Robin Fraser 🇨🇦
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Citizen. Citoyen. 🇨🇦 Wordsmith. Non-candidate for Prime Minister of Canada. Your indispensable #Cdnpoli follow. #NeverPoilievre #ClimateAction #Music #Editing
Joined March 2011
I'm hearing rumours Mark Carney once used the express checkout in a grocery store despite having 13 items in his shopping basket.
BREAKING!!!!!!!. Mark Carney wore socks with sandals once in 2006. Can you really trust him to be Prime Minister?.
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How is this not moving the needle? .Next January, all uninsured Canadians with incomes under $90,000 a year will be eligible for dental coverage. I'd rather have dental care than 3-word slogans. How about you?.#cdnpoli.
We started the Canadian Dental Care Plan to make sure people can get the care they need.
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Trudeau to #PierrePoilievre: "I'd be happy to give him a briefing on the science of climate change -- and, good news on this one, it doesn't require a security clearance." #cdnpoli #QP
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@CandiceBergenMP '“I don’t think we should be asking them to go home,” reads an e-mail from Ms. Bergen to then-leader Erin O’Toole’s senior caucus team on Monday. “I understand the mood may shift soon. So we need to turn this into the PM’s problem,” the Manitoba MP added in her note.' #cdnpoli.
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I'm increasingly getting the sense that Erin O'Toole will never be Prime Minister. #cdnpoli #erinotoole.
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Former CSIS Director Ward Elcock on @CBCNews: "There is no whistleblower. This is an individual who has done enormous damage and ought to be prosecuted.".
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Former Harper policy director Rachel Curran (and one-time regular @PnPCBC panelist) shut down her Twitter account, after comparing today's #TruckersConvoy2022 protest in #Ottawa to Canada Day festivities.
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@ChantalHbert: "I am old-fashioned: If you call a motion of non-confidence that could throw the country into an election, you should show up for the vote." #cdnpoli #PierrePoilievre.
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My $0.02: it may (or may soon) be time to consider a government of national unity of Liberals, New Democrats & Greens, with all 3 parties holding cabinet seats: an actual coalition. #cdnpoli.
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PMJT: "I am impressed to see the high esteem in which the member from Carleton seems to hold me, that I was able to create a global inflation crisis. " #QP #cdnpoli #justintrudeau
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Fiery #JustinTrudeau in today's #QP hitting back at Pierre Poilievre. More of this, please. #cdnpoli
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@JesseKellyDC There is no "forced vaccination" in Canada and 12 and unders are not eligible to receive vaccination. I call BS.
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The casting call for this ad seems to have been posted on Facebook on Monday for a shoot in Kanata the same day
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#JustinTrudeau: "Let's be clear, this Conservative leader has no long-term vision for this country with or without glasses. It takes more than a couple of bags of McDonald's to feed Canadians." #cdnpoli #QP.
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Yes: the Prime Minister taking his teenage son to see "Barbie" while wearing a pink hoodie is definitely a million times worse than Brexit.
So glad I’m not Canadian.
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@CandiceBergenMP What prompts you to post this video?.Anything happen recently?.In case you forgot, the party you lead was founded in 2003, not 1867 or 1942. In case you forgot, it was a Liberal government that led Canada through World War II. #cdnpoli.
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@SenJeffMerkley @realDonaldTrump Isn't this exactly the sort of government tyranny and overreach that the NRA & "freedom-loving gun owners" have vowed to oppose? Where are their voices?.
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@CandiceBergenMP Any thoughts on why you were booed & jeered?
Conservative leader @CandiceBergenMP is here but is being shouted down by some protesters as she speaks, while others are cheering.
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#PierrePoilievre is being a complete asshole to a CP reporter who is doing her job of asking questions. #cdnpoli.
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I wonder what #PierrePoilievre's plan is to deal with extreme weather events like the flooding Toronto is experiencing & the challenges they pose to infrastructure. Because "Axe the tax, Build the homes, Fix the budget, Stop the crime" isn't going to cut it.
