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

[RangerRay]

Another for the chain, here's Mainstreet for Jan. 31-Feb. 2.

https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/66c8dfb086a015b3b519e988/6981568ca06972c45d09db75_Mainstreet_Canada_Jan_2026_Public.pdf

Oof.

 

[Maxman1]

Make no mistake; Churchill would be an isolated and probably crappy posting, particularly for families. Maybe CAF should consider a ‘fly in/fly out’ rotational model for many of the hypothetical staff like a lot of the work camps or some of the remote RCMP posts do? Families could live where it makes sense to live, and every two weeks people rotate in and out. Bust your ass for two weeks, fly home to Winnipeg or Edmonton for two weeks off. Might even be cheaper than cost moves up there.

Maybe if we reopen CFS Bermuda, we could throw in priority postings for people who do far north taskings.

 

[foresterab]

Fort MacMurray

1961 - 1,110
1971 - 6,681
1981 - 31,000 (boom census data unreliable due to transients and temporary housing)
1991 - 33,698
2001 - 30,000 - 40,000 (boom census data unreliable due to transients and temporary housing)
2011 - 61,374
2021 - 68,002

There is no reason, to my mind why places like Churchill and Iqaluit, Goose Bay and Gray's Bay, given the right circumstances, couldn't achieve similar growth. Yellowknife and Whitehorse both started as trading posts.

Once upon a time the entire white population of the lower mainland fitted inside a stockade at Fort Langley.

No city in Canada started with a divided highway servicing it.

The market imperative for the railroad to Vancouver in 1867 was just as obscure as that to Churchill. In fact the prospect for the Churchill route in 1867 was probably better tha that of Vancouver because the HBC had already started laying rail for wagonways at portage points to move both freight and York Boats.

That's the formal city census numbers only too cited for Fort Mac.

Doesn't include the 10,000's that were in industrial camps all around the city.

 

[Deleted member 175000]

Some clear eyed commentary on the CPC convention from conservative pundits. Both seem tired, Jen seems exasperated.

Interesting excerpt:

Why not? Because almost half the Conservative base approves of Trump. According to an Angus Reid survey , 33 per cent of Conservative voters give Trump an “A” or a “B” for his first year of his second term and fifteen per cent give him a “C.” In contrast, zero Liberal and NDP voters grade him higher than “C” and over 90 per cent give him an “F” — compared to only a third of CPC voters.

That's an ideological tent held together by shoe lace and duct tape

Tasha Khereiddin
Jen Gerson

 

[MilEME09]

Oof.

Seems like the Davos speech really worked in his favor domestically. He just needs a solid two quarters of positive economic news to cement his position. If he can get south Korean to bring manufacturing jobs to Southern ontario, that will likely flip a few areas red.

 

[dapaterson]

Seems like the Davos speech really worked in his favor domestically. He just needs a solid two quarters of positive economic news to cement his position. If he can get south Korean to bring manufacturing jobs to Southern ontario, that will likely flip a few areas red.

Plus resource extraction and processing industries (eg steel mills).

 

[MilEME09]

Plus resource extraction and processing industries (eg steel mills).

suddenly making Ontario a have province again, now that would be interesting

 

[HavokFour]

Hello cherry on top.

Hanwha Aerospace proposes ground defense solutions to Canadian minister

Hanwha Aerospace, a South Korean defense company, proposed an integrated ground defense solution to Canada's defense procurement minister during his visit

m.koreaherald.com

 

[MilEME09]

Hello cherry on top.

Hanwha Aerospace proposes ground defense solutions to Canadian minister

Hanwha Aerospace, a South Korean defense company, proposed an integrated ground defense solution to Canada's defense procurement minister during his visit

m.koreaherald.com

GBAD was part of the original unsolicited proposal they made so I am not surprised, they did offer the K30 biho, which would be a good solution with both guns and SAM's

 

[Halifax Tar]

Deputy head of the Ontario NSP to run for the federal Liberals in Blair's riding.

Looks like they're stealing ideas from the CPC and people from the NSP, staking out a big tent.

How one defection to Mark Carney’s Liberals set off a political earthquake at Queen’s Park

MPP Doly Begum will run in the Scarborough Southwest byelection to replace Bill Blair, who stepped down yesterday.

www.thestar.com

Ontario NSP ?

 

[Czech_pivo]

Ontario NSP ?

Either a typo or he's trying to say 'National/New Socialist Party'

 

[dapaterson]

Ontario NSP ?

Last update for my phone has made it make random "corrections" and this decided that when I wrote NDP I meant to say NSP. Sigh.

 

[MilEME09]

Ev mandate is out

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/ottawa-auto-strategy-announcement-evs-9.7073975

 

[suffolkowner]

Ev mandate is out

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/ottawa-auto-strategy-announcement-evs-9.7073975

back to the traditional Canadian way of bribing us with our own money

 

[HavokFour]

He can't do much not being part of the cabinet and also a backbencher in his own party, but he won't be going in entirely ignorant.

Conservative MP says meetings in Washington trade trip were ‘productive’

Jamil Jivani says he met with the State Department and White House in bid to assist with bilateral trade talks

www.theglobeandmail.com

Archive


Here's hoping Harper and Chretien's message struck home. More of this, including actions.

Carney, Poilievre say they want to work together after one-on-one meeting

Prime Minister Mark Carney and Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre are pushing for collaboration ahead of a one-on-one meeting on Parliament Hill on Wednesday.

www.ctvnews.ca

 

[MilEME09]

back to the traditional Canadian way of bribing us with our own money

if it drives investment and jobs I am all for it

 

[Remius]

He can't do much not being part of the cabinet and also a backbencher in his own party, but he won't be going in entirely ignorant.

Conservative MP says meetings in Washington trade trip were ‘productive’

Jamil Jivani says he met with the State Department and White House in bid to assist with bilateral trade talks

www.theglobeandmail.com

Archive

He’s also friends with Vance.

Here's hoping Harper and Chretien's message struck home. More of this, including actions.

Carney, Poilievre say they want to work together after one-on-one meeting

Prime Minister Mark Carney and Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre are pushing for collaboration ahead of a one-on-one meeting on Parliament Hill on Wednesday.

www.ctvnews.ca

Both parties working together for Canada?

All for it.

 

[daftandbarmy]

Both parties working together for Canada?

All for it.

Which is a recipe for disaster in the Westminster Parliamentary system...

If the opposition is not continually on the government like a terrier on a rat colony then you get something like... BC

 

[rmc_wannabe]

Which is a recipe for disaster in the Westminster Parliamentary system...

Unfortunately, the inverse has occurred in recent years, insomuch that the Loyal Opposition under the CPC (and it's leaders) has taken the name literally; often opposing legislation that is in-line or adjacent to their own platforms.

The Opposition serves to question and influence government business on behalf of and in the interest of the Crown (and the subject thus represented).

Turning the nose up at legislation that is for the betterment of the Canadian interest, strictly because it comes in one colour wrapping vice another, is not their raison d'etre.

 

[Maxman1]

Which is a recipe for disaster in the Westminster Parliamentary system...

If the opposition is not continually on the government like a terrier on a rat colony then you get something like... BC

Or the last session, where opposition allows a minority government to act like a majority and ram through unpopular legislation and shut down committees.