Robichaud: I agree

 

 

Julie Robichaud

Or sitting in class at their desks for lunch. Without a mask. But they have to put it on again right after. You know, cause you cant get infected if you're eating.

 

 

David Amos 

Reply to @Steve Maclean : Of that I have no doubt but when did Higgy let you near a computer?

 

 

Julie Robichaud

Reply to @Derek Hartley: in the case of r @ p e , yes.

 

 

Derek Hartley 

Reply to @Julie Robichaud: That's not body autonomy silly

 

 

Julie Robichaud 

Reply to @Derek Hartley: Body autonomy is the right for a person to govern what happens to their body without external influence or coercion

 

 

Julie Robichaud 

Reply to @Derek Hartley: what someone does to their body is none of my concern. But i could only justify that reason for me. But anyone if free to do what they want.

 

 

David Amos 

Reply to @Julie Robichaud: I try my best to defend the unborn

 

 

David Amos 

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Reply to @Julie Robichaud: BTW my latest tally is approaching 400 deleted comments

 

 

Julie Robichaud 

Reply to @David Amos: id try to talk to them, but at the end of it, its still their body.

 

 

Dave Mack 

Reply to @Julie Robichaud: then keep them home.

 

 

Julie Robichaud 

Reply to @Dave Mack: thats what im doing !

 

 

David Amos 

Reply to @Julie Robichaud: Good for you

 

 

Dave Mack

Reply to @David Amos: what about the right of women to bodily autonomy? What about a women's freedom to choose?

 

 

David Amos

Reply to @Dave Mack: What about it?

Derek Hartley 

Reply to @Julie Robichaud: I agree, not sure why you're perverting that...oh yeah, wait, I got it, dropped on head instead of ab0rted, lol

 

 

Julie Robichaud

Reply to @Derek Hartley: huh ?

 

 

Derek Hartley 

Reply to @Julie Robichaud: exactly

 

 

Lily O'Loughlin

Reply to @Julie Robichaud: I feel sorry for your kids. You don't seem to care if they get covid.

 

 

David Amos

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Reply to @Lily O'Loughlin: I feel sorry for your kids

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pat Chambers-Dalpe

Disgraceful. Jake do you support the burning of the Canada flag 🇨🇦 too. Do you support urinating on the unknown soldiers grave too. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_Convoy_2022?fbclid=IwAR1Xib7fs3eMmRS_rS_4COsm2N3VuVvVjdXYVkgE1yHYuPINfuY-wAAlyFE

 

 

David Amos

Reply to @Pat Chambers-Dalpe: Spin much?

 

 

Julie Robichaud

Reply to @Pat Chambers-Dalpe: the burning of the canadian flag was done from someone within the government. People were begging the cops to stop it and they stood there and did nothing, saying it wasnt illegal ! I was there.

 

 

Tom Lubas

Reply to @Pat Chambers-Dalpe: good thing we have livestreams to actually report what happened. The media spin is nasty and those responsible for these articles will be held accountable.

 

 

David Amos 

Reply to @Tom Lubas: Oh So True

 

 

Abraham Bellingham

Reply to @Tom Lubas: How will they be held accountable?

 

 

David Amos

Reply to @Abraham Bellingham: I sued the Crown once already

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Paul Miller

have we reached that point, where every politician can longer speak from conscience, but must support the only "acceptable" view?

 

 

David Amos 

Reply to @Paul Miller: Its always been that way

 

 

Marcel Belanger

Reply to @Paul Miller: We have not AND neither have we reached the point where we have to accept what the politicians are saying or doing. Works both ways, it’s democracy.

 

 

Paul Miller

Reply to @Marcel Belanger: no, what is going on is not democracy; it is tyranny. Something has snapped. Bodily autonomy is not a democracy issue. Full stop.

 

 

David Amos

Reply to @Paul Miller: I concur

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Julie Robichaud

I spend 5 days at the protest and there is nothing but love going on ! Even with the cops ! ❤️❤️ Its amazing to see everyone united, as one. No race, no religion, no vaxx vs unvaxx. Just love !

 

 

Anthony Gracey

Reply to @Julie Robichaud: Hopefully one day you're arrested for offering material support to these hostage takers.

