Canadian Federal Politics Thread v5

[Yoho]

https://twitter.com/user/status/1624027629618618371

[b1crunch]

Originally Posted by flamesfever

You are right. I think our PM has used more of our money to buy votes than any other PM before him.

I get a lot of joy out of reading political discussions, hearing what others have to say and offering my own opinions from time to time, which is why I read and post here.

But this ongoing narrative that Trudeau has bought and paid for the media in this country is ridiculous and (for me) is straight up conspiracy level BS. It's political discourse for idiots.

Trudeau is a terrible PM in lots of legitimate ways and can justifiably be criticized for lots of things he's said, done, policies, whatever. But it drives me nuts that people still go to these conspiracy level things. For me, it's the same as the people in the USA that called the 2020 election rigged. It's way out there conspiracy BS that has no place in serious political discussions.

Now, I understand there are idiots in the world, but I start to really lose my mind when politicians use this conspiracy-level BS to fundraise for themselves or to stir up their own base.

Seeing people on this board talk about some of this crap like its legitimate political discussion is mind-numbingly dumb. It's twitter-level garbage, that the vast majority of the people in this country don't think or care about.

You want Trudeau gone? Focus on the real issues. But Poilievre claiming the CBC is biased is nothing more than him stirring up the idiots of our society to create more twitter rage against Trudeau.

You think the media is biased? No #### sherlock. They've always been biased and always will be. They were biased in the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s too. The media is just a bunch of people and people are biased. You're biased, I'm biased, we're all biased. Welcome to reality, where we all have our own life experiences that inform how we view the world. But it doesn't mean everyone is bought and paid for. FFS, I can't believe that some of you believe this nonsense.

[Bring_Back_Shantz]

Originally Posted by Yoho

https://twitter.com/user/status/1624027629618618371

Gross.
Just another example of the main stream media kowtowing to the Liberals and NDP. Even worse that it's been penned by noted extreme leftists...Rex Murphy and Jordan Peterson.

Can't trust that MSM...unless I agree with them.

[Bunk]

Tory brought down by affair with staffer scandal. Mr boring but stable guy after Ford debacle. How ironic.

[bluejays]

Once again, those who promote themselves as wholesome are caught with their pants down. Classic politician. Feel for his wife more than anyone.

[Azure]

Any honest discussion around CBC funding would have to address the fact that they waste a lot of money on programming that the private sector should cover.

If we're going to fund a public broadcaster, they should focus on these things only.

News
Investigate reporting
Local news
Radio

Radio probably costs a lot of money so it can go as well.

Times are tough. Time to stop wasting money on useless TV shows.

[PepsiFree]

Producing things and ensuring the rights to things that people want to watch, which they can then sell advertising on, is probably a smarter way to decide on programming than arbitrarily naming a few different versions of the news.

[calculoso]

Canada added 150,000 jobs last month, 10 times what economists expected

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/can...uary-1.6743822

Canada's economy added 150,000 jobs in January, blowing past expectations for the second month in a row.

Statistics Canada reported Friday that most of the jobs — more than 120,000 — were of the full-time variety.

The gains come on the heels of an initial report of more than 100,000 jobs in December, a report that the data agency later revised down to just 69,000. But that still brings the two-month tally to more than 220,000 new jobs. January's gain was also ten times more than the amount of jobs that economists were expecting to have been added.

[Scroopy Noopers]

Originally Posted by Bunk

Tory brought down by affair with staffer scandal. Mr boring but stable guy after Ford debacle. How ironic.

It’s interesting. The news was all over this breaking news about Doug Fords daughters stag and doe having a bunch of his developer friends involved… and then all of a sudden the guy they wrote the strong mayor powers for has a new news dominating scandal. The timing of this stuff eh.

[Wormius]

Originally Posted by Azure

Any honest discussion around CBC funding would have to address the fact that they waste a lot of money on programming that the private sector should cover.

