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RSS FeedsMadly off in all directions, federal leaders go on the hunt for your vote. Have they got your attention yet?
(The Star Religion)

 
 

18 september 2019 03:45:28

 
Madly off in all directions, federal leaders go on the hunt for your vote. Have they got your attention yet?
(The Star Religion)
 


OTTAWA—The kickoff of the 2019 federal election campaign saw the country collectively shrug while six party leaders threw themselves into a frenzy.The past seven days had an unfocused feel, after a summer-long precampaign campaign of ads, government spending and politicians popping up everywhere on the barbecue circuit.Now there was more of it. For politicians, so much more.Plane trips. Bus trips. A bus trip into a plane.Photo-ops with babies, schoolkids, parents, autoworkers, builders, clean tech entrepreneurs.Selfies. Social media blitzes. Announcements. Promises. Speeches. Speeches interrupted by hecklers.The first debate and a no-show. The Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau chose instead to campaign in Alberta while his main rivals met onstage in Toronto.Then there was a surprise invitation to allow the People’s party Leader Maxime Bernier into the next one.There were resignations, and runners — a Conservative candidate fled cameras.Half-apologies by and for candidates (from all parties) who once posted racist, homophobic, anti-Semitic or anti-Muslim comments. Half-hearted defences of those who didn’t resign or, in the Liberals’ case in advance of the campaign, didn’t do so quickly enough. They were potentially damaging revelations meant to paint the competing leaders as unworthy because of the unsavoury company they keep. Or a backdrop that became the white noise of the early campaign.We saw pep rallies that were all politics, and one that wasn’t, and shouldn’t have been: the Mississauga love-in for tennis champ Bianca Andreescu, the first Canadian to win the U.S. Open.And we heard tepid responses to tragedy: the day after a group of shooters sprayed semi-automatic handgun fire in Mississauga and left a 17-year-old dead and five injured, none of the leaders wanted to talk about, or unveil, new tighter gun control measures. Nobody had what you’d call real momentum. Nobody seized the imagination of voters.New ...


 
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