Canadian Federal Politics Thread v5

[Caged Great]

I am voting when the early polls open near me.

Hoping that some of Calgary goes Red.

[Torture]

Got a lit drop from the Corey Hogan campaign. Funny to see that the front of their flyer is a big picture of "Smith vs Carney". Doesn't even mention PP on the front. Amazing.

[rubecube]

Sorry if this had already been posted, but it's pretty interesting. I can't see PP ever having the intelligence to pull something like this off.

https://www.wallawallademocrats.com/...eys-checkmates

Let’s talk about the moment Donald Trump blinked. It wasn’t loud. It wasn’t a tweetstorm or a rally rant. When the tariff threats that had the world on edge—125% on China, 25% on Canada’s autos, a global trade war in the making—suddenly softened. A “pause,” he called it. A complete turnaround from the chest-thumping of the past week. And the reason? Mark Carney and a slow, deliberate financial maneuver that most people didn’t even notice: the coordinated Treasury bond slow bleed.

This wasn’t about bravado. It was about leverage. Cold, calculated, and devastatingly effective.

Trump’s pause wasn’t because people were getting yippy…

Rewind a bit. While Trump was gearing up his trade war machine, Carney, Canada’s Prime Minister, wasn’t just sitting in Ottawa twiddling his thumbs. He’d been quietly increasing Canada’s holdings of U.S. Treasury bonds—over $350 billion worth by early 2025, part of the $8.53 trillion foreign countries hold in U.S. debt. On the surface, it looked like a safe play, a hedge against economic chaos. But it wasn’t just defense. It was a loaded gun.

Carney didn’t stop there. He took his case to Europe. Not for photo ops, but for closed-door meetings with the EU’s heavy hitters—Germany, France, the Netherlands. Japan was in the room too, listening closely. The pitch was simple: if Trump went too far with tariffs, Canada wouldn’t just retaliate with duties on American cars or steel. It would start offloading those Treasury bonds. Not a fire sale—nothing so crude. A slow, steady bleed. A signal to the markets that the U.S. dollar’s perch wasn’t so secure.

[Fuzz]

PP is far more interested in being smug than having something to be smug about.

[TorqueDog]

Originally Posted by Caged Great

I am voting when the early polls open near me.

Hoping that some of Calgary goes Red.

You can vote early at any Elections Canada office, we went last week to the Holy Cross location.

[GGG]

Originally Posted by rubecube

Sorry if this had already been posted, but it's pretty interesting. I can't see PP ever having the intelligence to pull something like this off.

https://www.wallawallademocrats.com/...eys-checkmates

It’s an interesting theory that sounds plausible but there is no real evidence that this happened

https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/04/...urys-sell-off/

[Johnny Makarov]

Originally Posted by Drak

That’s nice but I’m voting liberal and she’s currently in the lead - I don’t need advice from PP/Smith supporters.

LOL. the Geologist trying to sway votes for the deplorables! hahahahahah

nice try.

[Johnny Makarov]

Originally Posted by TorqueDog

You can vote early at any Elections Canada office, we went last week to the Holy Cross location.

I'll be voting at SAIT when I go into the office tomorrow. They were out their on Friday handing out flyers telling students to vote early. That was good to see.

[Firebot]

Originally Posted by GGG

It’s an interesting theory that sounds plausible but there is no real evidence that this happened

https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/04/...urys-sell-off/

Yes, while I'd love to see this being true and would certainly propel Carney to mastermind wizard status, no country (including China) has been actually attributed for the major US bond selloff that is still ongoing. China, Japan, Canada have all been rumoured but nothing to actually point at it and all unsubstantiated . Hedge funds, overall sentiment has been more or less the most prevalent theory at the moment. It can also of course be a concerted effort to get the US to take notice.
Certainly not going to get unbiased facts from a site called wallawallademocrats.com and someone described as a "shock jock"

[PepsiFree]

Originally Posted by Firebot

Yes, while I'd love to see this being true and would certainly propel Carney to mastermind wizard status, no country (including China) has been actually attributed for the major US bond selloff that is still ongoing. China, Japan, Canada have all been rumoured but nothing to actually point at it and all unsubstantiated . Hedge funds, overall sentiment has been more or less the most prevalent theory at the moment. It can also of course be a concerted effort to get the US to take notice.
Certainly not going to get unbiased facts from a site called wallawallademocrats.com and someone described as a "shock jock"

At least it wasn’t the CBC!

