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W. K. Lis said:
Trudeau is doing a good job, for a minority government. Vote him in next election.
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...and he and his party will likely win again. Because dispite all their faults, the alternatives seem much worse. And a significant percentage of voters likely already know that.
 
UtakataNoAnnex said:
...and he and his party will likely win again. Because dispite all their faults, the alternatives seem much worse. And a significant percentage of voters likely already know that.
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We really only have one national party. The Cons and Bloc are essentially regional grievance parties and the NDP and Greens are at best niche. Unless the CPC and BQ can join, Trudeau will be PM until he no longer wants to be.
 
Admiral Beez said:
We really only have one national party. The Cons and Bloc are essentially regional grievance parties and the NDP and Greens are at best niche. Unless the CPC and BQ can join, Trudeau will be PM until he no longer wants to be.
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To be clear, I'm basing this more on competence over policy here. The NDP and Greens may have the better platform, but there's a lack of confidence they can pull it off, in the example. Although I agree, policy based on more exclusionary principles certainly comes with it's own baggage.

...but yeah, we could be having Liberals for life nationally for better or worse. 😸
 
I was going to try and humourously describe the attached video, but it is just insane that there are people who in their heart of hearts believe things like this. These are the people who want the government to capitulate and stop all vaccines & mandates.

This was recorded last night on Wellington, in the centre of the occupation, just in front of the Parliament buildings.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1493425461229203457
 
zang said:
I was going to try and humourously describe the attached video, but it is just insane that there are people who in their heart of hearts believe things like this. These are the people who want the government to capitulate and stop all vaccines & mandates.

This was recorded last night on Wellington, in the centre of the occupation, just in front of the Parliament buildings.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1493425461229203457
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This was incredibly painful
 
Towered said:
At least he had the dignity to do the right thing instead of waiting to be pushed out.
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Well you can call it that. I am more interested in exactly who did what and why - and then have head(s) fall accordingly after those has been ascertained. Is this just a simple leadership issue - or is it mixed in with all sorts of organizational dysfunction that we would all be better for aired out in public when the dust settles?

I want to see heads fall - but only the deserving heads fall.

AoD
 
Towered said:
My eyes instantly glaze over when some uneducated (and likely drunken) caker starts rambling on about conspiracies, and social media gives idiots like this a mainstream platform.

This is the world we live in.
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I am almost sympathetic to some of them - misguided, but a good number of them aren't truly dreadful people. I don't support budging public policy on their account - but at the same think I don't think they are the ones who deserves merciless prosecution either. What I do hold in utter contempt are the ring leaders, the grifters, the accelerationists and ethnonationalists riding and hiding behind them - and I would like to see the full force applied to those without a single shred of mercy.

AoD
 
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What I find surprising is that it took a siege and the invoking of the Emergencies Act to have a clamp down on crowd funding sources plus all the corrupt money that gets laundered here. Why was it never scrunitized nor dealt with years ago? Almost every other country knows it is basic 101 to control the flow of money and especially foreign money. What this shows is that our institutions are weak at enforcement and persecution.

A few years ago there was a report on corrupt money laundering and how it funds our economy. The most appalling part was that it’s so intertwined in the economy that going after it (if we even have the resources) will take down the economy and jobs. The banking sector is also so opaque that it refuses to cooperate with any sort of investigation that deals with corrupt money cause they make a pretty penny off of it.

What I’m getting at here and it has shown to the world, we talk a good game but have no substance what so ever. I’m willing to bet that if the US didn’t voice concern and offer assistance there wouldn’t be the urgency to invoke the Emergencies Act. It’s also sad that we can’t deal with these protestors as we’re too afraid and use the excuse of the Charter of Rights. Too bad we couldn’t hose them down with water cannons like they do in Europe and leave them to hang to dry in the cold.

My 2 cents.
 
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