#erin otoole

[downpourstringloop]

they probably had to use their best spies since erin otoole is so charismatic and intelligent and inspiring

[packerfansam-blog]

People can, an do, agree or disagree with him politically. But objectively, he got hosed at least a couple of times over.

https://us.blastingnews.com/world/2023/04/canada-former-opposition-leader-erin-otoole-announces-upcoming-resignation-003671705.html

[theleftycanadianradical]

Oshawa NDP Poised to Beat Oshawa CPC This Election!

Oshawa Ontario has elected a CPC MP, Colin Carrie, six times in a row. If you want to beat the Conservatives in Oshawa, voting NDP is the way to go.

Look up how your district actually votes, not just projections.

Because last election, the projections on 338 had Liberals in 2nd when they come in 3rd here every election?! I had so many strategic voters tell me that they were voting Liberal strategically and wouldn't you know it? They did and the Liberals came in 3rd. Now NDP is poised to beat the Conservatives in Oshawa and that tracks because they always come in 2nd place in Oshawa.

[teazzle]

biden telling trump to shut up was wonderful like one sip of water in a desert. like you're still gonna die of thirst but that sip was nice.

[snap-crackle-n-stop]

I really like this royalty AU oops

[digitaltariq]

Erin O’Toole warns that the Liberals may bankrupt the country to win the next election Article content continued O’Toole’s leadership platform promised to convert the existing Child Care Expense deduction to a refundable tax credit for the duration of the pandemic recovery period.

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole told a group of students residential schools were created to “try and provide education,” and became “horrible.”

O’Toole made the comments in a video posted to the Ryerson Conservatives club Facebook page on Nov. 5.

“Let’s learn from the bad mistakes and, in some (cases), tragic circumstances of our past. But when Egerton Ryerson was called in by Hector Langevin and people, it was meant to try and provide education,” O’Toole said, referring to the creation of the residential school system.

“It became a horrible program that that really harmed people, and we have to learn from that, and I wear orange, and I do that. But we’re not helping anyone by misrepresenting the past.”

Continue Reading.

Tagging: @politicsofcanada

[theleftycanadianradical]

If you ever think of voting conservative, here's what you should do with that thought!

[abpoli]

Opinion: What Erin O’Toole is really saying when he says criminals shouldn’t get early access to vaccines - The Globe and Mail

Conservative Party Leader Erin O’Toole tweeted on Tuesday that “Not one criminal should be vaccinated ahead of any vulnerable Canadian or front-line health worker.” And, as was no doubt intended, the tweet caught fire.

Front-line health workers are already prioritized for the vaccine and are currently receiving it, as former member of Parliament Celina Caesar-Chavannes pointed out. Lawyers asked Mr. O’Toole how he intended to implement his proposal: Would the ban apply to the 3.8 million Canadians with a criminal record, and was he proposing that we add a criminal-record check to the administrative burdens weighing upon the vaccine rollout? Would it apply to Ontario jails, where the majority of prisoners are awaiting trial and presumed innocent?

Those with compassion to spare pointed out that prisoners are, in fact, vulnerable Canadians when it comes to COVID-19: they are residents of congregate living facilities, many with serious underlying health conditions.

We might also spare a thought for correctional staff, who will not be safe at work until both they and the population they interact with are vaccinated. After all, thus far in this pandemic, the rate of infection of federal prisoners is five times that of the Canadian public. With prison outbreaks under way in six provinces, local health care systems are under threat.

Continue reading

[bettedavisgf]

keep having visions of erin otoole winning the federal election tonight and if that happens justin trudeau gets the guillotine for this. for legal reasons this is a joke

[tepkunset]

I cannot even adequately describe the anger boiling inside me, watching the Conservative and Liberal parties argue about which has the least bloody history from residential schools. Let alone to go one step further and actually bring back the “oh, but they meant well” so-called argument again. You’re both responsible. You’re the same. You’re all the fucking same.

