Canadian politics thread

[Hondaracer]

Originally Posted by mikemhg

"Popped up" on the Canada Proud IG feed

Well yea on my discover page, more likely because of what other people send me than what I view

[mikemhg]

^We're all a product of our algorithms.

[VRYALT3R3D]

Originally Posted by Jason00S2000

It is so, so, SO important to push back against these feminized, domesticated wokies that are slaves to the system

I am not sure why you are so worked up what some basement dweller thinks on Reddit...

[BIC_BAWS]

Originally Posted by mikemhg

"Popped up" on the Canada Proud IG feed [emoji38]

Probably this stupid post cause someone sent it to my GC and you bet told them how fucking stupid they are.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DLYOYzgh...d6ZDBsN3Q3dTky

Again, like Supafamous has said, it's an administrative role.. SHE DOESN'T NEED TO BE A DOCTOR. She needs to understand science & policy. How to push policy through, how to work with other politicians and governments.

I gave the example to other people - you wouldn't expect Christian Chia to need to know how to work on a brand new X5M - he's got people for that. You'd expect the top person at OpenRoad Auto Group to be growing the business, finding financing, diversifying products, etc. He doesn't actually need to know cars.

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[westopher]

Originally Posted by VRYALT3R3D

I am not sure why you are so worked up what some basement dweller thinks on Reddit...

Because he’s doing the exact same thing just on the far right side.
For the blue haired baristas calling a thumbs up emoji a micro aggression against marginalized people and now “they can’t even” you’ve got fragile white guys claiming merry Christmas has been banned from schools.
It’s all just victim culture running the furthest ends of the spectrum.
It’s a fucking feelings hurt competition.

[Manic!]

Originally Posted by Hondaracer

Seems like you’ve got skin in this game..

It’s an overweight, seemingly obese person in charge of aspects of the federal “health” program. Low hanging fruit. That’s about it. I think you’re vastly overstating my intent in these comments, but you know ol’ Hondaracer! :shrug:

That's retired NHL coach Ken Hitchcock.

[VRYALT3R3D]

Canada, prepare for a decade of thrift and lower living standards | Paying down household debt for the foreseeable future is where much of our disposable income as Canadians must go

We are poorer than we think. Canadians running their retirement numbers are shining light in the dark corners of household finances in this country. The sums leave many “anxious, fearful and sad about their finances,” according to a Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan survey recently reported in these pages.

Fifty-two per cent of us worry a lot about our personal finances. Fifty per cent feel frustrated, 47 per cent feel emotionally drained and 43 per cent feel depressed. There is not one survey indicator to suggest Canadians have made financial progress in 2025 compared with 2024.

The federal government was elected this spring promising to mitigate the threat of U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff war and implement a transformative economic agenda. If it succeeds, the effects will be felt in the medium to long-term. In the near term, Canadians know that their financial reckoning adds up to years of debt repayment, reducing expectations, making compromises, retiring later (or not retiring at all) and lower living standards.

Our debt-to-household disposable income has bumped up against nearly 200 per cent for years now, putting Canada in first place among G7 countries. Canada’s is 185 per cent; the average for all G7 countries is 125 per cent according to Statistics Canada. Canadian households collectively owe about $3-trillion, almost three-quarters of it is mortgage debt.

Today’s Canadian dream is to make the next mortgage payment without having to borrow it. The housing crisis hasn’t just hobbled the hopes of many Canadians seeking affordable housing; it is undercutting middle-class living standards.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/busi...ing-standards/

[underscore]

Originally Posted by Manic!

That's retired NHL coach Ken Hitchcock.

She's not even the equivalent of the coach, she works in admin. But using that analogy I don't think the physical fitness level of any of the admin staff has much impact on the performance of the hockey players on the team.

[Manic!]

How pathetic. She went from being a mp to making videos in her car. That's what you get for making videos in mens washrooms.

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/16gpfkVvoZ/

[68style]

Holy pig face, she had surgery to get that?

[Hehe]

Oh well... that's fast. Elbows up guys?

https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/19...322299/photo/1

[whitev70r]

if you want to embed, replace x with twitter when you copy the link and you get this:

Twitter

[Hondaracer]

But..but.. Carney said the talks were still ongoing while Trump said they were off?

[SkinnyPupp]

It's funny because you guys were jerking off about Trump claiming the trade talks were over and Carney couldn't get him to stay at the table. Now trade talks are back on, and you're jerking off about it because he is "bending a knee" negotiating with the clown.

Further and further down the hole you go

[Traum]

Seems like this Benny Johnson dude is yet another right wing Conservative commentator and little more. When someone -- Johnson, namely -- is a contributor to Breitbart News, you know where his credibility stands.

[Hondaracer]

Originally Posted by SkinnyPupp

It's funny because you guys were jerking off about Trump claiming the trade talks were over and Carney couldn't get him to stay at the table. Now trade talks are back on, and you're jerking off about it because he is "bending a knee" negotiating with the clown.

Further and further down the hole you go

Again, move back to Canada bro, it’s amazing. You’ve got a lot to say for someone with zero interest in it.

