Progressive Canadian (PC Party) candidate-of-record, Deputy Leader; former Progressive Conservative BC Policy Advisory Committee; student of history of science.
Representing the Progressive Canadian party (PC Party on the ballot)
@PCParty1867
, I will be attending the Elections Canada ACPP workshop, June 5, 2018, on the new PESC digital portal and, June 6
#PROC
meeting as a panel witness contributor on Bill
#C76
,
#ElectoralReform
.
#cdnpoli
@stephen_taylor
Can
@PierrePoilievre
be arrested for sedition now? Why delay the inevitable.
Is that what you mean? We knew you did.
But in a democracy we investigate first, arrest and press charges if necessary. But you may be right, why delay the inevitable.
Kinder to replace him soon.
@CBCAdrianH
Should journalists who use "our platforms" for paid political third party advocacy be subject to the same Elections Canada scrutiny as other third party advocates? More than just journalistic ethics, it may also be at odds with the Canada Elections Act. Issues will arise or not.
@northern500
@_scottreid
We in the West, western Canada not the Reform Party in the
#CPC
, do not see contempt for western Canada. We see integrity and policy we may not always agree with sacrificed in the national interest and democracy when threatened by partisan movement politics.
#GMButts
#cdnpoli
@jasonhickel
If Guardian writers understood the error of motivated narratives half as well as they misunderstand colonial and other history, the Guardian would be a better paper.
Smart and motivated is not intelligence. But it should be.
@guardian
@markstrahl
@PierrePoilievre
At the end of the day, CPC becomes the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada in leadership, policy, and policy direction or it becomes unelectable permanently.
There is no going back to 2003-2015 when Canadians thought they were voting Tory but elected Reform.
#cpc
#cdnpoli
@TheHubCanada
@jerryamernic
Our monarchy and the royal family are essential to Canada's and Canadian identity. The importance is cultural, political, and constitutional. Parliament is the Queen, an Upper House styled the Senate, and Commons.
Time for Canadians to end deference to American mythology.
@AndrewScheer
Deceit seems to be Andrew's fav: the cost of the PM's security detail is a constant & claiming an "illegal" vacation occurred is risible;
#OmarKhadr
is a
#Canadian
victim, not a terrorist, tortured and imprisoned while
#Harper
's
#CPC
did nothing.
#cdnpoli
It is time to bring an end to McCullam's Folley, the Surrey Police Service (
@surreyps
) and union (
@surreypolunion
). Both have made misleading claims about the Surrey RCMP detachment (
@SurreyRCMP
) and policing in
#SurreyBC
.
#Surrey
residents and Canadians deserve better.
#bcpoli
@CBCAdrianH
It is not up to journalists to insist what issues are the "existential issues of" our time. Writers who see that as their mission are not journalists but commentators. You have established yourself as an advocate. That's fine. The issues are important. But be up front.
@liberal_party
The list of things that "the plan and the team" did wrong: causing harm to Canadians is long, from "Because it's 2015" appointments of the incompetent leading to scandal and abuse, degrading our institutions, to legalizing drug abuse, enabling drug trade, to empowering racism.
@TheHubCanada
Actually no.
@TheHubCanada
is a voice of the American oxymoron "conservative movement" which conspired to remove actual conservatives, Progressive Conservatives, from the ballot and pursue Reform's provincialism, continentalism, and neoconservatism as tribe and ideology.
#cdnpoli
@davidakin
@Bill_Morneau
Conflict of interest, if it exists (certainly not proven), is one thing; income not so much unless jealousy is the political lever.
#cdnpoli
At the end of the day, CPC becomes the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada in leadership, policy, and policy direction or it becomes unelectable permanently. There is no going back to 2003-2015 when Canadians thought they were voting Tory but elected Reform.
#CPCldr
#cdnpoli
@Sean_Speer
@acoyne
Irrational, arguably incitement to violence, opinion by
@CPC_HQ
Reform Party drone/castrati in favour of populist demagoguery opposed to the rule of law while pretending the "Conservative Party" is the Progressive Conservatives some are misled to believe is in parliament.
