Highlander
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Yes it will be a spring election, this is not the US thank God with a never-ending river of BS. We call our election in 3 months of non confidence or if the Boy King will just call a new election.
Federal Election 2019
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Ozzie
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I'm just adding this observation.... I know it's not something commonly discussed nor is it brought up in the media, but I am putting it out there because I love Canada and most on this Forum are Canadian brothers and sisters.
The WEF (World Economic Forum) has incredible influence on the political leaders and business owners of this nation, particularly over the past 6 years. If anyone here wonders why Canada has adopted policies which seem conter intuitive to the prosperity of Canadian people, it can many times be traced to WEF policy.
Examples:
1. Carbon Tax,
2. Wokism (identity politics)
3. Open Borders to Low Wage Workers and Illegals
4. Unbridled Money Printing
5. Elimination of Gun Ownership
6. Sending Money Overseas to Fund War
7. Collusion with Big Pharma
8. Internet Censorship
9. Debanking political dissent
There is no nation that has been conscripted by the WEF more than Canada. Freeland is the only elected official on the planet to serve on the WEF's Board (conflict of interest that has resulted in tens of billions of dollars printed and sent to green initiatives, pharma and war), and Carney is also on its Foundation Board.
Trudeau and Singh are WEF Young Leaders (hence the lock step collusion). And very unfortunately for Canada, even Poilievre was a Young Leader years ago but was removed from the WEF website.
I realize many will doubt this and dismiss it. The main thing is there are a lot of counter intuitive policies that have been implemented in Canada, and some so draconian, Canadians rebelled and even stopped them (such as Vaccine Passports and maybe in the future the Carbon Tax will be stopped), that are directly from the WEF and implemented in Canada by conscription of only a couple of dozen Canadian people..... a dozen politicians and a dozen leaders in banking and media. It doesn't take much. But the impact is devastating.
Just want to put this on people's radar just in case you are trying to make sense of why such a great nation as Canada has fallen to become nearly unrecognizable over the past 6 to 9 years.
The WEF (World Economic Forum) has incredible influence on the political leaders and business owners of this nation, particularly over the past 6 years. If anyone here wonders why Canada has adopted policies which seem conter intuitive to the prosperity of Canadian people, it can many times be traced to WEF policy.
Examples:
1. Carbon Tax,
2. Wokism (identity politics)
3. Open Borders to Low Wage Workers and Illegals
4. Unbridled Money Printing
5. Elimination of Gun Ownership
6. Sending Money Overseas to Fund War
7. Collusion with Big Pharma
8. Internet Censorship
9. Debanking political dissent
There is no nation that has been conscripted by the WEF more than Canada. Freeland is the only elected official on the planet to serve on the WEF's Board (conflict of interest that has resulted in tens of billions of dollars printed and sent to green initiatives, pharma and war), and Carney is also on its Foundation Board.
Trudeau and Singh are WEF Young Leaders (hence the lock step collusion). And very unfortunately for Canada, even Poilievre was a Young Leader years ago but was removed from the WEF website.
I realize many will doubt this and dismiss it. The main thing is there are a lot of counter intuitive policies that have been implemented in Canada, and some so draconian, Canadians rebelled and even stopped them (such as Vaccine Passports and maybe in the future the Carbon Tax will be stopped), that are directly from the WEF and implemented in Canada by conscription of only a couple of dozen Canadian people..... a dozen politicians and a dozen leaders in banking and media. It doesn't take much. But the impact is devastating.
Just want to put this on people's radar just in case you are trying to make sense of why such a great nation as Canada has fallen to become nearly unrecognizable over the past 6 to 9 years.
Highlander
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Thank you Ozzie, your email is both informative and very interesting.
Baby Pierre and cronies have systematically ruined this country. It’s time for common sense, fiscal responsibility, balanced budgets and using our massive natural resources in a practical yet responsible manner
It’s time for a change and looking forward to it
We have been a ship without a rudder for the last decade
Funny how the Premier of Alberta mentioned my suggestion of the other day to place a tariff on their oil exports to the United States
Most of what makes up our trade deficit is our oil resources
Seems the other premiers don’t like her stance especially Ford
Baby Pierre and cronies have systematically ruined this country. It’s time for common sense, fiscal responsibility, balanced budgets and using our massive natural resources in a practical yet responsible manner
It’s time for a change and looking forward to it
We have been a ship without a rudder for the last decade
Funny how the Premier of Alberta mentioned my suggestion of the other day to place a tariff on their oil exports to the United States
Most of what makes up our trade deficit is our oil resources
Seems the other premiers don’t like her stance especially Ford
Highlander
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Meant most of makes up for our trade deficit is our oil
herman
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Because you sound much more familiar with the topic, can you elaborate on why those items are counter to a prosperous Canadian people? Some of them might be a bit more straightforward than others, but ELI5?
