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They should hire you. And it’s a strategy they could apply more broadly. Press conference in Edmonton at the site of the hospital that the UCP just canceled. Hit up Saskatchewan and really hammer Moe on his attacks on Education.

All the basic social infrastructure that the provinces are responsible for that they have spent the last twenty years ignoring and degrading.

Our current crop of feckless premieres provides so much scope for the Federal government to position itself as the ally of the voters against the provincial governments. The responsible big brother who’ll provide oversight and push for accountability.

They’ve got a year. And if they spend every week of it visibly on the warpath on behalf of voters they could actually turn this around.

But the next issue that the Trudeau government shows strategic, adversarial fight on will be their first. I sometimes think Trudeau has never been able to move beyond his first “sunny ways” slogan. If he can’t accomplish something with polite cooperation he just gives up.

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It is so obvious. Attacking the conservative premiers is the logical next step. The federal Liberals have been laying the ground work (health, housing, daycare and a few other areas). Now, they can say, we have done our part, the provinces are failing you. The premiers are sabotaging your well being. And why is this so obvious, because it is mostly true.

I understand the recommendation of ignoring the carbon tax, but I think that is wrong. Also here is provincial attack possible. Call out the tricks of adding provincial taxes at the same time as the carbon tax increases. Challenge them to come up with a provincial variant. Highlight the rebate, where is the rebate for the provincial fuel tax increase?

However, ignoring Poilievre would be perfect. Just say, Poilievre has no plan, he is not worthy of a response, we are busy with our plan.

It is time for a fight, let’s get serious.

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There's no energy left in the Liberal party. This is a great idea for the party in theory, but they seem to be operating on limiting downside over maximizing and materializing on the upside.

At this point, I'm questioning if they're staying completely out of commenting on provincial Conservative failures because they don't think it will improve their fortunes anyways *and* it might serve to hurt their ideological counterparts in the Alberta NDP / Ontario Liberals to be linked with them.

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