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It's not that the scary ninth grade arithmetic without the variables being explained that should matter, it's that they said they'd give us electoral reform and then didn't because it didn't look like we were going to choose the system they wanted. We won't serve you. We'll serve ourselves and expect you to thank us when we drop scraps that you happen to enjoy.
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May 11, 2024 05:00
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flakeloaf posted:It's not that the scary ninth grade arithmetic without the variables being explained that should matter, it's that they said they'd give us electoral reform and then didn't because it didn't look like we were going to choose the system they wanted. the extra funny thing is that if they had gone with the system we wanted, it would have paid in their favour immensely over the last few years
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May 11, 2024 05:32
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Why would the Liberal party ever do anything to earn a vote when they can use the strategy of pointing at the conservatives and then blame the voter when they lose.
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May 11, 2024 05:47
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ZShakespeare posted:Why would the Liberal party ever do anything to earn a vote when they can use the strategy of pointing at the conservatives and then blame the voter when they lose. This strategy is why the Ontario Liberals have not been an official party for over half a decade.
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May 11, 2024 06:24
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PT6A posted:If the Conservatives want to depress Liberal turnout they should probably focus on poo poo like that instead of Trudeau's imagined crimes and vaccine nonsense that only CHUDs care about, honestly. That's exactly what they are doing. The past 6 months have all been about pinning the affordability issues on to Trudeau. Housing, carbon tax, carbon tax cutout flip-flopping, immigration, and inflation fueled by government spending. And the polls reflect that.
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May 11, 2024 13:33
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On that list, the only things that can be pinned on the Trudeau government are immigration and the carbon tax waffling. The housing affordability crisis is the culmination of decades of successive governments failing to invest in housing, which has caused a crisis that only massive government spending will alleviate. Neither the Liberals nor the Conservatives are going to jump on that grenade, so housing will remain hosed for the foreseeable future. The carbon tax is a good tax in that it accomplishes what it sets out to do. I think BC has a better implementation by using it to reduce income tax, but the federal tax is okay. Inflation has been caused by global supply chain disruption, not government spending.
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May 11, 2024 14:24
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I seem to recall an entire photoshop-friday's worth of alterations to that picture of Monsef's formula - everything from Justin's Blackface picture, to dickbutt, and everything in between...
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May 11, 2024 14:48
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Housing transactions are also a significant chunk of Canada's GDP and a major wealth vehicle for the largest voting cohort that actually votes, so no government is ever going to do anything to fix it.
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May 11, 2024 15:59
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Since immigration is on the table for discussion, I’ve been having a lot of trouble reconciling my usual viewpoint for immigration (people deserve a better life and opportunity, immigration good, we’ve hosed over a lot of other countries) with the current situation (holy poo poo this is too many people, our infrastructure isn’t built for this, make it stop make it stop) and wanted to hear the thread opinion on it. Obviously poo poo like Conestoga College is a nightmare and there should be multiple people in prison for it but I’m interested in the general viewpoint.
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May 11, 2024 16:21
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TheKingofSprings posted:Since immigration is on the table for discussion, I’ve been having a lot of trouble reconciling my usual viewpoint for immigration (people deserve a better life and opportunity, immigration good, we’ve hosed over a lot of other countries) with the current situation (holy poo poo this is too many people, our infrastructure isn’t built for this, make it stop make it stop) and wanted to hear the thread opinion on it. Personally my stance is we do need people, especially young people as the population ages. Those people probably shouldn't have to pay some random rear end college $20,000 to do so, so just let them come. Offer an alternative path to immigration to give same people coming through the international student path an opportunity to come over without doing that, but set per province to a level infrastructure can reasonably absorb. Probably could be a bit higher than the 200-300k on average people who immigrated yearly prior to COVID but probably not the 900k or whatever it was in the past year. The massive recent spike can directly be pinned on provincial fuckery, specifically with loving over post secondary education funding, pushing colleges to take advantage of a visa to bring in higher playing international students to make up the budget gap, a visa nobody in the government ever thought to cap because it was never an issue in the several decades of that visa's existence up until a couple years ago so I don't see anything wrong with the feds adding some sort of cap on it if the provinces aren't going to stop loving around. But there really should be an alternative path since most of those students aren't coming because Conestoga College offers a prestigious world renowned educational experience lol. So let's acknowledge that and give them another way to come since as I've said, everyone recognizes we need a good level of immigration for at the very least economic reasons. Mr Luxury Yacht fucked around with this message at 17:02 on May 11, 2024 |
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May 11, 2024 16:57
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A whole bunch of problems that have been brewing for decades but now we can blame brown people for it
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May 11, 2024 17:00
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acumen posted:A whole bunch of problems that have been brewing for decades but now we can blame brown people for it Lets be honest, it'll be
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May 11, 2024 17:10
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ZShakespeare posted:Lets be honest, it'll be I don't think Doug Ford caused ALL of the problems.
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May 11, 2024 18:13
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https://nationalpost.com/news/jerry-seinfeld-duke-graduation-speech Wrap it up Palestinailures, they got us on a technicality
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May 14, 2024 06:10
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Blood Boils posted:https://nationalpost.com/news/jerry-seinfeld-duke-graduation-speech How has the Nationalist Post actually managed to get worse?
