For my Canadian friends

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Annette Lengyel​

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Poilievre "costed platform" puts unexplained numbers beside empty slogans

Billions in new tax revenue from unexplained sources marked in to pay for tax cuts heavily flowing to wealthy and high income earners.
Tom Parkin
Apr 23

The Conservatives’ “costed platform” promises billions in tax cuts, most benefitting wealthier and higher income Canadians, paid for by billions in new tax revenue, much of it unexplained.

At least $60 billion in tax revenue increases goes completely unexplained, without detail or analysis to support of the numbers marked into the fiscal tables.

Data Shows last week provided a full analysis of the Conservatives’ tax cut proposals and how they compare to the other parties. Skipping to the conclusion, the greatest benefit by far goes to high income and high wealth Canadians.

Promises “rocket fuel” for economy — then shuts it off

The Conservative document boasts that their proposal to end taxation on capital gains made from selling Canadian assets will “be like rocket fuel for our economy.”

The tax cut is such a powerful economic boost the Conservatives have marked it in to generate additional net revenues — not a revenue loss — of $6.1 billion in 2025/26 and $6.6 billion in 2026/27.

Neither how the Conservatives arrived at $12.7 billion net revenue impact from a tax cut nor through what revenue streams the money would flow are explained.

But the oddest thing is, though this “rocket fuel” tax cut is claimed to be so powerful it will be a massive net revenue generator, the Conservatives propose to end it after just two years. That is really odd.

At least $60 billion in unexplained new tax revenues

The Conservatives have marked in billions in new tax revenues that go completely unexplained, including:

• $12.7 billion in new revenue from cutting taxes on capital gains from Canadian assets, not explained and no detail provided
• $13.1 billion from cutting the capital gain inclusion rate from 66 to 50 per cent, though how this tax cut results in a revenue gain is nowhere explained and the Conservatives do not show their work
• $12.9 billion from closing tax haven loopholes, but no detail of what loopholes would be closed or how the number is arrived at
• $6.4 billion from “cutting red tape,” but no discussion of which regulations would be cut and how that would result in more public revenue
• $13.9 billion from home construction, though nowhere do they explain where the amount comes from or through what revenue stream it will flow.
Billion in unexplained cuts
And there are many cuts that aren’t clear and show no math back-up, including:
• $9.6 billion cut from foreign aid to unnamed “hostile governments and global bureaucracies.” Canada last year provided $16 billion in international assistance to other countries, $5.5 billion of which went to Ukraine. There is no explanation which countries will get cut.
• $11.2 billion cut from the “EV mandate.” Now, there is no cost to government from the EV mandate (which set targets for the EV market share), though there is a cost to the EV rebate, but Poilievre provides no explanation of where the number comes form.

Three word slogans with numbers added

Mark Carney’s costed platform, released Sunday, included $28 billion in unspecified program cuts and got rightly condemned for it.

Now Poilievre’s campaign has stitched together a document that gathers all his three word slogans and puts numbers beside them.

Unfortunately, in many cases the numbers are as empty and bereft of meaning as his slogans. It is exactly this sort of approach to politics that has led a majority of people to conclude Pierre Poilievre is the wrong person to lead Canada
 
Natural Governing Party Of Canada: Why The Liberals Will Retain Their Title

To understand why the Liberals are often called the Natural Governing Party of Canada, we must compare them to their main competitor, the Conservative Party of Canada (CPC).

Since Confederation, the Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) has repeatedly demonstrated political ineptitude, marked by a long history of division and unity within its party, particularly since the turn of the 21st century, as it has moved to the right of center with racist undertones. We haven’t forgotten Stephen Harper’s infamous 'dog whistle politics' comment about “old stock” Canadians.

Even with Brian Mulroney’s 1984 landslide win, the next ‘free-trade election’ divided Canada. While Mulroney deserves credit for his achievements, his party legacy is perhaps best known for the failed Meech Lake Accord, which, instead of bringing Quebec into the Constitution, gave rise to the Bloc Québécois.

After Mulroney, the new Conservative leader, Kim Campbell, had a brief tenure as Prime Minister from June to November 1993, during which time the CPC was obliterated in the subsequent election. We must also remember Joe Clark and the non-confidence vote that forced him to resign as PM.

