There you go Mr. Trudeau. You have your reading on the voting intentions of Canadians. The byelections in Quebec, Ontario and Manitoba proved, once again, that some ridings tend to vote consistently for one party.
I hardly think NDG-Westmount in Montreal has ever voted anything but liberal since Justin’s father won the riding. Yet young Trudeau’s friend Anna Gainey, who helped Justin destroy the liberal party, had to face criticism for the federal government support of those bigots and their language laws in Quebec City and still won the riding easily.
There was a similar situation in Ontario’s Oxford riding. The first time I was in that riding back when Bob Nixon was liberal leader in Ontario, he explained to me that Oxford has the best cared for roads in the province because it always votes conservative. And it did this time, despite conservative leader Poilievre parachuting into the riding, one of his better workers.
And the reports from Manitoba’s two riding byelections came to the same conclusion. The city of Winnipeg voters most often vote liberal and the rural citizens tend to vote conservative. Well, it’s the same old, same old.
But Trudeau should take no encouragement from the status quo. I really don’t like the chances the liberals are taking with Trudeau in the driver’s seat. He needs to look around for a potential replacement. That is the type of reset the liberal party needs. Sure, we need to rebuild the party. We also need to redefine its direction. I can’t believe that Poilievre is making laissez faire sound reasonable to some people. It is not just his lies and his diatribes.
The other day I was discussing with a friend who likes to talk politics, the similarities of Poilievre’s approach to the truth as much like Donald Trump in the United States and Adolph Hitler’s speeches to the German people back in the 1930s. He looked at me seriously and asked if I was old enough to have been there. Oddly enough, I do remember as a young child hearing this person screaming in a guttural language on a radio broadcast and learning during the Second World War that the screamer was Adolph Hitler. To this day, I do not like people who preach falsehoods and are stupid enough to think people believe them.
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