Showing posts with label Laura-Lynn Tyler Thompson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Laura-Lynn Tyler Thompson. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 17, 2020

VIDEOS: Dominion Voting Systems connected with George Soros

Can you believe it?! Whoda thunk that Dominion Voting Systems, the vote tabulation company at the centre of several controversies surrounding the legitimacy of the presidential election, would be found sharing a Toronto office floor with the Tides Foundation. 

[Who dey? Ed.] Glad you asked. Tides, which recently changed its name to Make Way, is an extreme left eco-radical charity that directs cash supplied by George Soros to smaller groups and organizations to advance Curious George's globalist agenda. 

Dominion Voting Systems has come under fire after their vote tabulation machines created a 6000-vote swing in a single Michigan state county. (Scroll down to read the breaking news about Wayne County officials refusing to certify the November 3rd vote.) The same machines and software were used in every single county in Georgia and in several other swing states that just sent their electoral votes to Joe Biden (for now).

Canada's Rebel News was on location inside the building located at 215 Spadina Avenue in Toronto. Reporter Keenan Bexte and his camera crew were removed by a building manager, but not before learning that the building manager remove all signage and references to their shared building occupancy. Why would they do that? Check this out....

   

The close working relationship that Dominion Voting Systems and Make Way have raises all kinds of questions about the security of the November 3rd election. 

* Why would the counting of votes be outsourced [try "offshored". Ed.] to a Canadian company, especially one with a track record of "glitches" and errors? 
* Does knowing about this connection make you feel more or less confident that the elections were fair, and that only legal ballots were counted? 
* Who on earth thought this was the way to choose the next president of the United States?

Thanks, for the second time this week, to Agent 35 for sending us the URLs for this story. Keep `em coming, 35. With your help, the truth will out!

FURTHER VIEWING: One of Walt's favourite Canuck conservatives, Laura-Lynn Tyler Thompson, posted this interview with Roger Landry of Liberty Beacon, who says that what's happening in the Excited States of America right now will determine the future of not just American society, but Western civilization. Check it out.

 

Friday, October 16, 2020

VIDEOS: Conservatives! Vote for truly conservative candidates!

How I wish Canadian conservatives would figure out how to unite the right! Canada doesn't have a two-party system, like the Excited States of America.

Since the Dirty Thirties it has had third and fourth parties of the (somewhat) left (the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation and it successor, the No-longer-new Democrats) and the right (Social Credit). More recently the federal Parliament has seen members elected from the Parti Québécois, which then became the Bloc Québécois, and the self-styled Green Party, both of them left (and really left) of centre.

Canada's quasi-conservatives, who after WWII styled themselves "Progressive Conservatives" -- an oxymoron if there ever was one -- saw the more conservative of their number split away from the "Red Tories" to form the Reform Party, which then merged with what was left of the PCs to form the Canadian Alliance which then restyled itself the Conservative Party. Got it?

But wait (as Vince Offer used to say), there's more. In their 2017 leadership contest, the Conservatives rejected the truly conservative candidate, Maxime Bernier, and chose a nebbish named Andrew Scheer. "Mad Max" went off in a huff (or a minute-and-a-huff) and formed his own People's Party of Canada, who drew off just enough votes from the Conservatives to rob them of what should have been an easy victory against Mr Socks' ultra-Liberals.

One of the leading lights of the People's Party of Canada was (note past tense) Laura-Lynn Tyler Thompson, a very personable and dynamic woman who has been seen speaking up for conservative Christian values in a number of videos posted here on WWW. (Click on the tag to see those posts.) Just this Sunday, in my post about Twitter's censorship of Republican Senate hopeful Lauren Witzke, I asked if anyone else noticed the resemblance between Ms Witzke and Ms Thompson. And noooo, it's not that I can't tell one attractive blonde lady from another. Lauren and Laura-Lynn are saying the same things! 

Imagine my surprise then when, just today, I discovered this video in which Laura-Lynn Tyler Thompson identifies herself as leader the the Christian Heritage Party of British Columbia!

