A Right-Wing Takeover In Canada?

[@superkingoftacos2920]

If you talk to conservatives in canada, they'll list conservative policies that they hate and blame the liberals for them. Whenever my dad rants about the liberals, he always talks about how much he hates policies that the ontario conservative government implemented. If you point this out to him he suddenly doesn't want to talk about politics anymore and I'm the ahole for bringing it up 2 hours into his unprompted rant.

[@AUG_XZABER]

Median voters in Canada are just as r3tarded as the ones in the States.

[@te8547e]

Sounds like my family. Clowns the whole lot of them.

[@michaelkalus7802]

I have that right now with a lot of people that are pissed and want to vote Conservative. Explaining that a lot of the crap we're dealing with right now are the effects of Harper policies (not all, but a good chunk) does not register. Really, the average person operates on a "monkey see, monkey do" mindset and there is zero long term memory or the ability to see the long term impact of policies. This isn't a Canadian problem, that's true globally and an "interesting" evolutionary quirk.

[@FakeSchrodingersCat]

The problem is that Canadian politics is more complicated then the US and also extremely boring. So many people think that the Federal government actually has power over their daily lives when for the most part all it can do is earmark money given to the Provinces and hope the provinces spend it effectively.

[@michaelkalus7802]

@@FakeSchrodingersCat Too many people are steeped in US politics and don't understand how their own country works. Hence why you saw Gadsen flags or "Trump 2024" flags during the occupation (and at other occasions since).

[@Shinigami13133]

If only trudeau actually kept his promise and got rid of first past the post

[@Iban-Underground]

Ayup.

[@MILOPETIT]

Could you explain what that means, I'm trying to keep up with my own country's politics but it's confusing

[@evandewolde8037]

@@MILOPETIT depends. First past the post is just you vote for one person. It is what the states does and Canada. It still shit. The one we want is you rate which leaders. So with 5 people you put a number 1 2 3 4 5. Your 1 vote is counted first, if that person fails it, the vote then goes to the one you put 2 on. and so on. Kinda complicated

[@dominicrochon5501]

I'm legit so pissed Trudeau didn't follow through on this and it's one of the main reasons I will be voting NDP

[@AuUntaris]

First past the post Parliaments have elections whereby a winner of a riding/county gets the seat, a winner take all proposition. There were talks of a proportional representation system to replace it. Proportionally representation would mean if a party got, say, 40% of the vote, they’d get 40% of the seats. This would allow new parties to come into the process and grow. Two elections ago the Green Party had well over a million voters across Canada, about 11% of the total, but they only had one seat in Parliament, 0.25% of the seats.

[@kaponos]

An odd quirk of Canadian politics is that there's a very large and very dumb portion of the electorate that is constantly swapping parties. They see there isn't enough housing or healthcare or social services and go "We need progressive spending in these areas!" But then they see the government spending tax money on that stuff and those same people go "How dare the government spend so much tax money, we need conservative austerity!" Then they see there isn't enough housing or healthcare or social services and go "We need progressive spending in these areas!" And on and on.

[@michaelkalus7802]

Canadians like to vote for dictators on time. There's also a "set it and forget it" mindset. Where people believe living in a democracy means you go vote every few years. There is little understanding that democracy requires more engagement thank that.

[@Fiorildi-ar]

The north american education crisis

[@corvussio1454]

The problem isn’t that people are angry for the government spending money in housing and healthcare, the problem is that the Liberal government’s spending is ineffectual. People wouldn’t complain if there were noticeable change for the money they’re putting in, but there isn’t. Because Canada’s problems have nothing to do with having too low of a budget. The problems are systemic. Like an ineffectual bloated bureaucracy that means everything takes forever. City councils who refuse to allow for low income housing. The healthcare system having no incentive to improve without a private sector to drive innovation. These are all things simply spending more money won’t fix, and are things Pierre Poilievre has said he will do something about by cutting through the red tape.

[@michaelkalus7802]

@@corvussio1454 "the problem is that the Liberal government’s spending is ineffectual." 1. Investments take time to show effect. 2. It's not the Feds that are actually spending the money. Housing and Healthcare are Provincial responsibilities. The Feds can give them money, they can attach a few strings to it, but exactly how and when the money is getting spent is up to the Provinces. So, it's not a failure of the Feds. It's a failure of the (mostly) conservative Provincial Governments. Just compare BC (NDP) and Alberta (MAGA type Conservatives) in what has been done on housing and healthcare.

[@cookies23z]

honestly... that is a great way to put it

[@DeanCalhoun]

global right wing sweep is genuinely terrifying

[@tcdan-c2m]

We must consider WHY. This didn't just magically happen.

[@Junebug89]

@@tcdan-c2m decades of neoliberal failure

[@améliehester6996]

GIobaI 4th Re!ch? Based

[@MWbluestar]

@@tcdan-c2m Milquetoast neo-liberals enabling a culture where it's cool to be apathetic while the nazis take over.

[@Newton-Reuther]

It already happened in 2016. This is just a continuation

[@GigaChadBullMoose-g8z]

I live in Canada and the Trudeau hate is crazy. I think there will be a right-wing sweep here. Even the NDP dropped the Liberals.

[@dillonbija9592]

Yup, same here. I live in a small town in southern Ontario, the amount of freedom loser chuds I deal with on a daily basis is very sad.

[@Iban-Underground]

A good chunk of it is because of not farms, which slowly turned tide against him over the years. Nothing was ever done about it, and as a result our elections have been influenced by it.

[@lobiqpidol818]

When real issue pop up the imaginary issues progressives complain about become irrelevant. When right winger's solve real issues then imaginary issues become relevant again.

[@BrodieChree]

I mean conservative convoys are annoying but you have to be a complete limousine liberal to not notice how their immigration and economic polices are limp and ineffective. People have lost their homes and family members so the investor class could own rentals that were never built to the millions of TFW "students" seeking to fraud or force permanent residency. All while the libs and the raping, fraudster landlords and "immigration consultants" agreed to call any one who had concerns "racist". Check out the CBC bit on how kids are being sent to Ontario, Canada on a loan against the family farm to get Zoom school from a 14-plastic chair business park unit. DW from germany has done a good expose too. Trudeau went on The Late Show last night because the jig is up. Their economic policy got frauded to the tits. EU Carousel scams, look it up.

[@LazyEyePolitics]

Does that mean yall lose your Healthcare and shit?

[@IMayOrMayNotBeNoelG]

This is one of the most annoying thing about Canadian politics. We have an electorate who is largely left of center and a Liberal party who has to be held to account by the NDP in order to address progressive issues. We also have a Conservative government intent on privatization of public holdings and in bed with corporations just as much as the Liberals. Every time we elect Conservatives we forget how badly they did last time they were in power and the country has this collective "Oh yeah" moment where we remember that we didn't vote Conservative because they do a good job but rather a portion of the electorate voted Conservative in order to punish the Liberals for not paying attention to us. We then come to our senses after a bit and then just like an abused spouse come back to the Liberals because we don't think that the NDP will get the numbers to beat the Conservatives. The Liberals come back into power and the cycle of Liberal fatigue starts once again because the Liberals are once again secure in the knowledge that they will win the next couple of elections and that they don't really need to make much of an effort to get the vote. They will ride that wave of complacent confidence right up till the next Conservative win and the cycle repeats.

[@TokyoBalletReprise]

Martin got voted out cause of the corruption in his party, not because his policies were out of touch. Trudeau is getting voted out for both, but mainly because of how out of touch he is.

[@CrystalLily1302]

Yeah, though apparently the NDP didn't want to agree putting in ranked choice voting because the NDP is also shit a lot of the time so we still have no way to vote against the liberals without empowering the conservatives.

[@IMayOrMayNotBeNoelG]

@@CrystalLily1302 The last referendum we had on proportional representation in Ontario was in 2007 under the McGuinty Liberals. He tasked Elections Ontario with the education program that was so poorly handled that very few voters even knew the referendum question would be on the ballot and it failed. I'm not really sure what specific example you're talking about when you say the NDP didn't want to put in ranked choice voting because I know they have traditionally supported proportional representation and they did put forward a motion for electoral reform this year that was voted down by the Libs and Cons. I'm not really sure what you mean by "Didn't want to" because they clearly made an effort.

[@djungelskog9581]

Thank you for covering this, shits been so bad here and voter apathy in canada specifically is honestly the biggest killer, already on a provincial level ontario has been completely gutted and decimated by a conservative majority, idk how we'd survival that on a federal level

[@Dekubud]

I'm in NB and I've registered with the Libs to phonebank for the election next month and the apathy is so bad here as well. Even without that apathy, the discrepancy between popular vote and elected parliament members is really bad.

[@djungelskog9581]

@@DekubudI know what you mean and genuinely thank you for getting out the phone banking every little bit helps! Last election here had a whopping 40% voter turnout rate..and it's always the cons that show up to vote no matter what. That's 60% people who threw away their votes that I'd be willing bet WOULDNT go to the conservatives.

[@AUG_XZABER]

I don't know how people here in Ontario could vote for that sac of $hit Doug Ford. Oh that's right, nobody voted in the last election. 😤

[@hermithouse]

Saskatchewan (Sas-katch-oo-wan) represent! The problem is we don’t learn from the US and instead follow in their wake. So our liberals learn nothing while conservatives learn what republicans do to win. And we are also bombarded by US media, US owned corporations and US politics. Plus we have all the right wing disinformation online targetting the US and Canada. It’s not like US politics also has to deal with Canadian media and politics giving them dumb ideas. We do. So it’s a double whammy and you see the result…lots of unhinged anger and hate and outrage over the slightest thing, Republican speaking points being used to promote our conservatives, and the map turns blue.

[@seanothepop4638]

You are correct, the fucked part is...what are conservatives inheriting? Canada is shit, been shit for a good while. Won't drop a log in this toilet.

[@BrodieChree]

The Liberal Party of Canada ALWAYS does a little bit of Union busting before an election is called, as a treat. It's nearly a tradition. Gotta get those railroad bucks for the campaign.

[@FakeSchrodingersCat]

Yep I expect the confrontation with Native protesters to happen any day now as well.

[@mckenzie.latham91]

and wait until they try it with the current conservative government and watch Police deploy troops to put down strikes

[@ColeODriscoll]

The worst part is the NDP is making a bunch of strategic blunders that prevent them from making gains for the Canadian left as the Liberals fall. In fact, the NDP is also losing support to the Conservatives. We’re in a very worrisome situation.

[@natalieroy4849]

The NDP has been going downhill since Jack Layton's passing.

[@IMayOrMayNotBeNoelG]

Yeah my biggest issue is that Singh has not been able to capitalize on Liberal fatigue in the way that Layton was.

[@seanothepop4638]

@@IMayOrMayNotBeNoelG Because he doesn't care. I was full on NDP now I'm green but that's going nowhere either. Grab your popcorn, you're about to see some very confident canadians lose their shit, that's all we got. Fuck Canada.