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@ChantalHbert nails it: "The notion that #PierrePoilievre will not be able to attack the government if he goes and finds out what the big picture looks like is kind of saying 'I don't want to know more because it allows me to say just about anything I want.'" #cdnpoli #pnpcbc
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@jordanbpeterson Reposting this nonsense?. "But only a small number of the signatories are climate scientists, some have links to the oil industry or climate-skeptic organizations, and the claims have been widely debunked."
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@LaureenHarper That moment when Pierre Poilievre, without a trace of self-irony, tells the 22 Minutes comedian "You'll have to earn a living rather than getting it from taxpayers' money" is pretty revealing and priceless.
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Astute commentary by @ChantalHbert on Thursday night's @AtIssueCBC panel: "I think a number of things are happening. None of them good for Pierre Poilievre and the Conservatives. (. )
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@RepHerrell In Canada, as in the United States, politicians do not direct police. Thus, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is not directing police actions in downtown Ottawa. Latest police actions come after a 3-week occupation of the downtown of Canada's national capital.
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Good read: ‘As a new paper from University of Calgary economists Trevor Tombe and Jennifer Winter shows, Canada’s carbon tax has added a grand total of 0.5[%] to food prices (. ) “a tiny fraction of the 26[%] rise in food prices in Canada over the past five years.”’ .#cdnpoli
A new paper from a pair of Alberta academics makes it clear that the cost of the carbon tax is far less than its critics would like to pretend. Will our feelings start to care about the facts? #cdnpoli.
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@acoyne This seems like a good moment to recall that 5 years ago, Pierre Poilievre entered into a compliance agreement with Elections Canada to avoid possible prosecution under the Canada Elections Act.
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@MikeLakeMP Stephen Harper's government inherited a $13.8 billion surplus from the Chrétien/Martin Liberals and squandered it on GST cuts that almost all economists advised against, running up a $55.6 billion deficit within five years of taking office, the largest in 🇨🇦 history, pre-COVID.
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Powerful, timely words of warning by Mark Carney: "Demolition is not a plan. And slogans, denials, and defeatism won't make our businesses more competitive, and they won't grow jobs at home.".#PierrePoilievre.#cdnpoli.
🔥When politicians like @PierrePoilievre claim our great democracies are broken, it's not because they want to fix them. It's because they want a license to demolish.🔥. Former BOC governor @MarkJCarney: "It's a model that has been used time and time again. Create an external
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@RepHerrell You might consider getting your information on events in #Ottawa from someone who actually bothers learning how to pronounce the name of that city:
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375 K views & climbing. As at least one person noted, for #PierrePoilievre to label a journo as "tax-funded" is pretty rich. He's been on the public payroll since age 25, qualified for a full pension at age 31, & now lives rent-free in #Stornoway, all courtesy of 🇨🇦 taxpayers.
Here's the clip. He goes on to accuse her of being a "tax-funded mouthpiece fpr the PMO" and of heckling him "on behalf of Justin Trudeau."
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Justin Trudeau is by now the institutional memory of the G7. He has attended G7 summits with Presidents Obama, Trump & Biden, 5 🇬🇧 Prime Ministers, 5 🇮🇹 Prime Ministers, 3 Prime Ministers of Japan, 2 🇫🇷 Presidents, 2 🇩🇪 chancellors, & 2 Presidents of the 🇪🇺 Commission.
Headed to the #G7 to meet with our international partners on the most pressing issues facing Canada and our world today. Because in an uncertain world, relationships matter.
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I am sometimes critical of Liberal Party comms, but this is well done and well deserved. #cdnpoli .#PierrePoilievre .See also:
Pierre Poilievre: What are you talking about? What page? Can you give me the page? Give me the page!. The page:
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Ridiculous commentary. It's a free country. As a former Prime Minister, Kim Campbell was asked for her perspective on the current state of politics in this country. She is perfectly entitled to comment on Pierre Poilievre.
"Although she has every right to think and say what she wants, Kim Campbell is in no position, given her own record, to comment on another political leader," writes @matthewsconway #cdnpoli #ParlCA
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@IanDMorrison @JustinTrudeau So PMJT is referring to a subset of anti-vaxxers, not all anti-vaxxers, and certainly not all his political opponents, nor "everyone who disagrees with him" in Melissa Lantsman's words. It is the host who uses the term "extremistes," which PMJT neither endorses nor rejects.
