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Now I know what you're thinking. Conrad Black is not someone whose opinion you really care about. And often enough, neither do I. He can be a weird cluck in his continuing belief Donald Trump made a good president, not to mention endorsing Justin Trudeau back in 2015. But his opinion here is mostly a recitation of sad statistics and information that sounds even worse when gathered together. It really will take radical change to break us free from our complacency, and I just don't know if Canadians will accept a government that's willing to do it. Presuming we can find someone to head such a government. Stephen Harper was more of a go-along-to-get-along PM and never really pushed any major changes. Trudeau, of course, is just a disaster in all categories. What I suspect we need is someone who will make huge cuts in government programs and spending, not to mention slashing regulations of all kinds along with the regulators. Among the principal points that have arisen are that the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) now predicts that Canada will be the poorest performing advanced economy in the world until 2060, if it continues on its present path. Under Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s watch, Canada’s per capita average incomes increased by three per cent, from $54,154 in 2016 to $55,863 in 2022, while that of the United States rose by 12 per cent, from $65,792 to $73,565; for a family of four, that is a substantial differential that puts the average American family in a distinctly higher income category than their Canadian analogue. In approximately the same period, cash generated in Canada and invested outside Canada exceeded incoming investments in this country by about $285 billion. From the onset of COVID in February 2020 until June 2023, the number of private-sector jobs in Canada increased by 3.3 per cent, while public-sector jobs rose 11.8 per cent, and public-sector employees are paid 31 per cent more on average than those in the private sector. We are chronically overtaxed: 45 per cent of the average family’s income is paid in tax, costing an average of over $48,000 a year — by far the largest household expense. The tax increases in the latest budget will only aggravate these problems. We are not only overtaxed and underpaid, the principal costs have been grossly mismanaged. Last year, we admitted around 500,000 immigrants, many of which are in a desperate housing scramble. Notwithstanding that the average American makes more than the average Canadian, the average housing unit in Canada is approximately 40 per cent more expensive than in the United States. Health care, once one of the hallmarks of Canada’s status as a country distinctive from, and more caring than, the United States, is a shambles. In 30 years, waiting lists have increased from nine weeks to 28 weeks. Of 30 countries with universal health care, Canada’s system is the most expensive as a percentage of GDP, has the longest waiting periods, ranks 28th in doctors, 23rd in available beds and 24th and 25th in number of MRIs and CT scanners. It is a disaster that has now stooped to promoting the virtues of suicide through the medical assistance in dying program. https://archive.is/FNMqt

The day Trudeau leaves office should be declared a national holiday.

The thing is most big problems are complicated and aren't so quick and easy to solve. Which means it takes time - years. No government wants to have the healthcare, or justice, defense, or native administration system in a mess, like a car that's half put together with its parts laid out on the garage floor, when the next election rolls around. Because then the other guy can say "Look at the mess they made of our car! It's half collapsed and its parts are all out on the floor! Elect me and I'll fix it!" And people are such short-term, stupid thinkers they're likely to do just that. Which is why the big, complicated, systemic problems get kicked down the road.

Eventually we will come to the same point as the early nineties when creditors gave us an ultimatum and Chrétien/Martin had to slash spending. You can’t keep borrowing forever without your lenders eventually saying, enough.

https://www.thestar.com/politics/federal/trudeau-government-gets-an-angry-reception-as-it-promotes-federal-budget/article_0fe63b9a-fcec-11ee-b47c-ef21bc539490.html Pushback was fast and furious the day after the Liberals unveiled $39.3 billion in net new spending along with a new tax increase that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said is targeted at the “ultra-rich” but medical professionals and others say will hit them hard. Indigenous leaders, disability groups, doctors, real estate investors, business groups, opposition Conservatives and other political rivals of the Trudeau government blasted measures that either didn’t go far enough for some, or for others were bitter reminders of 2017 when Ottawa tried to tax investment income of small corporations only to climb down in the face of a fierce backlash. What it all means is that despite prebudget fanfare about how Liberals will “solve” the housing crisis, expand child-care spaces, and help schools feed hungry children, the Trudeau government has a massive selling job on its hands. Also noted in the story - doctors are actively looking at leaving due to the new taxes on them, the business community hates it, The first nations and poverty groups really hate it, and Polievre noted that the mega rich and trust fund babies like trudeau will simply hide their money or move it out of country and it will wind up being the middle class who pays the price.

Johnson finally does the right thing. More to come... House passes $60B Ukraine aid bill as GOP rebels threaten to oust Johnson

It's time for marxist a$$holes to be shown the door.

It would certainly save them the trouble of manufacturing all these bullshit lawsuits.

Ok, so just wait until we all hit bottom and then figure it out. It shouldn't take long the way things are going.

