Thoughts on BC Politics and More

    Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has been hitting the summer barbecue circuit with ramped-up rhetoric around debunked claims that the World Economic Forum is attempting to impose its agenda on sovereign governments.   It is, some experts suggest, another sign that some conspiracy theories are moving from the fringes of the internet to mainstream thinking, as people's distrust of government grows   In speeches to Conservative supporters across Canada, Poilievre has promised that none of his ministers will attend the international organization's conferences, including the annual meeting typically held in Davos, Switzerland.   "It's far past time we rejected the globalist Davos elites and bring home the common sense of the common people," said a Saturday fundraising email.   The Conservative party also recently sent out mailers with a poll asking people to tell Prime Minister Justin Trudeau who they think the prime minister shoul...

Thoughts on BC Politics and More has sent a questionnaire to Conservative, Green Party, Liberal, NDP, and Peoples Party of Canada candidates for the Kamloops Thompson Cariboo riding.   Over the next week and a half, the responses will be shared with you; not just as information for those in the riding, but perhaps as information to consider for candidates in your own riding – to be clarified or asked.   PPC leader Maxime Bernier with Kamloops Thompson Cariboo candidate Ken Finlayson   Today, we’re sharing the first responses, which were returned by People Party of Canada candidate Ken Finlayson.   Before presenting his responses to the questions however, lets begin with information submitted by Ken about himself, and why he’s running. K en operates a small ranch near Lac La Hache, for non-resident owners from the lower mainland; it’s a semi retirement position he thought he’d try out a little more than year ago. Well turns out Ken’s not very good at reti...

There are minorities at both ends of the abortion debate spectrum. A rational debate on abortion is not possible as neither side will allow deviation from their radical positions. No political response or position will satisfy both as they deal in stark black and white.    "My views have evolved," Goodale says today. That is classic answer avoidance. Evolved to what? He doesn’t say, while demanding that Scheer should do so; leftist double standards in play. Much the same applies to gay marriage. The minority of radicals who refuse to accept that gay people are an integral part of our society and have been for millennia are offset by radicals who insist we must promote gay life as an alternative to heterosexuality. A person is gay or not gay. A tiny minority within that minority are omnisexual and don’t care about the gender of a lover. That too is as old as dirt. The Liberal inference that a conservative MP may introduce a private member’s b...

Maxime Bernier excluded from initial invitations to leaders' election debates. 'Canadians have the right to hear' People's Party policies, Bernier says John Paul Tasker ~~ CBC News ~~ Aug 12, 2019 The Leaders' Debate Commission, the body organizing two major federal election debates, has invited the leaders of five political parties to participate with the notable exception of People's Party Leader Maxime Bernier. He has been left off the list, at least for now. Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet, Conservative Party Leader Andrew Scheer, Green Party Leader Elizabeth May, Liberal Party Leader Justin Trudeau and NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh have secured tickets to the Oct. 7 English-language debate and the French-language affair on Oct. 10. These debates will be carried by a consortium of major television broadcasters, including CBC. CLICK HERE for the full story   This works for Bernier and the People’s Party Can...