Four more years of Fluffy

Or maybe not... coalition governments have a tendency to die a premature death.

I'm guessing that having to coordinate policy with the NDP will put the brakes on Mr. Trudeau's authoritarian tendencies, which would be good for the country but won't sit well with Trudeau. He'll ditch that coalition the moment he thinks he can win a majority.

That would be a mistake. This campaign has elevated the profile of Scheer from non-entity to contender. In fact, he won the popular vote. A credible performance in the months ahead would boost his chances next time round. I'm sure Justin would rather share the power pie with Jag than see Scheer gorf down the whole thing.

Hopefully, we will now tone down our enthusiasm for regime change in Venezuela. Our "leadership" of the Lima Group is an embarrassment to Canada and a stain on her reputation.  Although a lot of Liberals share that view, the Trudeau-Freeland team has successfully throttled them. That won't be so easy now that Justin will have to keep at least one eye on his coalition partners, and that's where anti-Lima Group sentiment in parliament has been most frequently voiced.


If I were Jagmeet, I'd make shuffling Chrystia out of Foreign Affairs a precondition for any coalition agreement.

Justin Trudeau's bulletproof PR stunt

We've been warned for months that unspecified entities are looking to disrupt our democracy.

Could be Putinist trolls sowing doubt about the democratic process...

Could be Putinist trolls riling up your deplorables to commit whatever deplorable things those people have up their sleeves.

Could be Putinist trolls turning French against English, Indians against settlers, vegans against carnivores, gay against straight. When diversity is your strength, you unfortunately give the enemy (Putin and his massed troll armies) many more loose threads with which to pull apart the very fabric of our democracy!

So after being repeatedly warned by many experts across all media, no one can feign surprise that it's finally happened; Trudeau now campaigning in bulletproof vest.

That's right! Not only that, but "uniformed tactical officers wearing heavy backpacks surrounded Trudeau as he addressed the crowd."

Oh my! Right here in Canada!


 

Wait a minute... do those guys with the heavy backpacks look like an RCMP tactical squad? Or do they look like a central casting version of same? What do you suppose could be in those heavy backpacks? Their heavy weapons?

When the bullets start to fly, they're gonna take off their backpacks, fish out and assemble their weapons, and return fire?

Does Justin look worried?



I smell PR stunt!

New Brunswick grabs the Democratic Process by the ass

Well, this is rude.

Fourteen NDPers jump ship en masse for the Greenies!

It's a bad day for Jagmeet and a good one for whatsername over there at the Green Party.

And what is her name?... Elizabeth Green? Greene? It's Elizabeth something or other, I'm pretty sure...

Whatever it is, it's got about as much traction in the media universe as Jagmeet's brand.


Don't look this gift horse in the mouth, Liz.