federal election

[spaminator]

LILLEY: Trudeau loses another pop culture moment
Brian Lilley
Published:
October 10, 2019
Updated:
October 10, 2019 3:36 PM EDT
You have to wonder what Justin Trudeau’s handlers were thinking when they agreed to this interview.
Did they not learn from allowing their boss to go on Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj?
On Wednesday morning, an interview that Trudeau did with Jessi Cruickshank — a former MTV Canada host who now hosts an online show — was posted to Facebook.
It was gold for Cruickshank and hit all kinds of journalistic themes Trudeau has avoided with the political media.
For Trudeau and his team, it was cringeworthy.
“What are you being for Halloween?” Cruickshank asked.
Seems like a puffball question, especially for someone known for donning elaborate costumes — I’m talking Star Wars costumes — while taking his kids out Trick or Treating.
“We haven’t thought about that yet,” Trudeau said.
“I’m focussed on being prime minister again on the 21st of October.”
“I think we know what you’re not being,” Cruickshank said.
With that, Trudeau looked down for a moment before saying, “Indeed.”
Maybe it was a setup that the Liberals were in on.
Maybe he agreed to all of this thinking he could use it to cleanse himself of his past sins but I don’t think so.
Cruickshank, like Minhaj before her, sounded like a disappointed progressive asking Trudeau why he wasn’t living up to his own promise.
If you remember 2015, Trudeau was elected with the hope and promise of an entire movement.
He didn’t consider himself a party leader, he was leading a movement.
Well that movement is now disappointed in him, and the question nervous Liberals are asking is whether they will move on.
FUREY: The whitewashing of Trudeau’s blackface
Grit candidate apologizes for defending Trudeau blackface pics
GOLDSTEIN: U.S. comedian slices and dices Trudeau
“Why did you paint your face brown?” asked a cute pair of twins name Solea and Solara that Cruickshank brought in to help ask questions of Trudeau.
I have quizzed the PM many times, I know how he reacts to questions that he likes and those that he doesn’t.
He didn’t lash out the way he can when adults ask questions, but he was clearly uncomfortable.
“Ooooohhhh,” said Trudeau making a face and he pulled back to find an answer for the girls.
“It was something I shouldn’t have done because it hurt people.”
The girls then, without knowing it, used an old journalistic trick and just stayed silent.
They likely just didn’t have anything to say, but Trudeau was left flailing and explaining to two young black girls why he had worn blackface.
Throughout the interview Trudeau was peppered with questions such as how he couldn’t know how many times he had worn blackface, why he supplied arms to Saudi Arabia and why he was photographed looking like he was making moves on Melania Trump at an international gathering.
What a difference four years can make.
In 2015, the Trudeau team borrowed heavily from the Obama playbook: Don’t do interviews with political media who follow the issues — talk to pop culture icons.
So Trudeau spoke to music DJs, he went on The Social, he spoke to folks like Cruickshank … and it worked.
Now those very people he leaned on last time are disappointed, and it shows in both their questions and their demeanour.
I don’t know Cruickshank or her politics, but I’d be safe in betting that they are closer to Trudeau’s than mine.
Yet she was clearly disappointed.
How did Trudeau’s handlers not see this coming? It’s like the interview he did with American comedian Hasan Minhaj just before the election where the man who should be solidly in Trudeau’s camp detailed all the ways he had disappointed progressive voters from failing on Indigenous issues to SNC-Lavalin, the environment and more.
Trudeau used to lap up praise from foreign media, from pop culture reporters and hosts like Cruickshank that would then he amplified by media who would report on the reporting.
Now there seems to be a souring on Trudeau, and perhaps that — as much as any sagging in the polls — should be an indication of things to come.
http://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/liley-trudeau-loses-another-pop-culture-moment

 

[pgs]

