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So why are few homes built? I think part is that we only take in white collar immigrants, and generally tradeskill schools don't get the funding and attention that universities do Another part of it probably is that we live in a big country, so we're averse to high-density housing projects. We say homes but what we really need are large apartment buildings or modular homes built at scale

It's probably that only now any significant number of children are trying to transition at school before adulthood So it brings up a lot of questions that have murky answers. Though I'd say the way the media even poses a lot of these questions is intended to sow division It seems to me like most people are kind of more towards the center, that parents should be informed and involved but that kids shouldn't be forced to go by a name/gender that they genuinely don't like. Only a small amount are extreme on the side of parents or children

Sunny ways Trudeau was likeable. But that ended around 2017 or so. He became increasingly narcissistic and preachy to the common voter. The trucker protest was just the culmination of all that. Listening to Trudeau these days is like being negged by someone into you

I think the Libs lose even bigger if they get a new leader so close to the next election. It'd be Kim Campbell all over again. It's also rare to oust a party leader when they didn't lose seats in the previous election. The Liberals probably should have gotten a new leader a year ago, seems they banked on CPC having another weak leader. Not that PP is especially strong but he'll likely be enough for an electorate tired of Trudeau. He's at least aware that he has to come across as empathetic and likeable to win in Canada unlike Scheer/O'Toole.

Some western countries do have far-right political parties, but PP's CPC is not one of them. At this point they're closer to the center than any other party in Canada

He can still practice psychology - anyone can call themselves a therapist in Canada regardless of credentials. Same way that you can be an accountant and not chartered. Other professions like engineering and medicine, yea, it's more restrictive for obvious reasons (risk to life)

We have the right of freedom of association, which includes the freedom from association. If you make a group of people with like interests, you can decide who can be in it and not. The psychologist association is just a group. Granted, this is at odds with other human rights such as not discriminating on race, gender, sex etc.

I don't see how giving people hard drugs gets them off said drugs. That's the problem with the program, it's not medical treatment but rather doing the easy thing. Which really is the issue with so many Canadian systems, we've done the easy thing instead of the hard fix (pun intended).

I think a lot of the drug problems are just people coping with mental illnesses. Canada moved away from institutions and this is what we get - drug addicted people on the street. We should have reformed them (like many other things). It's sad to say but the USA does a better job of this than Canada.

Psychology leans left the same way other professions like law and accounting lean right. It's just part of the gig. I doubt he's even practiced psychology in years, he's got enough of his own issues. He only wants the title for social media credibility, nothing more. If there's an issue it's that psychology gets way too much credibility as a profession. Wasn't long ago they considered being trans or gay a mental disorder, lol. It gets treated like a science by the mainstream but it's an art

Part of being associated with a professional body is acting professional towards the public. Be it doctors, accountants, engineers, psychologists. You get to reap the benefits by a higher salary at the cost of adhering to their standards. This isn't difficult to understand. If you want to get that political, then be a politician.

It's just not realistic for a child to go by one gender at school and another at home. I mean you could but without new clothes, hair styling, chest 'altering' clothing, and so on, it would do very little to reduce the gender dysphoria. So to me the fabricated scenario seems like nonsense because it just doesn't play out like that. But yea largely agree. It's the parents that ironically probably need more help than the kids in many of these cases. Schools just don't have the resources to help with everything - they have to be more of a guide than ward. In the end parents have to learn how to be supportive and give most of that support.

Yea not only do we not get blue-collar immigrants, we aren't educating and training enough tradeskill workers. It's not worth it for tradeskill workers to become teachers, the pay is much lower. So basically government has to put money into and treat it more like universities, only we won't

For most around here it's just economics. Cost of living (rent, gas, food) has gone up a lot and Atlantic Canada was never that well off to begin with. I think it's more that for most others than COVID which is now long in the past.

Yea the ads weren't perfect but PP is on another level from Scheer and Erin. He at least gives the impression of being more centrist on social issues. And more importantly the ads don't talk to viewers like they're 12 years old or of marginal intelligence. Keeping it about economic issues is smart at this point too. I'm not crazy over the CPC but they are looking a lot better than the Liberals and NDP who thumbed their noses at the working class during COVID. That's from someone in a demographic who 'should' be very left-wing and also from the Atlantic region.

If the CPC is just short of a majority I'm sure the BQ will make a deal with them. Hard for every other party to agree to a coalition if the CPC gets say 160+ seats, the optics wouldn't be good

I'm not a believer in mandatory minimums, judges should be able to consider mitigating factors. But there really weren't any in this case to warrant any less than 20 years. Knives are nearly as lethal as firearms but we treat them much less seriously

The Pierre Poilievre ad was better than I expected, I give it an 8/10 Though the timing right after Trudeau's divorce has gotta be intentional, lol

Yea it's absurd. 9 years for an unprovoked murder. Scary times. https://globalnews.ca/news/9693482/prabhjot-singh-katri-cameron-prosper-sentencing/ This sort of thing needs to be 20 years minimum, and that's with good behavior, remorse etc. Though I dare to say if it was a young white woman they wouldn't have downgraded the charge

Legacy reasons mostly, you once had to have the surgery to live as female. The whole system is very archaic, I could write paragraphs about my own experiences with it all. But in short, many services which reduce dysphoria more for less cost are not covered. It's not based on any science of medicine, but on politics. What's covered and not varies from province to province, which tells you a lot. No one would get this surgery without knowing the risks and recovery time. This is just the media trying to create a sob story because we long for someone to blame because the universe doesn't care.

Complex issue. I'm not religious but I would say MAID is overly broad in a creepy/scary way. You shouldn't be able to get assisted suicide for any medical condition or no condition. It's too dangerous a thing in the hands of government, especially when many conditions once deemed mental illnesses no longer are. Given psychology's ugly history, there is no reason to trust these matters will be handled correctly. Not to mention conflict of interest, it's cost savings to an already overburdened medical system. For terminal illness such as cancer with extreme suffering, and advanced dementia where there is no quality of life left only IMO. Which we sort of already had... doctors often did not hold back morphine.

A complicated topic but my gut tells me MAID goes way too far and wasn't considered deeply enough Some random thoughts I'm trying to reconcile: We can't provide timely medical healthcare to everyone partly due to underinvestment. Some conditions aren't treatable with current medical knowledge, even if we did invest more in healthcare. As previously pointed out, the same system that works to improve life shouldn't promote death. Many conditions previously termed 'mental illness' no longer are, such as homosexuality and transexuality. What is and isn't mental illness is much less objective than physical diseases such as cancer. The government has a huge financial incentive to offer MAID, there is a big conflict of interest at play. Some people with illnesses such as severe dementia should have their suffering ended. The legal system sets a much higher standard than MAID regarding rights of the innocent.

What Trudeau was and what he became are just so wildly different. At least Harper was pretty much the same throughout his tenure as PM. In 2015 Trudeau seemed genuinely optimistic for the future of Canada. I'd say even by 2017 the narcissism really came out. I mean, yes all politicians are to some degree but Trudeau is just off the scale.

Canada is hardly multi-cultural, we still have apartheid in 2022

Yea CPC won't be all that different once they get in. I can't back the NDP or the Libs on principle after the Emergency Act debacle. Trudeau would have tried to become a dictator if not for our Senate giving him a slap in the face. Thankfully democracy is finally pushing back against authoritarians like Russia. CPC it will be unless Poilievre does something really dumb in the campaign