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manny said:
The system was broken before for sure though. ICBC payouts without caps on soft tissue (ie pretend) injuries was just a means of funnelling public money into personal injury lawyers’ bank accounts. I’m not fully on board with thr NDP’s solution, but something had to be done.

PS “no fault” is a separate issue and something they’ve had off and on in Ontario for decades, so I’m calling bullshit on both these posters knowing what is happening in BC. PFO.
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What's happening is that the government in BC is clamping down on nuisance litigation from ambulance chasing, bottom feeding lawyers.
 
From the Globe and Mail

>>Remarkably, more Quebeckers now say they’re proud to be Canadian than Albertans do; the figure has leapt from 70 per cent to 86 per cent since last summer in polling by Leger (while dipping slightly in oil country).

The author and independent book publisher Mark Fortier knew something was up when he noticed it was impossible to find Canadian ketchup at the grocery store in the mainly francophone Montreal neighbourhood of Ahunstic where he lives, thanks to customers boycotting American goods.

Again, he was taken aback when some of his sovereigntist friends said they were considering voting for the Liberals under leadership front-runner Mark Carney in the impending federal election – at least to block what they perceive as the Trumpian figure of Pierre Poilievre from forming a Conservative government.


Signs of a shift in attitude toward Canada are everywhere in Quebec. Jean-François Lisée, former leader of the sovereigntist Parti Québécois, recently wrote in the newspaper Le Devoir that Mr. Trump’s tariff and annexation threats were an “existential threat” to Canada that required a forceful and united response.
 
CH1 said:
From the Globe and Mail

>>Remarkably, more Quebeckers now say they’re proud to be Canadian than Albertans do; the figure has leapt from 70 per cent to 86 per cent since last summer in polling by Leger (while dipping slightly in oil country).

The author and independent book publisher Mark Fortier knew something was up when he noticed it was impossible to find Canadian ketchup at the grocery store in the mainly francophone Montreal neighbourhood of Ahunstic where he lives, thanks to customers boycotting American goods.

Again, he was taken aback when some of his sovereigntist friends said they were considering voting for the Liberals under leadership front-runner Mark Carney in the impending federal election – at least to block what they perceive as the Trumpian figure of Pierre Poilievre from forming a Conservative government.


Signs of a shift in attitude toward Canada are everywhere in Quebec. Jean-François Lisée, former leader of the sovereigntist Parti Québécois, recently wrote in the newspaper Le Devoir that Mr. Trump’s tariff and annexation threats were an “existential threat” to Canada that required a forceful and united response.
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Would be a helluva thing if Trump both erased the CPC’s massive polling lead over the Liberals, as well as caused a collapse of support from the Bloc to the Liberals.

Hard to see how the CPC has a hope in hell in that scenario.

Would also be interesting to see if disappointment over a dramatic rug-pull like that might cause the formation of an Albertan equivalent of the Bloc Québécois. Especially if Poilievre got ousted in a CPC palace coup and replaced with a more moderate, explicitly anti-Trump leader.
 
LeafGm said:
Would be a helluva thing if Trump both erased the CPC’s massive polling lead over the Liberals, as well as caused a collapse of support from the Bloc to the Liberals.

Hard to see how the CPC has a hope in hell in that scenario.

Would also be interesting to see if disappointment over a dramatic rug-pull like that might cause the formation of an Albertan equivalent of the Bloc Québécois. Especially if Poilievre got ousted in a CPC palace coup and replaced with a more moderate, explicitly anti-Trump leader.
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Quebecers as a whole are pretty savvy voters. They know their nationalistic flank is protected by their provincial government so they can feel comfy voting for a Carney
 
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