Liberal (Minority/Majority) Government 2025 - ???
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Maxman1
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Nobody operates a blind trust like that. Selling off assets for no rhyme or reason is not working in the owner's best interests and almost certainly goes against the instructions they left.
A blind trust is basically caretaker mode and almost always comes out mostly the same as it went in.
What you're suggesting can be accomplished much easier by simply liquidating the entire portfolio and putting everything in a mutual fund.
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He needs to put the “Blame Canada” and separatist “influencers”, including the likes of Jivani, in their place. They are anchors keeping him and the party down. I fear that they now have more power than him in the party though.
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Oh I agree, they need to be purged. There very well could be a division forming, or already existing, within the party that PP is trying to manage.
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That’s what happens when you try to get the PPC voters rather than a broader chunk of the electorate. I’d feel sorry for him if he hadn’t invited them into the tent in the first place.
I believe he would have happily sacrificed Ontario and Quebec industrial jobs to just get more oil and gas sales to the US. Kinda what happened under Harper.
Manufacturing in Ontario / Some 300,000 jobs lost over the past decade
Ontario’s manufacturing sector was once the bedrock of the province’s economy. But over the past decade the sector has lost some 300,000 jobs and its share of GDP has declined sharply. Whereas in 2…
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This is really why some of the strongest "Elbows up" response is in those provinces. They are trying protect to the few manufacturing jobs left. And politicians who don't sound sympathetic to this are going to get pummelled in the polls. Poilievre is finally starting to sound like he gets this.
I think a lot of people are forgetting how to Poilievre came to power. He courted the Convoy crowd. These influencers were all part and parcel of an attempt at a Canadian MAGAesque movement. He led their parade and pushed O'Toole. So they are very much his people. He can't control the party without them. But now he's starting to understand that he can't win with them.
Not just him. You have people like Kenney who did the same in Alberta. And are suddenly shocked to see populists wreck their party's brand. Why the surprise?
HavokFour
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Crossposting because of the relevance to our EV agreement with China.
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He realized that they may build first in Canada and the US would lose out.Crossposting because of the relevance to our EV agreement with China.
Still may happen.
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The Chinese were evil because primarily they were not contributing to his Bank account.
I cannot for the the world understand what may have happened and caused the great man to change his opinion......
I cannot for the the world understand what may have happened and caused the great man to change his opinion......
It won't.
But also, we need to take American complaints about Chinese goods with a grain of salt.
daftandbarmy
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Because the EU is so awesome... I guess
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Odd take (or perhaps a quick reflexive one).
Perhaps it is about the fact that the EU is arguably the second largest economy in the world. Market size matters, especially if you are trying to reduce your reliance on the largest economy, without getting in bed with the third largest.
Old stereotypes may have less utility these days,
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It’s about having options.
The more options, the better off we all are.
Wait you mean economic diversification isn’t just a binary choice between two substitutable options!?
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So reading it, we would get a ton of benefits here without actually being an EU member. Including visa free work and travel. That would be huge for tourism and businesses
daftandbarmy
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Indeed, although the EU has a habit of infiltrating its own particular brand of overwhelming red tape bound bureaucracy into member nations to the detriment of collective efficiency, effectiveness and competitiveness.
I suppose the devil will be in the details...
Cutting red tape at EU level: businesses are not feeling the relief
More than 60 per cent of European companies consider excessive regulatory burdens to be a major barrier to investment in the EU. For SMEs, bureaucracy remains the single greatest obstacle to growth. Echoing Mario Draghi’s assessment, the OECD confirms that the rising regulatory burden in the EU absorbs considerable resources, diverts businesses from productive activities and raises the fixed costs of doing business – with negative implications for scaling, innovation and competitiveness.
Cutting red tape at EU level: businesses are not feeling the relief
Reducing red tape is one of the most pressing economic policy challenges facing the EU. The European Commission’s new communication on better regulation demonstrates that Brussels has correctly identified the core problem. However, in the BDI’s view, the measures so far and those announced fall...
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HavokFour
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The banker has gotten very good at the game of politics.
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Stephen Harper to deliver closing speech at Carney's Investment Summit
Stephen Harper will deliver the closing speech of Prime Minister Mark Carney's first Canada Investment Summit Tuesday.
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Does that mean EU citizens would be able to live and work visa free in Canada?
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