After Justin Trudeau’s SNC Lavalin and the brown/black face scandals, you could bet that it was only a matter of time for Canada to proclaim PM Andrew Scheer. This has however been as far from reality as putting a man on the surface of the sun as the campaign progresses. The conservatives have failed big time in four ways to capitalize on those liberal mistakes.
The conservatives tried unsuccessfully to convince Canadians to get angry or loose trust with Justin Trudeau after the two major scandals. As you already know, anger or confidence is not something that someone has to convince you on. It’s something that comes naturally to you and when someone pushes it too much on you like the conservatives did, it becomes suspect.
Another area that have prevented the conservatives from taking advantage of Mr. Tudeau’s shortcomings is Andrew Scheer’s lack of credibility. He’s known for attacking other politicians for their dual citizenship when himself is both a Canadian and US citizen. Mr. Scheer has also made claims about being an Insurance Broker, which he never was.
In an election that will be decided in Ontario, BC, and Quebec, for some reasons, Andrew Scheer has align his campaign with an increasingly unpopular conservative Premier of Ontario, Doug Ford. Also aligning with an increasingly unpopular Premier of Alberta, Jason Kenney, will only cost him votes in Quebec and BC, because of Premier Kenney’s confrontational approach to BC and Quebec – ask the federal court about Premier Kenney’s turn off the taps legislation that they blocked. As an icing on the cake, these conservative premiers have already shown glimpses of how their policies will lead to an increased tuition fees, job loses, reduced social spending, and other policies that will disproportionately affect minorities, and poor Canadians who make up more than half of Canadian voters.
Unlike the Green Party’s Elizabeth May, I think Mr. Trudeau will have a majority to form government on October 21. The most popular politician in Edmonton, Rachel Notley has given the liberals a leg up by not confirming that she will vote for Jagmeet Singh’s NDP due to his opposition to Alberta pipelines. Mrs Notely can go a step further and publicly say she will vote for the liberals because they have a good chance to build the much needed pipelines in Alberta, without denting the fantastic works and hopes of Heather McPherson and Linda Duncan painting Strathcona orange.
I do think Mr. Trudeau, even though still popular in multicultural communities in Edmonton Millwoods and Centre, with ladies still falling for his good looks, he has abandoned Amarjeet Sohi and Randy Boissonnault to their fate by only coming once to Edmonton, early on when the election was in its infancy, a waste of valuable time in a riding that Ms. Duncan has already painted orange. Even though Mr Sohi and Mr. Boissonnault have the best chances of a seat in Mr. Trudeau’s cabinet to influence the building of Alberta pipelines, they have unfortunately come under intense attacks from right wing groups; from billboard campaigns to take them out, to ads that clearly call on Mr. Sohi to be targeted. It’s in Mr. Trudeau’s best interest to make one last trip to Edmonton to rally last minute support in Edmonton Millwoods, and in Edmonton Centre to help capitalize on the good name and kind heart of Mr. Sohi, as well as, the hard work and likability of Mr. Boissonnault, the much needed re-enforcement to get them across the finish line come October 21.
Canadian Election 2019, English Debate Verdict
Liberal Party Leader, Justin Trudeau came out prime-ministerial, calm, compost, respectful, and stuck to policies without attacking anyone personally, even though there are lots of untrue things he could bring up against Conservative Leader, Andrew Scheer, from his US citizenship to his Insurance Broker job that he never was. On the other hand, Andrew Scheer came out like a mini version of Donald Trump; overly aggressive, confrontational from the get go, calling Trudeau names like “fraud” for someone never convicted in a court of law for any crime. With his conspicuous orange turban, the NDP Leader, Jagmeet Singh gave a good account of himself, but unlike Trudeau, he was naive in responding to the clearly discriminatory Quebec’s Bill 21. However, he has shown the highest levels of emotional intelligence in dealing with clueless or mildly put, cultural intolerant people on the campaign trail.
Bloc Quebecois leader Yves-Francois Blanchet was virtually irrelevant for most of the debate. Elizabeth May held her own, but worthy of celebration is Maxime Bernier for successfully fighting his way into the debates is a massive victory for a party that want to wipe out multiculturalism from the face of Canada. Multiculturalism was celebrated on stage with an all ladies moderator panel with one minority selection.
Every aspect of diversity should be encouraged on stage without a fight with different points of view like Maxime Bernier, as well as, opening the door to cover the debate without a court order for Right Wing media groups like the North Face and the Rebel Media.
