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Glad to say that I voted in my first Federal Election today.
Two factors at play....1. a particularly long election giving, both, more opportunity for stupid people to say and do stupid things and for the parties "researchers" to dig through and find past stupid things that stupid people have said/done and 2. we are getting to the point in the world/history of social media that people have a voluminous past in the social media world to dig through before they became candidates/politicians.http://www.buzzfeed.com/emmaloop/th...hove-said-stup?utm_term=.ewg5bXB66#.xa0NxG400
Is this a new record for candidates saying and doing stupid things/
Two factors at play....1. a particularly long election giving, both, more opportunity for stupid people to say and do stupid things and for the parties "researchers" to dig through and find past stupid things that stupid people have said/done and 2. we are getting to the point in the world/history of social media that people have a voluminous past in the social media world to dig through before they became candidates/politicians.
It may or may not be the record stupid sayings and doings ......but it certainly would be a record for those stupid sayings and doings to be reported.
Yes, this is why I probably shouldn't run for office. Somewhere in those 96,000+ tweets of mine, there has to be something considered shocking...
All it will do is prove out that old Kim Campbell saying "The election is not a time to discuss serious issues."
Trade agreements are very complex and, likely, Canada (and all parties to the treaty, really) will win in some areas and lose in others.....but 3 party leaders (2 of which can't possibly know what is in the agreement) will try to nut it down to 15 second sound bites that appeal to their bases.
Already seeing Mulcair suggesting that it is just another area where Trudeau supports Harper and see Trudeau is painting Mulcair as a protectionist anti-trade person.
Certainly the markets spoke loudly today about their initial thoughts on it......Canadian and American markets were up strongly on the signing and the Canadian dollar had a very good day to close near 76.5 cents American. But, Mulcair will paint it as "bad", Harper will say it is "good" and Trudeau will say "we will need to study it".
CBC News Alerts @CBCAlerts
Tory party confirm #JagdishGrewal is no longer its candidate in riding of Mississauga-Malton. It says his comments do not reflect its views.
CP24 @CP24
Jagdish Grewal is no longer a member of the Conservative party, according to a statement released by Tuesday night. More information coming.
Well the candidate list is finalized...so he is on the ballot but they have kicked him out of the party so, I guess, he could win the seat and sit as an independant...but, yes, the CPC would not have a candidate there.So basically, the CPC just forfeited that seat?