#cdnpoli
@AndrewScheer
Andrew, it is time for you to resign your seat in the House of Commons. It is also time for you to acknowledge publicly that your party is the Reform Party and is in no sense entitled to the words
#Canadian
,
#conservative
and
#Tory
.
#cdnpoli
@JayShams
The present collapse of the US presidency is because the office is a political office, chosen by partisan election but seeking standing as cultural and constitutional head of state like our Queen and constitutional monarch, but instead a republic's presidential tyranny.
@nytimes
@WSJ
You forgot, in your headline, to mention Zelensky's law degree, personal qualities, parental inspiration by engineer mother and cyber-technologist father. Or the legacy of the Orange Revolution.
@AndrewScheer
@CPC_HQ
By calling for or enacting legislation for less government regulation when in government at the time of the
#LacMegantic
tragedy,
#CPC
responsibility for the loss of lives seems clear. Where is the accountability in this hypocrisy?
#cdnpoli
@jengerson
Fun fact: Improvement of opportunity and wealth generation over generation characterizes most of the last century, including Boomers.
"Intergenerational inequity" is a made-up term used by those who like any social democrat or neocon seeks to identify a problem to assign blame.
@patgagnon_75
Apart from misleading mythology about Tommy Douglas, NDP has contributed what? Rae Days? Social division. Empowerment of corporate unionism as privileged political class. Lets be clear too: dental care is beyond fiscal capacity and like pharmacare is prov jurisdiction.
#onpoli
@NDP
We need less
@NDP
spin. Subsidized housing is not affordable housing by definition. Any party promising to "build" housing is not making housing affordable, it's building public housing because housing isn't affordable.
Tell
@theJagmeetSingh
's
#NDP
to be honest.
#elxn44
#cdnpoli
@TheBreakdownAB
What do True North, The Independent Press Gallery, Civitas Canada, The Alberta Parents Union, The Alberta Institute, The Free Alberta Strategy &...
The Architects of Danielle Smiths Sovereignty Act all have in common?
"the most unconstitutional bill in Canada’s modern history."
@AdamKinzinger
Bringing a gun to anything makes violence more likely, and is itself a threat of violence. Bringing a loaded gun into a democratic institution is violence against that institution and needs to be punishable, if it is not already, as unlawful.
@brianlilley
@JustinTrudeau
As usual, nonsense. As observed by former procedural clerk of the House of Commons,
@ThomasHall17
, prorogation to begin a new session of parliament a year after the legislative agenda was set out in a Speech from the Throne, but upset by unprecedented pandemic, is proper.
#cdnpoli
@AnitaAnandMP
@CanadianForces
That really doesn't make any sense. Nor is it "inclusive." It's divisive, inefficient and unhelpful. People make mistakes. That is the only reason not to call for your resignation.
@JayShams
The Queen, the monarch, distinguishes between the head of state, representing all of the people, the dignified part of government above politics, and defender of the rule of law vs the unchecked temporary political head of government.
@nytimes
After noting she is not a Conservative party member, Campbell suggested she could not vote for the federal Conservatives, in part because she believes climate change is an "existential issue."
So did the Rt. Hon. Brian
#Mulroney
, a Progressive Conservative.
#cdnpoli
Former prime minister Kim Campbell called Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre a "liar and a hate-monger," and suggested she won't vote for his party in the next federal election.
@EmmMacfarlane
The 1974 introduction of party names on the ballot I have always believed was a significant defeat for the independence of MPs and for public understanding of the how our Westminster parliamentary democracy can work to reflect Canada's diversity on issues of space and population.
@historydefined
Photo-shopped? Period cameras required the subject to stand or sit without moving, often braced, for a substantial period of time for portraits. A Union soldier "goofing around while getting his portrait taken" is improbable, I believe.
@AndrewScheer
What is "out of control" is the constant drone of
#CPC
/Reform Party misrepresentations. Reform/CA/
#CPC
agenda? Bankrupt government.
#cdnpoli
@NDP
@theJagmeetSingh
Sadly
#NDP
returning to the class warfare "social democracy" that made them irrelevant. In 2015, it was the old Left hiding beneath the skirts of respectable
@ThomasMulcair
that took them from Official Opposition to the edge of Oblivion, where 2019 may find them.
