David Raymond Amos @DavidRayAmos
Methinks Madame Lewis would have arisen from her deathbed to debate on CBC and MacKay would have wanted to debate even if the lady had failed to appear on the show N'esy Pas?
https://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.com/2020/07/the-rise-of-wexit-why-internal-party.html
#nbpoli #cdnpoli
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Conservative leadership debate in disarray after Lewis, MacKay back out
Organizer says 'show must go on' as MacKay calls for event to be rescheduled
The Canadian Press · Posted: Jul 29, 2020 9:29 PM ET
From left: Conservative Party of Canada leadership candidates Derek Sloan, Erin O'Toole, Peter MacKay and Leslyn Lewis are seen at an English-language debate in Toronto on June 18, 2020. (Tijana Martin/The Canadian Press)
A new media organization's plan to host all four Conservative leadership candidates for a debate Wednesday was thrown into disarray when two of the contenders dropped out.
Leslyn Lewis announced hours before the event that her doctor had ordered her to stay away because she is battling an ear infection and has a fever, though she has tested negative for COVID-19.
Shortly after, Peter MacKay declared he wouldn't go either, saying it wouldn't be fair if only three of the four candidates were onstage, and called for the event to be rescheduled.
The event was organized by the newly formed Independent Press Gallery of Canada, run by Candice Malcolm, a conservative columnist and analyst.
The organization was set up this year, and journalists who wish to join must sign a declaration that they will not accept any government funding and sign onto a statement of journalistic ethics and principles.
Organizers decided to go forward with back-to-back "fireside chats" with the two remaining candidates, Erin O'Toole and Derek Sloan.
The "show must go on," Malcolm said in her opening remarks as she took a direct swipe at MacKay.
MacKay criticized for decision
Lewis is ill and organizers wish her well, Malcolm said, but MacKay, who lives in Toronto, made a choice."Leadership is about resiliency, courage and trust, and voters can judge for themselves what they think of Peter MacKay's last-minute decision to renege on his commitment and abandon this event," she said.
The Conservative Party hosted two official leadership debates in June, and all four candidates appeared at those.
Peter MacKay said he decided not to take part in the debate because it wouldn't be fair if only three of the four candidates were onstage. (Frank Gunn/The Canadian Press)
The moderator for Wednesday's event was Andrew Lawton, who, along with Malcolm and several others, is part of the True North Centre for Public Policy.
The centre, a registered charity, describes itself as a non-governmental, non-partisan organization conducting research and investigative journalism.
In mid-May, True North published a piece attacking MacKay for refusing to sit down with its reporters for an interview, saying he was the only one of the four candidates who had yet to grant their request.
Leslyn Lewis withdrew from Wednesday's debate because she is battling an ear infection and has a fever, though she has tested negative for COVID-19. (Frank Gunn/The Canadian Press)
MacKay has granted interviews to other conservative outlets, though he has also skipped out on other leadership debates, including two hosted by groups of Conservative riding associations in both B.C. and Ontario.
He cited scheduling conflicts in both cases.
In his statement Wednesday, MacKay said he had been preparing for the debate when he learned Lewis couldn't make it.
Lewis said missing a chance to participate in a debate hosted by the organization was a disappointment.
"I want to thank the Independent Press Gallery for their understanding, and I look forward to continuing to connect with voters from my home over the next little while [as] I recover and am able to meet with people in public once again," she wrote.
The debate comes as Conservative Party members are now filling out their ballots and sending them back by mail to party headquarters. The deadline for them to be returned is Aug. 21, and a winner is to be announced shortly after.
Many party members have been posting photos of their marked ballots on social media, and while those are just a fraction of the 269,000 people eligible to vote, it has become common to see her name marked in second place on the ranked ballot used by the party.
She, O'Toole and Sloan are competing for a similar pool of voters, and for all three a key objective for Wednesday had been to make the case for a first-choice ranking on the ballot by contrasting themselves with their rivals.
Both Sloan and O'Toole focused more directly on their own positions as Lawton pushed them on questions including whether more "conservative" judges need to be appointed and why free-market conservatives still support government regulations of some agricultural commodities.
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David Amos
Methinks I should ask who gets last word in this ongoing debate N'esy Pas?
John Howard
Where are all the Cons to support this mess of a party?
David Amos
Reply to @John
Howard: Methinks they are all out and about on the BBQ circuit etc
begging for donations to support them in the upcoming snap election
N'esy Pas?
David Amos
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Methinks whereas
comments are no longer allowed it would be wise to quit flogging a dead
horse and finally shut down the comment section N'esy Pas?
David Amos
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Methinks the spit and
chew about the "fireside chats" Andy Baby Lawton had with his buddies
Erin O'Toole and Derek Sloan while MacKay and Lewis wisely took a wide
berth of the nonsense using questionable reasons will go on and on and
as long as the comment section about Trudeau's parle about WE remains
open N'esy Pas?
Brett Fraser
Truly...will anyone notice? And in the background...Scheer just wants it all to be over.
David Amos
Reply to @Brett Fraser: Tempest in a teapot
Chris Halford
Reply to @Brett Fraser:
I agree mostly except that Scheer seems to love the limelight and putiing the next leader into a box.
I agree mostly except that Scheer seems to love the limelight and putiing the next leader into a box.
Paul Robertson
This article fails to mention that this is the second debate that MacKay pulled out from.
There were two official ones sure, but a third one was organized by a Conservative club(?) in BC a few weeks ago and MacKay was a no show (again).
David Amos
Reply to @Paul Robertson: Hmmm
Chris Halford
Reply to @Paul Robertson:
I don't care and I suspect that most other folk don't care either. Why on earth woukd somebody fly across the country for an event organised by a local club anyway? If MacKay or any of the others did that for one local organisation, they'd be jetting all over the place for no reason, even excluding the fact that scheduling would become impossible.
I don't care and I suspect that most other folk don't care either. Why on earth woukd somebody fly across the country for an event organised by a local club anyway? If MacKay or any of the others did that for one local organisation, they'd be jetting all over the place for no reason, even excluding the fact that scheduling would become impossible.
David Amos
Methinks the most amazing part is that all the political parties, the Independent Press Gallery of Canada, Madame Lewis and the two lawyer who are current MPs all know what I am saying about MacKay is true and yet all say nothing N'esy Pas?
Paul
Robertson
Reply to @David Amos: "N'est-ce pas", write it correctly.
David Amos
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Reply to @Paul
Robertson: Methinks its comical that only snobby Anglos chastise me over
my spelling of Chiac So much for Free Speech N'esy Pas?
