Justin Trudeau's Approval Rating At Lowest Point Since 2015

[Berry Sweet]

Scheer has covered the west pretty good...he just needs to get out to the east and wake everyone up

[Anonymous]

I heard about the prostitution thing, even the possibility of legalizing heroin...but never heard about it again.



Herman, its amazing how many just dont know who the leaders of government parties are.  There is an election coming up...you thinki people would google to see who the leaders are.  This is what I did a few months ago....I wanted to know who was running and for what party...what their platform is all about...I follow all of them and keep tabs on what they're doing and saying.



The NDP leader Singh is quiet, has zilch to say...the it one touring, answering questions and really getting out there is Scheer.  I actually like the guy, hes more productive than JT, and he leaves his camera at home, no selfies.  He deserves more news coverage.

But, people don't know  who Andrew Scheer is in Eastern Canada.

[Anonymous]

This is a big surprise. He is not recognizable to a lot of people where I live.



I still say Tudeau will be reelected. Let's hope I am wrong.



Andrew Scheer would make the best PM: Poll



Move over Justin Trudeau, it's Andrew Scheer's time to shine.



A new Angus Reid poll shows that for the first time since he won the election in 2015, Trudeau is not considered the best federal leader to run the country. Conservative Leader Scheer now holds that honour — with 33% of respondents choosing him and 27% picking Trudeau. Green Party Leader Elizabeth May came in third with 7% and NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh got a dismal 6%. (The other 26% didn't know.)



The poll also shows the Liberal prime minister's popularity has taken a hit. His approval rating has sunk to 35%, compared to 46% this time last year. His disapproval rating now sits at a whopping 58%, which is the highest of all four of the party leaders.



Even younger Canadians appear to have become somewhat disillusioned. Now only 42% of 18-to-35-year-olds approve of the job Trudeau is doing, down from 52% last December.



The poll points to Trudeau's "problem-plagued" India trip, irregular border crossings and the Trans Mountain pipeline debacle as some of the reasons for his decline.



The Angus Reid Institute conducted an online survey of 3,239 Canadian adults between Dec. 12-18. It is accurate to within +/- 1.4 percentage points, 19 times out of 20.

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[Anonymous]

Hopefully, the next prime minister of Canada.



By the Right Honourable Andrew Scheer







I had one of the most inspiring days of my political life this week in Nisku.



I was there as an endless line of trucks rolled through town in a show of support for Alberta's energy sector. The convoy stretched back almost 22 kilometres, with hundreds of men and women making their voices heard loud and clear. Heading to a townhall meeting to talk to these struggling workers, I got out of my car and walked the rest of the way.



It was emotional. There's a lot of anger, and it's justified. People have lost jobs. Families have been broken up. The pain is real, but it's going unaddressed by Justin Trudeau's government.



That's why so many hardworking Canadians came out with a single message for Justin Trudeau: They don't want his handouts. They want to go back to work.



I went to Alberta this week to respond to this impassioned plea for help. I went to look these men and women in the eye, and tell them that we're with them, and we're fighting for them. Not just Conservatives, but people from across the country that understand how important our energy sector is to Canada's economy. They're not alone.



Everyone in Nisku understood why they were there, and why the situation in Canada's energy sector is so grim.



Justin Trudeau is trying to phase out their jobs.



An industry that has sustained families and given them their livelihood for generations is being shut down by a prime minister who no longer hides his disdain for their work. In just three years, Trudeau has killed two major pipeline projects, and thrown $4.5 billion in taxpayer money into another that he can't build.



Meanwhile, his government's Bill C-69 will put the energy sector out of business for good by ensuring that no pipeline project will see the light of day – ever again.



The consequences of Trudeau's disastrous policies are felt most strongly in Alberta but will affect every part of Canada. Our national economy is losing billions of dollars because we don't have enough pipeline capacity to get our resources to those who want to buy them. Canadian oil is now selling at a major discount, costing us jobs and investment. That is why Alberta's government took the drastic step of cutting production, and why the ultimate responsibility for that move lies with Justin Trudeau. His pipeline vetoes, carbon taxes and added red tape are the cause of this lack of pipeline capacity, and the dire consequences that have followed.



