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  • How absurdly reductive.

    It's not about, "word use", it's about protecting the most vulnerable of our children.

    Stop trolling, we see right through your reductive nonsense.

  • These stories always strike me as listening to a bunch of children make a fantastic plan. They never consider and obstacles or of ramps. Their plan always goes perfectly.

    These people never considered the fact that they are a bunch of gap toothed yokels, not the supreme race they imagine themselves to be. They never consider the fact that professional police officers will wipe the ground with them. They never consider the fact that the government has access to tens of thousands of police officers and can bring in the military and that they aren't just going to roll over and allow these christofascist asshays establish a dictatorship in Canada.

    Or that many smarter, more capable, and more heavily armed Canadians will fight back.

  • Swinging to the extreme right is not a winning strategy in Canada.

    You only have to look as far as is going on in the US house of representatives to know the chaos a few extremists can cause. They will never be satisfied until the province is a christofascist dictatorship.

  • Alberta and BC have Recall acts on the books. Other than those two provinces you need a confidence vote called by the party in power and a majority to vote against it. Once we elect them, we're stuck with them. That's why I think that protest votes to remove a reasonable but irritating party and replace it with a christofascist party is not a good move. We're stuck with them for years and they can do us a LOT of harm during that period.

  • My hope is that people are waking up to the fact that our domestic christofascist extremists are following in the footsteps of the US MAGA crowd and will kick their extremist asses back into the shadows. Higgs clearly thinks he's a dictator. It's obvious now that Doug Ford talks a big game about working for the little guy but everything he does is a scheme to enrich his wealthy developer/donor friends. Heather Stefanson in Manitoba trying the, "Vote like an intolerant asshole while no one is watching." gambit blew up in her fucking face. These right wing extremists are spending so much time virtue signaling while the people of their provinces can't afford groceries. During tough economic times electing governments that cut taxes to enrich their friends, cut services that the rest of us rely on to get by, and neglecting education, healthcare, and infrastructure to "save money" are NOT what we need.

  • The reality is that the vast majority of Candians are socially progressive. On every issue from abortion to gun control to LGBTQ rights to social programs Candians lean left to hard left. As these right wing parties swing harder and harder right they appeal to a smaller and smaller extreme voting block. At some point they squeeze themselves out. Especially, like in Ontario, when it becomes so absolutely and undeniably obvious that all of Doug Ford's talk of helping the little guy is just a series of schemes to enrich a small group of his wealthy developer friends/donors and when the social policies in places like Alberskatchetoba become so obviously about christofascist virtue signaling at the expense of extremely vulnerable children to appeal to fanatical extremists.

    What Canada needs is socially progressive leadership that is not corrupt, that makes corporations and the wealthy pay their fair share (not everything, not a lot more, but their fair share), that reaoects workers and parents and everyone's rights, and that is fiscally responsible (not cutting revenue by cutting taxes on the wealthy and cutting programs that we have already paid for for everyone else to pay for it but trying to run the country/province within our means as much as possible while still truly caring for the ALL of the people, not just the wealthy.)

    Is that too much to ask for?

  • "Our peer presure is good because we tell you it's ok to fear and hate but their societal pressure to be a better person is bad for making you feel bad about yourself."

  • No, I'm observing that that Trudeau could solve world hunger and bring about world peace and there are still people who would find a way to say, "TrUdEaU bAd!"

  • Yes, and they aren't allowed to raise the price of a drug unless they can show a proportionate increase in the benefit to the patient.

  • The Candian government has done this for years. Drug prices in Canada are often a fraction of what they cost in the US.

    The drug companies swore that they would stop selling drugs in Canada if they weren't allowed to set prices in Canada as high at possible buy they're so fucking greedy that they will take $5 of profit instead of $1,000 and instead of withdrawing from the market and making $0.

  • Air Canada isn't an airline. It's a giant corporation whose main business is extracting subsidies from the federal government. It pretends to be an airline to do that. That's why it treats its passengers like an inconvenient annoyance.

  • Can't wait to hear why this is, "TrUdEaU bAd!"

  • change of venue is one of the tools available.

    And it was denied. And I'm good with that.

  • I don't think you should be able to go to Singapore and commit drug crimes then expect to be tried in Canada and I don't think you should be able to come to Ottawa and torture, harass, threaten, intimidate, and put out of work tens of thousands of citizens then expect to be tried somewhere else.