2025 Federal Election - 28 Apr 25

[MilEME09]

I'm not worried. Reneging on that would be a death knell to the CPC. We all know what his policy is, no need to set Poly's hair on fire with just a few days left. Not discussing it sucks all the oxygen from that faction. If its not upfront, not many detractors will even think about the firearms issue. Canning the liberal plan will save millions at a comparatively small cost. I think it was a good move not mentioning it.

So not mentioning firearms at all is fine, but the CPC also felt the need to explicitly mention keeping the retirement age at 65 was needed? The party is all over the place

 

[Remius]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1914713050801754461

One take…

 

[Jarnhamar]

They didn’t really do much on firearms last round they were in power no?

I hate to think Carney may be the best chance firearm owners have to recoup some of the money Trudeau stole from them.

 

[Fishbone Jones]

Not many people are going to be swayed by the platforms. Their minds are already made up.

There's not even a requirement for parties to release a costed policy statement. Its good politics to do so, but nothing says they have to. So there's no real format to follow. Parties can release what they want.

 

[Fishbone Jones]

One thing about a gun registry:

Who could be compromised to sell the registry to Organized Crime and nefarious people?

There are rumours that that already happened when long guns were included in the registry.

 

[Remius]

Some weird stuff in this platform.



So scrap the hike and put in a new one?



This one wasn’t on my bingo card.

And it looks like their whole revenue stream is predicated that the economy will take off assuming provinces and indegenous groups get on board with pipelines.

No wonder they waited for this to drop…

 

[MilEME09]

Not many people are going to be swayed by the platforms. Their minds are already made up.

There's not even a requirement for parties to release a costed policy statement. Its good politics to do so, but nothing says they have to. So there's no real format to follow. Parties can release what they want.

a lot of hopes, wishful thinking, and phantom numbers dont make a good platform, I wanna know what they were smoking that the GST housing pledge would cost the gov less than 2 billion

 

[JLB50]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1914713050801754461

One take…

I had expected that, given the amount of time Poilievre and the CPC have had to respond to the various various crises over the past few years, we would now be seeing a more comprehensive, believable platform.

 

[Fishbone Jones]

a lot of hopes, wishful thinking, and phantom numbers dont make a good platform, I wanna know what they were smoking that the GST housing pledge would cost the gov less than 2 billion

Yeah, and there’s a shit ton of stuff in Carney’s platform that won't be explained either. Let's be realistic.

 

[dapaterson]

So not mentioning firearms at all is fine, but the CPC also felt the need to explicitly mention keeping the retirement age at 65 was needed? The party is all over the place

Under the last CPC government retirement age for OAS was raised to 67, so a promise not to do that again is valid.

(Though I agree with that change - it's good policy, but bad politics)

 

[MilEME09]

Yeah, and there’s a shit ton of stuff in Carney’s platform that won't be explained either. Let's be realistic.

for example?

 

[IKnowNothing]

And it looks like their whole revenue stream is predicated that the economy will take off assuming provinces and indegenous groups get on board with pipelines.

No wonder they waited for this to drop…

If nothing else, the man is committed to his ideology. All of our current immediate problems will be fixed by the vision he's had since he was 16.

 

[Remius]

Advance voting over last 4 days shatters records, Elections Canada says | Globalnews.ca

Preliminary figures released by Elections Canada show an estimated 7.3 million ballots were cast over the four-day advance polling period.

globalnews.ca

Healthy turn out.

Long weekend certainly helps.

 

[MilEME09]

Liberal tax plan will actually put more back in peoples pockets it seems

https://twitter.com/x/status/1914691773856641270

 

[mariomike]

I'm 68, still employed, and looking to continue working.

Puts me to shame. Haven't been employed since I was 54. Looking to continue loafing.

 

[Haggis]

Advance voting over last 4 days shatters records, Elections Canada says | Globalnews.ca

Preliminary figures released by Elections Canada show an estimated 7.3 million ballots were cast over the four-day advance polling period.

globalnews.ca

Healthy turn out.

Long weekend certainly helps.

Deleted as incorrect info was posted.

 

[MilEME09]

The Liberals wanted to move the fixed election date one week to the right to avoid a non-stat holiday Hindu festival that 95% of Canadians had no idea even existed until they brought up the idea, but they had no problem running advance polls on a Christian religious stat holiday weekend where election workers got paid overtime for two full days.

end of the day, advanced polls dates are set by elections canada, not the liberal party

 

[Good2Golf]

end of the day, advanced polls dates are set by elections canada, not the liberal party

…and operating entirely within existing legislation.

Trudeau’s Diwalisuperannuation-delay would have required a legislative revision that would have required passing the House, Senate and as with all laws, receiving Royal Assent.

 

[IKnowNothing]

Liberal tax plan will actually put more back in peoples pockets it seems

https://twitter.com/x/status/1914691773856641270

Honestly - I find more fault in it existing it all than in it being a slower roll out than the LPC plan.

 

[Cloud Cover]

I had expected that, given the amount of time Poilievre and the CPC have had to respond to the various various crises over the past few years, we would now be seeing a more comprehensive, believable platform.

Nope. We got a cheesy marketing brochure that’s tries as hard as possible to not make a sale.
Now I’m starting to wonder if the CPC is intentionally throwing the vote.