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M. GrégoireOn the latest episode of the <a href="https://cosocial.ca/tags/PaulWells" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PaulWells</a> podcast, he and Vassy Kapelos agree that "there's not a lot of daylight" between <a href="https://cosocial.ca/tags/MarkCarney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MarkCarney</a> and <a href="https://cosocial.ca/tags/PierrePoilievre" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PierrePoilievre</a> on how we should respond to the <a href="https://cosocial.ca/tags/TrumpTariffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TrumpTariffs</a> (and on policy in general).<a href="https://paulwells.substack.com/p/election-week-2-ideas-for-governing" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://paulwells.substack.com/p/election-week-2-ideas-for-governing</a>That's how I think about <a href="https://cosocial.ca/tags/elxn45" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#elxn45</a> as well. I'll be disappointed if the <a href="https://cosocial.ca/tags/CPC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CPC</a> doesn't win and the Liberals are rewarded despite ten years of no per capita growth (etc.); but at least Mr. Carney would have some good policies.1/2<a href="https://cosocial.ca/tags/CanPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CanPol</a> <a href="https://cosocial.ca/tags/cdnpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cdnpoli</a>

M. Grégoire<a href="https://mstdn.ca/@c_9" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@c_9</a> His podcast is very good as well.<a href="https://cosocial.ca/tags/PaulWells" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PaulWells</a> <a href="https://cosocial.ca/tags/CanPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CanPol</a> <a href="https://cosocial.ca/tags/cdnpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cdnpoli</a>

M. GrégoireInteresting discussion between <a href="https://cosocial.ca/tags/MarkCarney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MarkCarney</a> and Fr. <a href="https://cosocial.ca/tags/RaymondJDeSouza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RaymondJDeSouza</a> from 2024: <a href="https://youtu.be/yE2yxr_cIkE" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/yE2yxr_cIkE</a>Via <a href="https://cosocial.ca/tags/PaulWells" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PaulWells</a><a href="https://cosocial.ca/tags/CanPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CanPol</a> <a href="https://cosocial.ca/tags/cdnpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cdnpoli</a>

M. GrégoireTwo sides of Pierre Poilievre <a href="https://paulwells.substack.com/p/two-sides-of-pierre-poilievre" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://paulwells.substack.com/p/two-sides-of-pierre-poilievre</a><a href="https://cosocial.ca/tags/PaulWells" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PaulWells</a> is always worth reading on <a href="https://cosocial.ca/tags/CanPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CanPol</a> . The article has a paywall, but the French version in <a href="https://cosocial.ca/tags/LActualit%C3%A9" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LActualité</a> is available: <a href="https://lactualite.com/politique/les-deux-visages-de-pierre-poilievre/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://lactualite.com/politique/les-deux-visages-de-pierre-poilievre/</a><a href="https://cosocial.ca/tags/PierrePoilievre" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PierrePoilievre</a> <a href="https://cosocial.ca/tags/cdnpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cdnpoli</a>

M. Grégoire<a href="https://cosocial.ca/@mick" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@mick</a> There's not much of an intersection between the people I think would make good PMs and the people whom the <a href="https://cosocial.ca/tags/LPC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LPC</a> might select as their leader these days. Jean Charest has crossed my mind, though I'm sure he wouldn't do it -- he's a committed Tory.Whether anyone could save the LPC from defeat, I don't know. Anything can happen in politics, though we should remember <a href="https://cosocial.ca/tags/PaulWells" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PaulWells</a>'s First Law ( <a href="https://macleans.ca/politics/ottawa/wellss-rules-annotated/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://macleans.ca/politics/ottawa/wellss-rules-annotated/</a> ).<a href="https://cosocial.ca/tags/CanPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CanPol</a> <a href="https://cosocial.ca/tags/cdnpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cdnpoli</a>

M. Grégoire<a href="https://cosocial.ca/tags/PaulWells" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PaulWells</a> offers to interview candidates for the <a href="https://cosocial.ca/tags/LPC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LPC</a> leadership""I felt a little better when I saw Vassy Kapelos say that she hasn't interviewed Trudeau since 2018 and has never interviewed Poilievre. I mean, when did our leaders become such chickens. I guarantee to all of these people that the job will always be far, far harder than the questions."<a href="https://paulwells.substack.com/p/and-now-the-pw-corner-table-interview" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://paulwells.substack.com/p/and-now-the-pw-corner-table-interview</a><a href="https://cosocial.ca/tags/CanPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CanPol</a> <a href="https://cosocial.ca/tags/cdnpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cdnpoli</a>

