“What the pandemic has done has just driven home how vulnerable we are to the pharmaceutical industry. It was clear that it was a problem for Canada that we didn’t have domestic vaccine production capacity.”
“The language (the PPC) use — the ‘cult of diversity,’ the ‘flow’ of refugees, that sort of language — that's classic far-right language, white nationalist language.”
Many of the supposedly ‘internal’ problems in Guatemala are caused by imperialism, and Canada is one of the guilty parties.
“The COVID conspiracy movement and the far-right are not happy with Erin O'Toole. So this time around, many more of them decided they weren't going to vote strategically, and they were going to vote for the PPC.”
Data shows that of the Liberals’ top five strongest showings, four were in ridings located in urban centres in Ontario. The Conservatives’ five strongest ridings were all in rural districts in Saskatchewan and Alberta.
The closer we can push toward full proportional representation the better, particularly for those on the left who are most disadvantaged by our current undemocratic FPTP system.
The idea of introducing a wealth tax is popular among Canadians, with 89 per cent supporting the policy overall, including 84 per cent of Conservative voters.
The first public challenge to Erin O’Toole’s leadership of the Conservative Party has begun following the Tories’ election defeat on Monday.
The Alberta premier kept a low profile during the election in what many regard as a deliberate strategy to avoid Conservative Party Leader Erin O’Toole being associated with Kenney’s unpopular government.