He did very well. If you put him up against little pp one would come off as an educated adult and one a petulant child who has never worked a day in his life.
“Those who do work, those who can’t - want to govern”.
This all but confirms he's running for the leadership. He did well, although this was very much a softball interview. I still don't think any Liberal leader will be able to manage better than a slim Conservative minority, though.
Oh I think they pretty easily can. The Conservatives have a long record of shooting themselves in the foot, and they've put all their hatred into a cult of personality, and now that personality is gone. The Fuck Trudeau and pretty boy mantras are going to ring pretty hollow against Carney.
Plus, PP is one of the weakest and most snivelling career politicians this country has ever seen, and people recognize that. The left vote in this country is still relatively strong, it just takes swinging a couple Conservative, Bloc, and NDP projected seats to remain in power.
Plus, PP is one of the weakest and most snivelling career politicians this country has ever seen, and people recognize that.
He's a career attack dog. But when people are angry at the sitting government, all a ln opposite leader has to do is reflect that anger to get votes and he does that.
I agree that in principle he he can be defeated, but at this point it's a steep uphill battle and doing so would constitute a major political upset.
It's an uphill battle with all the media consolidation, but the support from Musk, and MAGA-annex has a chance to backfire on the Conservatives and Mr. 'Pension at 31 for me, 70 for everyone else'.
We have to push hard highlighting the fact that Musk/Trump are trying to take over Canadian Democracy through "economic force", and that the Conservative leadership are welcoming this with open arms, such as Smith's visit to Mar-a-Lago.
Here's my technocrat dream: we get Mark Carney as PM to fix all our economic woes (anemic growth, housing market, crappy resource-based economy that leans too much on oil/gas), and then get Andy Byford to replace Doug Ford.
The liberals do everything in their power to keep housing prices high. Trudeau himself even said that the majority of the Canada pension fund is invested in REITs
There's a Montreal reporter that appeared in my random mainstream socials (that I'm too useless at to find again easily), I think Instagram, who got a list of all MP financial holdings for a piece on the housing crisis. Apparently 56% of conservative MPs and 53% of Liberal MPs are landlords (I'm remembering the approximate amount and relative levels), so of course they want to keep housing prices high. (If I ever figure out how to find a historical suggestion from my feed, I'll come back and post a link to the journalist's work)
I love your dream, but besides being former Commissioner of the TTC, does Byford have any ties to Ontario? (EDIT Or any signs of having political ambitions?)
I've heard he's got small hands and smells like cabbage
