Quote (badasses @ Sep 16 2022 04:28pm)

i guess there are exceptions

Carla Qualtrough used to be my MP and when the IRCC was being totally useless during my wife's application I reached out to her office and her staff was VERY helpful. Signed up for notificatiosn when department receive my application, didn't get one for 3 months after Canada post dropped it off with signature. Called the IRCC and every time after being on hold for 2+ hours they would just say "you gotta wait". Meanwhile on forums people who submitted their application months after me were saying their application status has been updated to "Received". Finally asked Qualtrough's office for help via email. One of her admin staff called me and asked for the situation, said she would call the IRCC for me. The very next day my status of application became "received".

Quote (Hizkuntza @ Sep 16 2022 08:37pm)

that's pretty awesome. sadly south Richmond isn't an exception to the rule lol. since moving here we had a slimy Liberal lawyer whose office was implicated with money laundering, then a homophobic Conservative religious nut who blamed his subsequent defeat on Chinese misinformation. then up in Richmond Center Alice Wong was notoriously useless but somehow did 14 years of shark fin dining

them the breaks with politicians haha

Quote (badasses @ Sep 16 2022 07:40pm)

I thought in the last election all the incumbents lost, including Alice

I actually lived in Richmond from 2018 to 2021 before I moved out to sub0 land

Quote (Hizkuntza @ Sep 16 2022 03:43pm)

I'll say not all are like that though. I didn't know O'Toole before 2015 but the guy has done a lot of shit outside of politics and approaches his office with a very grounded outlook, he actually understands he has a job to do after bejng elected. Shame he got the Night of Long Knives treatment as leader. He had a raw deal as leader due to his lack of name recognition and the base getting too nutty.

I also met Stephane Dion a couple of times. Guy is really smart and thoughtful but too much of a fuckin nerd, not surprising he never stuck in a political position for long.

Gotta say tho, I haven't met a single BC Lib who I didn't think was at least 90% slime lol. I volunteered for Harry Bloy, who promised everyone who worked for him glowing letters of recommendation for jobs, school applications, etc. Couple years later and the guy had like three separate scandals to his name lol.

Oh yeah, and I also volunteered for Jagmohan Singh, who achieved the tremendous feat of getting fined by the provincial real estate board for professional misconduct.

Quote (Killingyouall @ Sep 17 2022 09:08am)

You volunteered for some great people by the sounds of things haha. Good for you to get involved though.

As for O'Toole I was not confident in him because he appeared timid and indecisive. It seemed like he was too cautious. He wanted to appease everyone and it ended up appearing like he was taking a bunch of half measures on various issues.

I would rather a politician take a clear stance and have the confidence to firmly pick a firm position. Of course this is all perception, but I feel his middle of the road approach alienated a lot of people. Like you said though, there was a far-right base that was quite rabid.

Sliding too far to the right would never garner enough votes to win, so he was put in a tough spot. Poilievre has a better chance at success if he does move further to the right. As of now people are broke, pissed off and want a smaller government so the timing for him to run

under his current platform is ideal.

Quote (Auger @ Sep 18 2022 08:14am)

lol Canadian politics :rofl:

Quote (Auger @ Sep 18 2022 06:14am)

lol Canadian politics :rofl:

Quote (StayPositive @ Sep 18 2022 12:58pm)

Woohoo does this means you’ve left Canada now