Trudeau draws big Alberta crowd in traditional Conservative riding

[mentalfloss]

Soon we won't have any conservatives anywhere.

I'm so stoked!


Trudeau draws big Alberta crowd in traditional Conservative riding

Justin Trudeau drew a crowd of 1,300 people in Medicine Hat, Alta., last night, as he is helping local Liberal candidate Stan Sakamoto campaign in a by-election. The Medicine Hat News front page declared it “Trudeau-mania in the Hat,” though the paper noted there were dozens of protesters not happy about the Prime Minister’s recently-announced carbon pricing. The riding, which has gone Conservative or Reform since 1972, lost its MP when Jim Hillyer suffered sudden heart failure in his Parliament Hill office earlier this year. Two more by-elections will be called in the coming months for the Calgary seats vacated by Stephen Harper and Jason Kenney.

Speaking of climate policies, Premier Brad Wall argues in a Globe op/ed that “in Saskatchewan, we are opposed to a carbon tax whose efficacy is at best doubtful and whose impact on trade-exposed industries that provide thousands of jobs will be harmful.”

The parliament of Wallonia, the French-speaking region of Belgium, threw a wrench in the Canada-EU trade deal today.

The wheels of justice turn slowly: a trial linked to the decade-old sponsorship scandal revealed this week that a Liberal bagman says he was paid $40,000 after pleading guilty to influence peddling.

How Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains uses his turban colours as a form of political messaging.

And former Ontario Progressive Conservative leader Tim Hudak talks about life after politics. “Sometimes politics is like sports – athletes can stay past their prime,” he says.

Trudeau draws big Alberta crowd in traditional Conservative riding - The Globe and Mail

 

[Walter]

I heard there were more protesters than supporters but what do you expect the media to report.

 

[Curious Cdn]

Traditionally, they would show up with baskets of rotten eggs to greet a Trudeau in Medicine Hat.

 

[MHz]

Ah that would be a frozen turnip if you didn't like him and a frozen flower if you like him. Then both groups would go back to the same bar they got dragged out of to attend then PR thingy.
Welcome to the real west Pilgrim.

I heard there were more protesters than supporters but what do you expect the media to report.

If you know they are chronic liars then you just take part of it as being true and the rest a PR stunt to hide that criminal part of it. . . . . Pilgrim.

 

[Cannuck]

Soon we won't have any conservatives anywhere.

I'm so stoked

We will still need conservatives to support charitable causes. How's your letter to Nutley coming?

I heard there were more protesters than supporters but what do you expect the media to report.

There was. Stan Sakamoto doesn't have a hope. He's quite well respected in Medicine Hat but the Liberal label doesn't sell well

 

[Colpy]

Soon we won't have any conservatives anywhere.

I'm so stoked!

Typically Liberal.

What you really want is a one party state.

Big surprise there. Not.

Talk to me after the by election.

 

[Cannuck]

Typically Liberal.

What you really want is a one party state.

Big surprise there. Not.

Talk to me after the by election.

1300 fans in a trade area of 100,000 is a bit of an embarrassment. I guess, given the Liberal party's history in the Hat, they should be happy. There was more than ten

 

[pgs]

Typically Liberal.

What you really want is a one party state.

Big surprise there. Not.

Talk to me after the by election.

In catechism class many years ago that the job was to make the world embrace the Catholic faith , and the world would be beautiful . Mentalfloss thinks if the world all embraced his ideology every thing would be beautiful .
But even if either of the above came about every thing would remain the same .And losers would still be losers .

 

[taxslave]

How many buses did it take to transport that many LIberals to Alberta?

 

[mentalfloss]

I heard there were more protesters than supporters but what do you expect the media to report.

I heard that blaming the media for your problems won't be a talking point in after November.

Typically Liberal.

What you really want is a one party state.

Big surprise there. Not.

Talk to me after the by election.

Typical infant.

No, I just want a Not Conservative state.

It can be Liberal, NDP, Green, etc.