Why? Investing in homes or real estate is no different than investing in any other businesses if the purpose is to earn a return on investment. It won't solve the housing crisis by taxing people more. More taxes is the wrong approach to help the economy. We need investment and more economic growth and less government intervention and taxation.

Ahhhh - so it's a comprehension problem for you/ I see you didn't understand the study. Or the other one dealing with entirely different regions. While you - who is crying your eyes out over how others don't post enough information - have provided none. LOL - Like i've said - you could hypocrisy for the olympics And don't project your emotlional hissy fits on me little guy The evidence posted was done by real scientists using real data and involving more than one country and noting that others found similar results. Population density significantly impacted mortality. And states in the us who had population densities similar to canada had even lower mortality than we did. See.... that's what happens when you just make shit up as you do instead of using real data like i do. Fail.

Not just slash spending, but also hike taxes. The only reason we have the GST is because Trudeau Snr spent frivolously, and now his dope of a son is doing the same thing (but worse).

So you think it’s more efficient and cost effective, and better for the wealth creation of citizens, to let governments run and own all rental housing? Ah!!!!! That’s why we left the Soviet Union.

Nightmare's occur just before you wake up, that's where we are.

Right…Putin is not a threat, the Dems are a threat. Putin Puppet. No you’re trying to change the subject from the fact that more than half of the current Republican Party is actively aiding and abetting Putin.

Do you want to do away with the landlords entirely? Because that's not likely to produce more rental housing. I know a couple who bought a duplex, lived in one half, fixed up the other, and then rented it out. Eventually, they took out a second mortgage, renovated it to be a triplex, then bought another house to live in. For years they worked at upgrading the triplex, and took care of repairing everything that needed repairing while dealing very fairly with tenants and paying down mortgages. What exactly is wrong with this story? Other than that they just decided to sell it last year because it was becoming too complicated to deal with all the laws and because of a problem tenant they had issues with. They now eschew any involvement in renting as it's too encased in bureaucracy and regulations, and because if a wrong tenant gets in it can take forever to get rid of them. The number one criticism I have seen is it will discourage investment and thus further damage productivity.

Ya I've thought of the same up here.

The hard left and hard right... Don't agree with that. But I do. The guy engaged in a pre-World war II. Land annexation gambit. We don't want to throw the clock back that far. Increasing your personal wealth by bombing civilians... no.

Good opinion letter in Calgary Sun: “Didn’t think it through My wife and I are not wealthy, we live off CPP and OAS. Hearing the NDP want to tax the rich, I thought, OK, Canada needs the money. Until I read reports including an insightful one from Bloomberg News. Past socialist governments in France initiated a wealth and capital gains tax. It cost the French government almost twice as much as yielded by the wealth taxes. Many charities lost donations, causing some to demand taxpayer support. Many students lost bursaries. Donations were reduced to hospitals, colleges and universities. Over 10,000 wealthy people left France. When these individuals left, France lost their wealth tax revenue, their income taxes, and their local spending. The idea was scrapped in 2020. These tax increases may sound good but be careful what you ask for. They may cost us more in the end. Young people are supposed to be happy with increased national debt. What a legacy the Liberals have left them. TOM BURNS”

Sure that's why we have nukes. The same better dead than...whatever...should apply as before. I'd rather see fighter jets and bombers donated to Ukraine then nukes but at the end of the day fu ck Putin. Completely and unequivocally.

Dude...if you Yankees don't dispose of Brandon and these traitorous Libbies...we're all fcked.

A death-cult. That's what Libbies are. They destroy everything they touch. These little pee-ons are so filled with hatred that they've become anti-American slime.

Leftism IS Science. -- The left

If building homes as investments (rentals) is made unprofitable, why build them? I’ve never heard of a tax on something that encouraged anyone to produce it.

OMG I cannot stand this guy, he’s always popping up in my YouTube feed. Not that I have a problem with what he says but something about the way he looks and talks just drives me nuts

They believe that in the afterlife martyrs get to BE ones of Trump's 40 virgins.

OMG did you just copy your post from the GOP/Putin thread and past it here? Trump and 60% of the GOP are Putin stooges and MAGA supporters are brainwashed cultists who will endorse anything Trump decrees on any given day no matter how bizarre or hypocritical or self contradictory. Why don’t you get a can of gas and a match and join your cultist brethren.

Yes, quite. Brand is not about selling "stuff." It's about positioning and perception in the marketplace--in the hopes that that status leads to finding customers/clients and, more importantly, the right kind of customers. Believe me, every time some a-hole gets perp-walked in TV in a sleeveless t-shirt the manufacturer doesn't clap his hands about the great publicity for the "wife beater" line. Nobody wants their brand associated with creeps. Well, except for the MyPillow fool.

