Canadian Federal Politics Thread v5

[Geraldsh]

Originally Posted by StickMan

Siddhant Arya’s Role at Brookfield: The Hidden Key to Mark Carney’s Controversial Rise? Liberals & the NDP, scheming dirty scum?

https://x.com/ryangerritsen/status/1915822088742428896

https://x.com/BarryESharp/status/1903779610212610335

What’s your point?

[StickMan]

Pretty accurate summary of the situation in Canada and the Canadian federal election:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=ChcQ1moQ...kVDVH6V6hV4T2x

[KootenayFlamesFan]

Originally Posted by StickMan

Pretty accurate summary of the situation in Canada and the Canadian federal election:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=ChcQ1moQ...kVDVH6V6hV4T2x

How is that accurate? A 15 minute video without saying anything negative about PP and the Cons, just everything wrong with the Libs. And I've seen other videos from that guy when he's working on the farm or whatever and like him, but this one isn't exactly balanced.

I don't really understand the argument about how there are still a bunch of leftover cabinet members from the Trudeau era. Well..........duh. What amazing insight. In the middle of a tariff/trade war with a psycho to the south who is threatening our country you want Carney to clean house and put a bunch of newbs in charge? That would be stupidity.

[rubecube]

Originally Posted by StickMan

Pretty accurate summary of the situation in Canada and the Canadian federal election:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=ChcQ1moQ...kVDVH6V6hV4T2x

Dude, you've shown yourself to be one of the least media literate and most easily duped posters on this site. Might be time for some self-reflection. Try to determine why you're so prone to these things.

Do you have an active and healthy social life?

[DownInFlames]

Originally Posted by rubecube

Dude, you've shown yourself to be one of the least media literate and most easily duped posters on this site. Might be time for some self-reflection. Try to determine why you're so prone to these things.

Do you have an active and healthy social life?

He's just another dullard who is unable to post a cogent argument of his own, so he just posts the propaganda that aligns with his views. He will never reply with anything but insults because he can't form a reasoned thought that isn't a talking point.


I actually tried to watch the video you replied to and the first thing the guy mentions, after some intro bull#### that was very annoying, is that 130,000 Canadians voted in Carney. You know, just like every leader of a party who becomes PM. I doubt it got better after that.

[rubecube]

Originally Posted by DownInFlames

He's just another dullard who is unable to post a cogent argument of his own, so he just posts the propaganda that aligns with his views. He will never reply with anything but insults because he can't form a reasoned thought that isn't a talking point.


I actually tried to watch the video you replied to and the first thing the guy mentions, after some intro bull#### that was very annoying, is that 130,000 Canadians voted in Carney. You know, just like every leader of a party who becomes PM. I doubt it got better after that.

Yeah, I'm not disputing that. It's just been my experience that dudes who are susceptible to fascist propaganda tend to be very lonely and lacking proper socialization.

[Slava]

Originally Posted by Major Major

My riding is not in play but wanted to find out a bit more about the candidates. I know I'm voting liberal, but wanted to be charitable. Who knows, maybe I'll change my mind based on the strength of the conservative candidate. How could so many people with lawn signs be wrong.

So I went to the candidates websites...

Scott Arnott (lib) - worked for Suncor, Atco and Deloitte as a CPA and CFA. Qualified and experienced to help energy industry break through inter- provincial trade. Damn, exactly what I want. Seen 1 lawn sign and i think it was his house.

Shuv Majumdar (cpc) - website doesn't have a bio. Wikipedia says he met polli-b at a U of C conservative club. Most known for being a part of the kamikaze candidate scandal. Worked for some right wing think tanks. No notable experience of any kind.

Pretty tough call here guys. I love how the party of common sense tells you exactly who they are in the most up front ways.

Also, a true f u to the city running such a weak candidate in a stronghold. Just another indication that alberta has made itself politically irrelevant through subservience to a single party.

I’m in the same riding and I have seen a few Liberal signs, but not many.

Our riding is a microcosm of the whole election though. If you were hiring and those two resumes come across your desk, it’s blatantly obvious who you hire. That’s how it should go for the entire election.

