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Australia is set to call a federal election for May 3rd, and it seems the dynamics at play over there are very similar to Canada's current election.

Peter Dutton of the Liberals (right-wing in Australia) is losing points in polling due to his admiration for Trump. Unlike Poilievre and the Canadian Cons, he's not even attempting to distance himself or his party from the Trump administration.

www.abc.net.au

Albanese to call May 3 federal election on Friday morning

The prime minister is poised to call the election on Friday, to be held on May 3.
www.abc.net.au www.abc.net.au

independentaustralia.net

Dutton’s Trump-mania is a dumb political move

As Australians look on horrified at the chaos in America, the last thing they want is to emulate that in Australia.
independentaustralia.net independentaustralia.net
 
Bojaxs said:
Australia is set to call a federal election for May 3rd, and it seems the dynamics at play over there are very similar to Canada's current election.

Peter Dutton of the Liberals (right-wing in Australia) is losing points in polling due to his admiration for Trump. Unlike Poilievre and the Canadian Cons, he's not even attempting to distance himself or his party from the Trump administration.

www.abc.net.au

Albanese to call May 3 federal election on Friday morning

The prime minister is poised to call the election on Friday, to be held on May 3.
www.abc.net.au www.abc.net.au

independentaustralia.net

Dutton’s Trump-mania is a dumb political move

As Australians look on horrified at the chaos in America, the last thing they want is to emulate that in Australia.
independentaustralia.net independentaustralia.net
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From the second piece:

A smarter politician would work hard to differentiate themselves from Trump, but Dutton can’t do that because… well, you finish that sentence.
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Seems to apply equally well to a certain Canadian party leader. 🤔
 
www.thestar.com

Doug Ford’s internal polling paints grim election prospects for Pierre Poilievre in Ontario

Internal polling for Premier Doug Ford’s PC Party suggests Mark Carney’s Liberals lead Pierre Poilievre’s federal Conservatives by double digits in Ontario.
www.thestar.com www.thestar.com

Some incredible internal polling (from a noted conservative pollster) within Ontario along with some choice words from Doug Ford's campaign insiders to be found in this article.

A new Campaign Research survey found Carney’s Liberals at 48 per cent while Poilievre’s Tories were at 33 per cent and Jagmeet Singh’s New Democrats at 11 per cent while the Greens with co-leaders Elizabeth May and Jonathan Pedneault were at four per cent.
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Campaign Research principal Nick Kouvalis, Ford’s long-time pollster, echoed Teneycke’s “disappointment” in how the federal campaign is being executed.

“We’ve worked very hard to try to get Pierre and his team on board with a different strategy and get along with the Doug Ford Progressive Conservatives,” Kouvalis said Thursday.

“My hope and my efforts were to see Conservatives working together better,” he said. “But they’re doing the opposite of what Doug Ford did in the weeks before the Feb. 27 election and it’s plainly obvious that the results will also be the opposite of what happened here.”
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With such an explosive article for day 4 of the campaign trail, Doug Ford's team is essentially throwing their lot in with Carney by the looks of it.
 
Midtown Urbanist said:
With such an explosive article for day 4 of the campaign trail, Doug Ford's team is essentially throwing their lot in with Carney by the looks of it.
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This makes sense for a number of reasons.
  1. Ford benefits from having a Liberal government to blame for anything he likes. And Carney & Co. would be a hell of a lot easier to work with than Poilievre and his gang.
  2. The ONPCs and the CPC have never gotten along.
  3. If Ford is making an eventual play for CPC leadership it makes sense to scuttle any hope of the current CPC and its cohort having success in the most important province electorally.
 
CPC recruitment poll

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www.conservative.ca

Pre-election Strategy Poll - Conservative Party of Canada

www.conservative.ca www.conservative.ca
 
PL1 said:
Was this written by an adolescent?
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I wonder if having brain damage is a mandatory requirement to work for the party. Or perhaps they just think their voters are idiots.

Even if I agreed with the CPC on these topics, it is very cringe and embarrassing to respond to such an obviously leading questionnaire. Obviously a prelude to asking for money...
 
This "questionnaire" will only engage the true believers, or those outraged enough to respond. I don't think this will grow their tent, and may serve to shrink it. It certainly highlights their priorities! And it insults anyone who will not vote for Poilievre.
 
PL1 said:
This "questionnaire" will only engage the true believers, or those outraged enough to respond. I don't think this will grow their tent, and may serve to shrink it. It certainly highlights their priorities! And it insults anyone who will not vote for Poilievre.
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But that would just mean that you don't support Canada first (noting the lack of exclamation marks!!!)

And just what the heck is a patriotic tax cut? If increased taxation is a personal sacrifice for the sake of the collective/country - wouldn't the most patriotic tax cut be the one that didn't happen? I mean during the Second World War we have buy victory bonds. Now we have axe the tax. Thank goodness.

AoD
 
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The leaders may change but the party operatives, on both sides, just keep going 'round and 'round. They're like bad pennies (you may have to be of a certain age to get that idiom).
 
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