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Methinks many agree that MacKay's doubletalking over a tweet was too too funny and a very telling thing indeed N'esy Pas?
https://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.com/2020/02/peter-mackay-not-happy-with-tweet.html
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/grenier-mackay-polls-1.5452905
Conservative voters like Peter MacKay. Does that mean party members will, too?
Polls of party supporters give Peter MacKay a big edge over his Conservative leadership rivals
· CBC News · Posted: Feb 06, 2020 4:00 AM ET
Peter MacKay was the favoured candidate for the leadership of the federal Conservative party for 42 per cent of Conservative voters in a recent Léger poll, placing him well ahead of his rivals. (Darren Calabrese/The Canadian Press)
A recent poll suggests that Peter MacKay is the overwhelming favourite in the Conservative leadership race among Conservative voters, with more than 10 times the support of Ontario MP Erin O'Toole, his closest competitor among those who are officially in the running.
But party members, not voters, will decide who gets to win. So, do the numbers mean anything?
Conducted by Léger for the Journal de Montréal, the survey polled 1,501 Canadians and found that 42 per cent of the 402 Conservative voters interviewed think MacKay would be the best person to lead their party.
The former cabinet minister was followed, at length, by Alberta MP Michelle Rempel Garner (who says she is still thinking about a bid) at six per cent, O'Toole at four per cent, Ontario MP Marilyn Gladu at two per cent and potential social conservative candidate Richard Décarie at one per cent.
That's an enormous 36-point lead for MacKay over the rest of the field. He had 76 per cent support among those who listed a preference.
But these numbers take into account all respondents who said they intend to vote for the Conservatives. In the 2019 federal election, there were nearly 6.2 million Canadians who cast a ballot for the party.
In the last leadership race held in 2017, however, just 141,000 party members voted. Those are the people whose opinions counted.
The Léger poll provides an interesting glimpse at what the Conservative voting base thinks of the leadership contenders, but the numbers don't say much about what the outcome will actually be.
But that doesn't mean the results are completely meaningless — and it doesn't mean the O'Toole or Gladu campaigns can shrug the numbers off entirely.
Clear front-runners tend to win
It's an understatement to say that leadership polling of party supporters is a blunt instrument. In 11 federal and provincial leadership races held over the last two decades for which polling data is available (and where all members had a vote), the average difference between the final polls and the actual results was 8.3 percentage points per candidate.
And that's just the average. There are cases of discrepancies in the double digits, or even more than 20 points.
That's no fault of the polls, of course. They are sampling an entirely different population than the one that casts a ballot in leadership races. Instead, it is a stark reminder that supporters and members can often see things very differently.
But not always.
Ontario MP Erin O'Toole is mounting his second bid for the Conservative leadership after finishing third in the 2017 race. The poll put him in second place by a wide margin, with four per cent of Conservative voters who responded saying he would be the best person to lead the party. (Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press)
The batting average of leadership contestants who placed first in polls of party supporters is mixed — little better than .500. But in the cases in which the polling front-runner failed to win, their polling lead was an average of just 11 points. In cases where the front-runner did end up winning, their polling lead was an average of 37.5 points. In other words, the closer races had more unexpected results than the apparent cakewalks.
This is where things get dicey for O'Toole and Gladu. MacKay's lead looks similar to the ones posted by Justin Trudeau in the 2013 Liberal leadership race or Pierre Karl Péladeau in the 2015 Parti Québécois leadership. They utterly dominated the field in polls of party supporters and comfortably won with a majority of ballots cast in the first round of voting.
Don't you know who I am?
Name recognition plays a big role in this kind of leadership polling. Trudeau, the son of a former prime minister, was a household name in 2013. Ditto for Péladeau, head of a hugely influential media conglomerate in Quebec.
MacKay is not nearly as well known, but he is far more familiar to Conservative voters than his rivals.
A recent Ipsos poll for Global News found that only 42 per cent of Conservative supporters did not know enough about MacKay to have "an informed opinion." That compares very favourably to O'Toole's 75 per cent, Gladu's 80 per cent and 85 per cent for Derek Sloan, another Ontario MP who has declared his intention to run.
That should lessen the importance of MacKay's advantage among Conservative voters. Most people just don't know who the other candidates are.
The poll found two per cent of Conservative voters think MP Marilyn Gladu, shown arriving for a Conservative caucus retreat on Parliament Hill on Jan. 24, would be the best person to lead their party. (Justin Tang/The Canadian Press)
But that should be worrying news for O'Toole in particular. Sloan is a first-term MP and Gladu is only beginning her second term on the opposition benches.
But O'Toole has been an MP since 2012, sat in Stephen Harper's cabinet and placed third in the 2017 Conservative leadership race. His name recognition should probably be a bit higher — particularly among the people most likely to be familiar with the Conservative caucus.
And MacKay has more going for him than just name recognition, with 47 per cent of Conservative voters telling Ipsos they have a favourable view of him compared to just 11 per cent with an unfavourable view. That's a net +36 favourability rating — much better than O'Toole's +1, Sloan's -1 or Gladu's -2.
