If “legacy media” in this country is to the left of Poilievre that just means that Poilievre has gone off the right end. I mean, the legacy media includes such bastions of left politics as the National Post, the Globe and Mail, etc.

I see a bunch of slush just waiting to be splashed over.

In Mastodon, this is typically solved with defederation, block lists, and admins enforcing mod policies. How come this approach doesn’t work for Lemmy? Is it not decentralized enough?

Paying 1k$ a month for doctors is completely ridiculous in Canada. I’m comfortable right now but that would completely break my budget.

It is an option I guess for the rich rich, but for the vast majority that’s just not a thing that we’d consider “reasonable”, much less “cheap”.

Employer health insurance covers dental, drugs, eyes though. So people that don’t have it struggle and that’s not nothing. Which is why the government just passed some limited coverage but it’s not universal as it should be.

So you see: completely different mindset.

He’s praying on some real issues with our system, such as the chronic lack of primary preventative care for the majority of the population in places like Montreal. When it takes months to see a doctor who rushes you, the private options prevalent in the US start sounding attractive.

So let’s make sure this fool has no leg to stand on by properly funding our public healthcare system, treating our healthcare workers right, and by reducing the barriers to the recognition of foreign healthcare workers’ credentials.

You know what else used to be incredibly expensive, to the point of being more valuable than gold? Aluminum.

So cry me a river.

Only he doesn’t.

Pierre Poilievre wants to abolish the carbon tax and cut capital gains taxes but he also wants to massively increase defense spending and balance the budget. Obviously defunding the CBC doesn’t cover all of this. Is this is supposed to be Tory “common sense”?

And if not, why is Poilievre not explaining to Canadians exactly how the fuck he’s going to pay for all that.

What gets cut, buddy? Speak.

Even better, having laws that above a certain size, companies MUST have unions.

Can we get the Panier Bleue back then?

PP doesn’t get to decide that, does he?

How I wish I was in Sherbrooke now.

The economic case for infinite power is that it is infinite power, Karen.

Not everything needs to be a fucking profitable business, god damn ferengi idiots.

Ugh, grifters.

It was a shitty move when Harper did it, it is shitty when Trudeau does it. If the rules allow it, we should change the rules.

Alberta could be a renewables powerhouse, with solar and wind like nobody’s business, but nooooo we have to lick the boots of oil and gas no matter what.

She’s even betraying Alberta. Yes, because “Alberta” is not the same as “the oil and gas industry”.

The conservative oil boot-lickers in Alberta have decided that the province must suffer Dutch Disease no matter what and at the expense of everyone else.

You can still streamline the process and make it so that it’s not one size fits all. You can have bilateral agreements of credentials recognition. There is no reason for example an Italian trained doctor (anecdotal story I happen to know) would have to go back to med school to practice in Canada.

Fuck doomerism.

I find the “where are the protests” argument very disingenuous. Western countries are not bankrolling the Uyghur genocide, are not supporting it, are not invested in it and are not giving it immunity in the Security Council, as they do for Israel. So as a western citizen, what is there to protest? Protests are not rituals to dispel evil, they are a political pressure tactic.

Spot on.

This is Canada’s largest weakness: we put the bar at American stupidity, and anything marginally better gives us insufferable smugness.