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.
“Border security” was always a canard. Trump needed to trump up an emergency to levy tariffs without a law going through congress first. If what his deputy chief of staff said yesterday is true and, “[T]he best way to understand President Trump’s position is to take what he says at face value,” then the goal of the tariffs is to cow us into accepting annexation. Failing that, it’s certainly at best a shakedown to force us into a bad deal that enriches the US at our expense.
“If Mark Carney does win the leadership, we are hearing from many Ottawa sources that he intends on calling an election shortly after becoming Liberal leader.”
Bear in mind that this article is talking about Carney calling an early election should he win the Liberal leadership, not about the NDP voting to bring down the government.
They gambled that the additional ad revenue they’d be able to bring in with a sanitized web site would be greater than the revenue lost from some of their userbase leaving the site. It was a bad gamble.
Why would he bother when the one organization that has total editorial control over the document is ideologically copacetic?
Countries don’t have brothers, they have interests.
Bitch slapping us? Where are those doubled tariffs he threatened to levy on us if we counter tariffed the US? Only bitch here is your bitch ass leadership.
That is, in fact, what just happened. We called his bluff and you all fucked off. And now you’re blustering because your weak ass country and leader looks like a joke and you hate it.
That’s strange, because we just bit you and you seem to have fucked off.
Why is a 50+ year old man surrounding himself with near children?
If you’re into horror I liked The Void a lot.
I’ve posted this before, but maybe under current circumstances it could actually see some traction:
Imagine Canada Post starts Amazon-like storefront where Canadian businesses can sell their products while Canada Post sells something like prime where you pay a monthly/yearly fee for unlimited deliveries.
Turn Canada Post into a sort of highway that connects Canadian consumers to Canadian business anywhere in the country.
The fentanyl thing is the manufactured crisis he needs to circumvent CUSMA without congressional approval. What’s really in his heart I couldn’t say, but we could end the cross border drug trade entirely and it wouldn’t change anything.
Giving up your national currency for one managed by the European Central Bank is the opposite of currency sovereignty.
See my reply to the other commenter in this thread. Additionally, currency sovereignty is a cornerstone of modern monetary theory, were Canada to want to adopt something like that.
Because national control over the Canadian dollar gives us a lot of flexibility that adopting the Euro would take away. Particularly in a country that is about to have to attract new trading partners to buy our exports, the ability to devalue our dollar to make those exports more attractive is going to be important.
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.