   

There will be a provincial election in Canada's Lalaland any day now, and Ms Thompson is standing for election in the riding of Abbotsford South. If she succeeds, she will be the first member of the Christian Heritage Party ever elected to any Canadian legislature, let alone the House of Commons. Here's a longer video in which she talks about why she's running, and about racism and "white privilege". Listen up, Americans! This applies to you... in spades!

 

I wish Laura-Lynn Tyler Thompson well and encourage British Columbians to vote for her (in Abbotsford South) or other Christian Heritage Party candidates in the rest of the province. Right now, the CHP is the only conservative party in BC. 

And that's the problem in the Great No-longer-white North. There is no truly conservative party in the Parliament of Canuckistan. As Max Bernier says in "Is there any hope for conservatives in Canada?" (WWW 2/9/20), The NDP and the Greens prop up the corrupt Liberal government in Ottawa. The leftists are united in everything but name, while the conservatives attack each other. 

It's high time that Canadians [and Americans! Ed.] who cherish the values on which their country was built got together behind one truly conservative party.

Sunday, October 11, 2020

Telling the truth about mass migration is "hateful conduct", sez Twitter

Let's start with a report on CBC News of a speech made recently by Emmanuel Macron, the tiny perfect leftist President of France, about the problem of Islamic terrorism in his country.

The chief surrender-monkey blames it all on the failure of the French people to welcome and accommodate the millions of Muslims who have flooded into his country to take advantage of the French spirit of Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité. 

M Macron gave his speech during the first major terrorism trial in Paris after the attacks against the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and a Jewish grocery store in January 2015, the co-ordinated killings in cafés and the Bataclan theatre in November 2015, and finally the truck assault in Nice on Bastille Day of 2016. 

The combined death toll from these Islamic terrorist attacks (I'm saying it again lest we forget) was more than 230. Most of the attackers were French-born, but all saw themselves as Islamist jihadis. What will France do with them? Send them to the shitholes of the Middle East and North Africa from which they came? Errr, no. Too late for that.

The Muslims are there now, there to stay. What to do with the 1000s of Islamic extremists now entitled to remain in Europe forever is a real problem for France -- but not just France. "Mass migration absolutely destroyed Europe. Italy, France, Sweden and Germany took in tons of migrants who never assimilated. Rapes, murders, and other heinous crimes abound."

That's not Walt speaking, although I agree. Those are the words of Lauren Witzke, the Republican candidate contesting one of the Senate seats in Delaware. Ms Witzke went on to say "I will end ALL immigration into the US for ten years." For this sin against political correctness, Twitter locked her account! Messages like that, the social media giant says, are "hateful conduct". Well, at least they didn't call it "hate crime". Not yet, anyway.

Twitter went on to warn warning the Senate candidate that repeated violations would result in the termination of her access to the platform. In a comment to Breitbart News, Ms Witzke promised swift action on the issue of tech censorship if elected to the Senate. Said the Senate hopeful, "This is yet another example of Twitter, which is partially owned by a Saudi Arabian prince, interfering in American elections."

Sez Walt, good on yer, Lauren! If I lived in Delaware, you'd have my vote!

Note from Ed.: Am I the only one to notice a strong resemblance between Lauren Witzke and People's Party of Canada star Laura-Lynn Tyler Thompson? How come the lefties can't get good-looking women like this to run for them? Am I being sexist to point this out?

Thursday, February 20, 2020

VIDEO: Max Bernier launches regular show on YouTube

Whatever happened (I hear some of you ask) to Maxime Bernier, erstwhile leader of the People's Party of Canada? The PPC attracted a lot of attention -- a lot of it negative -- in last fall's federal election, but, sadly, failed to elect even one Member of Parliament. Even "Mad Max" lost his own seat in the Québec riding of Beauce, beaten by dairy farmers who didn't like his call for the end of supply management.

Now that the nominally Conservative Party of Canada is struggling to find a leader to replace the sheeplike Andrew Scheer, there has been some loose talk about M Bernier having another go at it, since he led the contest through 13 ballots only to be pipped at the post by Mr Scheer, who was backed by the dairy farmers just mentioned and the CPC's perennial core of Francophobes.