[@natalieroy4849]

@@IMayOrMayNotBeNoelG because he's a fraud.

[@IMayOrMayNotBeNoelG]

@@natalieroy4849 I can draw my own conclusions thanks, I don't need your help.

[@Dekubud]

As a trans person who lives outside of Québec and want (financial situation willing) to move there to be safe, I recommend other Canadian queers to do the same if they can. Québec is the only East Coast province that I know 100% will protect our rights even if Poilièvre wins in 2025. The english parts of the province don't seem to be very queer-friendly and I assume it has to do with them being religious strongholds, but the French parts very much are safe. I don't care if people have a hate boner for Québec: this comment isn't about arguing which province is "better", it's about living in a region where our rights to healthcare and dignity are the safest.

[@Wimikk]

Hey hi hello. East Coaster here. NB is pretty safe. We’ll see after the election next month, but Higgs’ transphobic crap has been shut down repeatedly. Public officials and employees just refuse to adhere. Obviously it could get bad, but cities in the Atlantic provinces are a good bet for acceptance.

[@grandsome1]

For all its fault Québec is still one of the most progressive province in Canada and its separatist movement even if it had a lot of racists at the helm still equipped the province with a legal structure that would've made it a progressive country if they won and that is hard to tear down in the federal level.

[@SHlNRlKlARU]

I 1000% agree with you. I've got friends in the Philippines who know specifically that Montreal above anywhere else is hella progressive on that front.

[@Argumemnon]

Yeah I don't get Vaush's Quebec hate boner.

[@SocialistStrike]

Good luck to you, sister, or brother, or other. Much love from a tExAs transfem, and godspeed.

[@mahada7649]

As a Canadian, yeah we're fucking cooked. I'm a 2nd generation Canadian and so are all of my siblings and cousins, one of my cousins said she's voting conservative coz too many Indians (We're Somali)....like we're literally housing an immigrant as we speak while he's looking for work and she's talking like this

[@xbabu142x]

The issue is that Poilievre and Trudeau are two sides of the same coin, rich, never paid rent through college, private school to college, then politics. They're just taking on the talking points of the two political ideologies, which is why you'll see weird guffaws all the time, as theory and reality don't really mix well. I hope Jagmeet pulls something off with the bloc maybe. Conceding language policy for transferring their housing policy in Quebec to the rest of Canada. The reason rents and housing isn't as bad in Quebec btw is due to the the provincial government there still building housing. If he can get something tangible for housing at get after lob laws and them for price fixing, we could swing back to leftist national politics wise. What needs to be done with the immigration system is instil new trade schools and colleges, so that we have students not being bled dry by the private sector just to get a PR, when we are in need of skilled people anyway for public works etc. We need the national government to step in and stop the current system. One of the things we need to do is find a way to better translate already achieved credentials by immigrants. I was picking up shifts during covid with Gighound and ran into a Somali gentleman basically working to pay money to a degree he doesn't need at all when he is already trained in SQL database coding. I am a bioinformatics major btw and I can attest to the man's actual expertise. This is a job we are in massive demand of in the govt and the issue running into it is a need for clearance. However this need for verification is effecting our actuality security and causing massive breaches and failures which seems stupid imo. Otherwise I would have no issue hiring the man for govt coding work, with this stuff it's you can do it or not.

[@jmitch3431]

yeah it’s so racist it’s inescapable

[@Stewart1499]

you are not Canadian and never will be. Stop following white people to all their countries.

[@private-local-enemy]

@@Stewart1499 lmao "canada is white" how? indigenous people were here first. they sure as shlt aren't white. go back to england, france, or germany, milquetoast.

[@TheCommonS3Nse]

@@xbabu142x I keep saying that Poilievre is basically the right-wing Trudeau. He’s a purely political animal who runs on grift rather than solid policy positions. People think they’ll get something different out of him. No, you’ll get lied to, rich people will save even more on taxes and there will be zero growth, which he will blame on Trudeau, even after he’s been in office for years.

[@clara_cross]

I'm Canadian. I'm also trans. I expect that Poilievre is going to be winning the election and taking office just when I'm going to finally have everything in order to have my surgery covered, and I'm really scared that one of the first things he's gonna do is either gut or effectively hamstring trans healthcare. I'm honestly terrified. I already live in deep poverty. I can't pay for surgery out of pocket, and if i have to pay for my meds out of pocket, I won't be able to afford to eat properly. But, like, Trudeau sucks too. I'm voting NDP basically by default.

[@randomperson1997]

I feel you there, and while I know things aren’t probably going to turn out so hot here soon, NDP is a possibility and that could be really good

[@Argumemnon]

Yeah I'd love to see what the NDP would do with four years. People always understimate progressive policies. I hope everything works out for you.

[@wilbertwallace6655]

I don’t think the conservatives are strong on cultural or social issues, polievre is a finance type conservative. But fingers crossed maybe they can save you from yourself.

[@YipYop-w6i]

Trump couldn't achieve everything he wanted his first term, due push back, keep hope darling

[@clara_cross]

@@wilbertwallace6655 Yeah, let's hope they can take away what I need to not kms. Gross.

[@maynardwayward12]

"People are blaming the housing crisis on immigrants" Yeah, we have xenophobic right-wingers like anywhere, but Canadians in general haven't suddenly become incredibly reactionary. The Liberals listened the business community crowing about the so-called labour shortage during the pandemic, and they loosened many restrictions around immigration. The UN has said the situation is ripe for slavery-like conditions. They COMPLETELY F'ED UP our once proud immigration system. Canadian workers lose because public services cannot handle this sudden influx, and the housing that's needed isn't being built. It's bad for immigrants and Canadians. It's like the Liberals thought they could just throw bodies at the problems we have, such as an aging population. But what it does is create a very favourable environment for capitalists and landowners.

[@briano9397]

The problem is xenophobic right wingers. Not the population jumping from 33 mil to 41 mil in 5 years and having no new infrastructure

[@SirKickBan]

@@briano9397 The population was 33 million in 2010. *Fourteen* years ago. The population is 39 million now, and UN projections are that it will hit 41 million in 2030. Six years from now. ...What on *earth* are you talking about?

[@Argumemnon]

And xenophobes.

[@MarianneExJohnson]

That sounds a lot like what has been happening throughout most of the Western world. Business interests push for more immigration; the Left act as useful idiots by smearing all opposition against immigration as racism; not enough housing is built; and as a result of all this, there's a giant transfer of wealth to the super-rich, and a devastating erosion of living standards and security for the rest. And if all that isn't a recipe for pushing voters toward xenophobic far-right parties, the so-called left-wing parties abandon all their progressive principles and get into bed with the rich, and then act surprised when they implode at the polls.

[@Old_Ladies]

We are building housing like crazy. I work in construction and we are building much more apartments than I have ever seen before. Single family homes are also being built like crazy. There are so many contacts out that we simply have to refuse many of them because we don't have enough manpower to do them all. We are also building a ton of long-term care homes. In my area 4 are being built right now. Some of them are pretty massive. We are also building schools like crazy. Right now we have 4 contracts for schools in my local area. We have so much construction work going on that my boss refuses to price jobs further away. We used to have to go where the work was including having to drive 2+ hours to the GTA but now there is so much local work that we can pick and choose what we want locally. One thing I do find interesting is that many of the apartments that we build do not get filled up quickly with residents. The newest one that we are almost finished with when they had the first showing only one person showed up. So far only a few people are moving in this month. The main problem I believe is greed among the landlords. As someone who works in construction I have overheard conversations from property owners who can't believe what people are willing to pay for rent. The problem is every land owner is jacking up rent prices so people have no choice.

[@Dr.Spatula]

Not being able to say Saskatchewan is wild🤣

[@SeekSomethingMore]

Sasquatch-wan. It's an Asian name.

[@RJLK0518]

​@@SeekSomethingMoreIt's Cree 🤦

[@lothar71]

It's okay Saskatchewan and Alberta are shitholes and I live in Saskatchewan

[@expfcwintergreenv2.02]

@@RJLK0518woosh

[@IchorOfTheManndrake]

​@@RJLK0518They're joking lmao.

[@SoHungry666]

It's trudeau- if he left, his party would be voted in again. But he won't stand down. I'm going to lose my livelihood because of his bc politics.

[@michaelkalus7802]

When Harper did a shot gun wedding between the Reformer and the Progressive Conservative, conservatism in Canada took a hard shift to the right. The Liberals, instead of clearly positioning themselves to the centre left decided to try and gobble up the centre right voters and shifted to the right. Meanwhile, the NDP is following the same strategy, with people to the left being left out in the cold. Will be interesting to see what happens with the grain terminal strike that started today.

[@Dekubud]

And the Green Party has lost the little relevance it had ever since the head of the party proclaimed support to Israel an election cycle ago.

[@theaccountant5846]

I agree. It seems like they are attempting to get us to shift further right in capitulation.

[@seanothepop4638]

Yeah no as a Canadian left I think my only option is green. I just wanna fuck off.

[@Argumemnon]

@@theaccountant5846 It's always the same shit.

[@kevinw2592]

the right is always where the money is. They're always looking out for the donor class.

[@michaellewis1671]

I often hear people who don't know the details of the Canadian immigration situation claiming the backlash is based on xenophobia. We don't even add enough housing each year in Canada to replace our natural population growth. Even if we shut down immigration entirely. That half a million immigrants Trudeau wants to bring in each year literally don't have homes. I live in Toronto in the basement of a house that has about a dozen people living in it, most of which are recent immigrants. It's not racist or xenophobic to say: I wish we had enough houses to support all these recent immigrants, but we just don't.

[@seanothepop4638]

We really can't handle the immigration. I'd want Canada to, immigrants deserve a good life here but it's very plausible if life sucks for locals it's going to for vulnerable immigrants. It's a bad time here for immigrants.

[@zorantaylor3190]

And the media does nothing to help this by doing shit that's so clumsy that even the dumbest conservatives can spot it and have a legitimately good point for a second. Like how they consistently name and show the photos of suspects in still-developing criminal cases only when they're white dudes. Like, COME THE FUCK ON, CTV.

[@tomasjakovac7950]

No it is just xenophobia. Like you said, we could end all immigration tomorrow and it wouldn't change a thing. So blaming immigration is just xenophobic since reducing immigration would do absolutely nothing to alleviate the problem and only serves to appease xenophobes while throwing immigrants under the bus.

[@michaellewis1671]

@@tomasjakovac7950 "If you're on a train that's packed so full that your face is pressed up against the window, stopping more people from getting on the train won't solve the problem because the train will still be packed. Therefore we must keep packing people into the train, piling bodies to the ceiling and ignoring the cries and pleas for mercy from the ones inside the cries of mercy from the people inside, and if you disagree, you're a xenophobe." Sure bro, guess I'm a xenophobe then. Can't wait to tell all my immigrant friends they're xenophobes as well, I'm sure they'll be surprised.

