webfact Posted October 20, 2019 Share Posted October 20, 2019 Battered Trudeau team sees sign of Canadian election hope after scandals By David Ljunggren Liberal leader and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau takes part in a rally as he campaigns for the upcoming election, in Calgary, Alberta, Canada October 19, 2019. REUTERS/Stephane Mahe VANCOUVER (Reuters) - Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, hit by scandals and locked in a near dead-heat ahead of Monday's election, has put away his teleprompter and taken his campaign on the offensive. A day ahead of a federal election that looked as though it could spell the end for one of the world's last remaining progressive leaders, the Trudeau team is seeing signs of hope. Surveys of public opinion still indicate that Trudeau will lose his majority in Parliament and be forced to rely on the support of smaller parties. But talk of an outright loss to the main opposition Conservative Party of Andrew Scheer is fading and a weekend of bad headlines for the Conservatives has energized Liberal aides. The Globe and Mail reported Scheer's team had hired a company to "seek and destroy" the campaign of the People's Party of Canada (PPC), a new splinter movement that threatens to split the Conservative vote. The PPC is threatening legal action and accused the party of "dirty politics". Two senior aides on Trudeau's plane even said it might still be possible to win a majority of the 338 seats in the House of Commons, which is unlikely if opinion polls and the Liberals own forecasts are accurate. The party's current slim majority of seven is expected to be wiped out by losses in Quebec, Atlantic Canada and the West, according to the party's internal projections, and the prospects for making up the difference are unclear. The mood though is much more upbeat than in the days after photos emerged on Sept. 18 of Trudeau in blackface at an Arabian Nights-themed party in 2001 when he was a 29-year-old teacher. More images emerged the next day from the 1990s. Some campaign aides were deeply unhappy, two sources said, and felt obliged to have uncomfortable conversations with their young children about racism for the first time. The malaise spread to the tour in the days afterward and Trudeau, who repeatedly apologised for the images, gave flat performances to subdued supporters. Last Thursday on a cold wet evening in Montreal, the atmosphere was very different. Two legislators and Trudeau's wife Sophie whipped up the crowd before the Liberal leader appeared and spoke freely, for the first time ditching his electronic aides. The next night, on the outskirts of Toronto, Trudeau told a rally that his father – former Liberal Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau - had been born 100 years ago that day, Oct. 18, and that he had been a fighter. His father, Trudeau said, would not have worried about encountering rough weather while paddling a canoe because his approach was to "sing louder and paddle harder". "He ditched the teleprompter because he wants to talk more directly to people," said one aide. Trudeau also made other changes. Dozy days that saw the 47-year-old leader do one or two events are gone, replaced by a last-week frenzy. In the last 10 days of the campaign, Trudeau's campaign started visiting parliamentary constituencies held by opposition legislators, signalling that he was on the attack. He put in a 21-hour day on Friday, making four stops in Ontario before flying two hours west for an event in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Trudeau engaged in good natured banter with supporters, urging them to boo whenever he brought up the name of Conservative leader Scheer. Liberal voter Heather Stanus said she was not bothered by the blackface incident since "everyone has things in their past they wish they had done differently". But she added there were still some undecided voters who could opt for minority parties that compete with the Liberals for the left-leaning vote. This is one potential problem for the Liberals and a second is low turnout, which tends to favour the Conservatives, who have a more committed base. "There's so many seats that are still toss ups, especially in Quebec and Ontario," said Darrell Bricker, chief executive of pollster Ipsos Public Affairs. "We also know that about 10% of voters make up their mind in the voting booth." (Reporting by David Ljunggren; additional reporting by Steve Scherer; editing by Amran Abocar and Lisa Shumaker) -- © Copyright Reuters 2019-10-21 Follow Thaivisa on LINE for breaking Thailand news and visa info Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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neeray Posted October 21, 2019 Share Posted October 21, 2019 I predict that Canadians will stick with the scoundrel they know instead of the scoundrel they don't know. And no doubt, seeing what can happen when the electorate takes a chance on the unknown, like they did south of the world's longest border in 2016, the voter may decide to stay the course this time around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopDeadSenter Posted October 21, 2019 Share Posted October 21, 2019 34 minutes ago, webfact said: The mood though is much more upbeat than in the days after photos emerged on Sept. 18 of Trudeau in blackface at an Arabian Nights-themed party in 2001 when he was a 29-year-old teacher. More images emerged the next day from the 1990s. We still have no idea how many times this dreadful man decked up in blackface. At the rate the different pics came out he seemed to have done it more times than Rachel Dolezal. I am older than him, and never had the compulsion to do blackface, it would have been totally inappropriate. If this guy wins the election....well words fail me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canuckamuck Posted October 21, 2019 Share Posted October 21, 2019 He transracial, that's very high on the intersectional point scale. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pegman Posted October 21, 2019 Share Posted October 21, 2019 35 minutes ago, TopDeadSenter said: We still have no idea how many times this dreadful man decked up in blackface. At the rate the different pics came out he seemed to have done it more times than Rachel Dolezal. I am older than him, and never had the compulsion to do blackface, it would have been totally inappropriate. If this guy wins the election....well words fail me. How very Snowflake of you. There is little likelihood that he won't win so best to have a suicide hotline on speed dial. In the last week the Liberal Party has been trending up. Over the weekend the Tories have gone into free fall. The 24hr news stations have Scheer repeatedly refusing to come clean on the dirty tricks on a loop. It was beyond stupid to do it but then not coming clean has been disastrous. I put it 50-50 whether a Liberal majority or minority. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevenl Posted October 21, 2019 Share Posted October 21, 2019 52 minutes ago, TopDeadSenter said: (snip) If this guy wins the election....well words fail me. Yes please. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopDeadSenter Posted October 21, 2019 Share Posted October 21, 2019 1 hour ago, pegman said: How very Snowflake of you. There is little likelihood that he won't win so best to have a suicide hotline on speed dial. Charming. An outright flame, followed by an ad hominem attack. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canuckamuck Posted October 21, 2019 Share Posted October 21, 2019 4 minutes ago, TopDeadSenter said: Charming. An outright flame, followed by an ad hominem attack. In every socialist beats the heart of a totalitarian. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pegman Posted October 21, 2019 Share Posted October 21, 2019 1 hour ago, canuckamuck said: In every socialist beats the heart of a totalitarian. 556, I thought we were all "woke" to you bunch? Make up your minds. Time me to make some wild predictions: PARTY SEATS Liberal: 147 Conservative:. 112 NDP:. 38 BLOC:. 36 Green:. 4 PPC:. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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pegman Posted October 21, 2019 Share Posted October 21, 2019 It took 3 days but finally one of the many Post Media daily newspapers ran a column about the biggest scandal of the election. Seeing the Bay Street based Post Media demands all its papers across the country endorse the Conservative Party and employs as a writer the political consultant who carried out the dirty work at issue it is fair to ask if the newspaper chain had involvement. Once re-elected Trudeau needs to stop subsidizing this rotten chain of newspapers with tax payer cash and allow them to slip into bankruptcy. https://nationalpost.com/opinion/chris-selley-scheers-silence-is-either-suspicious-or-baffling Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pegman Posted October 24, 2019 Share Posted October 24, 2019 On October 20, 2019 at 11:20 PM, pegman said: 556, I thought we were all "woke" to you bunch? Make up your minds. Time me to make some wild predictions: PARTY SEATS Liberal: 147 Conservative:. 112 NDP:. 38 BLOC:. 36 Green:. 4 PPC:. 1 Seems I underestimated the Lib & Con parties and overestimated the rest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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