#elxn43
#cdnpoli
@VancouverSun
Museums in Canada, it seems, are to become instruments of politicization and propaganda, indoctrination rather than education.
Indoctrination is not a substitute for education. The goal of every historian is to describe and understand, not to proselytize and promote.
#bcpoli
@larry_turner
On the contrary, an understanding of history and respect are conservative virtues; "woke" is lazy self-absorption of the knowledge-free anti-intellectual.
A construction worker who reads history and can quote Churchill, Burke, and Voltaire while understanding Marx is educated.
@AndrewScheer
We need a Progressive Conservative government. But that won't happen until the Reform Party, Canadian Reform Conservative Alliance, dreck is put aside.
Neoconservatism, provincialism, continentalism of "new" Conservatives are not principled, are not Tory, not electable.
#cdnpoli
@PnPCBC
Best to recall that this is
@StephenHarper
, the Canadian Reform Conservative Alliance "leader" who, with
@Stockwell_Day
, wrote an
@washingtonpost
op-ed supporting regime change in Iraq & attacked
#Canada
for not supporting the Bush "coalition-of-the-willing" invasion, not peace.
"In response to Campbell’s comments, Poilievre spokesperson Sebastian Skamski told the Star in an email Friday that “Ms. Campbell's political record speaks for itself.”
It does, former Prime Minister
@AKimCampbell
is a Progressive Conservative, not a Reform Party troll.
#cdnpoli
Former prime minister Kim Campbell called Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre a "liar and a hate-monger," and suggested she won't vote for his party in the next federal election.
@PierrePoilievre
Among the achievements of Bill
#C76
, The Elections Modernization Act, amending the Canada Elections Act, was restoring integrity to the electoral system by reversing voter suppression measures introduced as Bill
#C23
by the
#Harper
government.
#cdnpoli
@althiaraj
@Red_Toryism
That about ends any possibility of a
@CPC_HQ
government or Tories (me) ever voting for them this millenium.
#PoilievreforPM
not only misses that prime ministers are MPs with the confidence of parliament as a whole, but that populism leads to demagoguery not democracy.
#cdnpoli
@stephen_taylor
In Canada, the media need to hold the Opposition accountable for their failures when they were government that continue to plague us today.
I wish that were so. Think F-35 fiasco and Leopard IIs without enough spare parts.
@bruceanderson
Conservatives hate the Conservative Party too. It's the Reform Party and unelectable without cultivating a politics of hate or imagining that "progressive" is ideological and an ideological opposite of all they believe in. "Unite-the-Right" resulted in the Reform-Conservatives.
@DanAlbas
Insofar as Stephen Harper's party wanted the F-35 when it was at risk of cancellation by the US Department of Defense (sic) as billions and billions over-budget, years late and years away from near reliability or capability - while I see better choices - you are a hypocrite Dan.
@ctvqp
The Supply and Confidence Agreement achieves nothing.
@liberal_party
knows Ottawa it cannot deliver programmes promised. Provincial jurisdiction and fiscal capacity do not allow it.
@theJagmeetSingh
makes clear
@NDP
is interested in the appearance of relevance, only, to survive.
@DianeMariePosts
You would do well to remember that the
#CPC
has never had any interest in the constitution of
#Canada
, not since its founding in 1987 as the Reform Party. From its founding and from its name change in 2003, the
#CPC
has stood in opposition to the BNA Act, 1867 30-31 Victoria.c3.
@Justin_Ling
Did they have passes as guests of the referenced "Conservative" (read Reform Party) MPs?
When I have presented a brief to parliamentary committee, I was required to go through three levels of security, including body scan and was issued a pass to be worn at all times.
@PierrePoilievre
@acoyne
Point? You squandered eight years of consecutive Liberal surpluses to buy votes with GST & corporate tax cuts - by September 2008!
#cdnpoli
@ErinOTooleMP
It's time for social distancing from the
@CPC_HQ
. When leadership candidates post such shameful images, we know that Prime Minister John Diefenbaker's welcoming image of the "unhyphenated Canadian" is not in their hearts.