But MacKay already has more of the Conservative caucus lining up behind him — 22 MPs and senators as of Wednesday afternoon, against two for O'Toole and none for anyone else — and quickly raised the party's $300,000 entry fee.
So, it's not the latest polls that necessarily make MacKay the clear front-runner. But they certainly do add another strong argument in his favour.
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James Blatchford
If Peter MacKay is the answer, then someone better check what the question was.
David Amos
Welcome to the circus
Robert Lee
What happened with Drewpy Scheer is predictable. The smear and fear campaign reared it's head and bit Drewpy back.
MacKay's plea for sensible discourse does not work well with the Con agenda.
Another Con candidate with a thin skin.
David Amos
Reply to @Robert Lee: Welcome back to the circus
Jim Miller
Reply to @Robert Lee: low
David Amos
Reply to @Robert Lee: "MacKay's plea for sensible discourse does not work well with the Con agenda."
Methinks his silly tweet proved that in spades N'esy Pas?
David Amos
Methinks folks should never forget that MacKay answered my lawsuit (Federal Court File No. T-1557-15) while he was our Attorney General and Harper was the PM. I made it it point to prove that many liberals were made well aware of statement 83 weeks before the election of the 42nd Parliament N'esy Pas?
Karl Bueckert
Reply to @David Amos: Who cares!
David Amos
Reply to @Karl Bueckert: MacKay and Trudeau certainly do
Karl Bueckert
Reply to @David Amos: Me thinks you should stay on topic, N'esy Pas?
David Amos
Reply to @Karl Bueckert: Methinks you should find a new line of work N'esy Pas?
Luke Straus
MacKay is slimy enough to play into the reformer base and naive PC’er hands.
David Amos
Reply to @Luke
Straus: Methinks MacKay and his slimy minions are reading your comments
and everyone else's as well Trust that they don't want to be caught with
their pants down while taking over the leadership N'esy Pas?
Johnny Miles
Who is CBC kidding? No one who is Conservative wants Mackay.
David Amos
Reply to @Johnny Miles: Yea Right
Karl Bueckert
Reply to @Johnny Miles: Reformacons will take anyone they think would gain more votes regardless of their ineptness and moral values.
David Amos
Reply to @Karl Bueckert: Methinks the same can be said of your political heroes as well N'esy Pas?
Joe Arseno
The voters don't necessarily like Peter MacKay, it's just there are no options. The Conservatives are a failing party in this new world. Nobody want to go back in time but the ole grey heads of power. Soon they will pass and visions of militant states authoritarian rule will be a thing of canada's past. We are the most advanced and diverse country on the planet. The Cons just don't get it!
David Amos
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Reply to @joe arseno:
Methinks its time to back away from the the red kool aid stand and
take a walk in the fresh air N'esy Pas?
David Amos
Reply to @joe arseno: Methinks everybody knows why I disagree N'esy Pas?
David Amos
Methinks MacKay and many other Conservative lawyers must recall the email they responded to on Friday the 22nd of June 2018 Nesy Pas?
Chris Spring
We'll regret it if we choose McKay. Just sayin'
David Amos
Reply to @Chris Spring: Who is we?
Marcel Stanford
Reply to @Chris Spring: The choices are grim.
Luke Straus
Reply to @Marcel
Stanford: Grim choices have never bothered Cons before, many have posted
that they would vote for a fence post.
James Mittlefehldt
Reply to @Luke Straus: Only if painted blue.
David Amos
Reply to @Luke Straus: Methinks we should have no doubt that you did N'esy Pas?
Robert Lee
Harper and MacKay are known enemies. The rivalry date back to the Alliance/ Reform days of P Manning.
It's going to be a Battle Royale when the race heats up.
Nothing is a "gimme" with Harper.
David Amos
Reply to @Robert Lee: Dream on MacKay has the leadership in the bag
Jim Graham
Reply to @Robert Lee:
Nope. Peter "kissed the Harper ring" in 2003 .. and now he reaps his reward from "the Boss". Harper has anointed MacKay .. it's a coronation, not a race.
Brian Sexsmith
Reply to @Robert Lee:
I tend to disagree - Harper wouldn't have enjoyed a decade of trashing our democracy if it were't for turncoat MacKay's delivering him the PC party on a platter. Harper's ego would prevent him from ever feeling indebted to Peter but I wouldn't think he's considered 'the enemy'.
I tend to disagree - Harper wouldn't have enjoyed a decade of trashing our democracy if it were't for turncoat MacKay's delivering him the PC party on a platter. Harper's ego would prevent him from ever feeling indebted to Peter but I wouldn't think he's considered 'the enemy'.
David Amos
Reply to @Jim Graham:
I Wholeheartedly Agree Sir However methinks things could get very
interesting indeed if his old buddy Baird were to step up to the plate
like their pal Jason is alluding to in order to take the spotlight off
himself N'esy Pas?
Buford Wilson
Peter will be PM within 18 months.