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@CandiceBergenMP It's not a coalition. Would you prefer another election--while your party tears itself apart?.
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This is bonkers: "The law society also confirmed that Mulroney was called to the bar in accordance with the provisions of Ontario’s Barristers Act. The Ford government amended the act in 2021 — after Mulroney had been shuffled to the Transportation Ministry — to state. .
This is an utter, old school scandal. “Caroline Mulroney was called to the Ontario bar just three days before the Ford government announced she was getting a special title for lawyers that has been widely denounced as a patronage honour.”.
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I pity the fool who hassles Mr. T about his continued mask wearing.
I just received my 2nd Moderna booster vaccine, and I feel good! I am still going to wear my mask and keep my distance because the virus ain’t over, Fool! Grrr.
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@CandiceBergenMP I don't think you have much credibility when you say "It is time to de-politicize the response to the pandemic":.
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PMJT responds to a heckler:.#cdnpoli.
"Hey, sir. I think Ukrainians can tell you a little bit about freedom and liberty so why don't you settle down! This is a night for them. NOT for you!" . ". but let people celebrate that #UKraine is still standing and Canada stands with it!" -@JustinTrudeau
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Let me see if I can get this straight: the people of downtown Ottawa were a bunch of huge crybabies for not wanting to put up with weeks of honking 24/7, but how dare that mean Trudeau call hard-core anti-vaxxers names?.
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Here's the clip. He goes on to accuse her of being a "tax-funded mouthpiece fpr the PMO" and of heckling him "on behalf of Justin Trudeau."
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@CPAC_TV . says the politician who's been living off the taxpayer's dime for almost 20 years (earned a full pension at age 31).
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@PierrePoilievre How do you square your extreme stance on bodily autonomy when it comes to vaccines and vaccine mandates with your opposition to drug decriminalization?.You can't.
Decriminalizing deadly drug use is the opposite of compassionate. Those struggling with addiction need treatment & recovery. Drug dealers need strong policing & tough sentences.
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Yes, @ShachiKurl, I and many other Ottawans who lived through it would want to call what happened to our city in late-winter 2022 an "occupation.".#pnpcbc.
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Really good commentary by @DavidWCochrane: #PierrePoilievre is "in a different space now (. ) is diminished by the electoral outcome.".The "change narrative is very much with the Liberals now.".#cdnpoli
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From his hometown newspaper: "From tackling climate change to adopting the Canada Food Guide, Conservative Party Leader Andrew Scheer is demonstrating an anti-science, anti-expertise mindset that’s deeply troubling from a would-be prime minister." #cdnpoli #elxn43.
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Can someone help me out with this? How have "the Liberals" eroded "our right to make a living and do well and prosper"?.
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"Charlie Angus" also claiming the Prime Minister was twice "found guilty" by the Ethics Commissioner. Try to find the word "guilty" in either EC's report. You won't. #FINA.
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@SoniaFurstenau: "It's a strange time in politics when during an atmospheric river people come out and vote for a party that's denying the reality of climate change.".#bcpoli
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This is a shameless lie: it is not "Justin Trudeau's Port Authority of Vancouver," & the Rolling Truck Age Program has been in place since 2012, when Stephen Harper was PM. "The port’s decision [to go ahead with the program] is backed by the B.C. Trucking Association.".
Trudeau is forcing thousands of Vancouver truckers to get rid of their older trucks & buy new ones for $250,000 if they want to ship to & from the city's port. Help Conservatives fight back here:
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By all means, let's just ignore all the red flags and give #PierrePoilievre a 200+ seat majority government. What could go wrong? #cdnpoli.
Just listen to the vapid, too-online rightwing rhetoric Poilievre is spouting. No details, no evidence, just vague promises to go after all the people his followers have been primed to envy and resent. Merry Christmas. This man is a lying buffoon who wants to govern by hashtag.
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@PierrePoilievre It's actually House Speaker Anthony Rota who objects to use of the term "JustinFlation": "Speaker Anthony Rota repeatedly chastised Tory MPs this week for breaking the rules, asking them to "correct the error" when their "play on words" was indirectly violating procedure. (. ).