M. Grégoire2. As he explains it, PM Trudeau wants to be re-elected to defend what the Liberals have accomplished, and because he has the right values to handle what events may arise (e.g., the pandemic). He listed no specific policy goals he wishes to accomplish.3. They show no particular understanding of why so many Canadians are supporting the <a href="https://cosocial.ca/tags/CPC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CPC</a>.See also <a href="https://cosocial.ca/tags/PaulWells" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PaulWells</a>' analysis of the conversation: <a href="https://paulwells.substack.com/p/delivering-the-absolute-best-future" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://paulwells.substack.com/p/delivering-the-absolute-best-future</a> , and <a href="https://paulwells.substack.com/p/you-make-those-tough-calls" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://paulwells.substack.com/p/you-make-those-tough-calls</a> .2/2<a href="https://cosocial.ca/tags/JustinTrudeau" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JustinTrudeau</a> <a href="https://cosocial.ca/tags/CanPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CanPol</a> <a href="https://cosocial.ca/tags/cdnpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cdnpoli</a>

M. Grégoire<a href="https://cosocial.ca/tags/PaulWells" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PaulWells</a> :What's the Liberal plan to win the next election? "The sum of Liberal hopes is that between now and next year, something will come up. As strategies go, it has the virtue of simplicity."In the meantime "While they wait for the election, the Liberals must occasionally govern. I was struck by remarks from one of them the other day in Halifax. Anita Anand promised to fix Canada’s lagging productivity." By first creating a working group to study the problem.1/2<a href="https://cosocial.ca/tags/CanPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CanPol</a> <a href="https://cosocial.ca/tags/cdnpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cdnpoli</a>

M. Grégoire<a href="https://beige.party/@Sir_Osis_of_Liver" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@Sir_Osis_of_Liver</a> When I went to the convention in Montréal in 2005, I sat at the table with Pat Carney.Well, I've been talking about my impressions. If you'd be interested in a more neutral (but informed) perspective, I suggest *Right Side Up* by <a href="https://cosocial.ca/tags/PaulWells" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PaulWells</a>.<a href="https://mstdn.ca/@gemelliz" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@gemelliz</a>

M. GrégoireIt's possible of course that BC would have a much worse rate of overdoses in the absence of current policies. But it doesn't really appear that things are improving...<a href="https://cosocial.ca/tags/PaulWells" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PaulWells</a> did an interesting series of articles recently about Alberta's programmes to deal with addiction: <a href="https://paulwells.substack.com/p/worse-than-ive-ever-seen" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://paulwells.substack.com/p/worse-than-ive-ever-seen</a>2/2<a href="https://cosocial.ca/tags/drugs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#drugs</a> <a href="https://cosocial.ca/tags/addiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#addiction</a> <a href="https://cosocial.ca/tags/abpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#abpol</a> <a href="https://cosocial.ca/tags/bcpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bcpol</a> <a href="https://cosocial.ca/tags/CanPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CanPol</a> <a href="https://cosocial.ca/tags/cdnpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cdnpoli</a>

M. Grégoire"He’ll stay. Katie will stay, Ben will stay, Chrystia will stay, Mélanie and Seamus and Max and Clow and all the cats will stay, and the Trudeau team will show new spring in its step as it prepares to get, once more, off the ropes and back into the fray."<a href="https://cosocial.ca/tags/PaulWells" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PaulWells</a>2/2<a href="https://cosocial.ca/tags/CanPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CanPol</a> <a href="https://cosocial.ca/tags/cdnpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cdnpoli</a>