LILLEY: Trudeau loses another pop culture moment
Brian Lilley
Published:
October 10, 2019
Updated:
October 10, 2019 3:36 PM EDT
You have to wonder what Justin Trudeau’s handlers were thinking when they agreed to this interview.
Did they not learn from allowing their boss to go on Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj?
On Wednesday morning, an interview that Trudeau did with Jessi Cruickshank — a former MTV Canada host who now hosts an online show — was posted to Facebook.
It was gold for Cruickshank and hit all kinds of journalistic themes Trudeau has avoided with the political media.
For Trudeau and his team, it was cringeworthy.
“What are you being for Halloween?” Cruickshank asked.
Seems like a puffball question, especially for someone known for donning elaborate costumes — I’m talking Star Wars costumes — while taking his kids out Trick or Treating.
“We haven’t thought about that yet,” Trudeau said.
“I’m focussed on being prime minister again on the 21st of October.”
“I think we know what you’re not being,” Cruickshank said.
With that, Trudeau looked down for a moment before saying, “Indeed.”
Maybe it was a setup that the Liberals were in on.
Maybe he agreed to all of this thinking he could use it to cleanse himself of his past sins but I don’t think so.
Cruickshank, like Minhaj before her, sounded like a disappointed progressive asking Trudeau why he wasn’t living up to his own promise.
If you remember 2015, Trudeau was elected with the hope and promise of an entire movement.
He didn’t consider himself a party leader, he was leading a movement.
Well that movement is now disappointed in him, and the question nervous Liberals are asking is whether they will move on.
FUREY: The whitewashing of Trudeau’s blackface
Grit candidate apologizes for defending Trudeau blackface pics
GOLDSTEIN: U.S. comedian slices and dices Trudeau
“Why did you paint your face brown?” asked a cute pair of twins name Solea and Solara that Cruickshank brought in to help ask questions of Trudeau.
I have quizzed the PM many times, I know how he reacts to questions that he likes and those that he doesn’t.
He didn’t lash out the way he can when adults ask questions, but he was clearly uncomfortable.
“Ooooohhhh,” said Trudeau making a face and he pulled back to find an answer for the girls.
“It was something I shouldn’t have done because it hurt people.”
The girls then, without knowing it, used an old journalistic trick and just stayed silent.
They likely just didn’t have anything to say, but Trudeau was left flailing and explaining to two young black girls why he had worn blackface.
Throughout the interview Trudeau was peppered with questions such as how he couldn’t know how many times he had worn blackface, why he supplied arms to Saudi Arabia and why he was photographed looking like he was making moves on Melania Trump at an international gathering.
What a difference four years can make.
In 2015, the Trudeau team borrowed heavily from the Obama playbook: Don’t do interviews with political media who follow the issues — talk to pop culture icons.
So Trudeau spoke to music DJs, he went on The Social, he spoke to folks like Cruickshank … and it worked.
Now those very people he leaned on last time are disappointed, and it shows in both their questions and their demeanour.
I don’t know Cruickshank or her politics, but I’d be safe in betting that they are closer to Trudeau’s than mine.
Yet she was clearly disappointed.
How did Trudeau’s handlers not see this coming? It’s like the interview he did with American comedian Hasan Minhaj just before the election where the man who should be solidly in Trudeau’s camp detailed all the ways he had disappointed progressive voters from failing on Indigenous issues to SNC-Lavalin, the environment and more.
Trudeau used to lap up praise from foreign media, from pop culture reporters and hosts like Cruickshank that would then he amplified by media who would report on the reporting.
Now there seems to be a souring on Trudeau, and perhaps that — as much as any sagging in the polls — should be an indication of things to come.
http://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/liley-trudeau-loses-another-pop-culture-moment

I notice the Liberal lawn signs in my neighbourhood are no longer proudly proclaiming Team Trudeau .

 

[Curious Cdn]

I notice the Liberal lawn signs in my neighbourhood are no longer proudly proclaiming Team Trudeau .

Do they say "TEEM MAXIME" now?

 

[Cliffy]

Canadian unemployment rate nears four-decade low; story in Alberta not as rosy

OTTAWA — Canada’s unemployment rate nudged down to a near four-decade low last month as the economy added more jobs than analysts expected — dropping an economic figure into a tight electoral race, and warnings from economists that things may not be as rosy as they seem.
Statistics Canada’s monthly labour force survey showed the country added about 54,000 net new jobs in September, driven largely by gains in full-time work, and dropping the jobless rate nationally by 0.2 points to 5.5 per cent.
However, much of the employment growth was concentrated in Ontario, where employment rose by 41,000 in September — mostly in full-time work. The unemployment rate declined 0.3 percentage points to 5.3 per cent. The story isn’t as rosy in Alberta, where the employment rate sits at 6.6 per cent.