[@briano9397]

This guy gets it

[@PainCausingSamurai]

I called that Pollieve would win the leadership of the Conservative party the second he made news for meeting with the Convoy protesters, and he's been polling for a majority leadership for nearly a year now. I 100% understand people being sick of Trudeau, but Pollieve doesn't inspire much confidence, parroting Elon Musk and Jordan Peterson talking points usually after they've already faced an embarassing backlash.

[@AUG_XZABER]

He's your average spineless conservative. Whenever a bunch of conspiracy-mined nationalists do a massive blockade terrorising the locals he shows nothing but love, but when Indigenous people block a railroad he b1tches and complains.

[@michaelkalus7802]

Let's not forget bitcoin and how electricians pull power out of the sky!

[@briano9397]

He met with convoy protestors long after he won the race. Youre either a bot or dumb

[@DemonEyes622]

Every con supporter I've talked to is rage, blame immigrants. Hates Biden, wishes Trump would run Canada. Same talking points. Anything you point out that is wrong, just goes out the other ear, then they push the reset button and repeat the same things they are irrationality mad about.

[@vhateverlie]

I'd rather vote for the people's party but they don't have much of a shot. So I'm stuck voting for liberals in blue.

[@nodrogj1]

The housing crisis has been hilariously mismanaged. Not that the Conservatives are even pretending to have a better solution; none of the major Canadian political parties even have the imagination to talk about addressing the problem. We have a highly monopolized housing construction industry that has divvied up the cities between a few major builders who control most of the development land, a pyramid scheme-like real estate market kept afloat solely through massive rental cost inflation and speculative investment, and a seemingly insurmountable generational gap in expectations around housing. Meanwhile the range of 'solutions' offered by the entire spectrum of political thought in Canada is limited to 'blame immigrants' and 'throw money at it'.

[@TokyoBalletReprise]

We need to bring back the wartime housing program.

[@phillipsiebold8351]

Just a little insight on the development industry in Canada. Monopolisation is not that major of an issue. A bigger problem is that developers do not have the financing available to do large residential projects. There is only a couple large residential projects ongoing in Canada. Most of them are medium sized, where they can build a few towers and that's it. Or they build tract housing and only build a couple thousand units. When I say large residential projects, I mean projects which have more than 10,000 units being built. I know of only a couple such large developments ongoing in Canada right now. We should more large developments proceeding, but like we see in Edmonton, we have large development sites that could build out more than 30,000 units, but we have to break it down in hopes of getting smaller developers building them because we can't count on large developers to take on these development sites.

[@nodrogj1]

@@phillipsiebold8351 I get that that's the reason developers give, but I think that's motivated thinking on their part. Keep in mind, housing markets are inherently local; you can't easily offset a demand in one location with supply somewhere else. This means it's a much lower bar to capture an appreciable amount of the total supply in the market, and start exercising monopoly power. You could have thousands of developers across the country, but if each development project represents a large fraction of the total local housing market in a given time period, they can still all individually act as de-facto monopolies. When developers choose not to go forward on massive projects, it's precisely BECAUSE it would be less profitable for them than similar investment in smaller projects in multiple markets, or slowly developing the land over a decade and reaping passive income from skyrocketing land value. In their feasibility studies they price in the drop in sale price for saturating a local market, which is literally just a roundabout way to describe the action through which monopolies control supply to maximize aggregate profit, and represents the exact same distortion from equilibrium you'd get in a more traditional monopoly. The claim among developers that there's not enough capital or access to loans in the Canadian housing development market is laughable; there has never been more free capital available for investment in the history of Canada or the planet, and there are tons of preferential options for loans the government has made available specifically for housing development. It's a market that has also had decades of stellar performance compared to most other investment opportunities in Canada, and has until recently had incredible access to foreign funds (only curtailed more recently specifically around rental property investment). It's also a claim with a pretty dubious evidential record - both Conservative and Liberal governments in the last 20 years have tried tons of programs to free up capital for housing development, and none of them have resulted in any meaningful results. "We just need more money" is not an argument we should accept at face value from people profiting off of ballooning costs in a fundamental human necessity.

[@phillipsiebold8351]

@@nodrogj1 IT would help if you actually had a clue about lending because this was a lot of words to say nothing. If you have small developers, they will have a harder time to raise sufficient interest from lenders to get large projects going. There is also the problem of larger projects receiving more stringent rules, requiring middlemen to help offload developers' inventories to residents. These "middlemen" are the dreaded "investors" that everyone talks about. A big problem in Canada in the last two decades is that developers have been chasing smaller investors, building units that are too small to be liveable, polluting the housing start numbers.

[@KINGofGUNS]

In Canada we basically switch between Liberal and Conservative governments every 3 or 4 election cycles. We mostly vote out parties rather than vote in ones. The Liberals have just been in power for too long and now it's time for the Conservatives to take power. I'll still vote NDP in the hopes they become the Opposition Party (2nd place), but at this point it looks like the Quebec separatist party (Bloc Quebecois) is going to come in second.

[@Iban-Underground]

Incorrect. If you look at our voting history, it has less to do with that, and more to do with the fact that we vote people out who have scandals.

[@Dekubud]

Yeah it sucks. Trudeau needs to step down if he wants his party to have a chance.

[@richardliu8785]

Wait... how can Bloc come in second? They only run in one province!

[@KINGofGUNS]

@@Iban-Underground Trudeau had a few major scandals in prior elections (brown face Halloween costume, his wife's NGO getting government contracts...etc) it's only now that he's getting ousted. Doug Ford in Ontario is always drowning in scandals and has the largest conservative majority in recent history. Nah, it's just people are sick of the Liberals and so they are going to to vote Conservative. It's the same reason Harper was ousted years ago. People were tired of Conservatives.

[@kylewatson4193]

So literally what Vaush said about people in Canada not having the a political will

[@xpex1209]

I live in Alberta and even for here the amount of Trudeau hate is unprecedented in my memory, I worry deeply for the rights of my friends

[@Rizzermortus]

What rights will the conservatives take away?

[@xpex1209]

Lots of talk from the cons here about trans healthcare and reproductive rights. The right to public education and public healthcare​@@Rizzermortus

[@Rizzermortus]

@@xpex1209 I meant if anyone knows anything legitimate. Thanks anyways.

[@eurongreyjoy2]

As a Canadian, politics are incredibly disheartening right now. Everyone is turning to a snake oil salesman in Pierre's conservatives as our centrists continually fail us.

[@FakeSchrodingersCat]

That's the annoying thing, they haven't actually failed at anything. They are just Centrists expecting big things from them is missing the point.

[@Blakbox92]

Polivere is such a loser too, there's no reason to vote for this spoiled little weasel

[@briano9397]

1/3 of all the corruption scandals in Canadian history have happened under Trudeau

[@robertlee4172]

Libs haven't failed. In fact the country keeps growing financially under Libs for the past 9 years. PP's smears have brought the country down.

[@kx7500]

@@FakeSchrodingersCatthey have failed at many things though…

[@hetdshah4279]

As an Indian Canadian (who came to Canada as a student), Indians and International Students are a very easy target. Most of us live in poverty. The rest exploit the others. In reality, Canadian business and corporations pushed for higher immigration/student numbers as tool for wage suppression.

[@meoooooooooooooooooooooooooww]

I have a feeling that few/some of them ended up being human trafficked as well.

[@IMayOrMayNotBeNoelG]

I feel like this is something that isn't talked about enough and that for too too long our immigration issues are being looked at from more of a xenophobic perspective which clouds the actual problems behind corporate/ government collusion in order to exploit hopeful immigrants looking to build a good life while also suppressing the wages for all Canadians. The exact same thing is happening in the USA. Funny thing is we think we're better than the USA when all the exact same crap is happening here.

[@hetdshah4279]

@@meoooooooooooooooooooooooooww You dont need to traffic people if you push them into huge amounts of debt in their home country and the only way they can pay it off is by making money in a currency that is more valuable. This is why you have newly arrived highly skilled professionals working low skilled jobs.

[@seanothepop4638]

Pierre Pollievre supports immigration as does our center right party, the liberals. That should show people right there if the left has a problem with it, that it MIGHT JUST FUCKING ONCE not be racism or xenophobic related. (It is, but no one conversationally "gets there" without being called racist like...a cool 4 seconds in.) people can have a problem with immigration policy and not be anti immigrant. I think we should have immigration still, but not be a scam country that bleeds immigrants dry and abuses them, which it is doing full force because....canada does that to everyone here including me. Immigrants face the same thing but racism on top of that. This is a scam country.

[@TimT2-uw8td]

UN literally published a report calling Canada's immigration system a contemporary form of slavery

[@Andkonhi555]

It’s always so frustrating watching vaush rag on Canadian politics because he genuinely knows nothing about it, and he makes cultural/political statements that are either simply not true or so hyperbolic that it makes him sound uneducated. I love vaush but man can his takes be poor sometimes.

[@Triggernpf]

I mean the degree thing is silly and the licensing for engineers, doctors and nurses are brutal. Heck my friend was at bloc 2-3 of carpentry and had a hard time getting another province to recognize his level of accreditation.

[@Gorgovoid173]

It's wild how it literally emerges the same in every country, but we're still too oblivious to see the pattern before it gets out of hand... "Immigration bad, btw how about dat nationalism?" "I just wanna protect our culture lmao"

[@Junebug89]

Look, it's totally different when we do it. THEY were racist. WE just want to secure the existence of our people and a future for our children. No similarities there!

[@Argumemnon]

It's been the same pattern for millennia, and I don't see that cycle broken any time soon, or maybe ever. :(

[@Fuar11]

Our CULTURE is multiculturalism. Cons looked south and decided to make their entire personality a Republican

[@phillipsiebold8351]

A bit of nuance here. The Liberal Party has its roots in nationalism and has been what has largely defined its politics in the 20th century. The Conservative Party's politics for the first two centuries after the American Revolution has been Loyalism. Loyalism suffered after World War I. The reformation of the Conservative Party at the end of the 20th century has largely built itself around a bunch of engineer's solutions (Social Credit, Technocracy, etc.) which are largely esoteric and very willing to let the church dictate most of the gaps that the engineers couldn't or wouldn't figure out.

[@Gorgovoid173]

@@phillipsiebold8351 I dunno how that nuance is needed, when I wasn't even specifically talking about America. Besides, nationalism obviously has levels that dictate how bad it is. I'm clearly not talking about any nationalism that happens to be the birth-origin of any actually liberal party.

[@MER1978]

With conservative premier Doug Ford not doing his job.. someone had to do something after almost a month of an obnoxious harassment "protest" in Ottawa.

[@negan4017]

I know two women who came in as medics. One is my family doctor, who was a LITERAL BRAIN SURGEON. Anither was an operating room technician, but that doesnt transfer, so now shes going back to school to be a blood lab technician. And her skills have gone unused because its expensive to go back to school.