 

 

Julie Robichaud

Reply to @Anthony Gracey: sending love and positivity your way too ! 🥰🥰

 

 

JOhn D Bond

Reply to @Julie Robichaud: What a crock.

 

 

David Amos 

Reply to @Julie Robichaud: LMAO

 

 

David Amos 

Reply to @JOhn D Bond: Everybody knows you are

 

 

Anthony Gracey

Reply to @Julie Robichaud: take it with you to your lovely new jail cell.

 

 

claude bourgeois

Reply to @Julie Robichaud: Get real Julie. We aren't buying that! We all saw what is going on in Ottawa. Shameful, unCanadian.

 

 

Julie Robichaud

Reply to @claude bourgeois: what you saw first hand, or on the news ? Lol because we even seen the MSM preparing scenes to film, and shoo'ed them away.

 

 

Julie Robichaud

Reply to @Anthony Gracey: no jail cells at all. And only 2 arrests were made last night during the big "state of emergency " raid.

 

 

Tom Lubas

Reply to @Julie Robichaud: good on you Julie. You know what side of history you’d like to be remembered. Its disgusting the image mainstream media is painting.

 

 

Jack Bean

Reply to @Julie Robichaud: l find it rather odd that you say love and peace . You have people that can’t go to work because of your love and peace. People that can’t feel comfortable in there own homes because of love and peace.

May l Park my truck in front of your home a blast my hour every hour ?

 

 

Tom Lubas

What about the rest of us fringe who’s lives have been DEVESTATED with these ineffective mandates huh?

 

 

David Amos 

Reply to @Jack Bean : Feel free to come to my place My dog and I would like to meet you

 

 

Jack Bean

Reply to @Tom Lubas: How has your life been devastated please enlighten us!

 

 

Julie Robichaud

Reply to @Jack Bean : cant make more noise than my 5 kids ! Lol and no roads are completely blocked off either. The homeless are fed and dressed too ! There is absolutely no violence from our side. I seen a few opposed trying to get in peoples faces and racial slurs, but other than that, all good.

 

 

Tom Lubas

Reply to @Jack Bean : come and talk to your fellow Canadians at whatever nearest protest you reside in. There’s many stories.

 

 

Jack Bean

Reply to @David Amos: lol you see it is all right fit you to do it to other people but heaven for it it should happen to you.

What happened to your love and peace?

I really don’t think you would like to meet me l am really not the most pleasant person!

 

 

Addie lingley

Reply to @Julie Robichaud: please come back down to earth

 

 

claude bourgeois

Reply to @Julie Robichaud: A few racial slurs are too many! Shameful!

 

 

Tom Lubas

Reply to @claude bourgeois: but those reflect the individual and their poor judgement, no?

 

 

Julie Robichaud

Reply to @claude bourgeois: racial slurs from the opposite side !

 

 

Tom Lubas

Reply to @Julie Robichaud: truth be told, the counter protesters were the ones with nasty petty attitudes and insults, not the patriot protesters.

 

 

Julie Robichaud

Reply to @Tom Lubas: exactly ! The counter protesters and paid protesters are the worst !! So cruel !

 

 

claude bourgeois

Reply to @Tom Lubas: Patriots? Using Trump language now Tom?

 

 

claude bourgeois

Reply to @Julie Robichaud: If you are so against the Main Stream Media, why are you constantly posting on CBC?

 

 

David Amos 

Reply to @Jack Bean : Clearly you are not the Jack Bean I know in Fundy Royal

 

 

Julie Robichaud

Reply to @claude bourgeois: to defend myself and my brothers and sisters fighting alongside me ! To try to make at least 1 person see the truth and see the mess MSM is doing.

 

 

David Amos 

Reply to @Julie Robichaud: Ditto

 

 

claude bourgeois

Reply to @Julie Robichaud: Well they are letting you post your version of events, so they can't be that bad, right?

 

 

David Amos

Reply to @claude bourgeois: Dream on

 

 

Winchester Brookskie

Reply to @claude bourgeois: You're suffering from really bad cerebral hypoxia! Open your windows, go breath some fresh air!

