Political scientist | International Relations, Political Psychology, Research Methods | Find me watching college football (USC), at the gym, or at the movies.
Montréal, Québec
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Atlantic Division standings via points percentage. You really don’t want to have a losing/winless streak in this division. Crazy competitive.
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Six former Quebec premiers are joining Canada’s Prime Minister, Mark Carney, at the Canada–European Union Summit in Montreal: Jean Charest, Lucien Bouchard, Pierre-Marc Johnson, Philippe Couillard and Christine Fréchette.
They accepted the invitation. They will be at the table.
Canadian and European political leaders, current and former premiers, diplomats, mayors, Indigenous leaders, entrepreneurs, academics, scientists, artists, and union and association representatives are gathered, representing sectors including finance, trade, law, industry, energy, mining, transportation, aerospace, defence, telecommunications, artificial intelligence, education and culture.
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Invitation reçue, invitation acceptée.
Je prends part ce soir à Montréal au souper du Sommet entre le Canada et l’Union européenne.
Malgré la chaise vide du premier ministre, je représenterai le Québec dans le cadre de mes nombreuses discussions avec les invités présents, notamment les représentants de l’Union européenne et du gouvernement fédéral.
Notre position demeure la même, soit une vision nationaliste, fédéraliste et ouverte sur le monde, dans la continuité de la doctrine Gérin-Lajoie.
C’est le type de leadership que nous exerçons au PLQ : bâtir des relations avec nos partenaires économiques, d’ici et d’ailleurs, pour faire avancer le Québec.
#PLQ #PolQc – at Montréal, Québec
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David Cochrane: Are you worried it could deter some possible investment from coming to Canada?
Mélanie Joly: No, serious people abide by the law.
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Encore une fois, PSPP pratique la politique de la chaise vide. Bouder le sommet Canada-UE ne fait pas avancer nos intérêts, il ne fait que reculer le Québec.
Le mandat du PQ est à peine entamé et il est clair que son approche en matière de relations internationales consiste à créer des conflits avec le gouvernement fédéral, plutôt que d’être à la table et de promouvoir les intérêts politiques et économiques du Québec.
Il faut répondre présent. Être absent, c’est être perdant.
#polqc #plq #assnat
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PM Mark Carney "Il (Paul St-Pierre Plamondon) a été invité au dîner, il a refusé."
Au sujet du sommet UE-Canada:
"Nous avons eu trois consultations avec la délégation du Québec, déjà, en ce qui concerne l'accord avec l'UE.
C'est sa décision de laisser une chaise vide, encore."
@PaulPlamondon , allez-vous nous priver, pour créer des chicanes inutiles avec Ottawa, de représentation diplomatique?
Vous auriez pu rencontrer tous les gens importants de l'UE dans les coulisses du dîner, faire des contacts importants pour le Québec, et vous nous en privez?
Le Québec a un besoin criant de diversifier son économie, pas d'un PM qui adopte des positions absolutistes pour mousser l'indépendance du Québec- dont les Québécois ne veulent pas!
Cessez de faire la diva, et gouvernez!
#cdnpoli #polqc
🚨🚨 « C'est sa décision de laisser une chaise vide », dit Mark Carney au sujet de @PaulPlamondon.
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If the PQ's goal is to win a majority, this isn't the right approach.
Given public opinion polling and the election results, demonstrating an ability to make gains for Quebec by working with Ottawa is the best way to gain votes.
Petty performance politics will alienate voters.
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Virtually all of the slopulist right "influencers" in Canada were on Team One BC, which won 1% of the vote.
They set their hair on fire when the BC Conservatives decided to stabilize themselves as a mainstream centre-right party at the beginning of the campaign.
As with the Alberta referendum, this is yet more evidence that these so-called influencers have no influence, and should be broadly ignored by sensible, principled Canadian conservatives.
A lot of the recent drama on the right in BC came from a crazy right populist splinter party, @One_BCHQ.
Made up of self styled “real conservatives” with the usual assortment of weird obsessions & conspiracy theories: vaccines, ostrich farms, chem trails, xenophobia, MAGA North, all communicated with the volume nob stuck on 10.
Basically the BC counterpart of hard core Alberta separatist activists, or Bernier’s @peoplespca.
Tonight they’re at 1.4% of the vote, after two years of being a hugely divisive distraction on the right of BC politics.
Yet another reminder to Conservative parties: ignore the crazy fringe of the hard populist right. Don’t let the tail wag the dog. Let them stay in their little fringe parties.