[@michaelkalus7802]

It's the colleges, they act as gate keepers. Years ago I met a woman from Australia. She was a doctor, here on a work permit. While on a work permit she could do her job normally. She told me the moment she'd get PR that would go out of the window and she'd have to go back to school to be accepted by the college.

[@negan4017]

@michaelkalus7802 that's crazy she can practice with a work permit, but no as a permanent resident. you think the government would have a program to help work permit doctors transition to permanent residents doctors.

[@michaelkalus7802]

@@negan4017 The problem is that the colleges, it's not just doctors, but engineers too, exist as a legally established regulatory body but are basically left to their own devices because politicians don't understand these jobs and thus shouldn't legislate. I get where that comes from, but on the flip side, these bodies now have become gate keepers and have no incentive to allow more people into their ranks. There has been some effort made by politicians to get them to acknowledge / accept foreign accreditation, similar to how that works with drivers licenses, but the going is slow because these orgs work for their members, not the public.

[@bobwinters5572]

So, what you are saying is that, as a LITERAL BRAIN SURGEON, she'd have been better off -- with higher status -- staying in the country where she was a LITERAL BRAIN SURGEON? Maybe, if Canada needs brain surgeons, it should train its own and not poach those from other countries.

[@TheCommonS3Nse]

Canada is definitely falling for the typical right-wing grift. Poilievre is running on “we hate Trudeau”, but whenever he releases a policy position, it’s always framed around cutting taxes and reducing the size of government. Apparently this will lead to economic growth. But if you look at the Canadian corporate tax rate, it has steadily dropped from over 50% in the 1980’s down to just over 25% now. The graph literally looks like a ski hill. So where is the growth? We’ve had 40 years of corporate tax cuts, from both of the main political parties, and we have nothing to show for it. Yet we will still vote for a grifter that promises that this next round of tax cuts is going to make us competitive. It’s a fucking joke.

[@GeteMachine]

He just means he wants to expand profit for companies. That's what they always mean when they want to "reduce the government". They just want to expand privatization and call that two-tiering expansion and their profit "economic growth." While cutting public service growth. Its always what Conservatives want. Rich people who want attention.

[@Casey-qm1nd]

You know what else is a big tax. The decline Canadians have seen in their living standards since the Liberals took over in 2015, especially young Canadians. Inflation is a tax too. Doing everything in their power to prop up the overvalued real estate market also is a tax even if it's not in the conventional sense. It is burdensome to the economy because it chokes out future growth by having capital too heavily concentrated in such an unproductive asset class. All these guys care about is short term relief at the expense of long term pain. All the parties are like this. It would be politically unpopular for house prices to come off as Canadians will feel less rich. So all the liberals care about is keeping house prices stable, after the election they won't care as much, all they care about is getting elected for their own self benefit. They juiced the economy with human stimulus to avoid technical recession headlines, the trade off is that we have been in a gdp per capita recession for 8 quarters now (2 years). Now there is a cost of living crisis as a result of this short term thinking. Another example of this is when the liberals called an early election mid pandemic. They called the election because the economy and consumers were feeling good as everyone was high on low rates and their assets were soaring. They knew that the bad effects of inflation were lagging. So the liberals called an election before the price increases were felt in virtually everything else that we buy such as food, energy and durable goods. More self serving bahaviour. All this had led us to a poor economic environment. The result of mass population growth during an economic slow down will result in the bank of canada having a problem. They will have to deal with rising unemployment pressures, and at the same time keep inflation under control. They will have to pick between having high unemployment and low inflation. Or higher inflation with not as high unemployment. Or they can fail at both their mandates and allow for slightly higher than target inflation which will help ease the labour market conditions... Inflation is a tax, thanks to the short term and self serving liberal party. And I'm sure all the other parties think the same. It's all political theatre, these guys are owned by corporate interests groups and lobbyists. This will not be a very attractive business environment, who would want to invest here? It shows. Regardless, whoever wins next will inherit a huge mess. I hope one day that people can see through these political games and unite for the common good of the middle class. The political system is so corrupt and many are aware, but we don't stand together because we are too divided.

[@GeteMachine]

People will criticize liberals for being way too corporate propping which is true, but then ignore that Conservatives will then complain about it even though they want corporatocracy as well but expect people to just be labor, they want to give privatized institutions more authority over people's income, and want to remove or reduce safety nets in order to force people into labor for any way they can, while they try to cut wages or freeze increases. Conservativism was never a solution. Liberals make the housing prices go up but Conservatives want to let landlords to raise renting costs for their profits. But unlike Conservatives, at least Liberals give you tax returns. Conservatives just want people to get what they pay for and if you can't afford things, tough luck.

[@slendii366]

I don’t think the conservatives claim their policies will grow the economy, but rather decrease cost of living.

[@jasonashby9875]

Let me guess soy boy your a Crack smoker

[@RogueInfluencer]

Pray for us we’re about to elect the Canadian equivalent of Ben Shapiro to be in charge of things up here

[@AUG_XZABER]

I think Poilievre is more of a Soy Meatball Ron.

[@grindcoreninja6527]

You're supposed to be better than us Canada, what the hell?

[@briano9397]

We've suffered enough under the Canadian equivalent of AOC

[@moviemaestro800]

@@briano9397 What? 🤣

[@YoYo_Ma]

​@@briano9397Justin not butch enough for ya?

[@Piratewaffle43]

I rather dislike Trudeau's face, but conservatism is not the answer.

[@karaltar7914]

Only his face?

[@briano9397]

Conservatives in Canada policies lign up with Kamala and the Center left. Canadian Liberals are more like AOC. This is basically a battle between AOC and Kamala

[@vonelgamer3071]

​@@karaltar7914no his *black* face

[@stratvids]

​@vonelgamer3071 Technically, it was brown face.

[@viivsyn4893]

canada is going to suck.. as a closeted trans girl with disability living in Canada i am terrified of whats about to happen in Canada

[@améliehester6996]

It's about to become based Iike America

[@Juan_Carl0s]

​@@améliehester6996Sadly no. Canada will not acheive Anarcho-Bidenism

[@humanwreckage4563]

​@@améliehester6996go back to bed kid

[@arshygohardy]

@@améliehester6996 Kamala is going to win lil bro

[@arshygohardy]

@@améliehester6996 then go there, edgy geek

[@Acrodude996]

The fucked up thing is that we're bringing in all these immigrants with university degrees/are already skilled workers but they still need a degree here to do anything... so they're all stuck doing Tim Hortons, McDonalds, and Uber for at least 4 years until they graduate...

[@Triggernpf]

Yeah I remember in 2007 being driven in a cab by an engineer in their home country.

[@blammela]

When we could really use skilled people.

[@tbl268]

Good.

[@simemsayss4395]

Let's call it, paying their dues. Why should somebody move here and automatically have a higher statues than born Canadians. Immigration is stupid, it's bad for everyone and they are just mindless consumers at the end of the day. What community or do you just want Canada to be an economic work zone.

[@Mayan_88694]

@@tbl268not at all, Karen

[@Cookedmaruchan]

"Why is the government siding with the corporations?" Because the government as a concept is bourgeois Vaush.

[@Iban-Underground]

He knows that?

[@nocucksinkekistan7321]

Then why do governments just fuck over the bourgoise?

[@jamesclarkson156]

Vaush trying to pronounce French is hilarious.

[@robertlee4172]

Paula-veer. That's how one ignant Canadian pronounced PP's name.

[@demoniccheesepuff274]

In his defense, French is a dogsh*t language

[@Triggernpf]

Bet he has no issue with French fashion names

[@jonocossey1]

And Saskatchewan

[@LeMAList]

Yup, canadian politics sucks at the moment. Hopefully the U.S.A can have a good impact on us, if the next Dem administration does not squander the leftward momentum it has fostered.

[@GeteMachine]

If Trump wins again, it will have a ripple effect like it did the first time in both directions. It will create conservative wannabes in Canada, and draw up anti-Trump firestorm for libs and centerists, but a lot of damage can be done in 4 years with 2 far-right federal governments neighboring each other...

[@hirampriggott1689]

Pierre Poilievre is Canada's Trump/Vance....all one in the same.

[@klauswigsmith]

He's so stupid. I hate him. I'm not a fan of Trudeau (more of a Jagmeet Singh fan) but I'd take Trudeau over PP in a heartbeat.

[@SixOneNiner23]

Billionaires taking over

[@maximilliancunningham6091]

Nope, not even close, dream on.,.

[@quixomega]

Not really, he's not an idiot like Trump. He's much more likely to actually get his agenda done.

[@VeryNotOG]

poilievre is not nearly as bad

[@Vaishino]

Oh Vaush is gonna talk about Canada again. Time to see how wrong he is. "This election is not about immigration!" Yep, there it is.

[@TokyoBalletReprise]

Most people still don't want to talk about it for fear of backlash, but almost everyone I've talked to left or right wants lower immigration. I truly believe had the liberals never done any changes to immigration they'd probably win the next election.

[@Yunanimouse]

I live in Canada and things a getting really far right.

[@zorantaylor3190]

The comments are closed on CBC News' youtube channel, but they're open on CTV and CP24's, and I swear to god the threads read like Stonetoss comics. We are actually REALLY fucking racist.

[@Yunanimouse]

@@zorantaylor3190 Crazy comments attacking immigrants and brown people. So anyone who says Canada isn't as racist at America is spouting bullshit. Not to mention how Natives are still treated like shit here.

[@zorantaylor3190]

Apparently Trudeau said "Diversity is our strength" at one point and every conservative remembers, because now every time a brown/black/trans person makes a mistake, or even just something bad happens in a place that has a large immigrant population, even if no specific individual or group can even loosely be assigned blame for it yet, there's like sixty comments that are just "Diversity is our strength", like it's a le epic punchline in and of itself. Sometimes it's the most upvoted comment.

[@Blakbox92]

​@zorantaylor3190 Keep in mind that only the most insane and boomery comment on new channel videos

[@améliehester6996]

​@@zorantaylor3190 Rac!st? Or true? Seems Like the weird Ieft finds convenience in ignoring truth to satisfy their narrative. 😂

[@Reinshark]

For what it’s worth: “paul-EEE-evv-ruh” or “pwuh-LEE-evv-ruh”, with as little emphasis as possible on that “ruh” at the end. Canadian and worried about our future. The issue isn’t really Liberal voters going to the Conservatives; the issue is that Canada has two-and-a-half OTHER left-wing parties for people to turn to (the NDP, the Green party, and in Québec the Bloc Québécois), and enough people will vote for them instead, while the right wing is united under a single party. The Conservatives can take 35% of the vote and still end up with a majority government because of first-past-the-post. In their hubris they don’t realize it, but the Liberals need to attract progressive voters (and not just centrists) to defeat the Cons, but they have pretty consistently governed to the interests of the centre. You’re right that the Liberals have failed to push back against Conservative narratives, and that immigration isn’t really a significant problem.

