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.
LPC won because most people wanted to keep whiney christian-nationalist bigots out of the office. Not because we wanted to see federal government destroy any and all workers’ rights. Not to see more power and free money handed to billionaires and corporations.
Carney won’t be able to use anti-american scare tactics to get his way forever. It’s great that Pierre PP is not our Prime Minister, but WTF is LPC doing? Do they want to see maple-MAGA win the next election?
Yes of course they do. It’s important (to them) that we alternate exclusively between right-wingers in red and right-wingers in blue. If they allow socialists into power even once, the Overton window will be dragged to the left and their owners can’t allow that.
Socialists/Leftists/NDP/Greens in this country don’t care about the workers either. They live in their own silly ideological bubble, detached from the ground realities of the working poor.
Who represents the working poor?
No, and that’s why the NDP shouldn’t have elected Avi Lewis. Between the two of them, I vote Carney. Now, replace him with Stiles and we talk.
Couldn’t agree more. I hope Ontario stops crying about Bob Rae and give that lady a shot at governing.
She’s got a better shot provincially than federally, which sucks because we need her federally. People keep mocking Pierre for losing his riding but Avi can’t even win one.
I didn’t know Avi ran in a riding election!
He ran in two general elections, came in third for both. In two different ridings, I’ll add. 2021 and 2025.
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.
Now if they could just fix housing we’d be in business.
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.
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.
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.
There’s a lot of work ahead of us.
