this post was submitted on 08 Sep 2023
71 points (90.8% liked)
Canada
7215 readers
559 users here now
What's going on Canada?
Communities
🍁 Meta
🗺️ Provinces / Territories
- Alberta
- British Columbia
- Manitoba
- New Brunswick
- Newfoundland and Labrador
- Northwest Territories
- Nova Scotia
- Nunavut
- Ontario
- Prince Edward Island
- Quebec
- Saskatchewan
- Yukon
🏙️ Cities / Local Communities
- Calgary (AB)
- Edmonton (AB)
- Greater Sudbury (ON)
- Halifax (NS)
- Hamilton (ON)
- Kootenays (BC)
- London (ON)
- Mississauga (ON)
- Montreal (QC)
- Nanaimo (BC)
- Oceanside (BC)
- Ottawa (ON)
- Port Alberni (BC)
- Regina (SK)
- Saskatoon (SK)
- Thunder Bay (ON)
- Toronto (ON)
- Vancouver (BC)
- Vancouver Island (BC)
- Victoria (BC)
- Waterloo (ON)
- Winnipeg (MB)
🏒 Sports
Hockey
- List of All Teams: Post on /c/hockey
- General Community: /c/Hockey
- Calgary Flames
- Edmonton Oilers
- Montréal Canadiens
- Ottawa Senators
- Toronto Maple Leafs
- Vancouver Canucks
- Winnipeg Jets
Football (NFL)
- List of All Teams:
unknown
Football (CFL)
- List of All Teams:
unknown
Baseball
- List of All Teams:
unknown - Toronto Blue Jays
Basketball
- List of All Teams:
unknown - Toronto Raptors
Soccer
- List of All Teams:
unknown - General Community: /c/CanadaSoccer
- Toronto FC
💻 Universities
💵 Finance / Shopping
- Personal Finance Canada
- BAPCSalesCanada
- Canadian Investor
- Buy Canadian
- Quebec Finance
- Churning Canada
🗣️ Politics
- Canada Politics
- General:
- By Province:
🍁 Social and Culture
Rules
Reminder that the rules for lemmy.ca also apply here. See the sidebar on the homepage:
founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Wow what a shit article.
Edit: tell me how you really feel Lemmy, he’s likely going to win the next election even if it’s a minority.
How so? It's just laying out the fact that the man has never had a real job, or struggled with cost of living.
It's an opinion article, that's pretty standard stuff.
Poilievre was adopted to parents of modest means who had to sell their house in the crash of the 80’s.
Wonder if Trudeau had silver cutlery in the 80’s.
Boo fuckin hoo. The guy is a con man and even if that is true it doesn't change the fact that he's never worked a real job nor does he understand the plight of Canadians in this day and age.
And Trudeau and Freeland do?
When there is no factual argument to be made, people like you always fall back on whataboutism.
Great addition to the conversation, your retort has made me see the error of my ways.
Some 🧀 to go with your whine.
"Great addition to the conversation" says the guy who brings up Trudeau 100 times in a post about Poilievre.
If you vote for Harper's finance critic that said to invest in Bitcoin to avoid inflation, that's on you bud.
Is that the depth of your critique?
And they raised a conniving political predator who will sell us all out so that he can join the moneyed elites.
What's your point?
Cool, he's also a lying scumbag that will do anything to enrich himself, and get himself more power.
Or do you mean the time he dismissed the attorney general for not playing ball on the SNC Lavalin affair.
Like calling an election in the middle of a pandemic because your numbers are falling fast?
It's hilarious how cons think I automatically like our current PM because I think Skippy is an idiot. I don't care about anything you have to list, because I'm not talking about Trudeau. If the best defence you have is to attack some other guy, MAN y'all are in worse shape than you realize.
Skippy supported a group that was attempting to overthrow a democratically elected government, and constant pushes bullshit conspiracy theories.
I’ve voted NDP more than I have conservative. I dislike many things about Poilievre, but I believe he’s got the best chance of reigning in inflation and housing issues. He’s proposing playing hardball and that plays with a lot of Canadians right now who are feeling the absolute shitshow of the last 8 years.
Again, I don't care how you've voted. If you're considering voting for the cons with him in charge you're an idiot. Flat out. Conservatives only ever make things worse, every single time.
Aaannnd that doesn't apply here.
You're either Conservative or Canadian. Poilievre supported actual traitors to Canada. Fuck the domestic speculator who wants to make life harder for the working class.
Dude last election the conservatives won the popular vote. You’re saying a third of Canadians aren’t… Canadian? Get out of your parents basement or whatever echo chamber you’re living in and see that there’s a lot more grey than the black and white you’re spitting. This is why people don’t take hard lefties seriously because of your absolute dogshit zealot takes.
Or wait what about that one where he used Morneau as a fall guy for the scammy charity his family was deeply involved in.
I would love to support the NDP, I’m a union tradesman and they used to be my party. Jack Layton should have been PM in 2011, and it still hurts thinking of how quickly we lost him shortly thereafter. Jagmeet doesn’t do it for me, you’re right he comes off as a pretender trying to lower himself to be one of “us”.
I’m optimistic on Poilievre playing hardball with the country for what I think matters most in this election which is inflation and housing. I don’t like everything he has to say, especially the crypto bullshit which thankfully he dropped, but maybe he and the conservatives are what we need to get things back on track.
Maybe I've missed it but has Poilievre proposed anything for a housing or inflation fix? Most of what I've seen has just been platitudes about how Canadians are hurting and Trudeau is to blame. Obviously not untrue, people are suffering and Trudeau hasn't done enough but saying that is not a solution.
Or I missed his proposals; I try not to get too focused on candidates this far before an election.
The plan so far is to build 1 million homes in three years. They plan on attaining this by playing hardball with those who get in the way, municipalities and the NIMBYS who govern them are going to have federal funding withheld for getting in the way of new housing starts. There’s also going to be extra funds granted for jurisdictions that go beyond the “quota”. A lot of our housing issues are due to red tape and local government interference. To paraphrase, he’s said if those municipalities don’t want to play ball that’s fine, but their easy federal cash is going to be given to those that make it easy to build housing. As for inflation if I recall correctly he wants to limit new carbon taxes, I’d have to look up if he wants to reverse all or some of what is already in place.
Bro shut the fuck up. "Build more homes" won't do shit unless they're affordable, which they 100% will not be from the cons. Look at Doug Ford for exactly what they'll be doing. They'll blast through environmental protections and force municipalities to build costly, unsustainable sprawl that will get bought up by corporations and speculators trying to make a profit.
As for inflation, carbon taxes have 0 impact whatsoever. Inflation is being driven by corporate greed, which will get even worse with the cons.
I have a bridge to sell you. None of that shit will be affordable. Ontario is a good example of the damage this fucker will do.
He gave us dental care so at least he's pretending to understand the working class. Or at the very least doing what is proven to be cheaper in the long run
Who going to back him in a minority government?
Don't fall for this scam artist. He's the embodiment of a career politician who thrives on making the working class more poor. He's a god damn speculator and his 9 years in power helped create the situation we're in.
I genuinely can't tell if you are talking about about Poilievre or Trudeau.