2025 Federal Election - 28 Apr 25

[The Bread Guy]

Two 'retired' RCMP Officers...

https://twitter.com/x/status/1912144834103591393

More of the document already posted upthread here, some background here & here, with some media follow-up since 2023 here.

 

[Fishbone Jones]

Was stated by the PM during the foreign interference inquiry. This is the same inquiry that name dropped tucker Carlson and everyone's favorite Ottawa citizen reporter as Russian assets.

Jordan Peterson says he is considering legal action after Trudeau accused him of taking Russian money

"I don't think it's reasonable for the prime minister of the country to basically label me a traitor," said Peterson

nationalpost.com

Seriously? You're trying to convince us trudeau doesn't lie? Or convince us he doesn't make up stories? Being under oath is not that big a deal when you lie to near 35 million people almost daily. The guy was almost as big a liar as carney. They're narcissists, it's in their genes.

 

[Halifax Tar]

I fully support the idea of consecutive sentences for those convicted of multiple murders. Like Serial killers and mass murderers.

I agree with you, but...

If we are going to lock people up forever we should just execute them.

 

[brihard]

I agree with you, but...

If we are going to lock people up forever we should just execute them.

If the state screw up, someone in jail forever can be released. Someone falsely executed - and it has happened - cannot be. Thought back to life. If the criminal justice system achieves a state of perfect accuracy, we can revisit r capital punishment discussion.

For myself, I have no problem with life without parole out of principle, however the ‘parole for multiple murderers’ that Poilievre is touting as grounds to use the Notwithstanding Clause is a made up problem that isn’t actually happening. He’s pandering to the uninformed and trying to scare people by pretending we have convicted multiple murderers out on parole endangering the public. With less than two weeks ago, a campaign promise to override Charter rights comes across as a bit desperate.

 

[ArmyRick]

Life imprisoned is far worse punishment than execution. Now keep in mind in the USA, it takes what 20-30 years for a death sentence to be carried out after they exhausted all the appeals?

 

[Remius]

Green Party disinvited from federal leaders’ debate, commission says

The Leaders’ Debate Commission says it has rescinded its invitation to the Green Party to participate in the two federal leaders’ debates.

www.ctvnews.ca

One less at the debate

 

[Furniture]

If the state screw up, someone in jail forever can be released. Someone falsely executed - and it has happened - cannot be. Thought back to life. If the criminal justice system achieves a state of perfect accuracy, we can revisit r capital punishment discussion.

For myself, I have no problem with life without parole out of principle, however the ‘parole for multiple murderers’ that Poilievre is touting as grounds to use the Notwithstanding Clause is a made up problem that isn’t actually happening. He’s pandering to the uninformed and trying to scare people by pretending we have convicted multiple murderers out on parole endangering the public. With less than two weeks ago, a campaign promise to override Charter rights comes across as a bit desperate.

The justice system is allowing repeat violent offenders back onto the streets, to continue to harm innocent people. Being seen to be willing to do something about it, even if the announced thing people are hyper focused on is more symbolic than practical, might reach through to people who are not sure the LPC will fix the mess they helped create.

The CPC have announced other plans to reform the system, but the press hyperfocuses on the one "controversial" thing, b3cause it generates clicks.

 

[Halifax Tar]

Green Party disinvited from federal leaders’ debate, commission says

The Leaders’ Debate Commission says it has rescinded its invitation to the Green Party to participate in the two federal leaders’ debates.

www.ctvnews.ca

One less at the debate

I don't think there is much space left for them on the electoral landscape. Its time the folded in with the NDP or LPC.

 

[brihard]

The justice system is allowing repeat violent offenders back onto the streets, to continue to harm innocent people. Being seen to be willing to do something about it, even if the announced thing people are hyper focused on is more symbolic than practical, might reach through to people who are not sure the LPC will fix the mess they helped create.