 

[bobnoorduyn]

I heard that blaming the media for your problems won't be a talking point in after November.



Typical infant.

No, I just want a Not Conservative state.

It can be Liberal, NDP, Green, etc.

I want a liberal state too, but the Liberals, NDP, and Greens are anything but, the most illiberal parties in the country. Furthermore, what Liberals want is really a socialist state.

 

[mentalfloss]

Liberal is a nonsensical term anyway.

It doesn't have any consistent philosophy attached to it.

 

[personal touch]

Soon we won't have any conservatives anywhere.

I'm so stoked!


Trudeau draws big Alberta crowd in traditional Conservative riding

Justin Trudeau drew a crowd of 1,300 people in Medicine Hat, Alta., last night, as he is helping local Liberal candidate Stan Sakamoto campaign in a by-election. The Medicine Hat News front page declared it “Trudeau-mania in the Hat,” though the paper noted there were dozens of protesters not happy about the Prime Minister’s recently-announced carbon pricing. The riding, which has gone Conservative or Reform since 1972, lost its MP when Jim Hillyer suffered sudden heart failure in his Parliament Hill office earlier this year. Two more by-elections will be called in the coming months for the Calgary seats vacated by Stephen Harper and Jason Kenney.

Speaking of climate policies, Premier Brad Wall argues in a Globe op/ed that “in Saskatchewan, we are opposed to a carbon tax whose efficacy is at best doubtful and whose impact on trade-exposed industries that provide thousands of jobs will be harmful.”

The parliament of Wallonia, the French-speaking region of Belgium, threw a wrench in the Canada-EU trade deal today.

The wheels of justice turn slowly: a trial linked to the decade-old sponsorship scandal revealed this week that a Liberal bagman says he was paid $40,000 after pleading guilty to influence peddling.

How Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains uses his turban colours as a form of political messaging.

And former Ontario Progressive Conservative leader Tim Hudak talks about life after politics. “Sometimes politics is like sports – athletes can stay past their prime,” he says.

Trudeau draws big Alberta crowd in traditional Conservative riding - The Globe and Mail

Albertans are so confused,this of course by design,but like others I am pumped with all the open mindness happening in Alberta
Old rules not apply
How those rules are designed for the opening minds,and more so taking the old and new rules with the consensus of the electorate ,
Is in the message and actions of the deliver,I am curious on the response of the Conservative Party to such a healthy gathering at Medice Hat
What a jewel Medicine Hat is,always been progressive,communities need to strategize how to have a say at the table,I wish the community of MH best wishes
Unlike you Mental Floss,I am a big believer Conservatives are a must in the design of Alberta,there are many brands of Conservatives within Alberta,they deserve each other and I don't want those wishy washy type amongst my political fold,forever changing,name calling,self serving,**** their mother type of individuals on my ship,the Conservative movement in Alberta is a mimic of Donald Trump politics,entertaining if anything,but in recent times,sick and wayward.
Aggressive which makes me cower,
If there were no right wing politics in Alberta how would we be entertained ?
Good on you Medicine Hay,so much so I may volunteer to stuff envelopes in "the Hat" for a few days,staying in a Historic hotel for a few days,serving my belief system.

 

[Curious Cdn]

Liberal is a nonsensical term anyway.

It doesn't have any consistent philosophy attached to it.

BINGO!

I have voted in lot of elections in my sixty years and have known a few Liberal party activists and the whole point of the Liberal Party of Canada ... the only point ... has been to get elected, since Pearson's time anyway.

They are an "elect me" machine with no ideological foundation.

 

[mentalfloss]

The 'Liberal Party of Canada' is just a 'big tent' party when Canadians can't decide on the other two (which is pretty often).

The term 'liberal' is abused by Conservatives and Republicans as a deliberate tactic to put anyone who disagrees with them in a box. The reason why they do this is because they recognise it's more effective to rally supporters through blatant hate and fear mongering rather than nuance or actually discussing the issue.

You see Walter and Loc use this technique all the time.

