Hi, i know this site is mainly a USA focus, but i read your site every day from Canada, and i am really mad 🤬 today!!!
In Canada the PPC is the Peoples Party of Canada, lead by Maxime Bernier.
He spoke in the 2019 leaders debate in Canada, and against mass immigration. All the other parties, Liberal (LPC), Conservative (CPC), New Democrat Party (NDP), Green (GRN) all rebuked him as "racist" and "xenophobic" for questioning the plans for mass immigration, insisting it would be good.
Fast forward to today in Canada it's become a 3rd world shit hole with the worst from all of the worst countries, thanks to the globalist LPC CPC NDP and GRN all agreeing blindly to do this. They were all wrong and it didn't turn out to be good.
The one who proved to be right was Maxime Bernier of the PPC.
In the 2021 leaders debate the Election Committee excluded him from the debates stating that "he didn't get 4% of the 2019 vote", and after the 2021 election it turned out he got 4.9% of the vote.
So we all thought he would be in the leaders debate this year (2025).
But they have just changed the rules AGAIN and now the condition is that 'at the time the election is called the party must have 4% of the polling. I know you know, like me, that polling is garbage, and the election of trump showed us that, but they want to now use these ineffective polls as justification to keep Maxime Bernier out of the debates.
here's the news release, please help share it far and wide so we can see how corrupt the Canadian politics is!
Ottawa, ON, January 15, 2025 — The Leaders’ Debates Commission has once again changed its criteria so they can easily exclude the leader of the People’s Party on the basis of dubious polls, as they did in 2021.
In 2021, parties needed to meet one of three criteria to qualify: 1) have at least one MP; 2) have had at least 4% of the total vote in the previous election; or 3) have at least 4% on average in polls at the beginning of the campaign.
The PPC did not meet 1) and 2), and its leader was disqualified on 3) by using dubious polling results in which the PPC barely registered, which gave the party an average of only 3.27%, even though its support was clearly much higher and it ended up scoring 4.9% on election day.
Mr. Bernier would automatically qualify to take part in this year’s debates on the basis of criterion 2) if the Commission had kept the same criteria.
However, yesterday, the Commission announced a key change, dropping that criterion and requiring that parties must now meet not one, but two of these three criteria: 1) have at least one MP; 2) have at least 4% on average in the polls at the beginning of the campaign; or 3) run candidates in at least 90% of ridings.
Moreover, the Commission states in its document that when consulting the parties about the new rules last year, “The Commission received submissions from the Bloc Quebecois, the Conservative Party of Canada, the Green Party of Canada, the Liberal Party of Canada, and the New Democratic Party of Canada.”
This is not true. A PPC staffer sent a submission to Michel Cormier, the Commission’s Executive Director, on July 3 2024, two days before the deadline, in which it was argued that the Commission should keep the same criteria as in 2021. Not only is the Commission trying to exclude Mr. Bernier from the debates, but it seems like it did not take the PPC submission into account. The PPC is still awaiting an explanation from the Commission as of Wednesday 1:00 pm.
Maxime Bernier commented:
“This change only has one obvious purpose, one that unites the whole political establishment in Ottawa: Making it easier to exclude the PPC. These new rules only affect me, the leader of the only new party to emerge forcefully on the federal political scene in decades, and none of the other leaders expected to participate. They want to deny a voice to 840,000 Canadian voters who supported the PPC in 2021.
It’s still possible for the PPC to qualify of course, but we are again at the mercy of dubious polls, some of which we know deliberately exclude the PPC from the list of potential responses, which inevitably understates our level of support.
Instead of using the hard data that are the results of the last election, which prove without doubt that the PPC is one of the major parties whose voice is essential in Canadian policy debates, and, the Commission has chosen to rely on fleeting data that can easily be manipulated and will be obsolete a few weeks later.
Why does the Commission need to change its criteria every electoral cycle? Isn’t it weird that a Commission is kept alive, and public funds are spent to carry consultations with experts and parties, only to come up every few years with new rules that make the participation of the PPC more difficult? Does it exist to facilitate democratic debates or to censor a populist voice?”
Contact: For more information, or to schedule an interview with Mr. Bernier, please write to: [email protected].
I was looking at CBC this morning, and one of the articles had a user attacking the comments with 100's of the same comment over and over. It's literally a denial of service because their website is so bad it causes my browser to crash a bit.. i managed to capture a video of it.. it's at: https://files.catbox.moe/ol7tx0.mkv
The article is at https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/insurance-no-fault-injury-victims-premiums-reform-analysis-1.7391486
can i get some help getting my comment score up? I come here and i think its why i can't post things and have to email mods