I'm happy to stay on the sidelines and zap the occasional bag of popcorn while you guys try to keep from going down the same drain as us. That said if anyone of those assholes tries to foist Moosylvania off on us it's going to be war!
Do you know why they decided to tinker with the Builders’ Remedy? From the outside it looked like it was really starting to deliver. (Maybe I answered my own question.)
Less than you’d think, mostly due to litigation or other things that SB9 didn’t consider, like mandatory minimum parcel sizes.
It's not going to save them one bit, and in fact could hurt them even more... especially if they decide to prorogue Parliament while they try to find a new leader. I know in another thread, @14thDoctor said Freeland might be a possibility but I think he's wrong. Even she does run for the leadership, the Liberal Party is completely and utterly fucked. There is literally nothing that will save them now. The only real question is how much of a trouncing they will get at the polls. Don't think it will be as bad as the two seats that the Progressive Conservatives got in 1993, but the Trudeau Liberals frankly deserve it more than Mulroney ever did. For the sake of the country, this farce needs to end and the election must be called when Parliament resumes at the end of the month.
I heard former BC Premier Christy Clark’s name, and i actually think she’d be great but the party’s reputation is in such shambles that any replacement is a lame duck whipping person. Why anyone would even want this job is beyond me
BREAKING: Trudeau to announce his resignation as leader of the Liberal Party, but will stay on as Prime Minister until a new leader is selected. https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-news-conference-1.7423680 Also rumours that he has already asked the Governor General to prorogue Parliament. If true, this move will be seen by Canadians for what it is: utterly self-serving and putting the needs of the party ahead of the needs of the country. Whoever the new leader is, they will basically be captaining the Titanic after it has already struck the iceberg. If it weren't for the fucking morons in Toronto and Montreal, I'm pretty sure the Liberal Party would be so decimated as to cease to exist as a recognized party in the House after this election.
Oh, fuck. CBC confirming that Justin met with the GG and she has agreed to prorogue Parliament. I am so mad right now. We needed a solid government in place with a strong mandate to deal with the horseshit that's going to start come south of the border on January 20th. Justin Trudeau's final act as Prime Minister is to fuck over Canada. What an absolute douchebag.
Well that confirms once again what I’ve known about him all along - Justin Trudeau before country every single time
Anybody want to tell him that it would make Canada second in population only to California when it comes to states? And that Canada would be more inclined to vote with California?
I was just thinking that. No Republican would be president ever again. Actually, I think I'm on board now with the whole "Canada as a state" thing.
"Many people in Canada LOVE being the 51st state." Trump is so full of shit. The latest polling number show that less than 6% of Canadians are interested in joining the United States. And those folks are probably American expats who fled the USA years ago after the scary black man became president.
Say what you want about Justin Trudeau — there’s still no arguing Canadians became wealthier while he was in power Justin Trudeau, who announced his resignation as federal Liberal party leader Monday, making way for a party leadership race and a new prime minister, began his premiership by promising “sunny ways” for Canada. At first glance, Trudeau would appear to have fallen short of that goal. Quite the opposite is true, however. We’ll get to that. Canada is beset with cost-of-living and housing crises. And it faces a stall in economic growth from U.S. president-elect Donald Trump’s threatened steep tariffs on imported Canadian goods. Trudeau’s exuberant optimism on taking office Nov. 4, 2015, proved no match for the cascade of unforeseeable misfortunes to follow. Price inflation alone shortened the political careers of Kamala Harris, Britain’s Rishi Sunak and New Zealand’s Jacinda Ardern, among others. First came the 2018 trade war with Donald Trump in his earlier presidential term. That inexplicable attack on Canada and America’s other trading partners, soon to be repeated, was followed not long after by the world’s first genuine pandemic, meaning that it touched the four corners of the world as none before had done. The lockdowns required to stop the spread of the COVID-19 virus eroded the public support of almost every leader who imposed them. The global economy was largely shut down for the first time. When the coronavirus danger had passed, it was then suddenly reopened for the first time, unleashing historically high inflation as goods in short supply skyrocketed in price. The only cure for the spiralling inflation was abnormally high interest rates, which zoomed to five per cent from 0.25 per cent in what seemed like the blink of an eye. Any one of those health and economic hardships had potential to wreak permanent damage. And there were moments when it seemed they did. Yet Trudeau’s successors will be hard-pressed to improve on his economic track record. In the Trudeau years, the Canadian economy grew by 41 per cent, to $3.2 trillion. It grew by just 18 per cent under Trudeau’s predecessor, Stephen Harper, who governed for roughly the same amount of time. Per capita