Straight to !EhBuddyHoser@sh.itjust.works

People start paying attention when an election is called. Polls before that often aren’t representative of their opinions. With that said, I think the current political context, with Trump, the LPC leadership election, the PM change, people have been paying more attention than usual so I think we won’t see large swings. But some are definitely plugging in now. The undecided number is just 6% today. In mid-February it was 11%.

So yeah some number of people have begun absorbing the (mis) informational firehose.

That’s a significant factor but Jagmeet being a lib-light is also a contributor. He has to go. We need someone with bold, populist, unashamedly left ideas.

It seems possible to avoid PP. Keep pushing.

h/t: https://lemmy.ca/post/41156019

You can also per-riding breakdowns in some polls for up-to-date intentions.

While also notifying readers of the caveats of the source. ☺️

OMG, “respectful and firm,” that’s an election-losing rhetoric in the current political climate.

“respectful and firm” vs “will meet after Trump says Canada is a sovereign country”

I’m gonna make a bet today - I think PP will lose the election and by more than a few percentage points.

I explained why. People will not bear the stick and instead beat you with it by electing fossil fuel funded governments that kill decarbonization policies. Policies and governments that ignore people’s material conditions do not last long in a democratic system. I don’t like where people currently are, commuting with F150s in the GTA, but that’s the reality. It’s alright if you don’t buy that but I don’t think my argument is devoid of reason.

You’re confusing me with someone else. Elbows up!

I don’t doubt it’s uneconomical in a free market sense. When you’re thinking of the costs of decoupling domestic fuel prices from the global market, are you also considering the costs of inflation during global price shocks? And I don’t mean just the pure economic costs of inflation, I also mean the downstream political and stability costs, such as disruption of decarbonization policy.

Way to go NS!

No, Canada would become a US territory. They can’t be stupid enough to make Canada a represented state.

Can’t wait for today’s episode of What The Hell Canada!

Does demo stand for demolition here?

Fossil fuel prices in Canada can be decoupled from the global market if we really wanted to. We’d have to move to full domestic supply from extraction through refining to the pump. Then regulate the price in a supply management style. If we did that we wouldn’t have to be subject to price shocks caused by OPEC reducing supply, or remote wars breaking out.

Then obviously reducing consumption makes the whole problem smaller. But I don’t know if we can resolve enough by reducing consumption alone.

Oof, this fight was inevitable wasn’t it. I’m not one to take much of what Moe says seriously, but he makes a somewhat legitimate point. We don’t make any significant EVs in Ontario today. If we let BYD in, they won’t compete with Ontario-made EVs. The Ford Mach-e is Mexican. I think the Chevy EVs are made in the US. I think Hyundai/Kia are also imports.

On the other hand they’re likely to compete with gas powered vehicles that we very much make here. Then there’s the battery plants we are trying to build which is a part of future EV manufacturing strategy. Having BYD imports puts all that at risk.

Unless the US kills our auto sector by not carving it out of the incoming tariffs, we probably won’t let Chinese EVs in.

With that said, there’s perhaps an opening for reducing the tariffs so that Chinese EVs are cheaper than Tesla, but don’t threaten much of the gas vehicle production.

I watched a teardown of a BYD at Munro Live and they were actually surprised at the quality and amount of material they used at various places. I recall them saying a few times something to the tune of “We’d never do this, it’s too expensive.”

BTW, my job would be at risk if we let them in so when I say positive things about Chinese EVs, I’m dissociating from the potential personal cost.

Could this be a sign that Carney isn’t a rabid Zionist?

Sadly no update from Mainstreet.

Why the downvotes?