Canadian Federal Politics Thread v5

[Fuzz]

Joe learned all he needed to know about Canada during the pandemic from the usual festering holes of bull####, so he knows about the plight of the truckers, and how trans people took over the country, and how we have no rights except to kill ourselves with MAID. He's not only a source of misinformation, his brain is impregnated with it.

[Erick Estrada]

Originally Posted by KootenayFlamesFan

I could only watch a couple clips of that Rogan/Pierre interview before enough was enough. Joe commenting that Canada has been 'sliding' as a country is pretty rich coming from the wannabe expert on everything that helped get a mentally unwell pedo elected in his own country.

It will be a great day when that podcast is gone forever.

Imagine sitting right smack in the middle of a house that’s burning to the ground and commenting that your neighbor’s residence is sliding.

[direwolf]

Originally Posted by KootenayFlamesFan

Joe commenting that Canada has been 'sliding' as a country is pretty rich coming from the wannabe expert on everything that helped get a mentally unwell pedo elected in his own country.

Canada certainly has some problems, but at least we're still a democracy. Meanwhile Rogan's beloved U.S. has spiralled rapidly down the toilet into full-blown fascism with a childish narcissistic lunatic at the helm. Government agents are murdering American citizens in the streets, people are being stripped of their rights, and there are serious doubts about whether or not upcoming elections will be fair or even held at all. Or how about Trump talking about a 3rd term and starting insane wars that he has no idea how to get out of, etc, etc...

Rogan is a f'n moron.

[Winsor_Pilates]

Originally Posted by KootenayFlamesFan

I could only watch a couple clips of that Rogan/Pierre interview before enough was enough. Joe commenting that Canada has been 'sliding' as a country is pretty rich coming from the wannabe expert on everything that helped get a mentally unwell pedo elected in his own country.

It will be a great day when that podcast is gone forever.

I listed to the first 90 minutes.
Rogan is one of the stupidest people alive; I can't believe how much influence he has.
The amount of nonsense he talks about Canada and so many other things is astounding and he says it all with such confidence; not because he knows anything, but because the size of his audience validates him as an authority.

In fairness to PP; he handles the interview pretty well.
He doesn't take the bait to start slamming Carney, talks up the Canadian parliamentary system vs America's system and mostly focuses on Canada's resources and why America should drop tariffs.
I would have liked him to push back on Rogan more on the misrepresentation of Canada, which he did do when talking about the oil sands and Rogan saying how bad they are environmentally.
He seemed prepared to not get pulled into any Maple Maga positioning, where someone like D Smith found have likely jumped in head first.

[GordonBlue]

Have to admit I've been impressed with how Poilievre has handled himself recently.
He's pivoted from the angry sound bite man and is coming across as a reasonable, intelligent person.
doing a good job of appearing to work with the liberals when it also benefits the conservatives, and he's getting points for not bashing Carney and the Liberals to any American that will listen. He's being team Canada.

someone has finally gotten through to him to show what he needs to do to be a viable alternative as PM.

I'd still not vote for his party, but do have to give him credit for his recent turn.

[Fuzz]

Clearly he's got someone new running his image, but this is probably a lot more of a shallow makeover than a Farkas level realization he's been wrong about a lot of things. It's not his first time, and I doubt any actual change has taken place, other than an attempt to appear more appealing. It's not like he had a lot of options of which direction to try next.

[CorsiHockeyLeague]

Absolutely not... he's of course just being a weather vane, which is all he's ever been. Very standard politician of the purest sort: "whatever gets me more votes, more influence, more power is what I'm going to be and what I'm going to say". This is why the notion that Poilievre was ever Canadian Trump was so ridiculous; he isn't the same animal at all. He's Ted Cruz.

[Scroopy Noopers]

Originally Posted by Winsor_Pilates

I listed to the first 90 minutes.
Rogan is one of the stupidest people alive; I can't believe how much influence he has.
The amount of nonsense he talks about Canada and so many other things is astounding and he says it all with such confidence; not because he knows anything, but because the size of his audience validates him as an authority.

In fairness to PP; he handles the interview pretty well.
He doesn't take the bait to start slamming Carney, talks up the Canadian parliamentary system vs America's system and mostly focuses on Canada's resources and why America should drop tariffs.
I would have liked him to push back on Rogan more on the misrepresentation of Canada, which he did do when talking about the oil sands and Rogan saying how bad they are environmentally.
He seemed prepared to not get pulled into any Maple Maga positioning, where someone like D Smith found have likely jumped in head first.

A perfect snap shot of how Rogan operates is how quickly Poilievre reverses his opinions on tailing ponds. He just says to Rogan that they aren’t bad, and it’s environmental extremist misinformation, and Rogan goes “yeah they got me…”.

[Johnny Makarov]

Originally Posted by GordonBlue

Have to admit I've been impressed with how Poilievre has handled himself recently.
He's pivoted from the angry sound bite man and is coming across as a reasonable, intelligent person.
doing a good job of appearing to work with the liberals when it also benefits the conservatives, and he's getting points for not bashing Carney and the Liberals to any American that will listen. He's being team Canada.

someone has finally gotten through to him to show what he needs to do to be a viable alternative as PM.

I'd still not vote for his party, but do have to give him credit for his recent turn.

He'll just go back to his smarmy yap dog personality when he is back in the house of commons. You can't change an old deplorable.

[Johnny Makarov]

Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague

Absolutely not... he's of course just being a weather vane, which is all he's ever been. Very standard politician of the purest sort: "whatever gets me more votes, more influence, more power is what I'm going to be and what I'm going to say". This is why the notion that Poilievre was ever Canadian Trump was so ridiculous; he isn't the same animal at all. He's Ted Cruz.

Thats still pretty crappy. Ted Cruz is the most evil thing to ever come out of Calgary.