Like, what does it even mean to have a prosperous Canada?
I am not married to any one party and will listen to what each has to say but I am pissed about Trudeau not following through on election reform and not getting rid of "1st-past-the-post" voting. Every vote should count and have an equal weight in representation. A vote should not feel wasted or ever be considered strategic knowing your party won't win.
It really is hard to address this post when I smell a strong air of conspiratorial thinking.
Trudeau being the Prime Minister for 9yrs has warped some people's minds. Canada has been the same country PM after PM and all countries sway back and forth between left, centre and right periods of their histories. How does this make Canada unrecognizable? You make it sound like we're in the second of Stalin's five year plans. Should we have said the same thing after Harper? As well, the extent to which people focus on federal politics and JT that he's ruined the country then make statements about education and health care, and the state of traffic makes me laugh when they have no idea who their MP is, don't care about what happens at the provincial level and forget to vote at the municipal level.
At any rate, the country needs a new voice and a new perspective and I'm hopeful that we can get a few things in order, such reducing the deficit and balancing the budget, creating an environment where it's easier and more attractive to start businesses, reduce cross provincial trade friction, increase our productivity and competitiveness, get the feds back into a stronger role for housing, a more intelligent immigration system and a three level of govt approach to work on the homelessness issue.
Highlander
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Funny I said to my wife the other day when Gavin Newsom started doing his ridiculous shoulder dance while speaking. I said this guy is exactly like Trudeau. Later in the day on some news outlets commentators started saying the same thing, the next day Kevin O'Leary came out and said it. Both as useless as tits on a bull.
I am definitely not for proportional representation, but single transferable vote would've been great. Thing is we also tried it in Ontario and it was voted down because people didn't understand how it worked.
I could say the same thing about that traitor Kevin O'Leary.
Highlander
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How is Kevin O' Leary a traitor? Cause he went from Dragons Den to be on the US version "Shark Tank"? If you are talking about the one currency deal, it will never happen and he knows that. Kevin does like stirring the shit a bit.
louisstamos
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I don't want to put words in Bender's mouth, but I believe Kevin O'Leary is on record saying he thinks Canada becoming the 51st state is a good idea.
So, if so, yeah - he's a traitor.
Ozzie
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During the Covid years, the federal government led by Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, printed 38% of all money supply ever printed in the history of Canada.
This mostly was for sending tens of billions of dollars to fund war overseas. Tens of billions of dollars to Big Pharma companies and Green Initiatives. And Tens of Billions to expand government programs and staff.
How this hurts Canadians is that it causes massive inflation. Printing money is a tax on the non-wealthy. When it's an unprecedented 38% of all money supply ever in the history of the nation, it impacts everyone except the ultra rich (top 1%). Simply put, regular salary and wage earners have difficulty paying rent and paying for food.
When America also printed a similar percentage during Covid, they had the entire planet to absorb the money (bc everyone uses the US dollar) and so inflation is not as bad there. Also there is significantly higher entrepreneurialism in US and so people can go out and make more money and create more jobs. Canada doesn't have the same culture and so people working for salaries and wages get crushed by rising costs, and there isn't a large expansion of jobs.
I should note that Freeland is of Ukrainian descent and she was a journalist that spent most of her years trying to fund subversive media and activities against Russia, particularly during the Orange Revolution of Ukraine 20 years ago. This is super well documented and easy to research, but you will never know it because otherwise people might see the scam against them.
It will take a long time for this flood of money to work through the Canadian system. But basically, Canadians earn almost the same as before, yet the flood of money makes prices substantially higher.
That's how Canadians are less prosperous.
Now in order to make sure Canadian wages and inflation figures stay low, the Federal government let in a flood of low wage immigrants and refugees. Regular Canadians generally won't take jobs that can't make ends meet, but these new workers and refugees will. And so the corporate and elite class are happy because their margins remain in tact. In addition, inflation measures that use wages as one of their primary measures remain artificially low. Meaning all the things, such as wages to people and government social payments that adjust based on official inflation measures are kept artificially low because the flood of migrants keeps it low. But Canadians generally suffer in their prosperity.
I could go on and on about this but it's super unfortunate what's happened. If you tell me you don't notice the pain, then you are lucky. But this pain is something Canadians will need to endure for a long time until the money works through the system.
Here is the metric that is most telling. GDP per capita 10 years ago was close to parity with the US. Everyone growing up in Canada remembers those days. Today it's fallen off the cliff and is 61% of US and dropping percipitously. And the GDP and productivity outlook for Canada for the foreseeable future is the worst amongst all G7 nations.
