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MindzEye said:
Its been PP's thing since he won the leadership
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Also been his thing his entire political career. Being an hyper-partisan, ultra-right wing nasty attack dog has always been his brand as a politician and it’s almost certainly genuinely who he is as a person as well.

And he and Byrne are deeply convinced Scheer and O’Toole lost because they didn’t lean hard enough into right wing, culture warrior populism.
 
MindzEye said:
I don't care what it means to say, refugees are refugees and immigrants are immigrants. These are words with definitions. I don't think we do ourselves any good at all when we tolerate racist dog whistle bullshit which is what referring to immigrants (who are a massive value add to society on balance) as refugees is.

Did the Liberals let in too many people?

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That post covid spike was a fuck up, sure (one they've taken steps to correct already). But a bunch of people in the country on student visas and work permits isn't what caused the housing crisis. We did that to ourselves with decades of....not building enough housing.

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Apologies for the chart missing x axis data, but each pip is a year from 1943 to 2023. Housing starts up significantly during Trudeau (but still not enough), down during Harper, up during Chretien.

The thing with the housing crisis though, like our energy issues is that "the market" is supposed to be the solution to those problem and just....hasn't been. Are people willing to accept what comes next when we accept that the hallowed market isn't the solution to nationwide problems?
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First, we need to stop calling it a "housing" crisis when it is actually a housing affordability crisis. The market might be able to solve the supply side of a housing shortage but it can't be trusted to be the solution to the lack of affordability because it and the greed on which the market generates and relies is the root cause of that problem.

This isn't a problem that will be fixed by Pee-Pee's "build the homes" slogan, unless he's talking about the government building them, which I'm sure he is not. Further enriching developers and real estate speculators isn't going to make housing affordable, no matter how many new homes get built.
 
Wayward DP said:

View: https://x.com/maxfawcett/status/1910711265749762501
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Poilievre was also asked point-blank by a reporter yesterday if he believes the polls and if he’ll respect the results of the election if he loses.

He didn’t answer either question. Instead of just went off on his usual tangent about how the Liberals are shit and don’t deserve a 4th term, then rattled off several of his favourite slogans before moving to the next question.
 
lecoqsportif said:
Non-serious answer: I’m a glass half-empty type.

More serious:

1) I think the L swing is a little shallow, not terribly enthused and volatile. Some people might want to swing back - say even 5 points to the dippers. That could drop the Ls to 2nd in some ridings.
2) I think the BQ might surge and take back a bunch of seats after the debate.
3) Shy/cagey poll respondents.

That said, 55+ voters seem to be strongly L, so that might be enough to get carry the day.
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I don't see any dippers swaying back to Singh. He has given them zero reason to, and the vibes are terrible. Only the most wacko tree huggers are voting NDP or Green. And we can almost count on Trump doing or saying something that further infuriates or alarms the non-Alberta portion of the Canadian electorate before the 28th.

It's going to be an old style Liberal shit-pumping of the CPC. Poilievre will have to look for a real job by May 1st.
 
MindzEye said:
You know you're allowed to leave, right?
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I make more money and have a better lifestyle here than when I lived in BC. Vancouver is a nice place to visit but living in a tourist destination is expensive. Edmonton is a place to live, not to visit, so it's more affordable. No one wants to live here "just because". They live here if they have to and, if they're lucky, they learn to make peace with it and enjoy the fact that the money they save on living costs enables them to travel to more desirable locales on vacation. While it may be true that in Vancouver one can ski, sail, and golf all in the same day and without leaving the city but everyone forgets the most important detail: that to do any one of those things, let alone all of them, requires you to have a steamer trunk full of cash. That's why Vancouver has some of the most expensive postal codes in the country while also having the absolute poorest one.

I make more money here because unlike more civilized areas of the country, Alberta has a severe shortage of white collar types who can string coherent sentences together and send emails that aren't riddled with spelling and grammatical errors. If you work in any sort of admin capacity, this is where you want to go because your only competition for good white collar jobs are laid off rig pigs and home schooled inbreds. I command much more money now than I ever got in Vancouver, where they use BA grads as speed bumps in the company parking lot while paying MBA grads $20K less than they're worth because skilled labour is a buyer's market there.

And, as ever, there's the cheap gas, ample free parking and total absence of a provincial sales tax. That helps, although I'd be in favor of a PST.
 
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