David Portier
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Liberals: “okay guys it’s bad. We’re 19 points down. How can we fix this?”
Guilbeault: “let’s announce that we will no longer fund roads.”
Liberals: “Great idea!”
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Only in Canada 🇨🇦
> Press Gallery obsesses over rumours of foreign funding for the mostly harmless convoy that annoyed them, in their downtown condos, personally.
> Then ignores evidence of actual Chinese interference in our elections and the fact that PM knew and did nothing.
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Things a Government could do with $13 billion:
-Pay 32,000 nurses $80,000 a year for 5 years.
-Buy 13,000 new MRI machines.
- Exempt 325,000 households from taxes
Things OUR Government did with $13 billion dollars:
-Overpay a German company for 3,000 jobs.
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8% of 🇺🇸Americans don't have health insurance, but:
22% of 🇨🇦 Canadians don't even have a family doctor
Just saying.
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I’m investing my $139.75 carbon tax rebate as a $139.75 donation to the Conservative Party, so I can eventually stop paying carbon taxes.
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Sure, Canada isn't broken at the moment, but you can't:
1. Get a passport
2. Use the airport
3. Get a family doctor
4. Be seen in the ER
5. Buy a house for the first time
6. Afford groceries
7. Afford your cell phone bill
8. Feel safe on public transit
9. Get a Via train
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Liberals: “okay, okay, we’re still 19 points down and I don’t think the ‘no more roads’ idea worked. Anybody got anything else?
Lawrence MacAulay: “what about pictures of myself on a jolly to tropical Asia in February eating taxpayer funded lobster?”
PMO: Perfect, do it!
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11 Liberal MPs having to suddenly resign over treason would mean Trudeau loses his majority, just FYI:
156 LPC + 24 NDP = 180
Take away 11 MPs = 169
Then lose Toronto-St Paul’s?
Game over.
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“Canada isn’t broken” except for:
- the healthcare system
- the RCMP
- the CBC / media
- the housing market
- the immigration system
- the military
- the grocery market
- the telecoms market
- our airports and airlines
Yeah, but otherwise it’s all fine.
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Nothing says solving the affordability crisis like the entire government skipping the airport mess to fly private to Vancouver.
PM Trudeau holding affordability-focused cabinet retreat in Vancouver
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Remember, the most satisfying ending is going to be this:
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Just think: if a random McGill computer had assigned to you the same dorm/res floor as Justin Trudeau, you too could be running the government into the ground.
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The Liberals will lose in 550 days and everything between now and then is just an enormous waste of everyones time, money and potential.
Everyone knows it. Just saying it out loud.
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Sure wish these guys were still running the Finance Department.
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Controversial take:
The Trudeau Liberal government has always been this bad, it just took everyone 8 years to notice.
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If you guys don’t like who retired PM Stephen Harper hangs out with, wait until you find out what Jean Chretien has been upto in China.
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"Wow, look how high those CPC polling numbers are"
🔵 CPC: 44%
🔴 LPC: 24%
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Predictions for 🇨🇦 next week:
- Monday: The CPC wins Toronto St-Pauls
- Tuesday: The Oilers win the Stanley Cup
Agree?
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No. of provinces where each party leads in the 🇨🇦 polls:
🔴 LPC: 0
🟠 NDP: 0
🟣 BQ: 0
🔵 CPC: 10
Source: Abacus
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Charles Alder’s (predictable) Senate appointment is the final nail in the coffin of the Canadian media’s dying credibility, and crassly cynical.
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The Liberals have dropped to 3rd (!!!) place in Quebec:
🟣 BQ: 34%
🔵 CPC: 26% (!!!)
🔴 LPC: 25%
Source: Abacus
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Voter: “I am struggling”
Liberal: “no you aren’t”
Poilievre: “I’ll help you”
Liberals: “why are we 20 points down”
Pierre Poilievre says one thing. 200 experts refute it. Who to believe?
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Vote intention by gender, 18-34 year olds:
Male:
CPC: 48%
LPC: 15%
NDP 26%
Female:
CPC: 23%
LPC: 24%
NDP: 42%
Talk about a gender divide. Wow.
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Accountability, this week:
A former 🇬🇧 British PM had to resign as an MP for misleading the House.
A former 🇺🇸 American President was indicted for mishandling classified info.
A former 🏴 Scottish First Minister was arrested for apparent graft.
