Just Not ready

[Topper]

The wheels are greased

[Megaterio Llamas]

[2Fingers]

So it seems there are 6 candidates for the BC Conservatives.

Who do think has what it takes to manage the party and win the election?

[Meds]

So it seems there are 6 candidates for the BC Conservatives.

Who do think has what it takes to manage the party and win the election?

Have a look in the "99 Days" thread for BC politic talk Reef.....this one is more on the Federal side of things.

[Meds]

On the Federal side.....

Seems we have another floor crosser, Gladu.

I knew nothing about her until yesterday.

Everything I've read makes me think I smell a rat. She has been one of the loudest voices decrying the Liberals, never hiding her disdain for Carney, then suddenly a few weeks ago she goes dead silent on the anti-Liberal rhetoric and now she's Carney's new best friend.

[BCExpat]

On the Federal side.....

Seems we have another floor crosser, Gladu.

I knew nothing about her until yesterday.

Everything I've read makes me think I smell a rat. She has been one of the loudest voices decrying the Liberals, never hiding her disdain for Carney, then suddenly a few weeks ago she goes dead silent on the anti-Liberal rhetoric and now she's Carney's new best friend.

I think that if a sitting MLA decides that they want to cross the floor, they should have to go through a by-election or some other process to get a mandate from their constituents. A lot of voters cast their votes for a party as opposed to the individual. In my riding, I don't really care about the candidate as much as I care about the party I'm voting for.

[JelloPuddingPop]

Its happened for decades. Part of politics. You could argue that now those ridings have stronger representation now that they are part of the ruling party, an MLA with say now as opposed to a weak opposition.

I guarantee, that when the Cons finally put the boots to PP, they will stop the bleeding.

[Tciso]

I never minded the occasional floor crosser before. It allowed square pegs to find a home and in moderation, it helps democracy. But, these 5 are different. Part of it is just the total number. But also, we have never had the balance of power shift like this. This is a monumental shift in power without an election, and I hope it is not the new normal for forming power blocks between elections.

The optics also suck. The floor crossers all seem to be getting something in return. Not politics, but graft. It's probably legal, but not moral.

From a moral and ethical standpoint, my biggest beef is Carney saying floor crossing is alright because it is not illegal, but because he doesn't personal like the not withstanding clause of the Charter, he wants those laws changed by the courts. Pick a lane, but political grease should not be a lane.

[donlever]

The LeBron James style of political party construction.

[Topper]

Gladu laid bare the cynical reality we all knew existed. Governments do not represent all Canadians, they favour the constituencies that got them elected.

After the last Federal Election, she sent Housing Minister, ex Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson, a letter detailing thing her Constituency needed.

No one in the Ministry of housing gave her a reply.

Within hours of crossing the floor, Gregor's staff had called her to arrange a meeting.

This is no different than when under Trudeau's leadership there was a Carbon Tax break on heating oil for the maritimes and one liberal MP from Newfoundland told her fellow MP's from Western Canada that they could get a tax break too if they had voted Liberal.

In other Gladue news. An indigenous man who who killed his indigenous wife was facing a Crown requested sentencing of 16 years only to have the Judge sentence him to six years because he is indigenous invoking the Supreme Court's Gladue guidance.

[Topper]

[Cousin Strawberry]

They are so Glad you are paying!

[Topper]

Liberal speaker at their convention proposes a $500,000 exit head tax for Canadians leaving Canada to live and work abroad.

Same guy left Canada to the US to make his millions in the tech sector and now lives in London.

Would this include young people on working vacations in Australian? Should Mexico do the same for the TFW's on farms in Canada?

https://x.com/ryangerritsen/status/2042 ... 61686?s=20

[Meds]

Tyranny thy name is Libtard.