Why would I trust or elect a guy who says "Personally I hate gays, but I realize I will get kicked out of my lucrative government job if I act on my beliefs. So I will just lie like a corrupt, sneaky fucker until the time is right for me to leap out and legislatively beat those deviants to a pulp. But you can like and trust me up until that time, can't you?"
Why should we trust a guy who is a proven liar about electoral reform, deficit spending, pipelines, accepting quid pro quo from lobbyists........
“Fact”, Butler? You have your assumptions mixed up. This is about who the electorate trusts not the pace of legislation. If you want to trust that an avowed social conservative will govern for the benefit of his entire country, not a minority of those who put him in office that’s your business. You’re mixing up individual promises and the pace of legislation with trusting that a leader will not let their personal religious beliefs govern EVERY action.
The facts do matter. Many dippers and greens switched their vote solely on the basis of electoral reform.
"Policy doesn't matter"? I'm laughing because it's always a trend when a person is grasping to create words that were never written. OF COURSE policy matters - And while you can say that environmentalists are pissed, on the other side are the pro-pipeline contingent who watched for a decade while nothing was accomplished. That gives Trudeau another 7 years to do nothing. It's also funny to hear your talk about deficits and I always get a chuckle when I listen to CPC supporters talk about them. The Liberals picked up more votes from the NDP than from the CPC. How many of those are fiscal hawks? And THAT is ignoring the FACT (see? I can throw that term around too) that most CPC supporters have NO CLUE about fiscal policies but try to pretend that they do (eg: They were perfectly silent when Harper used billions of dollars to buy his way to majority during his so called "Action Plan").
Did you read? I said dippers are pissed over electoral reform. I have friends who switched votes and are party members. They are pissed and so are many others on this one thing and have vowed never to vote for him again. Same with the greens according to them.
Electoral reform will guarantee that the NDP never govern. I wonder if the typical supporter realizes that? It will also make it harder for a hard right party to govern too. Everything will have to move towards the center because proportional representation does that. Finally - you do realize that the Liberal's promise on electoral reform was to seek consensus - either via referendum, or consultation. So their "broken promise" 2.5 years into their 4 year mandate is in not moving forward with this seeking of consensus. If you actually thought that they'd flip a switch and introduce electoral reform then the actual problem is that you didn't pay attention.
No it was moving toward a concencus of proportional rep. What the Liberals wanted was ranked ballot. So they would govern in perpetuity. And then they cancelled it.
No. He has now clearly stated that electoral reform is off the table. There will be no more looking into it.
Well at least you admit Trudeau was a con man on this.
I'm not sure why you think "if an election were held today" is an issue. As I previously stated, that's how all political polls work.
Trudeau violated the basic rule of politics: you can survive being an idiot or a lightweight, but as soon as the electorate discovers that you're a lightweight idiot, you're a walking dead.
