r/canadaguns • u/AutoModerator • Jul 20 '26

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u/Puzzleheaded-Tie35 Jul 30 '26

https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/article/judicial-review-of-ethics-ruling-in-trudeau-case-can-proceed-supreme-court-says/

This ruling is a reason to be more optimistic about our chances at the SCC. In case anyone needed a bit of good news.

It is especially relevant for anyone who had their restricted firearm's registration Thanos-snapped.

And it's even better because it was a 9-0 decision against the current and former governments.

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u/I-LOVE-HENRY-RIFLES Jul 31 '26

I still expect to lose. No way we see them reversed without a CPC government 

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u/CryptidWorks CryptidWorks Aug 02 '26

If the CPC wants to win, they need to run a different campaign than the last three times. The failure of the buyback program and OIC overreach should basically make it like hitting a tee-ball, but nobody seems as apt as snatching defeat from the jaws of victory quite like the Conservatives.

At least they got rid of Jenni Byrne as campaign manager, but they need to get her alllllll the way out. She's like the Wormtongue of shit ideas.

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u/Cre_AK47 Name Prohibited by OIC Aug 03 '26

Jenni was shit as a campaign manager, but the ONLY main reason LPC won was because Boomers not having to worry about much and most being well off and being the vast majority of paid-off home owners, heard that some foreign president said some mean things about Canada while they were watching CBC, with dementia kicking in full-swing forgetting about the last 10 years, just because of evil Orange man bad, and that somehow Pierre was connected to him...

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u/CryptidWorks CryptidWorks Aug 03 '26 edited Aug 03 '26

I'm going to preface this with the fact that I dislike the current government as much as anyone else here, as people seem to think I'm shitting on conservatives as a whole. I'm really not, I'm just looking at the previous few elections and pointing out what needs to change for us to not deal with more of the same.

You are absolutely correct in that the LPC appeals heavily to boomers who own houses. The conservatives, however, partly due to Byrne's guidance, made three giant mistakes:

  • Focusing way, way too hard directly attacking Justin Trudeau and not LPC policies. When Trudeau stepped aside, it sucked the wind out of their sails completely. He was campaigning entirely against Trudeau, not the liberal party.

  • Not immediately condemning the threats of tariffs and the 51st state nonsense. I suspect they were waiting for polling data to tell them if it was safe to do so in their stronghold areas, but by the time they actually did it, the damage was done.

  • Not repeatedly shoving the OICs and their overreach down the Liberals' throats. Their platform didn't even mention un-doing any of the liberals' bans.

It was essentially a rehash of the previous election, also managed by Byrne, which was itself just a more aggressive play of the one before it.

At a certain point, if you're at the range and consistently shooting a foot low, you need to adjust your zero. If you keep shooting and just blame the target, you're simply wasting ammo.