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I watched @erinotoole's presser, and I am still in the dark as to what a Conservative government would have done differently to "secure an adequate supply of vaccines in January and February" and where the current government failed in this regard. #cdnpoli.
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So far, no Tweet from Ottawa MP @PierrePoilievre on the ice storm of the last few days that downed hundreds of trees and left 1000s without electricity in Canada's national capital.
Where is Pierre? Why isn't he doing something about the flooding waters and helping the people of Ottawa? #PierrePoilievreIsBroken .
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@ABDanielleSmith Your own Forestry & Parks Ministry: “None of the large-scale wildfires that threatened communities in Alberta this season were determined to be caused by arson. More than 70 per cent of large wildfires were caused by lightning”
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@CandiceBergenMP A reminder: “I don’t think we should be asking them to go home,” reads an e-mail from Ms. Bergen to then-leader Erin O’Toole’s senior caucus team on Monday. “I understand the mood may shift soon. So we need to turn this into the PM’s problem,” the Manitoba MP added in her note.'.
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@PierrePoilievre You've been a Member of Parliament collecting a six-figure salary since you turned 25 and earned a full pension when you turned 31. Which sounds pretty "elite" to me.
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Any bets on whether we will see an #EarthDay2024 post from #PierrePoilievre?.Anyway, happy #EarthDay 🌎, everyone.
The best days of my life are the ones I’ve spent outside with my kids. They’re who I think about when the fight to protect our planet gets tough. They’re who I want to leave a better world to. #EarthDay
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Why do I keep seeing Keean Bexte's Tweets at the top of my feed? I don't follow him.
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@AndrewScheer If you are pointing to passport delays as evidence of government's unfitness for purpose, someone could just as easily point to the recent Rogers outages as evidence of private sector mismanagement. The harm in that case went well beyond one cancelled summer trip.
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Classless of @AndrewScheer to label @ElizabethMay's distancing-related concerns about reconvening Parliament as "ridiculous" on @PnPCBC after she agreed to his wife & 5 kids joining her and Carla Qualtrough on a 9-seat Challenger jet. What a jerk! @LorneNystrom #pnpcbc.
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Speaker twice cautions (in both English and French) @PierrePoilievre about not referring to the Prime Minister by his name (PP made a crack about "Justinflation" in English and then repeated it in French ("justeinflation")). #QP #cdnpoli.
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@ThatEricAlper A runner-up: "Let me correct you on a couple things, Otto, OK? Aristotle was not Belgian, the central message of Buddhism is not 'every man for himself', and the London Underground is not a political movement. Those are all mistakes, Otto. I looked them up.".
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In a pre-QP scrum, @AndrewScheer repeats the bald-faced lie that the Canada-Ukraine FTA imposes a carbon tax on Ukraine. #cdnpoli #QP
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#PierrePoilievre: "Trudeau's ruinous carbon tax is driving Canadians to the poor house.".Also Pierre Poilievre: "May I interest you in my overpriced merch?".
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@stephenharper I can't help but notice that you didn't mention the words "Muslim," "Islam," or "Islamophobia" in your Tweet. We see you Stephen Harper. We remember how you & yr party blew the "scary Muslims" dog whistle in the 2015 election to save your political hide (it didn't work).
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@PierrePoilievre "Sometimes, it’s what you don’t say about something that tells the real story. That seems to be the case with Conservative Party of Canada leader Pierre Poilievre’s silence following Monday’s shocking allegations from the RCMP about the Indian government’s illegal activities.".
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John Turner, whom your father succeeded as Prime Minister, did not have a seat in the House of Commons during his brief tenure as PM. #cdnpoli.
Yes, he is our PM. However, although I am not a historian of prime ministerial history, I cannot think of a government in modern times led by a Prime Minister who did not hold a seat in the house of commons. I know that some are trying to normalize this, but it is not normal. It.
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@RaquelDancho Please explain how a decision by Correctional Service Canada, which Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino has condemned, is somehow Prime Minister Trudeau's fault.
Our thoughts are with the families of Kristen French and Leslie Mahaffy, and everyone affected by Paul Bernardo's horrific crimes. My statement on his transfer:
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To think there was a time in my life when I was blissfully unaware of Pierre Poilievre. .
