Brian Pallister stepped down earlier this month, triggering a leadership vote on Oct. Former MP Shelly Glover and Health Minister Heather Stefanson are the only candidates to qualify for the leadership contest. Woman in office: Manitoba will soon have its first female premier, Global reports. Obama backs JT: Barack Obama endorsed Trudeau on Thursday, but that might not have much impact, professors tell the Post.
Hope is much longer term, is much more optimistic and it builds confidence, builds our country.” “I wish other leaders, especially Liberals, don’t use fear as a factor,” Chow said in Toronto-Danforth. Hope, not fear: Pre-emptively countering a similar argument from the Liberals, Olivia Chow urged people to vote with hope, not fear as she campaigned with Jagmeet Singh in her late husband’s former riding, CTV reports. Prince Max may as well be crowning Trudeau King. Voting for Maxime Bernier and his People’s Party will only give us Justin Trudeau as PM. Without an extra boost of support at the ballot box, Trudeau will be Prime Minister once again. Prince Max: In the Sun, Brian Lilley warns that anyone thinking about voting for Maxime Bernier will only help Trudeau stay in office. But while there are good reasons to grant Trudeau an extension to his six years as prime minister, there are equally strong justifications to vote against giving him a third term in office.
Now, at best, there is passive enthusiasm for Trudeau to remain in power and that is tainted by widespread fury-driven loathing of the Liberal leader on this campaign, which is hard to fathom given his two difficult years in the pandemic hot seat. Hard to decide: CTV’s Don Martin lists good reasons to vote either for or against Trudeau. The parties remain in statistical tie, according to Nanos. Whither the dial? Will the terrible news out of Alberta give the Liberals a boost in the last days of a tight election campaign? Only time will tell. Not when he’s this close to securing the future. The words “Alberta” and “Jason” and “Kenney” will not come out of his mouth. Jason Kenney won’t take this day away from him. O’Toole stares into the camera, steeled to push ahead. Not today Jason Kenney, not today: In Maclean’s, Marie-Danielle Smith amusingly reimagines the Conservative leader’s New Brunswick newser. That’s at the heart of the choice Canadians need to make in this election.” O’Toole was still applauding Kenney for his management of the pandemic. Liberals pounce: Justin Trudeau, who has sought to frame the election around the question of pandemic management, pointed to O’Toole’s past praise for Kenney’s pandemic management, CBC reports.
No sane leader would keep them a second longer than necessary, when the key to popularity is lifting measures once and for all. No politician in Canada wants permanent COVID-19 restrictions. Trash politics: Veteran Calgary Herald columnist Don Braid gives it to Kenney with both barrels. Deena Hinshaw to step down from their respective roles have increased exponentially,” 660News reports. Resign: As Alberta’s ICUs have filled up, “calls for Jason Kenney, Tyler Shandro, and Dr. I am truly sorry, but even more wracked by sadness for the collateral impact on other vulnerable Albertans.” Richard Gotfried said: “I am deeply apologetic that my persistent efforts and unequivocal internal advocacy have now proven to have lacked the required urgency. Grilled in N.S.: O’Toole was later campaigning in Nova Scotia, where he got a good grilling from ATV’s Steve Murphy.ĭeeply apologetic: One member of Kenney’s caucus was more forthcoming than O’Toole, saying on Facebook late Wednesday that his government’s inaction “will cost us lives,” CBC reports. All provinces have shifted and adjusted based on various reasons.” O’Toole, who won the CPC leadership with the help of a Kenney endorsement, repeatedly dodged questions: “Throughout this crisis, all the provinces have tried to make the balance between making public health paramount and balancing off the economic needs. In Saint John, N.B., on Thursday, Erin O’Toole declined to say if he still thinks Jason Kenney-who declared a public health emergency on Wednesday-has handled the pandemic better than the federal government, CTV reports. Sign up to get it delivered straight to your inbox in the morning. Welcome to a sneak peek of the Maclean’s Politics Insider newsletter.