Originally Posted by supafamous (Post 9183297)

So far Carney's been better at politics than I expected and not as good at governing as I expected - his poll numbers reflect an electorate that's happy with what he's doing and he's largely sidelined the Conservative talking points by either co-opting some of their policies or just not playing ball on the fake outrage that they've tried to generate. PP is firing blanks right now - he's practically invisible and has nothing to talk about - if he's going to stay leader he's gotta find a talk track that makes the Cons relevant.

His reception amongst world leaders has been very warm and he navigated stuff like how there wasn't a coordinated G7 communique out of the summit pretty well - basically he's avoided leaving stuff on the table for the media to talk about (like when Gregor Robertson put his foot in his mouth about not wanting housing prices to drop - Carney handled it with his own response and the media dropped it almost immediately when it could have been a story).

On the governing side I think he's not been delegating enough to his cabinet but it might be the case that he doesn't trust them yet and he'd rather just do it himself or keep it to the PMO. The result is that some stuff seems to be moving a bit slower than expected and there aren't as many cabinet members that have been visible and selling the message of the govt (the poll numbers say it doesn't matter right now).

Originally Posted by Hehe (Post 9183314)

Seriously. libtards just keep finding excuse to justify for his actions, which to be totally frank, is lacking any sort of planning whatsoever.

Originally Posted by Eff-1 (Post 9183296)

small businesses who advertise on those platforms would be stuck with those advertising rates increasing. I am glad they scrapped it.

Originally Posted by underscore (Post 9183319)

Do small businesses actually advertise on those platforms? I do a fair bit to block ads but when I do see them it's never for a small local business, it's always big foreign companies.

Originally Posted by Hehe (Post 9183314)

If he had ANY plan whatsoever, why not just bring these 2 things to the bargaining table with US?! "Hey Orange man, you want a deal? We will boost our defence expense to 5% and cancel DST while at it... what can you give us?"

Instead? Now you agreed to 5% on defence expense, and scrapped the DST... all while being back to square one on the bargaining table.

Originally Posted by Eff-1 (Post 9183322)

Because Trump walked away from the bargaining table to begin with.

Trump needs to be handled with white gloves. Butter him up now, and then reap the benefits later.

My take is Carney is conceding something now that is less important to Canada in the grand scheme of things (DST), get the trade talks going again, then use DST as goodwill to negotiate matters of much larger importance to our country. Softwood, dairy, steel and aluminum, etc.

Originally Posted by CivicBlues (Post 9183327)

How do you even know what is going on during negotiations ? How about we all just fucking hold judgement until a deal is made? or talks fail and we go back to tarrifing the fuck over each other.

I will be willing to concede whether or not Carney fucked up if and when he does but the rest of you calling each people names like libtards, morons etc. are as fucking mature as Cheeto Taco.

Originally Posted by Hehe (Post 9183328)

I edited my post. Read from my previous post.

We know how cheeto is. The earlier the deal, the better the terms as he's looking for that "showpiece". Any later deals would just become harder and harder.

Originally Posted by Hehe (Post 9183328)

We are an exporting economy and import a lot from the US as basic necessities. We don't really have the luxury of dragging this for too long.

Yes, we might hurt the US a bit if we go full on trade war. But that would require to nearly choke our economy to death.

Originally Posted by Hondaracer (Post 9183651)

https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2025/0...spending-cuts/





Meanwhile, in a new report, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives says cuts to the public service may be deeper than the government is letting on.

https://www.policyalternatives.ca/ne...d-budget-cuts/

“At least we’re not the other guy” or whatever it is you guys want to say?

Driving home from the airport last night I saw more homeless people in a 16 kilometre, 20 minute drive than I did over a month in 5 countries.

After seeing how those countries operate, I can completely get on board with the notion that higher taxes provide better outcomes, WHEN utilized effectively. As I’ve always said. If you can fix things, do it.

I can also agree that it’s a bit asinine for these brain dead conservative types that complain about how services, infrastructure, social aspects are so bad, yet then want lower to no taxes, which again, I think places like Texas, Florida, etc. highlight how that isn’t possible.

Scandinavian countries are a model for this. We as as society are so much worse off for the state we are in imo. Every country we went to had better transit, generally better infrastructure, and even things like public AED’s everywhere, just open, not locked away etc. how long would something like that last in Vancouver until it was stolen? 5 minutes?

With all that said, and with those articles I posted above, Canada is never going to right the ship and come out of where we’re at like those Scandinavian countries, we’re way too far gone. Carney could double income tax and we still wouldn’t fix those issues.

The concept of strung out homeless people with garbage surrounding them laying in the streets is non-existent in those countries. The “homeless” people I saw looked more like they were in between couch surfing, or recently hard up and out on the streets. They weren’t anywhere close to what you see here, everywhere.

Honestly it’s very disheartening to see where we’re at, and have virtually no confidence this will ever be fixed.

Again, geographically, Canada is the most beautiful country I’ve ever been to. Socially we are way behind. This last trip was even more of a wake up call then spending 4 months in Europe in 2022.

Originally Posted by SkinnyPupp (Post 9183673)

Thank god you and most of Canada voted Liberal, otherwise you'd be even (MUCH) further astray from this form of socialism you desire

Originally Posted by Hondaracer (Post 9183680)

:lol

The funniest part is believing this liberal regime is doing anything otherwise?

Like are you guys that fucking blind? :lol

This is the greatest falacy ever told that this govt. actually can enact change. They’ve provided a decade of examples.

They’ve spent frivolously without result. They’ve rewrote the system, and it’s a bigger failure than ever.

Originally Posted by Hondaracer (Post 9183683)

Again, that’s all you have “maybe the other guys”

So the “other guys” wouldn’t be capable of running a record deficit with, at the same time, making the greatest cuts? :lol

Don’t worry, none of this will matter when Carney tells you guys how to think in 6 months.

Originally Posted by noclue (Post 9183686)

ya know on the subject of bureaucracy, I was thinking why can't I get a quote and buy online insurance for ICBC like every other province? So far you can only renew existing coverage online and it's a half assed attempt which still involves an autoplan agent.

Then I realized it will be political suicide as it will result in the layoffs of thousands of autoplan agents but it'll save ICBC and your tax dollars a ton in commission and be more efficient.

Originally Posted by 68style (Post 9183703)

Oh yah all those Filipinos sleeping in cars everywhere. Streets are absolutely littered with them!

Idiot.

Originally Posted by SkinnyPupp (Post 9183681)

Trump is gutting the US in front of everyone, sending them to hell, and PP wanted to follow in his footsteps.

Originally Posted by VRYALT3R3D (Post 9183724)

caving so quickly on the DST, etc.!