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I mean... the first nations have made it crystal clear that there will not be tankers on BC's North Coast.
Unless this is some calculated move to get Danielle to stfu in the short term (with no real intent to follow through) I think this will blow up in Carneys face in the long term.
Neoliberals will literally kill us all to enrich shareholders.
For sure. Unless we dismantle it.
This is the economic centrism we voted for. We all knew Carney was going to do this under the guise of national economic protections against the shifting global alliances as of late. That's what we wanted. Right?
I'm not sure that people voted for Carney as much as they were backed into a corner and forced to vote for him as a vote against Poilievre.
There's still the NDP.
Until we can get rid of fptp there isn't much hope
Actually, there kind of isn't? They lost their party status in the last election because Liberals don't understand how strategic voting works, and the NDP lost too many seats to Conservatives in the process.
If the threat of losing the election was to the Liberals then yes. But until we ditch fptp we're stuck with a two party system pretending to be a multi-party system.
Yep, and normally I'd say you gotta just be the change and vote for a losing party to build support.
But with what's happening in the abyss that is the States right now, taking a step backward in order to move forward feels much more dangerous than ever before.
We need electoral reform, but asking for it, and being promised it, sure hasn't been working.
Except the previous two elections had the NDP holding the balance of power?
Right??
Not to mention that by the numbers we are still in that position. It's just the Liberals chose a party leader who appears to have a specific hostility towards the NDP and would rather court the CPC for votes.
If you were backed into a corner and forced to vote for someone in the recent election, CBC news would like to hear from you.
Which alternative should I have chosen: Voting for who I want and letting Cons win, or not voting at all and letting Cons win.
Well it's up to you, but personally I tend to vote for the local candidate I'd prefer to win.
I wish I could do that, but it's not worth the risk when my local guy wins and we lose massively at a federal level, so local guy can't really do much of anything at all.
Yes definitely why Canada voted for him /s
Funny. During the election when I pointed out Carney was a conservative I was told to read his marketing material, sorry I mean book, Values which practically painted him as a social democrat.
Told you so. (To this community)
But y'all told me to shut up. That Carney was going to save us.
He probably did. What he’s saving us for now… that’s another thing.
So theres this guy, Carney, he's the current prime minister of Canada which is kind of like a president, and theres this other guy, Guilbeault, pronounced kind of french as in you skip all the letters and just say Gil Bo, he's been serving positions since the Trudeau administration that came before, and he is mad because Carney and Crew made a deal to make a big giant oil pipeline and Builbeault doesn't want us to destroy the planet so he's real mad about it and leaving his position in the PM's Cabinet.
“I chose to enter politics to champion the fight against climate change and the protection of the environment,” Guilbeault wrote in a lengthy statement on social media.
Sooo...just fuck BC again, then?
Guy quits over a pipeline that will never happen.
Kinda maybe. He can't stay and answer the questions about his env cred with "the pipeline won't happen." That would undermine the PM's charade. So ether he loses that cred, or he quits to preserve it.
I'd argue his enviro cred was already lost when he was part of the previous government who purchased/completed the TMX. He was onboard with something that actually happened, but somehow not onboard with something that is still in pre-proposal stages.
Weird.
Oh yeah, I had forgotten he was a part of that.
