Liberal Minority Government 2025 - ???

[brihard]

I must of missed it but does CBSA and RCMP get more bread?

The budget confirmed and funds the previously announced 1000 more RCMP members/employees for federal policing, and 1000 more bodies for CBSA.

 

[ArmyRick]

The budget confirmed and funds the previously announced 1000 more RCMP members/employees for federal policing, and 1000 more bodies for CBSA.

Thats good then? Is a 1000 more for border adequate? I can assume 1000 more mounties will help. How thin are they stretched>

 

[Altair]

Japan is less fucked in some ways though. Like the fact they remain a largely homogeneous society, and lack the religious and racial tensions that France faces.

Diversity can be a strength if managed correctly, but if not well managed, it's how societies fracture and collapse. France seems to be heading toward the latter outcome, so all those refugees and immigrants may not be the boon people think they are.

Homogeneous shrinking society with 1 out of every 3 people being retired taking on more and more debt with a population getting smaller and smaller.

For every retiree there are 2 workers in Japan, clocking 50-60 hours of work per week. And despite this overwork, their debt keeps getting bigger.

Japan is fucked.

 

[IKnowNothing]

Take note a month ago he sharply criticized the Carney government for high cost of living. So now he is ok with it?

Looks like he decided that he could better work to fix it as a potentially high leverage voice in the governing party than as an opposition back bench chorus member in the Question Period Theatre Show.

 

[Altair]

Again, that’s not quite right. GDP per capita measures total economic output per person, not personal wealth or tax distribution. Irelands high GDP per capita reflects economic activity, not average citizen income. That doesn’t make the metric stupid, it just needs to be interpreted correctly alongside other measures like median income or GNI.

Yet, you did not do that. You tossed out Canada GDP per capita growth low, must be bad.

The metric on its own, doesn't say anything worthwhile. It's like reading 20 pages of the middle of a book and showing up to book club.

 

[Haggis]

Thats good then? Is a 1000 more for border adequate?

No. Half of that might cover attrition and not all with be front line officers.

 

[Jarnhamar]

Yet, you did not do that. You tossed out Canada GDP per capita growth low, must be bad.

Technically I never said GDP per capita alone tells the whole story.

 

[ArmyRick]

Looks like he decided that he could better work to fix it as a potentially high leverage voice in the governing party than as an opposition back bench chorus member in the Question Period Theatre Show.

ummm, no, I totally don't buy that argument.

QP is not just theater. Anybody stopped to think that Pierre and the CPC ruined Trudeau reputation in QP over the many issues he crapped the bed on? Green slush fund, carbon tax, arrive scam, etc. He keep responding in QP with word salads and non-answers and sooner or later, it gets noticed.

 

[ArmyRick]

Never mind how other nations fair on GDP-debt (I don't care), I give a damn about us (my sons future and your childrens too).

Former Liberal MP Dan McTeague does some excellent number crunching and shows very likely consequences

 

[Altair]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/chris-dentremont-liberals-poilievre-9.6967559

Nova Scotia MP Chris d'Entremont said Wednesday he left the Conservative caucus because he didn't feel represented in leader Pierre Poilievre's party anymore and bristled at his "negative" approach to politics.

D'Entremont said there are other Conservative MPs who "are in the same boat" and they may join him in crossing over to Liberals.

"In the last number of months, I wasn't feeling I was aligned with the ideals of what the leader of the Opposition had been talking about," d'Entremont told reporters of Poilievre after appearing with Prime Minister Mark Carney at a post-budget press conference, the day after he crossed the floor.

 

[brihard]

No. Half of that might cover attrition and not all with be front line officers.

I thought it’s 1000 net new positions? Sounds like both CBSA and RCMP will have training infrastructure challenges to overcome if they intend to grow.

 

[Altair]

Technically I never said GDP per capita alone tells the whole story.

"Your man was a dud that gave us this stinker."

Doesn't really leave a lot to interpretation.

 

[IKnowNothing]

ummm, no, I totally don't buy that argument.

“As a Nova Scotian, we’re always trying to find ways to work together, to solve issues that are important to our communities,” he said.

“I didn’t see it by sitting in the opposition, I saw it by being a part of the government caucus.”

“I didn’t find that I was represented there, that my ideals as an easterner of a Red Tory, and quite honestly trying to find solutions and help your community rather than trying to oppose everything that’s happened.”

QP is not just theater. Anybody stopped to think that Pierre and the CPC ruined Trudeau reputation in QP over the many issues he crapped the bed on? Green slush fund, carbon tax, arrive scam, etc. He keep responding in QP with word salads and non-answers and sooner or later, it gets noticed.

QP is not just theatre, but effecting positive governance of the nation is not just opposing in QP and setting petulant ultimatums. The CPC had a serious opportunity to work with an LPC leader that they once heavily courted, instead we got grandstanding.

Never mind how other nations fair on GDP-debt (I don't care), I give a damn about us (my sons future and your childrens too).

Former Liberal MP Dan McTeague does some excellent number crunching and shows very likely consequences

For the.. third time I believe- citing Dan McTeague as a former Liberal MP and not a current O&G lobbyist and active CPC supporter is objectively dishonest.

 

[MilEME09]

I thought it’s 1000 net new positions? Sounds like both CBSA and RCMP will have training infrastructure challenges to overcome if they intend to grow.

Thats what i heard as well, new positions not filling existing postions

 

[ArmyRick]

For the.. third time I believe- citing Dan McTeague as a former Liberal MP and not a current O&G lobbyist and active CPC supporter is objectively dishonest.

Good thing I am speaking to everyone here and not just you.

What part of this video is he wrong, like actually watch it and listen. You didn't because you responded that fast.

Whats wrong with O & G? Nothing, we need to grow it big time.

You have yet to convince me that you know anything

 

[Altair]

Good thing I am speaking to everyone here and not just you and your condescending tone.

What part of this video is he wrong, like actually watch it and listen. You didn't because you responded that fast.

Whats wrong with O & G? Nothing, we need to grow it big time.

You have yet to convince me that you know anything

Pot, kettle?

 

[Remius]

I thought it’s 1000 net new positions? Sounds like both CBSA and RCMP will have training infrastructure challenges to overcome if they intend to grow.

It is. Those numbers don’t count for the normal attrition numbers that need to be filled as well.

 

[brihard]

Fife and Levitz at the Globe and Mail report - unsurprisingly - that the LPC are actively working to entice further defectors.

Liberals pursue Conservative MPs after Chris d’Entremont joins Carney’s caucus

Federal government sources say party has been in talks with a number of Tories

www.theglobeandmail.com

Non-paywall: https://archive.is/BOFHc

 

[ArmyRick]

Pot, kettle?

Take note of the edit and I am a self confessed asshole.

anything concrete in my post you want to snipe?

 

[IKnowNothing]

Good thing I am speaking to everyone here and not just you.

Dishonesty is dishonesty, that means you have a bigger audience for it.

What part of this video is he wrong, like actually watch it and listen. You didn't because you responded that fast.

I don't consume any long form commentary via AV media- takes too long. Neither do I consume anything with hyperbolic clickbait/ragebait titles/thumbnails etc.

Whats wrong with O & G? Nothing, we need to grow it big time.

Nothing- but again for the 3rd time- his paid job as a lobbyist is important context to his opinions