Meanwhile in 🇨🇦 Canada….
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Here’s what I learned watching Question Period today:
- The Liberals should probably be better prepared for QP.
- The anti-Poilievre talking points are “irresponsible,” “reckless” + “Bitcoin.”
- The LPC isn’t even trying to talk beyond their 32%.
- Freeland loses to PP in a GE.
Conservative leader
@PierrePoilievre
goes head-to-head with Deputy PM Chrystia Freeland in Question Period today over the government's tax increases.
#cdnpoli
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New Abacus Federal Poll:
🔵CPC: 43% (!!!!!)
🔴 LPC: 24%
Source: Toronto Star
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This is vile, repulsive anti-semitism and celebration of mass murder and terrorism by a Canadian union. Utterly disgusting.
@CUPEOntario
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Who wouldn’t want to be a 🇨🇦Senator? 💰💰
- $171k a year until 75.
- $220k for staff / offices.
- Free “business” travel.
- A pension where taxpayers contribute $4.50 for every $1 you put in.
- No pesky constituents.
- No accountability.
- Anonymity off Parliament Hill.
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LPC at 29%? Prepare to hear Liberals talking about abortion next week.
Federal 🇨🇦 voting intentions from Abacus Data:
🔵CPC 36%
🔴LPC 29%
🟠NDP 18%
⚜️BQ 8% (36% in Qc)
🟣PPC 4%
🟢GPC 3%
→
[Abacus Data, March 2-4, 2023, n=2,600]
#canpoli
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731 more days until Justin Trudeau is defeated in the 45th General Election. 🇨🇦
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Got a carbon tax rebate cheque today?
Here’s what to do with it:
1. Donate it to the Conservative Party
2. Take the 75% income tax deduction you just earned and invest it in one of Canada’s great energy companies.
3. Win.
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Pro tip: Twitter is less stupid if you mute Charles Adler.
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Remember how the entire Laurentian elite and PMO, including David Johnston told us there was nothing to any of this? Incompetent charlatans, the lot of them.
Some Canadian politicians collaborating with foreign governments to further own interests: report /via
@globeandmail
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CPC Drinking Game: join in the fun as
@PierrePoilievre
becomes leader on Saturday and we all have to endure the media coverage:
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The federal government has announced over the next 10 years:
They will build 100,000 homes.
They will welcome 5.5 million new immigrants to Canada.
I’m not great at math; but I think there might be a problem.
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🚨 Katie Telford abortion tweet incoming 🚨
Federal Polling:
CPC: 41% (+7)
LPC: 28% (-5)
NDP: 15% (-3)
BQ: 7% (-1)
GPC: 4% (+2)
PPC: 3% (-2)
Others: 3%
Mainstreet Research / August 23, 2023 / n=1280 / MOE 2.7% / IVR
(% Change With 2021 Federal Election)
Check out federal details on
@338Canada
at:
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I swear to god, if I see 1 single economically illiterate cabinet minister bragging about a 25 bps rate cut today, I'm going to scream.
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Which 🇨🇦 federal budget helped you become middle class? Answer in comments.
2016: “Growing the middle class”
2017: “Building a Strong Middle Class”
2019: “Investing in the Middle Class”
2023: “A Made-in-Canada Plan: Strong Middle Class, Affordable Economy, Healthy Future”
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PMO blocking Althia Raj — literally of all the people. Hilarious. What a time to be alive. Maybe Althia should join one of Ezra’s lawsuits?
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This is why people hate politicians:
Del Duca: vote for me for Premier and we’ll cancel new highways.
Also Del Duca: vote for me for mayor and I’ll build roads.
Vaughan has some of the busiest and most gridlocked roads in Canada. Every day we’re spending more time commuting and less and less time with our loved ones.
With your help, I want to fix that – it’s why I’m running for Mayor.
Together, let’s get Vaughan moving.
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Today more than ever.
Sure wish these guys were still running the Finance Department.
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I, for one, am shocked Mark Gerretsen’s press conference didn’t work.
Conservatives lead by 17 over Liberals in latest Abacus Data (
@abacusdataca
) poll.
🔵CPC 41%
🔴LPC 24%
🟠NDP 18%
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OPSEU walked into a trap.
Make this summer an Ontario-made summer!
