Guest essay by Eric Worrall
This Monday’s election in Canada will be unusually exciting. With both major parties neck and neck, the People’s Party of Canada, a pro-freedom right wing splinter group with a hard climate skeptic platform, has a real chance of winning seats in a very close election.
Trudeau warns against vote split in dead heat Canada election
By Anna Mehler Paperny and Steve Scherer
DUNDAS, Ontario, Sept 18 (Reuters) – With the Canadian election in a dead heat two days before the Sept. 20 vote, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his Conservative rival implored supporters to stay the course and avoid vote splitting that could hand their opponent victory.
Both men campaigned in the same seat-rich Toronto region on Saturday as they tried to fend off voter defections to the left-leaning New Democratic Party (NDP) and the populist People’s Party of Canada (PPC), both of which are rising in polls.
The latest Sondage Leger poll conducted for the Journal de Montreal and the National Post newspapers put the Conservatives one percentage point ahead of Trudeau’s Liberals, with 33% over 32%. The NDP was at 19% while the PPC was at 6%.
Trudeau, 49, called an early election, seeking to convert approval for his government’s handling of the pandemic into a parliamentary majority. But he is now scrambling to save his job, with Canadians questioning the need for an early election amid a fourth pandemic wave.
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Read more: https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/canada-election-dead-heat-liberals-drop-candidate-2021-09-18/
The People’s Party of Canada does not pull any punches when it comes to climate change.
OUR PLAN
Given the uncertainties over the scientific basis of global warming, and the certainties about the huge costs of measures designed to fight it, there is no compelling reason to jeopardize our prosperity with more government interventions.
A People’s Party government will:
- Withdraw from the Paris Accord and abandon unrealistic greenhouse gas emission reduction targets.
- Stop sending billions of dollars to developing countries to help them reduce their emissions.
- Abolish the Liberal government’s carbon tax and leave it to provincial governments to adopt programs to reduce emissions if they want to.
- Abolish subsidies for green technology and let private players develop profitable and efficient alternatives.
- Invest in adaptation strategies if problems arise as a result of any natural climate change.
- Prioritize implementing practical solutions to make Canada’s air, water and soil cleaner, including bringing clean drinking water to remote First Nations communities.
(Updated for the 2021 Campaign)
Read more: https://www.peoplespartyofcanada.ca/global-warming-environment
The odds are not in PPC’s favour, with 6% of the vote on latest polls they are being accused of drawing votes away from the Conservatives, potentially handing victory to Trudeau.
But it is not just the Conservatives who have to worry. Trudeau has his own problems with vote splitting, with the left wing New Democratic Party snapping at his heels, making it difficult for him to field a platform broad enough to appeal to soft conservatives.
But with mainstream Canadian Conservatives firmly on the low carbon bandwagon, a vote for PPC might be a real option, if conservatives worried about power bills, fossil fuel jobs or the economy want to send a message to mainstream politicians that they are fed up with being taken for granted.
If voters have had enough of one of the coldest countries on Earth championing the battle against warmer weather, we could see a major upset, in which winning Conservatives have to compromise with a party which does not want to spend even a penny more on useless climate boondoggles.
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google “trudeau blackface” to see the first black prime minister of Canada. Obama endorsed him the other day, commending on how as a black man Trudeau had been oppressed by white Canada. Further commenting that the only way to end oppression and systemic racism in Canada was to vote a fellow black man like Trudeau into office.
Both Canadian governments and consumers like to talk a good game about taking climate action but neither has shown themselves coming through with results. Ever since Canada signed the Kyoto Protocol in 1997 no federal government Liberal or Conservative has been able to meet its emissions reductions targets. Meanwhile Canadian citizens have shown little evidence they’re willing to make the serious lifestyle changes needed on their parts to reduce their carbon footprints. So no one should expect any big turnaround regarding attitudes and actions on climate change regardless who’s running the country.
You’re wrong, because of liberal ties to the CCP
It’s why Trudeau just bends over and takes it from Xi
Build back better/great reset, for canada means borrowing hundreds of billions more we don’t have and using the money to buy crap Chinese green energy crap with billions sticking to fingers in both directions
Regardless how much it destroys the country because that doesn’t matter
I don’t believe the People’s Party has much of a chance to win any seats, but if they do, it will be from the Conservatives, and end up strengthening the position of the Liberals and the Bloc Quebecois in the next Parliament. But maybe their presence in the campaign will give a boost to the Wexit movement in Alberta.
Trudeau seems to have made a good choice (for himself) in the new Governor General.
She had a historic opportunity to actually justify the position by refusing to allow Trudeau to call the election, and giving the leader of the Opposition (which got the majority of the popular vote in the last election) a mandate to form the government. After all, the majority of Canadians, and all of the opposition parties, were opposed to this early election.
By choosing a suitably tame GG, Trudeau killed two birds with one stone, first to get an election when it was totally unjustifiable, and secondly, to hand indigenous peoples’ aspirations to real power sharing a second strike, following on the former Attorney-General’s failure to bring charges of criminal conspiracy and obstruction of justice against him and his top chronies.
Results are in: ‘Maxime Bernier, the leader of the People’s party of Canada, which has run on on a platform against public health measures like vaccines and masks, and which critics have called xenophobic and racist, failed to win his race, as did all his other candidates.’
The PPC garnered 5% of the popular vote and won exactly zero seats in parliament. They had a flashy campaign and enthusiastic supporters, but in the final tally, it was not enough. Zero seats are zero seats.
I will take exception to your quoted content. The PPC platform was not “against public health measures like vaccines and masks.” They were against vaccine and mask mandates, vaccine passports, etc. It’s a common tactic in politics to accuse your opponent of being sexist, racist, homophobic, etc. even with people of colour as supporters.
‘jefe’ Trudeau Jr. cost Canadians billions of dollars with his phony election that did not achieve his expected result – there was little change in each party’s standing.
Conservative ‘Leader’ Erin O’Fool’s ‘me too’ pitches had the predictable result – voters chose the real thing.
But one tactic in particular may have cost him the election – pandering to Quebec’s oppressive ‘cultural’ laws, which turns off recent immigrants. Conservative loss of seats in Toronto and Vancouver may be evidence of that. (Vancouver BC for example has a large proportion of recent immigrants from China, and relatively recent from the Punjab and Uganda, where they were oppressed, plus persons whose ancestors came from China and Japan long ago. The latter know about oppression from the scandalous and counter-productive internment during WWII, which the Canadian military and police as well as tough reputation J. Edgar Hoover opposed. Their property was seized and not returned after the war.)
The new People’s Party of Canada obtained about 5% of the votes, it communicates very clearly, against climate catastrophism and for freedom but with some bad policies too.
While the Green party’s proportion of the vote declined substantially.