• Moderators, please send me a PM if you are unable to access mod permissions. Thanks, Habsy.

New Canadian Politics Thread

According to The Globe and Mail, Carney is about to announce that Canada will be meeting NATO’s 2% of GDP on defense spending threshold for the 2025-26 fiscal year, and it will continue to increase from there.

The previous Liberal promise on this is that they’d be hitting the 2% funding target by 2030.
 
Wayward DP said:

View: https://x.com/Arturmaks/status/1932069839545516079
Click to expand...



Hate crime? Nahh, I mean, clearly pissing all over the memory six million Jews who were murdered—simply for being Jewish— before the modern state of Israel even existed is just a fair, sober-minded protest of the Israeli government’s actions, and not at all anti-Semitic!

Or at least, some obnoxious white anarcho-communist with dreadlocks and a Hamas keffiyeh around their neck is definitely going to come along and try to make that argument.
 
Also amazing that the person who did that vandalism is no doubt, publicly at least, of the opinion that every Jew in Israel is a “settler colonialist” that should “go back where they came from”.

While vandalizing a memorial to millions of Jews who never set foot in Israel and were slaughtered in the countries that Israeli Jews fled from.

The real answer is that people like this really just think all Jews should just die.
 
My favourite part about the right winger's "but muh productivity" complaints is that it was a 2nd order data point that came from them not liking that Canada's GDP continued to grow despite them saying that economic armageddon was around the corner because something something Trudeau. They latched onto this because it allowed them to blame immigrants for GDP growth not cratering.

Which isn't to say that productivity isn't a problem in Canada, but a core part of the problem is the resource economy that owns Alberta politics. We peaked in our ability to efficiently extract shit from the ground decades ago, there's only so many ways to do that. So when you let multi national corporations come in and plunder your shit, you shouldn't be too surprised when they're taking that stuff and sending it elsewhere to create value added products (where it's cheaper to do so). The right wing would have been screeching about socialism or some shit if Ottawa had done anything but shovel tax cuts (which always go towards improving the business and hiring more people in their conservative utopia, and never towards stock buy backs) to try to drive value add to the natural resources we extract.

So the underlying truth is that there's no private financial argument for creating value added products here in Canada and the government needs to pick winners (and losers) and directly incentivize the creation and growth of value add industries (which I've been assured, is actually committing a socialism). There's lots of stuff to choose from that we should be making at least some of here. A Canadian arms industry (even if we're just white labelling Saab and SK designed products), medicines/vaccines, refinery capacity to produce more of our own finished petroleum products, pre fab housing, etc.
 
Preston said:
LGM is the only reason I miss beleafer. Love the way he handled that loon.
Click to expand...

Sad thing is I genuinely liked him for many years. Even played a round of golf with him.

But he's just another one of a long line of people that lost their goddamned minds during Covid. And him continuing to be a tankie apologist for Putin even after he launched his full-scale invasion of Ukraine was beyond the pale. No patience whatsoever for that.
 
MindzEye said:
thewalrus.ca

Doug Ford Is Now the Most Popular Conservative in Canada | The Walrus

As Poilievre slips in the polls, could Ontario’s premier be the right’s backup plan?
thewalrus.ca thewalrus.ca
Click to expand...


I still maintain Dougie's got his knives sharpened and ready for the moment when he can plunge them into Poilievre, step over the corpse of his political career and take over his job as federal CPC leader.

That's been the long-term strategy in mind ever since he called his snap provincial election, then all but supported Carney in the federal election.
 
LeafGm said:
I still maintain Dougie's got his knives sharpened and ready for the moment when he can plunge them into Poilievre, step over the corpse of his political career and take over his job as federal CPC leader.

That's been the long-term strategy in mind ever since he called his snap provincial election, then all but supported Carney in the federal election.
Click to expand...
gotta hope Quebec saves us from Dougie...
 
LeafGm said:
I still maintain Dougie's got his knives sharpened and ready for the moment when he can plunge them into Poilievre, step over the corpse of his political career and take over his job as federal CPC leader.

That's been the long-term strategy in mind ever since he called his snap provincial election, then all but supported Carney in the federal election.
Click to expand...
Is Ford able to speak French? Because if he can't he's DOA.
 
toronto.citynews.ca

Six infants born with congenital measles in Ontario from unvaccinated mothers

Ontario’s chief medical officer of health says six infants have been born with congenital measles since an outbreak began last fall, adding they were infected in the womb through mothers who were not vaccinated. Dr. Kieran Moore says these infants recovered, but their infections could have been...
toronto.citynews.ca toronto.citynews.ca
 
Wayward DP said:
gotta hope Quebec saves us from Dougie...
Click to expand...

Time isn't on Dougie's side though. He's already 60, and will need to go through a pretty ugly and protracted battle against the Alberta lunatics to oust Pierre. I don't think he'll be able to pull that off before the next election (which I'm going to guess is 3ish years away but is more likely to be called by Carney at a time of his choosing than forced on him imo) and if Carney comes out of that with a majority, well fuck. Dougie is 68 yrs old by the time he'd get a crack and he's already aging like milk. This isn't the US where we're cool with streaming septugenarians into office.
 
MindzEye said:
Time isn't on Dougie's side though. He's already 60, and will need to go through a pretty ugly and protracted battle against the Alberta lunatics to oust Pierre. I don't think he'll be able to pull that off before the next election (which I'm going to guess is 3ish years away but is more likely to be called by Carney at a time of his choosing than forced on him imo) and if Carney comes out of that with a majority, well fuck. Dougie is 68 yrs old by the time he'd get a crack and he's already aging like milk. This isn't the US where we're cool with streaming septugenarians into office.
Click to expand...


I don't think it's a given that Poilievre survives until the next election as CPC leader.

Or even that he survives 2025 in that position.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top