Canadians want Strong National Leadership again.
David Amos
Reply to @Buford Wilson: Methinks it would not be wise to bet the farm on your opinion N'esy Pas?
Luke Straus
Reply to @Buford Wilson: And Scheer will have a majority.....yeah, we remember your posts.
David Amos
Reply to @Luke Straus: Methinks we should remember yours as well N'esy Pas?
James Blatchford
I must say, it’s not a very inspiring field. The memories of MacKay seem to come back to helicopter helmets, and thin excuses for hoping around with military flight crews. And muck-ups over fighter jets. So, unless I’m missing something, what has he done besides having strong name recognition because of his Dad?
David Amos
Reply to @james blatchford: Rien N'esy Pas?
Martin kaneva
Reply to @james blatchford: Belinda Caroline Stronach
James Blatchford
Reply to @Martin kaneva: ah!
David Amos
Reply to @Martin kaneva: Methinks that wannabe leader billionaire dumping Petey then turning coat to become a liberal cabinet minister and savie Martin's mandate is MacKay's greatest claim to political fame Duffy and many other elderly political pundits or anyone else can Google my name and the following "Cato Iceland Petey Baby Belinda Don Amos Bobby Fischer" in order to review why Belinda did such a wicked deed N'esy Pas?
Martin Kaneva
May 29, 2015.
After nearly 20 years in federal politics, Justice Minister Peter MacKay will step down this fall to focus on his "young and growing family."
My love of this job and all it entails remains strong, but the love for my family is stronger," he said.
Calling it a "bittersweet day," MacKay said, "part of me regrets that I will not be in the fray" of the next federal election but "simply put, I love my family more."
William VanGerven
Reply to @Martin
kaneva: he can double dip the taxpayers if he wins. Salaries and pension
at the same time. Money is more important than his young family.
David Amos
Reply to @Martin
kaneva: Methinks MacKay's partners in Baker & McKenzie have grown
tired of of all the hell I have been raising about Mackay and the
lawsuit he answered in his last days as our Attorney General N'esy Pas?
Brian Sexsmith
Reply to @Martin kaneva:
Maybe he thinks the party will pay for his kids to attend elite private schools.
Allan Baker
Mackay is so easily influenced...leaving a country in the hands of a foggy brained whimp would be our worst nightmare!
Jim Lewis
Reply to @Allan Baker: Try and keep up... foggy brained whimp is were we are NOW
David Amos
Reply to @Jim Lewis:
True Methinks many Maritimers would agree that the lawyer MacKay has a
kettle of fish that is far more smelly than the one the whimpy dude from
Quebec has been trying to sell us N'esy Pas?
Jim Taylor
The CPC is just the Republican Party North. MacKay destroyed the original Canadian Tory Party. I wouldn't trust MacKay enough to give him money to buy coffee for the office staff.
David Amos
Reply to @Jim Taylor: Methinks many Maritimers agree with you N'esy Pas?
Chris Williams
Mackay is a reformer thru and thru with an edge of Trump...look how his handlers shut down the interview when a reporter asked about Mackay's Trumpian tweet. They are going to control the narrative to hide Mackay's true nature...don't be fooled... these cons are pure Harpersatan!
David Amos
Reply to @Chris
Williams: Methinks many agree that MacKay's doubletalking over a tweet
was too too funny and a very telling thing indeed N'esy Pas?
Phyllis Leighton
Let’s get John Baird in there.
Brian Sexsmith
David Amos
Reply to @Brian Sexsmith: Of that I have no doubt
Neil Gregory
Peter Mackay sold out the old Progressive Conservative Party to Stephen Harper's crowd of right-wing fanatics. I don't trust him not to sell out Canadian interests to some foreign power.
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David Amos
Reply to @Neil Gregory: Methinks MacKay did that years ago He made a particular point of it when he pranced around the Maritimes flirting with the war mongering Yankee Condoleezza Rice N''esy Pas?
James Holden
Most Canadians don't want Mackay as PM.
He sold out the PC's for personal gain.
That will not be forgotten.
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David Amos
Reply to @James Holden: Methinks many would agree that MacKay is willing to bet that most Canadians never even knew it in the first place N'esy Pas?
Erin Grey
Its like trying to pick the best from a basket of rotten apples.
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David Amos
Reply to @Erin Grey: Well put
Phyllis Leighton
Let’s get John Baird in there.
Brian Sexsmith
Reply to @Phyllis Leighton:
He probably misses his personally designed gold embossed business cards and vacations with his posse of pals at overseas Canadian embassies.
He probably misses his personally designed gold embossed business cards and vacations with his posse of pals at overseas Canadian embassies.
David Amos
Reply to @Phyllis
Leighton: I Wholeheartedly Agree Methinks that Baird versus MacKay would
make for a very enjoyable circus to watch N'esy Pas?
David Amos
Reply to @Brian Sexsmith: Of that I have no doubt
Neil Gregory
Peter Mackay sold out the old Progressive Conservative Party to Stephen Harper's crowd of right-wing fanatics. I don't trust him not to sell out Canadian interests to some foreign power.