 

[bobnoorduyn]

Liberal is a nonsensical term anyway.

It doesn't have any consistent philosophy attached to it.

Like the party that adopted the term for its name. They were the original Reform Party formed with libertarian principles to combat the Conservatives. Now they are just another Statist party with a euphemistic handle.

 

[personal touch]

BINGO!

I have voted in lot of elections in my sixty years and have known a few Liberal party activists and the whole point of the Liberal Party of Canada ... the only point ... has been to get elected, since Pearson's time anyway.

They are an "elect me" machine with no ideological foundation.

People design the foundation as communities do,or in the real world

The 'Liberal Party of Canada' is just a 'big tent' party when Canadians can't decide on the other two (which is pretty often).

The term 'liberal' is abused by Conservatives and Republicans as a deliberate tactic to put anyone who disagrees with them in a box. The reason why they do this is because they recognise it's more effective to rally supporters through blatant hate and fear mongering rather than nuance or actually discussing the issue.

You see Walter and Loc use this technique all the time.

Each to their own,this makes a respectful politicians

I like tent parties,who doesn't?

 

[mentalfloss]

Like the party that adopted the term for its name. They were the original Reform Party formed with libertarian principles to combat the Conservatives. Now they are just another Statist party with a euphemistic handle.

They're all statist parties lol

 

[tay]

I want a liberal state too, but the Liberals, NDP, and Greens are anything but, the most illiberal parties in the country. Furthermore, what Liberals want is really a socialist state.

The Trudeau Liberals can hardly be considered socialists, just a different, let's say sunnier bobble head who is distracting from the rest of the Liberals agenda, which by the way is much the same as the Harper agenda.......

A union is calling for a review of the impact the temporary foreign worker program has had on the construction industry in Western Canada, saying a federal government report ignored the issue.

The Western Canadian arm of the Labourers’ International Union of North America says a report released last month by a House of Commons committee fell short, and failed even to acknowledge a 123-page submission from the union.

Mark Olsen, the manager of the union’s regional office, said on Monday that concerns include the effect of the temporary foreign worker program on the prevailing wage and how it is enforced.

“Companies should have to pay whatever the going rate is for construction in a given area, because if they’re allowed to advertise at a much lower rate and they’re allowed to pay at a much lower rate, then they won’t have as many Canadians applying, maybe none,” he said in an interview.

“And on top of that, they will be depressing the wage rates of companies that are competing for the same work, and workers that are competing for the same work.”

Mr. Olsen said that in some instances, a Canadian worker could be paid significantly more than a temporary foreign worker for the same task, which is discriminatory.

Tom Sigurdson, executive director of the B.C. and Yukon Territory Building and Construction Trades Council, said his organization supports the union’s call for a separate review.

“Contractors who are trying to beat the system and essentially just have a much lower-paid work force, they ought to be penalized from even operating in Canada,” he said in an interview.

The government committee on the temporary foreign worker program began its review in May and released its report two weeks ago. It recommended, among other things, that the program be amended to make it easier for temporary foreign workers to become permanent residents in Canada. Mr. Olsen said his union supported that recommendation and had called for a pathway to full citizenship.

The committee also recommended the elimination of a rule that ties a foreign worker’s permit to a specific employer based on testimony that this can create a power dynamic that leads to abuse.

A statement on Monday from Employment and Social Development Canada did not address the union’s call for a separate review.

Union calls for review of temporary foreign workers program - The Globe and Mail

 

[Cannuck]

The term 'liberal' is abused by Conservatives and Republicans as a deliberate tactic to put anyone who disagrees with them in a box.

That's pretty funny because the term "conservative" is abused by Liberals as a deliberate tactic to put anyone who disagrees with them in a box.

How's the letter coming

I want a liberal state too, but the Liberals, NDP, and Greens are anything but, the most illiberal parties in the country. Furthermore, what Liberals want is really a socialist state.

Ralph Klein was a liberal and Flossy hated him and everything he stood for. I don't think he's fooling anybody