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Mark Bourrie's avatar

Really good piece.

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Robert Price's avatar

Conservatives were salivating about the super majority they would win running against Justin Trudeau. So they tried to convince voters that Carney was Justin Trudeau. Voters recognized the absurdity of that choosing Carney's decades of real world experience over Poilievre's " full pension at 31"

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Derek Pearce's avatar

The Conservatives are a very modern western democratic world media-savvy political party who had a 30 point lead. I'm still fascinated that the Liberals outfoxed them on this.

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Alexis's avatar

The ONE thing the Conservatives in Canada aren’t is a western democratic ANYTHING!. They are members of the IDU, the International Democracy Union who’s SOLE REASON for existance is to bring down every western democratic government and replace it with a extremist right wing government in the same vein as the USA or Hungary. Harper is the current Chair of the organization and PP is a full card carrying member!

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Musings From Ignored Canada's avatar

I think Joseph Stalin would give the LPC the slow clap of appreciation at the speed and ease that Justin Trudeau was disappeared from LPC history. Good show folks, good show!

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André Chénier's avatar

Equally competent but in their own way. Which competence fits the circumstances better is the ballot question.

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Darcy Hickson's avatar

We are in a recession, the Bond Rating Agencies are paying close attention to the 2025 Budget details and Carney has just returned from Washington without showing one iota of the “best guy to handle Trump” sales pitch in the campaign.

Justin Trudeau enjoyed a years long honeymoon with the media and voters. I think that Carney will face serious headwinds shortly, leading to buyers remorse and the realization that the Conservatives had the right ballot question all along.

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Ivan vL's avatar

People always want change, sooner or later. Like the voters in PPs own riding. Perhaps the rage machine just didn't resonate. The policies were vague, the leader refused to meet any but the most friendly media in a limited way, and the party and its leader just didn't seem to get the US threat. You can't always blame global economic impacts on our government, whoever they are.

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