The current CPC is the result of the 2003 merger between the Progressive Conservative Party and the right-leaning Canadian Alliance, spearheaded by Stephen Harper, which was also born out of discord and infighting. Since Harper left office, we’ve witnessed a sideshow-like series of weak leaders, like Andrew Scheer and Erin O’Toole, each claiming party leadership at different times through backroom dealings. Trudeau beat them both.

So, Pierre Poilievre’s ascent to party leadership had more to do with slim leader pickings at the bottom of the very shallow CPC talent pool; electing a loyal party lifer rather than a strong leader with a good vision for Canada.

The Liberals, on the other hand, have always played it right down the middle, consistently centrist and avoiding internal bickering, divisiveness, and instability that could hurt the party. This strategy has been successful over time and has appealed to the majority of the Canadian population.

This is why the Liberals are so often referred to as the Natural Governing Party of Canada, as they’ve governed Canada for 69 years throughout the 20th century.

It started with Wilfrid Laurier, prime minister from 1896–1911, then Mackenzie King, the longest-serving prime minister in Canadian history, from 1921–1930, and again from 1935–1948. He was succeeded by Louis St. Laurent, who continued the Liberal streak until 1957. Effectively, the LPC governed Canada from 1935 to 1957. Then Lester Pearson, 1963–68,
Pierre Trudeau, 1968–79 and again from 1980–1984, Jean Chretien, 1993–2003, with a record three straight majority governments (1993, 1997, and 2000). Being the first Liberal prime minister to do so since Prime Minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier in 1900, 1904, and 1908.

Harper took over and served as the 22nd prime minister of Canada from 2006 to 2015, but once again, and in typical Conservative fashion, he left the country divided. Justin Trudeau’s younger optimism, centrist and modern leadership appeal was in contrast to Harper’s coldness and perceived lack of empathy.

Now, at another critical time in our history, Mark Carney, another Liberal leader, seems to be the right leader at the right time in our history.

What is consistent about Canadians is that we are a people of compromise and working together, of course, this was how Canada was formed — through Confederation. Two prominent figures often cited as the “Fathers of Confederation” are John A. Macdonald (English side) and George-Étienne Cartier (French side). The 1867 Canadian Confederation was a compromise between French and English Canada, leading to the creation of the Dominion of Canada on July 1, 1867. This process united the British colonies of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and the Province of Canada (which was then divided into Canada East (Quebec) and Canada West (Ontario)). The Western provinces would be added later.

Therefore, compromise and reason are very much part of our Canadian culture and traditions. But the right-wing Pierre Poilievre and CPC threaten all that, our Canadian identity, in trying to swing us to a “Canadian MAGA,” a version of the American populist MAGA movement.

Mackenzie King got it right when he described Canadians as moderate, compromising and agreeable, particularly about our government, economy, and social systems.
 
Relax - the Canadian election is Monday so you're only going to be subjected to this sort of thing for a few more days

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Democracy Inc.​

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A COMMENTARY BY JIM ELLIOT AND HIS RESPONSE TO POILIEVRE’S RECENT LETTER TO MARK CARNEY:
Well worth sharing.

Dear Pierre:

Your pathetic excuse for a letter to Mark Carney is nothing more than a steaming pile of partisan garbage, wrapped in the stench of your predictable, whiny, fearmongering rhetoric.

It reeks of desperation from a man who has spent almost two decades in Ottawa doing EFF all except running his mouth and now wants to lecture someone infinitely more qualified than you’ll ever be.

Let me be perfectly clear: Your attempt to tear down Mark Carney is laughable, and it only serves to highlight how out of your depth you truly are.

First, your obsession with blaming Justin Trudeau for every goddamn issue in this country is beyond exhausting. Inflation? Trudeau’s fault. Housing? Trudeau’s fault. Food banks? Trudeau again. What’s next?

Did Trudeau also cause the wildfires and melt your popsicle on a hot day? This childish nonsense is what we’ve come to expect from you—a man who has mastered the art of pointing fingers while offering no real solutions.

