Recent content by IKnowNothing

One that they are sure to get away with if it's not maxed out and people aren't actually denied.

They will if the sign up period ends and they reimburse everyone that registered and still have a large amount of the funding left over. You're premise is on exceptionally weak ground to begin on vis et vis conflating Police Powers with expropriation. Having elected to not participate in an...

It only works if they ran out of money and closed the program well before the deadline and/or directly denied you compensation. Otherwise they can shrug and say "EL17 had their chance and chose not to participate" and a judge will throw it out. "I didn't want to give those bastards the...

If that's the plan the best COA is to register and force the underfunding right out into the open. Call the bluff. A- you can't make a claim on a class action without attesting to ownership of the impacted property, and specifying what said property is - so pursuit of the class action...

What was said in the speech: "Fundamentally what we want is a car plant" + lots of verbiage about levering defense spending to catalyze economic investment vs. What is being presented as said by the author: "Canada's 12 billion dollar submarine order needs a car plant in return" "Canada will...

Nothing so formal. Candidate is weighted pretty low for me unless they have some combo of: -personal views that are closely in alignment with mine, to a higher degree than the party they represent -a truly exceptional pre-political background -a willingness to represent the best interest of...

It's a mix, with leader and party increasingly becoming the same thing. I never had a high opinion of PP, but Alex Ruff held my vote until the CPC colouring book platform betrayed just how unready Poilievre is to run a country

So ultimately, the leader of the losing party carries no responsibility for losing. "Vote for what we have on offer or piss off and be happy/ or not with the other options" How does this apply to leadership elections? Do the members that voted in the losing horse then carry internal (to...

Does a widespread feeling of "It didn't have to be this way" across a material portion of the electorate imbue responsibility for the consequence of all of those votes on those whose decisions led to losing them?

You can own a decision as the best available while recognizing that it didn't have to be such- and holding those that left it that way accountable.

Except it's not blaming others for the decision- it's blaming others for the negative aspects of what is/was perceived as the best option, because said others could have provided a better option without the negative aspects but chose not to.

Treat it as interchangeable with blame.

Ironic answer to one of the two questions in the post. What of the 2nd?

With respect- its possible that the businesses represented in the "very dark blue / dyed in the wool" North Okanagan do not represent the universal opinion of businesses in Canada

Why is that irony? If a given centre-right voter sees JT and PP as opposite sides of the same unserious, ideologically driven, performative coin and as such rates them at say, 1 and 2 out of 5 respectively, and the same voter sees Carney as a 3.5/5 whose points are lost for being a little too...