Liberal (Minority/Majority) Government 2025 - ???

[ArmyRick]

@Altair

Not to upset you but PM MC has hired an American, Maia Johnson as his newly created PMO position, Chief Operations Officer. I think Carney, while not thrilled with Trump, still trust Americans. ohh, and he has a house down there. Plus lots of investments. Just saying.

 

[Good2Golf]

@Altair

Not to upset you but PM MC has hired an American, Maia Johnson as his newly created PMO position, Chief Operations Officer. I think Carney, while not thrilled with Trump, still trust Americans. ohh, and he has a house down there. Plus lots of investments. Just saying.

So he’s keeping an open objective mind, and dealing with people based on the history and record of their actions. Not an unreasonable approach.

 

[MrWhyt]

@Altair

Not to upset you but PM MC has hired an American, Maia Johnson as his newly created PMO position, Chief Operations Officer. I think Carney, while not thrilled with Trump, still trust Americans. ohh, and he has a house down there. Plus lots of investments. Just saying.

why would that be upsetting? Just because Canada is having difficulties with the trump administration doesn't mean everything american is tainted.

 

[Altair]

1000-1500 Canadians may have said this? Accepting your math, no, lets double it, lets say it was 3000 Canadians. Yeah, I hardly accept that as representing the 41 million Canadians as a whole.

Next poll of 2000 Canadians showing the CPC ahead of the LPC I'll make sure to dismiss out of hand.

In my OPINION, accepting the views of maybe 3,000 Canadians as representing 41 million Canadians is foolish at best.

Yeah, cool, I'll wait around tomorrow for the next poll of 41 million Canadians.

Every poll less than that is clearly too small a sample size.

What a joke.

 

[Maxman1]

42,000 people in 36 countries mean around 1,200 respondents per country. For a Canadian poll to be statistically relevant, 1,000 to 1,500 people would need to respond. Assuming 1,200 Canadians responded, it is statistically relevant, whether you like it or not….

In that case, why mention the other 41,000 people at all? Why not just present it as a poll of 1,200 Canadians?

 

[SupersonicMax]

1000-1500 Canadians may have said this? Accepting your math, no, lets double it, lets say it was 3000 Canadians. Yeah, I hardly accept that as representing the 41 million Canadians as a whole.

Science says it is statistically relevant.

Agreed. We all have biases or at the very least, emotions that can influence how we perceive polls.

Being mature is having emotions and biaises and being able to look past them to make decisions based on objective observation.

 

[Halifax Tar]

This is pretty damning for the CPC. I really don't understand how they can continue to fail and not recognize changes are needed.

IMHO Carney is starting to show weakness and the CPC simply cannot turn that into gain, and the only reason I see is PP. He needs to go.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2077470810210447786

 

[lenaitch]

Science says it is statistically relevant.

I used to work alongside a statistician. Most of what he tried to explain to me might as well have been Swahili, but at least I understood that there is a fair bit of math applied to the data they use to ensure its credibility.

 

[suffolkowner]

Actually determining statistically significant sample sizes isnt that hard and isnt new. Most research in the real world is limited by money and time

 

[Czech_pivo]

Interesting to see this large of an increase in the GTA.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/toronto-gun-licence-applications-increase-9.7250800

Gun licence applications have surged in the Toronto area since 2016​

Reason for the increase isn't clear, growing interest in shooting sports likely contributing​

 

[Halifax Tar]

Interesting to see this large of an increase in the GTA.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/toronto-gun-licence-applications-increase-9.7250800

Gun licence applications have surged in the Toronto area since 2016​

Reason for the increase isn't clear, growing interest in shooting sports likely contributing​

Taking some form of responsibility for ones own sustainability and safety should surprise no one but most collectivist and leftist amongst us.

IMHO our country and society is a weak house of cards, having some ability for both the aforementioned issues just makes sense, again IMHO.

Better to have the tool and not need it, than need it and not have it.

 

[Czech_pivo]

Taking some form of responsibility for ones own sustainability and safety should surprise no one but most collectivist and leftist amongst us.

IMHO our country and society is a weak house of cards, having some ability for both the aforementioned issues just makes sense, again IMHO.

Better to have the tool and not need it, than need it and not have it.

Your making the assumption that the increase of numbers in the GTA is solely occurring with those who identify as 'right wing', since you use the term 'leftist'. I would argue, based on the information/data presented in the article, that its a wide variety of beliefs spanning the political spectrum. The article also points out that the increase is linked to more individuals doing it for 'sport' reasons, not because of an increase in the hunting side of things.

I've wanted to get my PAL for about 5yrs now but never seem to have a free weekend from friday to sunday to make it happen. Maybe later this fall it will work out for me.

If anyone has a instructor/course in the Burlington, ON area that they would recommend, I would appreciate that information.

