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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • Steel too, we produce a lot of specialty products used for automotive and construction, as well as a lot of tin plate used in food packaging and appliances. They produce material stateside of course but they do historically buy an awful lot from us.

    When I worked in steel during the last tariffs, that company ended up eating them, with favourable exchange (see weak dollar) and tariffs jacking the spot prices they still managed record profits.


  • First off, on reading, yeah sorry. I meant no offense, was the headline on the article I chose and I said, it really bothers me how disengaged Canadians are from our political system to the detriment of us all.

    To be pedantic, Arthur Meighen was a Tory PM appointed after Borden resigned, and again after the Byng-King affair. More recently, Kim Campbell was appointed after the resignation of Mulroney

    I do agree with you wrt our system needing changing, I’m vehemently in favour of literally anything but fptp but prefer something like stv. Personally, I’d also be in favour of rescinding the mandatory election dates put in place in what, 2007-2008 and really would like to return to the per-vote subsidies (just get money out of politics period).



  • Our system is fundamentally different than the presidential republic that the yanks have, you do not vote for the PM, you vote for your rep. The PM is the person with confidence of the house, which often is the plurality party leader, but there’s no requirement of this at all, there’s history of the PM not even being an MP in Canada, two of them were senators who took office after the PM died.

    Your MP is your voice, tell them to vote non confidence if you truly feel that an election should be called, I feel fairly safe to say however that once parliament resumes we’re going to see that happen anyhow and the writ dropped shortly thereafter or the PM asking to GC to dissolve parliament.



  • I’ve always felt a bit off about the current NDP leadership, overtly negative blamey messaging, conflating federal and provincial responsibilities. The party as of 2021 was keeping all of the campaign reimbursements instead of that going to the candidates. They seem to have no local presence, Tories and Liberals have door knocked and sent out information multiple times in the last year, I don’t even know who my federal NDP candidate is locally. Provincially, our NDP person is super active and actually responds to me when I contact them so it’s not just an NDP thing.

    I really disliked that they supported bill s-210 that’s the age verification bill, historically the NDP seemed to be pro privacy, disappointed at that apparent departure.