TreeBeard

Oh, he’s our own version of Trump right up until a couple weeks ago when they realized being really angry about Canada isn’t a great strategy anymore. It works on people like yourself, but the average Canadian voter doesn’t hate the country based on their feelings about Trudeau. https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/pierre-poilievre-justin-trudeaus-main-rival-in-canada-has-donald-trump-like-tendencies-7274779 For Felix Mathieu, a politics professor at the University of Winnipeg, "the parallels between Mr Poilievre and Mr Trump are growing." "Like Mr Trump, he does not necessarily seek to rely on rational discourse, he relies on slogans, and he seeks to generate popular fervor more than support for ideas." Representing the right wing in the western part of the country and strongly influenced by US conservatives, he has not hesitated in the past to share links to false information on social media if it bolsters his position. In 2022, he supported a truckers' lockdown of the capital Ottawa over their opposition to vaccine mandates and other protocols aimed at containing the spread of Covid-19. Recently, he shared on social media platform X a petition that rails against an alleged government plan to impose a "global woke program" on Canadians aimed at making everyone eat insects. No such program exists. That move was a way for the party to collect the contact information of possible supporters, but also to exploit Canadians' exasperation with the political status quo, Mathieu said.

Seems like a smart ad, to me. Not so long ago, Canadian conservatives were happy he was going to be like Trump. Now it is coming back to bite him in the buttocks and people like you are trying to say you don’t like Trump now. Well, lie with dogs and you’re bound to get flees.

The improvement fee, which is added to the ticket, is about $25 more in Canada. You gave the numbers. How am I lying by doing math? Check my work for me: $32 minus $6, rounded down. Sure, I might have been $1 off, but that’s a rounding error. The more expensive Canadian fee accounts for $25 in the price of a ticket. How am I lying?

The Bay is owned by an American…. sooo…. maybe that’s the wrong question to ask?

You mean, into the building?

These two maps should tell you why flying is more expensive in Canada.

I can’t see the Cons forming government with a minority. The Libs/NDP, assuming they have the seats, could simply form a coalition government to prevent that. Are the Cons going to govern with the Bloc? Very unlikely as they’d lose all credibility by governing with separatists. I think the Cons need to win a majority, or they will get nothing.

$25 more? Thats a pretty minor difference in the price of a ticket. A 777 must carry 300+ passengers? That’s $3 per ticket. That’s nothing. We’re a big empty country. It will cost more to fly here.

Carney is PM. He can, and should, go talk to European leaders. It upsets you because you seem to hate the Libs more than you like your own country.

Why do you want Trump to win? You would rather Trump win than Carney win. Carney is the Canadian leader here. You should be on Canada’s side.

I agree he has no “mandate”. But that doesn’t mean he can’t do whatever Prime Ministers need to do to govern. Not having a mandate is not a hinderance to his legal authority. Not having a mandate has no force in law and is a made up term. It’s a political term, unlike “caretaker period” which has particular rules/conventions around when and how it happens.

He is the Prime Minister of the Canada. That’s all he needs to represent Canada. The fact that you don’t like it is not relevant.

Why shouldn’t he go to Europe?

You keep saying shipyards can only build one kind of ship. Your own link says they have additional weapons. https://www.meta-defense.fr/en/2024/10/04/Australian-Navy-Hunter-Class-Price/

I mean…. Was there anywhere else for them to go? Plus, they have an Albertan-born leader of the Lib party now. That probably doesn’t hurt.

No, it’s objectively petty. As if he can’t take a few days in Europe to shore up the relationships we need to deal with Trump. Most Canadians are relatively progressive. The conservatives are certainly the outliers. He’s gone. 😂

There are never bilateral discussions with EU member states any longer? This is the most petty criticism of a PM. “He should stay in Canada and not do diplomacy”. I swear conservatives would prefer to watch Canada burn than to see a Liberal PM out trying to solve issues. I think voters see this reflected in Poilievre too, which is probably why he’s likely to lose the election. Normal Canadians want to see their country do well, regardless of the party in power.

I need to explain how creating a shipbuilding industry would diversify the economy? Shipyards only build one type of ship? Why wouldn’t they bid on other shipbuilding contracts? They’re built heavier and have more weapons systems. $6.4B AUD per unit

How does Trump nullify a pardon? Is a tweet enough?

It’s also not true. In today’s dollars, it was about $9 billion each. Don’t listen to the pretend military internet experts.

You can’t even explain what the process would be or why the ex-pres would need to prove something about his pardons?

Prove to whom?

Isn’t the goal to mitigate the disaster of Trump policies as much as possible? Where did anyone claim that we could just hold hands with Europe and the pain will all go away? You seem to be arguing against a straw man; an argument that no one has made.

He didn’t follow through because he’s such a kind man? Or is it more likely that there was nothing there to prosecute?

We can pay this off in 3 years with a 2% hike in GST. I think so. Building ships would be a great way for Canada to diversify its economy. Every major shipbuilding country subsidizes shipbuilding, particularly at the outset Exact same ships? Or did Canada change the design?