KevinB
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Well he would solve the whole French problem once and for all…
2025 Federal Election - 28 Apr 25
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Canada 338 aggregate of all kindsa polls ....
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... shows voter intent essentially neck-and-neck when you consider the range of both Blue & Red stats ...
... and the NDP projected as low as one mating pair.
Interesting seeing the historic record of the odds of which party was expected to get the most seats and majority-minority outcomes.
338Canada Canada | Poll Analysis & Electoral Projections
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... and the NDP projected as low as one mating pair.
Interesting seeing the historic record of the odds of which party was expected to get the most seats and majority-minority outcomes.
Blanchet calls Canada ‘an artificial country with very little meaning’
Bloc Quebecois Leader Yves-Francois Blanchet issued a scathing assessment Friday of Canada as a country, and Quebec’s place in it as he made his case to Quebecers that only he would protect their interests.www.ctvnews.ca
It really blows my mind that Quebec separatists just don't understand how screwed they would be if they separated from Canada. The First Nations territories have already stated that if Quebec separated from Canada then they could separate from Quebec. That would mean that Quebec would have to import the electricity it uses to power its heavy industry and lose much of the land where it extracts natural resources.
Also, rather than being a province with 7 million francophones in a bilingual country of 40 million they would be an island of 7 million francophones surrounded by 370 million non-francophones. Nobody outside Quebec will want to accommodate their language and all their trade will have to be in English out of necessity.
Separation from Canada would greatly accelerate the destruction of Quebecois culture and language. I think the Bloc and PQ realize that but leverage the fear of separation in the rest of Canada to get accommodations that the rest of the Provinces would have a much more difficult time getting.
This is a common opinion that I think seriously underestimates the sophistication of Quebecers, separatists and the Bloc. I’ll concede that I’m not an expert but as a BC boy who’s on his third posting to Valcartier, I think their understanding and nuance on politics is better than in the rest of Canada. Also, don’t kid yourself, everyone in Quebec knows there would be challenges/disadvantages associated with a separation, so your mind shouldn’t be so blown.
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Jean and Elsie enter the chat.
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Only an homage to classic Canadian comedy from “This Hour has 22 Mimutes”
Touché"challenges/disadvantages"
Agreed.
Not trying to sound like a conspiracy theorist, but my take on it is that he simply said what he needed to say to advance in the election...
During any election campaign, every politician will talk about "rebooting the economy!" and "creating lots of new jobs!"
They'll talk about removing trade barriers, expanding to new markets, tax cuts for this & that, more funding for this & that, etc
So on that note, I believe Carney has simply said what every voter wants to hear, regardless of who they are voting for.
The bigger picture would suggest Carney is no friend of Canadian industry, despite us having some of the best technology & highest environmental standards in the world.
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He criticizes Pierre Poilievre's "slogans" such as Axe The Tax, but his NetZero is basically the exact same thing as a slogan.
Except Pierre's desire to axe the carbon tax is an easily achievable matter of changing legislation.
Whereas Carney's net zero goals require the creation of an entire mini-economy to accommodate imaginary carbon credits & is mostly designed to suck money from the industrial sector to the financial sector under the guise of a climate emergency.
(Que Brookfield, which looks to benefit greatly from a lot of Carney's ideas...)
And just like the carbon tax doesn't actually go towards reducing the very thing they are taxing us on (or any environmental projects at all really) - these imaginary carbon credits aren't going to do anything to help the environment either.
Even Environment Canada has said it's 9000 employees won't be enough to just administer the new regulatory framework, which is an extremely complex & confusing ball of crap I personally suspect was designed to camouflage the non-consensual transfer of wealth his ideas will result in
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The Canadian O&G industry is already one of the cleanest in the world. Putting arbitrary caps on emissions (which IS a cap on production, even if he says it isn't) and taxing the hell out of it is going to accomplish absolutely nothing of benefit...
It WILL kill the Canadian economy in multiple ways and at multiple levels though. And as an 'experienced economist' he's well aware of this...
(Considering most provinces currently rely heavily on equalization payments from the west, they won't be able to pay for much when those payments stop coming because he killed off one of the few remaining industries we have left.)
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Biggest question I'd have is how big is our undecided pool? That's what may swing the election either way
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Additionally, are we going to see a repatriation of the BQ and NDP voters?
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Not a good look.
It's almost like having a PhD and being considered an expert in a field doesn't automatically translate to benevolence and good intentions.
Liberal candidate apologizes for comments 'out of context' allegedly about abandoning elderly, preventing motherhood
It's almost like having a PhD and being considered an expert in a field doesn't automatically translate to benevolence and good intentions.
In a bizarre twist, Quirky will vote for her.
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As a physician she'd be an MD (possibly a PhD as well, but that's much less common). (Then again, I do know a doctor of nursing...)
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So we remain reliant on the US for things like Line 5?
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Wow, number of things I find fascinating in those numbers.
1) BQ has virtually no support from women 18-34 in Quebec.
2) NDP’s biggest supporters are those same 18-34 women, ditto to the Liberals.
3) Ditto for the Green Party
4) Women 55+ don’t give a hoot about the NDP
6) Men 35+ are solidly Conservative (surpirise!)
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There is no quick fix so I guess for now, yes. I think they recently received state and/or federal approval to tunnel under the Mackinac Strait. In the long term, I would like to explore increasing the capacity of the Trans-Canada Pipeline. I don't know how many lines there are (3?) but I recall come talk about converting one of the from gas to oil, with much local opposition along the route.
we been having this oh-so-Canadian debate for almost 70 years.
TransCanada pipeline - Wikipedia
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In the end, they always turn on each other...
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My conspiratorial mind sees him as a LPC plant.
I can't think of any other reason he helped them cling to power long enough for Trump to swing things toward the LPC.
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