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  • softcat@lemmy.catoCanada@lemmy.caGo Read Carney's Book
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    4 days ago

    This seems completely uncritical of Carney and Canada for that matter. The future isn’t going to be lead without force because a middle power elects a prime minister with some good ideas about markets.

    We don’t need to rely on wars? We rely on exploitation even without it- ask any country where our mining firms operate with lax regulation. Hell, we’ve participated in “coalitions of the willing” in invasions and aerial bombings for corporate giants too. Most of this country is content to think the first Nations just decided to give us the land.

    I’m happy to vote for more years of basically Trudeau lite and I have no illusions about it.


  • softcat@lemmy.catoCanada@lemmy.caGo Read Carney's Book
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    Superpower? Alright no need to chug the Kool aid this hard, let’s wait until you find a chapter where he wants to develop a nuclear triad.

    He’s a traditional liberal which means not all that progressive beyond what’s popular socially. Good for the wealthy fiscally, and maintained decline for everyone else. If you want to see what it’ll be, look at the UK while he was heading up BoE. Or any Canadian Liberal government through the 90s-00s.

    Despite all this he and his party obviously remain the superior choice to PP, but let’s not kid ourselves. He’s not going to neolib us into utopia.













  • I’m not buying that older Canadians are any more informed about history, but putting that aside, maybe it’s young Canadians self-interest. The article doesn’t actually examine why they would want to join the US, but guesses at it being the consequence of “woke” policy. The pieces just aren’t connected.

    They may feel they have less to lose and more to potentially gain than older Canadians, who built up wealth and pensions in an economy that no longer exists. If they expect the country to offer worse pay, lifestyle, and services, disloyalty is not unreasonable. If a life in Canada means no home ownership, no healthcare or pensions in a few years, and that they won’t be able to retire, that sounds a lot like the offer from the US. They’re reasonably not sold on dying for Canadian oligarchs over American ones.