This would be amazing. I travel between Ottawa and Toronto several times a year and the current line certainly leaves something to be desired
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Canada PoliERA |OT 2| Time Is a Flat Circle
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This would be amazing. I travel between Ottawa and Toronto several times a year and the current line certainly leaves something to be desired
The government will be well aware before the budget vote if they'll be defeated or not so it should never really be that possible to have another election unless someone is woefully inept and makes a mistake or the Liberals decide they want another election.
lol if we end up getting lukewarm centrism for the next few years propped up by dumb handouts to Quebec.
Wrong kind of Catholic though.
Trudeau is the kind of Catholic who attends pride parades and is pro-choice.
There is a schism between the more fundementalist types and the more liberal ones like Trudeau.
My wife (more religious than me) frequented some catholic discussion groups before and during the election and there were some hardcore raging debates going on.
"You're not a real Catholic if you don't vote for Scheer" type shit.
She left after seeing a bunch of "I hate Trump but I like what he's doing" type posts. I presume they meant putting pro-life judges into the courts but still that's sickening.
There's something very very wrong with a lot of "religious" people, and those people vote for people like Scheer.
To keep myself feeling good I like to imagine that the last couple years are the dying gasp of conservatism's power and that their desperate posturing is the signal of their inevitable descent into irrelevance.
Sounds good right?
Sounds good right?
I used to date a catholic and that was my experience as well. There is a clear divide between more open catholics and the fundies. It's not even split along age groups, I found equal amount of young people just as rigid as anyone else. And some older people (including the priest) who are more "modern" than others. I feel like they're still trying to find their place in the world considering dwindling attendance.
Wake me when we actually fucking do something. I've watched decades of transit improvement proposals die on the vine.
Most Catholics tend to be Catholic for cultural and traditional reasons, not religious.
The fundies are a vocal minority, stress minority
The fundies are a vocal minority, stress minority
I don't know how big they are but it seems to be a big enough group that the CPC caters to them a good deal.
Somehow there seems to be a disproportionate amount of them as MPs within the CPC.
Historically, Liberals were the party of working class Catholics while Tories were the party of ruling class Protestant elite.
How many times have they reannounced this now? Hell, when Trudeau ran on the Infrastructure bank back in 2015 he used VIA Rail as an example as the very first project it would fund.
At this point I've pretty much lost all hopes that it gets made. After Doug Ford got elected and cancelled Ontarios High Speed Rail project just as it was going through Environmental Assessment and Tender, I've lost all hope that we will ever increase Intercity rail transit in any meaningful way. Conservatives and ruralites straight up do not want it
This is how the Paul Martin government fell leading to 10-years of Harper. I guess it is simply the NDP staying true to their roots ...
Yah. I really feel like Singh is reading from a different script though.
Lol at the editor who ended up using "nationalist" like this in the title. In the article Singh himself actually says "national" party, which makes more sense.
"Canadians voted for a progressive government that's going to take real steps to make life better and more affordable. I met with Jagmeet Singh in Ottawa today to talk about how we can cooperate on shared priorities, and make Parliament work for all Canadians."
Ok, hoping for the best here. I think it's also smart to reiterate that Canadians by and large voted for non-right wing parties.
*Quote and pic pulled from the PM's FB post.
Ok, hoping for the best here. I think it's also smart to reiterate that Canadians by and large voted for non-right wing parties.
*Quote and pic pulled from the PM's FB post.
I think it would be the best time for the Liberal to bring it. They can take the credit if it works well and shift the blame onto the NPD if people are unhappy about it. Bloc is unlikely to block it (since it may help allocated more federal funds to the one that is currently in place in Quebec). The NPD will likely make it a a make or break point.
It depends on how you define and implement pharmacare, they'd have to find common ground beyond the word pharmacare.
Honestly, the easiest way for us to get Pharmacare, Dentalcare or really any of the major healthcare expenses put in place is if the Federal Government just puts in the Canada Health Act that any province that implements those things gets additional Federal Money for them. That way there will be some push for Provincial Governments to get it done.
It would also some heavy push to provinces like BC which would be receptive to it, but just need that extra push that their politicians can sell to the people as "Look at all this money we'll be giving up if we dont do it!". It would work especially well in situations like Ontario circa.2017 where you can be guarenteed that Wynne would have gone for a more "Pharmacare for everyone!" approach instead of the half thought out policy of what she actually implemented.
Has more to do with the fact that most people don't want to lose their private work coverage.
That's the democratic approach, you know that's what the D in NDP stands for?
I think some people are way overreacting to this. There's zero chance of an election. The parties are just aiming to look effective.
Don't be like Gutter Trash and pin all the blame on the NDP.
Paul Martin deserves a lot of blame for fucking up so badly and ALLOWING his government to fall, and then the Liberal Party deserves a lot of blame for running such phenomenally shitty campaign after even shittier campaign!
Aside from the NDP's role, if even just 1 of the factors on the Liberal's side hadn't been there, then we wouldn't have had a decade of Harper.
Some people here tend to do the classic "If we say something wrong it was out of error or strategy, while if the other side says something wrong it was out of intention."
Singh isn't going to trigger an election, he is trying to leverage their potential balance of power to get policy support.
Singh isn't going to trigger an election, he is trying to leverage their potential balance of power to get policy support.
It's clear they're trying to jockey for position that they want to be the deciding vote/king maker. But acting like you're the only option when the liberals said they'd evaluate bills in a case by case basis makes this look weak.
Even the liberals can get votes from the conservatives concerning pipeline issues.
singh also invoking the throne speech vote is disingenuous considering not all throne speeches are vote of confidence.
The image just invokes a small yorkie yapping at a retriever.
If work places want to provide benefits on top of the public benefits there's nothing stopping them from providing that benefit to their workers.
The CBC executive board and editorial board have been out to lunch lately. Between suing the CPC and tagging Barton on it to their abysmal coverage of everything, I'm not sure what narratives theyre trying to draw.
Pretty sure that's what's going to happen. lol
I guess at least Quebec doesn't care about spreading stuff like Bill 21 to the rest of the country, thankfully.
This was making the rounds yesterday.
This will somehow be pinned on Trudeau even though it's just global markets reacting to changing times. Alberta is going to feel a lot of pain just from international investments alone let alone low oil prices.
This will somehow be pinned on Trudeau even though it's just global markets reacting to changing times. Alberta is going to feel a lot of pain just from international investments alone let alone low oil prices.
Australia's Adani project is basically their equivalent of tar sands development. It was interesting to see the same dynamics working there.
Except, well, now the country is literally on fire and everyone still wants to believe everything is fine.
("Now's not the time to talk about climate change when there is a crisis at hand!")
But all the right-wingers on Twitter had me convinced it was an immigrant Antifa Canada-hating thug. /s
Its hilarious because Conservatives these days are calling for the defunding of the CBC, they literally thinks its Liberal propaganda and I have even heard "Communist Broadcasting Corporation" here and there.
It's pathetic that we even make this a choice in this country. Health/Dental/Pharma/Optical/Mental care should be a given. Access to Birth Control should not be an optional "add-on". It should quite literally be the status quo.