Good news. He won't get elected by copying Trump.
And Trump will never be elected president.
And Ford will never become mayor.
And Jason Kenney will never become the premier of Alberta.
And so on.
It's true I overestimated Americans. I did not think so many of them could be so deeply ignorant.
Ford didn't win because he was a Conservative. He won because the Liberals were long in the tooth and the NDP untrusted.
I am not at all surprised that Kenny is premier. Alberta has been right wing for decades if not forever. The surprise was that Notley won at all. I feel sorry for Albertans because I think they are in for a very rude awakening and will have hard choices to make. Albertans are accustomed to saying if you want a job, move. Not so accustomed to hearing it. It seems separatist sentiment is very high out west. They think Quebec got all kinds of concessions out of being separatist so why shouldn't it work for Alberta and Saskatchewan? It probably would if they wanted the same things, like control over immigration, but they don't. They think the threat of separation will get them a pipeline. It won't.
Scheer is no Harper. A more saavy politician could take Trudeau just not Scheer this election. Like Mulcair, Scheer doesn't have good political instincts or doesn't follow those who do. Canadians are not hawks. We tolerate military action but we don't like it.