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

[daftandbarmy]

Gotta love how the sun took 40% of manufacturing and turned it into 40% of canadian businesses. Cause thats not deceiving at all. The loss of manufacturing is expected, especially in a trade war with an American administration whos said they want to eliminate our manufacturing.

There is a negative business trend, though, viz:

Canada’s 57% collapse: The missing entrepreneurs behind our growth crisis​

The country that built Shopify and Lululemon is now producing fewer builders than at any time in four decades. The data should alarm us​

Between 2000 and 2022, the number of self-employed Canadians with paid employees—the founders most likely to scale, hire, and challenge incumbents—fell by 57 percent, from 3.0 to 1.3 per thousand working-age adults. As Falice Chin documented in The Hub, this quiet collapse sits at the heart of one of Canada’s most consequential and least discussed economic problems: the country is producing fewer builders than it used to.

The broader picture is no more reassuring. Self-employment has slipped from 17 percent of total employment a quarter-century ago to 12.8 percent, the lowest share in 45 years. The business entry rate fell from 15.2 percent in 2008 to 12.3 percent in 2023, a fraction of the nearly 25 percent Canada achieved in the early 1980s. The Canadian Federation of Independent Business now describes an “entrepreneurial drought,” pointing to six consecutive quarters in which more businesses closed than opened—something that rarely happens even in recessions.

Canada’s 57% collapse: The missing entrepreneurs behind our growth crisis

Canada lost more than half its entrepreneurial activity. The reasons behind this 57% collapse reveal a deeper economic crisis most Canadians aren't talking about.

thehub.ca

 

[Halifax Tar]

Not sure where this goes.

Halifax - able to handle the upcoming growth or not?

https://archive.ph/f8pod

The citadel​

Canada’s defence spending boom has given Halifax a generational economic opportunity. But are its grand ambitions realistic?

Definitely topical right now in the HRM.

 

[MilEME09]

Not sure where this goes.

Halifax - able to handle the upcoming growth or not?

https://archive.ph/f8pod

The citadel​

Canada’s defence spending boom has given Halifax a generational economic opportunity. But are its grand ambitions realistic?

This is where the city and province, anticipating the growth need to start getting houses built now.

 

[PPCLI Guy]

There is a negative business trend, though, viz:

Canada’s 57% collapse: The missing entrepreneurs behind our growth crisis​

The country that built Shopify and Lululemon is now producing fewer builders than at any time in four decades. The data should alarm us​

Between 2000 and 2022, the number of self-employed Canadians with paid employees—the founders most likely to scale, hire, and challenge incumbents—fell by 57 percent, from 3.0 to 1.3 per thousand working-age adults. As Falice Chin documented in The Hub, this quiet collapse sits at the heart of one of Canada’s most consequential and least discussed economic problems: the country is producing fewer builders than it used to.

The broader picture is no more reassuring. Self-employment has slipped from 17 percent of total employment a quarter-century ago to 12.8 percent, the lowest share in 45 years. The business entry rate fell from 15.2 percent in 2008 to 12.3 percent in 2023, a fraction of the nearly 25 percent Canada achieved in the early 1980s. The Canadian Federation of Independent Business now describes an “entrepreneurial drought,” pointing to six consecutive quarters in which more businesses closed than opened—something that rarely happens even in recessions.

Canada’s 57% collapse: The missing entrepreneurs behind our growth crisis

Canada lost more than half its entrepreneurial activity. The reasons behind this 57% collapse reveal a deeper economic crisis most Canadians aren't talking about.

thehub.ca

Working n this space as I do, I fully concur.

This morning I happened to read all 62 pages of the CPC Policy Framework (it was on my reading list for some time). There isn't even a section, let alone a paragraph, on innovation, expanded access capital for startups etc, or even a mention of productivity.

Seems no one is listening.

 

[daftandbarmy]

Working n this space as I do, I fully concur.

This morning I happened to read all 62 pages of the CPC Policy Framework (it was on my reading list for some time). There isn't even a section, let alone a paragraph, on innovation, expanded access capital for startups etc, or even a mention of productivity.

Seems no one is listening.

Not unlike me with my chin ups, we’ve lost the ‘muscle memory’ in the stampede to make everyone part of the public sector over the past decade +. )

 

[YZT580]

Gotta love how the sun took 40% of manufacturing and turned it into 40% of canadian businesses. Cause thats not deceiving at all. The loss of manufacturing is expected, especially in a trade war with an American administration whos said they want to eliminate our manufacturing.

wasn't it 40% of those surveyed which is a lot different. But the article on rail traffic efficiencies spells out the problems quite succinctly and it seems to boil down to the difficulties and costs of trying to satisfy government bureaucracy and satisfy all the requirements for consultation on top of the environmental problems. So rather than fail they talk about moving and that was going on before the tariffs. All tariffs did was make it a more appealing option

 

[ArmyRick]

And Pierre throws down on how to get energy extraction deveoped even faster and with far less roadblocks.