David Amos
Methinks these political lawyers ain't fooling anyone I bet Madame Lewis would have arisen from her deathbed to debate on CBC and MacKay would have wanted to debate even if the lady had failed to appear on the show N'esy Pas?
Stan Johnston
Like a ship without a Rudder the Conservatives sail into obscurity.
David Amos
Reply to @Stan Johnston: Methinks the fat lady ain't sung yet about many issues N'esy Pas?
Ben Brown
Want to look for some insight of MacKay by legal beagles?
Former Harper Justice Minister, Peter mackay track record
https://www.canadianlawyermag.com/news/opinion/peter-mackays-record-on-the-justice-file-should-be-enough-to-lose-him-the-leadership-bid/326579
David Amos
Reply to @Ben Brown: Want to look for some insight of MacKay that legal beagles will never discuss?
Answering this complaint was MacKay's last piece of work as Canada's Attorney General.Trust that it was too too funny that his minions in Nova Scotia falsely claimed that I sued him instead of the Queen.
https://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.com/2015/09/v-behaviorurldefaultvmlo.html
Answering this complaint was MacKay's last piece of work as Canada's Attorney General.Trust that it was too too funny that his minions in Nova Scotia falsely claimed that I sued him instead of the Queen.
https://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.com/2015/09/v-behaviorurldefaultvmlo.html
Ben Brown
Reply to @David Amos:
As I am not a lawyer and am not willing to suggest any legal advice to you, let me just say this...
Keep pushing back at the bureaucrats.
David Amos
Reply to @Ben Brown: Trust that MacKay and legions of bureaucrats know why I have no need of legal advice
Methinks its truly amazing how many folks come and go long after quitting time in order to offer their two bits worth about the spin on both of the circuses published yesterday N'esy Pas?
Methinks its truly amazing how many folks come and go long after quitting time in order to offer their two bits worth about the spin on both of the circuses published yesterday N'esy Pas?
Ben Brown
Con managed get out nearly 100% of their voter support last election.
This time they are willing to do a Kenney and try for more than 100%.
Ben Brown
Reply to @Ben Brown:
Poillevre is all in
Poillevre is all in
David Amos
Reply to @Ben Brown:
YUP Methinks a lot of folks loved watching the circus yesterday and two
dudes from Quebec went at it particularly when the thunderstorm took
Easter out of action for a bit N'esy Pas?
Erik Bosma
Mackay is faking the 'noble' role so he can win votes. Beware of the handshake, it hides a snake.
David Amos
Reply to @Erik Bosma: Methinks I should remind folks about another leadership convention and MacKay N'esy Pas?
Orchard to sue MacKay to stop Alliance merger
CBC News · Posted: Nov 21, 2003 5:21 PM ET
Former leadership contender David Orchard and other Conservatives are launching legal action against Tory leader Peter MacKay Friday to stop the party from merging with the Canadian Alliance.
Although details about the litigation have not yet been released, former Tory cabinet minister Sinclair Stevens told the Globe and Mail that the lawsuit could focus on MacKay's broken promise to Orchard not to join the Alliance.
Stevens told the Globe that Orchard may intend to prove that MacKay violated a signed contract.
At the leadership convention in May, MacKay won Orchard's support by agreeing not to seek a merger with the Alliance.
Orchard spokesperson Rose-Marie Larsson said the lawsuit, to be launched in Toronto, will name MacKay personally.
Orchard adviser Marjaleena Repo has said she has a legal opinion that claims the merger violates the party's constitution.
The legal report says "to amend the constitution" a "national convention" is necessary "no mail-in or online balloting" and "no regional meetings." MacKay has denied he has broken the constitution and that all legal requirements have been met.
CBC's Journalistic Standards and Practices
Orchard to sue MacKay to stop Alliance merger
CBC News · Posted: Nov 21, 2003 5:21 PM ET
Former leadership contender David Orchard and other Conservatives are launching legal action against Tory leader Peter MacKay Friday to stop the party from merging with the Canadian Alliance.
Although details about the litigation have not yet been released, former Tory cabinet minister Sinclair Stevens told the Globe and Mail that the lawsuit could focus on MacKay's broken promise to Orchard not to join the Alliance.
Stevens told the Globe that Orchard may intend to prove that MacKay violated a signed contract.
At the leadership convention in May, MacKay won Orchard's support by agreeing not to seek a merger with the Alliance.
Orchard spokesperson Rose-Marie Larsson said the lawsuit, to be launched in Toronto, will name MacKay personally.
Orchard adviser Marjaleena Repo has said she has a legal opinion that claims the merger violates the party's constitution.
The legal report says "to amend the constitution" a "national convention" is necessary "no mail-in or online balloting" and "no regional meetings." MacKay has denied he has broken the constitution and that all legal requirements have been met.
CBC's Journalistic Standards and Practices
Ben Brown
Insight into why the derogatory remark of stinking albatross by Petey apparently has to do with his penchant for 'fishing' and its connection to the use of cameras mounted on the noble bird to catch people engaged in un law full activities
Albatross help
https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.5443154
David Amos
Reply to @Ben Brown:
Methinks Petey should never forget this was published when he was still
Canada's Attorney General N'esy Pas?
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/fundy-royal-riding-profile-1.3274276
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/fundy-royal-riding-profile-1.3274276
Muhammad Smith
Derek or Leslyn. Or PPC
David Amos
Reply to @Muhammad Smith: or Independent
Go Razzman
I remember voting for Chretien in 90s and thinking that Mulroney was too extreme and his party messed up. After Harper and now this batch of candidates, the party should have their debates at YUKYUKs. Beyond pathetic.
Tyrann Mathieu
Reply to @Go Razzman: I think this one will be between the ray -sis-t and the climate change denier.
Bruce Dorman
Reply to @Tyrann Mathieu: gee, that narrows it down.
David Amos
Reply to @Go Razzman: At least we get to laugh at their nonsense
Mark Praill
I'm not a Conservative but I would like to see them get their stuff sorted out so they can actually be the Loyal Opposition. A democracy needs a strong opposition to keep the government in check and this clown rotation the Cons have going on right now will simply not do.
David Amos
Reply to @Mark
Praill: Methinks you fail to understand how the circus operates. It may
be suffice to say that "The Powers That Be" behind the scene cannot
allow the clown in charge of the "Loyal" opposition to outperform the
clown overseeing the circus until the polls tell them that the
electorate has had enough of his nonsense N'esy Pas?
Tanner McNabb
What is with the Cons' obsession with defunding the CBC?
David Amos
Reply to @Tanner McNabb: Methinks you know the answer as well as I N'esy Pas?