[quasi-normalcy]

“I mean, when you think about it, residential schools really offered the full Hogwarts experience,” O’Toole said, taking a sip from a mug labelled ‘Liberal Tears’. “A bearded white stranger would show up and take the children off to boarding school in an undisclosed location, away from their parents, where they’d be bombarded with British culture all day long. What could be so bad about that?”

“Really, the architects of residential schools always intended them to be a magical place,” O’Toole continued. “It’s just that the spell they were most interested in was making 70 unique languages disappear.”

O’Toole’s comments were delivered in an attempt to help Ryerson University student conservatives own the libs on campus, destroying them with facts, logic, historical revisionism, and assurances that they didn’t want to be invited to their dumb parties anyway.

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Trudeau promises massive covid stimulus

Canadian Prime Ministers have a fun gambit: when things start to go really badly for them, they "prorogue" (suspend) Parliament, which dissolves all committees, inquiries, etc, until such time as they are ready to reconvene, with a tabula rasa.

Most egregiously, the far-right asshole and climate criminal Stephen Harper prorogued Parliament in the middle of the 2008 Great Financial Crisis in order to avoid a no-confidence vote that would have triggered new elections.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008%E2%80%932009_Canadian_parliamentary_dispute

While this DID save Harper's bacon, it also left Canada without a legislature during a global crisis that threatened the nation's entire future. It was a crazed, reckless thing to do.

Canada has a safeguard to prevent this kind of gambit: as a constitutional monarchy, Canadian parliamentary manoeuvres have to receive the Crown's blessing, in the form of assent from the Governor General, the Queen's rep to Canada.

This is the sober, apolitical adult supervision that fans of constitutional monarchies are always banging on about, and then-Governor General Michaëlle Jean completely failed to do her fucking job, leaving Canada without a Parliament during the GFC. She literally had one job.

Proroguing Parliament didn't just save Harper from a no-confidence vote: it also dissolved all the Parliamentary inquiries underway at the time, including the "Afghan detainee transfer" affair, which was investigating Canadian forces' complicity in the torture-murder of POWs.

In many ways, Trudeau is the anti-Harper: a charismatic Liberal who tells refugees they're welcome in Canada, marches with Greta Thunberg, and appoints the first-ever First Nations person to serve as Attorney General .

Truly, there is no policy so progressive that Trudeau won't endorse it...provided he doesn't actually have to make it into policy. Because many of his policies are indistinguishable from Harperism, albeit with a better haircut.

This started before he won the election, when Trudeau (whose father once declared martial law!) whipped his MPs to vote for a human-rights-denying mass surveillance bill, C-51.

Trudeau did so while insisting that the bill was a massive overreach and totally unacceptable, but claiming that the "loyal opposition" should still back it so as not to be accused of being soft on terrorism in the coming election. He promised to repeal it after.

Of course, he didn't.

Trudeau is often compared to Obama, a young and charismatic fellow who makes compromises, sure, but comes through in the clutch.

Tell that to pipeline protesters.

After the Obama administration killed the Transmountain Pipeline - the continent-spanning tube that would make filthy, planet-destroying tar sands profitable enough to bring to market - Trudeau bailed it out, spending billions of federal dollars to keep it alive.

Then, Trudeau - who campaigned on nation-to-nation truth and reconciliation with First Nations - announced that he would shove this toxic tar-sand tube through unceded treaty lands across the breadth of the naiton.

And then he had the AUDACITY to march with Greta Thunberg at the head of a climate march, demanding a change to policies that would see billions dead in the coming century.

HIS OWN policies.

I mean, Trudeau's boosters have a point - Harper NEVER could have pulled that off.

The Harper years were a Trumpian orgy of blatant self-dealing and cronyism.

The Trudeau years, on the other hand...

One of Trudeau's major donors is SNC Lavalin, a crime syndicate masquerading as a global engineering firm (think Halliburton with less morals).

