There Is No Such Thing As A Clean Campaign

Don't look so proud of yourself.

Cases in point:

Following the hashtag #TrudeauMustGo going totally viral in Canada, Liberals are desperately trying to dismiss it.

Even after they tried to counter it with #TrudeauMustStay and #ScheerDesperation, those hashtags fell far short in terms of the number of retweets and reach as #TrudeauMustGo.

One could challenge these hangers-on to point out how marvelous a job Justin has done without mentioning either Harper or Scheer. The silence after that would be almost deafening.

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Liberal Seniors Minister Filomena Tassi and Liberal MP Stephane Lauzon said “Canadian seniors remember how the previous Conservative government tried to balance the budget by making cuts to benefits that they rely on. We are concerned that (Andrew Scheer) is taking his cues from Doug Ford. Will his plan involve reckless cuts for five years? We worry about how these cuts will impact seniors.”

Except, the Conservatives aren’t doing that, and there is ZERO evidence that there will be any cuts to OAS.


The Liberals are flat-out lying.

They’re making this BS up.


Amazingly, those same Liberals arrogantly try to control social media and demand that ‘misinformation’ be banned, even when they’re the ones spreading the misinformation.

The Conservatives fired back, and countered the Liberal lies:


Alice Wong – the shadow minister for Seniors for the Opposition – said the Liberals are “creating a cost-of-living crisis for seniors” with its carbon tax. “They’ve hiked taxes, made everyday essentials like gas, home heating, and groceries more expensive. Our seniors helped build our country — we owe them so much better.”

Is it any wonder that even an anemic populist movement might rise up in Canada?

The well-paid popular press might find this laughable but when even politically lazy Canadians take the time out to note what many have known before the 2015 election - that Justin is a useless frat-boy who skated on his father's name and the fevered imaginations of the Laurentian elite - one should not be so hasty to dismiss those sentiments.

The chattering classes whose gushing tracts on Justin fall woefully short and who predicted Hillary Clinton's rise to the Oval office (oops) might find themselves walking back from their previous statements at the end of October.


And then there are the separatists:

Separatists in the Canadian province of Quebec are making a comeback after years in the doldrums and could regain enough strength to endanger Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s bid to retain power in a federal election this October. 

The center-left Liberals, now trying to recover from a major scandal over alleged interference by officials in a criminal case, unexpectedly won 40 of Quebec’s 78 seats in 2015. They have said they will now need to win at least 12 more Quebec seats to offset losses elsewhere. 

To do so, they will have to fend off the Bloc Quebecois, a party that has long pushed for the province’s independence. 

Polls show the Bloc, which has lost support since the mid-1990s when it was the second-biggest party in parliament, gaining recent momentum as backers who abandoned it for the left-leaning New Democrats in the last two elections show signs of returning. 

The Bloc has 10 Quebec legislators and stands a chance of picking up some of the seats the Liberals are aiming for, especially those held by the slumping New Democrats. 

That could make all the difference for Trudeau, in a race where every seat will count and where the Liberals are eyeing victories in places they have not won in decades. 

Good times, good times ...