M. GrégoireFor what it's worth, <a href="https://cosocial.ca/tags/PaulWells" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PaulWells</a> is convinced that <a href="https://cosocial.ca/tags/JustinTrudeau" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JustinTrudeau</a> will hang on until the election. No long walk in the snow is impending, he writes.Benefit of hindsight <a href="https://paulwells.substack.com/p/benefit-of-hindsight" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://paulwells.substack.com/p/benefit-of-hindsight</a>140-ish walks in the snow <a href="https://paulwells.substack.com/p/140-ish-walks-in-the-snow" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://paulwells.substack.com/p/140-ish-walks-in-the-snow</a>1/2<a href="https://cosocial.ca/tags/CanPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CanPol</a> <a href="https://cosocial.ca/tags/cdnpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cdnpoli</a><a href="https://cosocial.ca/tags/CanPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CanPol</a> <a href="https://cosocial.ca/tags/cdnpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cdnpoli</a>

M. GrégoireI learned today (from <a href="https://cosocial.ca/tags/PaulWells" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PaulWells</a> on <a href="https://cosocial.ca/tags/TVO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TVO</a>) that the <a href="https://cosocial.ca/tags/JustinTrudeau" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JustinTrudeau</a> PMO forbade ministers from meeting together unless their chiefs of staff were present. The chiefs of staff were of course reporting back to the PMO.Quite the system of cabinet government we've evolved in this country...Via <a href="https://threads.net/@theagendatvo/" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@theagendatvo</a> <a href="https://cosocial.ca/tags/WestminsterSystem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WestminsterSystem</a> <a href="https://cosocial.ca/tags/CanPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CanPol</a> <a href="https://cosocial.ca/tags/cdnpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cdnpoli</a>

M. Grégoire<a href="https://fediverse.keithzg.ca/users/keithzg" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@keithzg</a> At this point in time, I didn't even remember that there was a "honkfest" in Edmonton.I think the preferred policing approach for protests these days is either to let them dissipate on their own or to remove them quickly. <a href="https://cosocial.ca/tags/PaulWells" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PaulWells</a> had a good article on that at his Substack.<a href="https://mstdn.ca/@SonofaGeorge" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@SonofaGeorge</a>

M. GrégoireThe time Pierre Poilievre got a dressing-down from Stephen Harper <a href="https://nationalpost.com/news/the-time-pierre-poilievre-got-a-dressing-down-from-stephen-harper" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://nationalpost.com/news/the-time-pierre-poilievre-got-a-dressing-down-from-stephen-harper</a>"“He was so deeply affected by it, and he really went soul-searching for a few weeks to figure life out,” says a friend."There's a good chance <a href="https://cosocial.ca/tags/PierrePoilievre" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PierrePoilievre</a> will be PM in two years. We should be grateful a book has been published about his life.<a href="https://cosocial.ca/tags/PaulWells" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PaulWells</a> interviewed the author, <a href="https://cosocial.ca/tags/AndrewLawton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AndrewLawton</a>, last week: <a href="https://paulwells.substack.com/p/a-new-poilievre-biography-from-andrew" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://paulwells.substack.com/p/a-new-poilievre-biography-from-andrew</a><a href="https://cosocial.ca/tags/StephenHarper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#StephenHarper</a> <a href="https://cosocial.ca/tags/CanPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CanPol</a> <a href="https://cosocial.ca/tags/cdnpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cdnpoli</a> <a href="https://cosocial.ca/tags/Nationalpost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Nationalpost</a>

M. GrégoireEight things you probably don't know about <a href="https://cosocial.ca/tags/PierrePoilievre" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PierrePoilievre</a>, from a new biography: <a href="https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/biography-pierre-poilievres-most-difficult-moments" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/biography-pierre-poilievres-most-difficult-moments</a><a href="https://cosocial.ca/tags/PaulWells" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PaulWells</a> wrote about this book a few days ago: <a href="https://paulwells.substack.com/p/a-new-poilievre-biography-from-andrew" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://paulwells.substack.com/p/a-new-poilievre-biography-from-andrew</a><a href="https://cosocial.ca/tags/CPC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CPC</a> <a href="https://cosocial.ca/tags/CanPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CanPol</a> <a href="https://cosocial.ca/tags/cdnpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cdnpoli</a> <a href="https://cosocial.ca/tags/NationalPost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NationalPost</a>

KenWalkerQB :canada: :mstdnca:A good read about <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/TonyBennett" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TonyBennett</a> by <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/PaulWells" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PaulWells</a>. <a href="https://paulwells.substack.com/p/standards" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://paulwells.substack.com/p/standards</a>

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