 

[Halifax Tar]

Your making the assumption that the increase of numbers in the GTA is solely occurring with those who identify as 'right wing', since you use the term 'leftist'. I would argue, based on the information/data presented in the article, that its a wide variety of beliefs spanning the political spectrum. The article also points out that the increase is linked to more individuals doing it for 'sport' reasons, not because of an increase in the hunting side of things.

I've wanted to get my PAL for about 5yrs now but never seem to have a free weekend from friday to sunday to make it happen. Maybe later this fall it will work out for me.

If anyone has a instructor/course in the Burlington, ON area that they would recommend, I would appreciate that information.

Not at all. I am amongst the minority in my family and friends circle, as a conservative owning firearms. Where we differ is I have owned not just traditional hunting rifles. In my experience its only the most most collectivist and leftist amongst us who are against this.

 

[Czech_pivo]

Not at all. I am amongst the minority in my family and friends circle, as a conservative owning firearms. Where we differ is I have owned not just traditional hunting rifles. In my experience its only the most most collectivist and leftist amongst us who are against this.

What is the meaning of 'Collectivist' in your usage?

 

[Halifax Tar]

What is the meaning of 'Collectivist' in your usage?

I would say those who are hard left on the collectivism side have no time for individual responsibilities for safety and sustainability.

 

[QV]

why would that be upsetting? Just because Canada is having difficulties with the trump administration doesn't mean everything american is tainted.

That's not the sentiment around here.

 

[ArmyRick]

Next poll of 2000 Canadians showing the CPC ahead of the LPC I'll make sure to dismiss out of hand.

I wouldn't trust it either. If its one poll, its either an outlier or a lucky week. I would trust 6 weeks of several polls saying CPC beating LPC, more reliable.

Every poll less than that is clearly too small a sample size.

Read again, what I posted more than once. Single polls, one time polling, etc. can be accurate or an outlier or poorly done.

Several polls over larger groups, especially done over periods of time are more clearer.

 

[ArmyRick]

Being mature is having emotions and biaises and being able to look past them to make decisions based on objective observation.

Read what I said. Objective? So ONE research poll done on an unknown number of Canadians is "Obectively true"?

 

[ArmyRick]

That's not the sentiment around here.

The partisan nonsense crap that goes on around here with many folks is if the conservatives say or do something with Americans involved, they fein outrage and "elbows up" but Carney or his team does is and its "pragmatic"and "diplomatic".

They spin themselves into a fairy tale and clutch onto fantasies hoping for something to be true.

I at least admit my bias and my partisanship. I also have criticized my own party (Many here have missed that over and over again) because they are too busy interpreting reality to be something they want it to be rather than what it is.

I will infuriate and piss off some here, don't care.

 

[Altair]

Canadians fume, Americans shrug: 81% of Canadians see negative relationship with U.S., while only 31% of Americans agree: Polling

Canadians are furious. Americans barely noticed. New polling reveals a stunning gap in how each country sees the relationship right now.

thehub.ca

Four in five Canadians now describe their country’s relationship with the U.S. as negative, a level of agreement that cuts across region, ideology, and tariff exposure, while fewer than one in three Americans see it the same way, according to recent binational polling from the University of Calgary’s School of Public Policy.

The report, “Beyond CUSMA: Crisis, Co-operation and the Relationship Ahead,” was prepared for the school’s New North America Initiative and is based on two waves of surveys conducted this spring—roughly 1,000 Canadians polled by Nanos Research and about 1,000 Americans polled by Ipsos were polled in late March and late April this year, after Canada had previously faced a series of insults from U.S. President Donald Trump and threats from his administration, including barring the Gordie Howe International Bridge from opening.

The numbers sketch a major contrast between citizens of the two neighbouring nations. In the polling, 81 percent of Canadians called the relationship negative (44 percent calling it very negative), compared with 31 percent of Americans, and while only 1 percent of Canadians were unsure how to answer, 17 percent of Americans couldn’t say.

Canadian favourability toward the U.S. has collapsed to 20 percent—roughly where Canadians place China—and 77 percent of Canadians now name the U.S. as a major challenge to Canada’s economic prosperity, far ahead of China at 44 percent.

Few Americans raise a quarrel with Canada. Just 8 percent see Canada as a major economic challenge—the lowest of any country tested—and 52 percent still hold a favourable view of Canada. Part of that is likely the lack of attention Americans pay to Canada. Three-quarters of Americans have never visited Canada, and 70 percent never follow Canadian news.

On the Canadian side, a Nanos Research survey for Bloomberg News taken Jan. 31 to Feb. 4 found 55 percent of Canadians believe the U.S. poses the greatest risk to Canada’s security, compared with 15 percent who named China and 14 percent Russia—meaning the U.S. was named more often than China, Russia and Iran combined. The survey of 1,009 adults carried a margin of error of about 3.1 points.

Seems like it's a trend.