[DownInFlames]

Speaking of the CBC they've been all over the story about Liberal campaign staffers distributing fake buttons at a CPC event. Leftist propaganda indeed.


https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/car...gned-1.7509662


It was a stupid thing to do and they should have been more than "reassigned". We don't need that style of politics in Canada, from either side.

[Faust]

‘Sometimes the truth hurts’: Ford defends campaign manager who criticized Poilievre

https://www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/artic...zed-poilievre/

[Cappy]

Originally Posted by Faust

‘Sometimes the truth hurts’: Ford defends campaign manager who criticized Poilievre

https://www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/artic...zed-poilievre/

Certainly don’t need American style politics here in Canada….

[getbak]

Originally Posted by Torture

Got a lit drop from the Corey Hogan campaign. Funny to see that the front of their flyer is a big picture of "Smith vs Carney". Doesn't even mention PP on the front. Amazing.

I saw he also has new signs up that say "Confederation is worth fighting for", which I thought was a great use of the double meaning of Confederation with it being the name of the riding.

[rubecube]

Originally Posted by Firebot

Certainly not going to get unbiased facts from a site called wallawallademocrats.com and someone described as a "shock jock"

What should the site for Walla Walla County Democrats be called? That's also obviously not where the original article came from.

The writer may have jumped to conclusions, but it's not like it's something that's ridiculously implausible.

We're likely never going to know for sure until one of Trump or Carney (or both) are out of office.

[surferguy]

I really hope the idea/meetings were at the direction of Justin.

[Regorium]

Originally Posted by jg13

Hello, I'm not going to go through the entire thread and I know the majority of CalgaryPuck posters are 45+ in age but 80% of the people I talk to and are within 5 years of my age (33) are all voting conservative without a second thought, myself included.

My question is:

I would like to know why those of you that are above 45 in age or older that own their own homes, think that Mark Carney will benefit us in our 30s over Pierre Polieivere. Pierre has stated he will cut immigration to the point where we're building more homes faster than we allow people into Canada and will allow first time home buyers to purchase their first homes without the 5% GST included in those homes.

The reason for the above question is because of 80% of the people I talk to in my age range (millenial) is because we're concerned about never being able to afford a home and if we're never able to afford a home, it affects many things specifically, like starting a family. From my understanding, Mark Carney wants to increase the Canadian population to 100 million by 2100 which is 800,000 a year when Canada has been known to build 200,000 places of living a year. He has publicly stated this.

If I currently owned a home this would be great for myself as my home would sky rocket in value. Please let me know on this particular issue, why as a millennial this is good for me.

Thank you in advance. Not looking to fight anyone. I want clarity.

In my 30s with 2 young children. The Trudeau/Carney Liberal daycare subsidy plan will save my family about $150,000 over 4 years for two kids.

Smith refuses to sign on to the extension, leading me to believe that the Conservatives do not support the daycare subsidy plan and childcare going forward.

Voting with my wallet really.

[Lubicon]

Originally Posted by Regorium

The Trudeau/Carney Liberal daycare subsidy plan will save my family about $150,000 over 4 years for two kids.

Smith refuses to sign on to the extension, leading me to believe that the Conservatives do not support the daycare subsidy plan and childcare going forward.

Voting with my wallet really.

Is this supposed to be green text? That's a massive amount of money, nearly $20k/yr/child, which is troubling if that is the actual cost of the program.

[Regorium]

Originally Posted by Lubicon

Is this supposed to be green text? That's a massive amount of money, nearly $20k/yr/child, which is troubling if that is the actual cost of the program.

No, it's not.

Daycare cost is $1700/month unsubsidized. $326 a month now, meaning $1374 per child per month of savings.

2 kids and 48 months of daycare = $131,904 of after-tax dollars.

[Looch City]

Yup it's true. The daycare subsidy has been amazing for us too. Currently paying ~$700/mo for 2 kids and without it, would been over 2k.