The capital gains tax, on its own, isn't the worst policy out there. It's clunky and further complicates our tax code, but it at least does two good things: 1) It discourages housing speculation. 2) It clamps down on a lot of the gaming that's done by the super-wealthy when it comes to corporations and the like. Both of these are good, but it's kind of a band-aid on a gunshot wound in regards to improving/adjusting our tax system. We should be simplifying it, rather than further complicating it. Anyone who has a cottage and wants their kids to inherit better go by a nice fat last-to-die life insurance policy though...

No, you posted a study from Brazil that (so shockingly) concluded that population density in Brazil was correlated with COVID deaths. It did absolutely nothing to explain why the USA performed abysmally during COVID and had more deaths per capita than almost any other country in the world, despite it's low population density. Obviously you do. 🙃 Sorry little muppet, but just because your emotions boil over at the drop of hat, doesn't mean it's the same for everyone else. Go outside and breath some fresh air. The answer to your crushing loneliness is not here.

Appears there are a few Republicans out there with the guts to say "Enough is enough" and do the right thing. I'm sure the Trumpoids are feverishly compiling dossiers on them....

Imply tat your uncle may have been eaten by cannibals is a far greater negative than sexual assault, fraud, tax evasion, ripping people off, uttering hate speech, incition to riot, attempting to subvert and nullify an election, lying for years, intimidating witnesses, mocking and undermining the justice system, contempt if court, sucking up to known enemies of the USA, and more. All of those together aren't nearly as bad as suggesting cannibals may be behind the disappearance of WW2 pilots that crashed over Borneo.

The new capital gains tax should only be aimed at people selling non-primary residences, besides cottages. All housing speculation should be disincentivized. But that would only prevent the new buying of 2nd properties. There should also be some kind of mechanism to get current 2nd home owners to sell those homes instead of holding them. Just tax the crap out of the ownership of those homes until they sell so its no longer profitable.

It was certainly worth a shot compared to what we got. I know it's just a bunch of woulda coulda shoulda...but that only leaves me wondering what we should be paying attention to now that we'll be wishing we'd done differently in the future. Lest we forget it was the Republicans who saw fit to put Iran on its original path to dysfunction. To deter Russia.

LMAO it’s obvious what you’re trying to do, simpleton. This thread is about the undeniable fact that the Republican party is now overrun by a faction that openly supports, aids and abets Putin, the number one enemy of America and the West. WE BOTH KNOW WHY YOU JUST SKIPPED RIGHT PAST IT WITHOUT COMMENT You are desperately trying to change the subject to…anything… I could easily argue with your revisionist gaslighting Iraq bullshit, about what did or didn’t happen ten years and 2 presidents ago during the unnecessary Republican-invented war which will forever be remembered as yet another disastrous GOP scandal. But since your real agenda is to change the subject from you Putin-supporting nut-jobs in Congress like MTG, Im not going to indulge you.

I see it everyday, perhaps most people are just glossing over those stories...I've said it a million times unless it is hockey , beer, or holidays, or the government giving out free money Most Canadians are not interested...they did not give a shit about our own troops in Afghanistan after the first 5 years...so really it's not surprising... The public blowing up...they are not interested in buying new stuff maybe...but giving away the old stuff, why should they care they really are not interested in our military to start with...I would think they would be eager to get rid of all of it... Maybe it is the only way we will get new stuff...for those that do care... I wonder how concerned they will get when this grows into something else, or higher Investment (GDP %) are going to be demanded by NATO as a whole.

Yeah @Deluge!!! He's not worried about YOUR bullshit! He's got tonnes of his OWN to worry about! (take that!)

Yeah but who would have ever imagined we'd see the day when so many Americans would cozy up to a new improved Russian Empire ruled with an iron fist by a former KGB officer? Actually now that I think about it, Jerry Pournelle.

The best part of this vote is that the GOP infighting over it that's tearing the party apart is centred on the opinions of the stupidest douch-bag Republicans have ever produced. She epitomizes why I often say the right-wing is actually a direction instead of a place. I'd love to see Trump pick Marjorie Taylor Greene to be his running mate. It's up there with my desire to see Poilievre hire CdnFox to be his press secretary.

The only to save Canada now is to get a government in power that believes in more freedom, less taxes and less government ruloes and regulations that are stifling economic growth. We need to have a moratorium on massive 3rd world immigration and get rid of liberal Marxist programs and agendas like gender, pronouns and DEI or diversity, and get rid of foreign aid. And bringing in hundreds of thousands of legal and illegal new immigrants every year into Canada will never solve our housing crisis. Our housing and medical system is under attack thanks to massive liberal immigration. These are all massive and radical moves for a political party to have to make, and try to implement, but it is the only way to try and help save Canada from this Marxist WEF globalist great reset agenda that is destroying Canada today, and making Canadians poorer and poorer every day. Only a real and true and honest conservative government could do the trick. Our only hope today is for the Federal Conservative Party of Canada to win the next election in Canada. Five more years of liberal/NDP socialism will finish off the old Canada that we once knew and love for good. Believe it or not. 😇

Oh 💯 they are a cult. Now there's a push to target elderly Christians to jail them. Very akin to the communists who abuse the elderly before taking over.