Well, Mad Max ain't gonna do it, nor is he going to disband the People's Party and disappoint the 300,000 members who stood by him through and very thin. In a word, he's not going away. To begin the campaign for the next election, which could come at any time since Mr Socks leads a minority government, M Bernier has launched a weekly show on YouTube in which he promises challenging commentary and interviews on the issues that matter to real Canadians.

Here's the première, including: 1:25 - Why I won’t go back to the Conservative Party; 7:10 - Interview with Philip Cross on the next financial crisis; 39:55 - Editorial on the railway blockades; 41:50 - Political Circus: Peter MacKay and Pride Parades. Check it out.

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If you liked what you saw, please subscribe. As he says in discussing the Cuckservative Party, Max Bernier is the only political leader in Canada who hasn't drunk the liberal Koolaid. He's saying what needs to be said, and what Canadians need to hear. Tell the others!

Footnote: Once and future PPC candidate Laura-Lynn Tyler Thompson has her own YouTube channel and is presently busy defending herself against persescution by the "human rights" and "pro-choice" activists. Walt subscribes to both her and Max's channels.

Thursday, October 10, 2019

VIDEOS: Mass immigration to Canada -- yes or no?

Two short videos for our readers in Canuckistan. Hey [Eh! Ed.], you guys [and gals! Ed.], the federal election is only 11 days away. It's your big chance to turf out Mr Socks and his gang of ultra-liberal, ultra-PC SJWs. Stop the insanity!

No matter how much the Canadian (((controlled media))) deny it (Hello, Evan Solomon and Question Period! Hello, Rosie Barton and At Issue!), mass immigration is one of the top issues in the minds of Canadian voters. Every recent poll shows most people -- the majority of those surveyed -- believe immigration levels are too high, and should be lowered, not raised. Yet the commentariat calls Maxime Bernier's People's Party of Canada a "fringe party" whose policies "do not reflect the Canadian consensus."

That's the reason they give for pressuring advertising companies to take down the "No to Mass Immigration" billboards paid for and posted by PPC supporters back in August. See "PC police force takedown of pro-PPC anti-immigration billboards", WWW 26/8/19. Maxime Bernier's comment at the time: "The message on the billboard is not 'controversial' for two thirds of Canadians who agree with it, and for those who disagree but support free speech and an open discussion. It's only controversial for the totalitarian leftist mob who want to censor it." (Click here to see the "totalitarian leftist mob" in action at Hamilton ON on October 6th.)

The loony left and their apologists in the media call "No to mass immigration" "racist" and "hate speech". Those words are not to be heard or viewed on "our streets", they say. But the contrary, politically correct sentiment -- "Say YES to Mass Immigration" -- is not just acceptable, but to be encouraged! A billboard bearing that message has just been put up by a self-styled comedian who calls himself "Sugar Sammy". Here's what "Mike from Simcoe-Grey County-Clearview Township" has to say about the obvious double standard.



Mike says if you're a Canadian patriot and want to say NO to mass immigration, Maxime Bernier is your only choice on election day. Walt agrees (but see warning below.) If you didn't see the video in which "Mad Max" talks about talks about immigration, refugees, and hate speech, click here to check it out.

But wait (as Vince Offer used to say), there's more... Today I'm reposting a new video, released on Tuesday, in which Laura-Lynn Tyler Thompson, the PPC candidate in Red Deer-Lacombe (AB), explains, clearly and calmly, the People's Party policy on immgration. Running time 4:11,



Reality check
: Walt endorses LLTT and Maxime Bernier and PPC candidates across Canada. Is that clear? But realistically the PPC has a chance of winning only 5 ridings out of 338. Dear Canadian readers, if your first priority is (as it should be) to get rid of Just In Trudeau and his Gliberals, you must vote strategically.

In most ridings, the real fight will be between Trudeau's Liberals and Andrew Scheer's Somewhat Conservatives. If the race looks like being close, vote Conservative to defeat Mr Blackface. If either the Conservative or the Liberal candidate looks like being a lock, then vote PPC, the party you know is Right!