#cdnpoli
@AndrewScheer
First, there is no "uncontrolled spending". Second, if you want the
#CPC
to be considered conservative remove the Reform/CA taint.
#cdnpoli
@althiaraj
The
@CPC_HQ
is not Tory, neither is the social intolerance, racism, that characterizes the "new" Conservative Party.
The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, Prime Minister Mulroney and Prime Minister
@RtHonJoeClark
were leaders in fighting racism, apartheid.
#cdnpoli
@richardzussman
So BC Builds is a non-starter. That's disappointing. We need housing, not the return of a political shill for identity politics.
@dave_eby
#bcpoli
Every vote counts in
#FPTP
, every voice counts whether or not the candidate you wish for is elected. MLAs and MPs are riding representatives, not representatives of party or movement "values", partisanship.
Every vote counts in
#FPTP
, only party votes count in
#ProRep
.
#bcpoli
@MikeSmythNews
@guyfelicella
@CKNW
That will increase the body count. This is not Portugal's model, not truly the view of "experts."
Instead, old Left politics of the
@NDP
/
@BCNDP
reductio ad absurdum denial of reason and evidence; as with cannabis legalization error, group think at fringes of academe.
#bcpoli
@ThomasHall17
What we are seeing is an echo of GOP American politics, as too often happens in Canada. It isn't right or left, it is
#scandalmongering
by illegitimate movement parties framed around populist demagoguery. It failed in the
#SNC
2019 pre-elxn gambit. Abuse of privilege?
#cdnpoli
@VancouverSun
An indigenous RCMP member may be an excellent choice to be RCMP commissioner based on merit but appointing an Indigenous RCMP commissioner based on ethnicity is not an 'excellent idea'.
@JustinTrudeau
#cdnpoli
@DanAlbas
Actually,
@DanAlbas
, that is an outright lie, as you know.
The Harper F-35 Scandal was notorious, broke rules, relied on single-sourcing, misleading and utterly unreliable claims. US Secretary of Defense repeatedly threatened then F-35 design with cancellation by 2013. It's 2023.
Will
#ProportionalRepresentation
will ``Make every vote count"?
No, actually
#PR
will make party votes count and take away our right to elect the MLA for our riding.
#ProRep
is about party and movements seeking power, not our vote.
#bcpoli
#cdnpoli
A healthy democracy is one where votes translate to seats in the legislature. But the current First-Past-the-Post system doesn't allow for that. The only way people can ensure their voices are heard is by voting for
#ProportionalRepresentation
on Oct. 22.
#bcpoli
@Canadian_Crown
Celebrating
#Coronation
of King Charles III is an opportunity to build national unity through shared experience as Canadians within our national traditions and unity within the
#Commonwealth
of nations, our most important relationship regardless of ancestry.
@CanadianPM
#cdnpoli
The
@Surreyps
was discredited former
#Surrey
mayor Doug McCallum's vanity project, certain to be called into question or removed with him; due diligence of members or job seekers necessarily identifies these facts, evident
@surreypolunion
political interference notwithstanding.
@Surfcrest
@dogwoodbc
Oil tankers don't sail through cities. The number of passages increased per month is minimal to inconsequential. Risk mitigation is responsible, obstruction is not. Trade is the major source of economic activity in
#Vancouver
, ephemeral film and tourism "industries" follow.
@AJWVictoriaBC
The best way to support the B.C. Wind industry in the present case is to read the constitution and live within it. The wedge politics, protest politics, being practiced divisively by the
@BCNDP
,enabled illegitimately by
@BCGreens
, is an example of movement-party failing.
#bcpoli
@ILInationhood
Given the record of "indigenous" people on the environment, nature, and climate change, the idea of "Indigenous Protected & Conserved Areas" is rather like the Noble Savage, all trope or meme. Cover for a political agenda and identity politics I am afraid.
@tales_tomorrow
The
@CPC_HQ
has been a failure since its founding as Reform in 1987. Outside of here, in the West, Canadians in the majority did not realize how far from the PCs Tories thought they were voting for really is. "Unite the Right" was a moral and practical failure.
#cdnmedia
#cdnpoli