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David Amos
Reply to @Neil Gregory: Methinks MacKay did that years ago He made a particular point of it when he pranced around the Maritimes flirting with the war mongering Yankee Condoleezza Rice N''esy Pas?
James Holden
Most Canadians don't want Mackay as PM.
He sold out the PC's for personal gain.
That will not be forgotten.
Show 4 older replies
David Amos
Reply to @James Holden: Methinks many would agree that MacKay is willing to bet that most Canadians never even knew it in the first place N'esy Pas?
Erin Grey
Its like trying to pick the best from a basket of rotten apples.
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David Amos
Reply to @Erin Grey: Well put
Don Pooley
"It's Stephen Harper's party - and he'll do what he wants to" So said Kory Teneycke two weeks ago on the subject of moving the party left. MacKay has been chosen to present a more progressive look , but make no mistake, he is fully in the Harper fold.
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David Amos
Reply to @Don Pooley: I Wholeheartedly Agree Sir
Cora Westbay
Peter Mackay isn't in charge of Peter Mackay!. Why would Canadians put any faith in a guy that can't even control the message. Last week he didn't like a tweet his staff put out but wouldn't take it down, maybe wasn't allowed?. Last week his team cut him off during a TV interview, he rolled over and played dead. Peter, just not ready to be a Prime Minister!
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David Amos
Reply to @Cora Westbay: Methinks many folks are still laughing about that circus over a mindless tweet N'esy Pas?
JOHN CHUCKMAN
I just do not think MacKay has what it takes, the "Right Stuff."
I don't know whether he would have the merit of getting rid of Trudeau, but he's proved over years of different responsibilities that his talents for actually governing are weak.
One glaring example, as Defence Minister, he agreed to purchase the totally unsuitable (for Canada's situation) and costly F-35. They even did photo-ops of him in a mock-up of the plane on stage. He looked silly.
He was given some Mickey Mouse award by the Pentagon to thank him too
David Amos
Reply to @JOHN
CHUCKMAN: Methinks many would agree that MacKay and Trudeau are two peas
in a pod They only reason we even know who they are is because of what
their wealthy political Daddy's did for their benefit not ours N'esy
Pas?
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David Raymond Amos @DavidRayAmos
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My latest Comment about MacKay's Minions reading CBC was disabled twice but the 3rd time is a charm thus far N'esy Pas?
https://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.com/2020/02/peter-mackay-not-happy-with-tweet.html
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/mackay-trudeau-yoga-tweet-conservative-leadership-1.5450245
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Methinks folks should never forget that Mackay answered my lawsuit (Federal Court File No. T-1557-15 while he was our Attorney General and Trudeau was well aware of statement 83 N'esy Pas?
https://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.com/2020/02/peter-mackay-not-happy-with-tweet.html
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/mackay-trudeau-yoga-tweet-conservative-leadership-1.5450245
Peter MacKay 'not happy' with tweet needling Trudeau over yoga expenses
Conservative leadership candidate says he wants his campaign to have a more 'civilized' tone
· CBC News · Posted: Feb 03, 2020 3:01 PM ET
Conservative leadership candidate Peter MacKay greets supporters at a meet and greet event in Ottawa Jan. 26, 2020. (Justin Tang/THE CANADIAN PRESS)
Peter MacKay was "not happy" with a tweet issued by his leadership team poking fun at Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's yoga habit, the Conservative leadership candidate told CBC News today.
The tweet — from MacKay's verified account — shows a photo of Trudeau performing a yoga move on a desk on Parliament Hill. The caption says that "while running for leader of the Liberal Party,
Trudeau's campaign expensed $876.95 in yoga sessions and spa bills for Justin Trudeau. Liberals can't be trusted."
While running for leader of the Liberal Party, Trudeau’s campaign expensed $876.95 in yoga sessions and spa bills for Justin Trudeau.
Liberals can’t be trusted.
Liberals can’t be trusted.
10:55 AM - Feb 1, 2020
MacKay said he wants to maintain a "civilized" tone in his campaign for the Conservative leadership and thinks that tweet crossed a line. But he said he won't apologize for it or take it down.
"Well, it's factual, but I want to keep the tone civilized," he said. "I want to keep the tone about solutions. I want to move to a better place and a better discourse. And so ... I am not happy at the way that was put up on my site. And I voiced that to my team.
"I didn't have eyes on that (tweet). And you know, that happens in the early days of a campaign. We're getting our messaging and our communication down. I'm travelling about the country and we have people on the ground making certain decisions, and so we've tightened that up now to a better approval process."
MacKay himself has been attacked in the past over spending decisions. In July 2010, when he was the minister of defence, MacKay was airlifted by a search and rescue helicopter from a private fishing lodge near Gander, N.L. so he could catch a flight back for a government announcement. The Cormorant helicopter used to transport MacKay cost $32,000 an hour to operate; MacKay's trip to the airport took 25 minutes, including a 15-minute hoist exercise.
