CHARBONNEAU – Tories can increase chances by decreasing happiness

Posted on December 15, 2016 in Charbonneau, Columns // 0 Comments

THE ANTICS of some Conservative leadership hopefuls are pathetic.

Chris Alexander at a rally bobs his head in rhythm to the chants “lock her up” in reference to Premier Rachel Notley, tone deaf to the toxic implications; Kellie Leitch calls for immigrants to be tested for “Canadian Values” even though no such test exists and if it did, she would probably fail.

Trump-style populism into will not succeed because Canadians are not ripe for such politics –we need more inequality and the resultant unhappiness for this approach to work.

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