The prosperity that once flowed from Alberta's energy sector to communities across our country is a distant memory under Justin Trudeau.



At the same time, all he's offered suffering workers and their families is a small government handout. That money might feed families for a few weeks, but the pipelines that get Canadian energy to markets will feed us all for a generation.



With Justin Trudeau doubling down on his destructive carbon tax and rejecting every attempt to revive struggling pipeline projects, it is clear that he will never take any meaningful step to offer help.



That's why I outlined my Conservative plan to get out energy sector back on track. When Conservatives form government we are going to cancel the carbon tax, and repeal Bill C-69. But that's just our first step.



We will also establish firm timelines for pipeline approvals, invoke constitutional authority to build major projects, and eliminate foreign interference in the approvals process.



Justin Trudeau has done historic damage to Canada's energy sector. And after this week, everyone understands that it's going to take a change of government to put an end to this crisis and get our energy sector back to work.

[Anonymous]

The premier of New Brunswick gets it even though Trudeau doesn't.



Federation on the line

New Brunswick's rookie premier wants Ottawa to see urgency in Alberta's dire situation



New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs, a former oil executive, would like to see transfer payments cut to force provinces to development their own natural resources.

FREDERICTON — The rookie Tory premier of New Brunswick has declared the Canadian federation fractured — with Ottawa and other provinces seemingly unconcerned about Alberta's slump, and Quebec actively blocking economic development.



Blaine Higgs says he was shocked at the recent First Ministers meeting in Montreal to find there is no national urgency or strategy to deal with the 70-per-cent devaluation of oil in Alberta.



"Here's a province that has fed many of our kids for years and we've all been happy to be recipients of that transfer payment. I'm not proud of that fact, and I would like to develop the very industry that they have," Higgs said in a year-end interview with The Canadian Press.



"But for us in that meeting, not to have that as the focal point a crisis in our country, as a serious impact on Alberta and potentially a serious impact on all of us, like it was just another day."



Higgs is pushing to revive the cancelled $15.7 billion Energy East pipeline project that would have moved western crude to refineries in Eastern Canada and an export terminal in Saint John, N.B., but Quebec Premier Francois Legault is opposed to it passing through his province.



Legault recently provoked the ire of western Canadians when he said there was "no social acceptability" in his province for a "dirty energy" pipeline from Alberta.



His comments drew rebukes from pundits and western leaders such as Alberta Premier Rachel Notley, who said Legault "needs to get off his high horse."



Higgs, a former oil executive, is proposing that federal transfer payments be cut to force provinces to develop their natural resources.



"Here's Premier Legault getting an increase, a cheque of more than $13 billion out of the $19 billion in transfer payments, and no real sense of urgency," Higgs said.



He said that as a result of devalued oil, Alberta is losing $80 million a day, and all the provinces — including New Brunswick — should share in the pain through cuts in transfers.



"We should cut what goes to each province, based on our ability to get the resource to market," he said.



Higgs said the debate over Energy East demonstrates how the federation is fractured.



"So with Alberta, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Ontario and ourselves — we are very much aligned — and Quebec in the middle in this case for transportation from west to east is not only disappointing, it's really shocking," he said. "I saw a willingness through every province but I didn't see that willingness in Quebec."



Higgs said there should be a utility corridor across the country that could house pipelines, power transmission lines, and communication systems. He said, like the national railway, it would be a right-of-way through the country.



Higgs said another area where the federation is fractured is with the way provinces are being treated differently by Ottawa when it comes to the carbon tax, which goes into effect next year. He said it is far from a level playing field, because the provinces are being asked to meet the same targets despite starting from different carbon-emission levels.



New Brunswick is an intervener in legal challenges launched by Saskatchewan and Ontario and has launched its own legal challenge of the carbon tax.



He said the proposed federal backstop — the tax Ottawa will impose in provinces without their own carbon taxes — puts New Brunswick at a disadvantage, and if it remains in place, New Brunswickers will be paying the country's highest tax on gasoline by 2022.



