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Liberal (Minority/Majority) Government 2025 - ???

That ... is ... cool. Says the man just coming in from the 8th time this season that he's used his significantly less expensive but handraulic snowblower to clear his own driveway.

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My electric leaf blower has done sterling work three times this year.
#southeastalberta
 
and this is on businesses, using and in many cases exploiting things like the TFW program, lobbying government and other programs for cheap labour rather then investing in canadians or the business. The provinces haven't helped the situation either, but good on the gov to be finally trying to turn this around and focus on generating growth and jobs


FTFY 😉
 
theres more to the world then mega projects, there are other investments, and the last time during the harper years, when corporate taxes were cut to where they are now. We saw no major increases in investment, thats just not how companies actually do things at all, infact unless theres a tax break, many dont. including areas that dont need environmental reviews etc it just doesn't materialize, long gov record or not
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South Korea continues to go all out. This is an excellent development with NK and Russia getting further in bed with each other.

Could we just sign the damn contract already?



Some further information regarding Canola. Chinese buyers have bought 10 cargoes worth now.

Canadian canola is expected to be shipped between February and April, two traders with direct knowledge of the deals said. Each cargo is of around 65,000 metric tons.

Ten cargoes, or around 650,000 metric tons, represent over 10% of China's canola imports in 2024 and about 26% of its total imports last year.

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Unless you're outside in it.
I used to laugh at this wet cold / dry cold thing but honestly, -5*C in SW Ontario chills you right to the bone. You can dress for -30*C dry cold.

And yeah. Lake effect streamers can be quite the snow conveyor belts. You can literally drive 30 kms on the 402 in bright sunshine and then have to drive through a 5 km total blizzard whiteout before emerging on the other side for another 30 kms in bright sunshine again.

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All the more reason we should buy from them, subs, arty, tanks, etc the availability rate of K2s suggests we wouldn't have the supply chains issues we do with Leopard
I wonder if it would be possible to convince BAE Systems to open a factory in Canada and put the Challenger 3 into production, rather than just being an upgrade program for existing hulls. It uses the same hulls as the Challenger 2, and they own all the blueprints and necessary rights to that design.

If we picked the CV90 and BvS10, those could be built at the same factory, and I'm sure Britain would like more than 148 Challenger 3s.
 
A clear departure from Trudeau era LPC.

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It's a nice first step.

Four dollars doesn’t sound like a lot, but we have many patients who are on four or five, six medications because they’re diabetic and hypertensive,”

That's nice. I'm paying out of my pocket to cover some medications for my parents, certainly more than $4 a pop though. In a way this is helping them be more Canadian.

According to the Immigration Department, it covered 623,365 beneficiaries in the fiscal year 2024-2025 — up from 90,328 a decade ago. The expenses amounted to $896.5 million, up by $306.1 million from 2023-2024 due to increased volumes of claims.

JFC.
 
Canada and Japan sign new tech transfer agreement

the speed at which this government is moving is honestly refreshing.
 
3%? Not a bad deal, but something tells me the koreas are eexpecting big sales increases.

This is how you build consensus for defence expenditures, you buy from Canadian suppliers.

The F35 program is a champion of spreading spending broadly to build political consensus (while increasing costs).
 
Interesting tack, politically speaking ...
Taking one of Team Blue's priorities & running with it pre-snap-election, as some of the commentariat are suggesting?

We'll have to see ....
 
Interesting tack, politically speaking ...
Taking one of Team Blue's priorities & running with it pre-snap-election, as some of the commentariat are suggesting?

We'll have to see ....

I am not sure what more the CPC needs to be told to get them (us) to realize they need a leadership change.

PMMC and LPC are essentially running a CPC Gov. Minus firearms, which they don't seem to have public backing on.

I guess the trouble is who else is there ?
 
I am not sure what more the CPC needs to be told to get them (us) to realize they need a leadership change.

PMMC and LPC are essentially running a CPC Gov. Minus firearms, which they don't seem to have public backing on.
Team Red, Paul Martin dialect maybe?
I guess the trouble is who else is there ?
Yup. Although if PP were to not be leader anymore for whatever reason, I can't see why contenders wouldn't race forward.

Right now, even though there's some strong players in the caucus (Michael Chong & Michelle Rempel Garner, to name just a few) - not to mention outside of caucus if they thought they could make a go of it - it still seems to be mostly PP as the flag bearer/lightning rod.
 
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LPC-47

CPC-38

BQ-6

NDP-5

GRN-2

Never has a speech delivered so much, for so few, so fast.
I don't know about that Altair. The "you had a choice" line by Mulroney had quite an impact. But addressing comments from above, I don't understand why everyone is gunning for PP. Although he isn't in power it seems that all lot of his objections are being translated into government actions albeit he isn't getting credit. From my viewpoint, I care less about whose picture is on the wall and more about the tone of the directives emanating from OW and so far they are distinctly blue with only a tinge of red. Am I missing something?
 
I don't know about that Altair. The "you had a choice" line by Mulroney had quite an impact.
It certainly did, but that was a line in a debate, not a stand alone speech.
But addressing comments from above, I don't understand why everyone is gunning for PP. Although he isn't in power it seems that all lot of his objections are being translated into government actions albeit he isn't getting credit. From my viewpoint, I care less about whose picture is on the wall and more about the tone of the directives emanating from OW and so far they are distinctly blue with only a tinge of red. Am I missing something?
PP had a choice.

Work together with the LPC to get things done. He could then reasonably claim credit for such things. He decided to be obstructionist and not work with the LPC. The LPC swoop in and steal his policy ideas. The LPC claim full credit.

And on the surface of it, PP is helping them in that regard. He will say something like not far enough, or play games in committees or call a vote trying to expose divisions in the LPC. Meanwhile Carney is hanging out with Moe and Doug Ford, conservatives if I remember correctly.

It also scares progressives. Because if Carney is more or less a red tory, and PP is saying he's not doing enough, progressives are thinking to themselves, "well damn, how much further would PP go is he isn't on board with Carney?"

It's telling from that poll that the real collapse in support is from the BQ and NDP. PP is doing himself no favours.

I hope he stays on as leader of the CPC.
 
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