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Yes, yes, clearly we haven’t given the rich enough power. If only we gave them more, then they’d solve all our problems! Let’s abdicate our responsibility to each other even harder!

That’ll surely fix things this time!

They’re not self-aware enough to understand they are shitty fathers. Narcissists can’t admit to fault or failing without taking mentall damage.

So, there’s this issue that there is a significant fraction of indigenous people who aren’t interested in being called Canadian, in no small part because every interaction indigenous groups have had with white Canadian institutions have been done on the white Canadians’ terms.

White Canadians lobbying them to get on board the Canadian Unity train is… just more of that.

White Canadian political leaders stepping all over indigenous land and consultation rights is just more of that.

Nothing about the current discourse around national unity and inclusion is signalling that white Canada is looking for any kind of real partnership with indigenous people. It all just screams of an opportunistic shot at forcing indigenous people to get on board and shut up.

“They’re only killing other brown-skinned humanoids. We shouldn’t let that get in the way of expanding the markets of old-stock Canadians!”

So, are you a bot, or a liar? Because Carney was still in England when the carbon tax was implemented.

You can not like the Liberals, you can not like the carbon tax, and you cannot like Carney, but it’s deeply and openly dishonest to link Carney to the tax.

That’s not nation building, though. “Be only as others see you” is pretty toxic advice at any level.

Yeah. The rich go from funding it as a service, via their taxes, to making income off of it, via dividends. Everybody wins!

So long as you’re only counting the rich.

Not without refineries at the other end of them, for sure. Otherwise, we’re not even benefiting from the damage we’re doing. And even then, it takes a long time to build a refinery.

Yes, because ultimately it is nothing more than a redistribution of wealth from the wealthy back to the poor and working class, and it’s the people on the bottom of the income ladder that actually drive the economy – especially the local economies – instead of just hoarding wealth.

Talk to Americans - they’re embarrassed by how their government is treating Canada

Maybe they shouldn’t have voted for the guy that treated us exactly the same last time, then.

America, as a country, is a fascist state, and an international bully, and has been for a long time. The USA is what a fascist representative democracy looks like, and Americans should remain embarrassed by their country until they come to terms with that and fix it.

And what killed Erin O’Toole’s last chance at relevance, again?

It only requires majority support in parliament.

It’s because most of us have been abused by employers, teachers, and the system as a whole, and our only model for what an employer-employee relationship is is one where the employee has zero power and does what they’re told. This, in turn, means most of us would be awful, toxic bosses, and that comes out whenever we, collectively, are the employer.

I remember when the bus drivers went on strike here, like a decade ago now, or more. The radio call-in shows were swamped with people complaining that they don’t get any of the things the union was demanding. Rather than wondering why, or unionizing and striking to demand such things, they just kept telling the bus drivers to get fucked.

We’re a society of crabs in buckets.

They lied. They cheated, and tried to astroturf the issue with bots. For that reason, their voices should carry no weight ever again.

Alberta should shut it’s pie hole and spend its money protecting against being an abandoned tailings pond, rather than on party favours for oil execs.

Because they see bikes as things ridden by teens and the poor, and they hate both of those groups.

Canadian Raising – which is what creates the sense in 'Muricans that we’re saying aboot – is actually weakest in the Atlantic region, and particularly with respect to Os. We strongly raise our Is and As, but not our Os. “Out and about” is more likely to be pronounced “oat in a boat” out here.

The phenomenon, more generally, occurs coast-to-coast, though, and originated in the 1800s.

Nowhere in Canada has anyone ever actually said “oot and aboot”, though. Americans just have this tendency to hyper-fixate on the subtle difference between raised and unraised vowels, and see the raised vowels as very cutting. They’ll go “ow-t and ab-ow-t”, or put shingles on their “ruff”, particularly in the south, and find the more closed-mouthed form of these vowels alien.

It’s fun when people allude to having knowledge they don’t display or share. Makes them look like they’re feeling smugly superior while also contributing absolutely nothing to anyone.

It’s the daddy’s money of social media.

Albertans talk about alienation as if any of us living outside of Toronto or Vancouver don’t experience the same sense of “people only talk about Toronto and Vancouver”.

Meanwhile, Albertans routinely shit on Atlantic Canada, behave as if BC is just Calgary’s port, and complain bitterly and non-stop about the French.

Dani doth complain too much.

The Liberals are currently being shored up by the Bloc, so no.