You ignore that housing costs are tied to decades of neglect, supply chain issues, and global markets, not some cartoonish “Trudeau agenda” you’ve made up to scare your base.

And let’s talk about your sudden concern for food insecurity. You have the gall to mention food banks as if you give a single fuck about the people who rely on them.

If you did, you’d stop opposing programs designed to help the most vulnerable Canadians. But no, you’d rather demonize pandemic spending—spending you supported at the time—because now it’s politically convenient for you to act outraged.

You’ll vote for those supports in Parliament and then turn around and call them “reckless.” Hypocrisy, thy name is Pierre.

Then there’s your hilarious demand for Carney to ban former Trudeau ministers from serving in a future cabinet. What is this, a goddamn daycare?

No one who worked with him can come play? Grow the hell up. You know full well that governance requires experience, expertise, and collaboration—qualities you utterly lack, by the way.

But instead of acknowledging that, you demand a wholesale purge of anyone connected to Trudeau’s government, as though public service somehow taints them.

You worked under Stephen Harper, and his government gutted environmental protections, muzzled scientists, and ignored the housing crisis—should Carney ban anyone who served under Harper, too?

Oh wait, that would include you, wouldn’t it?

Your nonsense about gun violence is another glaring example of your intellectual dishonesty. You love to harp on crime rates while opposing every meaningful gun control measure proposed by this government.

Assault-style firearms? Oh, you’re fine with those. You’ll gladly cater to the gun lobby, no matter how many communities are shattered by gun violence. And yet you have the audacity to claim you’re the one who cares about public safety? Give me a goddamn break.

As for the national debt, your faux outrage is laughable. Let’s not forget that Harper ran deficits too, despite promising balanced budgets. And what exactly would you have done differently during the pandemic?

Let people fend for themselves? Leave small businesses to collapse? The supports that were rolled out saved countless Canadians from financial ruin, but you don’t care about that.

No, you only care about weaponizing the debt now that it suits you politically.

What’s truly rich is your attempt to frame Carney as some kind of Trudeau lackey. Mark Carney is one of the most credentialled and respected economists in the world.

He’s run central banks. He’s worked on global climate initiatives.

And you?

You’ve spent your political career spouting cheap one-liners on X, making TikTok videos, and pandering to the far-right fringe of your party.

The idea that you could hold a candle to Carney’s exemplary qualifications is EFFing laughable.

Let’s not forget your own abysmal record, Pierre. You’ve spent nearly 20 years in politics, and what do you have to show for it? What have you achieved ?

You’re a career politician with no real achievements to your name, other than cultivating an image as an "angry little man" who hates everything and everyone who doesn’t agree with him.

You love to rail against “gatekeepers,” but you’re the one who’s spent decades in the system doing nothing to fix it. Your solutions, if they can even be called that, are nothing more than hollow, trite, and empty slogans.

And let’s be honest here: You’re not offering Canadians hope, vision, or even competence. You’re selling anger. You thrive on division, pitting Canadians against each other and scapegoating your opponents for problems you can’t and won’t solve.

That’s all you are—a divisive, spiteful, arrogant little man who thinks he’s destined to lead because he can shout louder than anyone else.

Mark Carney doesn’t need to dignify your letter with a response, but Canadians see you for what you are. You don’t want to lead this country—you just want to tear it down so you can rule over the wreckage for the benefit of the special interests that own you lock, stock, and barrel.

Sincerely,
Someone who’s sick of your bullshit, and on behalf of millions of Canadians all across our beautiful country you want to sell us out from to Donald Trump.
 
Conservative MPs used parliamentary privilege to seek details on DEI initiatives ahead of election
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THE GLOBE & MAIL
Stephanie Levitz Senior reporter
Emily Haws Politics reporter
Ottawa
April 25, 2025

Conservative MPs used their parliamentary privilege to seek details on the scope of the federal government’s diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives in areas that line up with what party leader Pierre Poilievre is now pledging to cut.

The efforts to gather information began in March, 2024, with two MPs using order paper questions to probe spending on government and military contracts for DEI services.