Ben Brown
Reply to @Tanner McNabb:
CBC busted them for "thef t of intellectual property'
They don't have any intellect of their own, so took some that wasn't theirs
Eli Sunday
"...to renege on his commitment and abandon this event,"
Jeez. He asked for an event to be rescheduled, he didn't leave a baby in a hot car.
David Amos
Reply to @Eli Sunday: Would he have done that on any other occasion?
John Valente
'All for 1 and one 4 all'5. A candidate will emerge to lead and transform the Conservatives.
David Amos
Reply to @John Valente: Dream On
Go Razzman
Reply to @John Valente: Yep, he's going to be helicoptered in and magically forget his yesman to Harper days.
Charlie Gomez
What are we waiting for, the Conservatives should have their convention next month.
The people of this country are just fed up with Trudeau.
Give us another choice!
David Amos
Reply to @Charlie Gomez: Heres hoping there will be at least one Independent on all 338 ballots in the next election.
Methinks if some could secure a seat in the next parliament I trust that they would be far more effective than the former Attorney General who go elected as an independent last time has been N'esy Pas?
Methinks if some could secure a seat in the next parliament I trust that they would be far more effective than the former Attorney General who go elected as an independent last time has been N'esy Pas?
james blatchford
Reply to @Charlie Gomez: sorry, Charlie....”the people” won’t be going anywhere near the Conservatives until they get their act together. No evidence of that yet. “JT very bad” is not enough.
Nicholas Skorbinski
Reply to @Charlie Gomez: They need to have someone with a fiscal plan who keeps there religious thought on social policy to their absolute self. Most people are fed up with ideologues not JT!
fred noslen
Reply to @Charlie Gomez:
Well, considering who they picked last time, i don't think there will still not be a good choice. sheer was a horrid pick.
james blatchford
Reply to @fred noslen: apparently, the best of the bunch...
Neil Austen
Just another Conservative gong show not unlike Trump style politics. Imagine the Trump style gong show Canada would be in right now if Conservatives were in power? Luckily they are not and Canada's GDP bounces back up 15% while a disgraceful Conservative government in the U.S. delivers a record dive of MINUS 39% of their GDP.
David Amos
Reply to @Neil
Austen: Methinks 4 lawyers and lots of other people like the term "Gong
Show" applied to the debate created by the defrocked lawyer Levant and
his Independent Press Gallery of Canada buddies N'esy Pas?
Ryan
Phillips
Reply to @Ryan
Phillips: CBC I guess you don't like opinions that are not of your view.
Be careful someday you may find yourself being defunded.
james blatchford
Reply to @Neil Austen: holding hands with the Trump administration just like they have with every GOP president. Disaster.
Mel HamI wonder if one candidate in particular had already booked a fishing trip using a military helicopter on the same date. Conflict creates a question of choice, and everyone knows he likes fishing!
David Amos
Reply to @Mel Ham:
Methinks folks should ask MacKay if he knows of one former candidate in
particular who is another political animal in the Maritimes who likes
fishing almost as much as he likes suing lawyers and running for public
office N'esy Pas?
SEAN BURTON
My prediction, Lewis is going to agree to the same deal Mulroney offered Campbell. Get thrown under the bus in exchange for being the first.
Right now it's just a game of musical chairs guaranteed to hurt the career of the winner.
I am not the only one who has noticed that during a worldwide crisis, the cons are focused on diverting resources to try to take power, while every conservative lead area is a viral hot spot with the dividends flowing. This is not what is costing votes of course, it's the liberals.
David Amos
Reply to @SEAN
BURTON: Methinks the 40 percent or so of folks who don't bother vote in
most elections know that all the political gangs are playing the same
game of musical chairs with our rights and interests for their benefit
not ours N'esy Pas?
Aaron Morris
Reply to @David Amos: Doesn't mean we don't cut the rot when we see it.
David Amos
Reply to @Aaron Morris: Have you looked around lately?
Aaron Morris
Reply to @David Amos: *shrug*
Lots of cutting to do.
Lots of cutting to do.
David Amos
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Reply to @Aaron Morris: Methinks in light of the fact that the RCMP always refuse to do their job I must by whom if folks don' t bother to vote the crooks out of office?
Everybody knows why the Crown stops all private prosecutions and civil lawsuits N'esy Pas?
David Amos
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Methinks the lawyers Lewis and MacKay are likely wondering why this comment section is still open N'esy Pas?
Reply to @Aaron Morris: Methinks in light of the fact that the RCMP always refuse to do their job I must by whom if folks don' t bother to vote the crooks out of office?
Everybody knows why the Crown stops all private prosecutions and civil lawsuits N'esy Pas?
David Amos
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Methinks the lawyers Lewis and MacKay are likely wondering why this comment section is still open N'esy Pas?
Donald Fox
The "Canadian Press Gallery" , according to this article was formed by Candice Malcolm, a Conservative reporter and analyst - and instead of calling it the "CONSERVATIVE Press Gallery" they assume they are the only Canadians. I would have thought them taking over CBC would have been enough - but alas, Stephen Harper did away with the real Press Gallery, so now it is back - all for their own purpose. Don't call it democratic though - Conservatives only.
David Amos
Reply to @Donald Fox: Welcome to the circus
jim colburg
Mackay
is the smoothest of the 4 but i am tired of liberal ways of doing
things.My support is for Lewis and my next choice is wextit.
Ken Hausauer
Reply to @jim colburg: I guess that would make you a wextit!
David Amos
Reply to @Ken Hausauer: Too Funny
Carey Turner
Harper has already annointed MacKay.
David Amos
Reply to @Carey Turner: YUP
Wayne West
The Gong Show must go on!
Leslie Stewart
Reply to @Wayne West: A show that this family will not be watching!!
David Amos
Reply to @Wayne West:
Methinks I have read that same comment earlier right at the time the
comment section usually closes N"esy Pas?
Michael Trebych
Correction: "the gong show must go on"....
David Amos
Reply to @Michael Trebych: Of course Methinks the Liberals proved that to be a fact today N'esy Pas?
Michael Trebych
Reply to @David Amos: only if you're a conservative....
David Amos
Reply to @Michael Trebych: FYU I have run as an Independent 7 times thus far
David Amos
Reply to @Michael Trebych: Methinks I heard an echo 12 hours later from Wayne West's corner N'esy Pas?
Jeremy Amott
i think it was a dumb move by Mackay to miss skip this debate.
David Amos
Reply to @Jeremy Amott: Me Too
Malcolm Scott
"Independent Press Gallery of Canada"
Hahahahaha!!!.......
Roy Arthur
Reply to @Malcolm Scott: It's just another hollow piece in Ezra Levant's shell game.
