Yes, one should vote for conservatives just for the simple reasons you HATE them: because they are not nazis or communists and aren't into little drag kids and sex children.there is no good reason to vote conservative.
Yes, one should vote for conservatives just for the simple reasons you HATE them: because they are not nazis or communists and aren't into little drag kids and sex children.there is no good reason to vote conservative.
Exactly what I told the PC candidate in my riding . Sheer was/is a weak leader .LILLEY: Scheer needs to act before others act for him
Brian Lilley
Published:
November 5, 2019
Updated:
November 5, 2019 9:26 PM EST
Federal Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer addresses journalists during a news conference in Toronto, on Thursday, August 29, 2019. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young
Andrew Scheer is quickly becoming a lonely man.
Trying to find supporters for the Conservative leader as he heads into a crucial meeting of the Conservative caucus on Wednesday afternoon is becoming more difficult by the day. It’s not that Conservative MPs and supporters suddenly hate the man that they were rallying around during the election just days ago, it’s worse than that.
They are now indifferent. That’s my take away from conversations with close to two dozen Conservative MPs, staffers, workers and insiders.
There are Conservative candidates who — after putting the last six to 12 months of their lives on hold to run for the party — still have not been called by Scheer. That’s pretty basic and customary for a leader to do, yet Scheer has failed to complete the task.
He has yet to show, more than two weeks after the vote, that he has learned anything. Much of the criticism about Scheer’s performance has been centred around his handling of social conservative issues like abortion and same-sex marriage. As brutal as his answers on those questions could be, I don’t buy that as the reason he lost.
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Scheer’s main problem on answering those questions was the same problem that he had answering questions about his insurance career, his American citizenship or his hiring of my friend and colleague Warren Kinsella. He didn’t sound believable or sure of himself and voters won’t back someone who doesn’t sound like they believe the words coming out of their own mouth.
As a friend who isn’t obsessed with politics said to me after watching one of Scheer’s more difficult press conferences: “I’m not sure what the issue he’s talking about really is, but he sure looks guilty.”
If that’s how casual voters viewed him, no wonder he lost the Ontario vote the way he did.
Now Scheer faces his own caucus, a group of people who, through a complex set of rules, could try to remove their own leader.
Before they get to that, Scheer will try to convince them not to dump him by telling Conservative MPs and Senators three key messages.
Trudeau is weakened, Trudeau is beatable and to accomplish that goal, they must stick together.
There is truth to that, Trudeau is weakened. He dropped 27 seats compared to his 2015 election result and dropped 6 points in the popular vote, which Scheer and the Conservatives actually won this time around. The Liberals expected to win a second majority and only won a minority because Ontario vote splits favoured them.
The question is whether Scheer can keep Conservatives together.
I think, and have been saying for more than a week, that if Scheer wants to stick around, then he needs decisive action. He can’t simply tell MPs, as he told leadership last week, that he had some bad luck and that with more events, he can win. More barbecues won’t beat Justin Trudeau, they won’t even save Scheer’s leadership.
Scheer needs to offer a full-fledged mea culpa to his party; he can do that in private if he wants, but it must be done. He and his team screwed up some key parts of the election and that must be acknowledged.
Then he has to fire people, mainly the key staff around him that allowed him to think he was winning the election, that he was saying the right things and that everything was going fine. Leaders rely on good advice and Scheer didn’t get good advice.
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Since the day after the election, I’ve been hearing rumours of Brian Mulroney making calls and trying to put in place funding for a leadership bid for his daughter Caroline, something she told me she isn’t interested in. More recently, I’ve heard that the Mulroney money is looking to back Peter MacKay who has said he is not looking to run.
Scheer needs to realize that if he won’t show leadership and take action to show he is in control of his party and his agenda, others will and that will leave him on the outside looking in.
The choice is his.
http://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/lilley-scheer-needs-to-act-before-others-act-for-him
Here in Canada we are constantly asking the so called progressives how their feel good expenditures will make things better and how more government intrusion in our lives is good for us. They never have good answers but always claim the rich have to pay their fair share without defining what fair share is. Few of them understand economics at all.Conservatism is the very practical realization that the U.S. and Canada have provided their people with more peace, prosperity, and freedom than any other system in history, period. And proven more willing to correct their mistakes than any other system (western Europe is a close second).
