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Ok.....this was funny to me:

www.ctvnews.ca

Watch Lantsman and Erskine-Smith’s awkward exchange in front of reporters

Conservative deputy leader Melissa Lantsman and Liberal MP Nate Erskine-Smith had an awkward encounter during a media scrum in Toronto.
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The Conservatives dispatched Melissa Lantsman to run a presser in front the Liberal media event where Nate et al were endorsing Carney....... it didn't go exactly as scripted.
 
Mihairokov said:
Mainstreet (Ontario Federal)

LPC 36%
CPC 34%
NDP 11%
Undecided 11%
GPC 4%
PPC 2%
Other 2%

PDF: https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/...d2b_Mainstreet_Ontario_Jan_25_2025_Public.pdf
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Ontario provincial election poll results included. OLP much more competitive than I would have expected. I would say this is more of a gamble on Ford's part than I thought.
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Mihairokov said:
Mainstreet (Ontario Federal)

LPC 36%
CPC 34%
NDP 11%
Undecided 11%
GPC 4%
PPC 2%
Other 2%

PDF: https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/...d2b_Mainstreet_Ontario_Jan_25_2025_Public.pdf
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Once the anchor of Trudeau is severed and if the LPC can field a good, fluently bilingual candidate (such as Carney) I'd say there's a very good chance that Swinging Singh will change his tune and agree to work with the new PM until the mandatory election date of October 2025. And if by then we've come to some arrangement with Trump and Ontarians are having sober second thoughts after the third majority win of Doug Ford's PCs, I'd give the LPC good odds at another minority government with the NDP. If so, like Scheer and O'Toole before him, Poilievre will be tossed by the CPC, followed by a further rightward swing towards populism - all hail CPC leader Danielle Smith?
 
Admiral Beez said:
Once the anchor of Trudeau is severed and if the LPC can field a good, fluently bilingual candidate (such as Carney) I'd say there's a very good chance that Swinging Singh will change his tune and agree to work with the new PM until the mandatory election date of October 2025. And if by then we've come to some arrangement with Trump and Ontarians are having sober second thoughts after the third majority win of Doug Ford's PCs, I'd give the LPC good odds at another minority government with the NDP. If so, like Scheer and O'Toole before him, Poilievre will be tossed by the CPC, followed by a further rightward swing towards populism - all hail CPC leader Danielle Smith?
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I'd be watching Smith, Moe and to a lesser extent Legault very, very closely. Esp. Smith given the renewed talk of manifest destiny down south.

AoD
 
Admiral Beez said:
Once the anchor of Trudeau is severed and if the LPC can field a good, fluently bilingual candidate (such as Carney) I'd say there's a very good chance that Swinging Singh will change his tune and agree to work with the new PM until the mandatory election date of October 2025. And if by then we've come to some arrangement with Trump and Ontarians are having sober second thoughts after the third majority win of Doug Ford's PCs, I'd give the LPC good odds at another minority government with the NDP. If so, like Scheer and O'Toole before him, Poilievre will be tossed by the CPC, followed by a further rightward swing towards populism - all hail CPC leader Danielle Smith?
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Just gonna say.........Carney's French......is a bit halting.
 
AlvinofDiaspar said:
I'd be watching Smith, Moe and to a lesser extent Legault very, very closely. Esp. Smith given the renewed talk of manifest destiny down south.

AoD
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Moe is still reasonably popular in Saskatchewan..........but Legault is tanking in Quebec. The virtue of recruiting a francophone Quebecer as party leader, beyond being bilingual is generally to have a crack at winning a large number of
Quebec seats.

Not sure Legualt would be capable of delivering that today.
 
Northern Light said:
Just gonna say.........Carney's French......is a bit halting.
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True, but like Obi Wan, he is their only hope. And he has the foundations he can quickly work on.

Every time I hear Chrystia Freeland speaking in her overly rehearsed manner I cringe a little. How does one become a top politician if you cannot speak for sh#te?

Freeland's exaggerated enunciation, sing-song intonation, awkward pauses, patronizing tone and choppy cadence are grating on my senses. I can only imagine that her French is even worse.
 
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True, but like Obi Wan, he is their only hope.

Every time I hear Chrystia Freeland speaking in her overly rehearsed manner I cringe a little. How does one become a top politician if you cannot speak for sh#te?

Freeland's exaggerated enunciation, sing-song intonation, awkward pauses, patronizing tone and choppy cadence are grating on my senses. I can only imagine that her French is even worse.
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She also pulls a lot of strange faces while listening to others speak. Frowns, grimaces, etc. Not a very practiced politician.
 
Admiral Beez said:
True, but like Obi Wan, he is their only hope. And he has the foundations he can quickly work on.

Every time I hear Chrystia Freeland speaking in her overly rehearsed manner I cringe a little. How does one become a top politician if you cannot speak for sh#te?

Freeland's exaggerated enunciation, sing-song intonation, awkward pauses, patronizing tone and choppy cadence are grating on my senses. I can only imagine that her French is even worse.
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You're spot on. I can't stand the way she talks. She sounds like she's a kindergarten teacher trying to convey basic concepts to toddlers.
 
But she's a journalist trying to explain basic concepts to toddlers. Toddlers prefer Poilievre, though.
 
One can only imagine why thinking of the general public as toddlers who need to be guided in the right direction might not be a winning strategy...
 
I'm always cautious about judging the way a person speaks or acts. There are lots of online comments about Freeland's speaking voice that comes off as sexist. I find PP's voice to be nasal-y but what he says is more important than how he says it (although, admittedly, I wish he and his handlers would drop the soundbite lines). Freeland is a 'nodder' when in the background, which I find annoying but, quite frankly if I liked her policy I wouldn't much care if she had a hair lip.

I find it interesting that factors such as accents or medical conditions (e.g. Chretien) are off limits but developed or inherited speaking styles are fair game. We need to move past the 'fluff stuff'.
 
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