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[RFS]

Seems like an odd choice for a high profile riding.

Slim pickings I'd imagine

[Mike K.]

Esquimalt-Sooke candidate Michel Joseph is very hard to find online, as in I can’t find any info on the candidate.

[Victoria Watcher]

Thanks, but I need to differentiate myself from the other mikes on this board. 

 

good idea. 

[Rob Randall]

The Peoples' Party of Canada:

Because Someone's Got To Be In Fifth Place

Edited by Rob Randall, 02 July 2019 - 07:34 PM.

[LJ]

^fifth.

[Victoria Watcher]

The Peoples' Party of Canada:

Because Someone's Got To Be In Fourth Place

it’s been report that max makes over $700,000 per year as the leader. so that’s pretty good. 4x what the pm makes.

[Rob Randall]

^fifth.

 

Corrected. Thank you.

[Mike K.]

OTTAWA — When Canada signed on to a massive Asia-Pacific trade deal last year, the Liberal government faced some mockery for insisting on putting the term “progressive” in the title.

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In addition to being stripped from Trade Minister Jim Carr’s mandate letter in August, “progressive” was being scrubbed from internal documents, bilateral statements and meeting notes, too.

“Progressive” was just too “politically-loaded” an adjective, explained one email to Global Affairs Canada officials, which the National Post obtained with an access-to-information request. - https://nationalpost...-documents-show

[amor de cosmos]

The US State Department boasted in a declassified memo in March 2017 that Canada had adopted an “America first” foreign policy.

The cable was authored just weeks after the centrist government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau appointed Chrystia Freeland as foreign minister. The former editor of the major international news agency Reuters, Freeland has pushed for aggressive policies against states targeted by Washington for regime change, including Venezuela, Russia, Nicaragua, Syria, and Iran.

The State Department added that Trudeau had promoted Freeland “in large part because of her strong U.S. contacts,” and that her “number one priority” was working closely with Washington.

Under Freeland, the granddaughter of a Ukrainian Nazi propagandist, Canada has strongly campaigned against Russia, strengthened its ties with Saudi Arabia and Israel, and played a key role in the US-led right-wing coup attempt in Venezuela.

The memo offers the most concrete evidence to date that the United States sees Ottawa as an imperial subject and considers Canadian foreign policy as subordinate to its own.

*snip*

“PM Trudeau promoted former Minister of International Trade Chrystia Freeland to Foreign Minister in large part because of her strong U.S. contacts, many developed before she entered politics,” the cable says.

“Her mandate letter from the PM listed her number one priority as maintaining ‘constructive relations’ with the United States,” the memo continues.

“Trudeau then added to her responsibilities for U.S. affairs, giving her responsibility for U.S.-Canada trade, an unprecedented move in the Canadian context,” the State Department wrote.

https://thegrayzone....ystia-freeland/

[RFS]

"right wing coup attempt" in Venezuela?? Did Ben issit write that?

[RFS]

Btw if that memo were about a conservative PM and minister, the CBC would be having a field day with it

[amor de cosmos]

considering the bromance between trudeau & obama i wonder how much help the liberals had. or how much help the liberals had from a think tank like canada 2020, which in turn had how much help from somewhere else

[Matt R.]

^^^^ this went around as a meme a couple months ago, where you were supposed to google some set of numbers and sure enough, this document came up.

Matt.

[rjag]

so this idiot basically invited China to interfere in our next election

 

https://www.scmp.com...ions-ottawas-ex

 

 

Canada’s former ambassador to China, sacked because of remarks he made in the wake of Huawei’s high-profile extradition case, said he has warned former contacts at China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs that any further “punishments” imposed on Canada’s exports could lead to a change of government that is unfavourable to Beijing.

“Anything that is more negative against Canada will help the Conservatives, [who] are much less friendly to China than the Liberals,” John McCallum, a veteran Liberal Party member, told the South China Morning Post in an interview in Hong Kong on Monday.

 

“I hope and I don’t see any reason why things will get worse, it would be nice if things will get better between now and [Canada’s federal] election [in October].”

 

Thats basically inviting China to intervene....

[Victoria Watcher]

I’m pretty sure that china does not need to take clues from mccallum. he’s a mental midget. how he has stuck around so long is beyond me.

[Wayne]

I’m pretty sure that china does not need to take clues from mccallum. he’s a mental midget. how he has stuck around so long is beyond me.

 

Leadership 101.  Surround yourself with incompetence, to make yourself look smarter than you are. The whole team is Mickey Mouse calibre.

[Mike K.]

It has been revealed that Facebook decided to remove pro-life advertisements ahead of Ireland's abortion vote in 2018.

 

The Irish government told Facebook no law existed to prevent American pro-life advocates from targeting the Irish population, and left the decision up to the company.

 

With so much American interference in Canadian political affairs and during election cycles, will Facebook limit the reach of environmental organizations that have been linked to opposition of Canada's energy sector, and which finance political activists/activism in Canada?

[Victoria Watcher]

why? isn’t climate change a global issue?

[DustMagnet]

why? isn’t climate change a global issue?

 

Think Global, Interfere Local

[spanky123]

Thats basically inviting China to intervene....

 

Some chump who is a second cousin twice removed from Putin puts $1,000 into facebook ads and we have congressional hearings on Russian interference in the election. Meanwhile we have an ex-PM's consulting firm being paid millions of dollars by the Chinese Government for tours and lectures which in turn a portion is then donated back to the Liberal party to fund their campaign and McCallum using his position as a political appointee to encourage a foreign government to act and nobody has an issue with that?!