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CBC Site Of course the Ottawa resident isn't going to leave Stornoway and move to his suburban McMansion. Unemployable as he is, finding a mover who'll take "I'm sure to win the next election!" as a guarantee of payment is, ummmm, sketchier than most movers will accept.
I don't like the guy but I understand that the riding that he is going to run in is most likely to elect him so he will be back as official opposition party leader. I can understand not having it move in and out just for a few months. It would be a completely different if he also lose the Alberta riding tho
You never know, the longest ballot committee is also running in that by-election. Might just be too confusing for the troglos that live in that riding. One can dream.
They just want to crap on the guy to justify voting for a banker who stole most of Pierres platform, and now made the housing minister someone who said he wants prices to rise, and a finance minister who won't release a budget for 2 years.
The "generational fairness" capital gains tax rolled back, the promise of cheaper housing rolled back, more debt to pay developer fees so that boomers property taxes can stay low, meanwhile the NDP is now dead.
We all need to gaslight ourselves that we made a good decision, but at least Brookfield's residential real estate portfolio looks fantastic.
A 2 week old account posting over 250 times in that tiny duration, spending every single post completely blasting the Liberals and pretending to care about the NDP.
Hmmm...
Not sure I've ever seen such an egregious case of being on someone's payroll. Then again, I guess there's a chance this is someone so cripplingly, unapologetically far down the right-wing misinformation pipeline that they've completely lost control of their life and spend every waking moment trying to get images of the Liberals inviting immigrants into Canada and shutting down oil pipelines out of their heads.
I have a feeling the NDP would do something to fix housing and help the created wealth inequality in the long run, I think if they won they could attract some better party members and talent, and get some voices speaking about the crazy injustices in what we are doing to the youth. I do hate the party in its current incarnation, due to the exact reason they lost party status, they were a party of lapdogs.
You need to stop suckling at the teat of MAGA oligarch owned corporate propaganda media. Pierre Polievre ran a campaign of grievance and, "I'm not Justin Trudeau." Other than, "Neither am I" Carney had an actual platform with actual plans. Pierre Polievre had nothing. That's is why he lost.
Piss off with that MAGA red herring nonsense, you ate up the kool-aid around Trump, but Canada has had negative per capita GDP growth since Trudeau was elected. The Liberals have shit the bed on every metric, and Carney is essentially running with the same plan and the same cabinet.
Reading his book its quite clear what he thinks of energy production, whereas Canada is a petro state, in 2016 when oil fell our stock market fell 20%. We have had terrible performance and terrible wage gains. Carney also wants to replace the carbon tax with carbon border adjustments, tariffs on foreign emitters, which is closer to Trumps plan.
The only recent reprieve in our economy since the Liberals were elected was when we inflated GDP using mass immigration to depress salaries, as the BoC was buying all the Covid stimulus, and they forced unions back to work. We essentially debased our standard of living to raise stock valuations, and were buying half of all issued mortgage bonds to inflate real estate valuations, prior to that Canada has had abysmal performance and our alarm level productivity investment and capital swallowing is clear.
Talk about drinking the Kool-Aid.
MAGA?
https://youtu.be/R59JmC0u63I
Here is the verifiable the truth.
We have a AAA credit rating.
The AAA credit rating includes our ability to liquidate our pension, which is not ever happening. Read the last economic statement by Freeland and it has a footnote.
Debt to GDP excludes provincial debt, which is just a technicality versus how other countries calculate it. Combined we are near 100%.
Inflation is somewhat reduced due to how we calculate it, and the fact we bought 50% of all mortgage bonds federally to depress shelter inflation.
How old was the OECD estimate, given 80% of exports are bound to the US it seems ridiculous, and they've recently brought it down as well to a third%: https://www.ainvest.com/news/oecd-cuts-canada-s-2025-and-2026-growth-forecasts-to-0-7-from-2-250310000435138d2a871176/
The recession was avoided due to mass immigration. Per capita we lost to inflation since Trudeau took over.
Inflation in Canada is 2%. Inflation in the US is 4%. Inflation in most of the world is higher than in Canada.
Canada is in better shape that most of the rest of the world. If Polievre had had anything other than, "I'm going to fix everything but can't tell you how and I'm not Justin Trudeau" he might have had a chance against Carney. If he didn't spew MAGA bullshit and grievance he might have had a chance against Carney. Canada isn't going to fall apart no matter how much the maple MAGA crowd want to believe that it will.
We did mass immigration to lower wage pressure and inflation as we bought half of all mortgage bonds to depress shelter inflation and encourage Canadians to take on full recourse loans to for-profit banks. The liberals are the sum of the worst parts of Cons and NDP, offering massive spending coupled with low taxes, on the worst impulse of voters who live in a fantasy where you can have both.
https://www.bankofcanada.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/swp2019-6.pdf
This outlines how QE causes wealth inequality in the short term, as asset prices rise. In the long term unemployment falls, and wages rise from greater wage pressure. So according to this study the created wage pressure reverses the wealth inequality caused by QE.
My question is why we did 4% population growth via immigration and why we allowed students to work 40 hours a week to forcefully decrease wage pressure, reversing the labor shortage, entrenching the short term inequality. It seems hard to believe a progressive would do such a thing, as it appears to have greatly exacerbated wealth inequality.
It's cute that you think that electing someone who would cut taxes on the rich, cut benefits for the poor (anyone who doesn't use a million dollar yacht as a tender for their billion dollar yacht is poor), and run up over $100 billion of debt over the next four years then lose an election and blame the Liberals for the mess would be a better choice. If you think for one second that a Conservative jingoist would do anything for the working class you should move to the US and vote for Trump.
Well if he can do better economically I think Canadian wages and productivity would rise. Look at the stock market since before the Covid stimulus, you didn't go up in 6 years, then Caroline Rogers saying its an emergency and that there is a dearth of investment.
We covered up wages and productivity with population growth and capital shallowing. Now we can't even release a budget, what does that say to investors?
Dumb-ass argument/complaint. If its what people want, then its not a 0 sum game. Why the hell are the libs (or any party) not allowed to agree on something that the other parties proposed and the Canadian public want? Libs have 'stolen' the NDP platform for years. As someone who prefers NDP to lib, this is a GOOD thing, because it means when theyre elected, they can actually implement it (in theory). That being said, I don't like ANY of those policies, and didn't vote lib.
If they have the same platform/policies, but Carney was still elected that tells you how little people like or believe in Pierre. Honestly, Pierre lost the election by failing to leap into defense of Canada. I watched too many clips of him wiffle-waffling or blaming Liberals for the trade war, and that's not something that inspires trust in leadership.
Because debt loads. Cutting taxes while increasing spending is reckless and stupid, and leads to investors fleeing Canada, leading to the current productivity crisis Canada has. Citing the BoC.
Elections are always about the best choice from the options available. NDP were always going to get crushed, so this was the best possible outcome.
People need to stop seeing voting as an agreement with or support for everything a candidate does.