I’m not necessarily for or against gun control measures as they exist currently, but wouldn’t it have been possible to dud them and keep the gift?

Cool, surely this will drive down the cost of gas at the pump, right?

Just like how the average Albertan is seeing that money trickle down for their benefit, right?

Canadians are deluded right now. Wow, the Liberal prime minister said pipelines good? Must be true!

Like I say once again, the authour of Values seems to have some memory loss issues, because this sure as hell seems directly in opposition to the very words he penned.

For all the faults I find Carney to have, I can’t fault him on this. As much as I would like for him to bite the bullet and have taxpayer funds take care of restoration, it’s probably a better idea to foot the cost to individual fundraisers in the short term to avoid political discourse.

Of course that’s assuming that he and the Liberals quietly ensure that upkeep is paid with taxpayer dollars for the forseeable future afterwards.

Economic growth for who exactly?

Funny that it’s never stated if the average Canadian will ever see this economic growth.

Mastodon is decentralised, Substack is not, Substack corporate can make the decision they don’t want to foster and profit off of nazis whereas Truth Social has literally broken AGPL license terms with things being out of Mastodon’s control due to it’s decentralised nature.

But nice try.

Edit: Slack to Substack, oops

Cool. Those rights include my own as someone who is trans.

Happy pride.

Well for one, maybe using a platform like Substack when they’re known to platform literal nazis doesn’t help.

Antisemitism is wrong, but honestly I don’t understand how the same people that pull this crap get all shocked Pikachu face over antisemitism being on the rise.

Ehhh, I’m mixed with feelings on this. I’ve seen crazy stats about the usage of drugs like Ozempic, and don’t get me wrong, I’m not going to be out here judging people for choosing how they want to lose weight, but I really worry how much this will be used by people to replace lifestyle changes, rather than being used in conjunction with them.

“We have a cost of living crisis… because you’re not paying nearly enough”

Honestly if he repairs it, he’d get credit for that in my book as small as it is in the grand scheme of things

I have to catch myself to not say “Dragon Ball Zed”.

Who does that economist serve? The working class, or wealthy CEOs, investors, and company shareholders?

The high speed rail project he’s putting in place is, as always, going to be a public-private partnership rather than a public crown corporation like Via Rail is. His affordable housing strategy has simply been “build more homes” and poking for the private sector to do the right thing when they’re the ones price gouging us to begin with by treating a home as an investment rather than a human right.

He still hasn’t said anything about the efforts of Ford and Smith to further privatise the healthcare industry and how he’d protect public health with the Canada Health Act. His government forced arbitration on airline attendants striking against Air Canada over unpaid work. He’s laying the groundwork for a new pipeline when the oil & gas industry has abandoned workers through automation leaving them nowhere else to go, and he’s unwilling to ban surveillance pricing when we’re in a cost of living crisis.

“Whataboutism” is conflating foreign policy with foreign policy, and expecting consistency with it in our dealings with the same country in question. Alright.

As opposed to Avi Lewis for one.

Cool, now that you have that money back, is that money going to go to, idk, nurses? Teachers? ODSP recipients struggling to get by?

Or is it just going to continue getting shunted into the pockets of your corporate buddies and American advertisers like was the case before?

I swear this was covered years ago in a CBC Marketplace segment or such.

The man has already moved the goalposts time and time over, why should we continue to capitulate to him?

Carney hasn’t proved to me that he’s the man to meet the moment whatsoever. You tell me that the man who stood by and asked “both sides” to respect international law in both Iran and Venezuela rather than call out the U.S. for the initial violation of international law is the guy to stand up to the U.S.? That the man who gave up the digital services tax the last time around is the person to stand tall and not capitulate?

The man has been talking about the possibility of not renewing CUSMA for ages now, why not take that as a sign to not engage?

If the Liberals don’t ban prediction markets, then that should be the ultimate signal that they have no issue with money in politics and the rich pulling the strings of their administration.

But hey, let’s just keep excusing the actions of Carney and the Liberals by saying that “things are complicated” a full year later and talk about how much of a 5D chess move this is

I’m so proud of the Carney government for doing this. Why should I care about greenhouse gas emissions and reversing our progress on them when I now have limitless power at my fingertips in generating images of anybody I dislike getting run over by the Hummer Guy from Family Guy.