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I seem to recall hearing that after trump lost the first time

The circumstances are somewhat different. He probably gets at least a year completely unchallenged. But watching him already, that might be just enough rope to hang himself

You don't say that because it's true, you say that because you're a hate-filled bigot. Which means you're More Maga than anyone here

But that's true whether there is supply management or not

Nope. They didn't vote. That's the bottom line. She did vote. And it wasn't counted. It is the responsibility of the person to show up and vote. That's why they allow for advanced polls and mail in ballots if you can't be available voting day. that's your job, get out and vote. But if you DO get out and vote.... the vote must be counted. she got out and voted. And elections canada, who is responsible to guarantee her vote is counted, failed. Whole different ball game. They missed the connection. 100 percent their responsibility. Their job is to show up. They failed. They're as useless and stupid as your grandfather. But she did her job. SHe showed up, she did what she was supposed to do, and due to an error by elections canada they did not count her vote. Entirely different. it's beginning to sound like you're not much brighter than your grandfather It is the responsibility of the voter to show up to vote in a manner proscribed by elections Canada. It is Elections canada's duty to count the votes. She showed up and did her duty, they have failed at theirs. There must be recourse.

No he isn't, it has to be Donated to his presidential library

There is a difference between influence and a bribe. A bribe has to have direct and permanent value to the person, not the institution. Lets say he visits there and they throw a lavish dinner for him with the best foods and the best wine and the nicest setting. Is that a bribe? Because that happens all the time with world leaders. He got something for free that he really likes didn't he? A world class meal? Maybe the fanciest accommodations during his stay? etc etc So it's really not a 'bribe', and as i understand it this was already cleared by the powers that be as being legit provided he donates it. Ronald regan apparently did the same thing. A bribe always has to involve quid pro quo, and permanent benefit to the recipient. While it's obvious that they're attempting to buy favor and influence him positively towards their country I don't think it could be called a bribe. Heads of state including the president get expensive gifts given to them all the time and while this may be a bit of an extreme example it's hardly unique in that respect.

All that proves is that liberals are liars and tell fake stories At the end of the day tho in such a case your grandpa, who apperently doesn't know to check before crossing the road despite his advanced years, made a mistake. That's on him. In this case the lady did NOT make a mistake. She did exactly what she was supposed to, This would be more akin to someone completing their ballot, handing it over and the person just forgot to put it in the elections box. Not her fault, she did her job. Your grandpa did not and caused an accident Now this kind of thing does happen but usually it doesn't affect the outcome so elections canada appologizes and points out that while they regret it even if they changed the total it wouldn't change the result. So they leave it at that But... in this case it WOULD have changed the vote. And she DID do what she was told to do by Elections Canada, same as if she was at the ballot box. Unlike your grandad who's apparently slightly less intelligent than a squirrel. And that's where elections Canada is going to run into an issue.

OHHH MY GOD!!!! DUNNING KRUGER USED AS A VERB. COGNATIVE DISSONENCE! FOS! All you DO is make up your own definitions of words LOLOLOLOL Seriously the pot and the kettle are shaking their heads at you and thinking "THAT guy's bad... "

Yes dear

Maybe, i would like to think that they'd envisioned something like this could happen and had some sort of method of addressing it already. Like "if ever xxx then byelection" or the like. Did you know for most elections in canada if it is a dead tie it's decided by coin toss?

To be honest I think you need to go back a little further and examine the biggest problem with Canada. Canada is Quebec and Ontario. it'snot what you see on the map. Quebec and Ontario have ruled the country for their benefits since it's inception. They are the king and queen, all those around them are considered pawns. This created a great deal of friction in the west for a long time, in fact there were explicit policies going right up to world war 1 that prevented growth in the west to protect the east. After that they still had a number of policies that achieve that and then we had policies like the NEP which milked Alberta dry to benefit Ontario and Quebec It has always been hoped that the west would eventually grow big enough that over time Canada would fully inflate and become a real country with east and west equally respected and represented. But that has not really happened. We theorize that it is sort of happening because occasionally there are governments that don't completely rape the west for the benefit of the east, but we see to this very day that they are more of an exception than a rule. There can never be a true Canada as long as the east sees the west has its junior employee. Overtime the west will eventually grow to be more powerful and more influential but that's still a ways off and there are just some people who are not willing to wait anymore for that day to come Honestly I think the best thing for everybody would be a situation where western Canada broke away and was its own nation and the two countries formed a union similar to the European Union to allow economic cooperation and prosperity while still respecting each other's sovereignty. There's just no way laws made in Ottawa are ever going to be to the liking or benefit of Alberta or Saskatchewan or even British Columbia