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"[Justin Trudeau] came to office in November, 2015, with an ambitious agenda. That ambition has been largely realized. While the costs have been substantial, Canada is a different country from what he inherited. In the main, it is better." Surprising words from @JohnIbbitson.
Wow. A balanced and honest column from a conservative pundit. No toxic rhetoric, or cheap shots. Just unvarnished observation. “If Justin Trudeau wanted to be known as a transformative prime minister, he succeeded.” Well worth reading.
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What a POS #TedCruz is.
Ted Cruz says that Democrats and the media are trying to take advantage of the Texas school shooting for political gain, and gun laws don’t work.
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I wonder if the Leader of Canada's Official Opposition will congratulate the newly elected mayor of Canada's largest city. @PierrePoilievre.
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Canada has AAA/Aaa credit ratings from 3/4 credit ratings agencies, so apparently they didn't get the memo about a financial disaster. Speaking of futures, what's your party's plan to address the climate crisis?.#cdnpoli.
Bad News: Trudeau has brought us to the edge of a financial disaster. Good News: It’s not too late to avoid it. Ultimately, it will be up to you, the voter. Which future do you want for our country?.
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@PierrePoilievre It might surprise you to learn this, but Canadians do have access to information about other countries and can see that inflation in general, and food price inflation in particular, is at least as high in peer countries:.
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@JustinTrudeau . And under the Budapest Memorandum of 1994, under which Ukraine surrendered the nuclear weapons on its territory in exchange for security assurances from Russia.
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I just reported #MaximeBernier for targetted harassment of #GretaThunberg. I encourage you to do the same.
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@AndrewScheer @MarkJCarney Private citizen Mark Carney "has an obligation to come clean with Canadians" says the one-time PM hopeful who misrepresented his professional experience & didn't disclose a second citizenship. Give us a break.
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@kyleseeback @PierrePoilievre If you think Pierre Poilievre is a unifying figure for the country, I would like to know what you are smoking.
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@MelissaLantsman I'm older than you, and I don't remember the Prime Minister "calling everyone who disagrees with him racist and misogynist.".
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@MarcMillerVM on #PierrePoilievre: "Anyone can throw out a slogan: Cut the crap, shut your yap.".#cdnpoli
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#MatthewPerry's mother Suzanne was press secretary to former Prime Minister (and father of our current PM) Pierre Elliott Trudeau. Perry and Justin Trudeau (who is two years his junior) both attended Rockcliffe Park Public School in Ottawa. #RIPMatthewPerry #RIPChandler.
Matthew Perry’s passing is shocking and saddening. I’ll never forget the schoolyard games we used to play, and I know people around the world are never going to forget the joy he brought them. Thanks for all the laughs, Matthew. You were loved – and you will be missed.
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@PierrePoilievre So now David Johnston is a "former Governor General"?.And here I thought he was a Liberal stooge and a former neighbour and ski buddy of Justin Trudeau's.
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Andrew Scheer's bio on his website still says he worked as an insurance broker before entering politics.
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"Historians, [Mulroney] said, will reflect positively on Trudeau’s “remarkable” handling of the pandemic, deft renegotiation of the NAFTA free trade pact, and steadfast support of Ukraine against the Russian invasion." #cdnpoli.
Justin Trudeau will be remembered for his ‘leadership’ — not ‘the trash and the rumours,’ Brian Mulroney says
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That'd be "flouting ethics rules," not "flaunting ethics rules.".(Naturally, MRG's blocked me.)
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Are we going to have to explain the Quint format to every C/conservative pundit?.
Something seems to be missing here….
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@jasrajshallan @PierrePoilievre That last paragraph is really rich coming from a PM in waiting who won't obtain top secret security clearance.
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@PierrePoilievre Perhaps the first peoples to inhabit this land should "reclaim what has always been [theirs].".What do you say to that?.
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@AndrewScheer "Trudeau has never had to worry about balancing a family budget," says the guy living in the 34-room taxpayer-supplied Rockcliffe mansion with cook and chauffeur, and earning a $255,000 annual salary. Give us a break. #Cdnpoli.
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