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Wednesday November 4, 2015

November 3, 2015 by Graeme MacKay

By Graeme MacKay, Editorial Cartoonist, The Hamilton Spectator - Wednesday November 4, 2015 Eight hopefuls seek Tory interim leadership: Analysis Down, but not out. Two weeks after Stephen Harper lost his majority government, eight Conservative MPs have jumped into the fray to become interim leader and take on Justin TrudeauÕs new Liberal government. ThatÕs interim, as in temporary. ItÕs not the big job of stepping into HarperÕs dance shoes, reshaping the party and swinging it into the next election. No oneÕs announced interest in that yet. Interim leader gets the immediate, but critical job of leading a Conservative parliamentary caucus of 99 MPs Ñ 33 of them rookies Ñ and 47 senators through the next year or two until a new leader is chosen. Eight Tories want that job. The interim leader will be the lead foot soldier in holding the Liberals to account in Parliament, boosting morale in a caucus thrust into Opposition without the all the resources of government, and stabilizing a party once fractured along east-west, progressive-reform and French-English lines Ñ one that could find itself divided again once the leadership contest kicks off in earnest. Four women and four men, including two people who want to share the job, have thrown their hats into the ring. They are: Diane Finley, Rob Nicholson, Candice Bergen, Erin OÕToole, Mike Lake, Rona Ambrose, plus Michelle Rempel and Denis Lebel, who announced on the weekend they are running as a package deal. None are household names. Some have a bit of profile in media or political circles, but most Canadians would be hard-pressed to identify any of them on the street. Among the eight are a couple of women Ñ Ambrose and Rempel Ñ and possibly one man Ñ OÕToole Ñ who observers believe were interested in the bigger long-term job. A failed interim bid doesnÕt exclude them from that. Only an interim leader is barred, under Conservative party rules, from competing for the top job. Of the contenders to win caucus sup

By Graeme MacKay, Editorial Cartoonist, The Hamilton Spectator – Wednesday November 4, 2015

Eight hopefuls seek Tory interim leadership: Analysis

Down, but not out. Two weeks after Stephen Harper lost his majority government, eight Conservative MPs have jumped into the fray to become interim leader and take on Justin Trudeau’s new Liberal government.

That’s interim, as in temporary. It’s not the big job of stepping into Harper’s dance shoes, reshaping the party and swinging it into the next election.

No one’s announced interest in that yet.

Interim leader gets the immediate, but critical job of leading a Conservative parliamentary caucus of 99 MPs — 33 of them rookies — and 47 senators through the next year or two until a new leader is chosen.

Eight Tories want that job.

Liberal Interim leadership 2011

The interim leader will be the lead foot soldier in holding the Liberals to account in Parliament, boosting morale in a caucus thrust into Opposition without the all the resources of government, and stabilizing a party once fractured along east-west, progressive-reform and French-English lines — one that could find itself divided again once the leadership contest kicks off in earnest.

Four women and four men, including two people who want to share the job, have thrown their hats into the ring. They are: Diane Finley, Rob Nicholson, Candice Bergen, Erin O’Toole, Mike Lake, Rona Ambrose, plus Michelle Rempel and Denis Lebel, who announced on the weekend they are running as a package deal.

None are household names. Some have a bit of profile in media or political circles, but most Canadians would be hard-pressed to identify any of them on the street.

Among the eight are a couple of women — Ambrose and Rempel — and possibly one man — O’Toole — who observers believe were interested in the bigger long-term job. A failed interim bid doesn’t exclude them from that. Only an interim leader is barred, under Conservative party rules, from competing for the top job.

Liberal Interim leadership days 2006

Of the contenders to win caucus support on Thursday, none has spectacularly shone or, for that matter, completely messed up in jobs under the Harper government. All but one, Mike Lake, have sat at the cabinet table at a senior or junior level.

Only three speak French fluently, though there are varying degrees of competency among the rest. All pledge to tap into the resources of the party’s record harvest of Quebec seats — 11 in all. (Continued: Toronto Star)

 

Posted in: Canada Tagged: Attack Ads, Canada, Conservative, CPC, House of Commons, interim, leader, leadership, party, Stephen Harper