SNC Lavalin had done so much crime that it was on its final notice with the Canadian legal sysem, a probation that it must not violate on penalty of real, big boy federal criminal prosecutions.

Then it did more crimes.

Remember Trudeau's historic appointment of a First Nations woman to the Attorney General's seat? Now was AG Jody Wilson-Raybould's moment to shine.

As Wilson-Raybould began aggressively pursuing these corporate criminals, she started getting calls from Trudeau's office.

For avoidance of doubt, these were not calls of support. They were demands to drop the case and let the SNC Lavalin crime syndicate get off scot-free. Eventually the PM himself called her and demanded that she give his cronies a pass on their repeated criminal actions.

Wilson-Raybould went public, decrying political meddling in the justice system. Trudeau denied everything and began to smear her (Harper had tons of scandals like this, BTW, only the counterpart was usually a rich old white guy, not a First Nations woman).

But Wilson-Raybould had recorded the conversations, and she released the recordings, and proved that Trudeau had lied about the whole thing. Trudeau fired her and kicked her out of the party.

But at least he's not Trump, right? He's the anti-Trump! (Well, except for the pipeline and that time he announced "No country would find 173 billion barrels of oil in the ground and leave them there").

Remember the Muslim Ban? As Trump was tormenting refugees at the US border, Trudeau tweeted "To those fleeing persecution, terror & war, Canadians will welcome you, regardless of your faith. Diversity is our strength #WelcomeToCanada."

Yes, that was awesome. There is no policy so progressive that Trudeau won't endorse it...provided that he never has to do anything to make it happen.

Canada and the US have a "Safe Third Country Agreement" that says that asylum-seekers turned away from the US border can't try again in Canada. To make #WelcomeToCanada more than a hashtag, Trudeau's government would have to suspend that agreement.

Instead, Trudeau's government insisted that under Trump, "the conditions of the Safe Third Country Agreement continued to be met" and thus they would not suspend the agreement and give hearings to those turned away by Trump's border guards.

But at least Trudeau handled the pandemic better than Harper handled the Great Financial Crisis.

No, really, he did!

Mostly.

I mean, unless you were in a nursing home or on a First Nations reservation.

https://www.canadalandshow.com/podcast/an-emergency-season-pandemic/

But still, Trudeau's government did a MUCH better job than the Trump government, or Boris Johnson's Tories. Neither Liberals nor Conservatives will really fight cronyism, climate change or authoritarianism, but there are still substantive differences between them.

But in some ways, they are depressingly similar.

Take corruption.

Long before the plague struck, Canadaland was publishing damning reports on We Charity, a massive, beloved Canadian charitable institution nominally devoted to ending child slavery.

Canadaland's initial reporting on the charity focused on its partnerships with companies that were using child slaves to make their products, but the investigations mushroomed after the charity sent dire legal threats to the news organisation over its coverage.

And then Canadaland founder Jesse Brown found himself smeared by a US dirty-tricks organization that got its start working for GOP politicians, who got a contract to plant editorials criticizing Canadaland's We coverage in small-town US newspapers.

Private eyes started following Brown around, even keeping tabs on his small children. Rather than being intimidated, Brown kept up the pressure on We, which prompted whistleblowers to leak him even more details about the charity's activities.

https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/03/turnkey-authoritarianism/#we-charity

These included massive, mysterious real-estate holdings, hard-to-excuse criminal investigations of its Kenyan activities, and (here's where I've been going with this all along) GIANT CASH PAYMENTS to Trudeau's family, as well as valuable gifts to his Finance Minister.

And, as with the Wilson-Reybould affair, Trudeau's initial response to this was to simply deny it, calling his accusers liars. But then the scandal kept unspooling, his Finance Minister quit in disgrace, the charity (sort of) folded up and shut down, and Trudeau...

Well, Trudeau prorogued Parliament, shutting down Canada's government in the midst of a crisis that was - unimaginably - even worse than the 2008 crisis that Harper had left the nation rudderless through to avoid his own scandal.