Then, in November, two other MPs filed questions probing spending related to implementing DEI initiatives within the government and whether government-funded research programs were “guided by a diversity, equity and inclusion mandate.”

When Mr. Poilievre released his Quebec platform late last month, he promised to “put an end to the imposition of woke ideology in the federal public service and in the allocation of federal funds for university research.”

He’s also spoken at his election rallies – and before the start of the campaign – of replacing the military’s “woke culture” with a “warrior culture.”

The phrases “woke ideology” and “woke culture” has been adopted by opponents of diversity, equity and inclusion mandates and programming, who argue that those mandates wrongly prioritize race or gender over merit.

The line from the Quebec platform was originally missing from the full version of the platform released earlier this week.

Party spokesperson Simon Jefferies referred to the omission as a “publishing oversight” without providing further detail, and the platform was subsequently updated.

Mr. Poilievre has not specified how he would implement that promise.

In early April, when he was asked what his promise meant concretely, he accused the Liberals of dividing Canadians and weakening the Canadian Armed Forces.

He said his commitment was about uniting Canadians around a promise that working hard gets them an affordable home and life on a safe street.

The Liberals’ “woke criminal justice agenda” repeatedly releases criminals, he said. He added that the Liberals’ “woke agenda on spending” and debt has given Canada the worst inflation in four decades, which is affecting peoples’ lives.

“We need to reverse that, get back to Canadian values,” he said on April 15. “Canadian values of living within our means, leaving more in the pockets of the hard-working people, and letting people get ahead.”

The Globe and Mail asked the local campaigns of the four MPs who posed the order paper questions around diversity, equity and inclusion, as well as the national Conservative campaign, why the party was looking for the information.

None responded.

Poilievre says calling Trump to end tariff war would be among first acts as prime minister

Order paper questions are a way members of Parliament can hold the government to account. Unlike Question Period, where MPs rise to challenge government, order paper questions are submitted in writing and must be answered within 45 days.

They can be used for any topic within the government’s purview, and it is not unusual for MPs to use the process to gather information they will later use for political purposes.

The MPs requests – two in the spring of 2024 and two in the fall of 2024 – were asked as the Conservatives were putting together their election platform for the next campaign.

The question on the military, submitted in March by MP Cheryl Gallant, sought a list of vendors who had contracts with the Department of National Defence or CAF relating to diversity, equity and inclusion services.

That same month, MP Kerry-Lynne Findlay asked the government how it defined “woman,” and then a second question seeking a list of vendors who supplied the government with DEI services since January, 2019.

Both MPs received pages of information in response to their questions.

In November, MP Shuvaloy Majumder submitted a question looking to see what government-funded research was under a DEI mandate, while MP Arpan Khanna asked another one that month looking for details on the scope of EDI implementation inside government.

Those questions never received a reply because Parliament was prorogued in January and then the election was called in March.

When the questions were asked, the next federal election was scheduled for October, 2025 and the Conservatives were in the process of pulling together their platform.

Diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives are meant to focus on and address systemic inequities, such as racism.

However, the terms and what they encompass have faced backlash in the United States, Canada and other countries. Critics see the policies as divisive and overly focused on aspects such as gender and race as opposed to individual merit.

Among Mr. Poilievre’s candidates is Jamil Jivani, who has long advocated for the reform of DEI programs – and who counts among his close friends U.S. Vice-President JD Vance.

Both Mr. Vance and U.S. President Donald Trump have vowed to make their country “woke no longer.” Most recently, the U.S. administration moved to withhold federal funding to

K-12 schools with DEI initiatives, though U.S. justices have blocked that plan.

In early March, Mr. Jivani was asked by a Conservative supporter at an event in Cornwall, Ont., how a Poilievre government would dismantle “the DEI complex.”

He said he hoped there would no longer be a ministry for diversity, equity and inclusion – a post Liberal Leader Mark Carney did remove when he became prime minister later that month.

Mr. Jivani also said he wanted to see the end of “forcing” DEI onto federally-regulated institutions such as banks, which he argued allows them to pretend to be nice while passing the cost of DEI implementation on to consumers.

