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It is getting lots of coverage. It's just that thanks to Blair's actions there's more context than the straight forward retaliatory firing everyone expected. It is a more complicated story than "Ford fired a political enemy". There is no doubt Ford & Co. wanted to fire Blair. They were just waiting for an excuse. Blair gave them a good one. He took confidential police communications concerning the Premier's security detail and filed them in court. Which makes them publicly available. There is no legitimate need to do that, ever. If Blair needed a judge to see such documents, that can be easily done without making them public. It only requires obtaining judicial leave to file the materials under seal. No judge is going to refuse to seal documents described as "concerning the Premier's security detail", and there is absolutely no disadvantage to Blair in proceeding in that fashion. Blair didn't do that. As to why he didn't, there is some suggestion that the email is not terribly relevant to the defamation case and were mostly intended to publicly embarrass the Premier. I don't know whether that's the case or not, but it is atypical to see evidentiary documents filed this early in litigation. That gives Ford a lot of cover to fire Blair. And as a corollary, the OPP Association is now firmly in Ford's camp because Blair's inappropriate disclosure harmed line members of the force.
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I'm aware of the justification for the firing, I haven't seen much coverage of this outside of web-only news articles. That may just be my experience though.
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Hello. I am a Canadian-American Citizen living in America wondering what’s up with Trudeau and is all okay up north cause down here LMAO, my dudes.
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Sheila Copps going on CBC and saying JWR and Philpott should be kicked out of caucus  Is there anything dumber than a Liberal? Serious question.
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Gatts posted:Hello. I am a Canadian-American Citizen living in America wondering what’s up with Trudeau and is all okay up north cause down here LMAO, my dudes. Canada is always a few years behind USA so this is just setting the stage for something terrible like Doug Ford as Prime Minister.
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Trudeau is our Hillary Clinton
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Gatts posted:Hello. I am a Canadian-American Citizen living in America wondering what’s up with Trudeau and is all okay up north cause down here LMAO, my dudes. He's a corrupt neoliberal just like all the other corrupt neoliberals, which is not in any way a surprise
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Trudeau giving preferential treatment the laurentian elite, colour me SHOCKED 
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Gatts posted:Hello. I am a Canadian-American Citizen living in America wondering what’s up with Trudeau and is all okay up north cause down here LMAO, my dudes. Congratulations, now both of your leaders’ political futures are relying on the “I didn’t do it, and even if I did it’s not illegal” argument.
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Trudeau likely can say that, Trump is likely going to get pinned on something
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It's funny because Trudeau probably wouldn't have been taking as much heat if a) He didn't say anything to JWR and just shuffled her out of the Justice Minister spot and put a yes-man there b) Just said right from the get-go the government wanted the DPA for SNC-Lavalin for job reasons and it was the right thing, yadda, yadda, yadda He's been hit with ethics violations before and it's done nothing to his image. What's killing him is he keeps saying the stupidest things at all times and is dragging this out.
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https://twitter.com/CBCPolitics/status/1103020385505890304?s=19 Ya think?
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DariusLikewise posted:
Can't wait for the LPC / NDP federal coalition government.
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zapplez posted:Can't wait for the LPC / NDP federal coalition government. Jagmeet seems like the kind of guy that would sell out the strong left leaning values of the NDP for a coalition government.
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zapplez posted:Can't wait for the LPC / NDP federal coalition government. You're going to be waiting forever.
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I hope it goes CPC minority/NDP opposition to just show how much of a gently caress up turfing electoral reform was. With electoral reform LPC would have had a permanent minority government at least but they wanted to have complete power for the benefit of their buds on Bay St.
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cowofwar posted:I hope it goes CPC minority/NDP opposition to just show how much of a gently caress up turfing electoral reform was. With electoral reform LPC would have had a permanent minority government at least but they wanted to have complete power for the benefit of their buds on Bay St. Bay Street doesn't like the conservatives now? On financial issues, the Liberals and Conservatives are indistinguishable.
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Gatts posted:Hello. I am a Canadian-American Citizen living in America wondering what’s up with Trudeau and is all okay up north cause down here LMAO, my dudes. I have vastly more optimism for the future of America right now than Canada. In the US there’s actually a meaningful backlash to Trump. Politicians like Bernie, AOC, Ilhan Omar and others actually exist and have at least a little power. In Canada our backlash to Trudeau will likely be to elect an even shittier, more right wing government. The NDP is run by centrists convinced their path to power is to mimic all the worst qualities of the Libs and Cons. Oh and the NDP just got their terrible leader elected locking the party into its doomed plan for at least another few years. It’s real grim up here.
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I really wish we had a party with an ideology about the application of power rather than just "acquire power at all costs". If course the CPC has the ideology of "acquire power and then use it to gently caress over everyone else" but that's not really the kind of application I was hoping for.
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This from the documentary “Dancing Around the Table” which is hella awesome.
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i cant wait to see what kind of greasy poo poo gerarld butts has to say in front of the committee
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https://twitter.com/CochraneCBC/status/1103071538285342721?s=19 Ah the ole liberal strategy of distraction progressive policy.
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bunnyofdoom posted:https://twitter.com/CochraneCBC/status/1103071538285342721?s=19 it didnt work for wynne
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No, she's right, do we believe that job creation, or simply being an employer trumps the supremacy of the rule of law? This is definitely something we should figure out since the topic has been broached, because it's pretty loving fundamental.
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Arcsquad12 posted:Which Doug promptly froze and then strangled the 15/hr plus benefits in its crib. Also rolled back sick days and worker protection laws.
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bunnyofdoom posted:https://twitter.com/CochraneCBC/status/1103071538285342721?s=19 By which you mean that Liberal corruption is, overall, good for Canada.
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I know Im biased because I work in a pharmacy but holy poo poo yes I will take a national pharmacare program just because the Liberals are trying to distract us. Like yeah it wont change my vote but still, its something we needed 20 loving years ago. e: Watch it be a complete troll done in the same vein as voting reform.
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Furnaceface posted:I know Im biased because I work in a pharmacy but holy poo poo yes I will take a national pharmacare program just because the Liberals are trying to distract us. It's just gonna be a limit on dispensing fees and a system to report bad pharmacists that won't fill your forged oxy script.
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Powershift posted:It's just gonna be a limit on dispensing fees and a system to report bad pharmacists that won't fill your forged oxy script. So the Ontario system.
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