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What is with these LPC candidates from China’s diaspora in Canada and their links to the PRC?

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Liberal candidate accepted invitation from China to celebrate People’s Liberation Army event

Peter Yuen, who is running in a Greater Toronto Area riding, joined a group of about 70 Chinese Canadians for the Tiananmen Square celebration in 2015
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Paywall free: https://archive.is/8up2N

I’m an immigrant from the UK. I have never initiated or maintained any connections with fellow Brits in Canada. I wouldn’t even know how to find them. Nor has it ever occurred to me to seek any involvement in UK politics or the UK embassy/high commission in Canada. If you’re a federal candidate your loyalty and interest should be to Canada. Full stop.

In a past life I worked for Scarborough Rouge-River MP Derek Lee. He was a white guy with Scottish routes, but the Chinese community voted for him by name. Maybe that’s the best LPC strategy for Scarborough and Markham, run candidates who would appeal to Chinese voters, but that have no Chinese cultural background whatsoever.
 
Northern Light said:
Overall, I find the theory plausible, but not provable between now and the election date.

It seems like something the Carney campaign would be pleased to see out there..........since it makes him look smart, well connected etc.

Of course..........a PM, never mind a caretaker one, is not supposed to be directing B of C reserve currency strategies.............but if one were ever likely to, a former BoC governor seem as likely a candidate as any.
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Stuff like this, Carney can brag about.

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U.K. agency keen to back investments in Canadian nuclear power - The Logic

Britain's export credit agency has set up shop in Canada and is eyeing ‘clean growth’ sectors.
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Liberal Leader Mark Carney, in his capacity as prime minister, spoke on Sunday with his British counterpart, Keir Starmer. Readouts from both their offices noted they spoke of the need to enhance trading relationships with allies.
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Johnny Au said:
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I work in a blue collar environment. I regularly talk to young men who would probably fit into these categories.

A lot of young men are frustrated about their lack of prospects for the future. Them lashing out at the cultural "woke-ism" is a symptom of their frustration. If most of these guys had a home, a good paying job, you probably wouldn't hear them as much. They spend too much time online cause they can't find work and it's messing with their brains. With no chance of ever owning a home, having a good paying job, or having a loving wife & kids, a young man will feel as if he has nothing to lose. At that point, there's no telling how far he'll radicalize

The problem with influencers like the Tate brothers, Aiden Ross, and probably Joe Rogan to a degree, isn't that they promote masculinity. It's that they promote narcissism.

Society needs a "healthier" masculinity that encourages young men to be strong so as to protect the more vulnerable, and live by a code of honour. While at the same time respecting the more "unorthodox" life choices made by people who choose not to live the more "traditional" life.

A lot of my younger coworkers nowadays are struggling with alcohol and sports betting. Sports betting has really taken a hold of young men since the provincial government legalised it. I have coworkers gambling away entire pay-cheques over a single Leafs or Raptors game. They then show up to work the following day, sleep deprived and miserable, ranting about how the world is all BS!

My point is, if the Liberals win the upcoming election then they really need to make an effort to reach out to these young men and make them feel like they're a part of this grand vision to turn the country around and usher in the clean energy revolution. A lot of these young men will work in the trades and be responsible for building so many things in this country. Liberals also have to get serious about building more homes and making housing affordable. If Liberals win this coming election, yet still can't deliver homes for young people, then they probably won't win the following election.
 
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It is. Not a good look. Ranting at the bar …. METH! Here’s a fun rebuttal which pretty accurately sums up the creep factor. https://bsky.app/profile/clareblackwood.bsky.social/post/3lmnf6pwrec2r
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He's hopped up on the Bupgoo
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Bojaxs said:
My point is, if the Liberals win the upcoming election then they really need to make an effort to reach out to these young men and make them feel like they're a part of this grand vision to turn the country around and usher in the clean energy revolution. A lot of these young men will work in the trades and be responsible for building so many things in this country. Liberals also have to get serious about building more homes and making housing affordable. If Liberals win this coming election, yet still can't deliver homes for young people, then they probably won't win the following election.
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I agree they need to accept them like they would accept everyone else, but they can't be accepting or holding to their beliefs though

...as I am sure that we would want good government that makes their decisions on a reality and evidence based understanding of things. And not that of bigoted assumptions and stereotypes, whether they come from young, middling or old.
 
Bojaxs said:
I work in a blue collar environment. I regularly talk to young men who would probably fit into these categories.

A lot of young men are frustrated about their lack of prospects for the future. Them lashing out at the cultural "woke-ism" is a symptom of their frustration. If most of these guys had a home, a good paying job, you probably wouldn't hear them as much. They spend too much time online cause they can't find work and it's messing with their brains. With no chance of ever owning a home, having a good paying job, or having a loving wife & kids, a young man will feel as if he has nothing to lose. At that point, there's no telling how far he'll radicalize

The problem with influencers like the Tate brothers, Aiden Ross, and probably Joe Rogan to a degree, isn't that they promote masculinity. It's that they promote narcissism.