Conservatism looks at proposed fixes to our problems with a sceptical eye, asking for facts and sound reasoning that the proposed fix will actually make things better, and that the cost is not too high. It proceeds from the notion that the system as is has worked pretty damn well, and is reluctant to sacrifice its features without a careful analysis of what may be lost and what may be gained.
This isn't a quote, it's my own conclusions. And that's coming from a member of a traditionally disadvantaged race.
The real difference between me and the tight whitey righties is that I don't deny the problems exist. I just want the facts and reasoning about how your whiz-bang solutions will actually fix them.
I am a fiscal conservative ...
Here in Canada we are constantly asking the so called progressives how their feel good expenditures will make things better and how more government intrusion in our lives is good for us. They never have good answers but always claim the rich have to pay their fair share without defining what fair share is. Few of them understand economics at all.
Have to remember that I live in BC where most of the real nutbars like cliffy and hoid migrate to and then want us to support them.Only they don't want us to have an economy to provide the taxes necessary to provide their freebees. Acording to our NDP MP building bicycle trails is better for the economy than Exporting resources.
Bring Cash .Yeah, I always figured "BC" stands for "Boreal California."
Another weak ass red Tory that does not have the courage of his convictions. No wonder they lost .Tory deputy leader apologizes for comparing Pride, St. Patrick’s Day parades
Canadian Press
Published:
November 30, 2019
Updated:
November 30, 2019 6:21 PM EST
Leader of the Opposition Andrew Scheer walks with Leona Alleslev, who crossed the floor from the Liberal party to Conservative party before Question Period on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Monday, September 17, 2018. Adrian Wyld / THE CANADIAN PRESS
Andrew Scheer’s second-in-command apologized Saturday after comparing the Conservative leader’s decision not to march in a Pride parade to choosing not to take part in a St. Patrick’s Day parade.
Leona Alleslev, who was named the Tories’ deputy leader earlier this week, made the comments on an episode of the CBC News radio show “The House” that aired Saturday morning.
When asked if she had an issue with Scheer not attending Pride parades, Alleslev gave a response that drew online criticism.
“I think that’s obviously his choice and we live in a country where that’s his choice,” she said, referring to Scheer. “Have we asked anybody if they’ve marched in a St.Patrick’s day parade?”
Alleslev apologized for the comment on Twitter on Saturday afternoon, saying that the Pride parade is an important symbol in the fight for LGBTQ rights.
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“I did not intend to make erroneous and hurtful comparisons — I apologize unreservedly,” she wrote.
In another tweet, she said she’s committed to being a progressive voice and ensuring equal opportunity exists in the Conservative party.
Over the summer, the Liberals lambasted Scheer for declining to participate in any Pride events and dug up 14-year-old video footage of him speaking out against same-sex marriage.
In August, then-public safety minister Ralph Goodale — who lost his seat in the October election — tweeted a short, edited video of an April 2005 speech Scheer gave in the House of Commons explaining his opposition to the Civil Marriage Act, which legalized same-sex marriage in Canada later that year.
Scheer has softened his stance on same-sex marriage since the debates over the Civil Marriage Act, supporting a move to erase the traditional definition of marriage from the Conservative Party of Canada’s policy book at its 2016 convention.
Scheer has been touring the country to make his case to the party faithful that he should be allowed to continue to lead the Tories, even after losing the federal election.
He received a warm reception while speaking at the Alberta United Conservative Party’s annual general meeting on Friday, but a contingent of MPs and other party members have been calling for his resignation.
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He’ll have a chance to fight for his spot at the party’s helm at the Conservatives’ convention in April.
Alleslev was first elected as a Liberal MP in 2015 in the Toronto area, but crossed the floor to join the Conservatives in September of last year.
http://torontosun.com/news/national...s-for-comparing-pride-st-patricks-day-parades
The only chance that the Conservatives will ever have ... for ever and ever to form a government is to entice back those Red Tories that have fairly well abandoned them because they are not rootin' tootin' Alt Reich Yahoos.Another weak ass red Tory that does not have the courage of his convictions. No wonder they lost .
.....and yet somehow had more Canadians vote for this regional party than any other Federal Party in the last election. Isn't that strange?The term "conservative" is a misnomer. They are the Reform Party plain and simple. A Western regional party