Our biggest concern should be the foreign interference report. Once we have that out of the way, I'm happy to go to an election. It is important to know the degree to which our democracy has been compromised before moving ahead, especially now that the Zuck has decided to open the sewer pipes on Meta.
I'm actually relieved we can wait until the dust settles a bit in the USA, after the crazy orange man has had to face the damage done by his initial directives, and see what our political leaders have to say about it before casting my vote.
Pierre is going to have his work cut out when he eventually has to deal with Trump and his administration later this year. Trudeau has done much to damage the progressive movement and the Liberal party with his antics.
The statement during his resignation was galling. He knew it would be clipped & shared globally without the context of HIM choosing FPTP when a consensus of the parties didn’t pick the version of proportional representation he liked (that incidentally favoured the Liberals). Saying he couldn’t get a consensus to change the system when he rejected the consensus reached on HOW to change the system was enraging. But now it will fall in history books here & globally that Trudeau tried to get PR but the mean other parties (and his own party reps) on the committee wouldn’t agree to it. Credit to him on knowing how to solidify a pretty story of him the progressive saviour in resignation not “dude plummeted in polls but was too narcissistic to leave until literally forced to so late that it screws the country & could lead to the end of the Liberal Party of Canada” . He is a comms master I’ll give him that (though watching UK & American TikToks clipping this part of the speech continues to raise my blood pressure to alarming levels”
It was always like this with the party. It’s as unsurprising as it is infuriating.
Their only loyalty has been to power and the status quo. It’s what the professional managerial class does, they serve the interests of the bosses and keep the workers placated so they don’t make their jobs hard.
When viewed through this lens, the actions of the Liberal party are entirely predictable.
I agree that Justin should have gone down with his sinking ship. The next Liberal leader will be a Prime Minister stuck with a party facing decimation, and then have to rebuild. Did he do this to screw over the Liberal party that has rejected him? He has a hell of an ego.
So does Canada hate the Liberals because of the state Canada is in or because Trudeau stayed on even though he was hated? I'm not joking when I ask this.
I don't hate the Libs. JT and the Libs brought us out of Covid in much better shape than most countries. However, things like buying the Transnational pipeline, representing a huge transfer of tax dollars to private pockets and a significant transfer of risk and responsibility from those corporations to the Canadian people, reneging on his promise of electoral change (compounded by staunch support of the STV, the least progressive option) when 80% of Canadians wanted it, and actively using his government as a strike-breaking tool on multiple occasions, tells me whose interests he serves. He's just a kinder, gentler Conservative. Maybe.
This Canadian at least hates the Liberals because of the state Canada is in.
They have had a decade to transform this Country into one that is prepared to face the upcoming crises.
Instead they just sat there tinkering with means tested programs and let every single other crisis get worse.
By now we should have:
1. Universal dental/pharmacare
2. Something other than first past the post elections
3. Nationalized energy sector and associated sovereign wealth fund like Norway
4. A surplus of definancialized housing
5. Reasonable taxes for the wealthy and corporations
Imagine how healthy and strong we would be as a nation if we decided not to be a client state to US corporate interests. Instead, we’ve just been served up for exploitation by the most voracious entities on the planet.
I agree with everything you said. We should have all these things. The flaw lies in expecting an establishment party to have the will bring them about.
The Libs and Cons are both far too beholden to the moneyed interests in Canada that pay for their campaigns, namely the corporations and the parasitic billionaire class that now infests every nation, to be counted on to make those changes.
The latter, in the incarnation of King Muskrat, has recently shown that simple infestation and behind-the-scenes manipulation isn't enough, they need overt control over every country in the world.
Elon is the manifestation of a disease that runs through most, if not all, of the ultra rich.
Our biggest concern should be the foreign interference report. Once we have that out of the way, I'm happy to go to an election. It is important to know the degree to which our democracy has been compromised before moving ahead, especially now that the Zuck has decided to open the sewer pipes on Meta.
I'm actually relieved we can wait until the dust settles a bit in the USA, after the crazy orange man has had to face the damage done by his initial directives, and see what our political leaders have to say about it before casting my vote.
This hatchet job didn't age well.
Pierre is going to have his work cut out when he eventually has to deal with Trump and his administration later this year. Trudeau has done much to damage the progressive movement and the Liberal party with his antics.
The statement during his resignation was galling. He knew it would be clipped & shared globally without the context of HIM choosing FPTP when a consensus of the parties didn’t pick the version of proportional representation he liked (that incidentally favoured the Liberals). Saying he couldn’t get a consensus to change the system when he rejected the consensus reached on HOW to change the system was enraging. But now it will fall in history books here & globally that Trudeau tried to get PR but the mean other parties (and his own party reps) on the committee wouldn’t agree to it. Credit to him on knowing how to solidify a pretty story of him the progressive saviour in resignation not “dude plummeted in polls but was too narcissistic to leave until literally forced to so late that it screws the country & could lead to the end of the Liberal Party of Canada” . He is a comms master I’ll give him that (though watching UK & American TikToks clipping this part of the speech continues to raise my blood pressure to alarming levels”
It was always like this with the party. It’s as unsurprising as it is infuriating.
Their only loyalty has been to power and the status quo. It’s what the professional managerial class does, they serve the interests of the bosses and keep the workers placated so they don’t make their jobs hard.
When viewed through this lens, the actions of the Liberal party are entirely predictable.
I agree that Justin should have gone down with his sinking ship. The next Liberal leader will be a Prime Minister stuck with a party facing decimation, and then have to rebuild. Did he do this to screw over the Liberal party that has rejected him? He has a hell of an ego.
So does Canada hate the Liberals because of the state Canada is in or because Trudeau stayed on even though he was hated? I'm not joking when I ask this.
I don't hate the Libs. JT and the Libs brought us out of Covid in much better shape than most countries. However, things like buying the Transnational pipeline, representing a huge transfer of tax dollars to private pockets and a significant transfer of risk and responsibility from those corporations to the Canadian people, reneging on his promise of electoral change (compounded by staunch support of the STV, the least progressive option) when 80% of Canadians wanted it, and actively using his government as a strike-breaking tool on multiple occasions, tells me whose interests he serves. He's just a kinder, gentler Conservative. Maybe.
This Canadian at least hates the Liberals because of the state Canada is in.
They have had a decade to transform this Country into one that is prepared to face the upcoming crises.
Instead they just sat there tinkering with means tested programs and let every single other crisis get worse.
By now we should have:
1. Universal dental/pharmacare
2. Something other than first past the post elections
3. Nationalized energy sector and associated sovereign wealth fund like Norway
4. A surplus of definancialized housing
5. Reasonable taxes for the wealthy and corporations
Imagine how healthy and strong we would be as a nation if we decided not to be a client state to US corporate interests. Instead, we’ve just been served up for exploitation by the most voracious entities on the planet.
I agree with everything you said. We should have all these things. The flaw lies in expecting an establishment party to have the will bring them about.
The Libs and Cons are both far too beholden to the moneyed interests in Canada that pay for their campaigns, namely the corporations and the parasitic billionaire class that now infests every nation, to be counted on to make those changes.
The latter, in the incarnation of King Muskrat, has recently shown that simple infestation and behind-the-scenes manipulation isn't enough, they need overt control over every country in the world.
Elon is the manifestation of a disease that runs through most, if not all, of the ultra rich.