What does it say about Canada that the only time we have had a female Prime Minister...

Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸

What does it say about Canada that the only time we have had a female Prime Minister... and likely again if Christy Clark were to be successful in the upcoming leadership race… is as a stand-in for a doomed party in the next election?

So here's a #CPPOtD poll! (Multiple Choice!)

Let's say Christy Clark wins the leadership race and we go into a Spring #CanPoli Election. #PleaseBoost

Stéphanie

@chris Christy Clark *shivers*

John Mierau

@chris Didn't Clark leave the Libs for Conservatives?

Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸

@john nope. She is a Federal Liberal member.

M. Verdone

@chris it says that Canada is a lot like a business/corporation. The practice of hiring a woman leader and setting them up to fail, to then replace them with a man is common. See: Marissa Meyer.

Dan Neuman 🇨🇦

@chris @john Anybody can be a member, but the BC Liberal Party is a neo-liberal party (business liberalism) and is more aligned to the conservatives. It will be a sad day if the Liberal Party of Canada (social liberalism) swerves that far right.

Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸

@dan613 @john with all due respect, I think the the Federal party has been a neo-liberal bastion since at least Paul Martin.

Dan Neuman 🇨🇦

@chris @john And yet we got higher taxes for the rich, more supports for the poor and middle class.

Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸

@stephanie Sounds like we can expect an announcement any time now!

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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸

@dan613 @john we did. though I do wonder how much of the social programs we saw were a direct result of the NDP agreement. (and to be perfectly fair, I know many who would say there is plenty of neo-Liberalism lurking in the NDP these days as well... education policy especially)

Michael Russell

@chris Ugh. Please, I'm trying to eat lunch here. @stephanie

Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸

@michaelrussell @stephanie
Apologies

Ellen Cornelis

@chris can you summarize to ignorant foreigner what’s happening now in CA politics. I think I only knew Trudeau and Poillievre.

Dan Neuman 🇨🇦

@chris @john The NDP prioritized pharmacare and dental care. The LPC had already implemented a carbon fee and rebate, as well as increasing childcare support and returning CPP eligibility back to age 65. Paul Martin had once tried to get the a national childcare program (scuppered by Layton) so I think that was also an LPC plan.

Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸

@dan613 @john please don't assign to Layton, the actions of Stephen Harper. People could have voted for an NDP government and that childcare program Martin proposed would have happened in the first term.

Paul Turnbull 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🇵🇸

@chris I think the NDP should sponsor here campaign as she’s one the best chances they have.

Dan Neuman 🇨🇦

@chris @john Layton brought down the Martin government.

John Mierau

@dan613 @chris we are demonstrating how complex the personalities and interactions of lib/NDP parties AND THEIR flagbearers... Of whom frankly none at all seem innocent to me

Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸

@Chigaze

Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸

@john @dan613 indeed.

The Sponsorship Scandal brought down the Martin government.

I really REALLY hate it when federal Liberal Party supporters blame other parties for the failings of the Liberal Party (in this case, the Sponsorship Scandal.

Not even Conservative Party supporters do this... instead, they lump the NDP and Liberals in together.

Really what it boils down to is the partisans in both the Conservative and Liberal party hate the idea of the NDP ever gaining power because it means *they* won't have power. Meanwhile, many regular voters move their vote between Conservative and Liberal and NDP... if they didn't, why would we even have campaigns.

But I digress.