Aggressive messaging
MacKay insisted again today that was an appropriate use of government resources. "The reality is I was a government minister using a government asset to do government work, and that's an entirely different scenario than the one that was pointed out," he said.
Since the leadership race got underway, both MacKay's campaign and the one supporting Ontario MP Erin O'Toole's leadership run have been sending out some pugnacious messages online.
O'Toole, for example, has been urging his supporters to "take Canada back" and is accusing the Trudeau Liberals of seeking to "control news you read online" — an apparent reference to an expert panel's report on streaming services and media licensing.
Trudeau wants to control what you see on Netflix.
Trudeau wants to control news you read online.
This is wrong. This is dangerous.
Let’s take back Canada. Join our fight: https://erinotoole.ca
3:29 PM - Feb 2, 2020
Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault appeared before reporters today to walk back comments he made over the weekend that seemed to indicate the government plans to license media outlets. "Our government has no intention to impose licensing requirements on news organizations, nor will we try to regulate news content," Guilbeault said Monday.
Michelle Austin, head of government and policy relations at Twitter Canada, said an aggressive tone online won't serve leadership candidates in the long run.
"I think Canadians want from the Conservative Party a bigger conversation and a more inclusive conversation. I believe that is the message that they received from the 2019 election," she said. "So I think, if it was me advising them, I would use platforms like Twitter to launch themselves but also to engage in a conversation.
"Talk about new ideas, talk about new strategies, talk about how you're going to win. I wouldn't go as negative as fast."
MacKay is considered the frontrunner in the leadership race. A recent Léger poll of Conservative voters (though not necessarily of all party members) gives MacKay 42 per cent support, against just six per cent for Michelle Rempel Garner, four per cent for O'Toole and two per cent for Marilyn Gladu. (Gladu and O'Toole have confirmed they're running; Rempel Garner has not.)
"We've had a couple of brief conversations and I spoke to him in anticipation of my decision, and so he has encouraged me to do it. He's been supportive. I don't expect he will be actively involved in anyone's campaign," MacKay said.
Mackay spent time in Montreal this weekend doing media interviews in French and meeting organizers and business leaders. He said he's getting good reviews for his French skills so far, even though he is being lambasted in Quebec media for not being bilingual.
"So my ability to communicate in both official languages — they can mock, but the reality is it's there, it's improving, it will continue to improve," he said.
"I've been away from politics and public life for over four years and haven't had the necessity to use French to the degree that I did when I was a member of Parliament. So I'm confident in my ability to bring it back to an acceptable level."
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David Amos
Methinks Mackay and his minions are reading my comments and tweets about this nonsense because they don't want to be caught behind the eight ball in this wicked game about a tweet N'esy Pas?
Alexander Da Vinci
And the mudslinging..er., I mean ""campaigning"" has begun.
David Amos
Reply to @Alexander Da Vinci: Methinks in more way than one N'esy Pas?
David Amos
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Methinks Mackay and his minions are reading my comments and tweets about this nonsense because don't want to be caught behind the eight ball in this wicked game about a tweet N'esy Pas?
David Amos
Methinks folks should never forget that Mackay answered my lawsuit (Federal Court File No. T-1557-15 while he was our Attorney General and Trudeau was well aware of statement 83 N'esy Pas?
Eevee Frost
The mouth breathers chime in on Trudeau's exercise habits
David Amos
Reply to @Eevee Frost: Methinks to be fair they should ask MacKay he does to try to stay fit N'esy Pas?
David Amos
The most infamous blogger/journalist in the Maritimes just offered his 2 bits worth on this nonsense
http://charlesotherpersonalitie.blogspot.com/2020/02/peter-mackay-federal-leadership-bid-is_5.html
Wednesday, 5 February 2020
Peter MacKay Federal Leadership Bid IS OVER before it began!!!!
Methinks other journalists should find this too too funny N'esy Pas?
Rese Archer
Just shows Peter Mackay is still a Reform Party 'Harper Conservative' and he abandoned any of his previous Progressive Conservative cred. This is typical Conservative Party media strategy: say something offensive or personal to any member or supporter of another party, then claim concern and apologize after the social/news media cycle and damage is done. They did it yesterday in the House of Commons, telling the NDP member is considered sex work - got the press then blamed everyone else for being too sensitive. Oh, and Senator Beyak period. Most Canadians voted against this kind of meanness and entitlement twice now - it may play fine in Alberta and Sask and with right wingers, but alienates everyone else who votes.
David Amos
Reply to @Rese Archer: Methinks its been par for the course for Conservatives since MacKay duped David Orchard N'esy Pas?
David Amos
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Methinks Mackay and his minions are reading my comments and tweets about this nonsense because some of Trudeau's people certainly did and the Conservatives won't want to be caught behind the eight ball in this wicked game about a tweet N'esy Pas?
Brian Sexsmith
What an obvious game - his team issues derogatory statements, then he thinks he's absolving himself by saying he's not happy about it. Pathetic - even the blind could see through this one.