[@theaccountant5846]

I think perhaps the left wing parties should merge...not sure how others would feel as the liberals aren't even left wing at all, but they would gain significant strength.

[@Reinshark]

@@theaccountant5846 the Conservatives merged in 2003 (previously there were two Canadian right wing parties) and it’s been the only reason they’ve been in power so often since then. I don’t see a merger on the left happening any time soon, especially with the BQ, but short term coalition governments are a likely possibility (which is a good thing, because it forces the Liberals to adopt more left/progressive policies in order to keep their coalition and defeat the Conservatives). I think there are better solutions than the left merging as well-ranked ballots would give the left near complete control over Canada’s politics without sacrificing the benefits of having multiple parties, for example-but overall it’s a pretty complicated situation.

[@grandsome1]

​@@theaccountant5846The problem is that Canada does not have a culture of coalition government, and I'm not sure if there's a legal structure for that. We had a sham version of that with the current government, but it was mostly liberals abusing power, a Trudeau tradition, and the NDP looking like fools because starting an election would just be giving power to the Conservatives.

[@zorantaylor3190]

Immigration is a problem by proxy because HOUSING is a MASSIVE problem. But it's easier for conservatives to get fired up about who they don't like than how much more proactive, applied, fiscally responsible and creative generosity is needed, so the housing crisis becomes the thing they talk about when they need an excuse for their xenophobia, not the primary thing at issue, which is what it actually is.

[@westcoastseattleboy784]

@@Reinsharkthe issue with pursuing coalitions like that is that the goose is already cooked on election night. The Liberals and NDP bleed each other in constituency after constituency all across the country and they wind up electing tons of conservatives by plurality, even when a majority of voters in a riding wanted the left. It’s a massive self-inflicted injury that can only end if they merge or change to RCV

[@LiveWithEmory]

I live in canada and this freaks me out so much

[@AUG_XZABER]

Same dude. Living under Doug Ford is already hard enough here in Ontario.

[@Gernanza]

The provincial government is what's important. Regardless of which party is in power federally, the provinces still hold the power to make most of the decisions.

[@alexyu1236]

@@AUG_XZABERsame, I live in alberta and we got a trump 2.0 in office lol

[@Julie-do2dr]

@@AUG_XZABER Did you see what he said about homeless people the other day? He is such a deplorable person.

[@BrodieChree]

Yeah, the last Harper CPC government was so weird. They had CRA audit waitstaff for undeclared cash tips in the 00s while gifting oil companies peacocks and ambergris. It was so obviously corrupt.

[@Rayle75]

Every time vaush talks about Canada, he shows how little he actually knows.

[@IMayOrMayNotBeNoelG]

He doesn't really need to give a shit about us. Be glad he actually does a little bit.

[@avinashreji60]

@@IMayOrMayNotBeNoelGmouse next to an elephant

[@johnsman1374]

Dude, it has nothing to do with the education level and skill quality of the immigrants. It's just the numbers. Canada can't take more immigrants. You might be right that the housing crisis is the fault of the government, but since there is an actual crisis, do you think it's smart to still be letting record amount of people in? The country just can't handle the sudden influx.

[@MrFuckingKololo]

That "sudden influx" has been going on for half a decade now. It's pretty clear that immigrants aren't the problem.

[@GeteMachine]

Canada has a lower population than the US and always had. The problem is not enough housing available, nothing being built publicly, and NIMBYISM.

[@HiiighNoone]

@@GeteMachinefacts especially the nimbyism 😂😂😂

[@thekingoffailure9967]

The housing crisis is a global issue. Its one the working class faces because of international property management companies

[@MasterGhostf]

@@thekingoffailure9967 Not true. That is a major part but the biggest reason is we dont have enough people in trades, but more specifically we don't have enough people making lumber. There is just not enough lumberjacks and people working in lumberyards to make the wood needed for houses.

[@unstableratdog4179]

Vaush that pronunciation of Saskatchewan was horrendous. All 4 Saskatchewan citizens are seething right now

[@MER1978]

Ugh the "so much land" housing talking point has to be the worst from PP's regressive party.. housing isn't needed randomly everywhere.. last thing we need is to just build wherever if we actually care about less car use or congestion.

[@JRuni0r]

Dude... this 'analysis' is terrible. This is your main job, go read and study and stop guessing and making vague nonsensical arguments. No, the Liberals aren't taking this beating in the polls because Trudeau stopped labour strikes... holy hell guy.

[@liampye256]

Ya vaush needs to do more research and less reading headlines and guessing

[@JRuni0r]

@@liampye256 Exactly. Research isn't listening to other people who don't put any work into learning about a topic and parroting their BS takes that they also heard from the same echo chamber of people who just guessed about the topic a few days/weeks prior.

[@grandsome1]

TBF even in French Poilievre's name doesn't roll off the tongue.

[@briano9397]

You don't speak French then

[@Argumemnon]

@@briano9397 Non c'est vrai, j'ai eu à le lire une coupelle de fois avant de réaliser comment le prononcer.

[@vonelgamer3071]

​@@briano9397Dit Poilievre très vite et plusieurs fois

[@alvisstalwart925]

@@Argumemnon Pouvrez-vous m'expliquer le mot "coupelle" dans ce contexte? Est-ce une idiome qui ressemble un apparente a "couple of"?

[@James.99]

There will be a backlash against 3 terms of Justin Trudeau similar to the backlash against 2 terms of Barack Obama (which gave us our wonderful MAGA problem). Canada will get their own MAGA very soon....

[@cplus14]

Danielle Smith

[@te8547e]

We already have maga dipsticks. They are incomprehensibly dumb

[@michaelkalus7802]

@@cplus14 Moe, Ford.... basically pick any modern day Canadian conservative and they're all on that train. Heck, October 19th in BC will be interesting, considering the sudden surge in the poll for Rudstadt.

[@Blakbox92]

It's already been here for years and it sucks

[@James.99]

​@@Blakbox92 Canada is still a utopia when compared to the US, but who knows? Maybe this Pierre guy will even us out and Canada will suffer from gun violence and 7 figure medical bills too.

[@709mash]

The fact the Liberal party hasn't called for Trudeau to step aside is mind boggling.

[@Iban-Underground]

They have, tepidly, but they have.

[@AegixDrakan]

The fact he can't read the writing on the wall and tag out by himself is galling, honestly. I would have prepped a successor by now and tagged out, for sure. But then again, I'm a team player without the ego needed to run for leadership lol.

[@TimT2-uw8td]

Mark Carney ain't going to save them.

[@singlereedenjoyer]

I just think is so fucking funny that Poilievre criticizes career politicians but has been a member of parliament since he was 24. He’s so disingenuous and fake.

[@ryanlarocque2571]

The thing you have to remember is that left leaning doesn’t necessarily mean the Federal Liberal party. We have more parties in play. They may not be as popular but they do still get representation in parliament.

[@byfrax2371]

95% of the internet feels like an alt-right pipeline rn. like i just want to listen to an expert talking about a health topic. Next video that gets recommended is how feminism was wrong 🙃

[@Iban-Underground]

Default Canadian KZbin is Jordan Oeterson and Pierre Poilievre vids on your front page.

[@theshi3152]

i was mostly with you till Immigration.. I'm a "leftist" straight up Socialist.. fully support immigration.. but. the problem is.. absolutely the current system of Immigration. at least a large part. there isn't enough jobs here because they are literally importing people to fill them. "immigration" covers a HUGE swath of foreign people coming to the country. Student Visa's and Student work permits with the addition of LIMA's is where a large part of our problem lies. If you want to come to Canada that's fine. but we need to stop handing out Work Visa's like they're candy. LIMA's are unskilled labor. by definition they are the same "quality" of immigrant as the US takes in. Actually US immigration from Canda is a net brain drain on our country. US wages are substantially higher for highly skilled labor. Cant build more houses when all the corporations are to busy building luxury bullshit spaces that are 5x the price for half the space. Nevermind Nimbyism. Nvm the dumbass amount of Red tape to build anything in this country. "shooting your self in the foot over and and over again." Fucking nailed it. They are not the cause in and of itself. they are a symptom of many causes. but it is the easiest low hanging fruit in order to fix.

[@meoooooooooooooooooooooooooww]

Yet people mostly put the blame on immigrants instead of their own government that allowed this in the first place.

[@wittyson]

I sure hope not. Oh. Oh no...

[@Iban-Underground]

It's happening.

[@humanwreckage4563]

I would vote for Jack Laytons grave if i could.

[@blammela]

I was just reminiscing about him w a friend last week.

[@xDivineMemoriesx]

For any Canadians out there like myself… how do we even go about voting??? Funny thing about Canada, we usually get split between NDP and Liberal party, which allows conservatives to win (why Ontario has fucking ford as premier)

[@Iban-Underground]

NDP local and provincial. Liberal (possibly) provincial but definitely federal for this election. It sucks, but it's the only strategy that makes sense stm.

[@jackoski__19]

If you’re in a tight federal district, I would maybe vote liberal, but otherwise, I’m just gonna vote NDP because the liberals are who put us in this political mess in the first place

[@blammela]

I’m in Alberta considering going Bloc 😂

[@giovannidjango]

NDP has been gaining ground, I don't think it makes any sense to vote liberal when literally no body likes them

[@punslord]

As a Canada-inclined Québécois, I'm really glad I live in Québec for the first time in my life. Compared to other Canadian provinces, Québec js possibly the one with the highest level of insulation from Canadian federal policies. Trudeau's policies and imaging have been an abject failure, and the return of the pendulum is going to usher in a party whose sole solutions will be gutting federal social programs, overt xenophobia, and threatening queer communities. I'm even worried about the right to choose - pleasantly unchallenged here for 20 years - and Québec nationalist parties are talking about enshrining abortion in our provincial Consitution as did the French. For all its xenophobia and nationalistic fragility, Québec is about to become a haven within a haven. And that is despite recent laws severely limiting the quantity of international students allowed in our universities. C'est d'la calisse de marde.

[@Argumemnon]

C'est pas mal toujours d'la calis de marde.

[@UwU-gm6ut]

Why do so many people think Québec is xenophobic to the rest of Canada while simustaneously praising its supposed isolation from federal law. Its one of the more ethnically diverse provinces in Canada and yall dont seem to realize that french classes are FREE to new immigrants. French is INTEGRAL to our culture, its only natural we try to protect the language when english dominates the rest of Canada. Especially since the english, historically, have tried multiple times to assimilate us and erase the cultural importance of French. Do you people seriously not know about this? Like im confused by the amount of ppl who spew this rhetoric without considering the historical context behind it.

[@mat3714]

What policies have been abject failures ?