David Amos
Reply to @Roy Arthur: BINGO
Ben Smyth
At the end of the day
it's still the same rotten party with the same rotten policies. Doesn't
matter who the figurehead is. There will be no change from Harper.
John Buick
Reply to @Ben Smyth:
Harper was the best PM that Canada has had in years. Trudeau won on Name
Brand, not because of his abilities. Just look at the $#!t show he has
put on.
M.Ann Morwood
Reply to @John Buick:
Can't say that I agree with you that Harper was the best PM in years,
however, JT sure leaves a lot to be desired and did take it by his name
only, not his policies other than legalization of pot which was wanted
by a quite a number of Canadians.
Carey
Turner
Reply to @John Buick: Apparently you weren't paying attention during the dark Reform Party Harper years.
Leslie Stewart
Reply to @John Buick: You can't possibly be serious? In our estimation Harper is by far the worst PM in our life time!
Ken Hausauer
Reply to @John Buick: "Harper was the best PM that Canada has had in years."
I guess you've conveniently forgotten the lopsided, most horrible FIPA agreement Harper quietly signed with China that we are stuck with for 31 years. Unless, you think being a sell out is a good thing.
I guess you've conveniently forgotten the lopsided, most horrible FIPA agreement Harper quietly signed with China that we are stuck with for 31 years. Unless, you think being a sell out is a good thing.
David Amos
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Reply to @Carey Turner: Methinks all the political parties deserve each other Its just terribly sad that our children must suffer from their malicious nonsense because of our own apathy and greed.
It should be a small wonder why I apologized for my generation during my first debate for the Fundy Royal seat in the 38th Parliament N'esy Pas?
Reply to @Carey Turner: Methinks all the political parties deserve each other Its just terribly sad that our children must suffer from their malicious nonsense because of our own apathy and greed.
It should be a small wonder why I apologized for my generation during my first debate for the Fundy Royal seat in the 38th Parliament N'esy Pas?
David Amos
Reply to @John Buick:
Methinks the Fundy Royal lawyer/MP Rob Moore and his buddies MacKay and
O'Toole as well as many other Maritimers whom Harper called
"defeatists" know that I was happy to play my part in seeing Harper be
defeated in the elections of the 38th and 42nd Parliaments N'esy Pas?
Serge Borrelli
Did anyone notice or really care?
David Amos
Reply to @Serge Borrelli: Methinks the awful truth is that far too few do N'esy Pas?
Jim Blackstock
All I can say is thanks to Canadians we don't have this gong show of a party at the helm in Ottawa.
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brian duog
Reply to @Jim Blackstock: are you joking, we have the experts in unethical behaviour as leaders
Jan Lenova
Reply to @Jim Blackstock:
^^ here here, well said.
David Amos
Reply to @Jim Blackstock: Methinks many folks would agree that we have a very wicked ongoing circus in Ottawa in which all parties take turns playing their parts as the mindless greedy clowns they truly are N'esy Pas?
Clayton Allen
Reply to @Jim Blackstock: definitely better having a party I. Power that takes bribes in return for government contracts. If the Conservatives had done this it would be the biggest scandal in party history, when the liberals do it it's another Tuesday.
David Amos
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Reply to @Philip Nicholson: Ask Peter MacKay
Reply to @Philip Nicholson: Ask Peter MacKay
Mike Hayley
Reply to @Clayton Allen: Bribes? Please provide your evidence of bribery?
David Amos
Reply to @David Amos: Methinks some folks should ask where all their comments went N'esy Pas?
Luke Straus
Lol. Cons struggle having frod free elections and functional debates.
Jim Blackstock
Reply to @Ray Fox:
Fine by this typically NDP supporter.
In fact Trudeau will have my vote in 2023 as well.
Ray Fox
Reply to @Jim Blackstock: seriously Jim.
Jon Smythe
Reply to @Ray Fox: Yes, seriously, Ray. Nothing to offer from the official opposition.
Alex Matheson
Reply to @Jim Blackstock:
Whatever it takes to keep the CPC from holding power is good with this typical NDP supporter as well.
Jim Reese
Reply to @Alex Matheson: Whatever it takes...ethics violations, circumventing democracy for examples? You are the droid Justin is looking for.
David Amos
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Reply to @Jim Reese: Methinks Mr MacKay can count on your support N'esy Pas?
Anton Pavlenko
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Reply to @David Amos: Your 'N'esy Pas' is passed serving it's usefulness. It is tired and ought to be put to a final rest. No one takes you seriously with that continued robotic repetition.
David Amos
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Reply to @Anton Pavlenko: Methinks my old foes from the Maritimes O'Toole and MacKay certainly understands my use of Chiac N'esy Pas?
Reply to @Anton Pavlenko: Methinks my old foes from the Maritimes O'Toole and MacKay certainly understands my use of Chiac N'esy Pas?
Roger Grenich
Reply to @Luke Straus: cons ar actually allowed to have dissenting opinions. If you don’t keep in step with the liberal party line you simply get run out of the party
David Amos
Reply to @Anton Pavlenko: Methinks you should have learned a thing or two about the power of Chiac by now N'esy Pas?
Bud Vallee
Perhaps some people don't want to draw attention to contributions to the "charity" True North Centre for Public Policy that was hosting the debate.
Jon Smythe
Reply to @Bud Vallee: An even bigger head scratcher is that they call themselves "independent and non-partisan".
Andrew Hillman
Reply to @Jon Smythe: Sort of like the CBC
David Amos
Reply to @Andrew Hillman: BINGO
https://www.cbc.ca/news/opinion/opinion-leslyn-lewis-leadership-bid-kory-teneycke-1.5665584
Leslyn Lewis shaping up to be the story of the Conservative leadership race
Several key factors driving success of relative newcomer to Conservative Party
· for CBC News Opinion · Posted: Jul 29, 2020 4:00 AM ET
Leslyn Lewis withdrew from Wednesday's debate because she is battling an ear infection and has a fever, though she has tested negative for COVID-19. (Frank Gunn/The Canadian Press)
This column is an opinion by Kory Teneycke. A former director of communications for prime minister Stephen Harper, he managed the recent Ontario PC Party Campaign and is currently a partner at Rubicon Strategy. Teneycke has declared he will remain neutral in the federal Conservative leadership campaign and has recused himself from work Rubicon is providing for the Peter MacKay campaign. For more information about CBC's Opinion section, please see the FAQ.
I'll give you a sneak preview of "How I spent my summer" – in Saskatchewan. It has been a great opportunity, spending time reconnecting with my roots and with opinions not born in the Ottawa bubble. Anecdotal observations may not be scientific, but they have inspired me to make a few predictions going into the final weeks of the Conservative leadership campaign.
