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[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 34 points 2 days ago (59 children)

The corporate liberals are gutting taxes on private jets, yachts and unused housing while Mark Carney is telling struggling canadians to make sacrifices.

[–] GrindingGears@lemmy.ca 36 points 2 days ago

It's a very conservative-ish budget. The liberals are now the conservatives, and the conservatives are now the anti-christ.

[–] rozodru@pie.andmc.ca 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

oh and don't forget they also want to give $1billion to AI development over the next 5 years.

[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 1 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Yeah, that we are already benefiting enormously economically from our early investments in AI, it would be dumb not to continue, especially at a time when the US is scaring away many top international researchers.

[–] MBech@feddit.dk 8 points 1 day ago

I kept reading on here how Carney was such a smart choice, because of his work with the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England. Not like that job scream "fucking over the poor" or anything... /s

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[–] wampus@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (8 children)

Carney being a fiscal conservative / pro-free market / pro-private sector business person isn't a surprise to anyone who's paid attention to his career. That the liberals are a centrist party who's values skew left / right based on the perceived 'majority' that exists in the centre, which is the demographic they attempt to target to get elected, isn't a surprise to anyone who's paid attention to the history of the liberal party. That Canada's general sentiment is/had shifted towards the right, in part due to the perception of unequal treatment under the guise of initiatives such as DEI and equity programs, isn't a surprise to anyone who's followed social trends (at least, those who try to get a fairly 'outside of an echo chamber' feel for them).

This isn't to say I support the tax breaks being given to the rich of course. If I had my way, we'd go in a much different direction. All I'm trying to get at is that this isn't all that surprising to many, and it's likely still an outcome they viewed as preferable to PP's conservatives, and to the NDP. Hell, the NDP basically said vote liberal if it helped to stop the Cons.

I'm sure part of the hope is that the liberals will shift right far enough, that the cons won't have a viable path to full control of the government. In theory that'll open up more room for the NDP on the left. Where people who are for some reason 'shocked' by Carney's moves, will find solace.

What's more shocking to me in a way is how far to the left the Liberals had drifted, as a centrist party. That's what opened up opportunities for the cons to make such large gains, and what caused the NDP to be so thoroughly routed. Seeing cons cross the isle because the Liberals are once again more 'centrist' in their values, isn't a bad thing.

[–] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago

It's definitely something I expected to happen and still prefer over PP and the conservatives being in charge, but even though I didn't vote NDP doesn't mean I prefer this outcome over NDP being in power.

I voted liberal because my riding is largely conservative and it would be lucky to turn red and a miracle to go orange

If we had a different electoral system I would have gone 1 NDP 2 Green 3 Liberal and 4 Conservative in ranked choice.

Unfortunately we are currently stuck with first past the post leading to my riding voting blue with a narrow lead over red and hardly any voters for orange and green.

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[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 9 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

This is f-tier toxic social media rage bait.

She's says literally nothing of substance, just makes sweeping generalizations to try and get outraged for clicks.

Go read actual written journalism.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 3 points 8 hours ago

I can only listen to this presenter for a short time anyway. The vocal fry gets to me pretty quickly.

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