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WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou said:
The knives are out for O'Foole.

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What went wrong for the Conservatives last election? MPs to hear findings

The Conservative caucus will be briefed Thursday about an internal review examining what led to their 2021 election defeat.
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He's not a western conservative, they were always going to go directly for his throat if he lost.

I love hearing stuff like this:

She accused O'Toole of abandoning core Conservative principles in a vain attempt to win over centrist voters in the election.
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This is how the right breaks again. I've said it here before many times. I've lived in both Ontario and Alberta for significant periods of time, known many people who consider themselves conservatives in both places...they are...uhhh...not fucking remotely the same type of people. If you locked an AB conservative in a room with a ON conservative, the AB conservative would be accusing the ON conserative of being a liberal within 5 minutes. They're just not the same and only exist under the same tent due to what they see as political necessity.
 
MindzEye said:
He's not a western conservative, they were always going to go directly for his throat if he lost.

I love hearing stuff like this:



This is how the right breaks again. I've said it here before many times. I've lived in both Ontario and Alberta for significant periods of time, known many people who consider themselves conservatives in both places...they are...uhhh...not fucking remotely the same type of people. If you locked an AB conservative in a room with a ON conservative, the AB conservative would be accusing the ON conserative of being a liberal within 5 minutes. They're just not the same and only exist under the same tent due to what they see as political necessity.
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Yeah, ON and AB are such vastly different places, it's pretty crazy if you haven't lived in both. And that's why O'Toole looks like a scary right wing loon to the Ontario moderates, but has abandoned his principles compared to the rural Westerners.
 
MindzEye said:
He's not a western conservative, they were always going to go directly for his throat if he lost.

I love hearing stuff like this:



This is how the right breaks again. I've said it here before many times. I've lived in both Ontario and Alberta for significant periods of time, known many people who consider themselves conservatives in both places...they are...uhhh...not fucking remotely the same type of people. If you locked an AB conservative in a room with a ON conservative, the AB conservative would be accusing the ON conserative of being a liberal within 5 minutes. They're just not the same and only exist under the same tent due to what they see as political necessity.
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really makes you wonder how ole Stevie held them all together and marching in the same direction for so long eh
 
Wayward DP said:
really makes you wonder how ole Stevie held them all together and marching in the same direction for so long eh
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Because he was a western christian evangelical to appease the AB nutters, and came up politically in that arena so despite not technically being an Albertan, he was one of theirs. While at the same time he looked and sounded like the corporate caretaker conservative that Ontario is fond of (when they're ever really fond of a conservative), had the "right" education, economic views, etc. Stevie understood completely the problem that I'm referring too. He went to significant effort to keep the loony Alberta conservatives in line while carefully avoiding his personal nuttiness to get any public traction (and scaring Ontario conservatives). This balancing act is possible only when the conservatives hold power. Both sides will hold their nose if it means having both hands on the wheel. Take power away though and the infighting starts to heat up immediately. The western conservatives got their religious weirdo candidate, then Ontario got their corporate lawyer candidate...and both flopped spectacularly. Now they're going to scream at each other and point fingers while a western protest movement builds underneath it all again (PPC).
 
Deckie007 said:
Already a driver shortage, and there are a lot of rules about moving loads across the borders the make things complicated. Not gonna happen.
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fair enough

i have no idea

but if there is a driver shortage - start training drivers - bring in immigrants if the locals don't want to do it
 
Never forget that 74 million people watched this tiny-fingered man stumble through 4 years of lies, corruption and buffoonery, ending with a far more inept and disgraceful reaction to a pandemic than we could ever have imagined beforehand, and said, Yup, I'd like 4 more years of that.

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MindzEye said:
Because he was a western christian evangelical to appease the AB nutters, and came up politically in that arena so despite not technically being an Albertan, he was one of theirs. While at the same time he looked and sounded like the corporate caretaker conservative that Ontario is fond of (when they're ever really fond of a conservative), had the "right" education, economic views, etc. Stevie understood completely the problem that I'm referring too. He went to significant effort to keep the loony Alberta conservatives in line while carefully avoiding his personal nuttiness to get any public traction (and scaring Ontario conservatives). This balancing act is possible only when the conservatives hold power. Both sides will hold their nose if it means having both hands on the wheel. Take power away though and the infighting starts to heat up immediately. The western conservatives got their religious weirdo candidate, then Ontario got their corporate lawyer candidate...and both flopped spectacularly. Now they're going to scream at each other and point fingers while a western protest movement builds underneath it all again (PPC).
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Harper came up through the Reform Party ranks and, since they now run the CPC he had the blessing of the Western lunatics. But he's born in Ontario and is a Leafs fan so he got a pass in the voter rich 416 and 905 areas.
 
UWHabs said:
Yeah, ON and AB are such vastly different places, it's pretty crazy if you haven't lived in both. And that's why O'Toole looks like a scary right wing loon to the Ontario moderates, but has abandoned his principles compared to the rural Westerners.
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Can confirm. Alberta is whack.

Just yesterday, I snuck a peek at a co-worker's Facebook profile (she's about to get fired for insubordination and is apparently a nasty bitch so I decided to check her out) Her entire Facebook page was mostly stupid far right memes and links to "news" sites like the Post Millennial and Canada Proud, not family photos or vacation memories.

Here's what I learned...

- Trudeau and Biden are pedophiles
- 7 out of 10 airline crashes are targeted hits by "the deep state"
- vaccine and mask mandates are human rights violations
- Covid vaccines cause AIDS
- the Clintons destroyed Haiti (apparently)
- a quote attributed to Vlad Putin stating that the CIA exists to kill Americans who don't support the Democrats.

And it goes on.

This is an otherwise normal and sane looking middle aged woman with a job (well, not for much longer, but still) She couldn't possibly be more "Alberta" if she tried.
 
He was in close contact with someone who tested positive.
Also this means he has an excuse to avoid the trucker protest.
 
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