[@DolanDrumpfff]

''I'm really glad I live in Québec for the first time in my life'' Criss mon gars ya ben des limites a se taper dessus sois même. Ya jamais eu plus de racisme icite que dans le ROC, faut arrêter un moment donner. Criss, la seul minorité que tu peux ben critiquer ouvertement dans le pays c'est ben les québecois lol. Une chance q'ont a eux un minimum de patriotisme, sinon ferais un esti de bout temps qu'ont existerait pu. Mais sinon pour le reste jsuis d'accord, peux importe cque Pierre Poilievre décide de faire sa passera pas icite. Pensse pas qui est assez mongole pour actuellement toucher a l'avortement, y vas se faire crisser dehors en un mandat si y fais sa.

[@UwU-gm6ut]

@@DolanDrumpfff Je pense fr que mon commentaire s'est faite delete parce que y'es pus la. Fak m'en va écrire ça en français. J'ai comme pas l'impression que le monde garde en tête le contexte historique. Like, les gars, ya une raison pour laquelle on veut notre fkn indépendance. C'est un peu un no brainer pour ceux qui habitent au Queb mais j'arrête pas de voir ce stéréotype partout, comme quoi on est les pires racistes ever parce qu'on est sur nos garde concernant le Canada anglophone (QUI A ESSAYÉ PLUSIEURS FOIS DE NOUS ASSIMILER AU COURS DE L'HISTOIRE) et qu'on protège notre langue française QUI EST TRÈS IMPORTANT À NOTRE SENS D'ITENTITÉ ET À LA PRÉSERVATION DE NOTRE CULTURE.

[@nathanielwaugh9232]

Hello from Canada. Funny thing is that the conservative parties rhetoric around immigration has been more focused around increasing infrastructure rather then reducing immigration.

[@Canucklepuckcommie]

The problems in Canada (much like the states) can 100% be attributed to conservative provincial governments. The deflection is insane

[@knoxthegoatsays]

And we're about to elect the craziest premier of the bunch in BC.

[@PlusOneMacie]

I will have a spontaneous screaming orgasm the moment Doug Ford dies and/or loses.

[@mattcardwell424]

@@knoxthegoatsays eh....I dunno.....he kinda shot himself in the foot with his recent vaccine comments. There are surprisingly a lot of conservatives that didnt drink the anti-vax koolaid.

[@seanothepop4638]

So it's only the conservatives fault the whole time? Woah. I mean I agree, a right wing party is shit, that's why I don't like our right wing party the liberals, or our right wing party, conservatives, but I really think that trudeau did not run canada so perfectly as to not be blamed for the vast amounts of shit we're under. If it's always the fault of the provinces and never the PM....what's the point of a Prime minister again? I really do think they have a role in our country sucking.

[@Bryan-qz4np]

The problem is that we need a massive influx of government money to build housing, but the country's looking at a Conservative sweep and they'll never go for it. The prices of building supplies are nuts up here, so it's no longer realistic to build houses for cheap. Most single family homes in the more prosperous areas are $750K - $1 million plus.

[@TokyoBalletReprise]

We need to bring back the wartime housing program.

[@amazinhaydz2032]

As a Canadian, watching his pronunciation of Saskatchewan killed me inside

[@A-lik]

Vancouver even went conservative? How'd the Canadian liberals screw up THAT bad!?

[@michaelkalus7802]

Based on people around me? One guy who is Iranian doesn't want to vote for the Liberals because they brought in some of the Iranians that made his life (a gay man) horrible when he lived there. Others? They don't pay attention but are being drip fed the BS that Skippy is selling. People simply do not understand the world they live in, and Skippy provides neat, easy to understand and wrong explanations.

[@ShitpostMoodboard]

Vancouver hasn't gone conservative. NDP and Liberals are polling ahead of Conservatives in the Vancouver districts. The BC provincial election is happening next month and NDP still have a good chance of staying in power. Conservatives are ahead in federal polls but that election isn't even happening until October 2025. Vancouver's mayor sucks but he's more of a corporate centrist than a conservative

[@briano9397]

Because they greenlit open drug use and now the government supplied meth is the number 1 used drug from high schoolers in BC above legal weed and alcohol

[@hiltonwatkins6750]

@@ShitpostMoodboard I was in waiting room of a health facility today and there was almost a riot. The building was testing fire alarm adding to the pressure. The number of people late and missing their appointments was about every second patient… just told by the receptionist that they were beyond the window…. in a very dry voice with no energy. The doors of most of the offices were open.. self closers propped open… receptionist asked that doors be kept open because people might think they were closed. Honestly I am not making this up. I predict Adrian Dix will be rejected in the election and the NDP premier will be gone… they may even lose the election and it will be due largely to mismanagement… Telus Mycare is a technical joke, the family doctor program is corrupt, pretty much all the typical socialist disasters coming to a head. And I have voted many times for NDP, but they have lost the race. Batten down the hatches folks, things are likely to go full depression in Canada by mid next year….and at first people will see conservatives as their saviours until the winners become those few who are independently wealthy… and they will buy up Canada at bargain prices. If you have a large mortgage and you voted conservative…. remember I warned you when you are homeless next year.

[@simoncaron6424]

Vancouver has an Asian majority that is far more conserned with the cost and living and being attacked by crackheads.

[@yraglacus3259]

"Deserved loss" is something I heard in this video. The rights of me and those I love are not something that deserve to be lost because of the apathy of a centrist party.

[@chloeholmes4641]

As a trans woman living in alberta, I fear for my safety and am worried my life whatever it is will be upended and I will be the result of the discrimination. It's hard enough to find a job and I'm worried I may lose whatever benefits I have left and may be homeless having to give my kitties away. If I don't move to bc soon I might go into a spiral I may never recover from!

[@RJLK0518]

With Scamielle Grift in charge here I'm worried for our community too. They are going to pass the pro-child-abuse bill soon.

[@yraglacus3259]

I'm worried if it will ever be safe for me to come out. People are fighting, but how much can we do? Danielle Smith doesn't care about human life.

[@theaccountant5846]

I'm worried about BC right now. Conservatives are gaining ground here as well, at a time when NDP has done a lot of work reversing the damage of the BC liberals.

[@tonytomato100]

Sorry to break it to you bud, it's hella expensive here and we make less money. Quebec might actualy be better at this point as much as it pains me to say it 😂 But Fr, Vancouver and Victoria (and the rest of the island tbh) might be more left leaning but the rest of the province not so much

[@violentmelody90]

I feel like this is the worst time to be trans in history. And we have like nowhere to move to. Nowhere feels safe.

[@brendanorourke4727]

Canadian liberals (and Liberals) are definitely at fault, but the general population needs to hold this L too. We actually have a viable third party to the left of the Liberals (the NDP) that consistently wins seats in parliament but we won’t vote for them in large enough numbers across the country to break us out of this American style two party duopoly. It’s silly and at this point, actually dangerous.

[@SofaMuncher]

There was a time when the NDP had the opportunity to takeover with Jack Layton. However Jagmeet Singh is a weak leader who is basically just made the party Liberal-lite. He's unwilling to take the party in it's own direction and has really kneecapped the party.

[@RavenDumpster]

It's gotten utterly insane in Alberta. There's a complete "libertarian" fascist takeover there, its getting legitimately scary.

[@mat3714]

Yea....the new pm is doing pretty dangerous things. Like introducing legislation that can get rid of elected municipal leaders was astonishing to me and very very scary....

[@marbarosi]

explain. What do you mean? examples?

[@CaptPatrick01]

​​@@marbarosiIn February, June, and August this year alone, the RCMP had busted high profile weapons smuggling operations in Alberta, right in the wake of the convoy protests. They're arming.

[@marbarosi]

@@CaptPatrick01 You know, it aint them smuggling it in. lol But you read it somewhere so it must be true. You realize What Antifa is right? Government operatives staging this stuff. They love people like yourself. Just believe in everything you read. These are two distinct issues. While we’re dealing with weapon smuggling linked to the convoy, or is it linked to something else? it's important to understand a larger point: people on the so-called 'left' often fail to think. They know this. Meanwhile, those on the right who do think critically are harder to manipulate. But they still fall short. This isn’t about two opposing sides. Axis is down and up no left and right. When billionaires lobby governments around the globe, pushing their own agendas, that’s the real- REAL issue. Another issue is people like you, who accept everything they read without question and think they are critically thinking. I'm gonna quote tupac here, because of his family being part of civil rights in America and who created the ghettos, 'First, give them dope, let them deal to brothers, step back, give them guns, let them kill each other.' He was pointing to the government's role in creating the problem, while the public, blind to this manipulation, would never suspect their own government of such actions. ghettos got black on black people on people killing each other picking sides. And it’s not about left versus right for them; it’s about keeping YOU AND ME divided. You need to think beyond your own arrogance and ignorance, brother. It shows. The New lies and shame on you for believe this convey shit. Stop being part of the problem and be part of a solution.

[@marbarosi]

@@mdf3006 You make this too easy. First off, I'm not Right wing. Don't speak for me. Secondly, I dont do labels. Most my labels I keep in the fridge.

[@Huckleberry_Sid]

I gotta say, it's amusing watching someone who is clearly naive about Canadian politics try to analyze what's happening here right now. Like, yes "blaming the immigrants" is a classic conservative narrative, but that doesn't mean that the Liberal government here hasn't made major missteps around our immigration policies. Yes, it is absurd to blame immigrants for the housing crisis, especially when the roots of that problem are about 50 years old at this point and has a lot to do with the government getting out of housing and letting the private sector be the sole source of new housing starts, but drastically increasing immigration while in the midst of a housing crisis isn't really helping on the sides of supply and affordability. Like, it's laughable seeing Vaush compare US elections to Canadian elections. You're comparing what is essentially a two party system to a multiparty system, so no wonder election results are going to look different. Especially when a party like the Bloc exists, that runs only in one region, has no real plan to become the government, yet has every opportunity to allow a single region to dictate the results for the rest of the country due to how our system is structured. The NDP meanwhile cannot become the government because they are "too left leaning", and have been backsliding since Layton died. Yes, the Liberals should have pushed a more aggressive solution to our housing programs. The problem there is they got out of housing about 30-40 years ago, and downloaded the responsibility to the provinces. The provinces, in turn, downloaded it to the municipalities... who are creatures of the province, and can be overridden by the provincial government. Basically, our cities are left to try and figure it out with no real resources to do such, while working with provincial partners that can and will override any municipal plans or policies, and a federal government that refuses to admit that federal policies have an impact on our cities. Largely I respect Vaush's political insight, but this is one of those moments where I have to eye-roll because his naivety of the topic is showing.

[@TokyoBalletReprise]

We need to bring back the wartime housing program.

[@Huckleberry_Sid]

@@TokyoBalletReprise Agreed. I feel like any party that actually put that policy out there, with a solid plan of how to do it, would immediately pick up in popularity. I'm actually astonished that no Federal party has even contemplated suggesting it.

[@TokyoBalletReprise]

@@Huckleberry_Sid Liberals and Conservatives are too beholden to corporate interests and the NDP is extremely incompetent, like historically bad incompetent.

