This is reasonable. The push among some to make it permanent is self-defeating. It only hurts the cause.
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Jason Kenney tho
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I canât say much about it but Iâm starting some work helping look for indigenous graves at residential schools. Will be very interesting but difficult. Working in collaboration with a few indigenous communities which will be so rewarding but tough.
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Needs to get it in before the delta wave shuts everything down again
The poll, commissioned by Torstar and conducted by Mainstreet Research over two days this week, found 65 per cent of respondents think this is not a good time to have an election.
Across Canada, support for an election was lowest in British Columbia, with 75 per cent of respondents opposed, and highest in the Prairies, where 48 per cent said now is the time for a federal campaign. Opinion was closer to the national average in Ontario, where 67 per cent oppose an election call, with 34 per cent in favour.
Imagine if US presidential campaigns were min 36/max 50 days.
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Bleh. In just two years is too soon. Whatâs the point? Weâre going to have a referendum on the way Trudeau handled the pandemic while the pandemic is still happening?
This feels kind of pointless. I canât imagine that the Cons are going to make any progress - they had 34% of the popular vote last election and I would guess that doesnât change much. Their belief system provides literally zero help to people and weâre in the middle of the most trying time in peopleâs lives where they most desperately needed help from the government. The anti vaxxer / anti science crowd might even run to Bernier because heâs the most vocal. The NDP might pick up some seats, their story plays well in a crisis and they offer real help to people that have lost their jobs and been devastated by the pandemic economically.
Yea, no one wants an election. If the Cons and NDP werenât so terrible this could backfire on the Liberals.
Clearly just an attempt at a majority government because NDP and PC are so weak, and his worst case scenario is another minority. But letâs hope for a sweet summer child scenario like
Although the Peterson government, and Peterson himself, were very popular,[1] he was accused of opportunism in calling an election just three years into his mandate. In a shocking upset, the New Democratic Party, led by Bob Rae, won a majority government.
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That is the point. Everything is going to end up the same and the libs are drawing live to majority. Trudeau wants to seal his power.
Jagmeet is super likeable. Maybe he can get AOC to do another twitch stream with him, and throw in a few top streamers who appeal to the youth and would love the AOC-driven traffic. xQc and Shroud and Pokimane are even Canadian.
The problem is the youth who like him donât vote. 
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Trying to turn out the young vote doesnât have a great track record as a strategy. Its worth pursuing, but if I were the NDP I wouldnât put all my eggs in that basket. They should go HARD at parents. Thats a motivated voting block that could probably be persuaded that they didnât get enough help in the pandemic (even if in all fairness that is probably the provincial governmentsâ fault, not Ottawa).
On policy this election should be a good one for the NDP. The pandemic makes it crystal clear why we need the big sweeping health and labor protections they advocate for. But elections arenât won on policy. There are lots of racist Quebecers that would be target NDP voters but will never vote for a brown guy in a turban. There are lots of blue collar workers that should be NDPers but are caught up in culture war stuff and will vote Conservative or Deplorable. I like Jagmeet so I would love to be wrong.
Last election the NDP barely ran a candidate on my riding. They didnât have a single sign I saw, no website.
Where is that?
Winnipeg South riding
Looking at the Wikipedia page it seems like the Cons and the NDP conceded that riding last election. They both spent about a third of what they spent in 2015.
From paywalled article in the Star
Ahead of Prime Minister Justin Trudeauâs decision to call a snap election for Sept. 20, public relations firm Navigator Ltd. canvassed voters about their impressions of the federal leaders. The overall results of the Discover by Navigator survey suggest that Canadians donât much care for them, and certainly donât trust them.
Conservative Erin OâToole fared the poorest among the federal leaders on Navigatorâs âtrust scoreâ metric, with a net negative score of -38, while Trudeau scored -11 and New Democratic Party Leader Jagmeet Singh came in at -3.
The score is calculated by subtracting the percentage of respondents who had âlittle/no trustâ in a leader from the percentage who said they trust a leader âa lot/some.â Bloc QuĂ©bĂ©cois Leader Yves-Francois Blanchet led the pack â albeit only among voters in Quebec â with a score of +9. (The survey did not give a âtrustâ score to Green Leader Annamie Paul.)