pipsqueak1984 @ northmaple1984 @lemmy.ca

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Eh.... At the end of the day, despite the fact that I think she will do better than Biden, my money is still on Trump (although it'd be nice if the Republicans picked someone younger than 60 as well)

Yeah, I understand why you asked what you did, but the issue is that it accepts the premise that guns are the issue in the first place. That's how the Liberals have been able to push gun control (and other policies, such as their justice reforms in favour of criminals): by placing the blame on things rather than people.

It's recession-like in the sense the GDP per capita is going down which means everyone is getting poorer... however the definition of a recession only considers GDP as a whole so technically the country is growing despite everyone getting poorer.

Wrong question. You should be asking if it involved someone with a firearms license. The type of firearm used is irrelevant, despite what the Liberals would like us to believe.

Any type of discrimination based on race is racism, I never claimed otherwise.

Nice generalisation, glad to see the racism is alive and well on the left.

I am a homeowner and while I intially agreed with you out of instinct, if you figure that monthly rent should be thr equivalent to property taxes, maintenance and whatever utilities are included in the rent the big push I'm favour of home ownership is the fact that you don't pay capital gains on a primary residence. In the above example, an investment gaining $1.4M in value would have (Ontario) taxes of around $350k... So it really depends on whether the house being considered is a primary residence or not.

We're worse off because we severely limit our development of our natural resources and a lot of what we do develop is exported in a fairly raw state (we don't do much value adding).

Because we are the second largest country in the world and have vast amount of natural resources... why shouldn't we develop them?

All the materials being used by these tiny (geography-wise) European countries that many consider to be "better" than us certainly aren't coming from those countries... why shouldn't it come from us?

I have never actuslly voted Green in an election.

Also, I believe the PPC is more libertarian than right but i could be wrong.

When we have articles about how highschool and university students can't find jobs and construction companies are laying people off, I'd like to know what labour shortages we have outside of healthcare.

Fossil fuels aren't a yes/no thing, we aren't getting off them cold turkey and neither is any other country. Part of the process is substituting higher emitting fossil fuels with lower emitting ones while we work towards the goal.

I actually joined their party once to vote for a new leader. My person lost and with the shitshow that followed I'll be avoiding them too.

Oh I 100% after thay Meta is a shit company but in this particular instance I don't think how they've chosen tk comply with the law is unreasonable.

Facebook removes emergency news stories unnecessarily risking the lives of Canadians over an silly disagreement on a bill

Facebook is complying with the law as written. Perhaps the bigger issue here is how badly the law is written and not Facebook's method of compliance.

Forcing any entity to provide a service and then taxing them for providing said service is fundamentally unjust.

Lol, I have been voting since the 2000's and never voted CPC or any other Conservative party until 2019 (and still haven't provincially)... Provide me with an alternate that leaves both the Liberals and NDP without power and I'll gladly not vote CPC this time around.

Full disclosure: I've recently been considering voting PPC for the first time.

This is it right here: the fed is using powers clearly within their jurisdiction in a way that's causing massive issues for provinces. The provinces shouldn't be on the hook for it and the feds need to find solutions that are squarely within their own jurisdiction rather than simply providing money to the provinces with strings attached.

Extractive industry is heavily required if we're going to get off fossil fuels, we have tons of metals that are pretty damn important for building nuclear and various renewable energy sources.

But in the meantime, the world was clamouring for natural gas because of sudden restrictions due to the war in Ukraine and it was pants-on-head retarded to turn that down.

Lol, good thing there was nothing of substance riding on that because you're wrong.

Also, can you point out what I've said that's wrong?

Shitty website, completely ignores the effect of population and land mass.

If all countries were to follow Canada’s approach, warming could reach over 3°C and up to 4°C.

If all countries were following Canada's approach of having roughly 40M people spread across roughly 9.98M km² and emitted the same per capita that we do, we'd reduce global emissions by 77% (same population density of Canada emitting same per capita tons as Canadians).

It's pretty convenient that people like to ignore this though.

And instead, here is Canada importing people largely from lower emitting per-capits emitting countries so those people can emit more here.