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Running a winning campaign is hard enough. @katy_merrifield was named BC Conservative campaign manager the day the writ dropped, with a new leader and a party still finding its footing.
Most campaign managers have to fly the plane. Katy had to build it while flying it.
And still won.
An extraordinary achievement.
1928. The last time BC Conservatives formed government.
1935. The last time Quebec Conservatives won seats. They now hold 19.
Conservatives are set to govern 7 of Canada's 10 provinces.
It's a remarkable provincial political map, and quite the contrast with Ottawa.
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Fred DeLorey: "I would put down a flag right now, the United Conservatives are pro-Canada party. If you're not pro-Canada, get out of the party. It should be as simple as that. Will it be? We'll see."
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Fred DeLorey: "All of these separatist 'leaders,' not a single one of them have been elected to anything. Go put your name on a ballot. Try to become an MLA. Try to create the movement through a democratic process. You had your chance. It failed."
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But Elbows Up.
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A great read from @FredDeLorey with a Nova Scotia angle that most readers wouldn't be familiar with.
This week, Alberta’s secessionist movement didn’t just lose. It was humiliated.
I wrote about the sheer political incompetence of this movement for the @TorontoStar. Anger isn't a strategy, and this was never a serious political machine.
thestar.com/opinion/contribu…
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Alberta separatists didn’t just lose. They were humiliated. This is why, @FredDeLorey writes thestar.com/opinion/contribu…
Find out more at nationalnewswatch.com
This week, Alberta’s secessionist movement didn’t just lose. It was humiliated.
I wrote about the sheer political incompetence of this movement for the @TorontoStar. Anger isn't a strategy, and this was never a serious political machine.
thestar.com/opinion/contribu…
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Wrote about @FredDeLorey's point a few months back.
Incredibly effective ad.
We launched this right in the middle of the Liberal convention when I was CPC DComm.
I was in the room and got to watch Rae's momentum deflate in real time.
Ah, Bob Rae! Thanks for the opportunity to re-up one of the best ads I've ever made!
Others are better known, but this was one of my favourites:
youtube.com/watch?v=aXlNVvAH…
100%. Brock was the shield in Upper Canada, and Captain Joseph Barss of Nova Scotia was the sword at sea. Local privateers crushed US maritime trade and secured our eastern borders. Our country would not exist today if we were not successful on both fronts
Terrible take.
Canada’s history did not start in 1867.
We never would have gotten to 1867 if we had not prevailed against the Yankee invaders in the War of 1812, thanks to Brock’s inspired, sacrificial leadership at Queenston Heights.
There’s a reason why every Canadian school kid for generations revered the memory of Brock as a national hero, the same reason why the Harper government did so much to celebrate the bicentenary of the War of 1812.
It was our fight to determine our future under the Crown, free from American threats and expansionism. A future true to the Loyalists’ vision of ordered liberty; to the distinctive society of the French Canadians; and one in which First Nations were respected partners.
All of those groups came together to defend their homes, and yes, the Crown as the symbol of Canada’s model of unity in diversity.
So if you’re grateful for being Canadian, spare a thought for our fallen hero Sir Isaac Brock, “our gallant patriarch.”
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In the fall of 2005, I was working as a political reporter in Ottawa. It was starting to really bother me that I couldn't understand what Gilles Duceppe was saying, and so I should learn French. 1/3
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I’m back up on the #PoliticalPulse panel tonight but Mel is off, with @NDPAnne in with @FredDeLorey and I - coming up next hour via @PnPCBC
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Know him. He's a likable guy. ca.news.yahoo.com/conservati…
It’s well documented the BC NDP is struggling in the air war, but failing to run a full slate shows the ground game is cracking too.
When the governing party can't get a full slate on the ballot, the machine is straining from top to bottom.
NEW - The @bcndp say they were unable to field a full slate of candidates in their own snap election.
92 of 93 ridings.
The party did not get the paperwork complete for Peace River North, where @JordanKealyPRN is running as an independent.
The @BCConservCaucus nominated 93 candidates.
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LE PQ VOULAIT UNE RENCONTRE AVEC L’ADMINISTRATION TRUMP
Plus tôt cette semaine, Paul St-Pierre Plamondon était catégorique : ni lui ni personne au Parti québécois n’avait cherché à rencontrer l’administration Trump.
Ses mots : « aucun contact, aucune tentative » pour rencontrer le gouvernement de Donald Trump.
Or, selon le Département d’État américain, le PQ avait cherché à obtenir une rencontre avec des responsables du gouvernement américain à Washington — donc avec des représentants de l’administration Trump.
Autrement dit, d’un côté, PSPP affirme qu’il n’y a eu aucun contact, aucune tentative avec l’administration Trump.
De l’autre, le gouvernement américain de Donald Trump dit qu’une rencontre avait été recherchée.
Deux versions qui ne concordent pas.
À deux jours du vote, la question est simple : qui dit vrai sur les démarches du PQ auprès de l’administration Trump?
Les Québécois ont droit à une réponse claire.
montrealgazette.com/quebec-e…
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This story is wild.
If you’re tempted to vote for separation to “send a message,” please read it.
The only “message” your vote will send will be one of credibility and encouragement for the absolute loons profiled here.
As the story shows, they can’t even get along with each other. Imagine these keystone cops trying to negotiate secession while running a $400 billion economy.
These bootlickers went to Washington with no mandate from anyone. They offered to give away our water, rights to our oil, and ultimately our sovereignty to a foreign power.
As the story reveals, a bunch of them want to turn Alberta into some weird extension of the Christian nationalist wing of MAGA.
We *do* need to vote to send a message: that their campaign to collude with a foreign power, turn us against one another, and destroy our country ends decisively on October 19.
A Michigan delegation travelled to Calgary to sell separatists on software developed for Republicans to get out the vote – and how it could be used to wrench Alberta from Confederation.
For David Parker, an organizer for Alberta separation, the software was the path to victory – one that ultimately resulted in a massive privacy breach involving the sensitive personal data of nearly three million Albertans.
But Parker’s embrace of the Michigan delegation is evidence of a pattern: separatist factions in Alberta eager to engage the U.S. in their plans for secession, and American actors willing to assist, either privately or openly.
Through interviews with The Globe on both sides of the border, people involved in politics, the corporate sector and Alberta’s pursuit of separatism have described persistent efforts by figures in the U.S. administration and conservative political establishment to support groups seeking American expansionism and independence for Alberta.
theglobeandmail.com/canada/a…