 

 

Julie Robichaud

Reply to @claude bourgeois: takes about 6 tries for my comments to be approved. How many of yours get banned ?

 

 

Billy Joe Mcallister

Reply to @claude bourgeois: Oh? Were you there for 5 days as well? If you think you know because of what you saw on TV, you have my sympathies.

 

 

Tom Lubas

Reply to @claude bourgeois: why does the word patriots get tied to anything American?

I don’t understand your comment Claude.

 

 

Tom Lubas

Reply to @Billy Joe Mcallister: the protestors are amazing Canadians.

The counter protestors seemed rotten imo. They were very confused and we’re only able to reiterate what the media headlines say, not their beliefs.

George Orwell was quiet right….

 

 

Clifford Toland

Reply to @David Amos: So how does Crazy Amos not get banned for making violent threats here?

 

 

Julie Robichaud

Reply to @Tom Lubas: their chant 2 days ago was " wear your mask !!"

 

 

David Amos 

Reply to @Clifford Toland: Pure D BS

 

 

Billy Joe Mcallister

Reply to @claude bourgeois: Maybe it's because her tax dollars are paying for it and it is hers as much as yours? Just a wild guess..

 

 

Billy Joe Mcallister

Reply to @David Amos: No I think he' Jack bean as in Jack and the bean stock. You know the guy who traded his family's only source of food and income for a handful of "magic beans"...in this case cow= freedoms and beans= vaccine mandates

 

 

Billy Joe Mcallister

Reply to @Tom Lubas: As was PT Barnham,.

 

 

David Amos

Reply to @Billy Joe Mcallister: I have no doubt that he is not the Jack Bean I know because my dog would like the real one

 

 

David Amos

Reply to @Billy Joe Mcallister: BTW I doubt that is your real name as well

 

 

David Amos

Reply to @Billy Joe Mcallister: Old PT once said "People want to see a circus so you give them a circus"

Methinks Higgy has been giving his fans what they wished for with an incredible roster of clowns N'esy Pas?

 

 

Gary Christopher

Reply to @Julie Robichaud: When does your cerb money run out?? 

 

 

David Amos

Reply to @Gary Christopher: Did yours?

 

 

Julie Robichaud 

Reply to @Gary Christopher: i never stopped working or even qualified for it.

 

 

Curtis Jacobson

Reply to @Julie Robichaud: And you're attacked. Your peaceful message of your experience that you saw with your own eyes, met with attacks and negativity from those who have no personal experience at all. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

Panelopy Schriver

Trudeau has been supportive of questionable protests in past that lead a negative impact!

 

 

David Amos

Reply to @Panelopy Schriver: When he took a knee I was embarrassed by the fact he was our PM

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wayne Mac Arthur 

It appears to me, from what I have seen and read that Mr Stewart got the photo op he was seeking.

 

 

Larry Brien

Reply to @Wayne Mac Arthur:

 

 

Larry Brien

Reply to @Wayne Mac Arthur: Yeah needed an issue to finally become a legend in his own mind.

 

 

David Amos

Reply to @Wayne Mac Arthur: I concur

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Michael Collins

The unvaccinated continue to fill the ICU units at hospitals and they still deny the vaccines effectiveness. And the politicians go where they see an opportunity for some votes. Pierre Poilievre will take the party to the far right and those like Jake Stewart will blindly follow, just as Trump has his mindless followers in the U.S.. Extremism seems to be the way of politics these days, Trudeau leans far left and Poilievre leans far right. Oh for a party and leader that puts the country and people first. Alas it seems to be "what's in it for me".

 

 

Wally E. Bamberger

Reply to @Michael Collins: "The unvaccinated continue to fill the ICU units ... " Do you have verifiable data that supports this?

 

 

Michael Collins

Reply to @Wally E. Bamberger: Just read the numbers daily, they are posted for many locations.

 

 

Winston Smith

Reply to @Michael Collins: I guess it's all in how you interpret them, eh?

 

 

Craig Chisholm

Reply to @Michael Collins: I guess your reading skill need updating - maybe finish grade 6 before you comment.

