As we're voting across the country, remember that the previous Harper CPC gov, and specifically #Poilievre as the relevant Minister, installed a bunch of steps to discourage voting, and remove Elections Canada's impartiality.
That mess was quickly removed with Bill C76 after the #CPC was booted out.
Let's not let them back in again!
Do you really think #Chinese #billionaires are going to willingly give up their accumulated #capital once 2050 (the year the #CPC claims that #China will go down a #socialist road) rolls around?
China’s party line is to save the world from the USA
Also let’s be honest what crowd size is really about….
The CBC did a headcount of Liberal and Conservative rallies and found (SURPRISE) both were grossly overestimating the # of people actually there.
Both gave numbers that were, objectively, “not possible”. 
The #CPC mocked “crowd scientists” (because of course they did.) 15,000? More like 1700. 
And the #LPC told on themselves when they said they “maxed out” spaces. The max capacity was less than how many they claimed attended. 
Worth the 
@Crispius I beg my fellow #Canadians to not let this #MAGA madness infect our fine country. Yes, the #Liberals are shifty. Yes, the #CPC make many good points. But putting a bunch of wannabe Trumpists in charge of the country would be a catastrophe. You don't have far to look to see the proof. Vote strategically!
#TheAmericanFascist uttered this morning.
“I’m proud to be the President for the workers, not the outsourcers; the President who stands up for Main Street, not Wall Street; who protects the middle class, not the political class; and who defends America, not trade cheaters all over the globe.”
The left wing social democratic forces of the world (including the #Liberals and #NDP in Canada) have been so neutered and brow beaten into incrementalism and neo-Liberal corporate capture, that a right wing, billionaire-wannabe, near-Nazi fascist, and politicians who want to be like him (Pierre Poillievre) have stolen the rallying cries of working men and women (but mostly men).
These were the warnings working people and socialist forces screamed when Free Trade and privatization was born by Reagan and Mulroney, Thatcher and Chirac. The de-unionization of western economies, the decimation of public infrastructure for private “partnerships”…
Now here we are, it all got so bad that the regular person, struggling to put inflated food on the table, or put their children through inflated college, are so fed up that they submit to the regressive, racist, anti-human, bloviations of populist tyrants.
A pox on you, “Liberals” and “Democrats” of the world.
You chose corporations while you placated people with false promises and false hopes.
You enabled the worst of the human condition through complacency and greed.
Your limp, unconvincing defence of Liberalism and Democratic values destroyed both.
What will you do to win back the podium to speak for working people? Perhaps you don’t deserve to.
I have spent the last two weeks covering the tour of the #CPC leader Pierre Poilievre. Wasn't easy. CPC is not letting reporters on his plane so we had to arrange our own travel, hotel, filing arrangements. For the next two weeks, I'm assigned to cover LPC Leader Mark Carney. The Liberals allow media on Carney's plane and provide travel, hotel, and filing support. Globals pays the LIberal Party $33,500 for a seat on its plane for duration of the campaign. #elxn45
@gemelliz
We can’t let the #FreedomConvoy or the Conservative Party’s complicity in it get memory-holed—it needs to be shouted from the rooftops.
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Prior to becoming interim leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, MP Candice Bergen was among the more vocal members of caucus to push former leader Erin O’Toole into an explicit embrace of the so-called freedom convoy that’s now occupying Ottawa.
CTV quoted Bergen echoing, almost verbatim, former U.S. president Donald Trump’s description of the 2017 Unite the Right Rally in Charlottesville, Va., which ended violently, as having “good people on both sides.”
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#CDNpoli #CDNElxn2025 #CPC
It seems likely he will be removed if this election plays out as the current conservative pollsters are pushing: they are clearly pushing the narrative of "if not #CPC, then #LPC at any cost!"
Which I find extremely telling. Do we really want to elect Angus Reid's second choice after #PP?
Reality is: most #BC and #AB ridings are more likely to elect #NDP or CPC than LPC. This may be true in #SK & #MB, and elsewhere. We need clean data from the sources, not Fournier's weighted model.
@bllgvn
I can only think what is happening in the backrooms of the #CPC HQ right now. Nothing is going to stick with voters after they made a sharp left turn. Convinced #PMJT took body blows for the team until the time was right. And #PierrePoilievre Best Before Date was definitely Nov 5, 2024.
An interesting few days in the #cdnpoli advertising landscapes.
I have seen no anti-Carney ads from the #CPC.
The new #PierrePoilevre ad makes me think they should give Jeff Douglas a cut.
Local ads without #PierrePoilievre are popping up. I think they may be dissociating themselves from their leader.
#Liberal ads are few and far between, but having #MarkCarney on the news all the time as PM standing up to #HeWhoMustNotBeNamed is a pretty good substitute.
CPC just dropped their fourth candidate in 2 days. Don Patel no longer the #CPC candidate in Etobicoke North after Patel endorsed a social media post that suggested deporting Sikh activists to India so "Modi can take care of these nonsense people." 4 axed in 2 days. Unprecedented in my experience. #elxn45
@AlisonCreekside What's the case for strategic voting at present?
I'm not an #NDP supporter, but if I were why wouldn't I look at @338Canada and conclude that the chance of the #CPC winning is very small, and anyway that the policy differences between #MarkCarney and #PierrePoilievre are narrow? Why shouldn't an NDP supporter vote for the NDP given the current situation?
#Canada beware of pols claiming 45's 51st state threats are a 'joke' or simply a ruse to 'get a better deal for the us'
They are touting this line so that Cdns will lower their guard this #election and vote for a #CPC party/leader who has no security clearance & is
"Very much in synch with the New Direction in america" - D Smith
45's annexation threats are very much real. Why else would P Navarro seek to remove Canada from the Five Eyes intelligence sharing group?
I think I'll create an account for posting #PierrePoilievre videos. People on the Fediverse ought to have the opportunity to hear what he actually says, and not just listen to what other people think he says.
I listened to a good one today, for instance, about his plans to reinforce Canadian unity, prosperity and independence from the US by promoting an East-West energy corridor.
The Cons civil war is between the racist bigots Harper filled the party with, and the conservatives who still love Canada and hate dictators.
Harper and Peter MacKay sold out the conservative Party, now the bigots and racists are trying to sell out Canada to Trump.
Trump's threat is waking up some conservatives about the quislings in their own party.
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2023/12/18/opinion/right-wing-merger-was-tragedy-stephen-harper
