Especially when people hear how Trump’s cronies are fighting wokeism in the government by suspending the welfare state. People who weren’t paying attention are quickly going to get up to date on the sham it all is/was. Meanwhile PP keeps using the same words.
Keep us updated as you get more working.
Didn’t even notice. Today’s been busier at work. :D
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I think if Layton had ran in the subsequent elections instead of Mulcair and Jagmeet, he’d have made government instead of Trudeau.
I’m with you on all these points and concerns. I’m just reading the tea leaves and hoping it won’t be another austerity shit show. There are positive signs but there are also negative signs (he said “we can’t redistribute what we don’t have”). We won’t know which ones are slogans and which ones are real policy beliefs until he says more or becomes a PM. In the end, it seems like Freeland and PP are worse and Jagmeet is unelectable judging by the polls.
In my riding the NDP candidate takes about 10% every election and they’re now polling at 5%. So for me the choice is even simpler. If the race in your riding is CPC/NDP then perhaps yours is simple too. ☺️
Wait, but they’re going to make more loonies on the sale because of the same currency differential.
Yeah. I mean, Canada does have bright future under non-neolib governance. We have a lot of territory that won’t be devastated by climate change (some will). More natural resources than we could possibly use. The culture to generally tolerate imported labour when the general material conditions are decent. If he’s really worried about climate change, and by all accounts it seems he is, he might be thinking about Canada’s future as his own in a long term climate sanctuary context. I would if I were running for a PM.
This more or less validates where I am on him. It seems you’ve parsed most of the same info as me and come to similar conclusions. I’m cautiously optimistic. There’s lots of important implementation details that could make him better or worse. For example he’s been concerned with wealth inequality before it was cool, however it matters how you address that. You could make things better for corpos and hoping they’ll increase wages, which some have done in the past. You could strengthen labour rights to increase union density and therefore wages. One of those does not work. :D On one hand concrete policy proposals could shed light. On the other, it doesn’t matter because Freeland is worse and she has lesser chance to prevent the worst case scenario. 😂
Also yes. 😂
Have you seen any actual policy proposals? Did you tease out anything about attitude towards labour?
Yeah. I don’t know how you could read his actions as anything but “having something to hide.”
This guy can’t be a serious public servant.
No bombshells… sigh.
Time to remove our upvotes. 😂
It’s at 666 for me.
Probably a coincidence and/or got some scoop from Meta specifically.
It’s almost as if Stiles is trying to actually win. 🤔
Any word from O’Brien on the latest events?