The fact is, everyone said this tax was a disaster from the beggining. Try to find anyone outside of govt. who thought it was a good idea. Now they bend instantly when Carney was obviously bullshitting about negotiations still ongoing when Trump said definitively they were off.

You guys can spin this any way you want, it’s not elbows up, it’s bend over. Carney can deal with all this while all the other MP’s are on Vacation for 4 months. During Canada’s “greatest crisis”

This is what this govt. has done for a decade. Fuck things up, then pat themselves on the back when they “fix” it, well done Carney. You revoked a policy everyone said was a bad idea.

[Manic!]

Another loser making videos in his car.
This one is the king of the losers.

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1M2HDCncTa/
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[VRYALT3R3D]

Originally Posted by SkinnyPupp

It's funny because you guys were jerking off about Trump claiming the trade talks were over and Carney couldn't get him to stay at the table. Now trade talks are back on, and you're jerking off about it because he is "bending a knee" negotiating with the clown.

Further and further down the hole you go

LMFAO we just threw away the DST for absolutely nothing in return. I didn't read anything in the Federal Government's press release that Canada got any concessions from the US for dropping the tax.

All I care about is actions over words and mark "Teflon" carney has failed to continue to deliver anything.

[6793026]

I'm sure there's a reason why the tax was scrapped. Govt will always be gov't where we won't know what the heck they did.

I'm sure it's much easier to scrap this than to deal with more tariffs on aluminum/ steel etc

again i'm not as educated as some of you, i doubt carey is hte type to just throw shit away and lose the big picture.

I also doubt PP would have done any better. I do bet PP will invest heavily at AB on the pipelines if he was there and that's billions down the drain.

[6793026]

Originally Posted by Manic!

Another loser making videos in his car.
This one is the king of the losers.

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1M2HDCncTa/
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i was expecting a girl crashing her bf's car while driving... then i realize it was PP. LOL.

[68style]

Omg insufferable…

If PP was PM and did exactly the same thing, which he would have had to do as well, every one of his knob lickers would have been “Yah get rid of useless taxes preventing businesses from businessing here, make relations better with USA so smrt”

This political landscape on social media nowadays is fucking ridiculous, keep everybody fighting opposite angles of the same decisions all day and building up hate rhetoric.

[SkinnyPupp]

They're like cartoon characters instead of people

[Hondaracer]

here’s reading for you:

https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2025/0...tax-explainer/

This outlines the timeline and how this was a -terrible- idea from the start and even worse implementation. Don’t worry, you don’t need to harp on Trump this time because Biden warned that the exact same thing Trump just did was bound to happen if they proceeded as they did.

Then, to follow up, documenting Canadian response to this move, but hey, don’t worry it’s just me feeling this way, some fucking guy in Hong Kong with zero skin in the game surely knows better than actual Canadians right? And this isn’t some Reddit segment, this is a large scale
Canadian media outlet reporting on it like this..

https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2025/0...-services-tax/







I gotta say, I’m loving “elbows up” is now turning into Canadian MAGA for people like 68

The defining slogan of an entire campaign is now a meme for incompetence.

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Originally Posted by 68style

Omg insufferable…

If PP was PM and did exactly the same thing, which he would have had to do as well, every one of his knob lickers would have been “Yah get rid of useless taxes preventing businesses from businessing here, make relations better with USA so smrt”

This political landscape on social media nowadays is fucking ridiculous, keep everybody fighting opposite angles of the same decisions all day and building up hate rhetoric.

Yea you know what’s wild though? He’s not PM lol how is continually bringing up PP not exactly the same as me mentioning Trudeau? PP is -irrelevant-

Jesus Christ like the only defence you guys have is “it could have been the other guy” ?

This was a long drawn out liberal policy outlined as a failure from the beginning. There is no defending it. It was going to end up like this from the start… just as… BIDEN said like.. every single sign pointed to this being a bad idea, ESPECIALLY given the current climate, and yet they chose to proceed with it.

Don’t worry, we’ll take the L and move on

Another huge L for both Champaign (sp) and Freeland. Surprise surprise.

[whitev70r]

So just some basic info on the Digital Service Tax :

- it was proposed in 2019 under J Trudeau, approved in June 2024, 1st payment would be June 2025 (in other words, it was already passed under JT's Libs, Carney inherited it)
- it would have been retroactive to 2022, contentious issue.
- it would have costed the big companies like Google, Uber, Apple, FB, Amazon, etc. > $2 billion so follow the money and I'm sure these CEO's lobbied the Trump gov't.
- 3% levy if companies make over $820M in digital services globally or more than $14.7M in Canada

so you decide whether this was a good idea in the first place, if it was something worth giving up to continue with negotiations with the US, and if you were Carney if you'd be willing to let this skirmish go to win the bigger war. In real life, (even if you became the head honcho of your dept or company) you inherit a lot of sh*t from previous leaders that might be good and might not be such a good idea. Throwing away from previous Libs is not that big of a deal to get a bigger win.

[westopher]

Carney keeps tax
“CARMEY CLOWN STUPID ELBOW”
Carney removes tax
“CARNY CLOEN WHERE ELBOW”