Debating heading out to stock up on deodorant and other storable goods. Not that I want to buy American right now, just that historically domestic alternatives simply raise prices to match the tarrif product prices in an effort to profit take.

They’re superior phones.

See this is the thing with arguing on the internet, a list of stuff and absolutely no thoughtful analysis. Like a bumper sticker that found its way onto the internet. Just one example, crime rates have fallen steadily since the 90s under all governments and continue to be near historic lows. In fact, most of Harper’s tenure saw crime above or near the current levels. But you wouldn’t know that if you got your information from some guy on the internet who just says “less crime”.

Basically everything you listed is arguable at best, false at worst. But I know that won’t stop ya.

I don’t think people should have to just quietly take hate on the street. Standing up for themselves was the right thing to do, but the outcome is terrible this time.

Don’t need a crystal ball, they aren’t exactly an unknown quantity. CPC has party policy, a political philosophy and a governing history, I won’t pretend I don’t know how they’ll act.

See, this right here, I’d have taken that as genuine. Why am I like this?

M. Sc., occasionally published science researcher and post graduate instructor.

On top of missing sarcasm, kids in FPS games razz me for speaking too formally.

There is something wrong with me, lol.

Friends have told me before that I often miss sarcasm.

This person needs some humbling.

Trudeau isn’t fear mongering about the CPC, they’ll be every bit as bad and worse than the Liberals say.

Oh Canada 🇨🇦 Three day weekend!

I’m sorry, but if you went into the debate not knowing who to vote for where the fuck have you been for eight years?

And to come out the other side saying, “yea the orange lunatic lied to my face about everything , but on the other hand Biden looked kind of tired and stumbled on his words. I think I’ll vote for the convicted felon.”, I mean, are we humans really just this stupid?

This drop out framing also only applies to Biden. Trump says dumb outrageous shit all the time and is an actual criminal, and the framing is almost always “will this help or hurt his chances”. Biden has a sore throat or whatever and the pundit class can’t type their resign now pieces fast enough.

So then where are people supposed to sleep when nothing else is available, how can it possibly be a crime to give yourself shelter and sleep?

Well that’s terrible for everyone.

And I helped

This article reads like AI wrote it. It repeats itself very early on the nature of offences, then it reads like the introduction to actual journalism before stopping cold.

I’m happy the NDP has worked with the LPC over this last parliament. Together they’ve made a number of significant policy changes that I am quite happy with.

I don’t know that there is a path forward in the near term, at least Trudeau won’t revisit it, the CPC love FPTP, and the NDP won’t take anything less than PR. This is a political impasse.

Is it possible Trudeau masterminded the failure of ER on purpose? I guess anything is possible, but that’s too conspiratorial to me, adding unnecessary complexity when a much logistically simpler, albeit narratively longer and less satisfying story played out right in front of us.

Could Trudeau have forced through STV with his majority? Yes of course but that ran counter to his personal brand, the optimism of his 2015 campaign and his early consensus approach to government.

In any case, the truth of what happened doesn’t matter much anymore because the “Trudeau lies” narrative is simple, easily repeated, and has rooted itself in popular social media discourse as practically a meme.

Well the short answer is politics.

The long answer is that when we had the opportunity to make a change, during the ERRE committee time period Trudeau was extremely concerned with presenting himself not just as a Harper alternative (IE a “Not Harper PM”) but as fundamentally different from him. Harper had tight, party whipped votes and was known for being very singular in purpose, he got done what he set out to do like it or not (And I did not). Harper did not collaborate he pushed everyone around. On the other hand, despite having a majority government Trudeau set out to govern more with consensus and collaboration, even going so far as to, under some pressure, give up majority control on the ERRE committee at the request of the NDP, making the committee proportional (this decision proved to be fatal to ER).

It was in that committee where all parties essentially refused to budge on their positions and would not negotiate with the LPC to pass recommendations that the LPC could get past both the house (in a free vote) and the senate (which was much more conservative in 2016). The NDP wanted PR so bad, and STV/Ranked Ballots so little, that they sided with the CPC who wanted to kill the entire thing with referendums instead of working with the LPC to get some change through. The result was recommendation that absolutely had no chance of passing the house, and if implemented no chance of passing the senate, and even if passed through both would not have resulted in reform before the next election as a referendum killed that idea entirely.

So rather than act like Harper would have, and use his majority to push through STV over the objections of the other parties, Trudeau chose to drop it. Instead focusing efforts on things he could pass, like the Elections Modernization Act of 2018 and the removal of senators from caucus.