Nanos poll, which has consistently shown Tories ahead, has switched to Liberals 34% -Conservatives 32%. Gun issue seems to have hurt O’Toole, as well as covidiots protesting against Trudeau- today chucking gravel at him.
Although the statist media provided almost zero coverage to Bernier getting egged.
I think i speak on behalf of all taiwanese when i say we would very much like to see photos of canadian politicians getting gravel and eggs thrown at them… it would, if nothing else, make us in taiwan feel like our bunch of morons arent alone in the criminally insane section of government related retards.
Conservatives in front by 2%, 34%-32%, last debate tonight, Liberals still in line for most seats- maybe.
A beer says libs win minority.
About 34%-32% for Conservatives, with Libs set to win most seats- and Explant has a pretty safe bet. You’d have to have more partisanship than sense to take that wager. Still, stranger things have happened.
Apparently last night’s debate moderators were pretty universally condemned as disasters.
I liked them. None of the candidates wanted to stir shit up–they were too polite and Canadian.
Mods were the only shit raisers. 
Maybe they should be the candidates!
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No. Not everything needs to be honest cringy reality show.
Guess i wont be making many beer wages this round, dang.
I guess I’ll wager that beer on a plurality of seats going to the conservatives.
Make it fun!
I voted.
You’re on 
I don’t usually give credit to the Greens, but Paul deserves credit for questioning Golden Boy’s feminist credentials after how he treated Wilson-Raybould.
Please Advise! Who Won the Debate? | The Tyee
Former justice minister Wilson-Raybould’s tell-all book on SNC-Lavalin affair not likely to swing voters: Experts (msn.com)
Have Canadians wearied of Trudeau’s vapid wokeness? | Washington Examiner
The Americans understand Canada rather better than the CBC
Canada’s public discourse is the wokest in the world. (Well, English-speaking Canada, at any rate. French Canadians have less of a problem with blood-and-soil nationalism.) Yet even in that vast, sparse, gorgeous land, there are limits. It was Trudeau’s father, Pierre, who, as prime minister between 1968 and 1984 (with a short intermission) created a United Nations-compliant, social-democratic, pantywaist Canada that defined itself in opposition to the United States. It was he who stepped back from the alliance of English-speaking democracies and opened relations with Red China and Fidel Castro’s Cuba. It was he who unleashed the doctrine of “multiculturalism” on the world.
Before Trudeau père , there was another Canada — a huge and empty land that attracted only the most self-reliant settlers, a country whose immigration policy depended on keeping the tax rate below America’s so as to compensate for the rougher climate, a country that was the bravest of allies and the deadliest of foes. Has that older Canada, the Canada of Juno Beach, been forgotten? We’ll find out on Monday.
We got healthcare and they got the Vietnam war 
So did Kissinger, and Reagan
Now Canada has no problem getting skilled immigrants from all over the world… because it is such a great country in so many ways
Countries change over generations, the Canadians at Juno Beach were different people and are mostly dead now. At the same time, Canadian soldiers have recently been recognized as punching above their weight in places like Afghanistan (though not Iraq, a good call was made to stay out of there by JC).
I’m no fan of the wokeness, but this excerpt is a bit silly.
Only 176 special ballot kits issued to Canadians in Taiwan. That’s appalling.
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Maybe I am being too pro-Canadian here and hate to quote eugenics-supporting socialist NDPer Tommy Douglas 
, but perhaps the CLIT (Canadians Living in Taiwan) see the choice between the two major parties as Tweedledum vs. Tweedledee!!!
They should spoil their ballots then. Spoiled ballots are counted.
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They could vote NDP, Green, or the Nut-Job Party (PPC).
Told this before, but in 1988 I was travelling through Malaysia. There were US presidential elections, and the local English media was full of ads from the US government, urging Americans to do their patriotic duty and vote.
Canada had an election a couple of weeks later, so I went into the Canadian High Commission to do my duty and requested a ballot. After a few flustered consultations, they told me it would take a while, as I was the first Canadian travelling through to request one.
Thats sad. But all canadians grow up knowing we dont want to be as US culture is, but we respect their patriotism even if we dont agree with their views.
As such, voting is a privelage AND a right.
I feel Canada is too defensive on this, and despite coming from an old-school (and Ed Broadbent supporting) Alberta family growing up in the 80s, was glad that Albertan views on the US are a little more balanced and moderate than the rest of Canada.
Sure, we are not Americans, but often we use topics such as health care or CBC type of defenses to justify our uniqueness. To me constructing a nationalism on what we are not is a slippery slope.
Most countries have government sponsored health, including the US. Is the quality of the CBC so high as to promote so extensively? If I am proud to be Canadian, it is not because of the health coverage or CBC. It is because of the Asian influences of British Columbia (foodies should love Richmond), the beauty of the Rockies or Tofino, the Western pride of the Calgary Stampede, the diversity, watching our compatriots get busted for drugs overseas 
, etc. The US has such pluses as well. Don’t need to knock one country to put yourself up. My family owned property in Hawaii and have enjoyed living there too. Too much US bashing reeks of the stench of being insecure. And so many Canadians are insecure on that front I think. Canadian politicians that understood the US included Rene Levesque. He holidayed there extensively, served in the US army during WW2.
And the ultimate libertarian right is the right not to vote. In this election, for the first time in decades, I will exercise that right.
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