The count isnt' the problem. The challenge is that we have solid proof that someone's lawful vote was discarded, even if by accident, and it would have changed the results of the election. I doubt this is entirely over yet.

Well it will be under federal control, the presidential libraries are governed by federal law and are maintained by the feds. It's an old tradition. And many of them store gifts and other "three dimensional" records of the president's time. And considering it'll be at the facility it's not like he'll be able to fly it I mean i kind of get it, but i don't think this is really a 'bribe' or the like other than he'll get an insanely luxurious jet to bum around in while he's president. And it'll probably be a pretty popular exhibit later which is bound to stroke his ego.

They're not deals. That's the point. They're announcements. They have no legal weight, the people involved are not obliged to spend a nickle, they can back out, change their minds, delay, whatever they want. When they've spent the money, they've spent the money. And it will show up in the GDP figures. Then it's real. Otherwise it's smoke and mirrors. Canada had this HUGE investment by honda for an ev plant, all done and dusted and announced.... today they announced it's delayed for 2 years. And in two years they can cancel it. 15 billion dollar deal which in comparison to the us economy would be a 150 billion dollar deal. When the money's spent you have it, right now it's just bullshit and 'mabey's. Better than nothing but of no value till they start spending, and that's just a simple truth Sure. It's not BAD news thats for sure. Which is why they're rushing out these announcements as much as possible, they want some good news to hit the markets and boost stocks and such. Which is perfectly legit. I have no doubt some of the money will get spent, companies spend billions of dollars every year investing and such. As you can see here even in 2024 companies invested about an average of 6.4 trillion dollars PER QUARTER in actual investment, that's per quarter not spread over a number of years. United States - Gross domestic investment - 2025 Data 2026 Forecast 1947-2024 Historical So there's going to be some investment. Which is good. But the announcements don't add up to much. The problem is that we won't see real results for at least another quarter. So maybe september we'll start seeing REAL good news. And that's a long time away. They have to give markets and people a litlte hope between now and then. Also remember the tariffs are phase one of his plan. Tax cuts are coming up and that's phase 2. If we're being honest, i think that's going to do more than the tariffs. I think they fumbled the tariffs a fair bit and they're not going to get the results they were hoping for out of them, but the tax cuts almost always spur some growth.

Do you really And can you show me the actual new buildings or factories? Can you point to the actual workers? No? Hmmm Someone has said they'll invest. Announcements aren't worth much. there are often delays. These aren't contracts. Job growth is flaccid. Wages are stagnant and job growth is meh. It looked better for a minute with this month exceeding expectations but then it turned out the last two months were overreported. So unemployment is still around 4.5 to 5 (unadjusted). It's not horrible at all, but it's actually lower than what you were on track for before the trade wars and while inflation went up by a fairly modest 2.5 percent, wages didn't at the same rate so you're seeing stagflation with the tariffs expected to drive up the Consumer price index next month. Again, not the disaster that some suggest at this point, but definitely not a success yet either. Damage has been done, the economy is underperforming and stagflation is a real threat. But, changes today don't show up for many months, so it's possible the situation will change and the net benefits will still outweight the negatives by far at the end of the day. Don't get caught up by the flash on either side of the spectrum. There's no investment till it's been invested, not announced. And one or two slow months does not equal a catastrophe. Trust the proper indicators and it'll be a bit before they tell us the truth one way or another.

