erathis-matt.bsky.social
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I am always interested in having more 'canned soup for my family'.
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Memory holed by Canadian journalists, they praise him for making time-killing jokes during pressers more constrained and restrictive than anything they complained about Poilievre doing during the campaign. That post-G7 press conference was a sick joke.
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How does increasing our spending and getting closer to the US stop Russia when they exert so much influence on Washinton to do their dirty work?
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Health care costs are also caused by increased privatization. Eliminate the profit motive and public-private partnerships and that will do a lot to bring down costs. Provinces actually also putting federal transfers for health care towards health care instead of covering tax cuts would also help.
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Individual Canadians could literally cease to exist and it wouldn't make a dent in the industrial carbon emissions. Canadians have changed their habits, our industries have not - they invested instead in gaming the ref.
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You do know that before the 1980s (Reaganomics), the middle and working classes paid less taxes as a % of their income and the wealthy paid far, far, FAR more than they do now. Shifting the burden unable to afford it was a deliberate choice, and one that can be reversed.
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So fucking over the youngest people and our future on this planet is the solution?
We are fucked because we have become a nation that worships millionaires instead of helping one another. Reaganomics has lobotomized us all.
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a d 6. "Consensus" is often a paid column in National Post that is republished in all their papers and is then falsely considered to be "consensus".
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4. Negotiations with First Nations and local land owners is often done in exceptionally bad faith, knowing the project can be forced through by application of violence.
5. Proposing companies often have long histories of breaking promises.
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It "takes too long" because:
1. Evaluations take time.
2. The parties involved exercise all their legal rights to appeal decisions - both those whose lands will be affected AND the company proposing the project.
3. Recommendations are appealed rather than incorporated.
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Unless you have a fast and easy way to reverse climate change, pollution, and bring back extinct species. You can't just say 'we can repeal it if it turns out to be a mistake.' Go play God with another planet.
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But I feel this is pointless, when you said if we elected Pierre, we would have gotten the same bill tabled, and apparently you would support it then too. This isn't a partisan thing, the bill is horrible law. We need rights and enviro protections to be protected, not thrown out when inconvenient.
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You are arguing that because unions aren't banned, the government isn't interfering in contract talks by legislating strikers back to work. They have the right to say no, hold out for a better deal.
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Except the bill says if Carney declares it in the national interest, they don't get a say, and lose any leverage they would have to get a good deal.
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The money for clean drinking water is owed to them because we shoved them off the land we put cities on. The lack of drinking water was because we broke that promise and half-assed that.
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Not an easy call. The system of law was set up to prevent this fash shit but laws only work when people enforce them.But they are here now. We handled their kind before. There was a reason it took almost 100yrs to resurface after '45.
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Oh, no, not tearing them up, just n9t honoring them, totally different!
Note: treaties also includes our commitments internationally to deal with Ind8genous People (UNDRP), fight climate change/emissions, and not actively make the world worse.
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When
And defenders take matters in to their own hands, just send in the mounties,just like the dippers in BC. Nothing is more Canadian!
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We went through this with Harper using Chretien-era laws. And for all the promises to roll back Harper's laws in 2015, the Liberals didn't do any of it, even with 10 years in power.
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We can and do survive without effectively tearing up treaties. Despite going on for years about a demand for new pipelines, not one partner has stood up to apply for any. Smith is begging CAPP to find one now that her bluff has been called.
If C5 is abused, the damage is already done.
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No lies, if he was ever ready to nuke that bridge,he should announce his last FR product would be a 'tell-all' lore book about the sexuality of the Realms. No mechanics, just world building, frame it as a real world grad student asked El if they could do a Kinsey Report of Toril.
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We needed Harper wearing a PaulMartin mask and suit?
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Good idea, but only white males will be alive to make that phone call, and they'd be black bagged or dead before anyone was dispatched.
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Please tell me this is a joke, not an actual opinion in 2025.
We saw how "we trust him" led to laws passed by Obama were then abused when he left office. And Carney is no Obama, he's more like Harper wearing a Paul Martin Jr. mask.
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Canada is up against a country that has said it's going to wreck our economy so we no choice but to join them. We're already losing jobs and we don't have the luxury to do things slowly. Rather than look at the "what if?" worst case uses of C-5, I'm going to assume the best until proven otherwise.
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The last election was effectively De Santis vs George Bush, Sr.
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Yep, looks like we are the baddies.
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Canada has failed its last opportunity to chart a moral course in this defining moment in human history. Condemning the victim of Israeli aggression and lauding disingenuous US ‘diplomacy’ is simply pathetic.
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"Hedge every bet, lick every boot, make every appeal
Prostrate yourself to the killing machine to spare yourself from its wheels
Better them than me rolls so seductively off your tongue
Your reckoning has begun" - Propagandhi, At Peace
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And none of them are putting any skin in the game - none of their kids or cousins are in active duty.
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Loser won't admit Canada committed a genocide, and said it was uncalled for to compare the Palestinian cleansing of Gaza to the 'solution' in WWII, but drops the g-word the moment its Iran.
Shits like him are why the word loses all meaning.
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I'd make it 100% vs 80% (plus 120% that we will say we aren't helping, while letting the IDF recruit Canadians and the IDF receiving a lot of materiel).
The last election was effectively De Santis (CPC) vs Bush I (LPC)