Conservatives’ own riding campaign cuts also to blame for election losses
What we do know is that if Conservatives want to win Chinese Canadian dominated ridings, they would be wise to invest in their local riding campaigns and connecting with Chinese Canadian voters. More staff, volunteers, and outreach, not less, is key to success.
‘Liberals in trouble’ over China’s attempted meddling in Canadian elections, say pollsters
The China interference story has ‘long legs,’ and some twists and turns. The Liberals should be ‘quite concerned because if the current Conservative advantage consolidates and the longer the numbers stay here, it becomes the new normal, and it will require more effort to dislodge the trend line,’ says pollster Nik Nanos.
Note to Poilievre: politics of personal destruction can only go so far
The big question is whether relentless personal attacks on Justin Trudeau, aided and abetted by sympathetic media and endorsed by former prime minister Stephen Harper, will work for the Conservatives.
Government must start ‘walking their talk’ on affordability to maximize political impact of budget roll-out, says pollster
Some ‘very real wins’ for the NDP set-up an ‘important class-based message’ it can deliver to working class voters, says strategist.
Poilievre’s promise to expand seal hunt is dubious politics, bad economics
The days of protests on the ice are over, and the market has spoken. It is not ‘eco-nuts,’ (as Pierre Poilievre states), who have been critical of this unnecessary practice, but scientists, veterinarians, economists, and global trade experts.
A new Harperian strategy?
Former prime minister Stephen Harper believes a populist-oriented Conservative Party could stand for its traditional values while at the same time freely rail against globalist capitalism and corporate greed. In other words, instead of wiping out the Liberals, his new strategy might be to wipe out the NDP.
Poilievre’s over-inflated bitcoin promises
The number of bitcoins needed to pay for shawarmas, groceries, gas, and housing is up 73.1 per cent compared with 5.2 per cent annual inflation measured in Canadian dollars.
Canada must reject the culture wars’ weapon of ‘anti-woke’ and understand its dangers
Maybe it’s time for those who understand the dangers of the attacks on ‘wokeness’ to assert that if being ‘woke’ is to seek the best that democracy in Canada can offer, namely substantive equality, inclusion and equal liberty and dignity for all, bring it on. Its antithesis is autocracy and the rule of fear.
Election meddling top of mind in Tory nomination race facing membership fraud complaints
The Oxford, Ont., nomination race is getting testy with contestant Rick Roth describing Arpan Khanna as a ‘parachute candidate from Brampton’ and Khanna accusing Roth of ‘telling lies.’ Candidate Deborah Tait, meanwhile, is urging the Conservative Party to protect the voting process.
New Democrats ‘break the logjam’ on Telford’s testimony, as the Liberals choose ‘lesser of two evils,’ say strategists
As long as the Liberals can manage Katie Telford’s coming testimony effectively, the government has a path to the end of the spring session, and has a rationale to not call an election until October, says political scientist Lori Turnbull.