The first is that Leslyn Lewis is going to do very well.
I believe she will finish in second place overall and will win more votes in Saskatchewan than any other leadership candidate.
I say that because you find Lewis supporters everywhere here, and most of them are not particularly socially conservative. Without betraying confidences, many of them are very well established in the ruling provincial Saskatchewan Party – which is by far the most potent political organization in the province.
Similar to Saskatchewan, much of it comes from party members who are often quite hostile to traditional social conservatives. I have spoken with urban, professional women and LGBTQ friends in the Conservative Party – all in the Greater Toronto Area – who are comfortable with Lewis's brand of conservatism, even if their first ballot support rests with another candidate.
Money has been surging as well.
Macleans magazine recently reported that fundraising for the Lewis campaign had crossed $1.2 million. A few short weeks later, the total for Lewis is approaching $1.7 million, according to her campaign team. That's close to what Maxime Bernier raised in the last leadership race, and would have ranked her as one of the best funded candidates in that race. It is a very noteworthy accomplishment.
Lewis doesn’t predominantly focus on social issues, but rather has pushed forward proposals across a broad range of policy areas. (Tijana Martin/Canadian Press)
So what is driving the success of this previously unknown candidate and relative newcomer to the Conservative Party?
While Lewis is a social conservative, her positions have nuance and sophistication. She frames her pro-life views around gender-selective abortion – the appalling practice of having an abortion based on the sex of the fetus, usually to terminate the pregnancy of unborn girls.
And unlike some social conservative candidates in the past, Lewis doesn't predominantly focus on social issues, but rather has pushed forward proposals across a broad range of policy areas. This race has often lacked much when it comes to policy innovation, and it's something any party rebuilding needs.
Lewis has been willing to come up with a broad range of policies. Her background includes a Masters degree in Environmental Studies, and she has put together a credible plan for Energy and the Environment that isn't just about opposing a carbon tax (which she does).
Members are excited to support an urban, well educated, professionally accomplished, Black woman as a candidate, in part because it counters the public perception (held with some cause) that the party is too rural, too male and too white. Would conservatives do better at the ballot box having more women in leadership roles? Absolutely.
From left: Conservative Party of Canada leadership candidates Derek Sloan, Erin O'Toole, Peter MacKay and Leslyn Lewis are seen at an English-language debate in Toronto on June 18. (Tijana Martin/The Canadian Press)
Another factor is the lack of enthusiasm for the two perceived front runners, Peter MacKay and Erin O'Toole.
As widely recognized, the historic differences between the two are nuanced at best. O'Toole spent most of the campaign marketing himself as a "True Blue" conservative – successfully attracting support, particularly in Western Canada among members from the Reform side of the party. The problem for O'Toole is the marketing pitch that he is a hardcore conservative doesn't really withstand much scrutiny.
The Lewis campaign has seen the same trend nationally that I have observed here in Saskatchewan, with many of her new supporters coming at the expense of the O'Toole campaign. They just didn't think he was conservative enough on issues like his carbon pricing proposal (often characterized as a carbon tax by opponents).
So how does this all play out?
I share the commonly held view that the MacKay campaign will be in the lead after the first ballot. Derek Sloan will fall off the ballot, with most of his support going to Leslyn Lewis. This could push her past O'Toole.
Or even more interesting, if the quiet momentum that has been building for the past weeks is strong enough, Lewis could be in second place already – before adding Sloan's votes.
If that is the case, there is a narrow path to victory for Lewis. If enough O'Toole supporters choose Lewis over MacKay as a second choice, we could have an electoral upset of historic proportions.
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Ken MacDonald
Anti-abortion? In Canada? She hasn't got a chance. Full stop.
Show 27 older replies
David Amos
Reply to @Ken MacDonald: I disagree
David Amos
Reply to @Sandy Gillis: I disagree
Sandy Gillis
Reply to @Steve LaFramboise:
Agreed, let's listen to her own words. It's literally in her policy platform on her leadership website that she wants to restrict abortion access both here and abroad.
David Amos
Reply to @Sandy Gillis: Good for her
Robert Jones
Reply to @John Gerrits:
"It's not what the cons stand for,it's what the LPC decide the cons stand for and media follows suit. "
THIS.
Well said.
Robert Jones
Reply to @brian duog:
"please so use where if elected she says she will stop abortion, stop making things up "
The desperation is delicious, isn't it?
They've been peddling the tired old "hidden agenda" lie for so long I think they almost believe it now.
..
Robert Jones
Reply to @Scott McGregor:
"There is zero difference. Pro-life means anti-choice "
So, by that logic, pro-choice also means pro-abortion? Good to know...
Scott McGregor
Reply to @Robert Jones: no.
Robert Jones
Reply to @Garry Cyr: "And her climate change policies are "
Irrelevant, like all other 'climate change' policies.
Robert Jones
Reply to @Stephen Metcalfe: "Chretien, Harper and Trudeau were all against abortion, and they got elected. "
That's right, they were. To hear the 'progressives' tell it, their elections were therefore impossible and just never happened...
Chris Evans
I thought about her for minute ,then read she's all about reopening the abortion issue. Goodbye ,she's a devoted christian and is all about bringing her own beliefs .
Show 10 older replies
Mike Morris
Reply to @Chris Evans:
Every potential leader of a federal party should know that you cannot win by opening up the abortion debate again.
Richard Ade
Reply to @Chris Evans: Why is it guys that are talking about abortion here today.
brian duog
Reply to @Chris Evans: so much for being inclusive, Christians can not run for government, yes that left wing view is open minded
Nicholas Hale
Reply to @Richard Ade: Why wouldn't we be? We have sisters, wives, and female children who could be affected by a socially regressive change such as limiting or banning abortion. I want my wife and daughter'sright to bodily autonomy maintained and protected, as it should be, so of course I care about that issue and will absolutely hold it against any candidate of any party who proposes we take steps backwards and/or wants to impose their religious view on a firmly secularm issue/government.
Sandy Gillis
Reply to @brian duog:
Of course Christians can run for government. We have lots of Christians in government already. However, the majority of Canadians will refuse to vote for someone who tries to legislate their religion onto others.
Norm Head
Reply to @brian duog: Christian, liberals, conservatives we don't care who, no one is going to use government to impose their religious view on the rest of us. Being "included" doesn't mean you don't have to have the same respect for others view you have for your won. Some beliefs are truly repulsive. That doesn't mean we have the person. It also doesn't stop us from seeing they are misguided by their religion.
