Blaming the candidates is missing the point. It's the party leaders who need to make this happen.
There needs to be a single alliance party right from the outset who's only mandate is to implement PR, call an election and disband.
I'm not disagreeing that trumps claims are bullshit? I'm wondering what the "lots of time and money" were. AFAIK, we spent a few million dollars to fly some helicopters around. We might just have very different definitions of what "a lot of money" means in the context of federal spending.
Besides, if those millions of dollars bought us one extra month of no tariffs, that's the investment of the century. Quite the opposite of a waste of time.
Socksucker?