The notwithstanding clause kind of made sense in the 1980s as a legal cutout for the uniqueness of Quebec, but it’s clearly become a “get out of jail free card” for violating the charter of rights. The problem is it assumes politicians have enough shame to not slam the NWS clause button every time their policies get challenged, but our politics has turned sharply towards shamelessness in the last couple decades.

Mainstream media has lost all its credibility. It had been hemorrhaging for at least a decade, but the Gaza genocide was the last blow. Even my boomer mom is sick of American broadcast TV news and calls it propaganda.

I don’t support forcing our values onto other countries, at least to a certain extent. The NDP definitely lost its way under Singh and became blinkered by identity politics. But I have hope that they can be rejuvenated with a strong economic populist and leftist message for the next election.

There are no Canadian-made panels because we don’t tariff the panels coming in from the US and other Asian countries. Only China is singled out because Canada is playing second fiddle on the US’s new cold war strategy against China - sucks that we aren’t a sovereign country that can make our own policies and forge relationships with whatever country we want, but it is what it is. 51st state, baby!

It costs our politicians nothing to say the truth - that this is the modern day Holocaust and that Israel should be boycotted, isolated and sanctioned. Your comment just makes excuses for cowardice and sells it as pragmatism.

Counter-tariffs just raise prices here. They were a terrible idea to start with, just like tariffs are in general

No they aren’t, blanket tariffs the way Trump is doing it is stupid, but counter-tariffs on American products that can be replaced with made-in-Canada products works and helps keep jobs in Canada.

The digital services tax was on its way out even before Trump was elected

This is also wrong… the Digital Services tax was introduced as a Liberal priority all the way back in 2020 and passed in 2024. It probably would have been repealed by Pollievre if he won, but Liberals repealing their own years-in-the-making policy, a day before going into effect as an act of appeasement to Donald Trump was definitely not inevitable.

China likes kicking people when they’re down so we got restrictions on ag products just to twist the knife.

Their tariffs on us are counter-tariffs in response to us imposing a 100% tax on Chinese-made solar panels.

True, it’s like a hostage situation. Conservatives threaten to harm trans kids, or immigrants or whatever, and Liberals say “you’ll have the vote for us if you want $(minority group) to live, but don’t worry, you can vote your conscience next election”, then never do anything to actually protect those minority groups in law, so the cycle repeats next election.

Liberals will never give real protection to vulnerable people because they want them to be constantly under threat of the Conservatives to keep the left from voting for the actual left-wing parties that WOULD give those groups protection that isn’t subject to the whims of whatever party is in charge. Diabolical.

Please do not turn our multi-party democracy into an America-style duopoly with your “strategic voting”. All it’s done is turn our elections into another Red-vs-Blue nightmare where both parties have the same policies and are only differentiated by culture wars.

Pollievre will do tax cuts, deregulation and austerity while keeping us distracted with 24/7 idiotic conservative culture wars. Carney is doing tax cuts, deregulation and austerity while keeping us distracted with the promise of “nation building projects” that will never materialize. Either way it’s tax cuts, deregulation and austerity. The only difference is the type lies they’re telling to distract us. :-)

Is that what the poster said? This isn’t America, we have 3rd and even 4th and 5th parties to choose from. There’s no reason to vote for the zionist if you want a principled anti-Zionist party like the NDP.

Liberals got elected on a platform of divorcing the Canadian economy from the Americans and rejuvenating the Canadian economy through nation-building megaprojects from coast to coast built with Canadian natural resources. What do we have so far?

• No announcements on any megaprojects

• No homes built, instead just a big tax giveaway to developers

• all counter-tariffs on the US dropped to appease trump

• digital services tax repealed to appease trump

• despite appeasement, no end in sight to US trade war

• Also started a trade war with China for no reason, so we’re getting spitroasted by tariffs from both superpowers

• austerity programs at Canada Post leading to the 2nd strike in a year

Unfortunately I don’t think the NDP or BQ have the balls to topple the government this early, but Carney came into office looking like a MVP and he’s a big fat bust.

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Ending DST is such an easy and effortless political win that I don’t know why it hasn’t been done yet.

Agree for a main computer but there’s no risk when using Windows 7 or XP on an offline machine.

Not sure what the alternative is, Ukraine has run out of manpower and the ones that are left don’t want to keep fighting. We can dump all the money we have into the pit and it won’t solve the manpower issues, the only solution to that if Europe deports all the Ukranian refugees back to Ukraine to force them to fight or we send our own NATO troops in (WW3). And if this keeps going the way it’s been going millions are going to die and Putin will take all of Ukraine and not just parts of it that have been gone since 2014,

Fundamentally, elections were designed to be a peaceful alternative to the peasantry revolting against the government and beheading their king. As Americans come to grip with the reality that their elections are meaningless, their politicians are bought and their only alternative to fascism is fascism-lite with a pride pin (no trans ppl allowed though) this attitude will continue to fester.

Everybody agrees with supporting Ukraine including myself, the problem is that saying “maybe there should be a ceasefire and negotiated land swap” or “Ukraine should learn to live with Russia on their borders” triggers an extreme reaction in a lot of liberal centrists that just highlights the point in my original post 🤷‍♀️ Meanwhile Ukranians are being shoved into busses and forced to fight a losing war.

Supporting peace isn’t “Russian propaganda”, 78% of Ukranians want a negotiated end to the war. If you want to keep fighting Russia then send your own damn troops and quit forcing Ukranians to die over an inter-imperial pissing match that’s killed almost their entire fighting age male population.

Democrats are the furthest thing from “moderate”, they are on the extreme center. The idea that liberal centrism can’t be extremist is damaging. Supporting endless proxy warfare in Ukraine, genocide in Gaza and austerity at home are all irrational, extremist positions that the Democrats (and most liberal parties in other countries) believe in.