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thehabhater said:
Health insurance and medicine would go way up, life expectancy would go down and infant mortality would go up.
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facts no longer matter to a scary amount of voters.

and many others think they are relying on facts when they are relying on made up nonsense.

this is the fundamental problem in democracies IMO, caused/contributed to in large part by social media run amok...
 
WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou said:
At par, lol.

Who the fuck and more importantly what the fuck do you think Poilievre is, exactly?

Poilievre will happily turn Canada into a vassal state of the Pax Trumperica.
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we already are a US vassal, why do you think people are shitting themselves over a 25% tariff. We are never going to join the US, will always remain "independent" in the strict sense of the word, although maybe a North American version of the EU could occur, driving to Seattle for shopping without a border lineup would be nice
 
TheCountofMonteCristo said:
I was against proroguing then, and am now. Proroguing should not be used as a tool to ensure your government does not fall. However, that said,
Canada is basically a four year dictatorship, has been since the PMOs a few decades ago assumed all power.
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I actually agree. I think a minority PM proroguing parliament to delay a certain defeat on a confidence motion is a blatantly undemocratic move and shouldn’t be allowed.

I’m not sure the mechanism by which you could do that…maybe, if you want to use proroguation, you should have to recall the house and demonstrate that you still hold its confidence.

That said though—again, after how the whole episode with Harper went down, I will ignore any and all Conservative/MAGA complaints about it this time around as the irrelevant, disingenuous bullshit it is.
 
Wayward DP said:
I've long kinda suspected donny is serious about this 51st state thing
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He’s definitely not joking. Even the Greenland shit, as ridiculous and stupid as it is on its face, isn’t a joke to him either.

The only question is his commitment and the lengths he’s willing to go to try and turn his fantasy into a reality.

Which is where our best hopes lie—that some other shiny thing will come along and distract him, and his preoccupation with Canada will pass. Which is essentially how the whole Greenland thing played out in his first term.
 
LeafOfFaith said:
For those in the know, is there any chance the Canadian dollar is going to get better any time soon?
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I doubt it, nothing has changed structurally. imo the dollar is where it is right now mostly due to two forward looking issues

- It's a bet on US interest rates going down. The US bond market is already showing that's where the future looking sentiment is.
- It's the safer position to take regarding potential Trump tariffs. Basically, it's the market betting (but not heavily) that there is some sort of trade scuffle pending with Donnie.
 
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