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

Let's shrink the scale here.

Are New Brunswickers failures for not keeping up with Alberta?
Depends. Any region of Canada that allowed itself to depend on and exploit the structure of EI is a relative "failure", and it's a cultural problem if that became a mode of thinking for any sizeable fraction of the residents.

Provinces make their own choices about the entitlements and the taxes to pay for them, and the regulations which bind people from doing any number of things. If the tax and regulatory burdens stifle development, that's on them.
 
Depends. Any region of Canada that allowed itself to depend on and exploit the structure of EI is a relative "failure", and it's a cultural problem if that became a mode of thinking for any sizeable fraction of the residents.

Provinces make their own choices about the entitlements and the taxes to pay for them, and the regulations which bind people from doing any number of things. If the tax and regulatory burdens stifle development, that's on them.
Right...so circumstances don't matter to you. Well, at least now I know.

If new brunswick was sitting on massive oil reserves and Alberta wasn't Alberta would be the relative failure. Gotcha.

I don't agree but at least I understand your worldview. Canada, despite not having the structural advantages the USA has and is more akin to it's other G7 peers should strive to be performing on the level of a global superpower by the magic of being Canadian.

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Have a good night.
 
I don't believe all nations do. I believe there are a lot of cultural impediments. I believe a lot of the people who get into high positions are driven by ideologies that are sub-optimal, and are (even worse) driven by an impulse to impose their sub-optimal ideologies on others.

Lots of countries have favourable geography and climate. And ports and all the rest are outputs, not inputs. Depriving Canada of infrastructure is something we do to ourselves. (I don't give any countenance to arguments that there are particular tracts of land or stretches of coastline that need to be pristine for the handfuls of people who live in them.)

Sure we should. I'm not writing about the sum of national power; I'm writing about the things ordinary people can consume and aspire to. Most Canadians are clearly ahead of most Chinese; ergo, it's possible for the people in less blessed countries to do better.

Canada doesn't do better because even with the good examples and horrible warnings around the world right in front of our faces, we are unable to make big changes to how we govern ourselves and in the relationships between individuals and between individuals and the governments.
I see merit in parts of what you’re saying.
We do have some significant chips on our shoulders. We have become a lot more afraid of taking risk and of offending the minority in cases where clearly the majority can and would benefit.
We have clearly forgotten that there are winners and losers and that it’s ok that this happens, it’s normal, it’s part of life. Leadership has become too collaborative in its approach and a lot less directional and affirmative.
This approach permeates all through our banking system now, I see it constantly. Too much singing Koombaya and hand holding. There is little vision, ownership, accountability and little drive to get things done quickly and efficiently.
 
We do have some significant chips on our shoulders. We have become a lot more afraid of taking risk and of offending the minority in cases where clearly the majority can and would benefit.

I see mass Canadian patriotism as a mile wide and an inch thick. I don't actually believe, if push comes to shove, the people of Canada are willing to suffer and make sacrifice for the nation, that doesn't necessarily mean war. And I see it as really more about being anti American than pro Canadian.

To me this is the emotion the DJT has stirred up.
 
Shocked I tell you, shocked lol

Idiots, you did this.

It's a good things Canadians vote for their local MPs and not their parties or the party leader.


This was an interesting comment on that thread.
Monday - No meeting. Bad weather prevented travel.
Tuesday - 1.5 hour meeting.
Wednesday - No meeting. Huddled in the embassy.
Thursday - 1 hour meeting.
Friday - Jamieson Greer is in Iowa. "Intensifying."

Is that accurate? 2.5 hours worth of effort this week?
 
Right...so circumstances don't matter to you. Well, at least now I know.

If new brunswick was sitting on massive oil reserves and Alberta wasn't Alberta would be the relative failure. Gotcha.

I don't agree but at least I understand your worldview. Canada, despite not having the structural advantages the USA has and is more akin to it's other G7 peers should strive to be performing on the level of a global superpower by the magic of being Canadian.

GIF by Ghood Girl Magic


Have a good night.
Enjoy beating your strawmen.
 
Shocked I tell you, shocked lol

Idiots, you did this.






A Conservative candidate running in a federal byelection in B.C. acknowledged this week he’s heard criticisms about party leader Pierre Poilievre from voters as he campaigns, while seeking to separate himself from the rest of the Conservative caucus.

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The comments came during an all-candidates panel for the Aug. 31 byelection in the riding of North Vancouver—Capilano, held Thursday at the Amica Lions Gate senior’s residence in West Vancouver.

The event was not open to the media, but Global News obtained video of the exchange between an audience member and Conservative candidate Stephen Curran from a source involved with the campaign of Liberal candidate Braeden Caley, who was also at the event along with Green Party candidate Shelley Luce.

In the video, the audience member called Poilievre “divisive in the extreme” and asked Curran about the perception that the Conservatives were unwilling to collaborate with the Liberal government and other opposition parties.

“I’ll confess, it’s not a question that I haven’t heard on the doorsteps as well,” Curran replied.


“The last thing I’ll mention to you is that Mr. Poilievre and the rest of the Conservative caucus are not on the ballot,” Curran said.

“It’s up to you to look at me and look at my face and see if you think I’m telling the truth, and whether I am actually going to be a constructive agent representing your interests in Parliament or not. And I hope that you believe that I will, because I’m going to be working very hard for you.”

The audience member responded to Curran, “I think you will, but I think Mr. Poilievre won’t let you.”

I find this both funny and sad.

Kind of like in the series of by elections before Trudeau resigned, the campaign posters didn't have Trudeaus face on them.
 








I find this both funny and sad.

Kind of like in the series of by elections before Trudeau resigned, the campaign posters didn't have Trudeaus face on them.

Candidate receiving a shitogram from Jenni Byrne in 3…2…1…
 








I find this both funny and sad.

Kind of like in the series of by elections before Trudeau resigned, the campaign posters didn't have Trudeaus face on them.

That's a new one, occasionally you'll see a backbencher go off script. He hasn't even made it to the bench yet.
 
That's a new one, occasionally you'll see a backbencher go off script. He hasn't even made it to the bench yet.
He might be in two weeks. Maybe he’s received feedback through campaigning that holding the line on MP salary is a winning factor?
 
Some more tea leaves to read as part of the big picture ....
 
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