When parties have unfavourable leaders who spend all their time quibbling nobody shows up to vote.

Everyone I know was saying Mike Schreiner was the only adult in the room but Green was a wasted vote, and all Doug had to do was say nothing to win.

That’s certainly a problem, but in general he does not come across as working class, he comes across as quite wealthy. He also doesn’t get policy into the news often enough, despite some things on their platform sounding good.

And then he hasn’t done anything to assuage concerns NDP policy will be bad for the economy, which if you look at the US it’s clear the perception of being good for the economy is at the forefront of everyone’s minds (whether or not that’s based in reality).

I did have someone mention they felt that having a Sikh PM would not be good with escalating tensions with India. That line felt kinda racist to me. I don’t think that’s why he doesn’t connect with voters though.

Banks have been trying to dump “high risk” (based on their own systems) clients with as a recession risk.

They’re reducing credit limits and increasing interest rates to lower unsecured debt ratios.

This odd something I would donate to a gofundme to help with.

Ideally this gets sorted without that though.

I’m in agreement with you that I don’t want the government to be fiddling with the pipes of the internet like that.

They could restrict Canadian ad buying, merchandise purchases via credit card, and restrict app store use, and that would do something.

I just feel like this gesture is symbolic at best. We haven’t done anything about the security concerns.

We should be building a domestic tech industry so we don’t see all the value extracted elsewhere.

I’m not sure how closing their domestic office while not banning or ordering significant changes accomplishes anything.

It really just hurts Canadian tech workers who will take contractor roles with the TikTok US office. I’ve met a few TikTok employees and they’re actually very high caliber workers, so it would be a shame to lose them (though I disagree with the ownership of TikTok and refuse to use it).

If anything we should take a page out of China’s book and require an office where we hold the leadership directly accountable for those security concerns, which frankly 99% of people don’t understand or care about.

The outcome is not good for Canada and is deeply bad for several issues I care deeply about.

I do hope this drives introspection here about how our working class feels and has been struggling, and that it drives political change before we see a sweeping conservative majority in the next election.

It’s hard to say what will happen, but I think the Trump presidency will push some away from Polievre. I don’t think it will make a difference unless the NDP and Liberals change their leadership though.

This might be good for Ontarians, as we are looking at an election soon.

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Yes, thank you

I guess I had a case of the Mondays

I think tonight I’m going to leave my phone in the other room and watch movies.

Nothing will be decided tonight with how close the polling is.

I too choose this guys maple syrup

Yeah, 0% chance this happens, but a man can dream, and vent online about our political situation.

I think my best case scenario is that Jagmeet Singh steps down, the NDP quickly select a leader that relates to the working class (something like a Tim Walz type) and they sweep the election on a workers rights grassroots push.

I’ve voted Liberal the last few elections, but the last one I was saying I wish Trudeau would step aside because he’s too vulnerable and not drawing out any voters. I was only voting against the Conservatives.

I’m not looking forward to this election, because once again I don’t want to vote for any of the candidates. This might be my first NDP vote in a long time, but the NDP needs to make changes too and I don’t want to give them my support.

But at the end of the day I truly feel Polievre will be Canada’s worst prime minister, he has all the characteristics I hate in a politician and none of the leadership skills I’d want, so I have to make a pick from two bad options.

ETA: the strategy of “well they hate me, but I think they’ll hate the other guys more” is such an insult to Canadians. If you don’t in earnest think Canadians want you to lead them, you should not be a party leader.

I don’t think by-elections really gauge true opinion, they usually don’t change the balance of power so it’s about local candidates and protest votes.

I have two minds on this

The decade I was too poor to see the dentist gave me a lot of anxiety. I didn’t have any real issues but any random pain was met with worries about cavities, and I had to get my wisdom teeth removed years after it would have been ideal. It’s great that poor people are finally being looked after.

On the other hand, I hate that I pay a high marginal tax rate and I don’t qualify for this. I can afford to see a dentist, I just wish this program was for everyone.

Same with pharmacare, I just want a full rollout for everyone as part of healthcare. My wife needs medicine that costs thousands a year and if she didn’t get benefits through work it would be over $10k out of pocket annually. Most families could not afford that.

We’re fortunate and I acknowledge that, I just want a simpler system with better coverage.

Is he going to start claiming the election is rigged next?

This guy isn’t even in power and I’m already tired of his shit.

I bought a house in a suburb for the middle of my possible price range. I had worked out pricing options with a fee based financial advisor.

My wife and I make good money and I do not understand who is spending $1M-2M on housing, that was well above our top budget scenario.

The math doesn’t make sense to me. Someone is lying in the qualifying process.

The “blame provincial responsibilities on the federal government, while complaining loudly about federal overreach” crew