David Amos
Reply to @Mike Morris: I disagree
Ed Riley
Reply to @Chris Evans: Im not anti abortion but i am anti abortion used time and time again as a means of birth control. There are so many options available today to prevent pregnancy no woman should begoing in multiple times each year, year after year for an abortion paid for by our publiclly funded healthcare.
Sandy Gillis
Reply to @Ed Riley:
Is that something you actually think is some sort of common issue?
Ed Riley
Reply to @Sandy Gillis: im retired now, but for years worked in the health system, and it is much more common than you might think.
William Vincent
When I was a young man in the 80's and early 90's I used to vote for the Progressive Conservative Party but when they merged with the Alliance/Reform Party that changed everything for me. They're still "too" conservative (especially socially) for my and a lot of other Canadian's tastes and that isn't likely to change anytime soon.
Show 15 older replies
David Amos
Reply to @William Vincent: I agree
Jon Smythe
Reply to @Brian Dalke: "Harper correctly set aside his ideological views and put in deficit spending..."
Hardly, Brian. Harper was forced by the opposition to fund some stimulus spending in a recession that he didn't see (or pretended) wasn't coming. Harper's first act in 2006 was to cut the GST and that lost tax revenue accounted for two thirds of his 33% increase in our national debt (over 150 billion) after being handed a nice surplus by Paul Martin. Furthermore, all of Trudeau's deficits would have been non-existent if Harper had just left the GST alone. We now have an extra 200 billion (pre-pandemic) on our national debt for the children to pay off thanks to the GST cut. And that number is growing by over 20 billion annually.
Conservatives are so utterly incompetent when it comes to fiscal management, and they leave a mess afterwards for others to clean up. All they think about is tax cuts.
Robert Jones
Reply to @Jon Smythe: "Conservatives are so utterly incompetent when it comes to fiscal management, and they leave a mess afterwards for others to clean up. All they think about is tax cuts. "
Spoken like someone who hasn't got a clue how government finances really work.
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From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2020 13:24:24 -0300
Subject: Attn Lisa Bildy I called and left a voicemail telling you to
expect this email about Leslyn Lewis versus the other lawyers in the
Not So Good Old Boys Club
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"sylvie.gadoury" <sylvie.gadoury@radio-canada.
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I bet your clients Andrew Lawton and rest of the True North crowd
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/
Conservative leadership debate in disarray after Lewis, MacKay back out
Organizer says 'show must go on' as MacKay calls for event to be rescheduled
The Canadian Press · Posted: Jul 29, 2020 9:29 PM ET
1333 Comments
Jim Blackstock
All I can say is thanks to Canadians we don't have this gong show of a
party at the helm in Ottawa.
Show 4 older replies
brian duog
Reply to @Jim Blackstock: are you joking, we have the experts in
unethical behaviour as leaders
Jan Lenova
Reply to @Jim Blackstock:
^^ here here, well said.
David Amos
Reply to @Jim Blackstock: Methinks many folks would agree that we have
a very wicked ongoing circus in Ottawa in which all parties take turns
playing their parts as the mindless greedy clowns they truly are N'esy
Pas?
Luke Straus
Lol. Cons struggle having frod free elections and functional debates.
Show 3 older replies
Alex Matheson
Reply to @Jim Blackstock:
Whatever it takes to keep the CPC from holding power is good with this
typical NDP supporter as well.
Jim Reese
Reply to @Alex Matheson: Whatever it takes...ethics violations,
circumventing democracy for examples? You are the droid Justin is
looking for.
David Amos
Reply to @Jim Reese: Methinks Mr MacKay can count on your support N'esy Pas?
Bud Vallee
Perhaps some people don't want to draw attention to contributions to
the "charity" True North Centre for Public Policy that was hosting the
debate.
Jon Smythe
Reply to @Bud Vallee: An even bigger head scratcher is that they call
themselves "independent and non-partisan".
Andrew Hillman
Reply to @Jon Smythe: Sort of like the CBC
David Amos
Reply to @Andrew Hillman: BINGO
https://www.cbc.ca/news/
Leslyn Lewis shaping up to be the story of the Conservative leadership race
Several key factors driving success of relative newcomer to Conservative Party
Kory Teneycke · for CBC News Opinion · Posted: Jul 29, 2020 4:00 AM ET
3070 Comments
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Ken MacDonald
Anti-abortion? In Canada? She hasn't got a chance. Full stop.
Show 27 older replies
David Amos
Reply to @Ken MacDonald: I disagree
David Amos
Reply to @Sandy Gillis: I disagree
Sandy Gillis
Reply to @Steve LaFramboise:
Agreed, let's listen to her own words. It's literally in her policy
platform on her leadership website that she wants to restrict abortion
access both here and abroad.
David Amos
Reply to @Sandy Gillis: Good for her
Robert Jones
Reply to @John Gerrits:
"It's not what the cons stand for,it's what the LPC decide the cons
stand for and media follows suit. "
THIS.
Well said.
Robert Jones
Reply to @brian duog:
"please so use where if elected she says she will stop abortion, stop
making things up "
The desperation is delicious, isn't it?
They've been peddling the tired old "hidden agenda" lie for so long I
think they almost believe it now...
Robert Jones
Reply to @Scott McGregor:
"There is zero difference. Pro-life means anti-choice "
So, by that logic, pro-choice also means pro-abortion? Good to know...
Scott McGregor
Reply to @Robert Jones: no.
Robert Jones
Reply to @Garry Cyr: "And her climate change policies are "
Irrelevant, like all other 'climate change' policies.
Robert Jones
Reply to @Stephen Metcalfe: "Chretien, Harper and Trudeau were all
against abortion, and they got elected. "
That's right, they were. To hear the 'progressives' tell it, their
elections were therefore impossible and just never happened...
Chris Evans
I thought about her for minute ,then read she's all about reopening
the abortion issue. Goodbye ,she's a devoted christian and is all
about bringing her own beliefs .
Show 10 older replies
Mike Morris
Reply to @Chris Evans:
Every potential leader of a federal party should know that you cannot
win by opening up the abortion debate again.
Richard Ade
Reply to @Chris Evans: Why is it guys that are talking about abortion
here today.
brian duog
Reply to @Chris Evans: so much for being inclusive, Christians can not
run for government, yes that left wing view is open minded
Nicholas Hale
Reply to @Richard Ade: Why wouldn't we be? We have sisters, wives, and
female children who could be affected by a socially regressive change
such as limiting or banning abortion. I want my wife and daughter's
right to bodily autonomy maintained and protected, as it should be, so
of course I care about that issue and will absolutely hold it against
any candidate of any party who proposes we take steps backwards and/or
wants to impose their religious view on a firmly secular
issue/government.
