They will be beautiful tariffs, everyone says so.

My understanding is we already have sensibly restrictive gun laws but a problem with illegal guns coming in from the States.

Unironically, yes. Fuck cars.

That’s because they keep trying to build houses whose primary objective is to be profitable for developers and/or investors. They keep building either suburban subdivisions or isolated condo towers. We need to be building to house people, not to create profit, i.e, we need to be building off market housing. And to make it work, we need to be building housing in transit oriented, mixed use walkable neighborhoods, not in car centric suburban sprawls.

Yes, there is a massive labour shortage in sectors such as healthcare and the skilled trades: https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/corporate/transparency/committees/cimm-nov-25-2024/labour-shortages.html

Youth unemployment has to do with the particularities of students looking for temporary jobs in the services sector and the lack of training opportunities https://lmic-cimt.ca/the-state-of-youth-employment-in-canada/ https://policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/november-2024/youth-employment-opportunities/

That’s silly. Canada needs more people, and we will probably be forced to take in people from down south soon enough, if they have a hot/violent summer. We need to build up out of the current crises, not pretend we libe on the moon.

Build up:

• More walkable, transit oriented mixed use, dense and off market housing.
• Fast track recognition of credentials of newly arrived professionals
• Invest in interprovincial infrastructure: trains, renewables, smart grid, fast internet
• A civil defence corps to prepare for climate resilience and emergencies
• A civil service corps to rebuild and revitalize rural and indigenous communities

Poilievre is a fucking idiot.

Really? Just google “Poilievre deport” and the first two hits are literally:

https://www.timesofisrael.com/canadas-tory-leader-vows-to-deport-foreigners-for-antisemitic-crimes/

https://m.jpost.com/diaspora/article-850082

It’s barely a dogwshitle at this point.

Don’t cherry pick the phrase, give the rest of the context of what he said.

That’s a silly american-centric way of understanding Canadian politics. There are ridings where the LPC is the spoiler in an NDP-CPC race or in a BQ-CPC race. Use your brain, don’t parrot Americanisms.

If PP gets in, I’m voting for QC independence.

When it comes to opposing Israeli apartheid itself, sure, almost no. I guess the difference is the Liberals will not oppose the ICJ and ICC, whereas the Conservatives would align with Trump in smashing them. That’s a low bar.

When it comes to crushing the opposition here in Canada, hell yea, there is a difference: Poiliievre wants to deport activists, ICE style.. The Liberals haven’t gone to any such extreme.

Ultimately, look, we don’t have a presidential election, we have 343 MP elections in as many ridings. If the Conservatives have any chance at winning your riding, rally around whoever is not a fascist to defeat them, be that NDP, Liberal or Bloc. KEEP THE MAPLE MAGA OUT. In any other riding, do vote for Palestine. A Liberal minority is still a great outcome for Canada anyway.

Annoying NIMBY gentrifiers.

It’s right next to a couple of major bus arteries, both of which take you to the metro and a major multi-use pathway (one of the best in Montreal). Given the housing shortage in the city, it really shouldn’t be hard to find 50 families willing to make that particular compromise.

“Israeli fascist, go fuck yourself.”

The reason I don’t appreciate this framing is that while it contains a kernel of truth (Carney hasn’t come out swinging against Israeli policy, and evidently some of his brief government’s actions are questionable) it also distorts the truth in several ways.

For example, what does “pro genocide” mean? I would say that Ben Gvir is unambiguously “pro genocide”, like the guy wants to go kill all Palestinians. Is that Carney’s position? No. Then you have for example the German government that are actively trying their best to refuse to face reality and are therefore functionally pro genocide. Is that Carney’s position? No. And since “genocide” is such a signifier of unambiguous evil, is being “pro genocide” just not forcefully being “against genocide”, the way that South Africa and Ireland are? In that case for example are, I dunno, …say, Portugal, or Mexico, or Sweden “pro genocide”?

At the same time, Carney has talked about the territorial integrity of Gaza, putting Palestine and Ukraine (and Canada!) on the same rhetorical space. Is that what a “pro genocide” politician would do? I don’t think so.

So, I don’t appreciate the framing at all. A phrase like “Carney is pro genocide” is just plain misinformation.

‘An election is no time to discuss serious issues’

PP is not interested on “handling” Trump, just capitulating to him.

As a Quebecker, I find the percentage 13.8% of households with food insecurity unacceptable in and of itself.

Brain-dead PR catastrophe for PC. They could instead have make him the public face of their rewards program. Now they are in the news as the bad guys.