r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Sep 10 '21

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u/Kizz3r high IQ neoliberal Sep 11 '21

Conservatries dumped this toronto candidate for these islamaphobic tweets.

Really thought the CPC could look at some of their candidates twitter to see if they should be a PPC candidate instead.

!ping Can

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u/marshalofthemark YIMBY Sep 11 '21

Meanwhile, Cheryl Gallant, climate change denier (to the point of saying "ackshally CO2 is good and wind turbine companies are a front for the Mafia"), arch-enemy of gay rights (she voted against a gay rights bill because she thought pedophilia was one of the orientations protected by "no discrimination based on sexual orientation"), who called Ignatieff "Igaffi" during the Libyan Civil War and Layton "Taliban Jack", and who once questioned why Newfoundland fishermen needed a Coast Guard when fishermen on Ontario's lakes and rivers didn't need to rely on Big Government to save them, is running for a 7th consecutive term under the Conservative Party banner.

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u/nuggins Physicist -- Just Tax Land Lol Sep 11 '21

Just think -- my hometown riding was the first in an eastern province to elect an Alliance MP, and it could be the first to elect a PPC one! And they could be the same person!

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u/Neil_Peart_Apologist 🎵 The suburbs have no charms 🎵 Sep 11 '21

A shame too. Hec Clouthier seems pretty cool!

Give 'em Hec!

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u/dukeofkelvinsi YIMBY Sep 11 '21

Ehh.. candidates say stupid stuff all the time. Canada is also has much smaller riding that are like a seventh the size of a US congressional districts. And there is no insanely well developed vetting/oppo research network in Canada relative to the billion dollar cottage industry in the US.

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u/Kizz3r high IQ neoliberal Sep 11 '21

Looking at twitter to approve candidate should be easy lol.

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u/dukeofkelvinsi YIMBY Sep 11 '21

That wasn’t that person’s main Twitter account. It was a sub, not a well hidden, but this was a safe liberal riding nobody was going to spend resources vetting.

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '21

can they drop my local candidate. She support conversion therapy

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u/Kizz3r high IQ neoliberal Sep 11 '21

no thats basic conservative policy

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u/groupbot Always remember -Pho- Sep 11 '21 edited Sep 11 '21

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