As a Canadian it’s like living with a bunch of lunatics and I can not believe so many people are okay with this. All I can say is I will never miss an election again. We need Trudeau gone badly but he has a lot of support from the east and no other party is positioned to beat him in an election. The ndp have sided with him on so many things I can no longer vote for them and the choices are limited.
It’s not much of an “outing” to reveal that I believe the Canada they want is antithetical to my belief system, and that I find the party thoroughly disgusting and worthy of mockery.
I think the Canada thing was an honest oversight. The party in power isn’t even a right wing party. Pretty centrist. They don’t have any motivation to shift the overton window in the “maybe we’re okay with Nazis now?” direction.
Between backlash to the Century Initiative and the looming climate refugee crisis, I'm not surprised. Canada is set to take a hard right swing towards populism and its gonna be wild and ugly.
The Conservative party of Canada has huge immigrant outreach and is very multicultural because it can't get elected any other way, similarly if your party doesn't work in Quebec you aren't getting elected. The multicultural vibe of Canada really kills the us vs them mentality in politics
This is very upsetting. The liberal party is giving me reasons to regret voting for them, but I suppose we'll see if they can pass it in a minority government. If the NDP also back it along with the conservatives, I may have no political alignment left.
Yet Europeans and canadians are allowed to discuss American politics and even completely trash American values repeatedly. It's funny to see canadians be so defensive when someone else does it to us when we are usually extremely smug about doing exactly the same to our southern neighbors.
And by the way no, sorry but that's absurd. There's a huge line between being a freedom gun loving American and being against enacting emergency measures that do away with due process because of a protest. To think canadians support this just to... own the Americans online? Is so ridiculous that it might border on satire.
Remember, trudeau is still in a minority government and lost popular vote twice in a row to the conservative party. The conservative party has voted against enacting emergency measures. So you might be living in a bubble where everyone actually supports this, but it's not representative of the electorate.
Trudeau is completely, completely losing it and that's coming from someone who has met him a few times when he was my MP. I also volunteered for his campaign back in 2015 and 2019. Yet to me he seems completely unhinged at this point.
I'm an immigrant and got really burned during the Harper admin (Kenny's handling of immigration destroyed my life). That basically meant my options are Liberal or NDP. NDP policies seem to think if I make more than 200K, I am a rich fat cat (ignore that I have a freakin PhD at the cost of a delay in buying a house - effectively making me far poorer in wealth terms than someone with a mediocre undergrad who bought a place anytime before 2015). Last election, I recall thinking, how can I vote NDP if them winning means I'll leave the country. That means, my only choice is Liberal. I am so fed up with their mismanagement, that I think I need to vote conservative just to make my voice heard, and then if (when?) the xenophobes of that party come out, go liberal again. I dunno .. feels like Canada isn't for people like me.
I spent a decent part of my adult life in Canada and I can’t believe what in God’s name is happening to that place.
Canada is experiencing a severe housing bubble at the backdrop of Chinese snow washing, wage stagnation is real and middle class is slowly getting wiped out. The only thing keeping the GDP at the level it is is high level of immigration which favours the wealthy in the name of a “point based immigration system”.
The ruling liberal party is genuinely out of touch and the PM knows nothing but virtue signaling. The conservatives are also facing a leadership crisis since they lack largely a coordination and single thread holding the party. NDP is a joke and virtually does nothing and the electoral system is almost broken thanks to this three party system (oh and then there is Bloc which I don’t even want to get started on). Trudeau was elected prime minister with less than 33% votes.
The whole COVID crisis was used by Trudeau to call a snap election and then they don’t seem to have a plan to embrace the endemic outlook. This whole vax mandates for truckers was such a distraction at the backdrop of inflation and struggling service sector. I keep thinking what are these people thinking? Any decent policy advisors would say now is not the time to do things out of spite against the people who are critical to supply chain.
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