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mbow30 said:
Can someone explain why peepee is refusing to get security clearance? He’s saying it’s because he wouldn’t be able to do anything the information - which doesn’t make a lot of sense to me.

Would he be subject to a background check as a candidate / MP that he wouldn’t be subject to as PM?
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Why? One word: kompromat.

Pee-Pee is a foreign asset. Being vetted for security clearance would expose him.
 
LeafGm said:
From looking through his electoral record, it looks like the last major boundary change for PP's riding took effect for the 2015 election. And his margins of victory have decreased since the change.

Still though, we're talking about going from him getting around 55% of the vote beforehand, to 46-49% of the vote since the change. And he managed to get 49.9% of the vote in the last election in spite of the fact the People's Party pulled in 2.4% of the vote in his riding.
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The Libs need to send some dark money the PPC's way in that riding.
 
CH1 said:
Ya. I'm not sure about celebrity endorsements when your opponent has scored points for standing up to out of touch elites who want to tell us how to live our lives.

As a one off, it was good, but I wouldn't lean into it for too long.
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Carney needs to get an endorsement from some Canadian country western singer or chuck wagon racer. Something that will make the hillbillies' heads explode.
 
axlsalinger said:
Does anyone know why Carney moved a company to the US in the past? What was the story there?
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They didn't "move the company". Brookfield is a property management firm, they still manage Canadian properties, in Canada. They wanted to switch from being on the TSX to the NYSE because it's a much, much, much more dynamic stock market that would open up opportunities for the company to raise more capital so they "moved" their head office to New York.

Also, Chairman is an important position but it's a strategic position that if it's in charge of anything, it's in charge of corporate governance (as in, not committing financial fraud). A plan to move the company would be brought to the board by the people who run the company on the day to day. CEO and C suite execs. The board just votes on whether the plan is in the best interest of the company or not.
 
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MindzEye said:
They didn't "move the company". Brookfield is a property management firm, they still manage Canadian properties, in Canada. They wanted to switch from being on the TSX to the NYSE because it's a much, much, much more dynamic stock market that would open up opportunities for the company to raise more capital so they "moved" their head office to New York.
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Hadn't Carney left the company at the point where the move happened?
 
thehabhater said:
Hadn't Carney left the company at the point where the move happened?
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From what I heard, he was on the board when they voted, but he effectively had to agree to that, because for shareholders it was the right move to do. He had left the company by the time the move actually happened.
 
Not that it matters. He wasn't a prime minister. His responsibility was to the company and its shareholders, not Canada.

Weak stuff overall. Carney for sure has some skeletons in his closet but they haven't tapped into anything meaningful yet. Maybe they're saving something.
 
MindzEye said:
They didn't "move the company". Brookfield is a property management firm, they still manage Canadian properties, in Canada. They wanted to switch from being on the TSX to the NYSE because it's a much, much, much more dynamic stock market that would open up opportunities for the company to raise more capital so they "moved" their head office to New York.

Also, Chairman is an important position but it's a strategic position that if it's in charge of anything, it's in charge of corporate governance (as in, not committing financial fraud). A plan to move the company would be brought to the board by the people who run the company on the day to day. CEO and C suite execs. The board just votes on whether the plan is in the best interest of the company or not.
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Actually, I'll correct myself, this is partially incorrect. They were already listed on the NYSE, but wanted to be included in the S&P 500.

financialpost.com

Brookfield moves HQ to New York in corporate restructuring aimed at boosting investor base

Brookfield Asset Management has moved its head office to New York in a bid to broaden its investor base. Read more
financialpost.com financialpost.com
 
WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou said:
I voted for him to be Mayor but I'm not in his federal riding.
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Same. NDP just put their sign on my lawn when I wasn't home. Took it down. I'll put it back up if the NDP have the best chance (they are the encumbent) to beat the cpc.

Seems weird that they would just put it up. Even if I did agree to it last election
 
So far the best they've got on him is

- Mark Carney did his job appropriately at Brookfield
- Mark Carney's wife was photographed talking to a sex trafficker at a music festival in 2013
- Stephen Harper pretends to not think he was good at his job despite publicly jerking him off for being really good at his job in 2009
- Bringing UK politicians who drove the UK economy into a fucking iceberg onto podcasts to blame Carney for their own stupidity

I'm not so sure there are skeletons if that's what they've found so tbh. They would absolutely love to stop the bleeding in the polls and they've got nothing. Pierre is firing out panic tax cuts now as his platform.
 
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