[@sssandhu9033]

As an indian I would say we are the Haitians of Canada right now 😢😢

[@briano9397]

True, but why did y'all have to come and break every law known to man on a consistent basis

[@meoooooooooooooooooooooooooww]

​@@briano9397 Such as?

[@longclaw22-72]

​@meoooooooooooooooooooooooooww The anti-Indian hate is insane, but one thing that is kinda true is that a lot of Indian business owners are blatantly only hiring other Indians which contributes to the way they're perceived. You don't really see this with second - and third generation Canadians of Indian descent. It's more of an issue with the new comers. Not justifying the bigotry but in a country where the standard of living is rapidly going down, this habit of only hiring "their own" sticks like a sore thumb.

[@TokyoBalletReprise]

@@longclaw22-72 It's cause they won't complain about being payed less than minimum and working overtime for nothing. 2nd and 3rd gen indian canadians complain.

[@sssandhu9033]

@@briano9397 read crime statistics and see who is breaking the law , and then we can send that ethnic group to their country back

[@thepooz7205]

My elderly mother, a lifelong Liberal voter in Canada, whose favorite politician in the history of the world is Pierre Trudeau (former Prime Minister, and Justin’s father) just out of the blue one day said “Trudeau is ruining our country!”. I was a bit taken aback, and asked her what she means. “The liberal policies are awful!”. I asked “which policies?”. “Oh I don’t know, but Justin is not like his father, I’m definitely not voting for him again!”. I think it’s her getting her opinion from Facebook memes, like typical MAGA. The conservatives have done a superb job of villainizing Trudeau personally. The Trudeau hate is pretty ubiquitous at this point. Not looking forward to the coming Conservative majority or the impact for generations to come.

[@nicoleszacharia2624]

when my father, as a physician, came to the states he had to redo some training and exams. i think that's fine but really the standard for residency where they don't sleep should be reconsidered. how can people be expected to provide quality care when they're up for 36 hours straight or whatever?

[@coniferjuice]

As a trans woman in canada, where the hell am I supposed to go now? Americans always want to move up here but im trying to get out in time too 🥲

[@wyleecoyotee4252]

Sweden

[@GThe-su9kl]

Oh, the housing crisis is absolutely a provincial issue; when Trudeau announced that he would build more housing, the Parti Québécois threatened secession because "the housing crisis is a provincial responsibility".

[@Gotsyn]

@@GThe-su9kl we love Pisse-Pipi (PSPP) dont we folks, we love our souveraineté huh

[@CFijWPG]

Most of our provincial governments have already been Conservative-controlled for a while. Newfoundland is Liberal-controlled, British Columbia and Manitoba are NDP (socdem) controlled, Quebec is run by this weird other party that only exists in Quebec provincial politics, all others are Tories. Worth noting that BC is having an election this year that's looking incredibly narrow, and their NDP government might get dumped in favor of a batshit crazy Conservative one, and my province, Manitoba, just had an election last year where we dumped our Conservative government in favor of an NDP one, but that was less a statement about national politics and more because our Conservative then-Premier (equivalent to Governor) was very personally unpopular for her own reasons.

[@BrodieChree]

Ontario here living under Lord Doug Ford, welfare is $343/mo if you're homeless. That's $254 USD. Rents are minimum $1800 with a credit check. There are millions of visa students being suggested by Ottawa and rubber stamped by Ford at Queen's Park in Toronto. It's on purpose. They're trying to destabilize society and make us hurt. I hate it here.

[@victorcapel2755]

A lockout is not a strike, it's the opposite. IT's when the company forces the employees to stay home to put pressure on the union. To force the rail companies to let people work is pro-worker if anything.

[@vhateverlie]

The company used the lockout to get the Government to take their side. It was a win win for the company and a lose lose for the workers. Force the employees back to work and you get to go to the bargaining table and take your sweet time because the work is still getting done.

[@martinvannostrand8488]

Are you kidding me that me he couldn’t pronounce Saskatchewan

[@NoodleBerry]

Well actually in Ontario solidarity overcame back to work legislation. For the first time ever I believe. This is obviously a different situation and ig we'll see how the court case goes but it is worth keeping in mind. The total power of the state is an illusion. It cracks, sometimes, with the right pressure. Once you see that you can't unsee it.

[@Iban-Underground]

Yeah remote work is still pretty strong in Ontario.

[@estenslop]

they don’t stop coming and they don’t stop coming

[@reighfreuden6473]

and they don't stop coming and they don't stop coming

[@vonelgamer3071]

Do not come

[@zorantaylor3190]

2:18 Canadian here. Almost without exception, nearly every left-of-center person online who doesn't work for the media just calls him "Pee-Pee". I'm dead serious.

[@Triggernpf]

I have heard the name but don't call hin that.

[@zorantaylor3190]

@@Triggernpf I think calling him Pee Pee is an insult to Peepy. And Peepy is a LITERAL CAREER CRIMINAL. (In addition to being some kind of absurd plush hybrid of like a cow and chimpanzee or something, idk)

[@moosejawrobinson]

Everyone here is getting it all wrong. All my friends (in our deeply Liberal riding) are lifelong NDP or Liberal voters, but they’re voting Conservative as they simply can’t keep up with this cost of living crisis. These friends are progressives, but they can’t pay their bills or fill the grocery cart with Trudeau’s promises. I’m not here to pick a fight (we have enough disagreements in Canada right now) but it would be wise for the few remaining Liberal and NDP voters in this thread to try engage with disillusioned progressives who feel forced to vote Conservative. Not everything is about bigotry, and not everyone deserves to be dismissed. We’re one country with a shared future after all.

[@liampye256]

Ya americans just assume the canadian cons are the same as the republicans... they are way closer to democrats socially

[@vhateverlie]

In your honest opinion do you think the Conservative party is all that conservative? The people I talk to are scared of Pierre because of women's rights (which still isn't noted in his platform). While the conservative friends I have all agree we don't like the conservatives because they're just liberals in blue but the People's party appeals to them for the personal rights and freedoms but we all agree they don't have a shot at winning.

[@moosejawrobinson]

@@vhateverlie couldn’t have said it better. Canadian conservatives aren’t conservative in the traditional sense. McLean’s magazine does a survey every US election and in 2020 found that 78% of Canadian conservatives would have voted for Biden that year, i.e. Canadian conservatives support the Democrats at a greater rate than Americans do. That’s why it’s ill-advised for the maker of this video to dismiss us as some alt right ghouls. We’re just voters who got fooled by JT in 2015 and want to try something new. Heck I know a lot of NDP voters who plan to vote blue as Jagmeet is just not a political heavyweight like Layton, Mulcair or Charlie Angus (he’s lost them 25 seats in 2 elections).

[@zaineoakley5555]

So the liberals deserve to loose but to the NDP not the conservatives

[@generalalexandrospapagos325]

Perhaps unde Layton... under Singh, not so much.

[@dannygaskin5806]

That's not how democracy works princess

[@itsgusgusmeow]

So, was actually on a CN picketline the day they got locked out. It is important to note, that the companies, CN and CPKC, both refused to negotiate a deal for well over 9 months, and then locked out the workers when they didn't agree to losing mandated time-off. The companies wanted to eliminate rest-breaks for TRAIN OPERATORS, and maintain a 24-7 oncall system while offering what is effectively a paycut due to inflation. They didn't get to vote on the strike action because it was a company side-shut down. Then, within a day, the government came in and crushed the labour action. It was entirely expected, and was expected by almost everyone we spoke to that day. Canada does, technically, have the Right To Strike enshrined constitutionally, so, my labour law background tells me that essentially, the government knows that this forced arbitration decision will eventually be ruled unconstitutional, but at that point, what are the workers, who may not even work for the company anymore get out of it? Likely nothing. A case like this will probably take something like 5-8 years depending on how much the companies/government pushes back on it. As far as electoral politics are concerned. Canada has 3 liberal parties, NDP (socdem to social-liberal) the LPC, (centre-right Libs, would almost certainly be to the right of the Dems, there's at least a few Democrats in the US that are more NDP-esque) and the Cons (Right to Far-Right Liberals). Canada is almost always an election cycle behind the US when it comes to rightward swings, which gives me a bit of hope that Kamala wins in the US. The way that Canadians follow American news and politics would likely make it most likely that whatever outcome occurs in the US, the opposite is likely to happen here. If Trump wins, Canadian Liberals will likely coalesce around the Liberals, but only if JT steps down, I don't see the Libs having a chance in hell with him as leader. The LPC's major issue right now though is that they don't really have anyone that would have a net-positive favorability. Freeland his Deputy PM (Basically VP, lol) is a straight up neo-fascist. So, the Conservatives will almost certainly win a majority in the next election. The only caveat is if Trump wins and JT steps down, both, IMO, at less than 50% chance. The official opposition will likely be the Bloc Quebecois. Theyll probably win enough seats in QC to overtake the liberals. and the NDP with Singh as leader will have a ceiling of maybe 20-23 seats. My party, the Greens, are not very popular outside of a few ridings, mostly in BC, and the Maritimes. 2 seats is the most likely outcome as both seats we currently hold are safe Green. But I could maybe see us picking up a random 1 or 2 with enough weird vote splitting. And this hasn't even gotten to how fucking gross Pierre is. Fascist Millhouse is our name for him. Less Trump and more like Le Pen or the AfD bozos. Canadian normie Leftists generally vote NDP or Green, with the only real exception being those who don't vote. Its also not really as meaningful to vote in many cases, or is at least perceived that way because if you don't live in a riding where either the NDP or the Greens are competitive, then you're practically 'wasting your vote' because JT reneged on the electoral reform promise. Literally the only good thing Justin did in his almost 10 years as PM was officially legalizing cannabis. Thats it. Prision numbers are skyrocketing. Housing is almost entirely unaffordable, even renting in a shitty city lol, and there's really no good options electorally moving forward unless the NDP goes through a major shake up. If you have read all of this and are Canadian and want to get involved in making change happen, there are currently at least 3 different localized worker assemblies that are active and doing work to benefit the working class as a whole. United in Struggle in Vancouver. 1919 Workers Collective in Winnipeg. Theres also one in Montreal (cant remember the name rn) and also a new one being built in Quebec City. If you're not in one of these cities and want to learn more, reach out to 1919 on Insta or you can google the website. :) Hopefully, in the near future we will confederate our organizations together into a national movement, but its going to take alotttt of work. Come get involved. (To be clear about the assemblies, they are ideology agnostic, but usually the more advanced comrades are either ancoms or anti-revisionists of some variety, the assemblies open to the public and generally involve open discussion, proposals on actions, educational events, propaganda, research, social investigation, writing, and strike support and outreach. Theres lots to do, come join us)

[@TokyoBalletReprise]

Freeland "neo-fascist" lmaooooooo you're a loonie or what????

