kent_eh @ kent_eh @lemmy.ca

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I'd love to see Albertans reject him as an "Ottawa elite parachute candidate".

They won't, of course, but a guy can dream...

What kind of calculus do you think the liberal party has done just now

Carney's response to the byelection question was basicailly "He can have his byelection if he wants. I'm too busy with more important things to waste time with silly partisan games"

Which makes sense. No need to hand the conservatives a "see the liberals are blocking democracy' talking point.

I didn't expect him to voluntarily step down.

I expect the party to follow it's own damn rules and have the leadership review that their party rules requires after a losing election.

Of course, they could still do that after he inevitably wins in one of the safest seats in the country.

Obama put in some regulations on the investment industry with the intent of preventing another sun-prime /derivative crisis.

And Trump removed those protections a few years later for no other reason that Obama had implemented it in the first place.

If it's on private property who gives a shit

• Fires don't respect property lines.
• Rescue workers still have to deal with the mayhem (and risks you have created) if you do something stupid on your own property.

If your idiot son wants to build a structurally questionable tree house and the parents don't do anything about it and he dies that's on them.

Some of us have human empathy.

See: Regulations around building structures on private property.

Even those are based on people doing it wrong in the past and endangering themselves and others.

The more judgement based exceptions you put in the regulations, the less compliance you have, and the more "rules lawyers" on your crew wasting time and energy trying to talk their way around some edge case loophole.

And the more often people will take the lazy option, rather then the safe one.

Makes me think they all need to switch to NDP

We'll see if Nenshi can talk them into that when the next provincial election comes around.

Danielle Smith is going to find out very quickly that she and Alberta need the rest of Canada a lot more than Canada needs Alberta. Also, say goodbye to your CPP, OAS, and EI contributions. The impact on schools, water treatment, pharmaceuticals, food safety, and road regulations alone are significant cause for concern.

Not to mention all oil leaving Alberta would still have to travel through Canada to get to an ocean port. They would have to negotiate with a "foreign country" for that ...

Sorry, convicted criminals are not permitted entry to Canada.

Trump says he’ll meet with PM Carney at the White House ‘within the next week’

Trump says lots of things. Very few of them are true.

The Prime Minister’s Office did not confirm a date for the meeting between the two leaders.

Yeah, that's what I thought.

Helluva legacy after 30 years in office...

"Bleeding heart" for telling him that he can't just do whatever the hell he wants?

There's a lot of quotes from Ford in the article that sound far too Trump-ish.

Pay judges to quit? Elect judges (regardless of qualifications)? Hold judges "accountable" to the politicians whims? Override other levels of governments when they make decisions in their jurisdiction that you don't happen to like?

Dammit, Ontario, why did you re-elect this guy again?

All that said, I hope that Carney instead chooses to build consensus.

As I understand it, that has been how he has operated in his previous roles.

I think an election sooner is likely.

I don't see the government falling in less than a year. Maybe after 2, but probably longer unless something dramatic happens.

• The NDP can't afford to fight an election any time soon, they need a new leader and they need to re-energize their supporters.
• The Bloc has a common cause with the federal government until the Trump threat is neutralized (and they're even more angry about their sovereignty being actively threatened than most Canadians). And the housing program that Carney speaks about would benefit all provinces, including Quebec.
• The Conservatives need to turf PP and replace him, which he will fight against. That's going to take some time, and if Carney is doing a good job while they're busy with that, it'll be even harder for their new leader to credibly justify bringing down the government..
• And finally, the public has no appetite for going back into an election unless Carney screws up badly. And any competent political strategist from any party should be able to recognize that.

Any time someone claims "my one vote doesn't matter" I reply with this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_close_election_results

Yes, there are a lot of elections that are decided by a very small number of votes.

As the saying goes: "The only wasted vote is the one left uncast."

They've also "deported" (exiled is a better word) actual citizens. Someone on a green card has less protection than that.

While Trump is still a factor, the BQ has common interests with the Liberals.

Well, the voters did fire him.

Now it's up to his party to do the same, as they have done with so many other former leaders who lost.

Is next quarter's line going up a bit faster really more important than not putting yourself in a situation where you have to convince your security team to wear explosive collars?

He also talks about changing how executive incentives work to encourage a longer term outlook and to account for the externalities that their companies/decisions create. Making sure those corporate decision makers have much more personal "skin in the game".