More: https://edmontonjournal.com/news/na...rosy/wcm/924922d9-6afc-4001-a921-15485c7520ac


Funny how the right says, "look at the stats" when talking about how great Trump is for the US economy but still hate the Liberals when their record on the economy is even better than Trump's. They whine about the deficit when the facts show that the worst at increasing the deficit are the Conservatives. Man you guys have your heads up your asses.

BTW, I have never... never voted Liberal in my life. You can ignore the facts if you like but I will never vote Conservative, ever.

 

[spilledthebeer]

Mulroney outspent the two of them combined

Oh hemerHOID YOU LIED AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Statistsics Canada has ALREADY TOLD US that the



Trudopes are the MOST WASTEFUL PEACE TIME



LEADERS that Canada has ever endured!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Here is an article that expands on the LIE-beral legacy. With some comments of my own in brackets):

David Frum: The disastrous legacy of Pierre Trudeau. David Frum | March 23, 2011 10:11 AM ET. Postmedia filesA world leader, and Pierre Trudeau

Author and columnist David Frum participated Tuesday in one of the Royal Ontario Museum’s series of “history wars” debates, on the resolution, “Pierre Trudeau was a disaster for Canada.” His debating partner was John English, the former Liberal Member of Parliament and the distinguished biographer of Pierre Trudeau. Following is the text of his opening remarks.

I could win this debate with just two words: plaid suits.

Canada elected Pierre Trudeau on the understanding that Trudeau would continue to wear his 1960s skinny lapels and skinny ties. Trudeau reneged, and in 1972 his career was appropriately very nearly terminated.

The only thing that saved him: Trudeau’s opponent wore plaid suits too.

Under the strict rules of debate, my opponent Professor English can win if he proves that Trudeau was something less than a disaster for Canada: a disappointment or even a misfortune perhaps. I hope you will hold him – and Trudeau – and Canada to a higher standard. I hope you will require him to prove that Pierre Trudeau was affirmatively a good thing for Canada, a successful prime minister.

A few years ago, I took my children to visit battlefields of the First World War. All bloomed peaceful and benign in the summer sunshine. You’d never know that a century before, human beings had crouched in terror in these trenches, that here bullets had shattered human heads, doctors had amputated human limbs, bomb blasts had buried human beings alive, and that rats had feasted on human bodies.

When we look back on the past from a distance, everything fades and blurs. It was all so long ago. The dead would be dead by now anyway. Wasn’t the situation really very complicated? We are here and warm and comfortable. No point wasting time in futile regrets. Off we wander to view the next sight.

But if we are to understand history, we have to understand it as it was lived.

Canada today is a very successful country. It has suffered less from the global economic crisis than any other major economy.

So Canadians may be tempted to be philosophical about disasters in their own past. Hasn’t all come out right in the end? Of course you could say the same about the invasions of Ghengis Khan.

I don’t draw any personal comparison between Pierre Trudeau and Ghengis Khan, obviously. But I want to stress: Canada’s achievement overcoming Trudeau’s disastrous legacy should not inure Canadians to how disastrous that legacy was.

Three subsequent important prime ministers – Brian Mulroney, Jean Chretien and Stephen Harper – invested their energies cleaning up the wreckage left by Pierre Trudeau. The work has taken almost 30 years. Finally and at long last, nobody speculates any more about Canada defaulting on its debt, or splitting apart, or being isolated from all its major allies.

(OF course Our idiot Boy and his moronic LIE-beral minions are working hard to un-do the repairs that are a long way from being finished!)

Yet through most of the adult lives of most people in this room, people in Canada and outside Canada did worry about those things.

And as you enjoy the peace, stability and comparative prosperity of Canada in the 2010s just consider – this is how Canadians felt in the middle 1960s. Now imagine a political leader coming along and out of ignorance and arrogance despoiling all this success. Not because the leader faced some overwhelming crisis where it was hard to see the right answer. But utterly unnecessarily. Out of a clear blue sky. Like a malicious child on the beach stomping on the sand castle somebody else had worked all morning to build.

That was the political record of Pierre Trudeau.

I want to examine the Trudeau record in 3 dimensions: What Trudeau did to the Canadian economy, what Trudeau did to Canada’s standing in the world, and what Trudeau did to Canadian political stability.

