You might want to have a closer look at that magazine. I just read an article the other day about a poll regarding ''likability'' and Harper had the highest dislike rate at, I think it was 53%. On the likeable scale Trudeau was at 43% and Harper at 29%.
Of course this begs the question........do you trust someone you don't like? I can't speak for anyone else but I sure don't.
As for the NDP, they were way behind Trudeau.
Next election should be ...............interesting.
Yes, Mr Harper is still the most trusted!
I'd sit down and talk to just about anyone, but my criteria for a politician is someone who has compassion for others that does not come from having a problem pointed out to him so he is forced to do something, or the compassion being used for some political purpose.
"Liberals are flirting with majority territory at the present"
Frankly, I just do not see it.
Yes there is and will continue to be growing dissatisfaction with Harper, his Cabinet and policies. However, It may take more than one election to get Trudeau into power, if ever.
While Harper will lose his majority, the vote splitting between the NDP and Liberals and an increase in Bloc support in Quebec in 2015 may allow him to form a minority government for a few months, maybe a year. Then the Conservatives, under a new leader, will be kicked out of of power for a long time, as they were after Mulroney in 1993.
The "wild card" is the economy. If we are experiencing a recession in 2015, Canadians will hold Harper responsible, regardless whether he is or not. It is a question of perception. For years he "sold" himself and his party as the managers of the economy. That "sales pitch" may come back to bite him in the behind.
As always, time will tell.
kbry is a prime example of the people I mentioned in the "Via terror threat" thread.
I will vote Green Party before casting another vote for a conservative candidate
I wish May had more visibility in our political system (one of our weaknesses). She's a smart woman, good ideas, short on agenda though, but worth listening to.
"How smart is May? She took on Peter Mckay 2 electins ago and lost."
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What does that mean?
Are you suggesting that every candidate who ever lost an election is not smart?
Sometimes I really wonder about those Conservatives supporters. Do they really think about what they are posting? Do they understand what they are posting? Does losing an election make you "not smart"?
To follow up on my earlier post, let us take a look at the early career of our Pirme Minister.
Harper became involved in politics as a member of his high school's Young Liberals Club.He later changed his political allegiance because he disagreed with the National Energy Program (NEP) of Pierre Trudeau's Liberal government
He became chief aide to Progressive Conservative MP Jim Hawkes in 1985, but later became disillusioned with both the party and the government of Brian Mulroney, especially the administration's fiscal policy[8] and its inability to fully revoke the NEP until 1986. He left the PC Party that same year
Harper ran for the Canadian House of Commons in the 1988 federal election, appearing on the ballot as Steve Harper in Calgary West. He lost by a wide margin to Hawkes, his former employer.
"He lost by a wide margin"
What does that mean? Smart or not? 😉
I find May has a lot of intelligence and common sense.....but unfortunately not a lot of charisma.
Her main weakness and that of the Green Party (who really need a name change) is lack of notable platform on other areas of government other than environment.
She also has a huge problem that exists not only in Canada, but many other countries.....the media. The media continually control our lives and that includes in the area of politics. As far as they are concerned we have two main parties and one fringe party and no one else is worthy of being heard, which harms our whole system of so-called democracy.
His kids are safe.
For 150 yrs our children were taken away from their/our families by the canadian government:_|
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