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Liberal Minority Government 2025 - ???

Halifax Tar said:
Does the Gov have the ability to go in and look at my banking ? Have they ever done that ?
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Define 'the Gov't' - do you mean the RCMP, do you mean CSIS - then yes they do AFTER they provide the correct paperwork to your financial institution.
 
brihard said:
No, you have a reasonable expectation of privacy over your financial records. We can obtain them from the banks with a court issued prosecution order or in very rare cases on an emergency basis (if it could be tied to imminent harm), but the government and police cannot simply examine one’s finances at a whim.

There’s also mandatory reporting of certain threshold or suspicious transactions to FINTRAC, but that’s kept within their data holdings and isn’t open for general inspection.
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unless you are a truck driver requesting a meeting with the PM. (sigh)
 

What would the headlines be if a group of rightwing politicians got together in a sponsored event every year?

Carney, Albanese and Starmer, Canada, Australia and the UK having just cocked a snook at Trump over Palestine get together with the PM of Iceland.

Global Progress Action Summit brought to you by the Center for American Progress. The creation of the Podestas who brought you Obama, Clinton, Trudeau, Ardern and now apparently Albanese and Carney who endorsed Starmer. They also brought you Canada 2020. The think tank that thinks for the LPC.

Funded and supported by the Open Society Foundations.
 
Kirkhill said:

What would the headlines be if a group of rightwing politicians got together in a sponsored event every year?
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I dunno, what do people say about CPAC?
Kirkhill said:
Carney, Albanese and Starmer, Canada, Australia and the UK having just cocked a snook at Trump over Palestine get together with the PM of Iceland.
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Donald Trump, JD Vance, Liz Truss, Elon Musk, Argentine President Javier Milei, Nigel Farage, Santiago Abascal, Prime Minister Robert Fico
 
Furniture said:
What, world shortages driving an increase in activity here?

We are weks/months away from the current government changing legislation, so whatever is happening is market, not politics driven.
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I mean, if the PM has been going from country to country trying to increase trade, would that not be politics driven?

That said, I would like to see more data. If this is based on increased trade to places he's been, I think we can say there is a correlation.
 
YZT580 said:
you take whatever you can get. With his holdings it would be hard not to profit in any venture underwritten by the government. Prefabs make sense in our climate but it isn't THE way to increase the housing supply: it is just one way. It has the potential for actually reducing the labour available as construction would end up being done inside with more automation and the companies supply all their own people in teams to do the installation. There are pluses and a number of minuses too. Underwriting infrastructure and perhaps capping the municipal costs to reduce the overall price would be a better way to start.
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The housing shortage situation is pretty well squarely the fault of provinces. Its provincial jurisdiction. If we were serious about the crisis, provincial legislatures would mandate as of right zoning for at least 4 plexes across all of their major cities facing shortages.
 
PrairieFella said:
The housing shortage situation is pretty well squarely the fault of provinces. Its provincial jurisdiction. If we were serious about the crisis, provincial legislatures would mandate as of right zoning for at least 4 plexes across all of their major cities facing shortages.
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Ahh yes because drastically increasing immigration well beyond the historic averages of 100-250k a year is the provinces fault.

It is only 100% their fault if they controlled immigration as well.

The provinces have some crosses to bear (such as stopping building public housing in the 90s) but to pretend it is only their fault is ignoring a huge facet of the problem.
 
Eaglelord17 said:
Ahh yes because drastically increasing immigration well beyond the historic averages of 100-250k a year is the provinces fault.

It is only 100% their fault if they controlled immigration as well.
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True, Ottawa controls the tap, but what percentage can be assigned to the provinces being public thirsty, followed by being thankful for any twist of the tap?
And if a Team Red government in Ottawa didn't open up the taps, would critics say, "why aren't you listening to the provinces?"

QC has way more control over immigration levels - which other provinces want too - so it appears (and I stand to be corrected) they don't have to "ask" Ottawa for mo' to get mo'.
 
Jarnhamar said:
Adding half a million permanent residents and letting in half a million international students and 900,000 TFWs in one year probably didn't help.
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Where did most of those come from? SPs - so education and PNPs which is the provincial nominee program. The provinces asked for this on both counts. The feds arent without blame and they need to scrap the broken TFW system yesterday but the provinces wanting these people and then doing nothing about the housing stock under their jurisdiction created a firestorm.
 
The Bread Guy said:
True, Ottawa controls the tap, but what percentage can be assigned to the provinces being public thirsty, followed by being thankful for any twist of the tap?
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To dream of a universe in which the people in government can get out of silos long enough to think through broad consequences of actions...
 
The Bread Guy said:
True, Ottawa controls the tap, but what percentage can be assigned to the provinces being public thirsty, followed by being thankful for any twist of the tap?
And if a Team Red government in Ottawa didn't open up the taps, would critics say, "why aren't you listening to the provinces?"

QC has way more control over immigration levels - which other provinces want too - so it appears (and I stand to be corrected) they don't have to "ask" Ottawa for mo' to get mo'.
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Provinces want employees for rough, dirty, shitty, or poorly paid jobs. Businesses want to import that labour because it can often be much cheaper, and they may not be able to turn a profit at all without it, so they pressure provincial governments to seek that labour from the feds. The provincial governments are happy to earn support from business leaders, but don’t want to have to think about housing or healthcare for people who move there to fill those jobs.

There are more and more groups now tracking and publishing Labour Market Impact Assessments by local businesses claiming they can’t hire menial workers at $36 an hour or whatever the magic number is to get out of the low wage TFW stream. The abuse of TFW LMIAs is absolutely rampant.
 
brihard said:
Provinces want employees for rough, dirty, shitty, or poorly paid jobs. Businesses want to import that labour because it can often be much cheaper, and they may not be able to turn a profit at all without it, so they pressure provincial governments to seek that labour from the feds. The provincial governments are happy to earn support from business leaders, but don’t want to have to think about housing or healthcare for people who move there to fill those jobs.

There are more and more groups now tracking and publishing Labour Market Impact Assessments by local businesses claiming they can’t hire menial workers at $36 an hour or whatever the magic number is to get out of the low wage TFW stream. The abuse of TFW LMIAs is absolutely rampant.
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All true & good points. Still, provinces asking is a non-zero factor (although admittedly far from the only one).

So, depending on the political glasses someone's wearing, Ottawa is either 1) being the adult and telling provinces, "no, we can't bring THAT many more people in," or 2) ignoring the will of a level of government closer to most people than the feds are.
 
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