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[Victoria Watcher]

[RFS]

Maclean's did put up an empty podium for Trudeau tonight. Unfortunately no one watched it. The live stream had about 9k views.

[Mike K.]

I suspect the quotes were the real treasure here. The images of the empty podium will start making their rounds next week.

[spanky123]

Maclean's did put up an empty podium for Trudeau tonight. Unfortunately no one watched it. The live stream had about 9k views.

 

It was on CTV though so I suspect many folks watched it on TV. I think that what the low streaming number implies is that the younger demographic is disengaged as they usually are.

[Victoria Watcher]

if the stream is archived somewhere it’ll keep getting more views.

[RFS]

I had the misfortune of watching some CBC News yesterday. The bias is as strong and blatant as ever. They had reporters at the three main leaders campaign stops, and for Jagmeet and Trudeau, they basically reported on where they were and what promises they were making. Just the content of the campaign stop basically. For Scheer they made no mention of what Scheer was actually talking about (making parental leave tax free) and instead they said Scheer was on the defensive and talked about the current liberal attack on Scheer, complete with showing liberal tweets on the screen. Of course, there have been equivalent attacks on Trudeau by conservatives that he was asked about at his stop such as skipping the debate, but the CBC doesn't seem to care.

[RFS]

Scheer has said he will bring back the transit tax credit which was a pretty sweet tax credit in my opinion

[Mike K.]

It was, and its removal angered transit users, for sure.

I think we all know CBC is the voice of the Liberal Party. The SNC Lavalin scandal removed what thin veil was in place.

[Jackerbie]

It was on CTV though so I suspect many folks watched it on TV. I think that what the low streaming number implies is that the younger demographic is disengaged as they usually are.

 

Or that the organizers failed to properly promote the debate or that it would be live streamed in the first place.

 

FWIW, the archived stream is up to almost 24K views now on YouTube. https://www.youtube....h?v=-LVf2CvuW8s

[Cats4Hire]

Or that the organizers failed to properly promote the debate or that it would be live streamed in the first place.

Probably this. This thread is the only place I even heard it mentioned until after the fact.

[shoeflack]

I watched the debate on CityTV...was pretty good! Interesting how most of the commentators felt that Singh gained the most traction. I suppose he did a good job of distinguishing himself from the Greens.

 

But my God...Elizabeth May has been in politics far too long to not know how to debate. She barely ever gets a word in. Scheer and Singh at least keep talking until everyone lets them speak, but May just quietly tries to interject unsuccessfully all the time.

 

Scheer certainly did what he was there to do, even without Trudeau present. Basically turned every answer into why the Cons are a better choice than the Libs, why the Libs and Trudeau have failed at this and that...essentially ignored that the Greens and NDP are even running (and them not being a threat, that's fair enough). So he certainly did what he went there to do quite successfully.

[Cats4Hire]

Also last night was a Dems debate in the US and everyone (including Canadians) on my timeline that mentioned politics was talking about that so if they did hear about a political debate they probably thought it was referring to that.

[Cats4Hire]

Out of curiosity has anyone seen any signs for a party other than Green or Conservative around the CRD? I saw a NDP in the background on a news story but I think it was in Vancouver and nothing from the others.

[Rob Randall]

I've seen a few Conservative signs but not many Liberals. And a couple of days ago Laurel Collins had a big group waving signs at Quadra and Yates outside her office. Mostly young hipster volunteers.

[Mike K.]

I've only seen Green signs so far.

[FogPub]

Out of curiosity has anyone seen any signs for a party other than Green or Conservative around the CRD? I saw a NDP in the background on a news story but I think it was in Vancouver and nothing from the others.

Saw several Liberal signs yesterday (all small), quite a few Green (all small) and Conservative (a few big ones) signs, no NDP at all.

[Mike K.]

NDP signs are making their rounds now.

[Cats4Hire]

NDP signs are making their rounds now.

interesting they took so much longer. I saw Green and Conservative going up they day the election was called.

[Cats4Hire]

The PPC candidate for Coquitlam was kicked for asking Maxime to denounce racism https://globalnews.c...idate-expelled/

[Wayne]

I watched the debate on CityTV...was pretty good! Interesting how most of the commentators felt that Singh gained the most traction. I suppose he did a good job of distinguishing himself from the Greens.

 

But my God...Elizabeth May has been in politics far too long to not know how to debate. She barely ever gets a word in. Scheer and Singh at least keep talking until everyone lets them speak, but May just quietly tries to interject unsuccessfully all the time.

 

Scheer certainly did what he was there to do, even without Trudeau present. Basically turned every answer into why the Cons are a better choice than the Libs, why the Libs and Trudeau have failed at this and that...essentially ignored that the Greens and NDP are even running (and them not being a threat, that's fair enough). So he certainly did what he went there to do quite successfully.

 

It was interesting in the fact that the questions were direct and tough to deflect.

 

Singh was better than I expected. Scrappy! But needs to be briefed prior or better prepared. Could be a rookie thing.

 

May? Every question came back to climate. Abortion, answer climate. Foreign policy, answer climate. Or delusional, SNC sentence, community hours?!

 

Scheer explained himself well in regards to policy (when not skirting), but did not look likeable.

 

Tough to say if one has what it takes to impress Quebec/Ontario enough to become a new PM.