Awwww, aren't you just the cutest little cultist? FYI the reason people like Trump is that the US doesn't have to kneel when he's in power, unlike when the Dems are in power: 1) Which political party was in the WH when Iranian soldiers captured a US navy boat and forced all the sailors to kneel, and a female American sailor on the boat was forced to wear a hijab? 2) Which political party was in the WH when Putin took over the southeastern quarter of Ukraine? 3) Which political party was in the WH when islamic state was formed, and then went on to conquer Iraq and Syria, and commit genocide there? 4) Which political party was in the WH when Iran launched 200 attacks on American troops and bases in the ME, without facing any consequences? 5) Which political party was in the WH when Al Qaeda killed 13 US soldiers at the Debacle of Kabul? 6) Which political party was in the WH when Putin snatched up Crimea? 7) Which political party was in the WH when Gaza and Israel went to war in 2014, 2021 and 2023-'24? FYI the answer is the same to all 7: it was the Dems who were in power when the US was busy biting the pillow and the world was going to sh1t in all those instances. 1) Which political party was in the WH when islamic state was destroyed far more quickly than was thought possible by the previous WH administration? 2) Which political party was in the WH when US forces killed 2 of Iran's top generals in retaliation for killing a single American military contractor at a US embassy? 3) Which political party was in power when 200 Russians were greased while advancing on a US military base, with no reprisals? 4) Which political party was in the WH when 4 of the leaders of the world's foremost terrorist orgs were obliterated? FYI the answer is the same to all 4: it was the the GOP (Trump) in power when the US was busy forcing all those terrorist orgs and rogue states to bite the pillow. I guess that a question American voters need to ask themselves this November is, who do they want to see chewing on pillows for the next 4 years: America, or its enemies? What were you saying about kneeling there, Beavey?

He didn't have a choice it was his sister.

Couple o' quick questions for ya: 1) Which political party was in the WH when Putin snatched up Crimea? 2) Which political party was in the WH when Putin took over the southeastern quarter of Ukraine? 3) Which political party was in the WH when islamic state was formed, and then went on to conquer Iraq and Syria, and commit genocide there? 4) Which political party was in the WH when Iran launched 200 attacks on American troops and bases in the ME, without facing any consequences? 5) Which political party was in the WH when Al Qaeda killed 13 US soldiers at the Debacle of Kabul? 6) Which political party was in the WH when Iranian soldiers captured a US navy boat and forced all the sailors onto their knees 7) Which political party was in the WH when Gaza and Israel went to war in 2014, 2021 and 2023-'24? FYI the answer is the same to all 7: it was the Dems who were in power when the US was busy biting the pillow and the world was going to sh1t in all those instances. 1) Which political party was in the WH when islamic state was destroyed far more quickly than was thought possible by the previous WH administration? 2) Which political party was in the WH when US forces killed 2 of Iran's top generals in retaliation for killing a single American military contractor at a US embassy? 3) Which political party was in power when 200 Russians were greased while advancing on a US military base, with no reprisals? 4) Which political party was in the WH when 4 of the leaders of the world's foremost terrorist orgs were obliterated? FYI the answer is the same to all 4: it was the the GOP (Trump) in power when the US was busy forcing all those terrorist orgs and rogue states to bite the pillow. I guess that a question American voters need to ask themselves this November is, who do they want to see chewing on pillows for the next 4 years: America, or its enemies? What were you saying there Beavey?

Trump's brain eaten by zombies is more believable.

A Trump supporter just SET HIMSELF ON FIRE to protest Trump’s Stormy Daniels trial. Literally every feature of a cult is found in Trumpism, from worship of a mythical all-powerful superman to literally killing yourself in horrible ways FOR HIM. But yeah let’s keep asking if Dems are a cult just because they refuse to agree with Far-right crackpot conspiracy theories that nobody outside of their ACTUAL cult believes

Canada's total government debt is well over 100% GDP. Using net debt is a con because it is debt remaining after government sells all its liquid assets. Why is the Caisse buying US paper if it is a Ponzi scheme?

No but if the economy was doing that poorly.. this metric would be declining not increasing. Keep in mind that this is "real" gdp, so in layman's terms been adjusted for inflation. Yes, inflation is a problem but claims that the economy is tanking is simply unrealistic.

War in Europe just means more Canadian men and women will die...being unprepared just means more of them will die sooner and quicker....

Top threads in the USA page right now: They're not just cultists, they're so cracked out that robo can't stop posting drivel long enough to take a dump.