[sa226]

Whats going on with 338Canada? Get hacked or attacked or something?

[Looch City]

Originally Posted by StickMan

Pretty accurate summary of the situation in Canada and the Canadian federal election:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=ChcQ1moQ...kVDVH6V6hV4T2x

Thanks for the video man, I really needed a laugh this evening.

[Blaster86]

Originally Posted by sa226

Whats going on with 338Canada? Get hacked or attacked or something?

Apparently, yep.

[Maritime Q-Scout]

I honestly don't know what to think.

Did the papers out in Alberta also say "f*** it, the whole front page is a CPC ad?"

And by that I don't mean there was an opinion piece, or news articles on CPC candidates.

I mean, they sold the front page as a literal advertisement for the CPC?

[Slava]

Originally Posted by Maritime Q-Scout

I honestly don't know what to think.

Did the papers out in Alberta also say "f*** it, the whole front page is a CPC ad?"

And by that I don't mean there was an opinion piece, or news articles on CPC candidates.

I mean, they sold the front page as a literal advertisement for the CPC?

Are those the Postmedia publications? Because I haven’t seen them, but that’s essentially what they’ve been for the entire campaign.

[Fuzz]

American ownership getting nervous.

[kootenayguy9]

From Alberta Reddit forum:

On Monday, Canadians will choose the future of our country.

But behind the slogans, the anger, and the promises, there’s a bigger story that hasn’t been told loudly enough. This is the story of Pierre Poilievre a career politician who spent two decades mastering the system, only to rebrand himself as the outsider sent to tear it down.

From the halls of Stephen Harper’s government to the frontlines of the Freedom Convoy, Poilievre transformed, adopting the language, the tactics, and the anger that helped Donald Trump reshape American politics.

And now, we're not just choosing between left and right.

We're choosing what kind of country we want to be.

Whether Canada stays true to its path or follows others into a future we know too well.

Pierre Poilievre’s career didn’t begin with a revolution. It began with a résumé.

In 2004, at just 25 years old, he was elected as the Conservative Member of Parliament for Nepean–Carleton. No real-world experience outside of politics.

No background in law, economics, international affairs. His education, a degree in international relations from the University of Calgary it was respectable, but hardly exceptional.

What Poilievre had was ambition, political instincts, and a talent for confrontation. He entered federal politics not as an outsider, but as a polished young partisan. A foot soldier in Stephen Harper’s government. He wasn’t fighting the system. He was the system.

But over time, he saw something changing. Canadians were growing disillusioned. Trust in the economy, in media, in the political class, all of it was eroding.

And Pierre Poilievre did what he’s always done best: he adapted.

He began to brand himself not as the career politician he was, but as the angry outsider fighting against the same "elites" he had spent years standing alongside.

He weaponized frustration. He turned complex issues into slogans. He made vague "gatekeepers" the enemy for every hardship Canadians faced.

Poilievre didn’t just survive the fall of the Harper government he found his perfect foil. In 2013, when Justin Trudeau became Liberal leader, Poilievre saw the opportunity he had been waiting for.

Even before Trudeau became Prime Minister, Poilievre was laying the groundwork. Branding him as inexperienced, privileged, and disconnected from the struggles of everyday Canadians. When Trudeau won a majority in 2015, Poilievre didn’t regroup. He escalated. Every Liberal program, from climate action to childcare, became evidence of elitism, of betrayal.

For over a decade, Pierre Poilievre’s political identity hasn’t been about building something. It’s been about fighting Trudeau. About tearing down.

And like the populist movements we’ve seen rise around the world, the goal was never to fix the system it was to convince Canadians that the system itself was the enemy. After the Conservatives' losses under Andrew Scheer in 2019, and Erin O’Toole in 2021, anger and resentment only deepened. It wasn’t enough just to oppose Trudeau anymore the base wanted something more aggressive, more absolute.

In the winter of 2022, Poilievre found his moment. The Freedom Convoy.

While others hesitated, Poilievre jumped in with both feet. He marched with protestors. He amplified their grievances. He framed Trudeau not just as a bad Prime Minister, but as a tyrant, part of a global elite bent on controlling Canadians.