I’ll conclude by offering some thoughts about the personal and intellectual traits that animated Trudeau’s destructive career. And I hope you’ll agree with me at the end that Trudeau deserves at least this much credit: There was nothing small-scale or parochial about him. As a political wrecker, he was truly world class.

Pierre Trudeau inherited a strong, growing and diversified Canadian economy.

When Trudeau at last left office for good in 1984, Canadians were still feeling the effects of Canada’s worst recession since the Great Depression. Eight years later, the country would tumble into another and even worse recession.

The two recessions 1981-82 and 1992-93 can both fairly be laid at Trudeau’s door.

Pierre Trudeau took office at a moment when commodity prices were rising worldwide. Then as now, rising commodity prices buoyed the Canadian economy. Good policymakers recognize that commodity prices fall as well as rise. A wise government does not make permanent commitments based on temporary revenues. Yet between 1969 and 1979 – through two majority governments and one minority – Trudeau tripled federal spending.

Nemesis followed hubris. Commodity prices dropped. Predictably, Canada tumbled into recession and the worst federal budget deficits in peacetime history.

Trudeau’s Conservative successor Brian Mulroney balanced Canada’s operating budget after 1984. But to squeeze out Trudeau-era inflation, the Bank of Canada had raised real interest rates very high. Mulroney could not keep up with the debt payments. The debt compounded, the deficits grew, the Bank hiked rates again – and Canada toppled into an even worse recession in 1992. By 1993, default on Trudeau’s debt loomed as a real possibility. Trudeau’s next successors, Liberals this time, squeezed even tighter, raising taxes, and leaving Canadians through the 1990s working harder and harder with no real increase in their standard of living.

Do Canadians understand how many of their difficulties of the 1990s originated in the 1970s? They should.

To repay Trudeau’s debt, federal governments reduced transfers to provinces. Provinces restrained spending. And these restraints had real consequences for real people: more months in pain for heart patients, more months of immobility for patients awaiting hip replacements.

If Canada’s health system delivers better results today than 15 years ago, it’s not because it operates more efficiently. Canada’s health system delivers better results because the reduction of Trudeau’s debt burden has freed more funds for healthcare spending. The Canadian socialist Tommy Douglas anticipated the Trudeau disaster when he said that the great enemy of progressive government was unsound finance.

(And “unsound finance” is a delicate way of describing GOVT GREED!)

Pierre Trudeau was a spending fool. He was not alone in that, in the 1970s. But here’s where he was alone. No contemporary leader of an advanced industrial economy – not even the German Social Democrat Helmut Schmidt or the British socialist James Callaghan – had so little understanding as Pierre Trudeau of the private market economy. “Little understanding?” I should have said: “active animosity.”

Trudeau believed in a state-led economy, and the longer he lasted in office, the more statist he became. The Foreign Investment Review Agency was succeeded by Petro-Canada. Petro-Canada was succeeded by wage and price controls. Wage and price controls were succeeded by the single worst economic decision of Canada’s 20th century: the National Energy Program.

The NEP tried to fix two different prices of oil, one inside Canada, one outside. The NEP expropriated foreign oil interests without compensation. The NEP sought to shoulder aside the historic role of the provinces as the owner and manager of natural resources. I’ll return in a moment to the consequences of the NEP for Canada’s political stability. Let’s focus for now on the economic effects.

(The NEP also virtually DOUBLED un-employment in Alberta in a matter of months and led directly to those “let the eastern bastards freeze in the dark” bumper stickers! And it explains why LIE-berals STILL don’t get a lot of votes west of Ontari-owe!)

Most other Western countries redirected themselves toward more fiscal restraint after 1979. Counting on abundant revenues from oil, the Trudeau government kept spending. Other Western governments began to worry more about attracting international investment. Canada repelled investors with arbitrary confiscations. Other Western governments recovered from the stagflation of the 1970s by turning toward freer markets. Under the National Energy Policy, Canada was up-regulating as the US, Britain, and West Germany deregulated. All of these mistakes together contributed to the extreme severity of the 1982 recession. Every one of them was Pierre Trudeau’s fault.

(Interest rates in Canada hit 21 percent in the 1981 period and stayed above 12 percent well into the 1990`s!)

