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ELECTIONS CANADA 2019 - STRATEGIC VOTE
By Bernard Bujold -
Less than a week from October 21, the strategic voting strategy is becoming increasingly important as it is evident that the Liberals and Conservatives are tied in polls at 31-32% (as of Tuesday, October 15, 2019).
The solution for many voters will be to vote not to elect a deputy, but to vote to prevent a party from winning a minority of seats and its leader to become Prime Minister. Justin Trudeau or Andrew Scheer, that's the question?
Personally, I will vote strategically but with the goal of increasing the country total of votes to my favorite leader. Although proportional voting has no official significance, it remains statistically that the overall result will be analyzed. If a party totals, say a million votes rather than a thousand, the leader of that party will be able to assess its significance.
Moreover, with respect to my personal strategic vote, I continue to believe that with more than 300 candidates running, it is mathematically impossible for any candidate from Maxime Bernier's party to be elected.
To be continued!
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DEBATE OF THE LEADERS 2019
By Bernard Bujold
The leaders' debate in French was well conducted but none of the leaders could establish themselves as the "champion" of the October 21 election.
Yves François Blanchet did not escape at the front of the race and if we compare to a horse race, we can say that the race will end with the photo finish...
My favorite horse, Maxime Bernier, did very well but unlike elsewhere in the world, especially in the United States, here in Canada there is no polarization between the right and the left. Canadians are dispersed and diverse when it comes to defining their political support. Because of that, Maxime Bernier did not manage to stand out from the race and was unable to attract a section of the Canadian population to his party.
If there is a polarization of voters in Canada, it is at the level of political party organizations.
In this sense in 2019, the Liberal organization against the Conservative will produce a winner in the election. In the end, it will be either Justin Trudeau or Andrew Scheer as the minority Prime Minister because many voters will vote for one or other of the two major parties depending on their geographic location.
The other leaders will become for the next four years "jester of the king" in the court which is the Canadian Parliament ...
And Maxime Bernier? Mathematically with more than 300 candidates in the running, he should win a few seats, according to the law of chance, and he will thus become a voice in the King's Court, like other fools! If Maxime were not to win any seat, then Albert's theory will be proven wrong ... (Albert Einstein)
To be continued !
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LINO SAPUTO ENTREPRENEUR
By Bernard Bujold -
I just finished reading the biographical book: LINO SAPUTO ENTREPRENEUR.
I loved it but I must say that I already knew the character and that I always admired him and I also meet him in person a few times during one of my previous live.
His biography is of course authorized by the subject but the fact remains that Saputo has made several confidences to the author John Parisella and that we can easily better understand the path of the founder of the Saputo empire, especially if we read between the lines and that we know a little about the business world.
Personally, after my reading, I notice a great connection between the values of Lino Saputo and those of Donald Trump! Two persons who are both very motivated and energetic in their work; generous towards their entourage; valued highly, if not mainly, their families; very skilled communicators who consider the media to be lacking in objectivity and unfair to them; and both rich and billionaires who love comfort and beauty... (Author John Parisella will probably not agree with my comparison as he is a fervent opponent of the Trump character...)
A big difference is, however, political life. If Donald is a passionate politician, Lino pays very little attention and considers that a career as a politician is an impossible challenge where the right to make mistakes does not exist, unlike in business.
I highly recommend the book to anyone who is passionate about success stories, especially those of Quebec entrepreneurs. The book is published in several languages and Lino Saputo plans to visit each of the empire's factories around the world to give copies to employees. He considers this biography to be his spiritual testament and hopes that his grandchildren will be proud to be Saputo descendants.
SEE WEBSITE OF THE BOOK
ELECTIONS CANADA 2019
By Bernard Bujold -
The 2019 federal election is really difficult to predict....
-Emotionally, Justin Trudeau is advantaged because he is charismatic, young and handsome even if, according to many, he is the least competent of the candidates running for Prime Minister.
-Mathematically, Andrew Scheer has some chance of being the next PM and some surveys calculate him as the winner even if no one likes him, despite the fact that he is probably more competent than Justin. Scheer's big flaw is that he doesn't look nice!
-Logically, the ideal would be a minority government with a little bit of each of the political parties, a bit of Green, a bit of Maxime, some NDP, and a lot of Bloc, in Quebec.
Really complicated....
It will be necessary to see if the two debates on October 7 (English) and October 10 (French) will shuffle the cards and change the game.
-Personally, I would like to vote Maxime but I don't see any poster of his candidate in my riding...
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