Being a principled conservative party does not mean pandering to incoherent, perennially angry populism. Instead, propose bold, thoughtful policy reforms rooted in conservative principles that appeal to the broad mainstream. Just like the @Conservative_BC did in this winning campaign.
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In one day, two politicians - Bolsonaro in Brazil and Vucic in Serbia - with ties to Trump and his family have lost surprise elections, thanks to high turnout. The rise of the international far-right is not inevitable.
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I look forward to to hearing how the “blame NATO” camp explains this:
Russian President Vladimir Putin cited genetics to declare that Russians and Ukrainians are “one people” and reiterated his claim to Ukrainian territory, saying: “I think that it is not their territory but the historical territory of Russia.” wapo.st/48aZaZF
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Have you noticed how quiet some of the so-called conservative influencers have been about the Conservative victory in British Columbia?
No applause. No celebration.
Some even went so far as to call the B.C. Conservatives “left-wing.”
You would think people who champion conservatism would welcome a Conservative victory.
It makes you wonder: is their enthusiasm driven by conservative principles, or does it require a paycheque?
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Rick, your president practically kisses Putin’s ass. Maybe sit out the lectures on dictators.
Canada is lost. This is what the Left does. Socialism at home is never enough.
By embracing Communist China, and now Turkey, PM Carney has turned his back on America & made clear that Canada sides with dictators, terrorists & thugs who threaten the security of the U.S. & sovereignty of our allies.
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Turkey is a NATO ally of both the United States and Canada since 1952. Official Canadian statements describe the new Strategic Partnership with Türkiye as deepening cooperation between the two NATO allies on trade, energy, defence and security.
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Is there not a single person in the Administration who can quietly say to him:
“Ah, excuse me, Mr. President:
- the Canadian trade surplus with us is actually $46 billion, not $90 billion.
- their trade surplus with us is only because we buy $110 billion of oil & gas from them, and we’re getting it at a 30% discount!
- without the cheap oil we get from Canada, we run a goods & services trade surplus of $66 billion against them.
- So actually we’re “ripping off” those dumb Canadians by $66 billion, and getting their oil at bargain basement prices to boot! You should go out there and take credit! We’re winning! It’s proof that your USMCA is in fact “the single greatest trade agreement ever signed,” like you said back in 2018!
- maybe we shouldn’t push the Canadians too far, because they sell us 22% of the oil we use, and 2/3rds of the oil we import.
- even before Ukraine started that war over there by refusing to become a Russian vassal state, the Canadians were selling us ten times more oil than Russia.
- our candidates in the Northern border states are telling us that our tariffs and attacks on Canada are landing like a lead balloon.
- how about we move the focus to Communist China instead? For some reason, our voters seem to think that Canada is a friendly ally, but China is an adversary that has been screwing us over on trade for decades.
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Canada itself doesn’t need this label. It’s a distraction.
Just focus on the pursuing the actual cooperation across a range of areas, and invent a label to describe the relationship later – or don’t label it at all.
Germany, France and at least six other EU countries are pushing against “associate membership” as the name for closer EU ties with Canada, six diplomats involved in the negotiations said. vist.ly/5pmj8
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Carney did not vote no on “affordability”. He voted no to a loaded resolution worded to guarantee a no vote. Instead of making a valid point about the need to rein in federal deficits, as did the PBO, all you guys appear to be able to do is spew childish partisan propaganda.
How can Liberals fix an economy drowning in red ink if they refuse to even ADMIT there's a problem?
Mark Carney voted NO on affordability. Higher taxes. More red tape. Completely out-of-touch.
Conservatives have a COMMON SENSE plan:
☑️ Extend the federal fuel tax holiday!
☑️ Scrap the industrial carbon tax!
☑️ Cut wasteful spending!
Conservative MP (who spent 30 years in mainstream media) clarifies that he is unaware that journalists are supposed to report facts (Carney is going to Turkey to diversify trade) and doesn't know what "diversify trade" means.
I spent 30 years in the mainstream media, including in radio, TV, newspapers,and magazines, I’m embarrassed by CTV national talking about Mark Carney, going to Turkey “to diversify our trade” away from the United States. Do you think Turkey will buy 1.5 million Ontario-made vehicles the USA currently buys annually? What a joke. Whatever happened to good journalism in this country?
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These are not transfers from the US, but from other countries. The US is now actively sabotaging Ukrainian defense of civilians.
Breaking news: The Trump administration has not approved the transfer of interceptor missiles to Ukraine that are needed to protect the country from Russian attacks, officials said, a delay that comes as President Trump has embraced Russia in recent weeks. wapo.st/4yCb7T7
