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Damn whitey. They should have voted for the gay transgender black lady that was running for the position...
Patrick Brown Elected Head of Provincial Conservatives
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There's schadenfreude around.
I wish they would pick someone electable to lead the party, I could consider voting for them then. There seems to be a complete denial in the party the people want a fiscally conservative but socially moderate party.
+1...
Exactly my thoughts... John Tory was this guy but after he scuttled his own election with the stupid school thing they seemed to think they had to go further right to get elected.
This is like Hudak 2.0... To Patrick Brown's credit he seems to know how to gladhand and build up party membership. Mind you, this is probably part of the reason he has a horrible attendance record in Parilament:
http://www.citynews.ca/2015/05/09/b...-ontario-progressive-conservative-leadership/
"Brown started building a new Progressive Conservative party by selling 41,000 memberships — well over half the 76,500 total"
http://thebrownretort.blogspot.ca/2014/12/patrick-brown-has-third-worst-vote.html
"According to Hansard, Barrie MP Patrick Brown has missed 38 recorded votes held in the House of Commons since Parliament resumed in September, giving Brown the third worst vote attendance record for the fall session in the 161-member Conservative caucus.
Of the two Conservative MPs who attended fewer votes than Brown, one is a cabinet minister who underwent surgery and another is a fellow backbencher who missed just one more vote than Brown."
"During Brown's three-week long period of missed votes, some of the reasons for his failure to vote on behalf of his Barrie constituents include participating in the November 24th Ontario PC Party leadership candidates debate in Sudbury and appearing on television on to discuss his provincial leadership
campaign."
Oops... You're correct. I had misread that when I first read some articles. Wowsa... Interesting that the Fords supported Elliot considering that she was fairly moderate and who I had skin in the game for.
Ha! Clever
Getting elected to fix Hudak's mess would be like being chosen to steer the Titanic a nano second before it hit the iceberg. It would go on your record as being in charge. I think they're just picking a front man to fill the gap while they try to sort out the backroom problems.
I had to Wiki that, but looking at his other accomplishments and comparing it to his successors like Miller and Harris I still think he was one of the best for that Party. Anyways, he was before my time, I didn't start voting until the early 90's and it was never PC's.
Maybe they're aware enough of the toxicity of their name, and were trying to scuttle her leadership bid?
How old were you back then?
I still don't like Trudeau for being the "Father of our Debt".
He started this whole buy now, let your children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren pay later thing, that passes as Liberal fiscal policy.
Now we've become a have-not Province.
Fuddle Duddle.
Some have-not province. I see a lot of very expensive cars and homes.
You need to ride outside of Rosedale more often.
http://business.financialpost.com/f...ovince-it-has-changed-its-tune-and-wants-more
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equalization_payments_in_Canada
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All paid for with ever-increasing levels of debt...
Some consider Trudeau's economic policies to have been a weak point. Inflation and unemployment marred much of his tenure as prime minister. When Trudeau took office in 1968 Canada had a debt of $18 billion (24% of GDP) which was largely left over from World War II, when he left office in 1984, that debt stood at $200 billion (46% of GDP), an increase of 83% in real terms.[SUP][99][/SUP] However, these trends were present in most western countries at the time, including the United States.
See where it dips to the lowest point and then almost triples percentage-wise, and over ten times in billions of dollars?
That was Trudeau. Nobody else wanted to try and deal with it after that.
Edit: (looks like one of our references is off, as they don't match each other
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Too bad Preston never took office, we'd be laughing now.
See where it dips to the lowest point and then almost triples percentage-wise, and over ten times in billions of dollars?
That was Trudeau. Nobody else wanted to try and deal with it after that.
Edit: (looks like one of our references is off, as they don't match each other
)Too bad Preston never took office, we'd be laughing now.
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I see 2 lowering trend segments, both under liberal governments
i see a major upward trend segment from mid-80s to mid-90s, under conservative governments.
