Steve Smith

[Steve Smith @EdmLawyerSteve]

@magnevision1 @andrew_leach …where the message was, basically, “get a load of this freak”.

His entire life has been building towards being a Conservative backbencher, and he’s succeeded.

[Steve Smith @EdmLawyerSteve]

@magnevision1 @andrew_leach He’s spent his entire life entrenching himself within the Canadian Alliance and then the CPC. He was a co-chair of Stockwell Day’s leadership campaign (or something like that—may have the details wrong). As a teenager, he was a guest on Mike Bullard’s show…

[Steve Smith @EdmLawyerSteve]

@MeidasTouch Context: Calgary is, by a considerable margin, Canada's most conservative major city. If any city's residents were going to take the invitation of some portions of the Canadian right to blame Trudeau, rather than Trump, for these tariffs, it would be Calgary.

[Steve Smith @EdmLawyerSteve]

@RoryStewartUK You know why the Bible doesn't say anything about loving people on the other side of the world? Because it was written centuries ago.

[Steve Smith @EdmLawyerSteve]

@HeathMayo I somewhat echo other commenters here when I say that I don't think it was a screwup, but rather a further indicator of his lawlessness--he does not accept your premise (that he needs to comply with laws).

[Steve Smith @EdmLawyerSteve]

@mytravelpapers @cmaconthehill I agreed with him at the start of COVID too, and don’t follow Ontario politics closely enough to have started loathing him since (though if I did, I’m sure I would have).

[Steve Smith @EdmLawyerSteve]

@andrew_leach I agree, but my hunch—and it’s only that—is that word went out that agreeing to sit on this would make a person persona non grata with the current Conservative leadership. Charest wouldn’t care—the others conceivably would.

[Steve Smith @EdmLawyerSteve]

@ScottTaymun (At this juncture, I’d also rate both Freeland and Carney ahead of any of those three…I remain open to being persuaded otherwise.)

[Steve Smith @EdmLawyerSteve]

@ScottTaymun He’s a man of substance. I hated much of that substance, and he often subordinated his substance to crass political considerations—and, dare I say, demagoguery—but I’d rank him ahead of any of the three current major party leaders in his ability to consider complex ideas.

[Steve Smith @EdmLawyerSteve]

@acoyne I mean…it was an interview full of softballs (not criticizing Stewart—it’s the nature of that part of his show). I think Ignatieff and Trudeau performed just as well in comparable interviews at the start of their careers, didn’t they? Hence the hype surrounding each?

[Steve Smith @EdmLawyerSteve]

@gator_gum First, Poilievre is awful—no argument there.

But Trump’s interest in Gretzky isn’t that he thinks he’d be a more competent PM than Poilievre:
1. He thinks Gretzky’d be more of a bootlicker.
2. He is automatically biased in favour of anybody with wealth and celebrity.

[Steve Smith @EdmLawyerSteve]

@JohnCornyn So how come a plurality of you just voted for a Putin toady?

[Steve Smith @EdmLawyerSteve]

@acoyne I’ve thought about this poll a lot, and all I can come up with is some hicks saying “Yeah, the big cities have gone completely trans nowadays.”

[Steve Smith @EdmLawyerSteve]

@emptywheel Good thing Gaetz withdrew—would have made for some awkward cabinet meetings.

[Steve Smith @EdmLawyerSteve]

I mostly disagree with this article, but do appreciate its use of the phrase "interpret them as would a Crown prosecutor" as a term of derision.

[Steve Smith @EdmLawyerSteve]

@acoyne OTTAWA’S HAD A SPACE IN IT, OKAY?

[Steve Smith @EdmLawyerSteve]

@HeathMayo Are you a serious country if you elect Donald Trump but then deny Matt Gaetz confirmation?

I feel like the ship has sailed on “serious country”, is what I’m saying.

(With due acknowledgment of the millions of Americans who have done everything in their power to stop this.)

[Steve Smith @EdmLawyerSteve]

@TheRickWilson If and when the Senate gets to vote, Murkowski will show some spine. Collins will express many Concerns, and may actually vote to oppose one or two.

Otherwise, I daresay that you’re correct.

[Steve Smith @EdmLawyerSteve]

@conor64 Um, I’m pretty sure we found that out long ago.