The CPC have announced other plans to reform the system, but the press hyperfocuses on the one "controversial" thing, b3cause it generates clicks.

Absolutely, but I’m only replying to what he actually said he’d do, and what he said he’d do is meaningless theatrics that tramples the Charter. What I DON’T see any of them offering up is criminal justice system funding to the provinces to hire more crown prosecutors, build more physical courtrooms, and appoint more provincial court judges. The provincial jails are also a complete shitshow, badly overcrowded, and this is affecting decisions to release people on bail.

There’s a lot that can be done to tangibly improve the system and tighten up bail without jumping to a performative and ineffective invocation of the Notwithstanding Clause.

All of this of course is downstream of the commission of offences. If they want to make a real dent without crimes happening, they need to look upstream to various socioeconomic determinants of criminality- addiction first and foremost, low income housing and employment skills…

As the astute among us may have noticed, nearly everything I’m saying is provincial jurisdiction, though could be assisted with federal funding. Most of it also doesn’t Verb the Noun that well, and doesn’t make for low-investment, high-return campaigning.

 

[lenaitch]

Yes. The ceiling increases each year. The contribution limit carries forward; you don't have to use-or-lose each year's contribution room. If you withdraw, you can re-contribute withdrawn amounts after a delay (ie. not in the year withdrawn). See here.

"The TFSA contribution room is the total amount of all of the following:

• the TFSA dollar limit of the current year
• any unused TFSA contribution room from previous years
• any withdrawals made from the TFSA in the previous year"

Tax avoidance is legal and not immoral or unethical. The point of the major individual tax breaks (eg. RRSP, TFSA) is to encourage savings, particularly for retirement. The point of major corporate tax breaks is to encourage investment. It's no good having entrepreneurs with bright ideas that will make our lives better if they lack sufficient capital and can't easily attract investors.

And a little tidbit for estate planning that I only recently learned, you can designate a 'successor holder' (different from a beneficiary) whereby your TFSA essentially simply becomes theirs without impacting their TFSA or deposit rules.

I fully support the idea of consecutive sentences for those convicted of multiple murders. Like Serial killers and mass murderers.

As do I (a comparatively small subset of all homicides) but, like mandatory minimums, is Constitutionally difficult, even with the NWC.

 

[MilEME09]

Forgive me but f I don’t believe anything Trudeau said or says under oath or not without extensive corroborating source evidence. The man has not earned any trust or respect in his word in of itself, and that partisan display during the inquiry should not be considered as evidence of anything.

I say that knowing full well that you will likely disagree. I also say it with no real stance on Jordan Peterson.

If it walks like a duck, talk like a duck, and looks like a duck, it's a duck

 

[MilEME09]

Seriously? You're trying to convince us trudeau doesn't lie? Or convince us he doesn't make up stories? Being under oath is not that big a deal when you lie to near 35 million people almost daily. The guy was almost as big a liar as carney. They're narcissists, it's in their genes.

And are trying to convince me a man who keeps pushing the Russian narrative on Ukraine and the world isn't an asset of the Russian government?

 

[daftandbarmy]

Meanwhile, the Green Party continues to (helpfully) self-destruct...

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/leaders-debate-commission-green-party-removed-1.7511447

 

[Jarnhamar]

And are trying to convince me a man who keeps pushing the Russian narrative on Ukraine and the world isn't an asset of the Russian government?

I'm disturbed by the idea of a Russian asset allowed to operate so freely in our country. How come the RCMP haven't arrested him yet?

 

[Eaglelord17]

Meanwhile, the Green Party continues to (helpfully) self-destruct...

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/leaders-debate-commission-green-party-removed-1.7511447

Keep in mind the weaker the NDP, Bloc, and Green parties are, the stronger the Liberals tend to become.

 

[MilEME09]

I'm disturbed by the idea of a Russian asset allowed to operate so freely in our country. How come the RCMP haven't arrested him yet?