[@thekingoffailure9967]

Coming to the 1919 Strike educational tonight lol I didnt know vaushites were allowed to speak in these circles lmao 🙊

[@itsgusgusmeow]

@@thekingoffailure9967 hell yeah! See ya there! Haha. I don’t agree with V on everything but I do enjoy his streams. Everyone is welcome and everyone has the right to speak.

[@thekingoffailure9967]

It really feels to me that these human rights frameworks are just an abstraction of the violence of the state. The beurocracies get more and more complex and exceptions are always made along class lines, on the side of the ruling class. The more we engage with these systems the more they dissintegrate. Court decisions taking years or decades have the ultimate goal of waiting for our lives to tick away before they have to actually give us our rights. Why send in the police to bust up a strike when you can make workers wait 100 days for court proceedings then blame the workers for acting out during that time and arrest them anyways with “due course”

[@AmiriTheGrey]

Vaush is wrong here, immigration is a problem here, specifically in the East. We took in an unprecedented amount of people within the last few years during a housing crisis and it's just made everything worse. He says build more houses, which yes, I agree. But all of the houses near me go for nearly $1 million. I'm not complaining WHO is coming here, but we took in way too many people way too quickly, especially at this point of economic slump

[@SofaMuncher]

Exactly right. It's easy to say "just build more housing" but when the population growth rate is 5x the housing construction rate. During one of the worst global housing crises other action is needed in the meantime.

[@AlexandraSpeaks]

This is why you lose to conservatives you capitulate to their talking points

[@FrostSylph]

I suppose the tiny silver lining of the oncoming conservative nightmare is the potential to get more Vaush segments on Canada. Love him trying to pronounce our province names

[@billclockwell]

I can't get over how much polierve looks like mike Johnson and he his voice is even more similar

[@barrywhite1770]

This is the problem. Trudeau deserves to lose. It’s not that Pierre deserves to win. If we are lucky we will get a minority conservative government.

[@generalalexandrospapagos325]

Every single poll shows a supermajority for the Conservatives.

[@moviemaestro800]

@@generalalexandrospapagos325 Let's hope we don't end up with that. Parliamentary supermajorities, let alone ones the majority didn't actually support, are inherently disastrous for democratic nations.

[@BrodieChree]

That info a bout 2/3rds having a university degree is no longer true. The unskilled stream is the one that has taken huge numbers in since 2019.

[@outlawsuperstar8888]

Thanks for covering Canada Vaush

[@Iban-Underground]

He should cover it more.

[@AUG_XZABER]

​@@Iban-Underground Agreed. Especially in 2025.

[@Blakbox92]

honestly I wish he'd learn more before he comments on it

[@Gernanza]

Blaming the polling success of the conservatives on the liberals is disregarding the incompetence of the NDP. I blame it on their unwillingness to move further left which I guess is them being liberal but still.

[@briano9397]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 okay nvm I thought someone else had the dumbest comment in the entire section. You win no clear second

[@thagrammarnazi]

@@briano9397You ever notice no-one, online or IRL cares what you have to say about anything, ever?

[@TimT2-uw8td]

Singh can't even manage his party's finances

[@scorpionxiiclips]

Pierre Poilievre has 0 policies. If you ask him any policy question, he just gives you vague objectives... quite similar to Trump. He's going do fix everything and won't tell you how.

[@recognizesealand572]

Vaush should look into Jack Layton

[@AUG_XZABER]

Our Bernie Sanders. Gone too soon. 😔 😭

[@MikeBsMovies]

FUCK CANCER

[@PhoenixHinds]

I wish I could vote for the zombie Jack Layton. He was an amazing person all around.

[@te8547e]

I scoped Layton's record out the other day and he sounded so good.

[@antod1602]

​​@@te8547ethe orange wave was crazy, it really was a sight to behold

[@jenniferhw5332]

As a Canadian, I agree with your assessment, the Liberals centrism sucks and Canadians are sick of it. They don’t think the left can win so many people are switching to CPC, and frankly the supply and confidence agreement with the Libs really turned off a lot of lefty voters. Our next election is going to be a landslide for Poilievre, whether we like it or not.

[@IMayOrMayNotBeNoelG]

I don't understand why so many people think supply and confidence was a sellout when it was obviously a tried and true tactic the NDP have traditionally used to strongarm Liberals into progressive issues. I think if people are angry that the agreement kept the libs in power then they are missing the point that without that agreement the NDP would have had exactly ZERO leverage in regard to Liberal policies and that their focus would have needed to shift from policy to election strategy .

[@JMichealBuchanan]

I'm open to Canada helping others from any troubled spot BUT I'm troubled by people coming to Canada to live on the streets! Canada recruits Professionals then once they get here Canada says your Education is invalid you have to go back to school, I've met more Lawyers Doctors and Engineers driving Cabs it's FUK'D. My Conservative government in SK refuse to take in refugees / immigrants to help houses them (small towns dying for people and workers to grow) before an election next month... But allows Slave Labour with a program called Tempurary Foreign Workers, which the UN called SLAVERY But the liberals allow it to happen as well... People Power NDP for Me

[@strider_hiryu850]

as a Canadian Leftie, i've grown increasingly dissatisfied with Trudeau over the years. his weed policy was good, but, that might be about the only good thing he did. (i mean, i'm sure he's done other good things over the years. i don't know). HOWEVER, i've kinda become a single issue voter. Pierre Poilievre promises to destroy Bill C-11, which is this horrible awful, free speech infringing piece of legislation. that would practically force all Canadian citizens to use a VPN service. and even then, i'm not really sure how well that would work. anyways, Pierre says he will repeal this Bill before it becomes law. um, another thing. in his advertisements, he's also been pushing his "Axe the Tax" plan. which seems pretty good. lowering taxes on working class families across Canada. love this. and he's got the best shot at winning. so yeah, he's got my vote. he may be the leader of the Conservative Party. however, the Canadian Conservative Party is far from the MAGA Republicans yall gotta deal with. they're a lot more moderate. so much so that he calls it the "Common Sense Conservatives". lol. also, he said previous Trudeau voters will vote for Pierre. i ain't one of those. i promise you, i ain't voting for Pierre because of any sort of Median Voter Syndrome. in the last election, i voted for Jagmeet Singh and the NDP (New Democratic Party). they're a third party here in Canada to the left of the Liberal Party. they often form coalitions with the Liberals, and they actually build local power. they ain't like your pathetic, Russia funded "Green Party" in America. no this is a REAL third party, and they hold a substantial number of seats in Parliament. (Parliament is like the Canadian equivalent to Congress in the States. or i guess just the House of Representatives part. we do also have a "Senate", but, they're more similar in structure to your Supreme Court. although we also have a Supreme Court, of course. Senate doesn't make up part of Parliament, they're like a side branch to the Executive arm of the government. but they do have authority over which Bills get signed into law and they can even deny the signing of Bills, in order to force changes be made. so in essence we have 4 Branches of Government here in Canada, although the Senate often functions as an extension to whoever's in charge, due to historical reasons and a general understanding that they aren't well liked here in Canada.)

[@MaestroP1]

Fuck i hate how right Vaush is on this

[@KB-lt7sv]

He was wrong about half the shit he said.

[@MaestroP1]

@@KB-lt7sv Care to elaborate?

[@ho-hyongyoo3251]

Anti Immigrant sentiment in Canada Dudes you need people to make your domestic market to function

[@briano9397]

The number 1 dumbest comment in this entire comment section right here

[@ho-hyongyoo3251]

@briano9397 Bro Canada have less population than South Korea and most domestic industry is a monopoly do to lack of scale

[@briano9397]

@@ho-hyongyoo3251 don't worry someone else said something dumber you're #2

[@adamspencer5142]

Canadian here, its finally my time to politic... I wish I hadn't just been paying attention to US politics now, I know nothing.

[@tonytomato100]

Tbf, we absolutely need to have them redo residency. My grandfather has dementia and moans a lot now, he had a nigerian care taker who put a cloth in his mouth to quiet him IN FRONT OF MY AUNT! THEN HE SAID "OH I CAN'T DO THAT? WE DO THAT IN MY COUNTRY." We absolutely need to keep our professional standards. When you travel you learn how different cultures can be from your own. Some things I wish we'd adopt, others I think we are better at

[@keylime6]

The next election will be the first I can vote in, and I plan on voting for Pierre.

[@mcnuggets2011]

Trudeau did it to himself.

[@FakeSchrodingersCat]

How? What exactly has he done?

[@michaelkalus7802]

@@FakeSchrodingersCat Something something Castro.

[@PTRNovi]

Canada has a lot of the similar problems as the US. Our politics is dominated by neoliberalism, which has caused increasing wealth inequality, a degradation of quality of our social programs, and insane housing prices. People are rightfully upset, and they try to swap out parties every few elections. The problem is, like the US, we have a two party system, run by FPTP. This means Canadians keep flipping between two neoliberal parties hoping something will change. The two neoliberal parties are the Liberals (headed by Justin Trudeau (JT)), and the Conservatives (headed by Pierre Poilievre (PP)). Just like in the US, the more left party is clearly better than the more right party, but there is need for change. Unlike the US, there is a third party with a sizable amount of the vote, has come in second place in an election, and has accomplishments under their belt like securing universal healthcare. That party is the NDP. Unlike the US, we do not have robust primary systems to challenge and remove neoliberal liberals from within their party. The route to change is through the NDP. PP loves the two party system. He can run a cynical campaign of catchphrases to capitalize on dicontent with liberals, without having to offer anything to canadians, safe in the knowledge that by default protest votes will glow to him. As a neoliberal, he will deflect from the actual issues to scapegoat anything else. His main policy position is "axe the tax" that proposes to get rid of Canada's carbon tax (a measure originaly proposed by the conservatives). He does this under the guise that the tax is what is driving affordability when studies show it has a negligible influence on inflation, and it is revenue neutral, meaning the money is returned to Canadians according to who needs it most. The second issue he scapegoats is immigration. We do have larger than normal immigration. We do have mismanaged immigration with diploma mill scams. The conservatives want Canadians to think every one of their problems is due to immigration. Ignore the effects of the pandemic on inflation. Ignore that housing has been getting out of hand since before the immigration wave. Ignore that housing starts are at the same level they have been for decades (with some fluctuation, but the trend is flat). Blaming immigrants means PP doesn't have to do policy. Had this population growth been due to homegrown births, the problem with housing supply would have to have been legitimately addressed. Instead neoliberalism makes it harder to have children. The natural result is immigration, as higher populations make the debt more manageable. Justin Trudeau has promised electoral reform. He could have, at any moment, sided with the NDP and brought in proportional representation. He could have protected candians from conservatives. He could have done what the experts of his electoral reform commission suggested and given us PR. But he saw how it would make it harder for him to take control and decided conservatives every once in a while was better than having to share power all the time. Even now, as his poll numbers flounder, he doesn't even consider it.

[@crumplepunch312]

Love how whenever Vaush mentions Canada or Europe he complains about how superior they think they are as though this is an issue entirely on them and not a massive insecurity on his part.