Carney's "Liberal Strong" plan for Canada

Now, I am no economist nor can I make an informed analysis of election platforms. 

But I'm seeing some interesting posts from knowledgeable people about the Liberal Strong platform that Carney released:

This is a massive shift in approach from the 2021 Liberal platform. Building up Canada's assets to Trump-proof the economy. Ignore those who are pretending this is similar, it's literally the inverse of 2021, in terms of spending focus. pic.twitter.com/E28PMz8x49

— Bruce Anderson (@bruceanderson) April 20, 2025

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McMillan Vantage policy consultant Josh Marando reviewed Carney's platform and posted these on X - a very interesting analysis. Here are the screenshots: 

And his comment on the NDP platform:

I was noticing reports over the weekend that the polls were tightening a bit against Carney -- panicking a bit too, I must admit -- I guess because Trump has completely shut up about the 51st state stuff and annexing Canada so we aren't constantly being reminded all the time about how much we hate the Orange One.

Evan Scrimshaw / Scrimshaw Unscripted

Polling Roundup: Pick Up A Hobby Cause Nothing’s Happening
Please Calm Down, I Beg
There have been 9 polls released on Monday - the three trackers, MQO, Angus Reid, Research Co, Pollara, EKOS, and Ipsos. The combined impact on my Ontario polling average of those 9 polls was a 0.2% swing to the Conservatives.
... despite having a lot of points to defend (to steal the Tennis term), the Liberals have defended most of their most vulnerable points. Oh, and it’s highly likely given Mainstreet’s weekend sample that’s going to roll off tonight was so strong for the CPC, they’re likely going to swing left tomorrow too. So the position is stable.
...let’s be clear about what the slippage in my model has been in the last week or so as it’s gone from the dizzying heights of 200 to 190 - it’s been seats the Liberals have no business winning anyways. It’s been 2 Calgarys and 2 Kelownas and Bay Of Quinte and Kildonan-St. Paul’s and Mirimachi and Cumberland-Colchester and Beauport and Saint Jean. None of those seats should go red and frankly if you are feeling some kind of way about the national race because I now have Blue Kelowna, please scream into a pillow instead of bothering me about it.
What’s happened is the Liberals have bled some of the unsustainably big vote shares they were never going to win, like 35% in Alberta or 40% in SaskyToba, for more reasonable and more likely outcomes...

Noticed this too:

Today I saw CPC running 3 new ads - Harper smiling; two old guys golfing; Carney being evil. None mention Poilievre at all, nor do they show his photo. Have they finally realized nobody likes him? #NeverPoilievre #canpoli

— Cathie from Canada🍁 (@cathiecanada.bsky.social) April 20, 2025 at 8:29 PM

Poilievre doesn't seem to have a grip on his campaign anymore - he's talking about plastic straws, for heaven's sake, when Canadians are waiting for him to try to be a leader. I don't think he can do it:

Judy Trinh / CTV News

Lack of costed Conservative platform is an ‘opportunity lost,’ says analyst
...Although the Conservatives have released 95 per cent of their platform, which includes $14 billion in tax cuts, removing the GST on new homes, and committing to billions of dollars in defence spending to bolster Arctic security, they have not shown how they will pay for their promises, leaving voters without the ability to compare how their priorities stack up against other parties.
The Liberals, the NDP, and the Green Party have released the cost of their platforms. After the leaders’ debate, Poilievre said the price of his promises would be disclosed within days.
He has not delivered, and that, to Lori Williams of Mount Royal University, is a possible “opportunity lost” to persuade undecided voters.
“We don’t have an answer about what fiscal management would look like if it were under Mr. Poilievre as prime minister,” said Williams, a political science professor.
“We don’t even know who Pierre Poilievre’s finance minister would be or who would be in his cabinet.”
With a week until the election, Williams says it’s likely most voters have already made up their minds, but for those considering the Conservatives, the lack of a costed platform may lead them to look elsewhere.
“If people are looking closer at the alternatives presented by Mr. Poilievre, they’re not getting their questions answered.”...

The markets were slipping down again today but Trump was just all excited about jetting off to Pope Francis' funeral.
What an ultra-maroon:

Trump has taken the most powerful country in the world, with the greatest alliances, and the strongest economy, and flushed it down the toilet based on his understanding of politics in 1984 and trade deficits.

The greatest self shot to the nut sack in history

— Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 (@AdamKinzinger) April 17, 2025

Dean Blundell

BREAKING: Canada is Making Trump Panic Over Presiding Over Another "1929"
The Canada Led Global Boycott of America Has American's on the Verge of another Great Depression and Trump is Privately "LOSING" it
Donald Trump thought he could strong-arm the world into submission with his tariffs, but Canada — yes, Canada — called his bluff. What started as a petty trade spat has exploded into a full-on global boycott, with Mark Carney and 40 million Canadians leading the charge against Trump’s “51st state” nonsense.
...Canada’s Middle Finger to Trump Did This
Canada’s government didn’t just retaliate; we went nuclear. Bans on American wine and liquor, a travel boycott slashing U.S. tourism by 40%, and a patriotic push to ditch American goods entirely. “We need to defend ourselves… we’re leading the charge,” Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly declared, as Canada piled on more counter-tariffs than anyone else, twisting the knife in Washington’s side.
We’re not negotiating with Trump. Canada, as the rest of the world is finding out, doesn't negotaige with dementia laden rapists with the economic/geopolitical expertise of a fucking German Sheppherd.
So, while Trump was busy chest-thumping about 125% tariffs on Canadian goods and threatening annexation rhetoric, Canada responded not with bluster, but with precision economic warfare. The result? Entire sectors of the U.S. economy are quietly imploding under the weight of one of the most sophisticated boycott-and-tariff counterstrikes in modern trade history... 

Beautiful:

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Addendum: Just saw this from Alymer Soup -- very funny!

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