Canada doesn’t need nuclear weapons, does Iraq ring a bell to you how the USA straight up invaded and killed hundreds of thousands of innocent people because of “rumors” of WMDs? And the weakest Intel? That kind of talk can gtfo
The lesson of Iraq is not develop no nukes or the USA might invade you. The lesson of Iraq is that even if you definitely don’t have any WMDs the US might lie about it anyways and justify invading you with the lie.
The target has already been moved from 2% of GDP to 5%. With the expectation that most of that money would be spent on procurement from the US. If we accept the shakedown, why wouldn’t it happen again?
Caroline Mulroney, Brian Mulroney’s daughter. Brian, blessedly, remains dead.
The last datapoint is interesting. All four of the top parties lost a little ground? Where did it go? Surely not all to the PPC, and the Greens don’t look like they gained that much.
Four years of nothing will put the CPC in a strong position for the next election.
A liberal majority under a red Tory leader is the second worst outcome we could get. Hopefully we can dodge the worst and second worst outcomes.
Whatever Fox News tells him about Canada is what he “knows” about Canada.
It’s certainly part of what makes him a neoliberal.
Let’s have a look at his website, https://markcarney.ca/spend-less-invest-more
In recent years, the federal government has been spending too much.
A Mark Carney-led government’s fiscal policy will focus first on reining in wasteful and ineffective government spending, creating room for personal income tax cuts
Now is the time for a more efficient and effective government—one that delivers better results while spending responsibly. By streamlining operations and reducing waste
A Carney government will focus on maximising the outcomes achieved, while minimising the dollars spent. We will slow the growth of government spending, initially cap the size of the public service
a range of tax measures from Investment and Production Tax Credits to Accelerated Depreciation, that catalyse massive private investment in cutting-edge industries.
A Mark Carney-led government will balance the operating budget in three years
These all come straight out of a conservative campaign. The guy is neoliberal to the core. His great policy proposal is splitting the budget into two columns so he can (in my opinion) run austerity measures on social services while running a deficit to funnel public money into private hands via public private partnerships.
Any religious representation is offensive to secularism.
No, I don’t agree. Making laws with religious justification is offensive to secularism. A drawing that depicts a person wearing a piece of clothing traditionally associated with a religion is not offensive to secularism.
His first act as prime minister was to axe a capital gains tax increase.
Last fall, city officials confirmed the image would be removed in the name of secularism following complaints that it was offensive.
Oh?
Please, Montreal City Hall, share with the class what’s offensive about that image.
Poilievre personally holds investment in Bitcoin as he promotes crypto to Canadians
So he either believes in it or believes in rug pulling his constituents.
So we’ll likely be heading into an election in June.
That’s not what zionism means, Trudeau. Presumably Palestinians are included in that, “Like all people,” and yet don’t seem to have the same right to self-determination in the face of the very concrete Israeli state that’s set up on their land.
No, this is a crock of shit. Our best defence is the logistical nightmare of invading over an ocean, which we happen to be surrounded by three. No yank has ever died in defence of Canadian soil, only Canadian lives have been lost being dragged into foreign US wars. If we’ve let our military be underfunded it’s because we haven’t had any significant threats, and if we need to fund it now it’s because our only significant threat is the USA.
Carney’s housing policies aren’t offering anything that Gould isn’t, except that Gould is promising to make non-market cooperative housing an important plank of her platform, where I happen to think that non-market solutions are the actual fix to most of Canada’s current problems.
But really, I was never voting Liberal anyways on account of their position that the ‘right’ to strike is contingent on the approval of the sitting government.
https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/mark-carney-had-a-chance-to-weigh-in-one-of-the-defining-issues-facing-canada/article_8bb1815a-1149-11ef-a91a-43a3f346fa12.html ( archive)
MP Nate Erskine-Smith asked Carney what he would do about Canada’s growing wealth inequality. Carney’s answer was a bit unfocused, but he made two points clearly: 1) Let’s hope wealthy people give more to charity, and 2) We shouldn’t only focus on redistribution.
This is within the context of the greatest wealth inequality that has existed in Canada, ever. Mark Carney is not serious about fixing what ails Canada. As far as not being to the right of Trudeau, economically Trudeau also represents the neoliberal status quo that is not addressing our issues. Even if I grant that is true, it’s not a point in his favour.
As far as Liberal leader candidates go Gould is the one I’d prefer. Carney is an investment banker who’s most significant appointments came under two different conservative governments and represents a neoliberal status quo which will fail to address any of the problems Canada is facing. This will set up the CPC for another potential win in the election after next, assuming they don’t win the upcoming one. Gould on the other hand could be at home in the NDP and a lot of her positions could actually be transformative. Sadly, elections are won on vibes and Carney is the vibes candidate.
They loved the polls two months ago.