I’m curious how the liberal surge will effect ridings like these:

https://338canada.com/59009e.htm

https://338canada.com/59010e.htm

https://338canada.com/48017e.htm

NDP incumbent, with liberals in a distant 3rd, competing against the CPC.

I should probably use the gift card I’ve been sitting on for a long time.

Problem is, everything there is overpriced crap.

I just hope people remember than even AFTER the government changes, the companies and people behind them are still the same.

Probably just taking the top links from Reddit and reposting here.

If the stakes arent high then for the love of God stop posting about electoral reform so often.

I agree, but I’m not the one you need to convince, it’s Terry on Facebook who spends 2 hours a day complaining about bike lanes and vegans.

Why would someone as smart as him be uncertain about ensuring every vote counts?

Because it’s an absolute waste of political capital to make happen if there isn’t a strong movement fighting for it.

What is your affiliation with the Fairvote organization?

I was already subbed lol, I’m also on the mailing list.

My MP voted for M-86 and I volunteered for them last cycle. I don’t really know what else to do.

Canada has hummed and hawwed about electoral reform for decades. It just hasn’t been worth the required political capital to make it happen for any of the leaders.

This could be key to finally getting it done.

https://www.saab.com/markets/canada/gripen-for-canada/built-for-canada-by-canada

From another page:

“In addition, Canada will have full and exclusive control over Gripen’s secure data – a unique advantage of our offer. The Gripen Centre in Montreal will host all work on the fighter’s mission system and Canadians will carry out this work. With the mission system, communications and technical data all hosted in Canada, Gripen exceeds all industrial, security and controlled goods requirements. With Gripen the Royal Canadian Air Force will have maximum control over sensitive data handling.”

It’s a no brainer, in a world of digital warfare, needing to rely on a foreign home base is a tremendous liability.

If your only goal was to win, why would you want to be handcuffed by the responsibility?

MMP is my dream system. I like the idea of retaining local reps even if we have less of them.

From what I understand though, FairVote is pro PR and I don’t know of any other sizable electoral reform organizations.

Trump truely is a master negotiator, who else could have come up with the genius strategy of: Make your closest allies and trading partners hate you.

Ironic that we’ll likely have tariffs on the US for longer than they’ll have them on us.

I can’t believe I’ve been baited into supporting tariffs but I agree with the current course of action. No flip flopping, no accepting ‘pauses’.

The resentment I’ve built up towards America is substantial enough that tariffs or not I’ll be actively avoiding and bad-mouthing American products and businesses for a long time.

I’m still buying US produce when they hit the clearance shelf but I’ve put back far more items than I’ve purchased.

They’ve been planning on invading Taiwan for nearly a decade.

That conflict overall is as old as the CCP. The reason it ended was the US threatening to step in: https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_memoranda/RM4900.html

China holds Trillions in foreign assets in the West, they’d be kissing that all goodbye.

I’d bet on Russia getting invaded by China far sooner than Taiwan. In fact, either than the Sino-Vietnam war, the war with the Soviets is their most recent war.

Russia simply has less allies and has more of what China needs and wants, fresh water, uncontested ports and oil among many other things. They also have a (recent) historic claim to Outer Manchuria too.

Even Russia knows this:

https://www.ft.com/content/758ff1ca-6ac1-4188-9b61-c514638447b1

As the war with Ukraine grinds soviet stockpiles down, Russia gets weaker and weaker. Taiwan on the other hand has a lot of allies and is very defensible.

Chinese philosophy and military doctrine is clear. The threats to Taiwan escalate while railways are being made towards the Russian Far East ‘for trade’.

“All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when we are able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must appear inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near.”

“Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.”

Invading Taiwan might be the most obvious, telegraphed invasion in history.

If you have a US mortgage, mortgages are usually open so you would just refinance with a different institution, the penalties should be less than with Canadian term mortgages.

Depending on your rate though it would probably be a bad idea.

Valid. I understand where you’re coming from.

That said, if China can provide safe and affordable EVs that aren’t connected to the internet… basically a dumb car that runs on batteries

That would be ideal. If that was the goal, I’d support requirements for that. But that’s not what we have, we have gigantic tariffs that were implemented because America did the same.

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