Wednesday, September 25, 2019

VIDEO: Laura-Lynn Tyler Thompson talks about abortion

Laura-Lynn Tyler Thompson, who has been featured on WWW before, is the People's Party of Canada candidate for Member of Parliament for the Alberta riding of Red Deer-Lacombe. In this short (5:31) video she offers some thoughts on abortion. Canada is the only country in the Western world that has no laws whatsoever restricting abortion at any stage of pregnancy. Ms Tyler Thompson thinks that the wisdom of allowing the indiscriminate killing of unborn babies, at any time and for any reason, should at least be open to debate.



The People's Party of Canada is the only Canadian political party allowing for open debate. All others will block and oppose any discussion of this topic, as well as any and all measures for the protection of the unborn. Click here to visit Laura-Lynn Tyler Thompson's website, to learn more about her and the PPC platform.

BONUS VIDEO: Click here to watch Max Bernier interviewed in November 2018 by Vassy Kapelos on CBC-TV's Power and Politics. "Mad Max" (he doesn't mind the nickname) calls policies aimed at gender parity a "kind of discrimination". He also discusses climate change and his efforts to build his fledgling party.

Wednesday, August 28, 2019

VIDEO: PPC Candidates discuss globalism, Islamism, and immigration

Canuckistan's federal election is less than two months away. The No. 1 issue at the ballot box is likely to be immigration. But, as noted in "Canada's 'independent' Debate Commission shuts out Max Bernier", no-one except Maxime Bernier and the People's Party of Canada wants to talk about it.

No-one. The leaders of the two major parties (Tweedledumb and Tweedledumber) don't want to talk about it. Neither do the leaders of the two minor parties. Nor do the (((controlled media))) and the liberal commentariat. Why? Because all of them are agreed that unfettered mass migration and open borders -- come one, come all! -- are good for Canada! That's the official multi-party line, the political orthodoxy which is not to be challenged. Period.

Only the People's Party of Canada offers a realistic alternative to the mass migration espoused by all the others. See "Max Bernier's PPC policy on immigration, in point form", WWW 25/7/19. But will the Canadian people get to hear about it? Not if the usual suspects (named above) have their way. That's why Maxime Bernier is not being allowed to participate in any of the televised leaders' debates. That's why pro-PPC anti-mass-immigration billboards have been torn down. See "PC police force takedown of pro-PPC anti-immigration billboards", WWW 26/8/19.

The People's Party of Canada, its leader and its supporters are being vilifed in the lamestream media as racists, Islamophobes, white nationalists, yada yada yada, for daring to suggest that the No-longer-great White North's immigration policies need a rethink. And your average Canuck doesn't know enough about the PPC and its policies to challenge those slurs, because the PPC is being so effectively deplatformed.

So... as a service to the Canadian public... Walt is sharing this video of five of the alleged racists etc etc talking about immigration, Islamism and globalism. This was recorded at the PPC convention in Gatineau QC on the evening of August 17th. Mark Friesen, Frank Vaughan, David Haskell, Laura Lynn Thompson, and Ivan Pak are not just reciting talking points from the party platform. They are giving their own opinions, exercising their right to speak out and put these issues on the table for discussion. They and their leader should be heard.



Further reading: Click here to find out how the People's Party policies compare with those of the other parties.

Monday, August 19, 2019

VIDEO: A thank-you note from Max

Maxime Bernier said some kind words to me on Saturday. I asked him if I could get that in writing. Here `tis!


And here's a "home video" (posted by Laura-Lynn Tyler Thompson) of M Bernier's speech to the faithful on Sunday. Pity about the sound level but it gives you the flavour of the event.

Tuesday, May 7, 2019

VIDEO: Laura-Lynn Tyler Thompson & Friends talk about the New World Order, political Islam and the indoctrination of our children

Walt is so pleased to find that Laura-Lynn Tyler Thompson is still out there! You may remember her (and been impressed, as I was) as one of the first candidates of Max Bernier's People's Party of Canada, speaking the truth in videos posted here back in the winter. See "LLTT tells why she ran for the People's Party of Canada", WWW 26/2/19. Ms Tyler Thompson didn't get elected, but will likely have another go at it in October. Meanwhile, she's got a great YouTube channel, Laura-Lynn & Friends, which I recommend wholeheartedly.

