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<p>Interesting perspective, Eleanor. <br>
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<p>I think that JT is well on his way to becoming the pale Obama,
even better looking but still the same old campaign from the left,
govern from the right strategy that has been the Liberal trademark
forever. His historical function (whether he knows it or not) is
to enact PR. I'm thinking he could be PM of a Liberal minority
Government for quite a long time if he did that.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/4/2016 2:35 PM, Eleanor Grant
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<div dir="auto">I think that young Justin was deeply impressed -
even traumatized - by how much his father was hated in the
west. He thinks he can be a much more Sensitive Guy than Pierre
was, and smooth things over. He mustn't let anything louse up
what he's delicately trying to build!
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<div dir="auto">When it comes to electoral reform, here's his
nightmare scenario: He pushes through PR and it succeeds in
keeping the Cons out in 2019 - then Con supporters produce
calculations showing that with FPTP they would have won. The
west becomes enraged, says it's a rigged system, and starts
rumbling about secession - and boy how they'll hate Trudeau!
The last thing he wants is to be the cause of a ruptured
country - he wants to be the Great Reconciler.</div>
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<div dir="auto">What he hasn't figured out - in his bones - is
that that type of Tories (the bullies who made death threats
against Rachel Notley and recently chanted "lock her up")
CANNOT be placated, and he's wasting all his political capital
trying.</div>
<div dir="auto">Meanwhile the people who *could* have been
reconciled - First Nations, environmentalists, BC, the NDP and
Greens, Fair Vote Canada - are falling away and coming to
deeply distrust him.</div>
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<div dir="auto">I don't know what this says about potential
strategies for us. Justin may be an extreme example of the
Achilles heel in Liberal mentality - the tendency to crumble
before the bully pulpits of the right. I don't know how we
can work with that - but it's clear that doggedly presenting
facts is ineffective when up against deep-seated fear.</div>
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<div dir="auto">Eleanor </div>
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