I appreciate you being more courteous than I was.
Oh? Do you have a link handy? https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/article/most-canadians-support-building-a-cross-country-pipeline-reject-adopting-us-dollar-nanos-survey/
Flaw 1) If Carney wanted to get richer, there are easier says to go about it.
Flaw 2) Party discipline is a norm, not codified. So if Carney does get his slim majority, a bare handful of the new, very tenuous MPs could easily stop them.
Flaw 3) Public polling in Quebec has shown approvals etc for pipelines ever since trump 2.0.
Flaw 4) BC and other provinces would demand similar handouts, which would be obvious at the start of such a program.
Flaw 5) Most of our pipelines etc have some degree of private ownership, that's how we build things in Canada.
Flaw 6) Come on.
Except Polievre doesn't have the warmth or compassion of a terminator.
More garage rock than metal/punk but the Pack AD is a lot of fun.
If chatgpt is good enough for American foreign policy, it should be good enough for the law!
Hmmmm, do we want to be closer with crazytown or basically reasonable people? I'm torn!
This has been tried and repealed in a lot of other places. If memory serves, it also led to a significant increase in homicides. (If there's no difference between robbery and murder, there is no incentive to leave witnesses.)
And Trailer Park Boys notwithstanding, it's not like the usual addict criminal is really thinking "well, I'll only get a couple years, no biggie" before committing a crime.
I haven't read it (may try to) but I've been pretty impressed by the way he describes the importance of harnessing markets to address climate change. (I'm of much the same opinion, markets are amazing but require government to address imbalances/incentives and straight up market failures like public goods etc.)
Weirdly, I don't really want the tax cuts when we need the revenue but I'd prefer Carney to win regardless. And being the only viable candidate not offering tax cuts makes it a lot harder to be a winning candidate.
Same reason I disagrees with but supported dropping the carbon tax.
The politicians don't believe it, they just have to say it. The people voting for it see themselves as also getting a tax cut, which they want.
I think they were those friends you teased but still had each other's backs.
Now... They cannot and should not be trusted.
No. There's no telling what comes after these 4 years. The US has proven that they aren't an ally worth relying on, we should look to more reliable partners and building them up and vice versa. Any concession or help offered by the next administration isn't worth the paper it's written on (just look at trump ripping up his own trade agreement for this nonsense.)
We need allies not a neighbour that on a whim might try to throw us into a recession.
There's hope but this was too close. The Conservatives upped their numbers as did the Liberals. It was only the progressive/reasonable vote banding together that saved the day.