Rudyard Griffiths and Sean Speer: Mark Carney’s ‘old is new’ cabinet puts ‘blue’ Liberals on their back foot - The Hub There's a fair number of Articles like this. People are calling it a missed opportunity etc. Most of the important positions have old faces and the new faces are often old faces that failed in other circumstances. It's still a very left-wing cabinet with some of our old favorites like Freeland, champagne, LeBlanc, Guilbeault, And a bunch of others who were the architects of some of the worst policy the liberals came up with to date. This was an opportunity for him to show that he was going to be different and that there would be a "Marked difference between the old liberal governments and his. But he did not go that route and instead has stuck with the old left-wing liberals who gave us the last 10 years. I doubt the results will be any better this time.

If the investiment is real it'll show up in job and wage growth and GDP. There's no arguing it then.

Yeah but so far none of those are actually in the deal. The reducing some of the tariffs on both sides but that's about it and that buys them sometimes to negotiate. Meanwhile those tariffs are still affecting the American economy Imagine it's the best they could do considering these are sensitive negotiations that aren't going to be resolved in 15 minutes, but I think it was a little premature to suggest that they had struck a deal. It's more like they struck a deal to start talking seriously about striking a deal. Still, any news is good news

He didn't get to pick the riding. This is who offered up their seat. It's like asking why he didn't pick a different writing in Alberta. He doesn't just get to walk in and fire anybody it has to be their choice Sure, no other politician in history has ever gone to a fight 🙄 That is the easiest thing in the world to answer. They tell them to stick with Canada and elect a conservative government. The liberal government has been the most divisive and segregating of all governments we have ever had in the history of this country by at least five times. They've also been easily one of the most incompetent governments we've ever had. Connie will be no different. Most of his ministers are the same people. So the solution is stick around, work hard, elect conservatives They weren't 27 points up. And every time a liberal opens his mouth that number goes up, Show me one aggregator that showed them 27 points up at any point in time in history. Next week it'll be 30. Pretty soon he'll have blown 120-point lead somehow He had a 20 some odd point lead on justin at the very best of times. He never had a lead on Carney. In fact carney was up on him by 12 points according to some polls. Trump and carney changed the entire equation and pretending that poles that involved a different leader at a different time in history somehow is relevant to this election is beyond childish So it would be more fair to say that carney blew a 12-point lead and a guaranteed majority to wind up with a minority government only two points ahead of Poilievre As far as Poilievre goes, there's going to have to be a postmortem because there's definitely things he did that could have been done better. Mostly in the year leading up to the election. But he didn't just add some seats, he added 25 seats and a whole crap ton of support. He got a solid 41% which is about what he was pulling for the last year which means those are pretty solid voters. That wasn't a flash in the pan like Carney That is an excellent performance and there's every reason to believe to learn from the past and do better next time. Why would they get rid of him?

It's the same as always, If something goes wrong and it benefits the conservatives they run a headline that says conservatives screw up or conservatives benefit from... If a liberal benefits from a mistake then it's "conservatives Pounce on liberal error!!!" Like the bad guy here is the conservatives for "pouncing", dirty opportunists that they are. Welp..... apperently the bloc "pounces". Bloc candidate who lost by 1 vote considering 'all options' after report of ballot problem | CBC News

Absolute truth. And you're well aware of it. Says the guy who listens to the voices in his head And yet absolutely true. Perhaps you should consider moving?

You're the one calling for proof. I explicitly said that proof isn't necessary in all cases. Arguably it's not Really required in most cases. Opinion matters. What I'm saying is articulate your opinion rather than just saying nuh uh! You can agree or disagree with that proposition and support your position. "I don't think he is an a-hole, I think he's a hard-nosed hard-hitting business person who is out there to get things done and isn't paid to be worried about your feelings".. Or "I agree, his stance on XXXX is unnecessarily punitive and serves no point other than self aggrandizement. " Its' not complicated and I know you know this stuff. And it is not just this one instance you've been like this for a couple of weeks now. If we want braindead responses with no substance we have robosmith in Myata. If we want mindless blathering insults without any substantive reply we have exflyer. Nobody's expecting you to come out with genius level commentary, but you can do better than Nuh uhhhh and we both know it.

LOL well fair point Their caucus meetings can be held at a booth at denny's. The 7 tho are still getting paid by the taxpayers. It's all the staffers, the office space, the ads, the people manning the phones and doing the tech work etc etc etc. A party is like a small to medium sized company, there's a lot of staff and expense.