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[Canadian Politics Thread] Government-running Cons accused of running cons in government
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Oh, I Don't really care about what happens to those chuds.
Just very on-brand for QC
So the penalty for doxxing journalists and urging thousands of people to send them violent threats is a 12-hour temp ban. Good to know.
What do you mean, again? They didn't run one this last election.
Perhaps I can interest you in my meager selection of pins?
It pains me to admit it but I tried the Boston Pizza Big Mac pizza which features quite a lot of chopped pickle and lettuce and it was good
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Super glad I voted LPC instead of NDP to give Doug the best chance I could.
Normally I would prefer to vote NDP but Eyolfson had better name recognition, so I figured cross my fingers and help push the low info voter candidate.
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Yeah, I did the same.
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/maxime-bernier-rhino-party-beauce-1.5278902
Yeah. This year.
Look at this joker, acting like they're from the future.
Did I drink the wrong coffee this morning?
My bad I had a friend post something and I thought they did it again .
There is no word for the rage I feel right now.
Who even ASKS that at a time like that? That is 100% not the time to be asking about an entirely optional and PERMANENT medical procedure!
Since out-in-the-open provincial or state-level eugenics boards aren't an official thing anymore, sneaking a poorly worded question to someone in a second language during childbirth is the main way people still, in significant numbers, go about doing that sort of thing. It happens in other provinces, it's been happening a lot along the southern American border in recent years, the list goes on.
Well, if I thought I was on the verge of running out of patience before. Seriously, I am fucking done. We could have been done with this in a couple of months if it weren't for people like these selfish dipshits. Every last one of these morons should at the very least face a steep fine.
What's the difference between the PPC and a toilet?
Wasn't there a story from last year of the same thing happening in Saskatchewan?
(Maybe a couple years ago - my grip on time has slipped.)
There was a story about it but it was based around someone bring a lawsuit or demanding for a law doing something about the issue I think. It was in reaction to a report released on forced sterilization in the province afaik. It was like 2018-19.
The thing with a lot of these stories is that they tend to be very diffuse. From reading them it's usually not like 1 hospital sterilizing 50 women in one year, it's like 100 reports spread over 25 years by various different doctors in various different places. So they tend to hit the news at random times when someone pulls all the reports together into an article or a study is released or what not.
I'm not sure it counts as "stepping down" when multiple MPs resigned in protest over you, your own party leadership is in court trying to kick you out, voters massively abandon your party, and you are a distant fourth place in your own riding. But good riddance to her.
The greens had the longest-serving woman leader and then elected another woman. If they are sexist they are pretty darn bad at it.
She's very high on her own supply and is pretty much a caricature of how the right see's the far left.
Heck, she’s a caricature of how the left sees the far left.
It's fair to say that that likely contributed to her treatment within the party, yes, and I can't see how she could have succeeded in her riding without funding or party support, which was part of the statement
Shit, I'm not partial to her or the Greens in the least as they occupy a weird centrist position on a lot of topics but there's a weird, excessive hatred of her in the thread that is only rivaled by her enemy faction in her own damn party
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Misoginy and racism is dead! Cue the finger guns and fireworks!
Like, her party spent half their budget in fruitless legal pursuits to drop her immediately prior to an election, they pruned her staff, they denied funding to her campaign, Elizabeth May didn't do anything to support her or stop the infighting
I don't really know how any current leader would be able to contend their own riding with that level of infighting, even though- again - I think it was foolish to target that specific riding, and I don't support the Greens in general
But the amount of animosity for her in a small party that gets 1-3 seats at best is noticeably more, ah.... colourful, than it is for even O'Toole, and it's something worth pointing out
The glass cliff is an unfortunately common experience for BIPOC women
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If you become the leader of a party and manage to so alienate it that you get sued by it, you probably fucked something up along the way.
The rift was essentially caused by her, or her over-zealous advisors. The GPC, for good or for ill, has opinions on the Israel-Palestine conflict. Official GPC position is that killing civilians should immediately stop and the siege of Gaza should end. You can also find several other GPC resolutions calling for the end to settlements and such
Here's the leader's initial statement
and the MPs
Elizabeth May
Also Elizabeth May
Jenica Atwin
Paul Manly
The MPs are quite a bit more... direct. Her advisor responded thusly
It was an own goal. Human Rights Watch has called the situation apartheid. So have two Israeli human rights organizations, and one from South Africa, and she threw her own MPs under the bus with vague accusations of anti-semitism and one of them switched parties. Of course the party wants to dump her