“If you ask most Canadians of any ethnic or cultural background, they would tell you they’d rather pay less in banking fees than have a website telling you ‘look how many people I hired that look like you,’” he said, according to a recording of the event obtained by The Globe and Mail.

Mr. Jivani said ministerial directives could accomplish a lot of changes, and he also cited the need to better track federal funds on DEI programming, including money that goes to universities. He said more transparency is needed about where the money ends up.

“The more transparent we are, the more there will be support for the kind of reforms I’m hoping for.”
 
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George Hupka​

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So here's how this seems to be working.

Top photo taken by CBC's Dan Zakreski at this morning's news conference here in Saskatoon, where none of the local media got to ask any questions but the Calgary Herald got to ask a question by phone. Poilievre's rationale in not allowing the national press to travel on the campaign plane and bus was to give local journalists more access... but that's not what's been happening.

Notice how there's nobody in the room and the reporters are roughly a half mile away from Poilievre. Is he afraid of catching the measles? Reporters have been consistently "penned" and kept far away from Poilievre even when, as you can see in the photo, there's absolutely no one else around.

Bottom image is how it looks on television. Because the cameras are so far away, the camera operators have to use the telephoto end of their lenses to get a decent shot of Poilievre - and because the "crowd" is so far behind him, it looks like there's more people than their actually are.

I've filmed several Prime Ministers over the years and this has NEVER happened before. Even when Harper was avoiding the media, it wasn't done in such an over-the-top manner.
 
Shiftless2 said:
"... the "crowd" is so far behind him, it looks like there's more people than their actually are." #90
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A member of the U.S.' esteemed judiciary (a subset) said:
"The remedy for bad speech is good speech." U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis

"Sunlight is the best disinfectant". Louis D. Brandeis
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Lou,
It may seem to help. But in some cases, it's not enough. In any case:

By my count tomorrow, Monday April 28 is the big day. Gosh help us all. 🤞
 
Election's tomorrow so hopefully you won't have to see too many more posts like this


Canadians Against Pierre Poilievre​

Sandra Holden Wood

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The ugly underbelly of pp's rage machine was out at yet another Carney event but failed to get the result they wanted. Let's make sure they don't get the result they want tomorrow. Vote Team Canada April 28!
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Tom EastlandSIMPLY NOT SKIPPY​

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Thank you President Trump for threatening Canada again this week with your insulting 51st state fantasy. Thank you Pierre Poilievre for showing us that you, and the 2025 Conservatives, are aligned with the Trump/Musk/MAGA bullies.

Thank you Pierre for lying to your advance voters that their promised 15% tax cut is actually only a 2% total cut, and wont come until 4 years from now. Thank you for showing you have zero concern for the environment, and you are inviting Big Money corporations to have unchecked access to our common resources, and public services. Thank you for pretending that you are against the anti-union bills that you and the Conservative Party created, and you yourself voted for. Thank you Pierre, for calling us Canadians stupid, i believe you underestimate us.

Also thank you Pierre for NOT helping us de-bunk the incessant lies, blaming, and rage-baiting misinformation smearing an honourable man like Mark Carney, who has earned international respect, and is an Officer of the Order of Canada. Your silence on that injustice speaks volumes. If you wont defend an honourable Canadian from lies and misguided blame, why should we believe you would defend the rest of us Canadians against the lies, disrespect, and greed coming from the White House now? We do NOT have to make stuff up to be critical of your politics, and your ideas of being Canadian.

Calling every Canadian who believes in both common sense and common decency: this is an extremely important election. Canada is truly one of the very best countries in the world to live in right now. We must protect Canada from PP & the Cons alliance with Trumpism. You can help. We need all Greens, NDPs , Red Tories, & Cons for Carney, (and anyone else game to help) to check in with your friends and family and search strategic voting in your area. Please vote for the best option to beat the Cons, and keep Mark Carney as our prime minister. Mark has already shown that he has the wits and courage to defend us against Trump, help unite our provinces, create an excellent economic plan to unite and build Canada strong, and aim to include all of us.

