Last time I checked, Pierre Poilievre never came out in our election. As a matter of fact, him, or one of his lieutenants, told every one of his members, don’t you dare go out and help the PCs. Isn’t that ironic?" said Ford.
Can’t say I’m surprised. AFAIK, Ontario’s party and the Federal party is ALMOST always elected the opposite. Doug won provincially before the federal election, with bad tidings for the party federally.
Interesting. There must be some serious differences between there and here (Canada). I have no doubt companies fail here too, but even for companies that have soon gone out of business, they always finish their jobs.
We often only hire companies who can show past experience on similar sized projects, our bonds cover the full contract amount (every municipality around here has that requirement), and the contracts are generally pretty stringent on things like working days with severe liquidated damages for projects that go over the deadline (I’ve seen $500/day up to $3,000/day).
Road projects fall through an average of two times
Do you have a source for this? I work in consulting and have never had a construction project fall through. Part of the mandatory bidding process is the contractor securing a bond against the value of the work, so that if they walk away, the Municipality can claim against the cost of the bond to complete the works.
NGL, you’re fighting the drivers for this, just in a different medium. You think the government is just doing shit for kicks and giggles? Nah, they don’t put in bike lanes because too many residents complain when they lose their parking lanes to bike lanes, or the road gets widened solely to add a bike lane.
Sure there are some cases where the govt is making a bad decision, but don’t think that you don’t need to argue with those same people, just in a Public Information Session instead of on the road.
she said before asking for a $1,750 donation to the “Recount the Fight” fund.
Lmfao they really can’t stop with their “verb the noun” slogans, can they??
Lol this is ridiculous.
To be clear, if you can’t provide me sources from non-russian news, I’m not going to continue to engage.
least 10000 killed through shelling and other nazi operations Again, source. This is just saying “trust me bro, it’s happening everywhere.”
Odessa massacre. 2014 protests that non-american news agencies agree were escalated by pro-russian protestors?
Russia’s terms for peace are about the same as to have not started the war.
Nice of you to avoid mentioning one of the key points for disagreement - “Ukraine must … withdraw all of its troops from the entirety of the territory of four Ukrainian regions claimed and mostly controlled by Russia.”.
Ceding territory is the largest current sticking point for any peace agreement, and is in line with what I said above.
War on Russia was 100% provoked by US puppeted Ukraine
Just so that I’m clear, you’re arguing that the wholesale invasion and slaughter of Ukrainians is the US’s fault, not the Russian invaders?
Beyond that, I’d love to see any proof you have that of US coup/puppeting Ukraine. The only thing I’ve ever seen in " support" of this is that dumb ass interview with a state senator that’s been edited to hell and back to make it sound like it was an official coup.
I’m no history buff, but arguing “they made me” during an invasion is always the argument of the aggressor. US vs Middle east for WMD was the same bullshit. China vs Taiwan is heading in the same direction. China used the same excuse during hong Kong protests. Israel is using the same excuse now for Palestinians.
implemented apartheid laws and ethnic cleansing against Russian population that forced secessionist/autonomy movement.
Uuuh, gonna need some kind of proof on this one boss. AFAIK there’s been 0 proof of any kind of ethnic cleansing. Source
I don’t disagree that the US has been meddling in international affairs for a looooong time.
But I have yet to speak to any Ukrainians who disagree with the basic core facts that the war was started by Russian aggression and a desire for USSR levels of territory, and we’ve got nearly a dozen families sponsored over here in my community. Canada has historically had the highest level of Ukrainians outside of Ukraine, and its bizzare that you’re trying to argue that Russia is the GOOD guy here. There is ample proof of their war crimes.
Bonus points if you can give me any examples of war where the side that is the defender was the bad guy/where aggression in order to violently control the political scene was viewed as a good thing. People routinely condemn the US for the very thing you’re claiming Russia is doing.
negligible or can be overcome with training
I agree on a highscool/grade school level, but not at any extreme competitive level. There’s a reason most of the world records for athletics are held by men.
Testosterone doesn’t make all men better than all women, but if you take two equally trained+talented people for most athletic events, the men outperform the women.
Curious what you mean by automated road building. The only ‘advancement’ I’ve heard of in that regard is the John Deere-partnership, but the actual use case for that is extremely narrow, and the costs of the equipment so severely outweigh the benefits of reduced staffing that its not economically feasible.