I'm pleased to repost a brand new video in which LLTT interviews award-winning international journalist, educator, author and consultant, Alex Newman, who discusses the New World Order and the agenda of chaos. Also appearing is Tanya Gaw, co-founder of Action 4 Canada, who talks about the crisis in the education of our children, who are being indoctrinated in gender ideology in furtherance of that same One World agenda.



Further viewing (for our Canuck readers): "The Conservative Party of Canada no longer represents the grassroots of our nation" - More straight talk from LLTT, posted to YouTube 6/5/19.

Monday, March 18, 2019

VIDEO: Laura-Lynn Tyler Thompson speaks up for school dress codes

During the run up to the recent by-election in the Canadian electoral district of Burnaby South (BC), Walt reposted some videos featuring Laura-Lynn Tyler Thompson, the candidate for the People's Party of Canada. See "People's Party candidate kills at Burnaby South debate", WWW 16/2/19, "PPC's Laura-Lynn Tyler Thompson and NDP's Sikh leader in heated debate on immigration and 'racism'", WWW 22/2/19, and "LLTT tells why she ran for the People's Party of Canada", WWW 26/2/19.

Ms Tyler Thompson did pretty well in her first run for a brand new party of the right, finishing a respectable fourth. People voted for her because of her strong public positions against abortion and in favour of Christian values. Good for her! And I'm so happy to see that she hasn't retired from the field, or biding her time until the general election due in October. No. She's back on the video stump, speaking out on an issue which is dividing communities in the BC community of Chilliwack (as well as the rest of Canada and the USA).

The issue is that of whether schools should have dress codes which require students (read: girls) to dress with respect for modesty and decency, rather than the slutty look encouraged by the lamestream media and the wimmin's lib crowd. The issue was debated recently by Chilliwack school trustees. The local CTV outlet covered the debate, giving it the usual "progressive" slant. LLTT found the CTV report and the debate itself shocking, and decided to put her comments together with several clips from the debate to make her point.

Ms Tyler Thompson characterizes the actions and perspectives of the "pro-removal of dress code" trustees and BC Teachers Federation President Glen Hansman, "extremely creepy and dangerous!" She accuses them of wanting to bring in the SOGI agenda: a sex-positive culture where social norms, values and morals don't exist. Those who promote this new agenda want to remove a dress code that protects young women from harassment and being objectified. They want to bring in a policy that makes it perfectly acceptable to allow teenagers' bra straps, cleavage, short shorts and their underwear to be showing.

In this video, LLTT calls it "very disturbing and sick" for an adult female (Board Vice-Chair, Willow Reichelt) and her male colleagues to be pushing for the removal of all semblance of modesty, appropriate attire and protection for young vulnerable women. She calls this incessant push to make what's right wrong, and what's wrong right, "social terrorism". Good phrase, that.



I like the way Ms Tyler Thompson ends this commentary. She reminds Canadians -- and not only Canadians -- that in an election year they should vote for those who stand for "justice, truth, integrity, values and principles." And, she concludes, "God help us all!" Amen.

Tuesday, February 26, 2019

VIDEO: LLTT tells why she ran for the People's Party of Canada

A day late and a dollar short? I wish I'd been able to put this up before yesterday's by-elections in the Canadian electoral districts of York-Simcoe (ON), Outremont (QC) and Burnaby South (BC). The last of those was contested by the Sikh Sikh Sikh leader of the socialist NDP, opposed by the Liberals, Conservatives and Maxime Bernier's new People's Party of Canada. The PPC candidate was Laura-Lynn Tyler Thompson, who explains in this short (5:06) campaign video why she joined the PPC and stood as a candidate.



As reported here this morning, Ms Tyler Thompson finished fourth -- a respectable fourth but fourth all the same. In Canada's first-past-the-post electoral system (as in the USA and UK), you don't get any prize for coming fourth, or even second.