Our new interactive map shows thousands of convenient options where you can still buy beer, wine, spirits and other drinks across the province. Check out a local brewery or winery for some fantastic Ontario-made products near you and
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Media coverage of LPC vs CPC conventions:
LPC: “members passed some cute but insane proposals, don’t worry they won’t be implemented.”
CPC: “One person in the parking lot mentioned abortion, we’ll now speculate wildly on how they’ll implement it despite 9 prev years in power”
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106,000 Canadians gave their lives in WWI and WWII to liberate Europe.
Time to
#raisetheflag
so we can keep the faith and lower it on Remembrance Day.
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One of the allegations in the Globe was that Liberal campaigns were re-embursing donors the non-tax deductible portion of their donations.
A CPC MP went to jail for less. Why is this alone not triggering an investigation?
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If only all these Liberals who suddenly love Kim Campbell so much had voted for her in 1993!
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LPC at 26.7% nationally. Cannot wait for more abortion content this week, while my groceries get more expensive and my generation still can't afford a home.
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What did this new logo cost? Add your guess in the comments:
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🚨🚨🚨 the PMO just pulled the abortion alarm. 🚨🚨🚨
If you want any more proof of the China story and what internal polls say….
I am unabashedly
#prochoice
. We must regularly talk about politicians who are not. You don’t have to look very far to know how human rights, esp abortion rights, can be taken away even in 2023. Keep speaking out. It’s not about tactics. It is about rights. Have a great day.
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Poilievre supermajority incoming.
Economists say they're expecting the federal government to raise taxes in Tuesday's budget to help offset billions of dollars in new spending already promised in the pre-budget announcements that have been landing almost daily since the end of March.
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The CPC is ahead by 16 (!!!!) points in the GTA, and almost tied in the 416. The 416! Holy shit.
GTA:
🔵CPC: 46%
🔴LPC: 30%
416:
🔴LPC: 36%
🔵CPC: 33%
Housing / interest rates are obviously government destroyer.
Source: Angus Reid, 7 September 2023.
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Long may the Canadian tradition continue of celebrating "good Conservatives" who appealed to liberal centrists who stubbornly refused to vote for them, and a press gallery who vilified them right until they were no longer in contention for power.
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@ACMESalesRep
Partisanship over treason is insane. If Conservative MPs did it; they should also face the same consequences
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Nobody is working harder to defeat Trump than the Canadian media.
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How news is manufactured:
1. Mark Gerretsen tweets some dodgy allegations (on PMO orders).
2. CBC and Toronto Star run articles, amplified by National Newswatch and Twitter.
3. Now the Prime Minister can campaign on it, because the media said it.
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Abacus - National
🔵 CPC: 38%
🔴 LPC: 26%
🟠 NDP: 19%
Millennials Only
🔵 CPC: 40%
🟠 NDP: 24%
🔴 LPC: 21%
Source: Abacus Data, as reported in the Toronto Star on 7 Sept 2023.
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CBC:
Sues the CPC during a Federal Election.
CBC:
“I think what Prime Minister Trudeau meant to say was…”
Also CBC:
So unfair that the CPC doesn’t like us.
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Our American neighbours are getting richer than us:
Per Capita GDP:
🇨🇦 Can: $51k
🇺🇸USA: $70k
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Taxpayer: “I’m struggling to pay my mortgage and buy groceries. Everything feels hard.”
Liberals: “Well that’s weird because we have a AAA credit rating and the best performance in the G7.”
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I am reminded that our city’s priority is spending $6 million renaming Dundas Square.
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Omg, it’s so over.
REPORTER: Are you not contributing to the divide?
GUILBEAULT: We're asking Pierre Poilievre to condemn those "hateful and violent statements by Tucker Carlson."
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If we can’t access Canadian news, how will we find out how incompetent our Government is?
Huge win for the Liberals.
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Everyone: “Why are the Liberals so out of touch?”
PMO Staffer: “You don’t have enough University degrees to understand.”
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Dear House-rich baby boomer:
You're a genius! You foresaw 20 years of interest rate & immigration policy: your house is now worth $1.8 million, a 20x ROI. Thanks demand/supply.
I'm just wondering where you're planning to get your healthcare from as you age?
Love
Millennials
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Thats a pretty amazing turnout.
For a Conservative Leader.
In Montreal.
Who isn't Brian Mulroney.
The people of Montreal have had enough of Justin Trudeau and 9 years of his broken promises.