I, personally, have a hard time believing that producers and corporations aren’t going to increase their prices to make up for this difference. Or take half of the price difference so they can say, ‘look, its cheaper now!’.
AFAIK, the carbon tax was the foremost method from an economic pressure standpoint, to mitigate our carbon emissions. None of the other methods are as cheap to implement nor as economically evenhanded. Typically, higher income individuals emit more carbon, and thus are taxed more, meaning poorer individuals can actually make money off the carbon tax. That obviously doesn’t account for things like inabilities to switch away from propane/gas furnaces, etc, but I don’t know of another method that is as fair.
who stole most of Pierres platform
Dumb-ass argument/complaint. If its what people want, then its not a 0 sum game. Why the hell are the libs (or any party) not allowed to agree on something that the other parties proposed and the Canadian public want? Libs have ‘stolen’ the NDP platform for years. As someone who prefers NDP to lib, this is a GOOD thing, because it means when theyre elected, they can actually implement it (in theory). That being said, I don’t like ANY of those policies, and didn’t vote lib.
If they have the same platform/policies, but Carney was still elected that tells you how little people like or believe in Pierre. Honestly, Pierre lost the election by failing to leap into defense of Canada. I watched too many clips of him wiffle-waffling or blaming Liberals for the trade war, and that’s not something that inspires trust in leadership.
Yeah - as an example. FIL works white collar job in a company with plants in 3 Ontario cities and 1 in Michigan doing CNC milling for huge parts (like oilsands trucks size). His company is unionized on the Caanda factories, and ununionized on the US side. They bought new CNC equipment, and it went to the US factory BECAUSE they can push employees more there. The union forces things like breaks into the schedule regardless of project status while the workers are forced to work through breaks on the US side regularly, or stay after hours to finish.
Thus the US production is better (and they get the equipment to bolster it further), but its directly at the cost of labour rights that the unions have fought for here.
Pesky things like labour laws and workers rights, as well as stronger unions, tend to get in the way of important metrics like GDP/hr.
Glad they look at just non-canadian numbers here. I will, once again, point out the stupidly large amount of money Canadians spend on tourism in the states -
In any practical sense (ie with the base assumption there is something to be gained), it doesn’t make sense to celebrate Canada electing liberal over cons. Carney has been outspoken from the start, which is largely what made the polls swing SO heavily! He was unequivocal that Canada was not going to bend over for the US, while PP avoided and danced around the question. Had PP rallied behind his “Canada First” slogan and pushed hard against the US as soon as trump began talking, I’m afraid it wouldn’t have been such a clear Liberal win.
So beyond being egotistical and happy he can cause such changes in foreign patterns, I don’t see how libs benefit him over cons.
Their proposed plans for actually addressing it tend to be, in my estimation, relatively incoherent, ranging from weak to naive to implausible.
This was the first part I felt strongly that I disagreed with. Did you read the platforms the parties prepared? Liberals was lackluster with few concrete numbers or stats. I couldn’t even find a solid platform on the NDPs website, just links to their various proposed initiatives, though at least they provided a costed estimate for their plans, unlike the other two main ones. The conservative ‘platform’ was a ridiculous mix of ‘blank the blank’ slogans and attacks against the liberals with very very few ideas and even fewer concrete steps for how to achieve it.
The green platform was the only one I read that had concrete numbers (ie proposed wealth tax of X% for Xmillion, y% for Ymillion, etc) and explained their goals without restorting to attack ads. I get its probably not something 90% of voters look at, but fuck people, come on. Their posted platform should be the thing they are held to and asked about, and the less people look at them, the easier it is for parties to avoid posting them or posting bland, non-concrete things they can then weasel out of later.
Ontario has been extremely stingy on paying out their share of the fees (Program is part funded by federal, rest by provincial), leading to most daycare centres still not registering for the full reduction to $10/day. But most are still reducing their prices from what they were at previously.
Are you forgetting the “police stations” China established here recently? Those are not actions of a foreign government respecting our sovereignity or of a government defending itself against the US’s attacks. That is the action of a foreign power intent on ignoring our borders and laws to enforce their own ideologies.
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