Pierre Trudeau had little taste for the alliances and relationships he inherited in 1968. Canada had taken a lead role in creating the institutions of the postwar world, from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization to the General Organization for Tariffs and Trade. Those institutions were intended in great part to contain the aggressive totalitarian regimes in the Soviet Union and China. In 1968, Canada remained a considerable military power and an important voice in the councils of the West.

Trudeau repudiated that inheritance. His spending spree did not include the military. He cut air and naval capabilities, pulled troops home from Europe, and embarked on morale-destroying reorganizations of the military services. In 1968, Canada was a serious second-tier non-nuclear military power, like Sweden or Israel. By 1984, Canada had lost its war-fighting capability: a loss made vivid when Canada had to opt out of ground combat operations in the first Gulf War of 1990-91.

Something more was going on here than a left-of-center preference for butter over guns. Throughout his life – now better known than ever thanks to John English – Pierre Trudeau showed remarkable indifference to the struggle against totalitarianism that defined the geopolitics of the 20th century.

Indifference may be too polite a word.

(Our Pet praised Chairman Mao for “his genius in rushing 30 million Chinese to the gallows” during the “Great Leap Forward”!)

Pierre Trudeau opted not to serve in World War II, although of age and in good health. He traveled to Josef Stalin’s Soviet Union to participate in regime-sponsored propaganda activities. He wrote in praise of Mao’s murderous regime in China. Trudeau lavishly admired Fidel Castro, Julius Nyere, and other Third World dictators. The Soviet dissident Andrei Amalrik scathingly recalled Trudeau’s 1971 prime ministerial visit: Trudeau visited the Siberian city of Norilsk and lamented that Canada had never succeeded in building so large a city so far north – unaware, or unconcerned, that Norilsk had been built by slave labor.

As prime minister, Trudeau to the extent he could tried to reorient Canada away from the great democratic alliance.

(Meaning away from United States and Great Britain. Our Pet referred to the war against Hitler as “British Imperialism”!)

It’s telling I think that Trudeau came to the edge of endorsing the communist coup against Solidarity in Poland in December 1981. Hours after the coup, Pierre Trudeau said: “If martial law is a way to avoid civil war and Soviet intervention, then I cannot say it is all bad.” He added “Hopefully the military regime will be able to keep Solidarity from excessive demands.”

(Our idiot Boy Justin holds the same destructive socialist values. In fact the entire trudope family is a nest of vipers- with other son Sacha telling the world that bloody handed Cuban dictator Castro was a better man than any elected South American leader!)

Trudeau’s neutralism negated Canada’s former influence. Probably few remember now his farcical “peace initiative” of 1982. Convinced that Ronald Reagan was leading the world toward nuclear war, Trudeau shuttled between Western capitals to appeal for some kind of concession to soothe the Soviets. Results? Unconcealed disdain from the Americans, unconcealed boredom from the Soviets.

Canada had often before played an important go-between role. Not this time. Canada’s most important geopolitical asset is its unique relationship with the US. Trudeau had squandered that asset, and with it, his own influence.

(And now Our idiot Boy is screwing up national security by bringing in tens of thousands of Muslims secure in the knowledge that he is pissing off Trump and Yankees! The idiot Boy is risking our national trade and our safety with his support for these future Jihadists who want to force Canada to adopt Sharia Law and join the Muslim Caliphate just as soon as they get the necessary votes!)

 

[petros]

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[Cliffy]

 

[Vbeacher]

CBC suing Scheer over illegal use of their property in yet another attack ad.

tsk tsk

You can tell scheer has never had a job

https://www.cbc.ca/news/cbc-conservative-party-lawsuit-1.5319209

oh and the excuse is that CBC is publicly funded and therefore their intellectual property should belong to all Canadians.

exactly the reasoning that you would expect from someone who has never worked for a living.

Funny how the CBC didn't sue the Liberals last time around, nor even complain.
The legal opinions I've seen say the CBC doesn't have a case, and that Elections Canada made it clear before the election that parties could use clips from news coverage if they wanted to.



https://twitter.com/rcrem/status/11...bed/dh00zd?responsive=true&is_nightmode=false

 

[Hoid]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/andrew-scheer-insurance-broker-accreditation-1.5302093

Liberals want Scheer's work history reviewed

Apparently he has lied about being an insurance broker

 

[Danbones]

You said Kananagh was a rapist like your pal clinton and you proved to be wrong about that too...

on purpose even

You know what they say about birds of a feather and all that.