 

 

David Amos

Reply to @Wally E. Bamberger: Good question

 

 

David Amos

Reply to @Winston Smith: Methinks its difficult for one interpret political BS in order to come up with a honest number N'esy Pas?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

danny rugg

Shake your head - the folks that elected this guy. Was there a sale on Golden Nut?

 

 

David Amos

Reply to @danny rugg: Spoken like a loyal Red Coat 

 

 

Al Clark

Reply to @David Amos: methinks it is a surprise. Surprise surprise to be welcoming this new phrase to the 🎪, messy paws?? 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Michel Pelletier

Mr Steward is not a leader is a follower. Out you will be at the next election.

 

 

David Amos

Reply to @Michel Pelletier: Methinks it would not be wise to bet the farm on that opinion N'esy Pas? 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ken Dwight 

The power of the vote Mr. Stewart will ensure you are back to whatever you did before politics. The fact you endorsed a former Harper hardliner should wake a few people up in the Miramichi I'm sure.

 

 

Greg Miller

Reply to @Ken Dwight: I don't support Mr. Stewart's actions either but for goodness sake get over Harper.

 

 

Michael Cain

Reply to @Greg Miller: hard to forget Harper when all his Neanderthals are still there

 

 

Eugene Peabody

Reply to @Ken Dwight: He shows a extremely poor sense of judgement in the facts,his new friends and his choice for the new leader of his party. About the only thing he got right was that most truckers are good people.

 

 

Tony Butler

Reply to @Ken Dwight: If neither Stewart or PP were aware of Pat King's involvement in spearheading this occupation or the insurrectionist manifesto stated the occupations objectives it implies a naivete I would find surprising in either MP. But if it is a real characteristic of either MP they should step back from any leadership role until they educate themselves on what was actually happening from the inception of the Freedom Convoy.

If they were aware and still decided to associate themselves with Mr King and the manifesto - which is in essence the actual purpose of the occupation - it foretells a disturbing future for the Conservative Party of Canada if either get close to the levers of gov't power.

FWIW: Senator Patterson, a loyal footsoldier for Harper, found both Bergen and PP's endorsement of the occupation with its opposition to vaccines and mandates along with the tenor and ambitions of those of the extreme hard core caucus a road too far to travel for his conscience, ethics and morality.

If that doesn't highlight just how extreme PP is viewed with the Conservative caucus..

 

 

Guy Stone

Reply to @Ken Dwight: the Canadian media - no comment. Watch the videos on line and international media. Very peaceful and hundreds of thousands across Canada.

 

 

Carl Roaden

Reply to @Ken Dwight: Oh no! not a Harper hardliner?

 

 

David Amos

Reply to @Ken Dwight: Methinks Higgy chuckled as much as I did when he saw that photo N'esy Pas?

 

 

Darnell Stuffer

Reply to @Guy Stone: Oh yes Guy, very peaceful protesters. Pelting rocks at ambulances and harassing healthcare workers. Keeping every awake at night from their relentless honking. Google "ottawa protesters throwing rocks at ambulance" - what a bizarre group of 'people'.

 

 

David Amos

Reply to @Darnell Stuffer: Dream on

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/pierre-poilievre-running-for-conservative-leadership-1.6341335

 

 

Pierre Poilievre becomes first MP to bid for Conservative Party leadership

Party's Quebec lieutenant quits role to back unnamed 'progressive' leadership candidate that can 'unite' party

 

Darren Major · CBC News · Posted: Feb 05, 2022 7:33 PM ET 

 

 

Conservative MP Pierre Poilievre, shown during question period in Ottawa, is entering the race to become leader of the party. (Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press)

Ottawa-area MP Pierre Poilievre has announced he will officially seek the leadership of the federal Conservative Party.

Poilievre made the announcement in a video he shared via Twitter on Saturday evening that also takes aim at Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

"Trudeau thinks he's your boss. He's got it backwards. You are the boss. That's why I'm running for prime minister," he said in the video.

Poilievre, 42, becomes the first candidate seeking to replace Erin O'Toole, who was voted out as leader earlier this week.

Born in Calgary, Poilievre has been MP for the Ottawa riding of Carleton since 2004, and held a number of cabinet positions under then Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

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In his video, Poilievre criticizes the government's spending, saying "they're spending more than any time since World War II, so they control more of what you earn and you control less."

