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CBC's At Issue panel of Andrew Coyne, Chantal Hébert and Bruce Anderson moderated by Peter Mansbridge from Thursday's program presented a rare united front and took serious shots at Justin Trudeau and his anti-Alberta remarks.

As Chantal Hébert said just substitute Quebec or Quebeckers for Alberta or Albertans in the remarks and think of outrage that would have provoked. As she notes "if you don't think it, you don't say it". This was not just a gaffe, it is a major error in judgement on Trudeau's part.

Andrew Coyne says the remarks are very damaging reinforcing a pre-existing notion of how the central Canadian LPC elites see Alberta and worse Trudeau gave no indication that he did not believe what he said. It marks down his ability to unify a fractious country.

Bruce Anderson says terrible comments in light of what he had been trying to do in trying to appear inclusive of the West and in particular Alberta recently. It also speaks to his lack of fitness for high office and his judgment - the sort of concerns that had been lurking just below the surface even in his own party.

And as Andrew Coyne points out all the riding associations across Canada will have equal weight when voting for the next leader so it does not matter for those purposes if the Liberals have elected MPs, the riding counts the same as heavily subscribed Liberal riding in Ontario or Quebec and another candidate could exploit this.

And all the panel agrees this will have great effect on the by-election and according to Chantal Hébert Trudeau may well wear this defeat.

Here is the video of the panel discussion.

http://www.cbc.ca/th...sue-112212.html

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Well, the by-election concerns Alberta. But since the poll was released the talk has been about Trudeau, leaving those involved in the actual by-election saying, 'Hey! What about us?!?'

It's all part of the plan to make Albertan interests look more important by deflecting attention away from Albertan interests and onto somebody from out east.

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Well, the by-election concerns Alberta. But since the poll was released the talk has been about Trudeau, leaving those involved in the actual by-election saying, 'Hey! What about us?!?'

It's all part of the plan to make Albertan interests look more important by deflecting attention away from Albertan interests and onto somebody from out east.

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Polls are never really meaningless, as they indicate current voting trends, but if this one was as meaningless as you say... Why all the attention pointed towards 2010 Trudeau comments, a day after the poll's publication?

If the poll was Alberta-only, then i guess you'd be correct in saying that it was meaningless. Federally.

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Who cares about a byelection in alberta. Worrying about a riding in alberta is like worrying about a by election in texas. It doesn't matter who wins there. It has no direct effect outside of the province. No one looks at alberta and says oh look they had a riding taken over by the liberals or lost to the conservatives. No one cares how they vote.

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The guy is going to win the leadership basically unopposed. The whole country sees him as the heir apparent. If they do have other nominees they will be basically token nominees to make it at least look like it wasn't just given to him when in actual fact that is what will happen.

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The guy is going to win the leadership basically unopposed. The whole country sees him as the heir apparent. If they do have other nominees they will be basically token nominees to make it at least look like it wasn't just given to him when in actual fact that is what will happen.

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According to the panel there are up to 9 contenders and they will include Martha Hall Findlay, Marc Garneau and Deborah Coyne (mother to Justiin's half-sister Sarah Elisabeth Coyne, Pierre's Trudeau's only daughter) all of whom have significantly superior resumes and real world experience to that of Justin.

The last Liberal coronation was that of Michael Ignatieff and how did that work out?

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