[-] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 hours ago

He wants to play to his base. Canadaian licensed gun owners are overwhelmingly not the problem.

US border porosity is.

This is a wedge issue. Cons lock up the gun vote which is larger than you think, especially in rural areas.

The Libs lockup the antigun vote popular in urban areas and especially Québec.

Both parties have abandoned "good government" policies, with over and under reach respectively while ignoring the real issues.

If you want to tackle gun crime, that 2 billion Fentanyl Czar and Hellicopter patrol needs to be chasing drugs AND guns. It's the same people, using sthe same methods. We also need to build more prisons and jails so violent offenders don't get the "commit another crime while on bail from the last one".

Libs and Cons need to stop playing wedge politics and do their duty to grounded, evidence based legislation that doesn't flip flop and turn innocent gun owners into paper criminals or wastr money buying back legally acquired guns that were never used in crimes or by criminals.

[-] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 10 points 16 hours ago

That's not an "or". I said scale one to the other. Build as many houses as you can. It still holds true.

[-] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 21 points 18 hours ago

This deep into a housing crisis and a cost of living crisis, you have to cap immigration to housing completion - natural growth rate. Otherwise you will just exacerbate the issues, and we'll never get ahead.

[-] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 3 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Just voted. Lineups were slim to none. 15 minutes and done.

[-] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 day ago

I looked in my crystal ball to see what can been seen. It only showed me the word "soon".

[-] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

I kan haz mobile artillery?

[-] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago

I am not smart enough to get this. Can someone please explain it like I'm a 60 year old man with the wrong science degree?

[-] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago

"I like your Christ very much. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ"

  • apocryphal
[-] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

The horny Bard strikes again.

[-] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 days ago

I'm always surprised at how comfortable people are with flaunting their stupidity.

[-] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 24 points 2 days ago

A massive scourge is US private equity buying up any successful Canadian business. Canada Goose, Tim Hortons, virtually all our private media.

Selling successful Canadian enterprise for a one time payout is, well, selling out your country.

The other problem is subsidising foreign capital to operate in Canada. How many billions have we given to US auto? If it was important enough that US auto companies needed the cash, our Federal and Provincial investments should have been in exchange for equity, like any investor. Welfare for the rich and cold hard markets for the poor is what lead us to this crisis.

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