Poilievre, who has served as the party's finance critic, has frequently criticized the Liberals for policies he says have fuelled inflation, which reached a 30-year high in December.

Poilievre also makes a tacit reference to the ongoing protests over vaccine mandates and other public health measures that started in Ottawa last week, but have since spread to other cities, including Toronto and Quebec City.

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"The Trudeau government has attacked small businesses, truckers and other hard-working Canadians," Poilievre says in the video.

The protests originally started as a movement against the mandate for cross-border commercial drivers to be vaccinated, but has since grown into a wider protest against public health measures.

Poilievre is one of a number of Conservative politicians who have greeted the protesters in Ottawa in person, an issue that seems to have the party divided.

Already garnering endorsements

Poilievre gained a number of endorsements minutes after announcing his candidacy on Saturday.

In reply to his tweet, former cabinet minister John Baird got behind his onetime caucus colleague, writing that Poilievre "has the brains and the backbone and will make a great Prime Minister. I am beyond thrilled to endorse him!"

A number of MPs have also started to endorse Poilievre, including Ontario's Melissa Lantsman, who was elected in the fall.

"No question — Pierre is the answer to a strong & united Conservative Party," Lantsman said in a tweet.

Alberta MP John Barlow was also quick to back Poilievre.

"He understands the issues facing western Canadians," Barlow said in a video posted on Twitter.

Here's a list of MPs who have so far endorsed Poilievre:

• Dan Albas.
• Michael Barrett.
• John Barlow.
• James Bezan.
• Michael Cooper.
• Todd Doherty.
• Marilyn Gladu.
• Michael Kram.
• Melissa Lantsman.
• Philip Lawrence.
• Jamie Schmale.
• Jake Stewart.
• Corey Tochor.
• Ryan Williams.
• Bob Zimmer.

Alain Rayes steps down as deputy party leader

A Quebec Conservative has quit his post as the party's deputy leader because he says he wants to play a role in shaping who will next lead the party. 

"My dearest wish is that the Conservative Party of Canada appoint (sic) a leader who represents the progressive values, centre-right economic (sic) and that he is able to unite all of our members around a common objective: replace the Liberal government of Justin Trudeau," Alain Rayes said in a statement.

He says he plans to support a candidate, though doesn't mention any by name. 

But by wanting to get involved in the leadership race, Rayes says he has no other choice but to step down from his positions, which included being the party's Quebec lieutenant. 

The race to replace Erin O'Toole as leader, after caucus members dumped him this week, began in earnest on Saturday when Poilievre announced his intention to run.

• Cracks appear in Conservative caucus over anti-vaccine mandate protest

The shakeup with Rayes led interim Conservative Leader Candice Bergen to appoint Quebec MP Luc Berthold as deputy leader and Quebec lieutenant. In a statement Sunday, Bergen called Berthold a well-respected member of caucus and said his experience will be an asset for the Conservatives. 

Bergen also thanked Rayes for his work and said she looked forward to continuing to work with him in the House of Commons to hold the Liberal government to account.

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Former Quebec premier Jean Charest courted by Conservative MP as possible leadership candidate

MP Alain Rayes confirms he's encouraged Charest to run, calling him a 'political machine'

 

Steve Rukavina · CBC News · Posted: Feb 07, 2022 3:03 PM ET

 

 

Former Premier Jean Charest's name is once again being floated as a potential leader for the Conservative Party of Canada. (Ivanhoe Demers/Radio-Canada)

Now that a race for the leadership of the Conservative Party of Canada is unofficially under way, former Quebec premier Jean Charest is once again being floated as a possible candidate.

Alain Rayes, MP for Richmond-Arthabaska, who up until yesterday was the party's Quebec lieutenant, told Radio-Canada's Tout Un Matin Monday that he had already spoken to Charest about the idea and that he views him as a good candidate.

Quebec MP Alain Rayes told Radio-Canada Monday that he'd already spoken to Charest about the idea of running for the leadership. (Sean Kilpatrick/Canadian Press)

"He's a political machine, an exceptional speaker who knows Quebec and who, in my eyes, would be a formidable opponent for Justin Trudeau," Rayes said.

