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[Glacier]

The Liberals have gone up 30 points in just 3 months! I've never seen anything like this before...

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[John]

The Liberals have gone up 30 points in just 3 months! I've never seen anything like this before...

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Fake news?

[SouthSardiswx]

Your more of a jaghmeet guy?

No to be honest John and up front politically since moving out here in 2018 l voted for Mark Strahl Conservative l'm undecided this time to much crap going on this time around wouldn't you agree John? I care about my country and it's future.

[Abby_wx]

I don't blame Smith whatsoever, Carney and Quebec both have a history of hating the oil industry, which the BLOQ's Blanchet reiterated yesterday his disdain. I sure wouldn't want to give Quebec $14B with that attitude, let the 2nd largest province fend for themselves.

Well, regardless of one's personal feelings about Smith, her actions are not helping Poilievre and the Conservative party. If I was Poilievre, I'd tell her to stop "helping".

There's an element of the right in this country that is way too cozy with Trump and the extreme right in the US. I didn't care so much before the tariffs and 51st state nonsense, but now it really creeps me out.

[John]

Well, regardless of one's personal feelings about Smith, her actions are not helping Poilievre and the Conservative party. If I was Poilievre, I'd tell her to stop "helping".

There's an element of the right in this country that is way too cozy with Trump and the extreme right in the US. I didn't care so much before the tariffs and 51st state nonsense, but now it really creeps me out.

Fair f#%^ trump but we still need anything but liberals!

[John]

Well, regardless of one's personal feelings about Smith, her actions are not helping Poilievre and the Conservative party. If I was Poilievre, I'd tell her to stop "helping".

There's an element of the right in this country that is way too cozy with Trump and the extreme right in the US. I didn't care so much before the tariffs and 51st state nonsense, but now it really creeps me out.

I like smith a lot!!

[Forrest Gump]

Well, regardless of one's personal feelings about Smith, her actions are not helping Poilievre and the Conservative party. If I was Poilievre, I'd tell her to stop "helping".

There's an element of the right in this country that is way too cozy with Trump and the extreme right in the US. I didn't care so much before the tariffs and 51st state nonsense, but now it really creeps me out.

Not sure if I see it much, but if there is a rise in the far right, it's because the far left have had their way for far too long. Having said that, I can't see it getting anywhere as extreme as in the States.

Not sure exactly where Trump us going with his tariffs and 51st state talk, but the superpowers suddenly seem to be in a minerals arms race and i think he wants to somehow get his hands on our natural resources, critical minerals, etc. , maybe something similar to what he's trying with Ukraine.

Meanwhile Russia and China are gearing up for some kind of currency wars or world economic upheaval by buying as much gold as they can for last few years, and Canada doing the opposite, as Trudeau apparently sold the last of our gold 9 years ago, Canada could be in deep trouble.

[Forrest Gump]

Carney won't participate in the French debate, lol, how's that even allowed. I guess in the same way as becoming PM without winning a seat.

[stuffradio]

Carney won't participate in the French debate, lol, how's that even allowed. I guess in the same way as becoming PM without winning a seat.

He's going to participate in the official French debate.

[AbbyJr]

This is absolutely ridiculous. What was Danielle Smith thinking? She may have just ruined any chance Poilievre had in winning the upcoming election.


Title: Kelly McParland: Danielle Smith's election help isn't helping
Author: Kelly McParland
Date: March 25th, 2025:
Source: https://nationalpost.com/opinion/kelly- ... nt-helping

Pierre Poilievre must wake up in the morning and wonder what it will take to get Alberta Premier Danielle Smith to quit trying to help him.

The Conservative leader has his hands full right now. He’s got an election to win at a time his once-substantial lead has dwindled away into a neck-and-neck race. A Liberal party that seemed to be hurtling towards self-destruction just months ago has pulled a Lazarus-like resurrection. Given the concentration of Conservative support across the West, the tightness of the race means Poilievre needs to make significant inroads among voters located largely to the east of Manitoba, where the overwhelming issue in the election launched on Sunday is the need to deal with Canada’s suddenly hostile neighbours in the United States.

One of the few certainties of the next five weeks is that Liberal Leader Mark Carney will seize every opportunity to convince voters Poilievre is the living and breathing Canadian equivalent of Donald Trump. He’s already doing so, remarking, just minutes after making Sunday’s election call, that “one of the decisions that Canadians will have to make (is) whether they want a government that is unifying, that’s standing up for Canada and is taking focused action to build a better economy, or they want division and Americanism.”

