Because It's An Election Year

Watch the double standards turn into triple standards.




Given the sleaze, hypocrisy and corruption, this does not surprise me:

Jaime Battiste, who is running for the Liberals in the riding of Sydney-Victoria, issued an apology earlier this week after the Toronto Sun shared past racist and sexist remarks he had made on social media. 

Battiste told the newspaper the posts were crude jokes he made at a different time in his life, but that he now realizes they were offensive.

(Sidebar: I bet he does.)


But everyone else should turf their candidates:

The Conservative Party of Canada has dropped a Burnaby candidate over controversial comments that LGBTQ2 people “recruit” kids and her support for conversion therapy.

In a statement Friday night, the party said Heather Leung will no longer represent the riding of Burnaby North-Seymour, citing media reports about the offensive comments captured in a 2011 video taken by Burnaby local newspaper Burnaby Now. 

(Sidebar: I'll just leave this right here.)

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NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh is brushing aside demands from the Greens that his party apologize for social-media posts that Green candidates hold anti-abortion positions.

So what if they have pro-life opinions? So what if prospective voters share those opinions? So what if May doesn't mimic Soy-Boy Justin who thinks that abortion is the issue in this election and not the fact that he is useless sack of lying racist crap and won't force her members to vote on this issue as she might wish?

(Sidebar: do note that every single "man" who supports abortion is an awful, effeminate, virtue-signalling, irresponsible piece of excrement who defends this ghastly practice just so he can traipse into pro-abortion harridans' underthings. I don't blame one if one wishes to never, ever picture that entire spectacle. This block of tofu should be treated like a pariah and excluded from normal society.)




For me but not at all for thee:

Liberal leader Justin Trudeau is defending his two campaign planes this morning after Conservative leader Andrew Scheer called him a climate hypocrite last night for his carbon-heavy leader’s tour.

But everyone else has to stop eating steak.




Behold! The art of deflection:

After all the times Trudeau has brought up Ford’s name on the campaign trail, Canadians could be forgiven for thinking Ford is on the ballot on election day.

Yet, Ford isn’t running in the federal campaign, he’s busy running Ontario and trying to clean up from the mess left by the Wynne Liberals.

Still, Trudeau just can’t stop talking about Doug.

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Federal Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau has a clear message for Ontarians: Don’t vote for Conservative Andrew Scheer because that would be “doubling down’ on Ontario Premier Doug Ford. Ford and Scheer, you see, are so similar that it’s difficult to tell them apart.

As much as Trudeau might like people to believe that, it would be tough to find two Conservative politicians more different than Scheer and Ford. Even during an election campaign, when truth typically takes a holiday, the Scheer-is-just-like-Ford argument is laughably off base. It has novelty value, though. It’s not every day that you see a prime minister build his re-election campaign around attacking a premier’s record.

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Global News has been tracking how many times at official events and media availabilities each of the two front runners reference the other — or others entirely.

That does not include photo ops, whistlestops or unscheduled remarks.

Those records show Trudeau has referenced Harper (in English) at speeches and campaign stops a total of 62 times so far over the last 21 days.

In comparison, he has mentioned Scheer just 40 times — the same number of times Trudeau has mentioned Ontario Premier Doug Ford.

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In terms of actual impact, that is the same as what Andrew Scheer has been saying, with Scheer calling himself ‘pro-life,’ while also noting that he would not support any measure restricting abortion, and would indeed vote against any such measure.

It’s the exact same thing the Conservatives did during their near decade in power, as abortion laws in Canada remain unchanged, even when the Conservatives had a majority.


Yet, when a CBC reporter speaking with Barton pointed out the similarity in Trudeau’s position and Scheer’s position, Barton inexplicably used talking points identical to what the Liberals say, defended Trudeau, and cast doubts on Scheer.

Meanwhile, everyone is saying and promising XYZ because that is the usual thing done during an election:

Bernier — the real one — has gotten most of his attention lately for his controversial statements: saying he’s against “mass immigration,” claiming there’s no scientific consensus on climate change and calling teenage activist Greta Thunberg “mentally unstable.”

But in the Beauce, where Bernier was born and raised, these are not the positions that will win or lose him the election. The fact that Bernier launched his own right-wing populist party is of secondary importance here.

What matters in the Beauce, it seems, is whether Bernier is still one of them, whether he really is defending “Beauceronnes” values, as his campaign signs proclaim. He has almost certainly lost the vote of the region’s dairy farmers, who benefit from the supply management system Bernier has promised to dismantle. He will have to make do with what’s left.

The People’s Party is currently polling nation-wide at less than three per cent. It remains a long shot to win any seat other than Bernier’s, and his is far from a sure thing. Though Bernier insists his party is here to stay, its future may now rest in the hands of 90,000 Beaucerons, who are deciding who the real Maxime Bernier really is.

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Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer is promising to expand a program giving volunteer search and rescue workers and firefighters tax credits for their supplies.