Hopefully they sue for trademark infringement
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Canadian snowbirds looking at non-US destinations has almost doubled in the past year. A month in Portugal or Costa Rica is more appealing than Florida.
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Another Conservative MP has crossed over to the Liberals.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/mp-crosses-floor-to-liberals-9.7012767
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There will be more as long as Poilievre is their leader. That stunt he pulled this week to force a vote on the Alberta MOU was totally non-productive.
I would love it if we had an opposition focused on making legislation better rather than pulling stunts.
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lol. his leadership evaluation isn’t going to go well.
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No performance bonus this year!
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Only Canadians will probably get this Beaverton article.
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Perhaps more appropriate post for a Canada = U.S. thread…
Poilievre seems to think that MPs leaving his party to support the Liberals is a sign of problems with Mark Carney’s leadership.
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.7015412
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Poilievre interview could have gone in the Political Humour thread!
I saw that. Man, that guy is leaning into being a vindictive angry idiot.
For those who didn’t watch the interview, members of parliament who were elected as conservatives are leaving the conservative party and becoming liberals. As you might imagine, that’s a pretty big deal, particularly since he’s not the first, and maybe not the last.
So the leader of the conservative party is claiming it’s the prime minister being a snake, trying to entice conservatives over…it’s all the liberals fault, they’re pulling people across. When it’s pretty clear to anyone who’s been paying attention that it’s actually the conservative leader doing the pushing - people refuse to be conservative under his leadership.
Which is awesome, because a lot of times our political parties are pretty close together. In fact I would argue that our liberal prime minister is actually a Canadian conservative on most topics. Which IMO makes conservatives who don’t like him, look like idiots. You’re going to argue how bad the prime minister is because <insert something that’s clearly conservative>? Running pipeline? increasing trade between provinces? Starting tons of infrastructure projects? Geesh.
Canadian liberals are the ones that should be upset because we have a conservative pm.
Anyway, I digress.
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He would be right at home in the old Progressive Conservative Party before it got taken over by the Reform Party. I voted for the PCs on occasion when they were an intelligent centrist party but I now feel like some Republicans must feel about the rise of the Trumpists in their party. The difference from Canada is that Americans are loyal to their party so Republicans are still voting for Republican candidates.
He’s in his mid to late 40s and is very proud to have never changed his mind on anything. I’m not sure if that’s arrogance or hubris. Either way it’s pretty clear that he doesn’t spend a lot of time thinking about his actions and their effects.
He is also a career politician.
Zero experience in any other job, which explains a lot.
At a certain point, Americans are going to have to accept that they have installed a madman as their Leader.
This not an Onion headline…
In all honesty, I’m not certain that the classification of fentanyl as a “weapon of mass destruction” is necessarily a sign of being a madman. One source puts the number of fentanyl-linked deaths in the US at over 70k per year.
Now, what’s done with that declaration could easily (and will potentially likely) count as madness…but not to his supporters.