By Hubie and Bertie
Does Pete Hoekstra, the US ambassador to Canada, think that Canadians don't read news from across the border on the interwebs? Maybe so. Yesterday he spoke to a business group in Bellevue, Washington, and said that Benedict Donald thinks Canadians are "nasty" for boycotting American travel and goods.
Well, that certainly sounds like Trump. It isn't clear how it's going to help relations with our closest ally, though. (P.S.: Canadian customs, if you'd like to check Hoekstra's car for US booze when he crosses the border from Michigan, please be our guest.)
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Mark Carney's poll numbers are still riding high, and the Conservative Party is a mess. As we've reported, their leader, Pierre Poilievre, lost his seat in Parliament in the April 28 election. On August 18, he will face the voters in the Alberta riding of Battle River-Crowfoot, which was gifted to him by its previous MP, who had just been re-elected but resigned to help PP stay in Parliament. Battle River-Crowfoot is deep Tory blue (that's "red," in American parlance). But Poilievre does have some opposition there.
Meet Bonnie Critchley, who, quite frankly, is a hoot.
Critchley touches on all the important points in this CBC interview, which is well worth your time even if you aren't intimately familiar with Canadian politics. The bottom line: She's furious — a concept that many of us Americans get all too well these days. And since Poilievre styles himself as a mini-Trump, if he were to get humiliated in this Alberta election next month, it would be a delicious case of schadenfreude for all Donald-loathing people around the world.
PP might be feeling the heat. Yesterday, he posted a complimentary message on Twitter about the convicted leaders of the 2022 Ottawa trucking convoy, who will be sentenced for their crimes tomorrow. Perhaps he thinks he needed to shore up the anti-Ottawa vote in Battle River-Crowfoot. But no matter what his motivation, it's a safe bet that Bonnie Critchley will have a withering response. We cats PURR.
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