Must be frustrating for conservatives if that is the case. Imagine losing because you didn’t communicate your ideas and waited too long before they were stolen. Slogans only go so far I guess.
All polls have semblances of reality. Come now. They are data points. Nothing more. The final data point is what counts yes.
I think one remedy would be to get government out of the way of business. All business.I haven't seen much, from any party, yet about addressing our national productivity crisis. I can only assume they think it's too difficult to explain to we mere mortals:
Time to break the glass: Fixing Canada’s productivity problem
Productivity is a way to inoculate the economy against inflation. An economy with low productivity can grow only so quickly before inflation sets in. But an economy with strong productivity can have faster growth, more jobs and higher wages with less risk of inflation. That’s why I want to talk about Canada’s long-standing, poor record on productivity and show you just how big the problem is. You’ve seen those signs that say, “In emergency, break glass.” Well, it’s time to break the glass.
Back in 1984, the Canadian economy was producing 88% of the value generated by the US economy per hour. That’s not great. But by 2022, Canadian productivity had fallen to just 71% of that of the United States. Over this same period of time, Canada also fell behind our G7 peers, with only Italy seeing a larger decline in productivity relative to the United States.
Improving productivity in Canada needs to be a priority for everyone, and there are two basic strategies for doing it. One is to have the economy focus more on the industries that add greater value than less-productive activities. The other strategy is to keep doing the jobs we’re doing but do them more efficiently. Ideally, Canada would use both strategies, leading to an economy with strong productivity growth and a large concentration of high-value industries.
Unfortunately, Canada’s recent record isn’t very good on either front. That may seem strange. After all, Canada is known for some high-value industries, such as energy and aerospace. But while the level of productivity here is high, the growth rates aren’t necessarily strong. At the same time, some industries in Canada have shown pretty good productivity growth over the past couple of decades.1 But these include sectors such as retail and wholesale trade, which tend not to generate the same amount of output per worker as sectors like energy or aerospace.
Time to break the glass: Fixing Canada’s productivity problem
Senior Deputy Governor Carolyn Rogers explains how higher productivity can protect the economy from future bouts of inflation and why fixing Canada's productivity problem should be a priority for all Canadians.www.bankofcanada.ca
It's not even Trudeau! We have fundamental shortage of judges and prosecutors in Canada, something hired and managed by the provinces. Since we don't have enough, and because of the supreme court putting a time limit on every case, aggressive please bargins are made to get convictions before times up and people go free. If we want to fix that, provinces need to hire more.
As if business is the saviour of the world? If so let us bow down and pray right now that business will consign all government to the fiery depths of hell.
Careful. Brookefield is a business right. According to some it’s the business from hell lol.
In a sense, it is. Nations early to adopt trade liberalization and coddle their mercantile class a bit become powerhouses. Business is ill-equipped to deal with politicians; that falls to voters.
Criminal law is federal. If someone is charged under the Criminal Code, federal law determines parole, sentencing, early release, turning murderers back to the street after 48 hrs. Not the provinces. The federal government appoints federal judges, giving them jurisdiction over matters like criminal offenses and cases involving federal laws or constitutional issues under the Criminal Code of Canada.
Criminal code is federal yes, administering it is provincial, and that's a fundamental difference you are not grasping here as a concept. As has been explained numerous times on this thread, lighter bail is being given, and what many of us including me think are BS plea bargins because they are trying to get a conviction as fast as possible because we don't have enough judges and prosecutors to hear cases quickly.
Business is what pays the wages, provides the cost of benefits, takes the chance and either succeeds or dies, allows people to increase and improve their lot.
The point of my sarcasm is that both government and business need checks and balances to limit their power. As Lord Acton said, “Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
It's repeat criminals who are clogging up the justice system. If criminals were kept behind bars longer there would be less stress on the court system. Less stress on the court system means they don't have to make weak deals meaning criminals will get longer sentences.
There are established labour laws to ensure we don't go back to the Victorian era.
Yes, you do…you vote them out of office. Otherwise, we can respectfully agree to disagree.
Lots of damage can be done over four years. Just witness the last four.
Which then goes back to the point of aggressive plea bargins that get people to plead guilty to lesser charges or to get a lesser sentence
researchco.ca
Heard they were leading in the north end of the island also. Conservatives taking ridings on the island is unheard of.The (ex) Navy guy is leading on the Island...
With a week left in Canada’s federal election campaign, the Conservative Party is ahead in the Vancouver Island riding of Cowichan—Malahat—Langford, a new Research Co. poll has found.
In the mixed mode survey of a representative sample of eligible voters in this constituency, 36% of respondents say they will cast a ballot for Conservative candidate Jeff Kibble, while 29% would support incumbent MP Alistair MacGregor of the New Democratic Party (NDP).
The State of the Race in Cowichan—Malahat—Langford
Eligible voters in this constituency are more likely to prefer a federal government headed by Mark Carney.