 

[harrylee]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/andrew-scheer-insurance-broker-accreditation-1.5302093
Liberals want Scheer's work history reviewed
Apparently he has lied about being an insurance broker

Right after they review TrustFund-eaus history at that school where he worked and something about sex with a student....Goes both ways pal

 

[Walter]

Going early voting with the family this afternoon. Vote early and vote often.

 

[Curious Cdn]

Maxime needs you.

 

[Ron in Regina]

I notice the Liberal lawn signs in my neighbourhood are no longer proudly proclaiming Team Trudeau .

I haven't seen a Liberal Party lawn sign yet, & it's a week until the election, & I'm in Ralph Goodale's riding...

 

[Walter]

I haven't seen a Liberal Party lawn sign yet, & it's a week until the election, & I'm in Ralph Goodale's riding...

I prefer lager.

 

[spilledthebeer]

September jobs report - 54,000 jobs. 456,000 new jobs this year so far.

Pretty tough to criticize the Liberals economically - but that won't stop the you know who's from trying.

POOR FRANTIC hemerHOID!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


He is so desperate he has given up any pretense of truth or logic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


He does not mention that 49,000 of the 54,000 new jobs are FOR GOVT HOGS ONLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


WE CANNOT PAY for the HOGS we have now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


And yet idiot LIE-berals are following the Dictator Play Book to the letter...............................................


AND BUYING JOBS AND LOYALTY AND VOTES.......................................


from civil service union HOGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


This is the stuff of third world PEST HOLES and PETTY DICTATORSHIPS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



We have met the enemy......................................


and he sits in a govt office!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Making LISTS OF GROSS ENTITLEMENTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Vbeacher]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/andrew-scheer-insurance-broker-accreditation-1.5302093

Liberals want Scheer's work history reviewed

Apparently he has lied about being an insurance broker

Hoid is the expert on giving us last months' news TODAY.

 

[Curious Cdn]

I haven't seen a Liberal Party lawn sign yet, & it's a week until the election, & I'm in Ralph Goodale's riding...

The local PPC candidate here is J.D. Meany. I haven't see one of his signs on a lawn, yet.

Doesn't "J.D. Meany" sound like the bad guy in a Disney movie?

 

[spaminator]

Trudeau dons bulletproof vest for campaign event in Mississauga
Canadian Press
Published:
October 12, 2019
Updated:
October 12, 2019 9:51 PM EDT
Filed Under:
Liberal leader and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau attends a rally during an election campaign visit to Mississauga, Ontario, Canada October 12, 2019.STEPHANE MAHE / REUTERS
MISSISSAUGA, Ont. — Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau took extraordinary safety precautions at a major election rally west of Toronto Saturday, donning an armoured vest and appearing with a heavy security detail because of a threat.
Liberal officials would not reveal the nature of the threat, which resulted in a 90-minute delay before the incumbent prime minister appeared before the roughly 2,000 party supporters who had turned out to a convention near Pearson airport as the election campaign enters its final week.
The armoured vest was not readily apparent as Trudeau delivered a 25-minute speech, in which the Liberal leader lashed out at the Conservatives for promising cuts to government spending before urging progressive voters against casting their ballots for the NDP.
But sources later confirmed to The Canadian Press that Trudeau, wore a suit jacket during the rally rather than his usual rolled-up sleeves and loosened tie, was wearing a vest, which was noticeable in photos taken at the event.
Trudeau’s extra security detail was obvious as the Liberal leader was escorted through the boisterous crowd by a large number of plainclothes RCMP officers as well as Mounties dressed in green tactical gear.
The police officers made a point of standing on the stage surveying the crowd while Trudeau spoke and remained close by his side after his speech as the Liberal leader shook hands with members of the crowd before leaving the room.
Prepared remarks had indicated that Trudeau’s wife, Sophie Gregoire Trudeau, was to introduce the Liberal leader. She did not appear or take the stage during the rally.
The Peel Regional Police referred questions to the RCMP.
“For security reasons, we do not comment on security measures given to the prime minister,” RCMP spokeswoman Stephanie Dumoulin said in email.
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh tweeted his concerns.
“Any threat made against @JustinTrudeau, or any leader, is troubling to all of us,” he wrote. “No matter how you vote or believe, no one should face threats of violence. To the officers who protect all of us — thank you.”
Liberals had been hoping Saturday’s rally would see Trudeau make a mark in the vote-rich Toronto-area, where the party needs to have a strong showing to have any hope of again forming government.
Prior to Trudeau’s appearance, both Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland and Economic Development Minister Navdeep Bains addressed the crowd, some of whose members began to express impatience over the Liberal leader’s unexplained delay taking the microphone.
And while the crowd cheered Trudeau’s remarks, the delay and later news of a security threat threatened to cast a pall over the event and detract from the Liberal leader’s warnings about the potential threat of a Conservative government under Andrew Scheer.
The Liberals will hope to get back on track Sunday when Trudeau campaigns in the Toronto area as the federal election campaign heads into its final week with the Liberals and Conservatives running neck and neck with the New Democrats and Bloc Quebecois also picking up some steam.
http://torontosun.com/news/national...ulletproof-vest-for-campaign-event-in-ontario