Higgs won a minority government in this fall's election, having run on a platform of fiscal responsibility. The Liberals tried to cling to power, but were defeated in a confidence vote on their throne speech after the three members of the upstart People's Alliance party agreed to support the Tories on confidence votes for at least 18 months.



Looking out his office window at the spectacular view of the provincial legislature and the Saint John River, Higgs said he doesn't take his time as premier for granted.



"I took a picture of the view because I could only be here a short time," he said.



Higgs, a 64-year-old engineer and former finance minister, was hired by Irving Oil a week after he graduated from the University of New Brunswick. He was eventually promoted to director of distribution, overseeing oil transportation across eastern Canada and New England.



Higgs said he needs to administer some tough fiscal medicine right away in order to get quick results.



He points to his decision to slash $265 million from capital spending plans the previous Liberal government had in place.



Here's a province that has fed many of our kids for years and we've all been happy to be recipients of that transfer payment. I'm not proud of that fact, and I would like to develop the very industry that they have." blaine Higgs, Premier of New brunswick

[Anonymous]

Oh, I hope Trudeau is a one hit blunder. Besides being the most unqualified pm we have ever had, his cabinet is the absolute worst this country has ever seen. A motely band of uninformed, unqualified syscophants.



When it comes to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, the bloom left the peach some time ago. That is to say that voters don't see him with the same glow as before.



The youthful Trudeau, who's meagre credentials include part-time drama teacher, pulled off an admirable victory in the last election, pulling his party from third place to first place.



Carefully planned photo ops of yoga poses at work, showing off his tattoos, crashing weddings, running topless through city streets and smiling broadly for the cameras promising "sunny ways" was all it took apparently. He also promised deficits, which I thought would sink him.



But no – he prevailed through sheer charisma and by contrasting himself to former Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who many Canadians had grown to view as a dull and angry man.



A new Angus Reid Institute survey has some sobering news for our flash-in-the-plan PM. Trudeau's approval rating is net negative 23%  (just 35% approve; 58% disapprove).



In Trudeau's magical world of wonders, all you have to do is look good and incessantly pursue ideological gender-based ideas. The deficit? Don't worry about it. It'll balance itself – which we know is pure lunacy. It's now many times larger than he promised. In the event of the predicted economic downturn in the year to come, where is our landing cushion? We have none.



Trudeau has made plenty of rookie mistakes since assuming office.



It wasn't too long ago the Chinese affectionately nicknamed him "little potato." Well, negotiating for the release of three captive Canadians is, as Trudeau recently found out, big potatoes.



Second, he surrounded himself with a weak cabinet. Minister of the Environment Catherine McKenna, who many pundits and opposing politicians perhaps inappropriately nicknamed "climate Barbie" has come across both as sanctimonious and shallow.



Mélanie Joly, Minister of Tourism, Official Languages and La Francophonie is competing with Veterans Affairs Minister Seamus O'Regan for being the most incompetent minister.



Joly has jumped from one blunder to another. How can one justify spending $5.6 million on a 25-day Parliament Hill rink to cap off the Canada 150 celebrations?



In reality, she's the runner-up for worst cabinet minister. The winner has to be ethically-challenged Veterans Affairs Minister Seamus O'Regan nicknamed "Shameless O'Regan" by veteran journalist Robert Fife and others who add he was the "most incompetent" minister in cabinet. He's accused of not understanding how his department works.



O'Regan also attacked well-respected veterans advocate Sean Bruyea for defamation for insinuating that he was a "liar" who "was deliberately untruthful to serve some dishonest personal agenda." Bruyea sued and lost and is now appealing the decision.



Finally, O'Regan had the gall to compare leaving his job at CTV news where he was provided an allowance for Canali suits at Harry's to soldiers being discharged from the army. Canali suits go for about $2,000 each. Did leaving them behind cause him PTSD? It shows how out of touch he is. A completely insensitive and just plain dumb comment.



In his year-end interviews, Trudeau maintained it was all business as usual heading into the October 2019 election, meaning what you see is what you get and will keep getting. It's a sure recipe for a one-term government, about to become third party once again. You read it here first.

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