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« Reply #675 on: June 15, 2014, 04:59:15 PM »
« edited: June 15, 2014, 05:11:05 PM by Citizen Hats »

Same. The lunatics are now running the asylum. Imagine him on the stage with Mulcair and Trudeau next year...

Would the BQ even be invited to the debates next year?

Yes. Reform was allowed in the '93 debates with only 1 MP (who won a by-election a couple years before). The Greens were invited in 2011 despite having no MP's at the time.

The Greens weren't there in 2011, though they were there in 2008 when they had Liberal turncout Blair Wilson. Presumably they'll be invited back this time

Just discovered that you have a riding called "West Vancouver—Sunshine Coast—Sea to Sky Country". Sounds like somewhere from a fairytale.



Sorta...

(in other words, they're having their Liberal Nominations this week, along with North Vancouver and Burnaby Seymour)
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« Reply #676 on: June 15, 2014, 09:10:59 PM »

BQ MP Claude Patry, an NDP defector, might leave.
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« Reply #677 on: June 15, 2014, 11:13:00 PM »

Former West Vancouver Mayor Pamala Goldsmith-Jones nominated by the Liberals for West Vancouver-Sunshine Coast-Sea to Sky Country
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« Reply #678 on: June 16, 2014, 10:36:36 AM »

Obviously the BQ has been reduced to the most militant sovereigntists at this point. Good news, for sure.
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« Reply #679 on: June 16, 2014, 11:14:00 AM »

Crazy news out of NL: PC leader Frank Coleman is resigning weeks before he was to be sworn in as premier. I've never seen such a f[inks]ing clown show which doesn't involve Rob Ford. At this rate why don't they just call a snap election and get the wipeout over with? No idea what happens next there.

Beaulieu: now says he was mouthing the words. LOL.
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« Reply #680 on: June 16, 2014, 11:42:58 AM »

Coleman says an urgent family matter arose. Question's still what the Tories do next. Another leadership race? Snap election? They've only got 7 months left.
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« Reply #681 on: June 16, 2014, 12:01:54 PM »

Newfoundland PCs unwilling to concede title of "biggest joke party in Canada" to the Bloc.
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« Reply #682 on: June 16, 2014, 12:29:37 PM »

Coleman says an urgent family matter arose. Question's still what the Tories do next. Another leadership race? Snap election? They've only got 7 months left.

In 1933 the governing British Columbia Conservative government more or less gave up on having a party and declared every riding association for itself.
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« Reply #683 on: June 16, 2014, 12:57:04 PM »

He's hiding something.
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« Reply #684 on: June 16, 2014, 04:28:00 PM »

John Ottenheimer (former MHA, ran in Random-Burin-St. Georges federally in 2011) just threw his hat in the ring. My guess is a coronation followed by a snap election. Best thing to do IMO since that's the only way they'll salvage more than a rump caucus.
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« Reply #685 on: June 16, 2014, 04:51:06 PM »

Speaking of the Bloc, looks like their "caucus" has rallied.
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« Reply #686 on: June 17, 2014, 12:46:48 PM »
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Fantastic articles from Le Devoir and La Presse on the Bloc. More resignations, more discontent inbound. Sentiment is meh at best. 1 ex-MP thinks they can regain lost QS/ON voters but even she isn't really convinced. Her money quote: « Je ne pense pas que ça fonctionnera, mais j’espère que ça va fonctionner, et qu’il va faire assez de bruit pour qu’il se passe quelque chose. Parce que là, il ne se passe rien. » Could also apply to the PQ.

John Duncan will be challenged for his nomination.
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« Reply #687 on: June 17, 2014, 03:57:10 PM »

Cabinet has approved Northern Gateway, with 209 conditions.
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« Reply #688 on: June 18, 2014, 02:17:51 PM »

Lawrence MacAulay insists he will won't toe the party line over abortion.

Good for him.
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« Reply #689 on: June 18, 2014, 02:22:55 PM »
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Now he says he will. Wonder if JT would've expelled MacAulay had he defied the whip.
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« Reply #690 on: June 18, 2014, 11:23:13 PM »

Hilarious: Jodie Emery says she's been recruited to run against Libby Davies.
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« Reply #691 on: June 19, 2014, 01:19:15 AM »



My riding, but not my cup-o-tea. 

That being said, 'recruited' could mean someone from the Vancouver-East Liberals gave her a phone call. They're a very pro-pot bunch the VanEast Federal Liberal Association is. I'm more of a Quadra-Liberal myself
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« Reply #692 on: June 19, 2014, 05:36:37 AM »

Now he says he will. Wonder if JT would've expelled MacAulay had he defied the whip.

Probably. It's not like the long gun registry where cracking the whip means losing the riding.
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« Reply #693 on: June 19, 2014, 06:58:30 AM »

I wonder if the Liberals will try to appear to run to the left of the NDP like they did provincially. Hopefully it will force the NDP to modernize some of their platform (like on marijuana).
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« Reply #694 on: June 19, 2014, 07:14:47 AM »

Wrong brother for that. Though I certainly wouldn't mind if the Grits did try running to your left on some issues.
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« Reply #695 on: June 19, 2014, 09:49:46 AM »

I wonder if the Liberals will try to appear to run to the left of the NDP like they did provincially. Hopefully it will force the NDP to modernize some of their platform (like on marijuana).

I doubt it, or at least not in the same way. The party's gearing up to run on a fairly neoliberal and social liberal platform, from what I can tell. There's going to be some significant investments on infrastructure, first nations, and the environment, so it would be unfair to call us the 'friendly Tories' as some NDP are fond.  Unless Mulcair improbably goes the-full-Horwath, I imagine that we won't see the same positioning
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« Reply #696 on: June 19, 2014, 10:58:02 AM »

New Forum poll

National
Liberal: 39% (+3)
Conservative: 31% (+1)
NDP: 19% (-4)
Green: 5% (nc)
Bloc Quebecois: 4% (-2)

Beaulieu is not panning out... Bloc @ 17% in Quebec.
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« Reply #697 on: June 19, 2014, 11:51:47 AM »

Paille didn't pan out either. If it turns out to be a "screwed either way" scenario as those articles suggest, couldn't happen to a nicer bunch. Ironically Levesque vetoed the idea of what was then planned as a PQ federal wing... Parti nationaliste was shut down within a year.
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« Reply #698 on: June 19, 2014, 03:24:20 PM »

Sort've a side point, but is there any hope of the NDP at least holding onto opposition next year?
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« Reply #699 on: June 19, 2014, 03:30:25 PM »

Sort've a side point, but is there any hope of the NDP at least holding onto opposition next year?

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No
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