Saturday October 17, 2015

October 16, 2015 by Graeme MacKay

By Graeme MacKay, Editorial Cartoonist, The Hamilton Spectator - Saturday October 17, 2015 Liberal Justin Trudeau on verge of victory despite starting campaign as underdog In March 2012, Justin Trudeau, then simply the Liberal MP for MontrealÕs Papineau constituency, agreed to take part in a televised boxing match to raise funds for a cancer charity. The pundits favoured his opponent, Patrick Brazeau, a Conservative senator with a scrapperÕs build. But by the time the referee ended the fight, midway through the third round, it was Mr Trudeau, the privileged boy, who was landing punches. ÒEveryone assumed Trudeau would lose,Ó said Adam Radwanski, a columnist for CanadaÕs Globe and Mail newspaper. ÒBut heÕd trained hard. He looked like a guy who knew what he was doing.Ó ItÕs a narrative that has repeated itself in this yearÕs Canadian general election. Now his partyÕs leader, Mr Trudeau entered the summer as the underdog: the Liberals languished in third place in the polls, while their frontman was written off as a political lightweight. But he has held his own during the leadersÕ debates, looked at home on the campaign trail and, after results come in on Monday night, is expected to be CanadaÕs next Prime Minister. A national poll by Nanos recently put Mr TrudeauÕs Liberals at 37.1 per cent, ahead of the Conservatives led by incumbent Prime Minister Stephen Harper, at 29.4 per cent, with the left-wing New Democratic Party (NDP) trailing at 23.7 per cent. Whoever wins is likely to preside over a minority government. To many this must look like destiny: Mr Trudeau, 43, is the eldest son of Pierre Trudeau, who served twice as Prime Minister for more than 15 years between 1968 and 1984. For much of his life, however, the son seemed more likely to take after his mother, Margaret, an author, actress and TV personality who hung out with the Rolling Stones, and had love affairs with Ted Kennedy and Jack Nicholson. Born on Christmas Day 1971 and raised at the Canadian

By Graeme MacKay, Editorial Cartoonist, The Hamilton Spectator – Saturday October 17, 2015

Liberal Justin Trudeau on verge of victory despite starting campaign as underdog

In March 2012, Justin Trudeau, then simply the Liberal MP for Montreal’s Papineau constituency, agreed to take part in a televised boxing match to raise funds for a cancer charity. The pundits favoured his opponent, Patrick Brazeau, a Conservative senator with a scrapper’s build. But by the time the referee ended the fight, midway through the third round, it was Mr Trudeau, the privileged boy, who was landing punches.

“Everyone assumed Trudeau would lose,” said Adam Radwanski, a columnist for Canada’s Globe and Mail newspaper. “But he’d trained hard. He looked like a guy who knew what he was doing.”

JustinTrudeau-GalleryIt’s a narrative that has repeated itself in this year’s Canadian general election. Now his party’s leader, Mr Trudeau entered the summer as the underdog: the Liberals languished in third place in the polls, while their frontman was written off as a political lightweight. But he has held his own during the leaders’ debates, looked at home on the campaign trail and, after results come in on Monday night, is expected to be Canada’s next Prime Minister.

A national poll by Nanos recently put Mr Trudeau’s Liberals at 37.1 per cent, ahead of the Conservatives led by incumbent Prime Minister Stephen Harper, at 29.4 per cent, with the left-wing New Democratic Party (NDP) trailing at 23.7 per cent. Whoever wins is likely to preside over a minority government.

To many this must look like destiny: Mr Trudeau, 43, is the eldest son of Pierre Trudeau, who served twice as Prime Minister for more than 15 years between 1968 and 1984. For much of his life, however, the son seemed more likely to take after his mother, Margaret, an author, actress and TV personality who hung out with the Rolling Stones, and had love affairs with Ted Kennedy and Jack Nicholson.

Born on Christmas Day 1971 and raised at the Canadian leaders’ residence, Mr Trudeau’s middle names are Pierre and James, after his father and his maternal grandfather, James Sinclair, once a Liberal cabinet minister. But rather than politics, Mr Trudeau’s first career was as a teacher, of maths and drama.

His father had a cerebral reputation, said Nelson Wiseman, a politics professor at the University of Toronto. “Pierre Trudeau studied at Harvard, he was an economic policy adviser in the Privy Council Office and a constitutional lawyer,” Professor Wiseman said. “Trudeau the younger doesn’t have that intellectual gravitas.” His name nonetheless made Mr Trudeau a public figure, particularly after a stirring eulogy at his father’s state funeral in September 2000. In 2007, he appeared in the series The Great War as Major Talbot Mercer Papineau, a Canadian killed at Passchendaele. A year later he was an MP.

The Liberals held power for 80 of the 110 years between 1896 and 2006. But their loss that year to the Conservatives led to infighting, and a more disastrous election in 2011, when they shrunk to become the third largest party.

Mr Trudeau was hesitant to run for the leadership. His parents had separated when he was six, their marriage destroyed in part by the demands of politics. “Nobody knows better than I do what the pressures of party leadership can do to a young family,” he said in 2012. (Continued: The Independent, UK)

 

Posted in: Canada Tagged: #elxn42, Attack Ads, Canada, election, election2015, government, Justin Trudeau, panic, tv

Wednesday May 21, 2014

May 21, 2014 by Graeme MacKay

Wednesday May 21, 2014By Graeme MacKay, The Hamilton Spectator – Wednesday May 21, 2014

Ontario campaign ads set to hit airwaves as ban ends tonight

After two weeks of TV and radio silence, Ontario voters will start to see and hear a lot more from their party leaders as a ban on paid advertising ends at midnight Tuesday.

Imposed by Ontario’s chief electoral officer, the ban put a moratorium on paid print and broadcast ads but did not apply to online messages, where the parties have been posting video ads since the campaign kicked off.