 

[Walter]

Trudeau dons bulletproof vest for campaign event in Mississauga
Canadian Press
Published:
October 12, 2019
Updated:
October 12, 2019 9:51 PM EDT
Filed Under:
Liberal leader and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau attends a rally during an election campaign visit to Mississauga, Ontario, Canada October 12, 2019.STEPHANE MAHE / REUTERS
MISSISSAUGA, Ont. — Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau took extraordinary safety precautions at a major election rally west of Toronto Saturday, donning an armoured vest and appearing with a heavy security detail because of a threat.
Liberal officials would not reveal the nature of the threat, which resulted in a 90-minute delay before the incumbent prime minister appeared before the roughly 2,000 party supporters who had turned out to a convention near Pearson airport as the election campaign enters its final week.
The armoured vest was not readily apparent as Trudeau delivered a 25-minute speech, in which the Liberal leader lashed out at the Conservatives for promising cuts to government spending before urging progressive voters against casting their ballots for the NDP.
But sources later confirmed to The Canadian Press that Trudeau, wore a suit jacket during the rally rather than his usual rolled-up sleeves and loosened tie, was wearing a vest, which was noticeable in photos taken at the event.
Trudeau’s extra security detail was obvious as the Liberal leader was escorted through the boisterous crowd by a large number of plainclothes RCMP officers as well as Mounties dressed in green tactical gear.
The police officers made a point of standing on the stage surveying the crowd while Trudeau spoke and remained close by his side after his speech as the Liberal leader shook hands with members of the crowd before leaving the room.
Prepared remarks had indicated that Trudeau’s wife, Sophie Gregoire Trudeau, was to introduce the Liberal leader. She did not appear or take the stage during the rally.
The Peel Regional Police referred questions to the RCMP.
“For security reasons, we do not comment on security measures given to the prime minister,” RCMP spokeswoman Stephanie Dumoulin said in email.
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh tweeted his concerns.
“Any threat made against @JustinTrudeau, or any leader, is troubling to all of us,” he wrote. “No matter how you vote or believe, no one should face threats of violence. To the officers who protect all of us — thank you.”
Liberals had been hoping Saturday’s rally would see Trudeau make a mark in the vote-rich Toronto-area, where the party needs to have a strong showing to have any hope of again forming government.
Prior to Trudeau’s appearance, both Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland and Economic Development Minister Navdeep Bains addressed the crowd, some of whose members began to express impatience over the Liberal leader’s unexplained delay taking the microphone.
And while the crowd cheered Trudeau’s remarks, the delay and later news of a security threat threatened to cast a pall over the event and detract from the Liberal leader’s warnings about the potential threat of a Conservative government under Andrew Scheer.
The Liberals will hope to get back on track Sunday when Trudeau campaigns in the Toronto area as the federal election campaign heads into its final week with the Liberals and Conservatives running neck and neck with the New Democrats and Bloc Quebecois also picking up some steam.
http://torontosun.com/news/national...ulletproof-vest-for-campaign-event-in-ontario

Photo op, fake news.