Yet rents and housing costs are almost double the US.
This is what is meant by policies that are counter to prosperity for Canadians, just to elaborate on a couple of them.
Sorry if my message offends anyone. I don't mean to. I just have a particularly different background which makes me privy to some of what's transpired recently. And I just want to flag it to my 'commrades' of what's happening out there.
Highlander
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I watch a ton of tv and have seen Mr. Wonderful everywhere, no time have I seen him advocate for us to be the 51st State
In fact he said with Trump you have to separate the wheat from the chaff
He did say there may be some advantages of using the same currency
I would like Ozzie’s take on that
In fact he said with Trump you have to separate the wheat from the chaff
He did say there may be some advantages of using the same currency
I would like Ozzie’s take on that
Guilt Trip
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True on all accounts. He's against joining them as a "State". One currency, no tariffs.
IJustLurkHere
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Any list which unironically includes the term "wokism" tells you more about the creator of the list than about the subject of the list.
Highlander
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Can you elaborate, I don’t think I understand your post?
Ozzie
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First, O'Leary is a BS artist that tries to insert himself into drama's as an expert and make some money. He tried to do this big time in my specific industry, and tried to represent himself to Congress as the expert. He even lied under oath in a Congressional Hearing because he was paid off $15m in equity to shill and lie. I know this first hand. He get's no respect from the inner circles and is seen as a fugazi, and none of they key people in my business will do business with him, ever.
Kind of like he's trying to represent to Trump he somehow represents Canada and knows Canadian sentiment to insert himself into the Trump circle and get some business out of it.
Second, he did NOT say Canada should be 51st state. He talked more about trade and common currency.
In terms of common currency, I personally think it's not good for the economic sovereignty of Canada.
One one hand, the benefit would be there would be reduced transactional costs for US-Canada trade for Canadian businesses, and pretty much with the entire planet because just about every nation trades in US$. But that benefit is no where near the cost of losing the ability to have our own Monetary Policy with our own currency. For example, when the economy needs stimulus we can print more money, and reduce interest rates, or if it needs to cool down, we can restrict Canadian dollar availability (liquidity), and slow things down. We can also buy and sell CND and other things to adjust exchange rates to simulate more trade, and other things. With only USD, we can't do any of that, and we will be at the whim of the US treasury for their monetary policy, which is more about wars, and stock market pumping and housing markets and elections there. And so Canada will be f@cked, because we lose that ability.
One example of this is that currently, with where the CND to USD exchange rate is..... the 25% tariff is not as difficult as it sounds because the CND has already dropped 25% over Trudeau's reign. Canadian goods currently are very cheap for americans (and the whole world) to buy - mostly because our productivity is so low and people internationally lack confidence in the nation - and so our dollar price is low. So this will help Canada sell more goods and services overseas (plus there will be more investment into Canada). Trump adding 25% tariff just brings us to the same costs to Americans as 10 years ago Pre-Trudeau when the exchange rate was $0.86 USD to $1.00 CND vs now when it's at $0.69..... which is pretty pathetic. And it's dropping.
So right now, we have the ability to influence this to make Canadian exports more competitive with pricing (i.e. influence Canadian dollar to drop to sell more)...... if we had a Common Currency, we would totally lose this power and Canadian economy would be subject to the crazy US dollar policies. IMHO.
Ozzie
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"wokism" is also known as Identity Politics.
In case you are not familiar with this, I would look it up. It's where people think about things and play politics based on a particular identity bucket, such as ethnicity, race, nationality, religion, denomination, gender, sexual orientation, social and economic status, etc....
So people look at things as Rich People Bad, Poor People Good...Man Bad, Woman of Color Good...... and the result of this thinking is instead of judging someone on their particular merits, you judge them based on their "bucket".... so for example when Trudeau criticized Americans in December for "rejecting two women president candidates" and linked that as an attack on women's rights.... instead of framing the discussion as, Harris the candidate lost to Trump the candidate based on the merits of each candidate and campaign.
I lived for 12 years in a nation where identity politics resulted in the death of 80 million to 100 million people over the past 100 years at the hands of government. And globally I would say it contributed to the deaths at the hands of government of 150 million, depending on what statistics you look at. Marxism is based on Identity Politics - "All Rich people are evil and bad" for example. Canadians and Americans have not faced this type of darkness in their history, so they are not aware the path this type of thinking leads to when you look at politics in terms of Identity Politics - eg. "this person is trans so they must be correct", or this is a "white man so he cannot be allowed to take this position"
Canada is a very progressive society.... but that progressiveness can continue based on the merits of individuals.... and not just because they belong to a certain identity to label who they are. If that makes sense.
IJustLurkHere
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Sure you do.