If she has an OHIP card, how exactly do health services not simply take the card, look it up, and see her full vaccination, surgery and drug history? That stuff is on file.
Does this "journalist" know or are they all just idiots?
Agreed, but nobody sent that memo to Rachel Notley, whose desiccated phylactery fully intends to run again in 2023. Or Singh, for that matter, who still refuses to acknowledge that he single-handedly caused one of the biggest NDP exoduses from QC in NDP history simply by wearing a turban.
I think we can safely say that "acknowledging that they exist" and "committing electoral suicide" has some play-between, no?
Assuming you are correct and 100% of the PPC voters are just disenfranchised CPC (I know the number isnt 100, but I won't argue that here) the CPC has been given a warning that there's a leak on the ship. Maybe they won't sacrifice the hull to fix it, but it might start with a simple nod, or something inoffensive to the general public that can be done to appease the PPC.
For example, the CPC could take an anti-cartel stance, they wouldn't lose much of their current standings, but they'd have to really look if the PQ vote lost would make up for it or not. They could take a strong anti-mandate stance for health services like vaccines, masks and etc - and they'd have to really look at how much of their current base would boot them for doing so.
While the Reform party is the direction it's headed, the CPC agrees with you that as long as the right isn't split they can win - which means they know the PPC is something they should be tackling now before it becomes another Reform. While Reform became so powerful that it ended in securing 10 years of CPC rule when it merged, they have an interesting choice to make because the next election is going to be sooner rather than later, and if the PPC can pick up that many voters in that short a time, they surely have demonstrated their ability to galvanize and take advantage of weakness in conservative politics.
The CPC has tried courting the liberal voters by just giving them what Trudeau would have anyways - but that strategy failed three times in a row. It might just be that they need to learn the lesson the Alberta UPC did and work hard to unify conservatives while the lefties break off into more dumb little offshoots - a strong NDP means a strong CPC - Jack Layton overseeing the Harper years is a testament to this. An important part of learning that lesson might be seriously looking at the PPC.
Maybe it is as you say, and the PPC will die in obscurity worshipping Bernier for 20 years getting 2% of the vote, becoming a second fringe-fringe party; you certainly wouldn't see the big left-shill media actually waking up and making hate articles about it though. Normally, tiny fringe wastes of time like the PPC weren't even worthy of cbc's time, but now you see them standing up and shrieking "racist". To me, that's a sign that, for weal or woe, the PPC's rise is relevant, and the CPC needs to do something about it.
You can't ignore that many people now. It is not likely to ever win government, but any government who do needs to win now needs to acknowledge they exist, and do what they can to earn their trust.
If we're back at the polls in two years they'll probably creep up another 2%, and get more and more annoying until the CPC finally does something to acknowledge the schism in their party.
It may take decades as well - but as long as PPC voters are consistent and serious about what they want - they may well get it!
He needs at least a seat to do that. I don't think that's possible, but it might in the future. That strategy worked with the Reform party only because the Reform party was very powerful and had a lot of seats, stymieing the PC's of the day.
PPC has taught the CPC that they're a real threat now, and need to be taken seriously. If all goes well, the CPC will actually try to court their vote and straighten up. If all goes poorly, the PPC will keep growing at this 2% per year rate until the CPC can no longer do anything about it (and Trudeau's 7th or 8th minority government calls election yet again).
In reality we been doing this since 2008.
Normally, inflation is 1:1 related to interest rates. We take on a ton of debt or print currency, then to hedge the inflation, we force the interest rate down to counter inflation by encouraging lending.
Problem - interest rates are not possible to lower now, without having a negative interest rate (which will cause investment to flee the country). Now money's value has nowhere to go but down.
Yeah it wasn't long ago she was trying to create a social credit system. Check out her interview with Joe Rogan where Joe correctly identifies that when someone wants to try to convince a group of people that they're in with them, they go hard and overcompensate. This woman was an insufferable wokie - can it be possible she saw the light and made a sudden and complete about-face? Maybe - but she's made a big attempt to get fame and since her "switch" she's made a ton of money.
Her "conservative" principles are always face-value or seem copy-pasted to seem like she was picking the view she thought most conservatives have. Her views on, for example, climate change never seem to be the same and look like a caricature of the right.
Now I could be wrong, she could have seen the light, but how does a crazy social justice zealot seeking to police the speech of everyone on the internet go from that to a religious, climate-change denying, suddenly pro-life, suddenly pro-trump, suddenly pro-free speech all in the span of a couple months? I still don't buy it. I don't think she's a nefarious gate-keeping plant - I think she adopted the persona because she discovered there's a lot of money to be made being a conservative media pundit rather than a liberal one.
Simplistic I'm sure but, who will be the first country to be forced to elect a Hitler due to globohomo policies? Hitler seemed to be a response to communism. The swastika was meant to be anti-communist.
Fascist germany was a Hegelian Communist nation. The russians were embracing Marxist Communism at the time, and the two types of communism are diametrically opposed (in that, they fundamentally disagree with how communism should arise). So in all honesty, they were all communists.
I don't know if the CDN government can pull this off. They could barely take two years to determine if they even wanted to decide to change our electoral system, and this requires 1000% of the logistics.
This wouldn't go well at all, even if they could pull this off. Forfeiting private property rights literally undoes the foundation of the country. We might as well give up our sovereignty while we're at it.
I'll personally come in and help audit if it means that the incompetent CRA actually properly audits and claws back all the fraudulent claims (which, honestly, given the information the CRA has access to - ought to be very simple to put back-charges on tax returns on the basis of).
Nobody in Venezuela ever thought it would happen to them back in 2012. It only took one oil price nosedive, and a government whose solution to economic problems was quotas, price controls and other command economy solutions.
Every day, particularly thanks to this pandemic, people seem more and more inclined to accept daddy government as the solution to these problems, despite having proved its incompetence in doing so.
Yeah I always found it funny that the three biggest provinces were all in favour of a Carbon Tax, but they all get most of their power from Nuclear or Hydro. Then the provinces that get affected the most by it are in areas of Canada with no suitable sites for Hydro, so they are forced to use Natural Gas.
They act like it's our fault for using fossil fuels - but we do so because we have no easy source of power.
To be fair, the Quebecois talk about it - a lot.