So why am I posting this now, after the battle's lost? Because there will be other battles, notably a general election in October, and I believe Canadians who want to save their country from the socialist, social engineering policies of Trudeau's Liberals should be not just supporting but joining the People's Party of Canada, for the reasons given by Ms Tyler Thompson. Click here to read the PPC platform, and, if you believe in "Canada for Canadians", click here to become a member! Tell Mad Max that Laura-Lynn (and Walt!) sent ya!

Strong showing for People's Party of Canada in Burnaby South,,,

In the other two ridings contested in by-elections yesterday -- Outremont and York Simcoe -- not so much. But for a movement which only became an official party in January, it was a decent showing, holding promise of becoming a real force in the federal election in October. The PPC, founded last fall by Maxime "Mad Max" Bernier, a Conservative Member of Parliament and former minister in the government of Steve Harpoon, got 10.6% of the vote in Burnaby South, and an average of only 2% in the other two ridings -- a mixed bag but at least Canucks weary of liberalism now know they have a real choice.

The PPC standard-bearer in Burnaby South was Laura-Lynn Tyler Thompson, mentioned with approval here a couple of times. A former Christian talk show host, Ms Tyler Thompson had some name recognition before launching her candidacy. She ran a decidedly populist campaign, using the slogan "Canada for Canadians", which played well to her base of evangelical Chinese-Canadians.

Jugmeat Singh, the leader of the socialistic New Democratic Party -- 58 years "new" -- won the riding, so finally will get to sport his turban inside the House of Commons. The Liberal and Conservative candidates, both Chinese-Canadian, finished second and third, respectively, with Ms Tyler Thompson a strong fourth.

In Ontario and Québec, the voters did about what was expected, staying home in droves. In the Ontario riding of York-Simcoe, the turnout was only some 20% of eligible voters. The riding has been held by the Conservatives since 2004 and continues that way, with the Tory candidate getting more than half the votes, finishing some 20 points ahead of the Liberal. PPC candidate Robert Geurts, a criminal lawyer [clarify, please. Ed.] placed a distant sixth out of nine candidates with only 1.9% of the vote.

In the Québec riding of Outremont, People's Party candidate James Seale, a Canadian Army veteran, did a little better, with 2.1% of the vote. A member of the armed forces for more than 30 years before retiring, Mr Seale said he was attracted to the PPC because of M Bernier's promise to increase investment in Canada's defence. Apparently that doesn't go over very well, especially when said in English, in the up-scale part of Montréal. The Liberals took back the traditionally Liberal riding from the NDP, while the Conservatives finished fifth.

Even before the final results were in, M Bernier tweeted that volunteers should be proud of what they accomplished so soon after the party was founded. "The hundreds of volunteers who helped our candidates in Burnaby South, York–Simcoe and Outremont can be proud of what they achieved," he said. "They blazed a trail that thousands of others will follow across the country in October."

Walt sez: Canadians had better hope Mad Max is right! The People's Party is the only party which stands for "Canada for Canadians!"

Friday, February 22, 2019

VIDEO: PPC's Laura-Lynn Tyler Thompson and NDP's Sikh leader in heated debate on immigration and "racism"

Last week Walt posted a video of one of the all-candidates debates in Burnaby South, an electoral district outside of Vancouver which will be one of the first tests of Maxime Bernier's new People's Party of Canada. The PPC's candidate there is Laura-Lynn Tyler Thompson, a staunch pro-lifer and Canada-firster. She is in tough against Jagmeet Singh, the leader of the socialist New Democratic Party, who is taking his last best shot at finally getting a seat in the House of Commons. Last week's video got more hits than any other post so far this month.

Today we have video from the last of those debates, in which the hot topic was immigration. (That's likely to be the No. 1 issue in the general election due in October.) Ms Tyler Thompson called for increased border security and strict controls on immigration, including stringent vetting of would-be immigrants to ensure that there won't be a repeat of the Marrissa Shen tragedy, reported last September on WWW. Predictably, Mr Singh and his supporters in the crowd called Ms Tyler Thompson a racist and tried to shout her down. Watch what happened next. Running time: 11:29.