Sandy Gillis
Reply to @brian duog:
Of course Christians can run for government. We have lots of
Christians in government already. However, the majority of Canadians
will refuse to vote for someone who tries to legislate their religion
onto others.
Norm Head
Reply to @brian duog: Christian, liberals, conservatives we don't care
who, no one is going to use government to impose their religious view
on the rest of us. Being "included" doesn't mean you don't have to
have the same respect for others view you have for your won. Some
beliefs are truly repulsive. That doesn't mean we have the person. It
also doesn't stop us from seeing they are misguided by their religion.
David Amos
Reply to @Mike Morris: I disagree
Ed Riley
Reply to @Chris Evans: Im not anti abortion but i am anti abortion
used time and time again as a means of birth control. There are so
many options available today to prevent pregnancy no woman should be
going in multiple times each year, year after year for an abortion
paid for by our publiclly funded healthcare.
Sandy Gillis
Reply to @Ed Riley:
Is that something you actually think is some sort of common issue?
Ed Riley
Reply to @Sandy Gillis: im retired now, but for years worked in the
health system, and it is much more common than you might think.
William Vincent
When I was a young man in the 80's and early 90's I used to vote for
the Progressive Conservative Party but when they merged with the
Alliance/Reform Party that changed everything for me. They're still
"too" conservative (especially socially) for my and a lot of other
Canadian's tastes and that isn't likely to change anytime soon.
Show 15 older replies
David Amos
Reply to @William Vincent: I agree
Jon Smythe
Reply to @Brian Dalke: "Harper correctly set aside his ideological
views and put in deficit spending..."
Hardly, Brian. Harper was forced by the opposition to fund some
stimulus spending in a recession that he didn't see (or pretended)
wasn't coming. Harper's first act in 2006 was to cut the GST and that
lost tax revenue accounted for two thirds of his 33% increase in our
national debt (over 150 billion) after being handed a nice surplus by
Paul Martin. Furthermore, all of Trudeau's deficits would have been
non-existent if Harper had just left the GST alone. We now have an
extra 200 billion (pre-pandemic) on our national debt for the children
to pay off thanks to the GST cut. And that number is growing by over
20 billion annually.
Conservatives are so utterly incompetent when it comes to fiscal
management, and they leave a mess afterwards for others to clean up.
All they think about is tax cuts. « less
Robert Jones
Reply to @Jon Smythe: "Conservatives are so utterly incompetent when
it comes to fiscal management, and they leave a mess afterwards for
others to clean up. All they think about is tax cuts. "
Spoken like someone who hasn't got a clue how government finances really work.
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---------- Original message ----------
From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2020 05:16:53 -0300
Subject: YO Melanie Joly ans Pablo Rodriguez Methinks Steven
Guilbeault, his buddy Catherine Tait and all your former nasty minions
in CBC must take courses on playing dumb N'esy Pas?
To: "Melanie.Joly" <Melanie.Joly@parl.gc.ca>,
Steven.Guilbeault@parl.gc.ca, "pablo.rodriguez"
<pablo.rodriguez@parl.gc.ca>, "darrow.macintyre"
<darrow.macintyre@cbc.ca>, "barbara.massey"
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prmibullrun@gmail.com, "Catherine.Tait" <Catherine.Tait@cbc.ca>,
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I waited all day to hear this nonsense
https://www.cbc.ca/player/
Sound Off: Deciphering the shift to a public inquiry of the Nova
Scotia mass shooting
2 hours ago
News
3:19
Moving forward with a public inquiry may provide relief for some, but
many questions remain. Jean Laroche and Michael Gorman decipher the
politics of the decision.
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From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2020 09:09:14 -0300
Subject: RE The "Strike back: Demand an inquiry Event." What a
difference a day makes EH? Notice CBC ain't talking about this yet?
To: "darrow.macintyre" <darrow.macintyre@cbc.ca>, "barbara.massey"
<barbara.massey@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>, "Brenda.Lucki"
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"Catherine.Tait" <Catherine.Tait@cbc.ca>, "Chuck.Thompson"
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From: "MinFinance / FinanceMin (FIN)" <fin.minfinance-financemin.
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2020 12:04:25 +0000
Subject: RE: YO Bill.Blair Now that a full Public Inquiry is in order
Methinks people such as Anne McLellan, Ralph Goodale Leanne Fitch,
Allan Carroll, Mark Furey and YOU should testify under oath N'esy Pas?
To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
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From: Peter Mac Isaac <prmibullrun@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2020 21:42:20 -0300
Subject: Re: RE The "Strike back: Demand an inquiry Event." Methinks
it interesting that Martha Paynter is supported by the Pierre Elliott
Trudeau Foundation N'esy Pas?
To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
A lot of info to chew on - every now and then we win one - Today we
won a partial victory when the provincial liberals threw the federal
liberals under the bus forcing their hand . Now the spin will be to
get a judge they can control.
> On Jul 28, 2020, at 6:48 PM, David Amos
<david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
>
> BTW I inserted a lot more info in this blog
>
> https://davidraymondamos3.
>
>
> https://www.halifaxexaminer.
>
>
> Protesters decry ‘shocking and paternalistic’ decision to hold review,
> not inquiry into Nova Scotia mass shooting
> July 27, 2020 By Yvette d'Entremont
>
> Gathered at Victoria Park in Halifax at noon Monday for a general
> strike intended to draw attention to demands for a public inquiry into
> the Nova Scotia mass killing.
>
> The event was slated to run from noon to 12:22, a 22-minute strike to
> pay homage to the 22 people whose lives were taken during the weekend
> of April 18-19.
>
> “This is something that all sectors of society have asked for,” Martha
> Paynter, founder and coordinator of Women’s Wellness Within, told
> reporters before the event started.
>
> Her organization works for reproductive justice, prison abolition and
> health equity. It was one of several feminist community activist and
> advocacy groups behind Monday’s ‘Strike back: Demand an inquiry’
> event."
>
>
>
> https://marthapaynter.ca/
>
>
> ‘Strike back: Demand an inquiry’ event." is a registered nurse
> providing abortion and postpartum care. She is a Doctoral Candidate in
> Nursing at Dalhousie University. She is the founder and coordinator of
> Women’s Wellness Within, a non-profit organization supporting
> criminalized women and transgender/nonbinary individuals in the
> perinatal period in carceral institutions and the community. She works
> to advance reproductive justice through advocacy, collaboration and
> nursing scholarship.
>
> For her nursing advocacy and research, Martha has received numerous
> awards including the 2018 Rising Star Award from the Canadian
> Association of Perinatal and Women’s Health Nurses, the 2018 Health
> Advocacy Award from the Council of the College of Registered Nurses of
> Nova Scotia, the 2018 3M National Student Fellowship, and in 2017, the
> Senate of Canada Sesquicentennial Medal for volunteer service to the
> country.
