Liberals Dig Up Dinosaurs
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Summary
It's looking like the Canadian federal election is going to be an ugly one. I'm not the first one to say this, and it's starting to sound like a common refrain from people, but boy did this become super apparent when news broke the other day that liberals were sending around clips of Andrew Scheer back in 2005 speaking about why he did not support same-sex marriage.
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oh boy it's looking like the Canadian federal election is going to be an ugly
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one I'm not the first one to say this not the first to come to this conclusion
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it's starting to sound like a common refrain from people but boy did this
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become super apparent when news broke the other day that liberals were sending
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around clips of Andrew Scheer back in 2005 speaking about why he did not support
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same-sex marriage that was the year when it was most recently up for a vote and
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when it was ratified when same-sex marriage became legal in Canada now back
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then I supported same-sex marriage I've always supported it as becoming law in
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Canada but you watch this old news story 14 years old and you think what on earth
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is going on here now I don't know about you but I'm a big fan of talking about
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public policy talking about foreign affairs you're talking about tax policy
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talking about real stuff and the real stuff that politicians actually have the
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ability to do that's legislation things that they're going to implement and so
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forth what I've never cared for is this thing that we're seeing more and more of
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that's basically not our guy has bad policies that are going to make your
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lives bad these are dumb policies what have you but our guy is a bad human being I
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don't like any of that I've been critical of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's policies
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for for a while now for a couple years on a number of different fronts I've never
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said he's a bad guy I mean I met him a couple times I don't know the man so I
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cannot make a judgment of his character I'm not saying Justin Trudeau is a traitor
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there's people who write that I think that's not a particularly fair thing to say I
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don't think that's something one should be saying out there these attacks on Andrew
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Scheer are clearly designed to say he's a bad guy because this is not a policy
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issue that's that's a thing same-sex marriage has been legal in Canada since
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since then since around 2005 it's not changing it's not going back I think
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that's a good thing should we be enraged that 14 years ago somebody held these
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views I don't know like I said I disagree with what Andrew Scheer said back in 2005 but
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we also know a lot of people held those views only back then not just a number of
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conservative MPs but also dozens of liberal MPs had a history of voting against same-sex
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marriage a number of them about 10 or so are still sitting liberals today now Andrew Scheer
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has said not just in response to this story but but previously he said look I'm fine with
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the way the laws are now I support that so he's not actively lobbying he's not opposing
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same-sex marriage he says he supports the status quo look Barack Obama when he ran for president
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in 2008 under what was it the Republican oh no he was a Democrat that's right Barack Obama
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won the presidency opposing same-sex marriage I do not support gay marriage I believe that marriage
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is the union between a man and a woman now soon after in 2009 he came out in support of it so
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I don't know maybe it was a political calculation and so forth but maybe that's even worse that Obama
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was just sort of lying about his views and being cynical about it to win people's votes I don't know
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but bottom line Obama several years after the Andrew Scheer clip he he was against same-sex marriage
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this campaign is going to get really rough if we spend all our time going back and digging into what
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people said and did 14 years ago I'm all for vetting candidates I'm all for holding people
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to account for their record but I think what matters is people saying what they're going to do
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on the campaign trail maybe Justin Trudeau feels he needs to get revenge for grope gate this was a
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story as you know 18 years ago an employee with a newspaper affiliated with post media she said that
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he groped her he touched her inappropriately grabbed her now a lot of people had problems with
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that story for the most part the problem though was how Trudeau talked about it today there weren't
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that many people who said obviously you should not do what he did 18 years ago and nobody approves of
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that behavior but the greater concern was how he spun it and the odd things he said about it now that was
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what rankled most people who knows maybe the liberals just want to go back as far as they can the idea is
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clearly to say that Andrew Scheer knuckle-dragging villain he's going to do all these socially
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conservative things this one looks particularly desperate and quite frankly it's looking ugly how
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far back are we going to go what's going to happen what other things are they going to drag up about
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everybody the writ hasn't even dropped yet the campaign isn't even underway it's not even labor
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day yet where most Canadians tune in so that's what's happening now boy what's to come in the weeks ahead