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Conservative party drops Quebec candidate who said massacre survivor was playing ‘victim game’ (www.theglobeandmail.com)

submitted 6 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The Conservative party confirmed late Friday afternoon it has dropped Payette as a candidate – just the latest in a slew of candidates shed by the Liberals and Conservatives this week over contentious comments ahead of Monday’s nomination deadline.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 days ago

These guys are fucking psychos:

*Mr. Payette left a series of comments on Provost’s Facebook page in French beginning Thursday night and into Friday, often taunting her to participate in a live debate with him.

In one post, he wrote that he would look her “straight in the eye” as he tears up Bill C-21, the gun control law passed under former prime minister Justin Trudeau, in Parliament under a Conservative majority.

He said he would then use the bill as toilet paper every time he uses the bathroom in Parliament.

“It will be uncomfortable but I will do it to bring justice to all the country’s sport shooters,” he wrote in French.

Ms. Provost had survived the 1989 Ecole Polytechnique massacre, when a gunman brimming with hate for feminists killed 14 women and injured as many others, later becoming a prominent Canadian gun-control advocate and now a star Liberal candidate.*

[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 days ago (2 children)

They're seriously just copy and pasting Alex Jones and MAGA

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago

The PPC should sue for gimmick infringement at this point.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

At the very least it doesn't seem to be working, considering that this is the fifth time in three days that they had to do this.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Ive lost track. Is this the 4th or the 5th candidate the Cons have had to drop because they're found to be a complete shitbag (even by CPC's low standards)?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

5th and it’s not bad by CPC standards it’s because they don’t want their base to turn away liberal/ndp voters

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

A party that accepted so many of that sort of people as candidates without any discernable vetting isn't likely to attract a lot of center or left voters anyway.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

They had those voters just a short while ago

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Clearly most of those weren't "core supporters" and more "I don't like the other guy".

When offered a better option, they bailed rapidly.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

"Latest in a slew of || by the Liberals and Conservatives"? I'm pretty sure the Liberals only got rid of one guy in total for a single bad remark, while this is now what, the fifth guy in only like three days? And for years if not decades of saying terrible things?