>
> Martha’s doctoral research is supported by the Pierre Elliott Trudeau
> Foundation, CIHR Banting-Best Canadian Doctoral Scholarship, the
> Killam Predoctoral Scholarship, the Canadian Nurses Foundation,
> Dalhousie University and the IWK Health Centre"
>
>
>
> ---------- Original message ----------
> From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
> Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2019 11:29:02 -0400
> Subject: Attn El Jones I just called and left a message saying
Iiked your style
> To: El.Jones@msvu.ca, tim@halifaxexaminer.ca, "steve.murphy"
> <steve.murphy@ctv.ca>
> Cc: "David.Raymond.Amos" <David.Raymond.Amos@gmail.com>
>
> https://www.halifaxexaminer.
>
> Prisons, Refugees, Cats
>
> August 5, 2018 By El Jones
>
> Martha Paynter was driving through New Brunswick this weekend and
> texted me that she saw a billboard for the Airbnb in the old
> Dorchester Jail.
>
> Among the attractions listed on the website are that it was the site
> of the last double hanging in New Brunswick (more on that in a
> moment), with a highlight being that guests can stay in the former
> cells.
>
> tim@halifaxexaminer.ca
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?
>
> El Jones - Judges
> 1,107 views
> el jones
> Published on May 25, 2016
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?
>
> Canada is So Polite - El Jones
> 2,895 views
> Janice Jo Lee
> Published on Jan 25, 2018
>
>
https://www.cbc.ca/news/opinion/opinion-conservative-party-wexit-canada-1.5604501
The rise of Wexit: Why internal party unity may soon be the least of the Conservatives' problems
Real threat to Tories comes from sameness of leadership race front-runners, not differences
· for CBC News Opinion · Posted: Jul 03, 2020 1:00 PM ET
From left: Conservative Party of Canada leadership candidates Derek Sloan, Erin O'Toole, Peter MacKay and Leslyn Lewis are seen at an English-language debate in Toronto on June 18. (Tijana Martin/The Canadian Press)
This column is an opinion by Kory Teneycke. A former director of communications for prime minister Stephen Harper, he managed the recent Ontario PC Party Campaign and is currently a partner at Rubicon Strategy. Teneycke has declared he will remain neutral in the federal Conservative leadership campaign and has recused himself from work Rubicon is providing for the Peter MacKay campaign. For more information about CBC's Opinion section, please see the FAQ.
Healing the divisions in the federal Conservative caucus caused by the ongoing leadership race may soon be the least of the party's concerns – the bigger problem is the rise of Wexit.
Sounds dramatic, given that the greatest threat for most Canadians up to this point in the lacklustre leadership race has been the danger of being bored to death. Yet internally there has been vitriol between the O'Toole and MacKay camps.
The French language leadership debate devolved at times into a shouting match between the two perceived front-runners. That was followed a few days later by accusations of misconduct that have prompted police to launch a mischief probe. Depending which side you choose to believe, either the MacKay campaign is suspected of a criminal hacking scandal, or the O'Toole campaign involves a bunch of thin-skinned crybabies who have suffered a run-of-the-mill internal leak.
Either way, the whole affair borders on the comedic.
Like Justin Trudeau, both men owe their political careers largely to their fathers – one a former federal PC cabinet minister, the other a former Ontario MPP. Both have been viewed as Red Tories most of their careers – although since the leadership race began, O'Toole has been reborn as "true blue" (a marketing term more than a description of his platform).
Conservative leadership candidate Erin O'Toole (right) claims Peter MacKay's campaign team was involved in, 'theft of confidential O'Toole campaign data and strategy.' Police are investigating the claim. (Canadian Press)
Anonymous caucus members from both camps have been talking to the media about the need for the winner to bridge the divide between two slightly different shades of Red Tory. It's all just so much Kabuki theatre – an elaborate opera that is a triumph of showmanship over substance.
The real threat to party unity comes from the sameness of the front-runners, not their differences.
It has created an opportunity for the rise of a populist movement from Western Canada, the Wexit Party, born out of frustration that the region's genuine grievances have been largely ignored. And this has the potential to shatter the unified right brought together by Stephen Harper and (ironically) Peter MacKay.
The lack of a "true blue" conservative in the leadership race — or better said, a "Western conservative" — has opened the door for the rift between the establishment Red Tories and this successor to the Reform Party. Except Wexit Canada has been born under the slogan that "The West Wants Out" rather than "The West Wants In."
And the Wexit Party now has a charismatic, credible and experienced interim leader, Jay Hill. Someone who was a founding member of the Reform Party and who served in a variety of leadership positions during his lengthy political career, including as House Leader in Stephen Harper's government.
Former Conservative MP Jay Hill is the interim leader of the new Wexit Canada party. On Jan. 10, the Western separatist party was granted the ability to run candidates in the next federal election by Elections Canada. (Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press)
Hill knows how to build a political party and will have little trouble finding credible candidates to run under his banner, possibly even some former Conservative and Reform Party MPs.
More concerning to whoever wins the CPC leadership race should be the appeal that Wexit could have in the heartland of its electoral base.
There are Conservative Party voters in B.C., Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba who are frustrated with the re-election of Justin Trudeau, and dismayed at the prospect of yet another Liberal government winning the next election. They may decide they'd find a stronger voice sending a Wexit Canada member to Ottawa, instead of another opposition Conservative MP to serve under a central Canadian Red Tory.
Such a scenario could see a situation analogous in part to that which occurred in 1993, and lead to the election of dozens of MPs under the Wexit banner.
Worse still for Conservatives, vote splits might actually see a number of close seats in urban areas like Winnipeg, Saskatoon, Regina, Calgary, Edmonton and Vancouver elect NDP and Liberal MPs due to the splitting of the right-of-centre vote.
Should Wexit gain steam, it is easy to imagine a handful of CPC MPs seeking re-election may be tempted to cross the floor in advance of the next federal vote in order to save their political skins.
Floor-crossing is always an unpleasant act, but look to those who left the old PC Party to form the Bloc Quebecois to understand the potential of that threat.
If any of these events were to unfold, the small-ball divisions worrying the current CPC caucus and leadership camps will be the least of their problems.
- This column is part of CBC's Opinion section. For more information about this section, please read our FAQ.
Corrections
- When originally published, this column said Erin O'Toole's father is a former provincial PC cabinet minister. He is a former Ontario PC MPP, but did not serve in the cabinet.Jul 03, 2020 6:36 PM ET
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