[chemgear]

Where is that promised bail reform from the feds? A good example of how ridiculous things are now and the balance is tipped to the criminals. Maybe the judge should revisit their hopes & dreams. Maybe they need to experience more of the consequences of all these releases themselves. At least the judge looks like moron and sets the perfect example for people standing against his viewpoint.


On March 11: Another "last chance" after a string of crimes and being released after them all. The judge lectures the public about complaints against the current easy bail releases.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfo...nder-9.7122668

N.L. judge criticizes 'inflammatory rhetoric' on bail reform, as he grants bail to repeat offender

Wadden's comments came during his bail decision on Justin King — a 34-year-old man accused in a string of property crimes in the Conception Bay North area.

King is facing 17 charges including four break and enters since December. He has not yet entered a plea.

The RCMP in the region have dubbed him a "prolific offender," and his court appearances have been packed with local residents hoping to see him stay behind bars.

Wadden had to weigh three questions before reaching his decision — is King a risk to flee, is he a substantial risk to the community, and would his release affect the public's trust in the justice system?

In the end, he ruled no to all three. Wadden granted King bail

“If you return to custody, you will likely be in the position of having used your last chance," Wadden told King. "Please don’t waste this chance.”




Just 12 days later, March 23. Oh, surprise! Here we go again. I wonder if they released him once again and gave a lecture to the public again.


https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfo...rest-9.7138406

Cassie Kelloway isn't gloating, despite predicting the man accused of burglarizing her family home would end up back in jail again.

"I wasn't shocked," she told CBC's On the Go on Monday. "We predicted this would happen prior to him getting released two weeks ago."

He was arrested again on Sunday evening, and is now charged with an additional break-and-enter, as well as single counts of extortion, forcible confinement, possessing a break-in instrument and four breaches of court conditions.

According to those documents, the extortion charge stems from allegations he attempted to “induce [a woman] by threats to engage in sexual intercourse.” It’s alleged he forcibly confined the same woman.

[Blaster86]

Originally Posted by chemgear

Maybe the judge should revisit their hopes & dreams. Maybe they need to experience more of the consequences of all these releases themselves.

I always love this. The below average Canadian always seems to think that judges can just pull random sentencing out of their ass and they're choosing to be lenient because they're soft weenie little Liberals.

[DJones]

Originally Posted by calgarygeologist

Upcoming budget cuts:

Cutting budgets like this without policy change is bad form imo. It just inevitably makes the process worse. Some of these look like one year adjustments to the norm, hard to tell without looking at the department financials directly but the idea doesn't change.

If you want to cut CRA's budget by that much you better be making taxes a lot simpler. Otherwise what are you cutting? You aren't cutting mid managers by that amount. You cutting the amount of reviews? You cutting court battles? Just slap an AI sticker onto the problem and say problem solved will likely be it.

Just start slashing whole departments. Change how the process is done so you do not need the department at all. I'm guessing this philosophy is the last remnants of the Trudeau faction. It seems counter to Carney's ideas. He can't be this short sighted. Just scrap the regional economic departments. Just poof they're gone. Provinces do not need to send money to the feds so they feds can decide how they can give the money back to the provinces.

This poor logic is all over the Liberals right now. Lets create a backdoor shortcut to enable companies to bypass the bad policy on infrastructure projects. Just change the bad policy. Infrastructure deals and negotiations shouldn't be made in backrooms with who knows what negotiations behind them.

[Firebot]

Originally Posted by DJones

Cutting budgets like this without policy change is bad form imo. It just inevitably makes the process worse. Some of these look like one year adjustments to the norm, hard to tell without looking at the department financials directly but the idea doesn't change.

If you want to cut CRA's budget by that much you better be making taxes a lot simpler. Otherwise what are you cutting? You aren't cutting mid managers by that amount. You cutting the amount of reviews? You cutting court battles? Just slap an AI sticker onto the problem and say problem solved will likely be it.

Just start slashing whole departments. Change how the process is done so you do not need the department at all. I'm guessing this philosophy is the last remnants of the Trudeau faction. It seems counter to Carney's ideas. He can't be this short sighted. Just scrap the regional economic departments. Just poof they're gone. Provinces do not need to send money to the feds so they feds can decide how they can give the money back to the provinces.

This poor logic is all over the Liberals right now. Lets create a backdoor shortcut to enable companies to bypass the bad policy on infrastructure projects. Just change the bad policy. Infrastructure deals and negotiations shouldn't be made in backrooms with who knows what negotiations behind them.

Sorry what?

[Looch City]

Originally Posted by Firebot

Sorry what?

[Mathgod]

Context on the budget cuts:

https://globalnews.ca/news/11740469/...s-budget-2026/

[Mazrim]

Originally Posted by Mathgod

Context on the budget cuts:

https://globalnews.ca/news/11740469/...s-budget-2026/

I thought the graphic was really clickbait-y and this article confirms it.

[DJones]

Originally Posted by Firebot

Sorry what?

What are you confused about. Trimming bureaucratic departments doesn't work without changing policy/goals.

[DJones]

Originally Posted by Firebot

Sorry what?

What are you confused about. Trimming bureaucratic departments doesn't work without changing policy/goals.

The infrastructure approvals is the king of that error. Don't fix the bad regulations, just have a rubber stamp for the companies that lobby effectively behind closed doors.

[Flacker]

Originally Posted by DJones

What are you confused about. Trimming bureaucratic departments doesn't work without changing policy/goals.

The infrastructure approvals is the king of that error. Don't fix the bad regulations, just have a rubber stamp for the companies that lobby effectively behind closed doors.

Major Projects Office isn't behind closed doors, you can see all of the projects in question. Streamlining and accelerating projects that are deemed in the national interest is the king of error?