Society needs a "healthier" masculinity that encourages young men to be strong so as to protect the more vulnerable, and live by a code of honour. While at the same time respecting the more "unorthodox" life choices made by people who choose not to live the more "traditional" life.

A lot of my younger coworkers nowadays are struggling with alcohol and sports betting. Sports betting has really taken a hold of young men since the provincial government legalised it. I have coworkers gambling away entire pay-cheques over a single Leafs or Raptors game. They then show up to work the following day, sleep deprived and miserable, ranting about how the world is all BS!

My point is, if the Liberals win the upcoming election then they really need to make an effort to reach out to these young men and make them feel like they're a part of this grand vision to turn the country around and usher in the clean energy revolution. A lot of these young men will work in the trades and be responsible for building so many things in this country. Liberals also have to get serious about building more homes and making housing affordable. If Liberals win this coming election, yet still can't deliver homes for young people, then they probably won't win the following election.
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And the funny thing about these young men: I don't know if they've *ever* known a world that wasn't about so-called "narcissism". That is, they grew up in a coddled, entropic kidsphere where there was no meaningful, constructive intersection with the "grownup world" whatsoever--and by "grownup world", I don't mean the Tate/Rogan universe of suspended juvenilia. They grew up in a junky void; because a junky void is today's universal norm, especially among "feisty young men". They've *always* been fed junk food because, well, respect for kids, kids will be kids, kids like junk food, and they never got to know any better. They're empty.

And compounding the "never got to know any better": more often than not, they're likely fundamentally illiterate or post-literate, because they see education as "girlie or gay stuff". Thus the influencers and their Youtubes resonate with them the way medieval stained glass once did among the illiterate peasants...
 
picard102 said:
Do you have a particular issue with celebrating the defeat of the Axis powers in WW2?
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Wow, that's quite a take. Perhaps our public officials should be in the VIP box during Red Square parades. If nothing else, his accepting a consideration from a foreign government as a senior police officer without command or Board approval could (should?) have been considered a Code of Conduct violation at the time.

Understand the concept and goals of soft power by foreign governments.
 
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That’s because young men are lost, underemployed, sitting in their parent’s basements gaming and vaping, and seeking something or someone to blame - making them ripe for populism. Meanwhile their sisters are rocking it in university and careers in the modern economy.

My Dad (born in 1948) had a wife, three kids, moved to Canada (1976), had a career in ad sales and a house before he was 28. Myself, born in 1971, graduated university in 1995, started career in export sales, married and bought first house at 28, with both kids born by my 31st birthday. Certainly housing costs have contributed to many adult children’s failures to launch, but Canada’s daughters seem to figure it out. Where are Canada’s 21-25 yo men?
 
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That’s because young men are lost, underemployed, sitting in their parent’s basements gaming and vaping, and seeking something or someone to blame - making them ripe for populism. Meanwhile their sisters are rocking it in university and careers in the modern economy.

My Dad (born in 1948) had a wife, three kids, moved to Canada (1976), had a career in ad sales and a house before he was 28 Myself, born in 1971, graduated university in 1995, started career in export sales, married and bought first house at 28, with both kids born by my 31st birthday. Certainly housing costs have contributed to many adult children’s failures to launch, but Canada’s daughters seem to figure it out. Where are Canada’s 21-25 yo men?
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Maybe there's something to be said for the fact that all too often, all the parents really have to offer is that basement for the young men to do their gaming and vaping in.

Also, re "failures to launch": let's keep in mind that you're speaking from a "breeder's perspective"--and the reason I'm pointing this out is that already, by *your* generation, that rite of passage of marriage/children et al was less of a "universal" than it once was. And that was due to changing sociology, and not merely that which generated an *underclass*--indeed, those with an education or career or some cultural grounding were likelier to not put the traditional "family-making" ritual front and centre, or were more "measured" in how they did so. I mean, I think of myself back in the 80s subliminally viewing a lot of my peers who married and reproduced early as curiously "backward"--something which people who didn't know any better did. And the fact that there were those of *my* generation holding that "people who didn't know any better" view re the breeder class might have wound up being a self-fulfilling prophecy--so by extension, the parents not knowing any better might explain the young men turning out the way they do.

Also take note of the link's reference to algorithms bearing part of the blame--in a funny way, you can *also* blame algorithms for encouraging young women to "strive higher".

And re the gender gap: the whole cool vs uncool factor, as delineated here...

https://celestemdavis.substack.com/...3AvCBvl6mwSrzW6Dq1_aem_wVtWLKXV0kYA7nSgUjL0ew
 
The difficult thing for young men is that with catastrophically expensive housing, to have a hope of being able to buy a home requires more than just a decent job but good financial management and not to waste money on drinking, cars, gambling, eating out/doordash etc. It feels like financial education has only gotten worse.
 
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