If we're going to fund a public broadcaster, they should focus on these things only.

News
Investigate reporting
Local news
Radio

Radio probably costs a lot of money so it can go as well.

Times are tough. Time to stop wasting money on useless TV shows.

You can pry CBC radio from my cold, dead hands.

[Roughneck]

Originally Posted by Wormius

You can pry CBC radio from my cold, dead hands.

It's not that it is too expensive, or that it isn't profitable, it's that it probably costs a lot of money. We apparently don't really know, but this isn't a data driven desire, just an ideological one.



I mean, the news costs a lot of money. Local news costs a lot of money. Investigative news also costs a lot of money. Those things can't be broadcast on radio? Why can't Radio News be added to the types of news the CBC is involved in?



But also to that point, isn't the fact the CBC is government funded and reports the news with it's liberal/Liberal bias the main reason for the CPC pushing to defund it in the first place?

[Bunk]

Originally Posted by Scroopy Noopers

It’s interesting. The news was all over this breaking news about Doug Fords daughters stag and doe having a bunch of his developer friends involved… and then all of a sudden the guy they wrote the strong mayor powers for has a new news dominating scandal. The timing of this stuff eh.

Rumours, legitimate ones, stating Ford wants to run for Toronto Mayor. It might seem unusual for a premier to want to become mayor, but this has always been the Fords' obsession. Now that there is strong mayor powers...

[monkeyman]

Originally Posted by Wormius

You can pry CBC radio from my cold, dead hands.

I'm going to guess, a lot of people who listen to CBC radio aren't too far from that anyway(cold/dead)#oldpeople.

[Yoho]

https://twitter.com/user/status/1624820280328613890

Liberals clawing back Cons gains.

[Harry Lime]

You might not want to hear this, but the only way that the CPC wins the next election is if the federal NDP start taking away some of those left wing votes, so you better start cheering on Singh a little more.

[GGG]

Originally Posted by Harry Lime

You might not want to hear this, but the only way that the CPC wins the next election is if the federal NDP start taking away some of those left wing votes, so you better start cheering on Singh a little more.

Ontario and BC will vote strategically riding by riding where cons have a chance so even that doesn’t get them there anymore.

The CPC does not realize that by being unpalatable to the middle it moves the liberals and the country left. In the US the republicans moving right moves the Dems right and then the Overton window shifts. That doesn’t happen in Canada, It doesn’t happen in Alberta, just look how centrist the NDP provincially is.

[CaptainCrunch]

https://twitter.com/user/status/1625525922098032640

Until there's a serious effort into reforming the conflict of interest and corruption punishments, people in government are never going to take it seriously. I mean a $500.00 fine when your sending hundreds of thousands of dollars in business to your friends or donators is worth it right now.

If you can't lose your seat or your pension or pay a big fine, its worth the risk of getting caught.

[Yoho]

Originally Posted by Bunk

Tory brought down by affair with staffer scandal. Mr boring but stable guy after Ford debacle. How ironic.

Nice rant by Sid about Tory staying on for TO budget.

https://twitter.com/user/status/1625674979550412801

https://twitter.com/user/status/1625661066624499714

[CaptainCrunch]

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/poli...medium=twitter

Federal Ethics CommissionerMario Dion is stepping down later this month because of persistent health issues, ending a five-year run in the post.
Mr. Dion announced his exit in a statement on Tuesday, saying he will leave on Feb. 21. There are two years left in his seven-year term.
His announcement arrived the same day as his latest report, which concludes that Liberal MP Greg Fergus, the parliamentary secretary to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, breached the Conflict of Interest Act by writing a letter to Canada’s broadcast regulator in support of a television channel’s application for mandatory carriage.

The Liberals wore him out.

[iggy_oi]

Originally Posted by Yoho

Nice rant by Sid about Tory staying on for TO budget.

https://twitter.com/user/status/1625674979550412801

Do you really think a former professional sports media reporter is the best qualified person to get your political opinions from?