David Amos
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Reply to @Brian Sexsmith: Methinks that is why so many comments about the wicked game are being blocked N'esy Pas?
David Amos
Reply to @Brian Sexsmith: Trust that you would chuckle if you knew the truth about this nonsense
Charlie Mason
So 4 days later the tweet that he disapproves of is still there. Wow, what a great leader, he can't even control his own Twitter feed.
David Amos
Reply to @Charlie
Mason: Methinks MacKay wishes to remain in the news making fun of
Trudeau and it certainly appears to be working N'esy Pas?
Rese Archer
Reply to @Charlie Mason: Hypocrisy is the greatest luxury. And Mackay is just as much or more of an elite with an entitlement complex as JT - look at his career and policies. New face, same right-wing party and platform.
John Valente
An exercise of power that an auditor general will eventually comment on. Peter Mackay has acknowledged yoga tweet. It seems that his team was too eager to measure up to Justin.
David Amos
Reply to @John Valente: Welcome to a Tempest in a Teapot created by a silly little Tweet
Rese Archer
I think its more than a teapot tempest - at the outset, it shows that Mackay still benefits from the Conservative Party slag machine, and is using all their standard jab then apologize techniques. It shows he's not really a different party person. His sense of entitlement betrays his real agenda. He's a fake compared to O'Toole.
David Amos
Reply to @Rese
Archer: Yea Right Methinks this article easily proves that O'Toole plays
the same wicked games that his fellow Maritimer MacKay does N'esy Pas?
Alex McNiven
Mackay allows a post made in his name to to stay on his site even when he disagrees with it. What kind of leader is that? If he doesn't like it, he should take it down. Otherwise, someone else is in charge, not him.
David Amos
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Reply to @Alex McNiven: Methinks if the Maritime lawyer I call Petey Baby were truly a wiseguy he would have read my Tweets about this nonsense by now N'esy Pas?
David Amos
Reply to @Alex McNiven: Methinks everybody knows his boss is still Harper N'esy Pas?
David Amos
Reply to @David Amos: Methinks I should holler BINGO about now N'esy Pas?
Jeff Munroe
It seems every time the Conservatives decry some freedom of speech issue they claim to experience the wrong end of, they're more than happy to squash freedom of the press to do their jobs. Mackay's damage control seems disingenuous, given he could have ordered his own staff to stand down given it was a valid question. He is in charge, isn't he?
David Amos
Reply to @Jeff
Munroe: Methinks folks should watch MacKay's interview with the little
lady from CTV to see who is truly the boss N'esy Pas?
Rese Archer
Reply to @Jeff Munroe: I think it just shows he's just the friendlier face of the same old Conservative machine. The Party runs him, not the other way around. Same old jab then apologize after the media cycle is done tactic.
Rick R Fontaine
If Peter MacKay was a real conservative and wanted them in power he would have been backing Andrew Sheer instead of attacking him.I cannot support somebody like that
David Amos
Reply to @Rick R Fontaine: Cry me a riverr
Rese Archer
Reply to @Rick R Fontaine: To be fair, Scheer flubbed the whole campaign real good on his own. Can't blame Mackay for taking advantage of the opportunity. He saw an opening to get back into power on his terms, and he took it. Its politics. And he has the support of alotta people in the CPC - they want a winner and to ditch the loser.
David Amos
Reply to @Rese
Archer: Methinks there are lots of Conservatives in the Maritimes in
particular who don't trust lawyers N'esy Pas?
Robert Williamson
The Cons are just like Trump. They will mock anything liberal i.e. anyone who is part of the 66% who voted against them. It's part of their DNA.
Troy
Murschell
Reply to @Robert
Williamson: how else would Libs know how dumb they are unless they’re
mocked? You can’t smack people upside the head over the internet.
David Amos
Reply to @Troy
Murschell: I disagree Methinks everybody knows I poke holes in stuffed
shirts all day long. A lawyer who was once our Minister of Defence
should at least admit that the word is far more powerful than the sword
particularly after all the hoopla he has raised over one silly tweet
N'esy Pas?
Loran Hayden
So, Peter, what was the price on those f-35's again?
Beth Andrews
Reply to @Loran Hayden:
Also known as cooking the books.
Repeated Duplicity on Costing of F-35 Fighter Jets
"An auditor general’s report revealed serial deceptive practices used by the Conservatives in misleading the public and Parliament on the projected cost of the fighter jets."
Also known as cooking the books.
Repeated Duplicity on Costing of F-35 Fighter Jets
"An auditor general’s report revealed serial deceptive practices used by the Conservatives in misleading the public and Parliament on the projected cost of the fighter jets."
David Amos
Reply to @Beth Andrews: FYI your words to me can be found in my latest blog byway of Twitter
Loran Hayden
Reply to @Beth Andrews: And they say Trudeau taking a helicopter ride from the Aga Khan should mean he resigns, pays the cost of the trip and goes to prison. :oD
Aaron Lane
Reply to @Loran Hayden:
You mean the F-35s the Liberals promised not to buy, and then allowed to take part in the competition to replace the CF-18s, which the Liberals launched four years later than they had promised? Those F-35s?
