If an election were held today, 48% of committed voters would vote Liberal, 32% Conservative, 9% NDP, 6% Bloc Québécois, 3% Green, 1% People’s Party, and 1% another party.

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    18 hours ago

    The Carney admin has actually been doing more than I’ve seen any Canadian government do in my entire lifetime.

    Just looking at the last two months:

    • All the trade war shit with Trump
    • EU associate membership
    • launched Digital Transformation Canada, which I’m pretty excited about. As long as they don’t consolidate everything further into M365 which has been the plan the last several years.
    • launched Sovereign Cloud Services procurement project for new cloud services in Canada with national security exemptions and requirements. We spend over $120M/year on cloud, though the exact number isn’t clear because there’s a ladder of different contract agreements. We can afford to build/source our own at that budget.
    • launched Canadian Council on AI
    • Evan Solomon (I know we all hate him) has started digital partnerships with UK + Ireland after the AI summit
    • Had our first sovereign-tech-alliance meeting with Germany
    • Defence department is building a new Canadian datacenter
    • ISED announced roadmap for sovereign compute infrastructure

    Microsoft is shitting itself. This year should have been over a billion in contract renewals after the 2019 contracts close out, and now they’re putting out white papers that “Sovereign” tech is compatible with the CLOUD Act because you can still control your data (just don’t worry about the US government having access to it).

    Never in my life have I seen the government move this quickly and US companies shit themselves so hard.

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        15 hours ago

        The answer is supply side.

        I still want them to make the CMHC build houses for average families and developers can try to compete.

        Right note there’s not enough competition and developers are building up market instead of for real families.

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          14 hours ago

          I don’t care what side the demand is on. We’ve been talking about fixing the housing crisis since at least 2006. Enough already. Cut immigration, build more housing, and for crying out freaking loud pressure the provinces to implement proper vacancy control.

          No, federal NDP voters, national vacancy control at the federal level is not an option. Not even if Avi says it should be.

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          15 hours ago

          Yeah, essentially subsidized housing both for sale and for rent. Then builders will need to be competitive or justify higher costs by having actual higher quality homes.

          Right now they sell average homes for premium prices.