Montrealers are ready for common sense Conservatives to axe the tax, build the homes, fix the budget and stop the crime.
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Gerry Butts: "The media investigating Liberal scandals is an attack on Canada"
Also Gerry: "Conservative attacks on the media are an attack on Canadian democracy"
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To all the Liberal staffers in my mentions calling me a liar:
THIS is why you guys can’t crack 28%. Disconnected from reality much?
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"Canadians told to have two drinks a week, as crack is decriminalised."
This is how the world views Canada.
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How the 🇨🇦 Liberal Government works:
1. Write a huge cheque to fund a system that doesn't exist
2. Announce it!! 🎉
3. Don't build system
4. Watch it fail and do nothing
5. Complaint that the CPC will cut it
Less than half of daycare spaces promised by Ottawa have been created ahead of 2026 deadline | CBC News
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Hey Millennials, can’t afford a house? The Green Party sure isn’t on your side.
Memo to Pierre Poilievre - you need to re-do your housing hell video in light of Economist magazine finding that the most livable and cheapest cities in North America are in Canada!
#factsMatter
#cdnpoli
@CanadianGreens
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The passport cover might be ugly, but you’ll probably never get it renewed in time to actually use it anyway.
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Well, Joe Biden officially has more self awareness than Justin Trudeau.
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Maybe I’m just a partisan hack, but watching this clip I know which individual should be Foreign Minister:
Melanie Joly says Canada has summoned the Chinese ambassador over the Chong story and they're assessing expelling diplomats
Chong and Joly had a heated exchange on why Canada hasn’t expelled the diplomat allegedly involved in the threats against him and his family
#cdnpoli
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Me: I’m considering voting Liberal, but I need to see a few more videos of the 51 year old Prime Minister arguing with a 13 year old child before I decide.
LPC: Hold my beer. 🍺
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No minister works harder than Marc Miller to ensure the Liberals lose their seats in Quebec.
Immigration Minister Marc Miller calls the Canadian Language requirements "onerous" and "must be changed."
The Trudeau Liberal government is planning to lower English or French language proficiency when applying for work permits or permanent residency to Canada.
Thoughts?
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The PMO has actively chosen to harm the country by amplifying this complete garbage, all to try save themselves. Sad.
“While the Conservative leader dismissed Trudeau’s attacks as “false,” there have indeed been multiple incidents that associated Poilievre with Diagolon — and the group has its own ties to Jones.”
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For Canadians trying to understand the UK: Imagine the Liberals ousted Trudeau and made Mélanie Joly the Prime Minister. That's basically what's happened. And things are going about as well as you'd expect that to go.
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Happy Harper Majority Day to all those who celebrate.
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Liberal Leadership candidate Mark Carney was in the Royal Box at Wimbledon Centre Court yesterday, alongside the Queen, Keira Knightley and the Archbishop of Canterbury.
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Trump winning sounds better than 4 more years of CBC News existing for the singular purpose of telling me Kamala went to high school in Montreal.
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Good news everyone,
@google
is passing the cost of the DST to me, and I will in turn pass it to you!
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I’ll keep saying it: I will be devastated if Trudeau resigns. I want him to lose and stand up there on election night and take the L.
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Imagine if PPoilievre had said this, the press gallery would have had a brain haemorrhage.
Immigration minister Marc Miller says to Bloomberg News that international students should "go home and bring those skills back to their country."
Miller is telling international students to go back.
Link:
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So the CPC has a *checks notes* 21 point lead 🍾
🔵 CPC: 46%
🔴 LPC: 25%
Source: Mainstreet
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Canadians:
“I know Trudeau got busted for the WE scandal, spent $54m on an app, wore blackface, embarrassed us in India; nefariously ousted the AG; spent too much + caused inflation; broke ethics rules; colluded with China”
Also Canadians:
“not sure about those Conservatives”
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We’re at the saving the deck chairs on the Titanic stage of this government.
PM Trudeau announces a three-year pause of the carbon tax on home heating oil.
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I can think of only 3 instances in 9 years where there was ANY kind of consequence for ANYTHING Trudeau and the Liberals did.
1. Gerry Butts resigning.
2. Trudeau losing his majority in 2019.
3. Marco Mendicino firing.
They have gotten away with everything else. Sad fact.
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The carbon tax is dead.
Long live the Poilievre government.
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Justin Trudeau is fucked.
(First time in 8 years I have legitimately believed that).
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