Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Justin Trudeau promises to resign as PM

cbc.ca

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

511–520 of 1001 posts

Re: Justin Trudeau promises to resign as PM

#511

Post by cmrdporcupine »

mike_hearn wrote: post #466
bryanlarsen wrote: post #380

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The city or the province could have done that. They didn't. The Feds could only use federal reasons. The mishandled response to the trucker protest should be blamed on the city and the province, not on Trudeau.

Trudeau was the one who triggered the protests in the first place. The liberal, moral, fast and peaceful solution to the trucker protests was simple: stop forcing people to take experimental drugs against their will. The vaccines didn't reduce transmission, and there is no rule against living life in a risky way (even if you believe the vaccines worked at all), so there was never any moral argument for the mandates.…

[flagged]

Re: Justin Trudeau promises to resign as PM

#514

Post by tlss »

ygjb wrote: post #455
BunsanSpace wrote: post #301

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is the crux of the issue honestly. Trudeau should have had the humility to read the writing on the wall in the fall, and stepped down so we could have a stable government to deal with the incoming US administration and give his party a fighting chance next election. He could have rested on his laurels knowing history would likely forget his shortcomings & scandals, and be remembered as the prime minister who got…

Here's the primary problem with your argument: the current front-runner to win the next election is the Conservative Party of Canada, with Pierre Poilievre as leader, and pretty much a shoo-in for the next Prime Minister. Poilievre is a career politician who's only professional experience has been as a politician, has no work history to speak of (don't take my word for it, his wikipedia entry details only a job as a…

Justin Trudeau was a ski instructor before becoming Prime Minister.

Ronald Reagan and Zelenskyy were ridiculed as an actor in their election campaigns.

Poilievre is a career politician and unproven at the highest office, but that by itself should not disqualify him. Knowing who to delegate to is 90% the job of a good leader -- the other 10% is public speaking and being charismatic.

Re: Justin Trudeau promises to resign as PM

#515

Post by slackfan »

cmrdporcupine wrote: post #502
busterarm wrote: post #168

Earlier quoted context omitted.

[flagged]

[flagged]

Per Miriam Webster:

1: of, relating to, or favoring blind submission to authority

2: of, relating to, or favoring a concentration of power in a leader or an elite not constitutionally responsible to the people

It was quite pointedly, exactly neither of these. Words have meanings.

Re: Justin Trudeau promises to resign as PM

#516

Post by eli_gottlieb »

throw0101d wrote: post #424
swat535 wrote: post #293

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And the court of law later determined that this was an abuse of power and unlawful. The fact that there is an existing law that can be abused does not negate the argument that abusing it is unlawful.

> And the court of law later determined […] And an Act -mandated commission said it was warranted: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Order_Emergency_Commiss...

And in the Canadian system, are appointed commissions or judicial rulings supreme and overriding over the other?

Re: Justin Trudeau promises to resign as PM

#517

Post by notevenremotely »

wk_end wrote: post #393
CamelCaseName wrote: post #376

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What was your path of immigration into the US as a Canadian? Any tips or advice?

If you're posting on Hacker News, you probably have a skill set that'll allow you to get a job covered by a TN. You go to border control, tell them you're applying for a TN, hand them a copy of your identification, resume, credentials, and offer letter. Then you wait for a couple of hours while they process you, and you're set for the next few years. Rinse and repeat until your job sponsors you for an H1-B or you mar…

You can apply for a Green Card directly from TN status, although timing has been an issue recently.

Re: Justin Trudeau promises to resign as PM

#518

Post by throaway89 »

fidotron wrote: post #410
hackandthink wrote: post #276

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"In 1971, official date of the birth of topos theory, unfortunately the dream team at Dalhousie was dispersed. What happened, that made you go to Denmark ? Some members of the team, including myself, became active against the Vietnam war and later against the War Measures Act proclaimed by Trudeau. That Act,similar in many ways to the Patriot Act 35 years later in the US, suspended civil liberties under the pretext o…

Amazingly there is someone living very close to the airport where they found the body of the Deputy Premier of Quebec (Pierre Laporte) in 1970 that flies the flags of allegiance to the successors of the terrorists (i.e. the MNLQ following from the FLQ) from a pole in his yard for everyone on the highway to see. For some people all this stuff is very much part of their reason for being, but the FLQ took being obnoxiou…

yeah what people dont always understand (not saying you dont) is that FLQ supporters see themselves as basically being occupied by Anglo Canadians. Until the 60's there was entrenched discrimination in Montreal against catholics and french-speakers. The city even used to have two hockey teams, one for Anglos and one for Francos.

Re: Justin Trudeau promises to resign as PM

#519

Post by bryanlarsen »

SpecialistK wrote: post #504

So it's all going down now eh? For those not on the pulse of CdnPoli, this is a primer I wrote a few weeks ago but is still widely relevant: What we've been watching for the last 18 months has been the slow collapse of the governing Liberal Party, led by Justin Trudeau (LPC) - Polling and projections have been turning heavily against the LPC since last summer (2023), and the internal party cracks started showing afte…

> When Parliament returns in March with a new Liberal Party leader

Trudeau will ask for, and likely get, a prorogation to give them time to choose a new leader. Add the 51 days for the election and it's likely to be a fall election.

Re: Justin Trudeau promises to resign as PM

#520

Post by wk_end »

nostromo wrote: post #457
avgDev wrote: post #384

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I feel like this site has a bit of a bias when it comes to the USA. Most devs are highly compensated in the USA and can afford whatever. Being poor or sick sucks here.

Most of Canada is pretty poor now. From the Economist: https://archive.is/UdixF/ec46ebf7fe812cd5e9432f45f68bd142e6c... Their housing is more expensive than the US, but taxes are higher and wages are lower. If Canada’s provinces were states, the populated ones would be poorer than the poorest US states, along with higher taxes and expensive housing. https://brilliantmaps.com/us-vs-canada-gdp-per-capita/ British Columb…

You say "now" as though it's ever not been the case. These comparisons do a poor job of taking into account cost-of-living and quality-of-life; it's simply not the case that you're better off in Montgomery than Toronto.
Post reply on HN