Such bans are imposed in snap elections and are intended to prevent the incumbent government — in this case, Kathleen Wynne’s Liberals — from having an advantage over the other parties. Without such a ban, the party in power could prepare ads in the days and weeks leading up to dissolution, leaving opposition parties with no time to catch up.

Sitting governments already have an advantage in the timing of ads, often using them to burnish their image as needed during a mandate. The Liberal Party aired ads depicting a purposeful Wynne walking on suburban streets defending her government in the weeks before the moratorium began two Wednesdays ago.

With the lifting of the ban, Greg Elmer, a professor of media at Ryerson University, expects the parties will start with a few hard-hitting ads right off the bat, while keeping some messages in reserve to see how the campaign unfolds.

“All of the parties are trying to judge the electorate, to see what the other sides are putting out and respond in kind,” he said.

Elmer said online political ads are well-suited to “rapid response” messages because they can be produced and posted quickly. They work well in a back-and-forth battle with an opponent’s campaign, almost like a debate.

But online ads also have their limitations. They tend to reach people already closely invested in the campaign. Many of these people can be highly influential — such as media types with thousands of social media followers — but online ads tend to be missed by voters who choose not to follow every twist and turn of the campaign.

TV ads, on the other hand, “tend to speak to broader swaths of the electorate,” said Elmer. (Source: CBC News)

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Published on the french language website HistoireEngagée.

Posted to the Yahoo News Canada cartoon of the day.

Posted in: Ontario Tagged: advertising, Andrea Horwath, Attack Ads, Editorial Cartoon, Kathleen Wynne, Ontario, Ontario Election 2014, Political ads, Tim Hudak

Tuesday April 16, 2013

April 16, 2013 by Graeme MacKay

Tuesday April 16, 2013By Graeme MacKay, The Hamilton Spectator – Tuesday April 16, 2013

Justin’s first day as Liberal leader in the House of Commons

Day one for new Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau featured three questions to the Prime Minister, two controversial, Conservative attack videos and a 25-minute encounter with a huge swarm of Parliament Hill reporters.

The buzz created by Trudeau’s candidacy for Liberal leader over the past six months, much of it occurring outside the Ottawa bubble, made its way into the corridors of Parliament Hill on his first day after winning the job on Sunday.

Though Prime Minister Stephen Harper and many of his cabinet ministers extended congratulations to the new Liberal leader, the Conservative party welcomed him with two mocking attacks on YouTube, accompanied by an anti-Trudeau website and a Facebook page as well.

Trudeau shrugged off the attacks as predictable, but the Canadian Liver Foundation issued a condemnation, since the Conservatives used footage from a Trudeau appearance at one of the charity’s events in 2011.

In that ad aired Monday morning, the Conservatives took aim at Trudeau’s experience, suggesting the 41-year-old was in “over his head.” Against a background of carnival-like music, Trudeau is depicted removing his shirt at the “What a Girl Wants” fundraiser in 2011, where he raised nearly $2,000 for the foundation.

Another video talks up Harper’s economic record while poking fun at Trudeau’s past jobs as a camp counsellor, rafting instructor and drama teacher, adding, “and now he thinks he can run Canada’s economy.” (Source: Toronto Star) http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2013/04/15/conservatives_unleash_attack_ads_as_justin_trudeau_set_to_debut_as_liberal_leader.html

Posted in: Canada Tagged: Attack Ads, Canada, Editorial Cartoon, Justin Trudeau, media, Ottawa, Parliament, Stephen Harper

Thursday April 4, 2013

April 4, 2013 by Graeme MacKay

Thursday April 4, 2013By Graeme MacKay, The Hamilton Spectator – Thursday April 4, 2013

Tories set to launch negative attack ads

It happened to Stéphane Dion; it happened to Michael Ignatieff; it even happened to Bob Rae.

And now, according to the National Post, the Tories have an attack ad campaign “in the can” targeted at Justin Trudeau.

Sources say the Tory campaign will start almost immediately after the Liberal leadership results are announced on April 14, in an effort to define the new leader in the eyes of voters.

The Conservatives won’t have it all their own way though. Mr. Trudeau has raised around $1.3-million in donations since his campaign launched last October and is set to hit back with his own advertising campaign that highlights his self-proclaimed virtues as a natural leader who is involved in politics for the right reasons.

This shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone. The Conservative Party implemented the exact same strategy in 2009 when, just ten days after the Liberals elected Michael Ignatieff, they released the now infamous,”Just Visiting” ad.

The Conservatives already have a lot of material to include in their commercial: the video of Trudeau saying Canada isn’t doing well right now because Albertans are in power; video of former leadership candidate Marc Garneau questioning if Trudeau is ready to be elected leader; and the stories about the MP for Papineau earning speaking fees from publicly funded organizations. (Source: Yahoo! News Canada)


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Reposted to iPolitics.com. Archemdis’s blog.

 

Posted in: Canada Tagged: Attack Ads, Canada, Editorial Cartoon, Justin Trudeau, Mission Control, Stephen Harper
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