Mark Marissen
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Mark Marissen
@marissenmark
Strategist I Advocate I Liberal I Urbanist I Proud Canadian 🇨🇦 Principal, BurrardStrategy.com
Vancouver, Canada
Joined June 2009
- Your dad was chosen by a few thousand people at a leadership convention, Ben. He also didn’t have a seat in Parliament.Mark Carney was selected leader and next Prime Minister by less than 1% of eligible voters in Canada. At what point will he make himself available to the media so the rest of us can figure out who he is? link.chtbl.com/benm pdst.fm/e/chtbl.com/tr… @kinsellawarren
- Greenlanders want to join the United States even less than Canadians want to. euractiv.com/news/virtually…
00:58Trump: "The people of Greenland would love to become a state of the US. Now, Denmark maybe doesn't like it. But then we can't be too happy with Denmark and maybe things have to happen with respect to Denmark having to do with tariffs." - You should get out more.
- I don't normally defend Pierre Poilievre, but I feel I need to here: There is nothing wrong with bringing your kids with you on the campaign trail. They are part of your family.This is very unprofessional. Why is he using his wife and kids on the campaign trail.
Readers added contextPoliticians often campaign with their family. Former PM Justin Trudeau famously campaigned with his wife and children on multiple occasions in 2015. PM Pierre Trudeau had a young Justin on board the "Caesar Salad Express", when people threw vegetables at the Trudeau's. cnn.com/2015/11/04/ame… nytimes.com/2015/10/20/wor… upi.com/Archives/1982/… - I’m a white person. I prefer to live in a place that is multicultural, rather than monocultural. We’re lucky in Canada to have so much access to cultures from around the world right here at home. Exposure to so many different perspectives make us all smarter. We have so much
- No, Scott Moe. Prime Minister Carney needs to meet with leaders who are our allies first.Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe says Mark Carney’s first trade trip should be to Washington, not Europe.
- Every time a Canadian Conservative publicly praises Donald Trump (or makes excuses for him) another Liberal voter is born.
- Who would you choose? The guy who signed your $20 bill or the Bitcoin bro?
- The fact that Pierre Poilievre’s number one advisor mocks Edmonton Oilers fans just as Pierre is about to run in a byelection in Alberta is completely astounding.
- Wayne Gretzky sucks.
- What’s wrong with celebrating Diwali in Canada? Isn’t that one of the great things about our country?WTF. This is Canada not India.