Carney was responding to Smith’s remarks in an interview with the American news site Breitbart, a favourite of the MAGA crowd, in which she said she’d been pushing the Trump administration to put a hold on its tariff war as a means of helping the Poilievre campaign. “I would hope that we could put things on pause is what I’ve told administration officials. Let’s just put things on pause so we can get through an election,” Smith said, adding her belief that “Pierre would be very much in sync with, I think … the new direction in America.”

Though two weeks old, the interview offered yet another opportunity for reporters to demand Poilievre defend himself, for internet trolls to launch new screeds about the perceived horrors of a Tory victory, for Liberal ad writers to craft new assaults on Poilievre’s loyalties and for social media to erupt in another shouting match between political camps hurling insults at one another.

Not helpful in other words.

The premier’s words added to the impression she left when she met with Carney a few days before the election call and delivered a package of non-negotiable demands and the message that “Albertans will no longer tolerate the way we’ve been treated by the federal Liberals over the past 10 years.”

No one can blame the province for a deep sense of resentment at nine long years of yet another Liberal government treating it like the poor cousin of Confederation, accepted at family gatherings largely because it happens to kick in enormous amounts of money to the collective bank account. It’s not like the Trudeau regime invented Liberals’ indifferent approach to Albertan pride; in the latter stages of the Chrétien government, campaign jets would sometimes fly right past without stopping as Liberal candidates hurried to more promising venues.

Traditional Liberal treatment of the West is why Carney finds himself with just two seats in Alberta and none in Saskatchewan, and why the Edmonton-raised Liberal leader backed away from risking his future by seeking a seat in his old home town. Instead he chose far more friendly ground in Ottawa.

Nonetheless, in a race as close as this appears to be, it does no good for Smith to offer up material for Poilievre’s attackers to use against him. The demands she handed to Carney weren’t identified as long-standing issues Albertans want to see addressed by whichever party forms the next government, but as requirements Ottawa must meet “to avoid an unprecedented national unity crisis.” A threat, that is.

As is hopefully becoming clear to Americans, Canadians may be polite by nature but they don’t respond positively to threats. It doesn’t improve Smith’s chances of success to intimate she’s ready to set off a unity crisis if she doesn’t get her way. While Liberals have little to lose if they fail to gain ground in Alberta — two seats at most, and none next door in Saskatchewan — Smith’s demand for full acceptance of her conditions must apply just as much to Poilievre as it does to Carney, and puts him in an awkward spot as he seeks seats in B.C., Ontario, Quebec and the Maritimes.

While it makes perfect sense for Alberta to want greater respect for its energy industry and the jobs and revenue it provides, by insisting Ottawa revoke each and every clean energy program on the books and ban federal employees from oil and gas facilities, she deploys the sort of divisive tactics that were sadly typical of the Trudeau regime — pitting one interest against another in a test of faith — and which a lot of Canadians still hope his departure will put an end to. Do we really need a constitutional crisis over single-use plastics?

Smith and Ontario’s Doug Ford have been the two most high-profile premiers in making Canada’s case to Americans. Unlike Smith, Ford has taken an aggressive stance against tariffs, threatening to shut off electricity exports to bring home the pain of higher prices to American consumers. He’s also indicated he plans to stay out of the federal contest, on the basis that the dispute with Washington is one that should unite all Canadians no matter their party of preference. If Smith hopes for a government that shows Alberta the respect it deserves and has so often not received from the Liberals, she’d be better placed following his lead — and her own advice — and putting her partisan impulses on pause so we can get through an election.

[Forrest Gump]

He's going to participate in the official French debate.

Then I'm confused, are you saying there are 2 french debates? And 1 English debate?

[stuffradio]

Then I'm confused, are you saying there are 2 french debates? And 1 English debate?

The official election debate is on April 16/17. One is a French debate and the other is English. There's a tv station called TVA, and that's a french station who wanted to have an election debate in French. Yes I am saying that. It is a debate that has been held traditionally. Pollivere is fluent in French. I think Trudeau and the other candidates in the other elections all participated.

[AbbyJr]

I like smith a lot!!

If Poilievre doesn't win the election, Smith will likely have been a big factor. I have no idea what she was thinking making those comments.

[Forrest Gump]

Yeah like l posted this weekend the central valley seems to lean towards the Conservatives l guess that's why John loves it out here his kind of crowd. This is a crucial election l hope the folks in the central valley do some deep thinking this time.

Here's some deep thinking, apparently there's a sucker born every minute.
https://youtu.be/-UnbIUjJJUw?si=xlv-fFtX0D1jXJEA

[Glacier]

The age demographics break-down is just wild!

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