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UtakataNoAnnex said:
^An association of mine in the anecdote commented that Chretien neither spoke French or English some time ago. I asked him was does he really speak then, and he replied, "We're not sure..." >.<
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Maybe a Quebec version of Al Smith?

 
Northern Light said:
Today's Mark Carney promise is an interesting one......though probably won't shift many votes.
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It is also a tactical maneuver given the CPC and especially Poilievre's longstanding ambitions to defund the CBC - which they are conveniently staying quiet on right now as polling results show this is a net vote-loser.

Bringing up the CBC will force Poilievre to talk about his plans for the CBC in the coming weeks.
 
PinkLucy said:
Carney does have a tendency to start off in French and then switch to English, but yes, French Canadians are forgiving of this. As a born anglophone who married into a French Canadian family, this has also been my experience over the years. They speak English with a French accent, and I speak French with an English accent, and we all make mistakes. Chretien has always been the poster child for gaffes in both languages.
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When I was a teenager, I did a Young Canada Works project in New Brunswick. We lived with 12 kids from around Canada - 6 from NB and 6 from other provinces (2 from Quebec). You can imagine the English/French among that group, and we all managed to get along great.

One of the NBers was from a small village where they're all native French speakers, but speak it with a huge English accent. It was quite amusing. Her name was Jennifer Robinson, but she was completely francophone.
 
We’re at war. Like it or not, it’s a single issue election. What’s Pollievre’s war plan? That’s what Canadians are looking to their potential leaders for. And the lack of a war plan is why Singh, Blanchet, May and seemingly Pollievre are going to get smoked in 22 days.
 
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Admiral Beez said:
We’re at war. Like it or not, it’s a single issue election. What’s Pollievre’s war plan? That’s what Canadians are looking to their potential leaders for? And it’s why Singh, Blanchet, May and seemingly Pollievre are going to get smoked in 22 days.
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Agreed.

Pollievre and Singh are laser focused on the Liberals and their record to the point where they've lost the plot.

They need to tell Canadians how they will fight Trump not fight the Liberals. Even the NDP schtick of fighting for working class Canadians doesn't matter at this point.

Nobody cares about funding for the CBC, Lower GST or Carbon Taxes what they care about is the economic impact of the tarrifs.
 
All this debate about Trump makes me sad. This election being about Trump sums up the issue in this country perfectly. Our identity seems to be more and more that we are not Americans and that’s it. In my opinion we should be focused on our own economic development and building our own companies and industries and accelerate diversification of our trade with the many other countries we have free trade already in industries where Canada excels - eg mining and energy development and agriculture and IT. Instead our entire discourse is on Trump and not our own government policy failures.

Marc Carney is a smart and wealthy guy and he’s stable compared to the U.S. president but his values (read his book) will make Canada poorer as it will be the continuation of the same failed Liberal policies for economic malaise. No resource development, no IP development and just more failed hand outs (like the EV handouts to foreign firms). We have to change our economic culture and Carney as PM would lead the exact same party as Trudeau left with the exact same people in charge. To reward the same gang for failure is insane - we are doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.

I’m saddened we don’t have a good opposition parties with a solid ideas that get the electorate behind them. This isn’t even a partisan statement. We are devolving into a pseudo one party government state - Liberal at the Fed as the only party that can win and Conservative at most of the Provinces. Elections don’t change outcomes or hold government to account anymore. Doug Ford won in Ontario in a landslide because the opposition was beyond weak and useless at holding him to account.
 
lead82 said:
All this debate about Trump makes me sad. This election being about Trump sums up the issue in this country perfectly. Our identity seems to be more and more that we are not Americans and that’s it. In my opinion we should be focused on our own economic development and building our own companies and industries and accelerate diversification of our trade with the many other countries we have free trade already in industries where Canada excels - eg mining and energy development and agriculture and IT. Instead our entire discourse is on Trump and not our own government policy failures.

Marc Carney is a smart and wealthy guy and he’s stable compared to the U.S. president but his values (read his book) will make Canada poorer as it will be the continuation of the same failed Liberal policies for economic malaise. No resource development, no IP development and just more failed hand outs (like the EV handouts to foreign firms). We have to change our economic culture and Carney as PM would lead the exact same party as Trudeau left with the exact same people in charge. To reward the same gang for failure is insane - we are doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.

I’m saddened we don’t have a good opposition parties with a solid ideas that get the electorate behind them. This isn’t even a partisan statement. We are devolving into a pseudo one party government state - Liberal at the Fed as the only party that can win and Conservative at most of the Provinces. Elections don’t change outcomes or hold government to account anymore. Doug Ford won in Ontario in a landslide because the opposition was beyond weak and useless at holding him to account.
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Erin O’Toole, and even a returning Stephen Harper would do well.
 
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