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Will note the PPC seems to have dropped all the anti-LGBT garbage off their website. And CPC makes little mention in their policy about it. I think there is a slow movement where the right is getting there. A realization that religosity is in steep decline. That to appeal to most voters they have to give up on these divisive issues that few really care about and focus on bigger issues like the economy and the right to dissent

Kids have a right to get medical help too. Would you deny a kid cancer treatment out of ideology? Courts tend to rule against that sort of thing. Parents don't have absolute say over their kid's medical care - as it should be. The left rules from a feeling of pride, whereas the right rules from a feeling of disgust. Not so much from a desire to give freedom on all issues as they try to say. Until the right sheds that hypocrisy, it's going to be an uphill battle at the polls. Traditionally it takes about 10 years of losing for a party to come around and get it, maybe the CPC will get there before the next election call. If we ever have one

The thing is the right hasn't really been that much better. They don't want people to be able to decide themselves on things like abortion, hormone medications for transgenders, marijuana, etc. Only lately has the left become more authoritarian and terrifying. I can't back the Libs or NDP as they have gone off the woke deep end. However, can I really back the CPC when god knows what the religious whacko wing of the party will try to pass to make my life harder? Right now the PPC is probably the best choice which is a bit scary too

There are always bootlickers who love authority. The kinds that go along with any sort of evil because someone said that was the law or gave the order. The tendency is within all of us to some extent, Milgram proved that. Though it's sad how far some take it. We're far from tribal days where that attitude was beneficial in any way

I mean if things get real bad, you'll want to have American currency to get yourself across the border.

Gold has similar problems. Unless you're uber rich you're buying gold certificates, which are subject to a run like cash. Probably your best bet is to buy equities on a variety of trading platforms. Equities are the only thing that is going to keep pace with inflation. Or non decpreciable assets like land.

With inflation so high, most people can't afford to do 'non-essential' activities anyways

Much of SE Asia has stagnated in recent years, it wouldn't surprise me. Was referring more to how those countries rapidly went from from being extremely poor and undeveloped to developed.

What's more likely though, a party insurgency or an election call? I'd bet on the latter, but it seems like the Liberals can do anything and sit at 30% in the polls.

Can we call it the Enabling Act instead?

A government can be quite far left/right and still be good for the people. Today there's way too much focus on wedge issues instead of looking at efficiency, corruption, and equality as metrics of good government. Scandinavian countries as noted on the left. I'd say on the right South Korea, Japan, Singapore, Taiwan all did it correctly to become developed. Canada used to have a pretty good balance although we've always been stifled by inefficiencies, too many monopolies, too much protectionism. It's going to make it all the harder to come out of this. Inflation is just starting.

While I don't favor blockades, Trudeau is 100% to blame and created this mess on purpose. You don't thumb your nose at ordinary Canadians and call them racists, misogynists, un-Canadian, etc. As PM of a democratic nation it's your duty to represent all Canadians, not just those strictly within your party's ideology. The working class has legitimate gripes about COVID restrictions. Especially as they were shown to have practically no benefit by John Hopkins. Equally as disgusted with the NDP. They didn't run on this kind of platform at all.

Which sounds low, but consider: Only 1 in ~20,000 Canadians 30-39 have died to COVID Only 1 in ~50,000 for ages 20-29 And about 1 in ~400,000 for children

CBC implied it was necessary to have provincial signoff back when they unanimously rejected it in 2020. Though I couldn't find anything obvious in the War Measures Act that says so https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/emergencies-act-premiers-consensus-1.5529119

Sounds like BC, Alberta, and Quebec aren't going to go along with the Emergencies Act. From what I can tell it comes down to MP vote though? Going through the the Emergencies Act is a bit heavy if not a lawyer / versed in it. Media is giving so little information as to the process that would play out.

Actually they did quarantine back then. That's where the term comes from 'quarant' = 40 days. Ships had to stay in port 40 days before the crew could come ashore. They didn't even know what viruses were back then but they knew that it spread from person to person. They couldn't lock everything down because they would have all starved instead, you're talking medieval economy where people barely get by day to day.

Actually for the most part, no. Only a few provinces required this (Ontario and NB) for school, and you could get out of it for medical or ideological reasons. Meaning basically if you were determined you didn't have to. Granted nearly everyone takes these vaccines because those viruses are very serious for kids

Beginning of the end for Trudeau. CBC had to shut down comments on the Emergencies Act article. Surprised they didn't just delete all comments - maybe that's coming... https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-premiers-cabinet-1.6350734

Brian Reynolds and crew saw it coming way back in 1999. Eerily prescient. Vaporizing vandals much as many would want to vaporize those blockading. It also ties in what you said about freedom and God as this video is narrated by a fictional fundamentalist. Purity and order (the AI) has become our God, supplanting our natural spirituality.

And the government went in debt 400 billion by shutting down our economy needlessly. The cost of continued lockdowns is much greater.

More akin to early 1933 Germany. But it all started somewhere. I think it'll be a bigger ask for the CPC to drop the identity politics than to go more libertarian. Just over half their base still wants to play that game. Unfortunately since the CPC doesn't get much urban representation they're kind of locked into what they are.

Maybe we should fix our healthcare system instead of using COVID as an excuse for failure. For what we spend (well above average) we're practically dead last in developed countries for capacity. Need to shed a lot of bureaucracy but there's no stomach for reform.

The thing is I don't think Trudeau can really back down now. Maybe quietly but that won't heal the rift. It will be interesting to see which parties, if any, emerge as more libertarian out of this mess. Maybe the PPC will be the only one going into the next election. That may not be such a good outcome as it would be very difficult to jump from where they at now to actually winning seats, due to being a non-regional party.

Yea because those groups know where authoritarianism ends for them. Historically it hasn't been good. Because while today it's anti-vaxxers, tomorrow a new enemy group is needed to justify the totalitarian state. It struck me when a journalist commented just how many immigrants were at the protests. That many of them had escaped oppressive regimes to come to Canada. They don't want Canada to become what they got away from. Can kinda relate in a dark way.

Yea needing to prove vaccination to go to a theatre creeped the hell out of me. I was already vaccinated at the time and wanted no part of that. The modern equivalent to 'your papers, please'. The protest should be framed not as left vs right but as authoritarism vs libertarianism. The woke left professes to be on the side of LGBT such as myself, but they are not. Authoritarianism leads to totalitarianism which is horrible for everyone, especially minorities.