income grew by more than 23 per cent on Trudeau’s watch, to $77,700, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Trudeau’s predecessor managed only a 7.6 per cent increase. In the main, Canadians became wealthier in the Trudeau years. The median net worth of Canadians soared by about 66 per cent between 2016 and 2023, to $519,000, according to Statistics Canada. Trudeau came to office with a mandate to engage in deficit spending, and spend he did on both physical and social infrastructure. Yet Canada’s federal debt to GDP ratio increased only modestly, to almost 50 per cent in 2023, the latest figures available, from 43 per cent in 2015. On that basic measure of fiscal prudence, Canada ranks better than all G7 countries save traditionally frugal Germany’s 45 per cent. In the Trudeau years, America’s debt-to-GDP ratio jumped to 112 per cent from 86 per cent. Trudeau invested heavily and widely. He spent about $34 billion to twin the Trans Mountain pipeline to get Alberta oil to world markets besides the U.S. for the first time. Trudeau committed tens of billions of dollars to effectively save the Canadian auto sector by transforming it into one of the world’s most comprehensive electric vehicle (EV) supply chains. He invested to build up Montreal’s world-class aerospace industry. Trudeau has subsidized startups and established firms alike in commercial applications of artificial intelligence (AI), advanced telecommunications research and production, modular housing, and Canada’s first new vaccine plant in about 40 years. To date, the Trudeau government has committed about $51 billion to providing more housing. Trudeau came to office promising to reduce the poverty rate. It now nine per cent, down from 14.5 per cent when he first took office. That improvement in Canadian well-being has been achieved in large part by Trudeau’s Canada Child Benefit, which has lifted as many as half a million children from poverty. Trudeau’s national daycare program has also helped, reducing monthly daycare expenses to $400 from about $2,000, dropping further to about $200 in the next two years. Also helping is the Trudeau government’s introduction of limited denticare and pharmacare, a foundation for future governments to build on. But somewhere along the way Trudeau became so off-putting that even the more remarkable of his government’s achievements failed to register with Canadians. There were blunders and scandals, of course. There was the carbon tax fiasco. And the federal civil service became bloated even as work was outsourced to high-priced consultants. The greatest damage to the Liberal brand was inflicted by the we-know-best arrogance that has long been a hallmark of Trudeau’s party. None of which changes the fact that on average Canadians are better off than we were in 2015. In a moment of frustration, Trudeau said, “At one point, people are going to have to realize that maybe I know what I’m doing.” Well, no they don’t. But the historians will. He may have fallen well short of expectations, let alone hopes, but still far less of a train wreck than either Mulroney or Harper. Hey... between the two metropolitan areas, we make up nearly 30% of the country. If anything, we're under represented in parliament compared to several provinces (whom we're also subsidizing like they're flyover states)
figuring that those units will be renting for around $4K a month at the low end, that $130K pays back pretty quick... 32 months. seems kinda steep when we're in a world of 250 unit buildings. is this for rental apartments or condos?
Canada has a similar population to California, and even if you assume that Canada would thus have ~54 Electoral Votes that's still less than the margin that Trump won by in 2024 and 2016. The bigger obstruction (other than the fact Canada sensibly seems to have no appetite for it whatsoever) is that any joining would likely involve each of the Canadian provinces becoming a US state, rather than Canada as a whole becoming one state. That would be a massive shift in the US Senate that Republicans would never go for.
this was the most descriptive of what good he actually did do that wasn't paywalled The Globe okay? I don't have a subscription and for some reason can't seem to activate one right now. It is too easy to forget how transformative Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has been obviously the Sun/NP chain is out if we're gonna call the Star overly biased. that's the thing with Canadian journalism... it's allegiances tend to be clear.
Why? Harper prorogued parliament four times when he was PM, he didn't seem to suffer for it. I dunno, I think the Liberals could still turn it around if they elect a proper adult with good ideas and even a hint of charisma. Trudeau was an empty shirt and a nice haircut. Singh is an empty shirt and a nice turban that belongs on Tiktok, not in parliament. PP is an empty shirt that should be hosting the French language version of Rebel News, not in parliament. Throw an actual grownup into the equation, I think that changes things.
Yeah, Singh has to let go of the reins. He did a fair enough job influencing policies, but he's not going to flip the seats back where they could otherwise have had a shot against the Libs or even BQ. GOnna be interesting to see how the Liberal's carcass gets picked apart. 160 seats? I'm thinking they lose about 100 of'em.
Whether or not he is serious he apparently is a true Conservative in that he likes to copy other people’s work, take out their watermark and post it like it is his own. https://bsky.app/profile/josephpolitano.bsky.social/post/3lf4tnpdsls2d