You mean the F-35s the Liberals promised not to buy, and then allowed to take part in the competition to replace the CF-18s, which the Liberals launched four years later than they had promised? Those F-35s?
David Amos
Reply to @Aaron Lane: YUP
Aaron Lane
Reply to @Beth Andrews:
Where is that quote from? Why use a quote if you don't cite the source?
Where is that quote from? Why use a quote if you don't cite the source?
David Amos
Reply to @Aaron Lane: Methinks folks should check out my lawsuit etc then feel free to quote me all day long N'esy Pas?
Tim Wolfe
Why would he be upset as the tweet clearly stated FACTS but then Libs hate the truth!
David Amos
Reply to @Tim Wolfe: Oh So True but so do Conservatives
Beth Andrews
Reply to @Tim Wolfe:
About ten years ago the Liberal Party paid 876 bucks for yoga.
So what?
About ten years ago the Liberal Party paid 876 bucks for yoga.
So what?
David Amos
Reply to @Beth Andrews: As long as it wasn't taxpayer funds who cares?
Beth Andrews
Reply to @David Amos:
Yes, that is my point.
I don't understand why Pete would even bother with it.
Yes, that is my point.
I don't understand why Pete would even bother with it.
David Amos
Reply to @Beth Andrews: Cleary you don't know the Pete I know
Beth Andrews
Reply to @David Amos:
I just know Pete from what I have read about him, his little helicoptor rides and paying millions for a ship blueprint.
Google:
Shipbuilding contract holds $250M mystery
Cost of Arctic patrol ships' design sparks warning of another procurement 'fiasco'
(CBC May 4, 2013)
I just know Pete from what I have read about him, his little helicoptor rides and paying millions for a ship blueprint.
Google:
Shipbuilding contract holds $250M mystery
Cost of Arctic patrol ships' design sparks warning of another procurement 'fiasco'
(CBC May 4, 2013)
David Amos
Reply to @Beth
Andrews: Trust that much to Brison's chagrin MacKay and Admiral Norman
know I met Irving Shipbuilding's former General Counsel in Federal Court
on January 11th, 2016 and we had quite a hoedown to say the least
Loran Hayden
Reply to @Beth Andrews: don't forget appointing friends as judges
David Amos
Reply to @Loran Hayden: Methinks you must know Richard Southcott too N'esy Pas?
Reply to @Loran Hayden:
The list is long..
Google:
Harper, Serial Ab user of Power: The Evidence Compiled
The Tyee’s full, updated list of 70 Harper government assa ults on democracy and the law.
Loran Hayden
Reply to @Beth
Andrews: yeah, I keep the link handy to remind the CPC followers why
they won't be elected to run Canada again any time soon.
David Amos
Methinks MacKay enjoyed my Tweets N'esy Pas?
Claude
Marcotte
Reply to @David Amos: Not according to his "French" launch.
David Amos
Reply to @Claude
Marcotte: Methinks you are just another dude from Quebec who does not
appreciate Maritimers and our use of Chiac N'esy Pas?
Reply to @David Amos:
I'm reading your blog. It's...interesting.
I'm reading your blog. It's...interesting.
David Amos
Reply to @Beth Andrews: Thanks
Reply to @David Amos:
A lot to take in, though.
A lot to take in, though.
David Amos
Reply to @Beth Andrews: Google my name and wiretap and prepare to sit back and laugh for 40 minutes or so
Beth Andrews
Reply to @David Amos:
I will.
I will.
Ronda Schone
Happy Ending Yoga class on behalf of tax payers!!
Claude Marcotte
Reply to @Ronda Schone: Liberal party picks up the tab,...there fixed.
Tim Wolfe
Reply to @Claude Marcotte:
NO NOT EVER
NO NOT EVER
Beth
Andrews
Reply to @Tim Wolfe:
Yes, yes, yes.
Even Pete's tweet says the Liberal Party paid for it.
Yes, yes, yes.
Even Pete's tweet says the Liberal Party paid for it.
David Amos
Reply to @Beth
Andrews: YUP Methinks its just like when the Conservative Party paid for
Scheer's private school expenses for his children N'esy Pas?
Loran Hayden
someone Nesy Pas'd himself in mutey pas land.
David Amos
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Reply to @Loran Hayden: Methinks certain liberals members of Trudeau's beloved peoplekind must be wondering if MacKay and his minions are reading my comments and tweets about this nonsense Clearly you did N'esy Pas?
David Amos
Reply to @Loran Hayden: Oh My My
David Amos
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Methinks folks should never forget that Mackay answered my lawsuit (Federal Court File No. T-1557-15 while he was our Attorney General and Trudeau was well aware of statement 83 N'esy Pas?
