Quote Originally Posted by oladub View Post
I really like Canada. Most of my relatives are in Canada. However, if you want to criticize ant take potshots at Americans and their political tastes, let's catch up on Canadian news.
I didn't see any wholesale criticism of the United States, nor its polity. He made an observation about 3 political figures in the United States, that's 3 people out of roughly 335 million.

Not the same. In the same vein you have been vastly more plaintive about Canada policies, often in a way that does deride Canada, and Canadians writ-large, and yet you wouldn't wish to be called out for Canada bashing.....because you only critque those to the political left of Attila the Hun.

There is a chance that today is the day that Conservatives will launch a no confidence vote. Conservatives have failed in the past to do so. The basis is Trudeau's proposed 23% increase in the carbon tax that will ripple through the economy [[the debate). Will the Quebec Party side with Conservatives this time around or further drag down the Canadian standard of living with yet more taxes?
There is zero chance of the Liberals losing a non-confidence vote as long as they remain backed by the NDP. Mathematically, they cannot get there.

I don't see why a thread about Shawn Fain is devolving into your less than informed take on Canadian politics, as that seems wildly off topic to me, unless Shawn Fain hints at running and unveils Canada-specific platform elements.

As an American, I can only hope that Canada will use some its taxation bounty to beef up its dismal share of NATO defense. It gets so weary having to run the U.S. further into debt to cover the rear of deadbeat NATO countries like Trudeau's autocratic version of Canada.
The U.S. has enough weapons in storage to blow up the entire planet several times over. You don't need to spend anywhere near what you do on defense for our benefit or anyone else's.

Indeed U.S. defense spending so exceeds any other country on earth that you all drive the arms race by yourselves.

As a final note on that subject, the debt isn't necessary if you just raise taxes to pay for what you spend, which is an excellent, fiscally conservative position to hold. Pay your bills, and don't borrow from future generations. Many Canadian politicians by the way suffer from the same disease, why pay a bill today than you can defer by a few years.

The average spending of NATO allies is 2.58% Canada just spends 1.29% of its GNP on defense. Canada ranks 25th of 29 nations in GNP defense spending.
In any event, the Parliament Budget Office [[independent from the Government) estimates Canada will hit 1.59% in 2026-2027, only 2 years from now, a sizable increase. Canada has already ordered a new fleet for the Navy and new fleet of F-35s for our Air Force, the latter in particular which will spin off lots of U.S. jobs making them.

Trudeau has taken Canada a couple of years ahead of even our Democratic Party in expanding immigration, causing jacked up housing prices, suppression of free speech, and autocratic rule.
Canada remains a freer country than the U.S. both in speech and economically as rated by Freedom House.

https://freedomhouse.org/countries/f...20and%20Status

Canada ranks as the 5th freest country on earth.

The U.S. ranks...... outside of the top 50.

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As with Canuck I disagree with Trudeau's handling of the immigration file, most particularly in respect of foreign students and temporary foreign workers.

Canada's economic-class or points-based immigration system remains pretty good, he bumped that one up too fast as well, and he ought not to have..........but the huge surge in Canadian population with the twin effects of wage suppression and spiraling housing costs are really driven by those first two.

Canada will add more than 2% to its population this year, as it did last year, that growth is simply too much for the country's housing market and infrastructure to handle.

The move was unabashedly foolish. The Liberals are now making tweaks that will drop the growth rate back a little bit, but it is indeed too little and too late.

It will take several years to recover.