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May 14, 2024 07:46
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Mr Luxury Yacht posted:everyone recognizes we need a good level of immigration for at the very least economic reasons. It's true, the Canadian economy (landlords) can't survive without regular blood transfusions (international students that will pay inflated rents)
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May 14, 2024 11:18
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Blood Boils posted:https://nationalpost.com/news/jerry-seinfeld-duke-graduation-speech why would trudope do this
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May 14, 2024 14:35
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Isn't Duke University the place that someone became a famous pornstar to afford tuition?
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May 14, 2024 16:20
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H.R. Hufflepuff posted:How has the Nationalist Post actually managed to get worse? Trudeau started subsidizing them with public revenues.
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May 14, 2024 17:09
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National Post has a big editorial about how PP must deliver “Healthcare choice” to Canadians if elected.
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May 15, 2024 21:55
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Mr. Apollo posted:National Post has a big editorial about how PP must deliver “Healthcare choice” to Canadians if elected. Oh for gently caress sakes
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May 15, 2024 22:19
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mm yes, being able to choose between getting hosed or paying for healthcare
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May 15, 2024 22:24
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Mr. Apollo posted:National Post has a big editorial about how PP must deliver “Healthcare choice” to Canadians if elected. Who needs any sort of optimistic future?
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May 15, 2024 22:30
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Mr. Apollo posted:National Post has a big editorial about how PP must deliver “Healthcare choice” to Canadians if elected. I'm sure a certain thread banned poster is just about losing their mind right now.
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May 15, 2024 22:39
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Mr. Apollo posted:National Post has a big editorial about how PP must deliver “Healthcare choice” to Canadians if elected. Written by contributing editor Holden Bloodfeast.
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May 15, 2024 22:42
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It just occurred to me, what are the odds of PP using the not withstanding clause to get around the Canada Health Act?
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May 16, 2024 00:23
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Mr. Apollo posted:It just occurred to me, what are the odds of PP using the not withstanding clause to get around the Canada Health Act? I mean it's just federal legislation, if he wanted to and had a majority he could just cancel or amend it.
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May 16, 2024 00:24
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Oxyclean posted:mm yes, being able to choose between getting hosed or paying for healthcare Man, that 1-2 combo of Prime Minister PP and Trump Term Two (now featuring Project 2025) is gonna suck massive balls. Which is ironic, because ball sucking will be outlawed as deviant sexual behaviour Under His Eye.
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May 16, 2024 20:33
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nine-gear crow posted:Man, that 1-2 combo of Prime Minister PP and Trump Term Two (now featuring Project 2025) is gonna suck massive balls. Which is ironic, because ball sucking will be outlawed as deviant sexual behaviour Under His Eye. Feels like we’re gonna get some insane level of privatization. Like all the roads in the country being sold off or something to that effect
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May 16, 2024 22:45
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Borden posted:Feels like we’re gonna get some insane level of privatization. Like all the roads in the country being sold off or something to that effect I wonder if the Irvings will keep the New Brunswick name once they officially own it.
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May 16, 2024 23:17
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The Jim Pattison-Irving merger, finally encompassing the oligarchical provincial sandwich. The Canadian Arctic remains a rapidly warming hat that everyone has forgotten is even there
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May 16, 2024 23:46
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I think roads are one of those things that will always lose money, hence why they will always be public. We can't be having privatized losses.
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May 16, 2024 23:58
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ZShakespeare posted:I think roads are one of those things that will always lose money, hence why they will always be public. We can't be having privatized losses. They will be privatized until they have deteriorated beyond profitability and maximum value has been extracted, then returned for a full refund.
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May 17, 2024 00:20
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ZShakespeare posted:I think roads are one of those things that will always lose money, hence why they will always be public. We can't be having privatized losses. You're just not doing it right, then. You sign a 99-year contract for being paid five dollars for every dollar of projected maintenance work you're supposed to do on it (not actual work, just "projected"). Get some ruinous penalty clauses for the government ending it early, force the government to do actual replacement work when it turns to poo poo, and then a few clauses on how you can toll it and guaranteed minimum payouts, and it's easy! Probably not even need seven figures in bribes to lock it in. E;fb
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May 17, 2024 00:20
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H.R. Hufflepuff posted:How has the Nationalist Post actually managed to get worse? It's incredible to remember we bailed out a media company responsible for invisible hand NFTs. https://www.readthemaple.com/post-media-scrubs-nft-market-auction/
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May 17, 2024 00:23
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Yeah I'm not good at capitalism
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May 17, 2024 01:06
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Freshwater Louie posted:The Jim Pattison-Irving merger, finally encompassing the oligarchical provincial sandwich. The Canadian Arctic remains a rapidly warming hat that everyone has forgotten is even there We already have that they just call the Liberal & Conservative parties for tax purposes
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May 17, 2024 01:13
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ZShakespeare posted:I think roads are one of those things that will always lose money, hence why they will always be public. We can't be having privatized losses. The 407 made over half a billion in profit last year.
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May 17, 2024 01:43
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Wake me up when they go crying to the province for a handout to fix the drat thing
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May 17, 2024 02:16
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McGavin posted:The 407 made over half a billion in profit last year. I looked into this and I can't find anything wrong with it, so I'm going to go ahead and say that we should privatize all the roads. I am not kidding.
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May 17, 2024 03:59
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