Maxime Bernier, once a front leader for Conservative Party of Canada leadership (until it was literally stolen from him by Andrew Scheer) has recently not only gone full screaming racist, but full screaming transphobe too.
the truth about Canada is that we prioritize pretending to be polite over doing the right thing.
there is functionally no difference between far-right “conservatives” and libertarians; both center their entire politics on resentment and self-interest.
The good news is, the PPC might pull some of the uttermost dipshits out of the CPC, and prevent them from sliding any further rightward for a time.
The bad news is, if they succeed in doing that, they’ll split the vote enough that both parties will lose catastrophically, and they’ll start merger talks. These talks will, of course, will cave on every demand made by the PPC, despite being the smaller party (see: Federal PC/Reform merger, Alberta PC/Wildrose merger).
Bernier was popular within the Conservative party because it turns out conservative insiders are 100% down with racism and transmisia. Bernier won’t be popular with Conservative voters because few prioritize openly being racists over the pretense of “fiscal conservativism” (though, functionally, both the PPC and CPC have the same policies). Conservative brand loyalty is quite strong, especially among to over 40 crowd.
I’m sure Kim Campbell felt the same way going into the 1993 election.
Nah. She’s conservative, not stupid. I actually admire her for some things. Her, and Joe Clark.
Mulroney was the first PM I know of where people seriously discussed if he was going to get assassinated. That’s a lot of discontent.
relevant to
rebel media - operated by Ezra Levant - has spent years and millions of dollars hiring, training, platforming, and “disavowing” white supremacists (and still profiting from archived white supremacist content). the role of Ezra Levant and Hamish Marshall in fomenting the current outbreak of white supremacist/outright nazis in the US and north america cannot be understated.
Bleach the world?
By the way, the Guardian still have not replied to my reader complaint about their use of a certain eugenicist slur in a headline last year.
Not quite sure where to put this.
We don’t have a de-Nazification of the World thread, so here’s this:
“This is still a very generous wage – $13 an hour is a lot more than $0" said Emporer Palpatine Alberta Premier Jason Kenney.
the amount of fuckery one can get away with in the name of “fixing the economy” is astounding, frankly. (and so ends week 1 of the legislature).
Kenney passed the wage cut aimed at students as Bill 2. Bill 1? TAX CUTS FOR MAH RICH BUUUUUUUUUDAAAAAAAAAAAAYS.
What gets me is why anyone is surprised.
The honeymoon is over (for now) for the Ford government, and people are claiming to be shocked at the bad choices the government has made. Bad for the proles of course.
And now Alberta gets to do the same thing. I really wish people would clue in the days of the Red Tories are over, and they shouldn’t be let anywhere near the economy.
Wow. Stealing from broke teens. It’s gross.
I thought North America was having the bestest economy evar right now 
Alberta certainly isn’t. While the whole country’s economy depends somewhat on petroleum prices, it’s the primary industry in Alberta. And, unlike some European countries with that kind of dependency on one industry, they didn’t save up for the bad times during the good times.
And the fact that extracting oil from tar sands is much more difficult than extracting it from underground caverns, and yields a more environmentally hazardous variant (bitumen) means that when oil prices crash in Alberta, the economy crashes hard, because no one wants the more expensive, “dirtier” fuel.
They’ve had two successive governments thrown out because of the oil price crash, even though there’s really not much a provincial government can do about it.
Nor did they make good use of the talent they attracted in developing other energy expertise.
There’s a lot of cool renewable ideas coming out of Alberta, but they don’t seem to get any support, because heaven forbid anyone questions petroleum development for anything.
Politicians are grudgingly admitting that there may be such a thing as right wing terrorism.
Looks like we have found their red line. If you shoot a popular conservative politician in the head in his own front yard, then you no longer qualify for concerned citizen status.