Saturday, February 16, 2019

VIDEO: People's Party candidate kills at Burnaby South debate

This is a follow-up to our quiz last Tuesday in which you were invited to spot the People's Party of Canada candidate in a pic of the six candidates contesting the by-election in the Canadian electoral district of Burnaby South. The PPC candidate is Laura-Lynn Tyler Thompson, who looks like a winner to me!

Today we have a video, posted to YouTube by a convert to the PPC, in which Ms Tyler Thompson debates the others on the topic "Can Canada survive Facebook?" -- the role on the issues of free speech and the censorship of politically incorrect opinions in the lamestream media. You'll enjoy seeing her eviscerate the pinko NDP candidate -- Jagmeet Singh, the one who the media say is going to win -- and the others. Listen to what this woman has to say. How could you not vote for her?!



The by-election will be held on February 25th. Walt isn't taking bets, because it's pretty hard for the candidate of a brand new party to win on the first go-round, but I'll sure be watching!

Tuesday, February 12, 2019

Quiz: Spot the People's Party of Canada candidate

Today Walt has a little quiz for you, related to a by-election to be held in the British Columbia riding of Burnaby South. [Explain, please! Ed.] Under the rules of the Canadian House of Commons, if a seat becomes vacant, a special election, called a "by-election" must be held after a time so the people of that riding (= district) won't lack a Member to draw a large salary for misrepresenting them. On February 25th, the people of Burnaby South -- a suburb of Vancouver -- get a chance to replace an NDP (= socialist) Member who quit to find a better job.

What makes this one interesting is the New Democratic Party standard-bearer this time is none other than Jagmeet Singh! [Who?! Ed.] Mr Singh is the poster boy for tribal politics and bloc voting, having marshalled a gang of Sikh people to elect him leader of the NDP, way back in 2017. Unfortunately for him and his party, Mr Singh didn't have a seat in the House of Commons, having quit his job as deputy leader of the NDP in the Ontario legislature to find a better job.

Not being an MP, Mr Singh couldn't participate in the deliberations of the Commons, or do very much else except stand at the door and look hopeful. With the NDP at its lowest ebb in the polls (not to mention fundraising) in decades, he was given an ultimatum by the remaining members -- all three of them -- that he'd better get himself elected right sharpish, so threw his turban in the Burnaby ring.

Mr Singh may have expected that the ruling Liberals would show him the courtesy of not putting up a candidate to oppose him, particularly since the pundits say the pinkos would fare worse, in the October general election, with Mr Singh at the helm than they would with ABS (Anyone But Singh). Alas, it was not to be.

The Liberals nominated a nice Chinese-Canadian lady, who made the mistake of speaking honestly and directly about the ethnicity issue, telling her copatriots that they should vote her because she's one of them and Mr Singh is, errr, a Sikh. As Walt reported in "Most Canadians think Islam, Sikhism bad for their society" (WWW 17/11/17), most Canadians think... [We get it. Ed.]

For telling the truth, the Liberal candidate was forced by her own party (Just In Trudeau, Prop.) to step down. However, the local Liberals showed a bit of backbone and nominated another Chinese-Canadian, one of the three gentleman shown in this picture, taken a couple of days ago just before an all-candidates debate.


That would be Richard Lee, the one in the grey sweater. The debate moderator, at the far left, is explaining the ground rules to Mr Lee and all the other Burnaby South candidates, including Jagmeet Singh -- the one wearing the turban and the most expensive suit. [I thought all socialists dressed in tweed jackets and corduroy pants. Ed.] So now you know who two of the candidates are. Of the remaining four, two are independents, one is a Conservative, and one represents Maxime Bernier's new People's Party of Canada. Today's quiz: Which one is the PPC candidate?

If you guessed it's the only woman in the crowd, you're right... and so is she! She's Laura-Lynn Tyler Thompson, who has a pretty good shot at making a race of it, given that Canada's Conservatives are just a hair to the right of the libtards. Jay Shin, the Conservative, is on the right only in the picture. The independents, left to right, are Terry Grimwood and Valentine Wu.

Ed. has told me that we don't have any prize for this one, other than the satisfaction, if you're a supporter of the PPC [and if you aren't, why not?! Ed.] of knowing that you instinctively chose the kind of candidate you'd be right to vote for!