Rising prices are affecting the ability to meet expenses for most Canadians
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Rising prices are affecting the ability to meet expenses for most Canadians
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#2Saw a video on Reddit where some MP brings this up and the other MPs laugh and ridicule him :(
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#3Saw a video on Reddit where some MP brings this up and the other MPs laugh and ridicule him :(
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#4Is the money printing catching up to us?
I feel like there has been a huge misallocation of the nation's resources towards top of the pyramid endouvers like gig apps, banks, "tech", estate etc rather than base infrastructure and manufacturing/agriculture. All due to the easy money for these sexy sectors. For a long time.
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#5Saw a video on Reddit where some MP brings this up and the other MPs laugh and ridicule him :(
Our country’s finance minister was asked about the high price of onions - a key staple in the Indian diet - and she quipped that she doesn’t care because she doesn’t eat onions.
Our rulers are cruel, intentionally so.
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#6Saw a video on Reddit where some MP brings this up and the other MPs laugh and ridicule him :(
I'm no fan of the Conservatives, the "political" "party" responsible for said laughter and ridicule, but it's important to point out that that video [0] is of Question Period, which, much like Britain's (and presumably other Westminister parliamentary democracies), isn't decorous at all, unlike normal House proceedings.
Rather, QP is reserved for gotchas, laughter, and ridicule -- which doesn't entirely absolve the Cons, but it should be seen as less "mask-off evil" and more "unnecessarily theatrical, but about something actually genuinely important rather than a meaningless political scandal". So, callous, and uh, approaching evil, but not there yet.
The "some MP" in question is Jagmeet Singh, the leader of the NDP, Canada's perennially second-banana left-wing party. To translate the status of the NDP into American: you can think of them as those third-party candidates who'd actually usher in change, but thanks to FUD everyone votes for one of the two neoliberals [1].
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#7Don't give up your firearms, Canadians.
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#8Not being Canadian and having never lived there, I apologize for my ignorance. (I have been there several times, and not just Toronto & Montreal & Vancouver, either.) I'll refrain from any mentions of hockey, poutine, eh, or Gordon Lightfoot.
Canada strikes me as more than ripe for a split. Quebec goes one way, Ontario another, Manitoba - Saskatchewan - Alberta another, BC a fourth, and I don't know about the other provinces.
The ultra-progressive Trudeau minority government should have fallen a long time ago. Their "conservatives" are about as worthless as California Republicans.
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#9Saw a video on Reddit where some MP brings this up and the other MPs laugh and ridicule him :(
They were laughing at his proposal [1], which seems like it would increase inflation in the same way that stimulus checks and rock-bottom interest rates did - by giving people cheap/free money.
Jagmeet Singh likes to characterize businesses as blood sucking institutions making money hand over fist. But competition in a healthy market makes it so that you can't just increase profit margins, because a competitor will eat your lunch. One big issue in Canada is that there is a lack of competition. Close friends who are entrepreneurs in Canada tell me that starting/operating a business in Canada is really difficult compared to the US (a lot more regulations, a lot less capital, and investors are really conservative). Telecom in Canada is pretty much a cartel - 3 providers, price fixing/geography-exclusion agreements, they inhabit the regulatory boards, ...
[1] https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/ndp-wants-to-redistri...
Re: Rising prices are affecting the ability to meet expenses for most Canadians
#10Saw a video on Reddit where some MP brings this up and the other MPs laugh and ridicule him :(
I'm no fan of the Conservatives, the "political" "party" responsible for said laughter and ridicule, but it's important to point out that that video [0] is of Question Period, which, much like Britain's (and presumably other Westminister parliamentary democracies), isn't decorous at all, unlike normal House proceedings. Rather, QP is reserved for gotchas, laughter, and ridicule -- which doesn't entirely absolve the C…
> To translate the status of the NDP into American: you can think of them as those third-party candidates who'd actually usher in change, but thanks to FUD everyone votes for one of the two neoliberals
I don't think the fear, uncertainty, and doubt are unwarranted when your policy proposal are roughly "free everything for everyone" and "no rich people allowed".
I'm being a bit crass, but I don't have the time to dig up and cite their policy proposals from the federal election a few years ago which looked like a fantasy wishlist that ignores things like "costs".