Any Liberals in a riding where a Green or NDP candidate is the strongest option to protect us from the Cons, please vote for them, knowing many of us are voting Liberal for you in other ridings. I believe we need lots of Green and NDP members in our parliament, too. And please keep asking the Liberals for voter reform.

I feel extremely lucky that in Peterborough we have an excellent, honest, caring, hard-working Liberal candidate: @Emma Harrison. If you are in my riding, please vote for her. I already have.
 
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Tom Eastland​

Not everyone was at Mark Carney’s event yesterday in Peterborough to cheer him on.

There were a dozen angry people with megaphones, Trump flags, and F*k Carney flags. One of the shouting angry ones called me a ‘Chinese Communist’, and yelled at me ‘Dont you care about free speech?’ I flashed a peace sign, and said ‘You do have free speech, just listen to yourselves’.

It was peaceful enough for the police not to intervene, but when you are loud and annoying, i do not find that peaceful. I imagined if Poilievre was in town, he would bring the angry loud ones coffee & donuts. I remember some people say that the Freedom Convoy was peaceful. When i heard that it made me want to park a diesel engine, with a few loud airhorns, in front of their homes for a few weeks and blare the horns constantly, to see if they find that peaceful.

How many years have Poilievre & the Conservatives been loudly blaming the Liberals for all the problems the world and Canada has faced? Aren’t Poilievre & the Conservatives somewhat responsible for nurturing this anger/blaming culture? Why does anyone want to choose them to be the leaders of Canada?

I remember when it used to kind of cool to be a conspiracy theorist. My momma told me over 30 years ago that there are big rich European and American families with so much money that they could actually corrupt Western democratic governments. That is no longer a conspiracy theory, it is now obvious that big money, from many different groups, has bullied public politics at almost every level, in every country.

I understand people’s anger that mainstream medias do not tell the whole truth. Please bring the same sense of doubt about alternate media - they do not always tell you the truth, either. I have watched otherwise peaceful people descend into alternate media streams, and come up completely convinced of some very bizarre things. I understand people’s anger that there are some very rich people who dont care about you, and are screwing you over at every turn. But Trump, the world’s biggest sinner (and spoiled rich kid), is chosen by Jesus to protect you from socialism and the globalist deep state? And Mark Carney is a globalist, child-smuggling Chinese Communist dictator, that is going to force you to eat bugs, and not allow you to talk about it? Do you really believe this stuff? And then some will also smugly tell you to ‘do some research’.

If you want to be protected from Big Money and corporations, you should vote for a party that will at least protect social services, our environment, and protect our sense of common decency towards others, of all colours, nationalities, and faiths. If we let corporate interests completely take over our government, you will be even more screwed.

Poilievre & the Conservatives’ entire strategy is to simply give up our government to private Big Money corporations, and slip you a dollar or two on the side. PP & the Cons tell you that life will be more affordable, but when the private corporations take over our common goods, they will only want to profit from that, and you will be worse off sooner than later. Do you know how much health insurance costs in the Great Ole USA?

Mark Carney may be one of the rich guys. He may have powerful rich friends. He may have many global international relationships. In better times i would prefer Elizabeth and Jonathan of the Greens as our leaders, and we would all happily seek sustainable, caring civilizations without fossil fuels & large military budgets. But these are dark times, with billionaire bullies in the White House threatening to suck Canada into their perverted sense of ‘great’.

Mark Carney is a world-respected economist, and problem solver. He has already shown that he has the courage and wits to defend us against Trumpism, and seek to unite our provinces. From all the research i have done, including the alternate media, I honestly believe we have found one of the precious rich guys that actually care about others, and is excited to tackle the challenge of protecting Canada from the brutish culture in the White House now.

@Emma Harrison, Liberal in Peterborough, is a genuinely kind, intelligent, hard-working, and caring person. I have heard her speak, and i have met her, and I believe she will look after Peterborough’s best interests, and ensure that the Liberal promises are kept. I happily and hopefully put on my red socks, and voted for her in the advance polls.
Please check in with your friends and family. If any of them do not like Trump, and they prefer Canada align with other international civilized countries, please research strategic voting with them in their area.

