Roundup: Three new entrants for the Conservatives

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I believe we are now on day twenty-six of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and Russia’s list of alleged war crimes continues to add up as the shelling of Mariupol continues, and it sounds like there is no immediate military solution to the crisis in that part of the country. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg is calling on members including Canada to increase spending, which we’re doing, but it’s not going to happen overnight. Indeed, as my weekend column points out, we literally can’t spend any more right now until we fix the structural problems inhibiting it. And sure, Greece is spending 3.2 percent of its GDP on the military, but how much are the contributing to NATO operations right now? Very, very little. Closer to home, HMCS Halifax departed for a six-month tour in the North Atlantic as part of NATO operations in the Baltic region.

Back in Canada, the Conservative leadership race got three new entrants—Scott Aitchison, Marc Dalton, and Joseph Bourgault. Aitchison, whose video announcing his intention to run was indistinguishable from a truck commercial, is giving the tired line that “Ottawa isn’t working” but has the self-awareness to know that his party has played a part in the divisive nature of the rhetoric. Oh, and he opposes carbon prices but doesn’t think that should be a “purity test” for the party. Dalton wants to launch a national inquiry into the pandemic response, including the supposed contracts to benefit “Liberal friends” (which has been repeatedly disproven) and on the so-called Charter breaches and apparent cover-up of vaccine injuries and deaths. *sigh* And Bourgault is a nobody businessman from rural Saskatchewan who is part of an organisation claiming the government and “globalists” are using the pandemic to “justify the great reset.” This is what the party has to offer?

Good reads:

  • Economists are saying that high oil prices could boost federal revenues and provide the government with more room to spend in the upcoming budget.
  • CP Rail is now in a strike/lockout (each side claims its own narrative), and the pressure is on for the government to implement back-to-work legislation.
  • Canadian researchers from the National Centre on Truth and Reconciliation will be given access to Oblate archives in Rome to search for residential school records.
  • Justin Ling takes a deeper dive into the origins of the convoy/occupation and its extremist, grifter and conspiracy theorist organizers.
  • Research into the death of a gay Canadian diplomat at the hands of RCMP interrogation in 1964 shows that Prime Minister Lester Pearson was directing it.
  • Heather Scoffield enumerates the challenges that Chrystia Freeland will have to address in the upcoming budget, as we are in a time of perpetual crisis.
  • Chantal Hébert offers the reminder that everyone thought that Stephen Harper was a loser who could never beat Paul Martin—so don’t count out Pierre Poilievre.
  • Susan Delacourt delves into the correlation found in polling between anti-vaxxers and those who believe Russian disinformation about the invasion of Ukraine.
  • Colby Cosh marvels at the film technology now being rebranded as the U-Crane, finally reclaimed after being falsely called a “Russian Arm” for decades.

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2 thoughts on “Roundup: Three new entrants for the Conservatives”

  1. The more contenders for the Con leadership the less the public will be able to focus on the front runners and the bill of goods these grifters will throw at us.

  2. CPC: Clown Party of Canada, otherwise known as the GOP North. Starring Jeb! Charest (please clap), Patrick “Spanish Fly” von Gropenführer, Candace Leslyn Owens, and “The” Donald J. Poilievre. Plus a bottom-tier cast of also-rans, no-names, and dopey, sad, failing losers. Look at the ratings. Terrific, tremendous, the best ever. It’s gonna be yuuuuge.

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