Here's some good news -- the Trudeau GST cuts appear to be working to give the economy a boost:Good job. Now carry on fighting the good fight at least until we see where we’re at with the Trump/Musk situation by Inauguration Day and have the foreign interference report in hand at the end of January. No resignation! #IStandWithTrudeau2025
— Charles Prepolec (@sherlockeditor) December 20, 2024
Poilievre tried a stunt today:I work in a restaurant ~ everyone is talking about the tax break.
— Jenny-P 🇨🇦 🌻 (@Jenn_Pastrak) December 20, 2024
It is a definite boost for restaurants and the first policy move that I’ve seen truly break through to average people in a long time.
Marc Miller is having none of it:I prefer a leader who isn't caught leaving a crack house run by Diagolon. I prefer a leader who actually has a SECURITY CLEARANCE. #IStandWithTrudeau2025 https://t.co/IFj3ieNBaP
— Liza Benoit 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 (@benoit_liza) December 20, 2024
And Singh is trying to rain on Trudeau's parade:Reporter: Are you going to Prorogue (Parliament)?
— sonofabench (@therealmrbench) December 20, 2024
Marc Miller: Poilievre is pulling another one of his convoy moves.... is he going to bring donuts and coffee to the Governor General with his convoy people pic.twitter.com/cLG0XCabIP
And this is the people's choice now?Jack Layton gave us Harper and cost us national daycare and the Kelowna accords. Now Singh is giving us Poilievre and costing us national daycare, dental care and pharmacare. Why does the NDP want to drag Canada backwards?
— Cathie from Canada 🇨🇦 ✍🏻😷🏳️🌈 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 (@CathieCanada) December 21, 2024
“Will a Conservative government cut programs like the dental care program?”
— David Beaudoin (@DavidABeaudoin) December 20, 2024
Poilievre’s response is something like:
- if people wanted these programs they’d vote for the NDP in the next election.
- These programs don’t actually exist.
- The numbers of people using those… pic.twitter.com/1h0pND2TL8
If there is one thing that could well sink the Poilievre vote in Canada, it might be the number of Conservatives who are going MapleMAGA now:Sorry to break it to you - but even a wounded Trudeau government is better than any Poilievre government.
— Dean from Winnipeg (@Dean_Winnipeg) December 17, 2024
As predicted. Well, I didn't explicitly pick the Stockbot, but it was absolutely predictable that MAGA North would obediently line up to salute the Canschluss. https://t.co/sM5YjMuDcB
— Andrew Coyne 🇺🇦🇮🇱🇬🇪🇲🇩 (@acoyne) December 20, 2024
In other words, Elon Musk has declared his support for Poilievre because Musk knows Poilievre will do anything he asks, like a puppet. https://t.co/A1e7UDOXQD
— Nan Douglas (@nandouglas) December 19, 2024
On a side note, an interesting twitter exchange example of how Trudeau and the Liberal party are trivialized and insulted:Every Canadian, regardless of their opinion of the Prime Minister or political affiliation, should feel deeply offended by President Trump's remarks. We might one day be grateful for this WAKE-UP CALL. For too long, we have been complacent in our relationships with the United… https://t.co/aCzALVDQO3
— Jean Charest (@JeanCharest_) December 18, 2024
Excuse me? This is truly bloody insulting.
— Lori (@LoriInWhitby) December 18, 2024
MPs with active thriving EDAs had their executives attend.
We had a deadline to purchase the tickets by a date in November.
Ppl came from across 🇨🇦 plus staffers.
This is a new low.
Hangers on? @TurnbullWhitby
Ford screws up Covid- blame PMJT
— Lori (@LoriInWhitby) December 18, 2024
Ford screws up convoy- blame PMJT
Ford screws up healthcare- blame PMJT
Ford screws up Greenbelt- blame PMJT
Ford wants to build useless Hwy- PMJT has to stop or else
It’s just mind boggling
He saves ppl from starving/ bankruptcy during Covid- crickets
— Lori (@LoriInWhitby) December 18, 2024
Amazing vaccine portfolio- crickets
Manages inflation etc to be one of the best in G7- crickets
Increases healthcare transfer- nothing
Improves workers right- nothing
The list is long.
Glancing at today's events in America, I am wondering if some Republicans have finally had a spine transplant:No Canadian broadcaster has spent any time highlighting that Canada has the lowest deficit to GDP ratio in the G7.
— PeterRatcliffe (@PeterHRatcliffe) December 18, 2024
Why is that?
Canadian broadcasters ignore or tip toe around Poilievre’s lack of security clearance.
Why is that?
What is the political agenda of broadcasting?
WEDNESDAY: Trump threatens to primary "Any Republican" who votes for a clean continuing resolution without a debt limit extension.
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) December 20, 2024
FRIDAY: 170 Republicans vote for a clean continuing resolution without a debt limit extension; the bill passes overwhelmingly. pic.twitter.com/eTX4ZXbBFl
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The donor for the Republican spine transplant appears to have been Biden. Late yesterday, the Biden administration quietly withdrew the proposed changes to Title IX that would have required US schools to allow males to compete in women's sports.
After losing the presidency and control of both branches of Congress, Dems seem to be backing away from the extremists who thought this was a good idea. I guess the way the Skrmetti hearing before the SCOTUS went down recently can't have helped. The ACLU's attorney, Chase Strangio, admitted that unlike sex "gender identity" isn't inherent and immutable, and that so-called "trans youth" don't actually have high suicide rates. Now, Dems are hoping to slink away from their disastrous attempt to undermine women's sex-based rights with as few people noticing as possible. Too bad it took two loses to Trump for them to catch on.
The Liberals have had majority control of government an awful lot in the past 30 years, and certainly had support from the NDP the past few. If we don't have national child care, it's on the Liberals. Jack Layton didn't give us Harper, the Conservatives did. Dental care, pharmacare, and childcare only exist as they do right now because of the NDP, not despite them. The Liberals ran on those promises a half dozen times, and somehow were never ready to actually implement them.
Don't shoot the people on your left when the people on your right are your real enemy. I would prefer a Liberal government over a Conservative one, Pollievre is clearly a bloviating idiot with the charisma of a teenage boy's tube sock under the bed. If Trudeau can't win an election (he is, fairly or unfairly, massive unpopular), and has failed to find a successor within the party that can, that's on them.
The media (owned by the mega-rich they keep empowering) is very slanted to the right in ways Canadians don't realize. Speaking of which, maybe stop using twitter if you're concerned about right-wing fascists taking over?
Cap, I read an article about why they withdrew those trans rules, something to do with preventing Trump from making more draconian anti-trans rules to replace them. I'm not sure whether the article was correct.
Aweb, I understand your point, but because Canadian progressives are split between Liberal and NDP, it weakens their vote against the Conservatives (who also used to be split into PC and Reform but who got together to consolidate their votes). The NDP are fading federally, it seems, but they still take votes away from the Liberals.
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