The NDP needs to electing a humble union rep who cares about worker rights and salaries.
Jagmeet was a lawyer wearing a rolex and driving a BMW that sit idly by while the government forced unions back to work, as he bragged about providing unfunded scraps while he debased salaries with UN defined wage slaves. Focus on worker rights and housing demand, lift all boats, stop focusing on niche groups while making everyone poorer.
We have had abysmal performance under the Liberals. Second last in the OECD next to Luxembourg since 2015, all while taking on a ton of debt, and fostering a massive housing bubble by buying half of all mortgage bonds federally and doing mass immigration. So what did we avoid?
Its interesting they don’t have all the services Proton does. I’d pay them for a email and VPN combo.
I just remembered that parliament cant even function, and I was assuming it was them that were doing it, as a matter of enforcing accountability.
Why was parliament even prorogued for so long during all these tariff threats, was it something the conservatives did?
The way I see it orchestrated by Trump is if the tariffs stay on manufacturing many provinces will be wiped out. Carney will then provide a bailout using funds from Alberta, whose exports will increase due to a devalued Canadian dollar and a 2.5x lower tariff on their higher margin product.
Stronghold Defense mod is amazing. It’s basically a base defense game against hundreds of enemies parading towards you, with custom weapons and power ups.
Caroline Rogers “rang the alarm bell” on productivity, and interest rates will be higher going forward due to aging demographics, so debt will compound faster than it had been. We also had the second to last per capita GDP growth of the 38 country in the OECD since 2015, which was below inflation.
You can import a lot of people to spread the debt amongst more people, though you’ll have Trudeau’s polling numbers by the end due to severe shortages of basic necessities. Trump allowed Carney to win this last election, though if the tariffs stay in place our interest rates will also rise dramatically, and we need to spend less.
Its hard to compete with a party that offers programs using debt while also cutting taxes, because a high debt load can be kicked down the road and rolled over until it reaches a crisis.
A repeat of Trudeau Sr, which caused pain during Chretien who had to cut spending and raise taxes during a recession, which had his polls fall dramatically by the end.
In the most bureaucratic industry in Canada with the highest taxes?
If this is your idea of capitalism I’d say its a bit silly, people can’t just build a 12 story apartment to service the demand, nimbys had it shut it down since the 1920s when they were redlining and not much has changed.
Its actually gotten far worse, there used to be loopholes like the Vancouver special, which were closed in the early 90s. Environmental and parking requirements were also much less.
Even provinces that did rezone very recently like BC are still littered with bureaucracy. This rezoning also should have been done a decade before we did 4% annual population growth, a logical order of operations that doesn’t destroy the poor.
Canadian oil with its higher margins and only 10% tariff would easily survive these tariffs, as the currency FX falls they’d be made even cheaper and gain even more investment, while the areas that manufacture cars and who voted Liberal would be hurt the most. You’d think it would be the other way around.
Though I guess the attempt at nationalizing oil revenue in the 80s and the inability to build pipelines in Canada, so that they didn’t have to sell energy at a deep discount, has long sullied Canada for many Albertans. This may have been a subconscious thought for a long time.
I agree. High demand from immigration; lack of supply due to greenbelt, slow permitting, property taxes being passed on as development taxes, and urban sprawl zoning.
Why nationalize only oil, why not manufacturing, mining, lumber, hydro, etc…?
Alberta has no alternatives to export so loses a lot by shipping to the US. Alberta has a huge amount to gain by having alternative shipping routes. I think they’d be happy with things and the media would change their opinion pretty quickly.
Its concluding that if Alberta leaves Quebec will be screwed, so its in Quebecs interest to allow a pipeline to prevent secession. The tariffs on manufacturing emboldens this with an even larger crisis. The long term plan would be to end the reliance on Russian energy, assuming its true, but it seems to be unfolding as predicted so far which is neat.
Heres who was predicting it, starting about 28 minutes in:
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The theory is they’re drumming up a crisis in order to get Quebec to agree to pipelines. Its not about actually separating.
Fixing that fork in the road created with 1961 National Oil Policy, that then brought up huge amounts of pain in the 70s and 80s, which basically flipped the table leading to nationalization attempts and the inevitable failure of the national energy policy.
The Alberta babies are the one who are changing their referendum laws, I’m unsure what point you think you’re making, is it just an attempt at an ad hominem?
Physically standing with unions, but voting to not stand with unions every single time a union strike was broken up.
https://www.readthemaple.com/the-federal-government-has-crushed-another-pair-of-strikes/
They held the balance of power for years and did nothing about it, did they not?