Election Follies and Funnies #14:

New Liberal campaign ad:

We can’t let Erin O’Toole take Canada backward.

Now is the time to move forward. For everyone. pic.twitter.com/LkV3VzNQiM

— Liberal Party (@liberal_party) September 4, 2021

#cdnpoli "To the surprise of all, a group of independent academics evaluated the Liberal record of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his government and they concluded that the government had kept 92 per cent of its promises" https://t.co/efv7IsMqBy

— Pat Bruce (@PatBruc) September 4, 2021

Here's some good news for today:

"Breathe, keep breathing, and don’t lose your nerve. There remains no path to a Conservative government, and the Liberals will win once again."
Me @UnscriptedScrim on Canada, the polls, and learning from the pasthttps://t.co/LMGD6ZkzfP

— Evan Scrimshaw (@EScrimshaw) September 4, 2021

I think O'Toole is going to find himself in trouble as voters start thinking more seriously about what he is saying and whose interests he is actually representing. Here he sounds really caring, but what he is actually doing is throwing Indigenous people under the bus by implying they are the anti-vaxxers who distrust the health care system:

‼️WTAF ERIN‼️

‘INDIGENOUS PEOPLE’ are Anti-vaxxers

Asked to explain why he is showing compassion for unvaccinated people.

Erin brings up ‘INDIGENOUS PEOPLE’

Insinuates ‘INDIGENOUS PEOPLE’ are Anti-vaxxers

‼️SHAME ON YOU, ERIN‼️#cdnpoli #NeverVoteConservative #Canasda pic.twitter.com/6xcFKdFl1D

— Pathetic O’Toole (@AlbertaOtoole) September 5, 2021

Erin O'Toole has been lying ever since he became Con leader. But when even John Ivison admits that he's a serial liar, you know he's in trouble. As we will be if he ever becomes Prime Minister. #NeverVoteConservative #cdnpoli https://t.co/p4gQ9yMWRp pic.twitter.com/O1aJUFqWPU

— 🇨🇦 Simon 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🌈🏂 (@montrealsimon) September 4, 2021

Well now, isn't this rich. O'Foole is a horrible human and not a leader, he is a liar and a con. Like every Harperite so far. These are your lowest forms of politician. https://t.co/FABsKLOQgV

— Debbie (@ironbow) September 5, 2021

Here some takes on Canadian election issues: 

Housing -

Under a new Rent-to-Own program to help make it easier for renters to get on the path towards home ownership while renting. We will commit $1B in loans & grants to develop and scale up rent-to-own projects with private, not-for-profit, & co-op partners. https://t.co/Q9sehNZTWM

— Jaro Giesbrecht🇨🇦 (@JaroGiesbrecht) September 5, 2021

Climate change -

pic.twitter.com/QbWkFPx32O

— Dr. Mike P. Moffatt 🇨🇦🏅🏅 (@MikePMoffatt) September 3, 2021

Vaccinations -

Canadians endured months of politicization of vaccines, whether it was around approvals, delivery timelines, dosing intervals, vaccine mixing, price, etc. I think it's pretty rich for the opposition to come out now and try to take all of that back because we're in an election.

— John Mark Taylor (@jmt_18325) September 5, 2021

Considering you asked @theJagmeetSingh and @erinotoole to do this months ago and they refused, it’s magnanimous of you not to rub their noses in it.

— persister (@Aawojo) September 5, 2021

If @erinotoole was Prime Minister of Canada last year, Canadians would have received a pamphlet where they could purchase their COVID 19 vaccines. #cdnpoli #Elxn44

— Tom Whittaker (@whittakertp) September 4, 2021

He’s promising to replace @JustinTrudeau’s vaccine mandate for travelling on a plane or train.

With pamphlets.

Not even joking.#cdnpoli #Elxn44 https://t.co/rPwLtu0OO2

— Tyler Meredith (@tylermeredith) September 4, 2021

I get that you wish to portray mandates as threatening, because the unvaccinated feel threatened. But the data tells us precisely where the real threat is coming from. Mr O'Toole, the politics of this are as simple as a jab. You're campaigning for the votes of the unvaccinated.

— Charles Adler (@charlesadler) September 4, 2021

🇨🇦@JustinTrudeau: Health workers being harassed by anti-vaxxers need our help!

"They (Health workers) need Canadians to come together once again in suport of them to defend our frontline workers, to support science & above all get vaccinated" #Cdnpoli #Elxn44#ForwardForEveryone pic.twitter.com/48vf8WHVY3

— Jaro Giesbrecht🇨🇦 (@JaroGiesbrecht) September 3, 2021

Abortion rights -

Erin OToole is asked if he'll ban his backbenchers from introducing new private bills to ban abortion..

He doesn't answer.

— kris meloche (@krismeloche) September 3, 2021

Just a tip to 🇨🇦 media claiming that securing abortion rights is a phony “wedge issue” dragged out by the NDP & LPC every elxn.

Stop doing this.
The concern for women’s reproductive rights is not a joke.
Don’t mock us.

If you don’t understand why it IS an issue every elxn, STFU

— Barbara Levesque (@belle_levesque) September 4, 2021

Banning assault weapons --

So far, Conservative leader Erin O’Toole has been asked 7 questions about why he intends to reverse the ban on a series of semiautomatic weapons involved in mass shootings. O’Toole is not giving a straight answer. He continues to say the Liberals are trying to divide Canadians pic.twitter.com/sbvshOw50P

— Ashley Burke (@AshleyBurkeCBC) September 4, 2021

#ErinOToole was doing very well, coming across as a progressive Conservative. But today on the issue of guns, not so much. https://t.co/5kpP6QKBze

— Charles Adler (@charlesadler) September 5, 2021

So how many of you want the people who are demonstrating outside hospitals, blocking ambulances, freaking out in stores and screaming at masked children to have greater access to the assault-style firearms that a PM @erinotoole would make widely available again?#Elxn44 #cdnpoli pic.twitter.com/RRabMszO4C

— David Hamer (@DavidHamer_1951) September 4, 2021

Daycare --

Fate of national daycare in the hands of Canadian voters https://t.co/7A6YkfjdNb #cdnpoli by @stuffaboutstuff median cost for toddler care for 1 child in Toronto is C$1,578 a month. That drops to C$210 under Liberal plan vs C$1,178 for a middle-income family in Conservative plan

— Steve Scherer (@SchererSteve) September 2, 2021

Now here's an endorsement I didn't expect:

Looks like #MaximeBernier has picked up the ex-con vote! pic.twitter.com/r3fj0WGWl6

— Rev. Michael Coren (@michaelcoren) September 4, 2021

And here's another bizarre story - the Conservative candidate for the Northwest Territories doesn't live there, has never been there, and isn't doing any campaigning there. And somehow, O'Toole thinks this is all Trudeau's fault?

Erin O'Toole claims 'there wasn't time to get good candidates' - but he had his entire platform decided, photo ready, platform printed and released day after election call.https://t.co/FiMCWQ5sRT

— Mike Morris (@1MikeMorris) September 4, 2021

Finally today, this:

Many still ask why I'm not a supporter of the #CPC or #UCP It began in 2015- Harper's final campaign.4 yrs later,I asked my then friend Jason Kenney to apologize for this. He would not & I felt ashamed for my 15 yrs of support for him. I apologized to Canada's #LGBTQ community. https://t.co/zKT524OEuU

— Charles Adler (@charlesadler) September 4, 2021