Prime Minister Mark Carney’s second federal budget allocates tens of billions of dollars in new spending to tackle what the government describes as the twin challenges of our time: improving affordability in an era of high prices and securing Canada’s sovereignty as it faces external threats.
The budget’s new big-ticket items include generous tax measures designed to prompt an “investment supercycle,” increased GST rebates to help with the cost of living, an $11.2-billion cash injection to tackle homelessness and one of the largest investments in Canadian arts, culture and identity in recent history to bolster national pride.
More funding for the CBC? Poilievre and the entire conservative party must be incensed and outraged that we waste taxpayer dollars on the CBC, when we could trust our cultural domain to American owned businesses like the Globe and Mail or Hollywood’s branch plant filming in Canada.
There is a reason the conservatives are the ones promoting separatism in Quebec and Alberta. The federal conservatives want to defund the CBC because they are all aching to be the 51st state.
CPC should seriously start distancing themselves from the Reform Party nutjobs.
Send them to Bernier or let them rebuild their own christian nationalist cesspit. I know all of CPC isn’t on board with the remigration enthusiasts or joining USA. They need some house cleaning. Starting with that whining cowboy with no cattle and all slogans.
CPC should seriously start distancing themselves from the Reform Party nutjobs.
That’s all the CPC is. It’s just a brand killed by Mulroney and taken over by the Reform.
After working so hard to make the CPC big tent conservatism make fascists, white nationalists, seperatists and racists feel at home so they can win from time to time?
The CBC is a pretty effective government propaganda platform.
What they need is not reward the CBC for sucking up to the Liberals, but have the CBC budget set and indexed and make the Corporation untouchable politically by any party.
As it stands right now, it’s a lot of milquetoast garbage journalism trying to not offend everybody and anybody.
They have some of the finest journalism in the world. CBC Ideas, The Nature of Things, Quirks and Quarks, Canada Reads, CBC Music, The Current, The Fith Estate, Cross Country Checkup, The National, Day6, CBC Sports for coverage of all our real atheletes and not Just US pro sports.
Then there is the production of shows like This Hour has 22 minutes, The Degrassi series, Schitts Creek, Heartland, The Murdoch Mysteries, The Red Green Show, Anne with an E, Dragons Den, Kim’s Convenience, Road to Avonlea, SCTV, and lots more.
Then there is the mandate for local and regional coverage the privates won’t touch or actively retreated from, let alone indigenous communities.
What you call sucking up to the liberals, I call defending Canada from Conservatives who would have all media funded by the rich as the only voice, then a US voice as they attempt to convert us into the 51st state.
Uhm… Québec Solidaire is a socialist leftist party and they’re separatists.
QS is a tiny minority. The PQ are the ones in power and they are both separatist and conservative.
So they’re the separatist version of the NDP, in other words.
Also: With something like 28% of the vote I don’t know that I’d call what the BQ has a mandate.
FPTP sucks.
Garbage in, garbage out. Change the candidates, then change the system.
PQ, but yeah I agree. They’re a fragile minority. I suspect there might be a vote of non confidence happening early and we’ll go to the urns again soon.
Tax billionaires 15%+
Nationalize everything
Electoral reform
End lobbyism
Anything else isn’t doing shit for us.
That won’t do anything for us either. You’ll accomplish changing what the classes look like, but you’ll still be on the bottom only you’ll have the government telling you what you need as though you’re a child.
We’re all bottoms now, Honey.
Would you prefer to stay there because the government says you should? Because that’s how you get that. Nationalizing everything, for example, includes housing. Do you want the government deciding you don’t need to live where you currently are, or someone else needs your house more than you do? Because that’s how you get that.
The market has already done exactly what you’re describing.
No, it hasn’t. I can choose to leave my current apartment and move somewhere else whenever I please. It will almost certainly cost me more, but that’s my choice. That is a far cry from being told “you will live here now”. Government housing does that second thing. Ask anyone who’s ever tried to get into the current government housing. You go where you’re told and you like it.
The high price part is easy. Do a windfall tax on grocery chains and oil companies. Create state-owned grocery stores with affordable prices. Tax the rich. Make Canada build public housing for the people like he fucking promised.
Hey great news, Carney’s working on that too!
And with many of Canada’s big cities grappling with a post-COVID surge in people sleeping rough, one of the single largest line items in this budget is a major funding envelope for programs designed to end homelessness over the next decade.
Much of that money will be used to build new transitional and supportive housing, which pairs modest living quarters with health and mental care, to get people off the streets. There’s also $2 billion to build new infrastructure to help those grappling with substance abuse.
Good! I can’t wait to see these projects start.