@brihard @Czech_pivo
Instead of guess work, criticize Pierre for what he actually says or does

 

[brihard]

@brihard @Czech_pivo
Instead of guess work, criticize Pierre for what he actually says or does

If he says enough of the right stuff to actually get elected I’ll make sure to pay attention to what he actually does, when he actually then needs to follow through on his own words. Not gonna burn too much time on it until and unless we’re facing an election where he’s a viable contender.

 

[ArmyRick]

what he actually does, when he actually then needs to follow through on his own words.

EVERY politician should be held accountable to this standard. I will turn on him in a dime if he fucks around after getting elected. The Liberal base for some reason, won't ever look inwards and criticize harshly.

unless we’re facing an election where he’s a viable contender

At least your willing to hear him out at the right time.

 

[ArmyRick]

While we are discussing people trying to torpedo Pierre's position as leader, Wyatt offers up some insight

 

[ArmyRick]

THIS article is well written and deals with one of the subliminal issues that hinders the CPC.
This covers the pensioners and OAS recipients, as well as the boomer generation impact on voting. And how there vote changed over the last 20 years.

The more we turn to the state to be a safety blanket for everything, the more we lean into destroying our nation. Social safety net (and I mean just that) is good, a safety blanket to cover everything not good.

Geoff Russ: Canadian voters are aging out of mainstream conservatism

The Liberals have ensured voters are dependent on the state

nationalpost.com

 

[tomydoom]

like Alberta tried to do?

Not opposed to that idea at all. I think it’s the only way to reform the senate without opening the constitution. We just need prime ministers to agree to recommend for appointment whomever the elected nominee is. Perhaps even have the federal government run the senatorial elections. Have the legislative framework only deal with election of senate nominees, leaving appointments still within crown prerogative. Eventually a constitutional convention would develop, that would strongly require the king appoint the elected nominee. The advantage of the British constitutional model, is a lot of change can be accomplished through “just muddling through and doing it until it becomes a tradition “

 

[brihard]

Not opposed to that idea at all. I think it’s the only way to reform the senate without opening the constitution. We just need prime ministers to agree to recommend for appointment whomever the elected nominee is. Perhaps even have the federal government run the senatorial elections. Have the legislative framework only deal with election of senate nominees, leaving appointments still within crown prerogative. Eventually a constitutional convention would develop, that would strongly require the king appoint the elected nominee. The advantage of the British constitutional model, is a lot of change can be accomplished through “just muddling through and doing it until it becomes a tradition “

This is pretty much a bang on take, I think. A convention could conceivably be established in that way, though I’d say it would take a couple decades of multiple governments of different parties consistently doing it that way.

 

[dapaterson]

The current apportionment of senators needs to be addressed, though. Four senators for Anne of Green Gables is a historical abomination.

 

[Altair]

The current apportionment of senators needs to be addressed, though. Four senators for Anne of Green Gables is a historical abomination.

Nobody is changing the constitution.

 

[daftandbarmy]

The current apportionment of senators needs to be addressed, though. Four senators for Anne of Green Gables is a historical abomination.

Quid pro quo: Vancouver Island gets a bridge too, right?

 

[Furniture]

The current apportionment of senators needs to be addressed, though. Four senators for Anne of Green Gables is a historical abomination.

Don't be mad because PEI made a smarter deal joining confederation than some others...

Fancy bridge(eventually), four senators, and the railway debt cleared? Who wouldn't take that deal?

 

[tomydoom]

The current apportionment of senators needs to be addressed, though. Four senators for Anne of Green Gables is a historical abomination.

This misses the point of the Senate, which is to base representation on something other than population. One can make an argument the PEI be rolled into the 24 seats the “east” gets or that each province gets an equal number of senators (10 each?). However no solution will result in anything other than PEI being grossly over represented. Further as has been pointed out elsewhere, no one has an appetite for opening the constitution.

 

[lenaitch]

Quid pro quo: Vancouver Island gets a bridge too, right?

One of the BC Terms of Union was a railway connection to the rest of Canada.

On of the PEI Terms of Union was for the federal government to maintain a service for mail and passengers across the Northumberland Strait (which evolved into the bridge).

Both got what they asked for.

 

[Czech_pivo]

Definitely topical right now in the HRM.

What's your guess on the number of warm bodies HRM will gain over the next 10yrs?
Assume

1. 15 Rivers continue to move forward with 8 eventually stationed in HRM
2. Sub maint. facility for 5-6 EC subs
3. CDC's are put into motion and build with 16 built (not at Irving in HRM) and 8 stationed on EC
4. CAF enlistment continues to be successful and retention is handled
5. Unknown number of Orca-like training vessels stationed at HRM