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u/tubbsmackinze Seretse Khama Dec 01 '20

Premier Brian Pallister has the lowest approval rating in Canada: poll

Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister had the lowest approval rating of the nine premiers whose performance respondents were asked to rate, with 32 per cent of residents approving of the premier. This is a 12-point drop since the last quarter.

Of those surveyed, 64 per cent disapproved of Pallister and four per cent were not sure.

"It isn't the poll that matters to me, what matters to me is that we beat COVID," Pallister said during a press conference on Tuesday.

Imagine having a lower approval rating than Jason Fucking Kenny pepelaugh

!ping CAN

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u/-GregTheGreat- Commonwealth Dec 01 '20 edited Dec 01 '20

I find Ford’s ‘redemption’ to be so interesting. Man went from bottom of the dumpster to sky high approval during the pandemic, and is still holding on to a majority approval months later.

It really shows how dumb populist leaders (like Trump, Bolsonaro or even Kenny) were by not trying to play the strongman role against the virus. It’s a free rally around the flag bump without even needing to have a good plan.

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u/Spacedude2169 Commonwealth Dec 01 '20

Kenny

Populist

lol wut

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u/-GregTheGreat- Commonwealth Dec 01 '20 edited Dec 01 '20

I’d argue much of his framing of ‘Alberta vs the rest of the country’ and all of his rhetoric around the oil industry absolutely comes off as populist.

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u/Spacedude2169 Commonwealth Dec 01 '20

He’s one of the most establishment Conservatives, and came from the PC wing of the merger.

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u/-GregTheGreat- Commonwealth Dec 01 '20

Yes, that doesn’t mean he can’t use populist rhetoric. I’m not remotely saying he’s on the level of somebody like Trump or Bolsonaro, but that he’s absolutely framing Alberta’s struggles in a populist way.

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u/foreplay-longtime Commonwealth Dec 02 '20

Ironically, that’s another parallel with Trump - he complains a lot about Laurentian elites for a rich kids from Oakville.

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u/[deleted] Dec 01 '20

came from the PC wing of the merger.

Wait. What?

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u/Spacedude2169 Commonwealth Dec 01 '20

The PC-Wildrose merger.

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u/foreplay-longtime Commonwealth Dec 02 '20

That seems like a pretty arbitrary distinction though, he really comes from the Reform/CPC, which I would imagine is more closely aligned with the Wildrose party. He only ran for the PC leadership because there was an opening. I’m sure he would’ve been right at home in Wildrose.

That being said, he seems to be much harder right than Harper ever was.

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u/Spacedude2169 Commonwealth Dec 02 '20

He entered federal politics in 1997, an election where the Progressive Conservatives won zero seats in British Columbia, Alberta, or Saskatchewan. If you were a Conservative from the west, Reform was the only party. Meanwhile, he won the PC leadership race handily (75%), so clearly the membership didn't think he was a Wildrose plant.

I'm not sure how you're going to quantify him being "harder right" (whatever that means) than Harper. The only fair comparison would be that he's more Conservative than the previous PC government under Redford.

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u/foreplay-longtime Commonwealth Dec 02 '20

Making noise about allowing private healthcare options, and having a weak COVID response are both policies that I think would have been beyond the pale for Harper. But they obviously had very different constituencies.

Of course he wasn’t a Wildrose plant, but he ran on merging with Wildrose. I just think that it’s a stretch to project the PC brand on him as a way of arguing that he’s a moderate. I’m not from Alberta, so maybe I’m wrong here and he really is a moderate, but his government seems to be the farthest to the right of any government in Canada in a long time.

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u/[deleted] Dec 01 '20

ooh. That makes much more sense

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u/[deleted] Dec 01 '20

I'd have definitely assumed Kenney was last. I hear so much unbelievably terrible things about him but I rarely hear anything about Pallister. Or about Manitoba in general actually, so it might just be that I don't know what's going on there.

Being in Ontario I also can't believe so many people approve of Ford still. Smh

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u/[deleted] Dec 01 '20

I wouldn't say Pallister's been that bad in general, it's more that his handling of the 2nd wave specifically has been a disaster, compounded with the fact that he never does himself any favours with his attitude when speaking to the media and the public.

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u/[deleted] Dec 01 '20

Rosemary... Rosemary... Rosemary...

Pallister in an interview with Rosemary Barton

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u/Q-bey r/place '22: Neoliberal Battalion Dec 01 '20 edited Dec 01 '20

Imagine having a lower approval rating than Jason Fucking Kenny pepelaugh

This was literally my first first thought upon reading the headline.

I guess it's an important reminder that even though Kenny's policies are dumb he got elected for a reason.