"Does Jean Charest still have the desire? That's a question you should ask him," Rayes said.

"But clearly, I can confirm that for many people in Quebec, Jean Charest could be a strong opponent to face Justin Trudeau in an upcoming campaign."

Charest will not be granting interviews, his assistant said.

Charest vs. Poilievre?

Rayes resigned his position as the party's Quebec lieutenant Sunday, saying he would be supporting a candidate in the upcoming leadership race.

"I thought I had a responsibility to get involved in this campaign and to promote the more progressive side of several MPs and members of the party, particularly of Conservatives in Quebec," Rayes said.

• Pierre Poilievre becomes first MP to bid for Conservative Party leadership

Rayes denied that his resignation was linked to the announcement by MP Pierre Poilievre Saturday that he would be a candidate.

Conservative MP Pierre Poilievre rises during Question Period, Monday, November 29, 2021 in Ottawa. (Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press)

But Rayes said he wants a leader who is "progressive, centre-right economically, and aware of the reality of Quebec" and it's clear that Poilievre may not fit that description.

Battle 'for the soul' of the party

Jean-François Lisée, political analyst and former Parti Québécois leader, told Tout Un Matin Monday that the Conservative party is ideologically split, with Poilievre representing one camp and more progressive potential candidates, such as Charest, another.

"There are anti-Trumps and pro-Trumps," Lisée said, noting that the former U.S. president has publicly supported the ongoing anti-vaccine mandate protest on Ottawa — and so has Poilievre.

"It's going to be a leadership race for the soul of the Conservative Party, that's really it," he continued.

Former journalist and senator André Pratte agrees.

"Imagine a candidates debate between Mr. Poilièvre and Jean Charest,"  Pratte told Tout Un Matin.

"That would be quite a debate," he said. "It would be an ideological debate, but also a debate on how to do politics."

"There is this perception among some members of the Conservative Party that they can't win the 78 seats in Quebec. There is nothing to do. Quebecers will never, will ever vote for the Conservatives," Pratte said.

"Others, such as Rayes or perhaps Charest, say 'no, we need a Conservative base in Quebec and we have to seek it out,'" Pratte continued.

Rules of the race could once again play a big role

Charest was similarly courted during the Conservative's previous leadership race in 2020 and said at the time he seriously considered running. 

He ultimately decided against it, citing family reasons, some ideological differences with the party, but also the rules of the leadership contest, which he described at the time as "very strict."

"Basically, the rules were not written for an outside candidate. The deadlines are very tight, it does not give much time to recruit new members and to set up a national organization," Charest told Radio-Canada in 2020.

Lisée said once again the rules of the the eventual leadership race may play a key role in deciding whether or not Charest decides to enter the race.

"If the vote took place today, Poilievre would win," Lisée said, since Poilievre already has a solid base of support within the party.

Lisée said the longer the leadership race is, the more time Charest or other moderate candidates might have to recruit new members.

The party's executive will likely announce the formal rules for the leadership race within a few weeks.

Charest still haunted by corruption investigation

Charest comes with some political baggage. For years Quebec's anti-corruption squad, known as UPAC, has been investigating Quebec Liberal Party financing during the Charest period.

After deciding not to run in 2020, Charest accused UPAC (a unit that he created while he was premier) of going on a "fishing expedition."

Later that year he launched a lawsuit against the Quebec government over the investigation, alleging that confidential information about him and his family had been leaked to the media and his privacy had been violated.

The lawsuit and Charest's history as Quebec Liberal leader could put him at odds with current premier François Legault, whose right-of-centre Coalition Avenir Québec party remains popular despite the pandemic.

Still, even an endorsement by Legault could have limited weight — he told Quebecers before the last federal election that re-electing Justin Trudeau's Liberals would be dangerous for Quebec. His message failed to win the Conservatives any new seats.

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Charest has led the federal party before — when it was the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada — and helped nurse it back to life after it was reduced to just two seats in 1993 election. He was the party's first francophone leader until 1998, when he left to lead the Quebec Liberal Party.

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Steve Rukavina

Steve Rukavina is a journalist with CBC Montreal.

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