Same reason the federal government hasn't shut down the Russian embassy or bared tucker Carlson from entering Canada, they haven't done anything illegal. They know how to play the game

 

[daftandbarmy]

Keep in mind the weaker the NDP, Bloc, and Green parties are, the stronger the Liberals tend to become.

IMHO that's no reason to reward profound incompetence, in any walk of life

 

[YZT580]

I agree with you, but...

If we are going to lock people up forever we should just execute them.

would be more humane than permanent incarceration but there would always be the individual who worries that a potentially innocent person might be executed. Repeating the words of Elliot Trudeau: Life means life. We have MAID now so perhaps we give them the choice.

 

[IKnowNothing]

All of this of course is downstream of the commission of offences. If they want to make a real dent without crimes happening, they need to look upstream to various socioeconomic determinants of criminality- addiction first and foremost, low income housing and employment skills…

I agree completely. Those need to be addressed 100%

But at the same time, I think there has a been a systemic mis-application of macro scale ideals onto the micro scale situations

We should be able to acknowledge the socioeconomic determinants and work to address them without allowing them and other sociopolitical causes and footballs as justification to avoid enforcing the law against those that choose to break it.

While I think the SCC argument in Nur had broad based merit, I agree more with Moldaver and in my opinion the decision has been to the detriment of society- and any government serious about reducing gun and other violent crime needs to take another run at the issue. The NWC is the nuclear option and should be avoided if it can, but...

Case study- these schmucks should be made an example of

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/queen-west-recording-studio-shooting-update-1.7439289

 

[ballz]

Would it be accurate to say the Canadian government doesn't control how much money companies like Brookfield can filter through tax havens like Bermuda?

It’s trickier to do so directly.

Define "control" ? The Canadian government certainly can't tell them what to do, but it does control it's own Income Tax Act, can require any reporting it wants, can tax anything it wants, has essentially unlimited ability to audit anything, question anybody, etc. [and they can force you to comply with questioning, etc. if they want] and until it becomes a criminal investigation no one has any rights whatsoever to refuse CRA. And with the way tax law works they can actually assess the corporation for anything they want, without any evidence, and the burden of proof is on the taxpayer to prove the truth [they usually go this route rather than forcing compliance with audit/questioning/etc. if you really want to dig in].

I don't think it's tricky to do so at all. Taxpayers in Canada actually already have to report all of their foreign income and foreign interests over what is a relatively small threshold. Most people don't realize it but even as an individual if you own more than $100,000 in specified foreign property (property like stocks, rental properties, interests in partnerships, etc. that are held outside of registered plans like RRSPs and TFSAs) you actually already have to report that even if it isn't gaining any income. And foreign income all has to be reported, which for Brookfield any income earned as part of a partnership would be directly reportable by Brookfield (partnerships are not taxpayers and so the corporation has to report it's share of the partnership income/expenses/assets/etc.)

The thing is though, by reducing their corporate tax liabilities, the various Brookfield funds are able to pass more back as return on investment to investors. When we receive those returns (and I say we because I and many of us here are directly or indirectly invested in Brookfield), it then gets taxed in the various ways our investment returns get taxed- not at all if in a TFSA; later when withdrawn if in an RRSP or RESP; as income the year of if in a non-registered account.

All else being equal, speaking for myself, it’s in my best interest for the companies I invest in to legally minimize their tax owing so more comes back to me. And that’s part of the fiduciary duty of the board of directors to achieve. An investment fund that doesn’t try to lawfully minimize taxes is a less effective investment fund. That means less for our pension funds, our RRSPs, or our kids’ education funds.

Food for thought.

Agreed, it's a fact as old as the concept of a corporation at all, that corps don't actually pay tax and its actually the individual shareholders who ultimately pay corporate tax. Unfortunately, it's not something most people understand and they are understandably a bit blinded by the general unfairness of wealth inequality to be able to come to grips with it.