(Again, for constitutional monarchy fans, that's two entirely political proroguings in the midsts of global crises, signed off on by the Queen's supposedly apolitical and sober check on reckless activity)

Shutting down Parliament seems to have rescued Trudeau's government from snap elections, which may well have been won by the Tories, who have resolved their longstanding racist and plutocratic tensions with a new ghoulish nightmare leader:

https://jacobinmag.com/2020/09/canada-erin-otoole-conservative-party-cpc/

And, as Trudeau has reconvened Parliament, he's promised something genuinely amazing: a massive, national stimulus package meant to keep families, workers and small businesses afloat through the looming second pandemic wave.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-canada-economy/canada-bets-the-farm-on-big-spending-as-second-wave-threatens-economic-recovery-idUSKCN26F1NF

This is something Canada - and the US, for that matter - desperately needs. Canada is monetarily sovereign: it issues its own currency and its debt is in the same currency, meaning it can never run out of money (no more than Apple could ever run out of Itunes gift cards).

The Canadian DOES face constraints on its spending, but they're just not MONETARY constraints - they're RESOURCE constraints. If the Canadian government creates money to buy the same things the private sector is shopping for, there'll be a bidding war, AKA inflation.

But as a new wave of lockdowns and mass illness looms over the country, there's going to be a hell of a lot of things the private sector isn't trying to buy - notably, the labour of the Canadian workforce, millions of whom will be locked indoors through the winter.

An analyst warns that Trudeau's proposal is likely to add CAD30B to the deficit, which is a completely irrelevant fact unless that new money is going to be chasing the same goods that Canadian business and citizens are seeking to buy.

Trudeau has promised to create a national prescription drug plan (a longstanding hole in Canada's national health care system), as well as universal childcare, and he's denounced austerity as a response to the crisis.

There's a part of me that is very glad to see this. My family and friends are in Canada, after all, and if Trudeau lives up to his promise, he will shield them from the collapse we're seeing in the USA.

But that is a BIG if. Trudeau isn't Harper. He's more charismatic, he's got better hair, and he says much, much better things than Harper.

However, when the chips are down, Trudeau out-Harpers Harper.

Mass surveillance legislation. Corruption scandals. Lying about corruption scandals. Bailing out the pipeline. "No country would find 173 billion barrels of oil in the ground and leave them there." Abandoning asylum-seekers to Trump's lawless regime.

"Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action." It would be pretty naive to assume that merely because Trudeau has promised to do the right thing, that he will do the right thing.

Indeed, if history is any indicator, the best way to predict what Trudeau will do is to assume that it will be the OPPOSITE of whatever he promises.

I won't lie. I felt a spark of hope when I read Trudeau's words.

But hope is all I've got - and it's a far cry from confidence.

Or relief.

[studentprotests]

“Erin O’Toole will fight harder for gun lobbies than he will for women”..

From courting anti-choice special interest groups to voting for a bill that sought to criminalize causing injury or death to a “preborn child,” the Conservative leader’s record is sketchy.

https://cultmtl.com/2021/09/erin-otoole-will-fight-harder-for-gun-lobbies-than-he-will-for-women-marc-miller/

[sugarmountainspring]

It's funny that they're making all the canadian politicians speak in French in this budget update. I can't imagine Erin otoole has ever spoken a word of French in his life

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Conservative leader Erin O’Toole claims his platform will “secure pensions” for Canadian workers, but labour groups say the platform is light on details and contradicted by O’Toole’s past efforts to allow employers to cut pensions.

Last month, O’Toole’s Conservatives announced they will “change the law so that when a company goes bankrupt or is being restructured, workers come first — not corporate elites.”

But the Canadian Labour Congress says O’Toole is speaking “out of both sides of his mouth on pensions.” The CLC warns the Conservative platform actually proposes changes to bankruptcy rules that may make pension funds at bankrupt companies less reliable.

Continue Reading.

Tagging: @politicsofcanada