He didn’t just oppose mandates he fed into a darker narrative already sweeping through American and European far-right movements. The idea that COVID-19 wasn’t just a pandemic it was a plot. A tool of control. A conspiracy.

Poilievre took the language of the fringe, cleaned it up just enough, and walked it into the mainstream of Canadian politics.

And it worked.

Elon Musk praised the Convoy. Donald Trump openly celebrated it. Pierre Poilievre was no longer just a Member of Parliament he was becoming a global figure in the populist right.

When Erin O’Toole was pushed out for being too moderate, Poilievre seized the moment, launching his leadership campaign not on policy, but on a simple, powerful promise: “Join the fight for freedom.” By the fall of 2022, Pierre Poilievre had fully reinvented the Conservative Party.

Page by page, he borrowed from Trump’s playbook: simple rage-driven slogans like "Axe the Tax" and "Canada is Broken"; relentless attacks on the “woke” culture war; conspiratorial whispers about globalists and bureaucrats; constant doubt cast on our public institutions.

In Parliament, he didn’t just oppose he obstructed.

Confidence motion after confidence motion. Stall tactics. Targeting not only the Liberals, but the NDP too for daring to keep Trudeau’s minority government functional. Parliament slowed to a crawl. Dysfunction was no longer an accident. It was a political strategy.

And it worked.

By the end of 2024, it looked inevitable. Pierre Poilievre had an unprecedented lead in the polls.

The Liberals looked exhausted. Trudeau’s approval ratings were collapsing.

An election seemed just around the corner and after twenty years in politics, Pierre Poilievre stood on the brink of becoming Prime Minister.

But then, the world changed. Donald Trump won the 2024 U.S. election. And chaos followed.

Trump threatened global trade wars. He referred to Canada as the "51st state." He openly floated the idea of real wars with allies.

And suddenly, Canadian unity something Poilievre had spent years undermining became the most urgent priority.

In that moment, Trudeau, battered and tired, suddenly looked more Canadian, more steady, more national. And Poilievre with his American slogans, his attacks on Canada’s own institutions started to look like exactly what Canadians didn’t want: our own Trump.

The polls shifted. Fast. Canadians woke up to the reality that anger isn’t a platform. Resentment isn’t a plan. And slogans don’t build a country.

Faced with a new political reality, Trudeau made one final decision: he stepped down.

And into the void stepped Mark Carney. A former central banker. A steady, measured leader. Someone offering unity over division. Truth over anger. A Canada that leads not follows.

Since that moment, the tide has turned. Canadians are realizing that maybe, just maybe, what Pierre Poilievre was selling they didn’t want to buy after all.

Pierre Poilievre says he’s fighting for freedom. But freedom without truth is chaos. Freedom without compassion is cruelty.

On Monday, Canada has a choice not just between parties, but between two very different visions of who we are.

We can choose fear. Or we can choose to believe in each other again.

History is watching. The future is waiting. And the country we love is counting on us.

Vive le Canada!

[terryclancy]

Hopefully everything works out all right in the end. I’ll never understand why the Liberals didn’t make mini-Trump own the Freedumb Convoy crap.

[Maritime Q-Scout]

Originally Posted by Slava

Are those the Postmedia publications?

[Torture]

Just signed up to help get out the vote tomorrow for Corey Hogan. It's going to be close so might as well do something about it.

[D as in David]

Originally Posted by Torture

Just signed up to help get out the vote tomorrow for Corey Hogan. It's going to be close so might as well do something about it.

Good for you! Prepare yourself for a hectic day.

[ripTDR]

Don't really know where to put this but I've heard a lot of talk about our natural resources being used to have a more positive impact on the environment. Out in Tillbury Delta, Fortis has a small LNG liquefaction plant and Seaspan is right beside it. Seaspan has just aquired 3 LNG bunker vessels which Fortis is filling for the purpose of providing marine vessels that have switched to LNG over more dirty bunker/diesel. Just thought I would put this out there because it feels like nobody really knows this

[Sylvanfan]

Originally Posted by rubecube

Do you have an active and healthy social life?

You might be describing a big chunk of this board with that statement. Plenty of folks supporting all parties who likely lack that.