Is Easterners Love Affair with Liberals over?

[Barney Google]

Huffington Post:
Trudeau's Liberals Facing Rumblings Of Atlantic Canada Discontent After Electoral Sweep

"...Critics and political observers say a number of perceived missteps are starting to take the form of a political narrative that does not reflect well on the governing party or its telegenic leader, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau...."

"..."When you start adding these up, the cumulative effect can be woven into quite a rhetorical tapestry for an opposition party," says Tom Bateman, a political science professor at St. Thomas University in Fredericton.

"That's what the Liberals have to worry about."

Among other things, Atlantic Canadians have been irked by Trudeau's suggestion that he may not replace a retired Supreme Court of Canada judge from Nova Scotia with someone from Atlantic Canada. ..."

"..."Here we've had a shutout — 32 out of 32 — and it doesn't seem to be working that way," he says. "The issue then becomes whether the government can simply take this region for granted knowing that voters here ... really have nowhere else to go."

Geoffrey Stevens, writing for the Laurier Institute for the Study of Public Opinion and Policy, said the Liberals' position on the Supreme Court has voters in Atlantic Canada worried.

"After years of feeling ignored by the ... Conservatives (under former prime minister Stephen Harper), the region's ardent embrace of the Liberals is understandable," he wrote last month.

"Understandable, perhaps, but some Atlantic Canadians have reason to wonder whether their love affair with the Liberals may be too much of a good thing. Have they gone from being ignored by the Tories to being taken for granted by the Grits?"..."

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2016/09/26 ... in-trudeau

[oneh2obabe]

MPs unanimously support regional representation for Supreme Court
By Katie Simpson, CBC News
Posted: Sep 27, 2016 9:30 PM ET Last Updated: Sep 27, 2016 9:30 PM ET

<snip> On Tuesday afternoon, members of Parliament from all parties voted unanimously in favour of an opposition motion calling on the government to "respect the custom of regional representation" when making appointments to the country's top court.

The motion adds, "in particular, when replacing the retiring Justice Thomas Cromwell, who is Atlantic Canada's representative on the Supreme Court."

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was in the House for the vote, and he stood in favour of the opposition motion brought forward by Conservative justice critic Rob Nicholson. <snip>

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/mps-vot ... -1.3781520

[Barney Google]

Thanks for posting that link, Oneh2obabe!

I do think that many Easterners would have liked to have seen the Liberals take that step prior to a vote being taken.
Perhaps that would have shown stronger support from the Liberals for out East issues and concerns.

That being said, I was VERY pleased to learn yesterday that All parties voted to "respect the custom of regional representation" when making appointments to the country's top court and I think any other similar type appointments should be given the same respect when considering regional representation and appointments.