Dave Yash
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I’m glad he has time for yoga on top of all his other weekly holidays
Doesn’t anyone think maybe should be trying to run the country
Write some more cheque’s even though we’re bankrupt
Any company if audited tried to write off 0.001% of the things he gets away with they’d probably get put away, yet Canadians continually put up with it
Robert Lee
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Reply to @Dave Yash: "...even though we’re bankrupt "
Tell that to Haperman, the guy who ran up the $160 billion dollar debt in 9 years.
Reply to @Dave Yash: "...even though we’re bankrupt "
Tell that to Haperman, the guy who ran up the $160 billion dollar debt in 9 years.
David Amos
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Reply to @Robert Lee: Methinks you should check my work N'esy Pas?
Reply to @Robert Lee: Methinks you should check my work N'esy Pas?
John McInerney
More evidence of major fault lines (fractures) in the CPC(Canada's Phoney Coalition) !
David Amos
Reply to @John McInerney: Trust that nobody cares
Wilhelm Mux
They're still running this for two days? Thibodeau total right wing patsy...
David Amos
Reply to @Wilhelm Mux: Naw she is just having fun
Pat Fisher
If Erin is so keen to join the fight, he should first join the gym.
David Amos
Reply to @Pat Fisher: Methinks he loves losing N'esy Pas?
David Amos
Methinks CBC is coming from behind the eight ball with this story N'esy Pas?
Matthew Smith
I just dont understand how any Canadian could trust McKay after what he did the last time he was elected leader.
Loran Hayden
Reply to @Matthew
Smith: Trudeau to MacKay - hey, Pete, you liked that Cabinet position as
Justice Minister last time, how about Deputy PM this time?
David Amos
Reply to @Matthew
Smith: Methinks everybody knows one of the lawyers who helped MacKay con
David Orchard was my Brother in Law's law firm partner and the VP for
the PC Party for the Maritimes in 2003 N'esy Pas?
Reply to @Matthew Smith: No fan of faux Liberal MacKay, but compared to the current occupant of the PM’s office, he’s a scholar and a gentleman - a rare digit in the third column of IQ compared to JT and his Cabinet.
David Schokman
Come next election the Liberals are done, NDP are not viable, the Conservatives would be an alternative until this display of arrogance of communication staff of Peter Mackay pulling the plug on a relatively simple question, someone who is not yet even the leader of his party let alone the country. Secretive and crooked now, what can you expect if they were in power? Anyone got a helicopter to pick me up from a fishing trip on the tax payers dime? Mesmerizing!
Robert Lee
Reply to @David Schokman:
Weird you get the crystal ball,j Zampanò the Greek?
Weird you get the crystal ball,j Zampanò the Greek?
Matthew
Smith
Reply to @Robert Lee:
No crystal ball...just not senile and do in fact recall the last time
he was elected to lead the Conservatives...
David Amos
Reply to @David
Schokman: Say what you wish Methinks there will be a lot of water over
the dam before the fat lady sings a tune about the results of the next
election N'esy Pas?
Claude Marcotte
Reply to @David Schokman: The presumed death of the Liberal party is greatly exaggerated.
Claude Marcotte
Reply to @David Amos: He didn't get off to a good start with "J'ai sera le candidate".
David Amos
Reply to @Claude Marcotte: Methinks you dudes from Quebec can't take a joke N'esy Pas?
Robert Lee
Google search, in images...
Pierre Poilievre flipping a 500 lbs. tire
Robert Lee
Promo pic gone bad.
David Amos
Reply to @Robert Lee: Google my name and that of Mackay's
Loran Hayden
conservatives talking civilization or even civility should be viewed with extreme skepticism.
David Amos
Reply to @Loran Hayden: Methinks the same could be said of you N'esy Pas?
Carl Gustaf Hubertus
So when you send out a nasty Tweet and there is blowback ........ blame some low level staffer.
Great leadership McKay.
Edward (E) Merij
Good for McKay for
having some integrity. Another reason he'll make a great leader for the
Conservatives. As for "low level staffer", sadly, McKay has a point.
More and more, it seems, political output is being governed by staff,
not politicians. Part and parcel of this whole crazy work-world where
there just isn't enough time in the day to do everything. Makes one
wonder about who really wrote Trump's ridiculous tweet yesterday
claiming that Kansas City, Missouri, is actually in Kansas ... not
Missouri.
David Amos
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Reply to @Carl Gustaf Hubertus: Methinks that should be no surprise. Remember Robo calls and who went to jail? Everybody knows that to blame the little guy is par for the course for the Conservative Party N'esy Pas? David Amos
Reply to @Edward (E) Merij: Dream on
Carl Gustaf Hubertus
A more civilized tone? Well then don't hire any Conservatives to work on your campaign and send your own Tweets.
Michael Brown
Reply to @Mark Tynthof: Not true.
David Amos
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Reply to @Carl Gustaf Hubertus: Methinks that would spoil all the fun in watching the circus N'esy Pas? David Amos
Reply to @Carl Gustaf Hubertus: I repeat Dream on
Don Cheer
I'm not happy but yet I am not taking it down
Ok Pete ok
David Amos
Reply to @Don Cheer: Welcome to the circus
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