This one definitely hurts, happy to see conservatives cross the floor, but would be just as happy if they went NDP

Honestly, I assume they all did…

But that doesn’t mean that I think they were meaningful crimes, much more likely boosting littering to a lifetime in jail

i swear by my Ego outdoor tools, and if i lived somwhere which had some (but not a ton) of snow, i’d get this https://www.canadiantire.ca/en/pdp/ego-power-56v-cordless-dedicated-snow-shovel-12-in-0600676p.html

Rails, pipelines, power lines, dams

Yea, in the end, we are a representative democracy, not a direct democracy. We vote for a representative in the expectation that they represent our views, and that they take the actions needed to do that.

From, I don’t know, 14+? 16+? Sure? By the time we start to recognize children’s medical autonomy, I can’t imagine why we would t

Of course they wanna get rid of single payer healthcare… Really wanna design their own hellhole

Yea, I think we have established you are missing plenty.

Makes sense you’d use an AI image of the orange buffoon. Fitting, really, for someone so detached from reality.

in the end, if reality doesn’t agree with you, you just need to catch up to reality, not just lie and play pretend.

I mean, yes, its objectively lower, but you can use data with a cutoff date from before Carney if you wanna spread out of date, and intentionally misleading data. That’s cool too, I guess.

I couldn’t sleep well at night if I did that, but you live your life.

I mean, yes, its objectively lower? but you can keep using out of date information if you want to propagate lies, I guess. That’s cool too.

I mean, yeah, I live here, and I actually look around instead of just watching TV. Things aren’t perfect, but I’m still damn glad to live here instead of the U.S.

Also funny timing: immigration’s at its lowest level in a decade, to the point it looks like we may have negative population growth, and now you decide it’s “out of control.”

You might want to get your information from something other than headlines.

yea, no, your unreasonable love for Harper came through very clearly. Its easy to keep a positive budget when you let the country rot from underneath you.

Thanks for not addressing any of my points though!

You’re right, I’m probably overstating it, but the impact to our deficit is pretty massive.

If the GST had stayed at 7%, instead of being cut to 5%, Ottawa would be pulling in about $25 billion more every year. That alone wouldn’t balance the books, with the 2024–25 deficit be around $25 billion smaller, knocking off 1/3 the deficit.

Over the years since the cut, it adds up to somewhere around $300 billion in lost revenue. Trudeaus COVID spending definitely hurt, but it was still Harper’s GST cuts which took a huge, permanent bite our governments ability to respond when things got rough.

Just a reminder that Canada’s deficit was manufactured by the conservatives. Our annual deficit is $10-12 billion, which is roughly what the cut GST was worth.

ill prefer made in canada, and be fine with ‘not american’

I would kill for more foreign liquors.

My boss brought me some Sri Lankan Arrack, which is like… Rum made from coconut flower.

It’s amazing, but can’t find it at all in canada.

Oh, that’s gorgeous. I’m not a coin collector, but would love this framed.

Read that as “sham” and went WTH. Glad to see that I read it wrong.

yea, and i think them backing the liberals on breaking some strikes really hurt them. Canada is a fairly unionized country.