I urge all Greens, NDPs, & Red Tories to check out strategic voting. Search your riding for who the best candidate is to ensure we keep Mark Carney as our prime minister, maybe in a minority government. And any Liberals in a riding that the NDP or Greens have a better chance to win, please vote for them this time, knowing there are huge numbers of us green & orange lefties voting for your Liberals in our ridings. And please keep asking the Libs for voter reform.

We are not just voting for a business plan this election, we are also choosing our culture. Carney & the Liberals have by far the best business plan, which also includes investing in Canada, building energy-efficient homes with Canadian materials & workers, nurturing common sense and decency, environmental concern, and inclusion of all our native peoples.
A minority government with the NDP and Greens will even better ensure our social services, and protection of the environment.

Please vote with your heart and your mind. Don’t let poorly informed anger blind you. Please choose a kind and caring future for us, and our kids.

Elbows up, and Canada Strong, eh?
 
Shiftless2 said:
hopefully #94
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We can echo the hope, but hope is not a strategy. "Hope for the best, plan for the worst."

Shiftless2 said:
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We rarely see a one-sided flag.
The other side says: "People Zero" BUT, that's not necessarily the final score. Trump may get a few points more, the People, a few points less.

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This post inspired by a cinema critic's comment on Jaws 3.
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The critic's comment: Jaws 3, Audience Zero
 
Today is "D-day" (Decision Day).

I encourage everyone that's eligible to turn out to vote. Trump won the first time, in large part, because people thought Hillary had an absolute lock on the election so there was no need to vote. This time around 90 million people stayed home and look at what happened. Don't let Canada be a repeat of that.
 

Jacquie ParkerSIMPLY NOT SKIPPY​

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Danny sums it up perfectly. PP was my minister back in the day and he was horrible. He has failed at everything. 20 years and not one bill to show what he was paid for. On the Eve of this election please at least take the time to read, as these are things he does not want you to know or think about. Whether you are Liberal, NDP or old school CP, pay attention and vote accordingly. We only have one chance to save Canada from what is happening south of the border.

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Albertans Against Separation​

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Twenty Years of Chaos: Why Pierre Poilievre Will Never Be Canada’s Future
Danny I.P. – No Retreat. No Surrender.
April 27, 2025

They whine about “nine years of Liberals”?

Pierre Poilievre had twenty.

And he wasted every second.

Twenty years in Parliament.
Twenty years on the public dime.
Twenty years living large off your tax dollars — while doing everything in his power to sabotage the very country footing his bill.
And what do we have to show for it?
No affordable housing.
No strengthened healthcare.
No action on climate.
No economic resilience.
No advancement of workers’ rights.
No national unity.
No global leadership.
No future vision.
No national pride.
No strengthened democracy.
Nothing but chaos. Nothing but division. Nothing but decay.

Pierre Poilievre didn’t spend two decades serving Canada.

He spent two decades undermining it from within — eroding trust, sowing discontent, and cozying up to the darkest forces in our political landscape.

When Canadians needed hope, Poilievre offered hatred.

When Canadians needed solutions, he handed them slogans.

When Canadians needed courage, he filmed TikToks and hid behind YouTube rants.

And while he was torching our institutions?

He was racking up a gold-plated taxpayer-funded pension so obscene it would make any hard-working Canadian sick — a golden parachute for a man who spat on the very system that enriched him.
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Now, after twenty years of destruction, Pierre Poilievre has the audacity to say he’ll "fix" the chaos he helped unleash.

He promises to "get tough on crime" — pushing a reckless three-strikes law that experts warn will destroy lives without making communities safer.

And if the courts dare to intervene? He’s ready to shred your Charter rights using the notwithstanding clause — treating your freedoms like bargaining chips.

If you want a glimpse of that future, just look west to Alberta.

Danielle Smith’s so-called Compassionate Intervention Act — a dystopian nightmare that locks up vulnerable Canadians without consent under the fake branding of "compassion."

An authoritarian blueprint dressed in soft language — and Poilievre is salivating to bring it nationwide.

This isn’t about freedom.

This isn’t about safety.

This is about control.

It’s about punishment.

It’s about total domination.
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The Real Record — Dragged Into the Light:

• Housing?
As Minister of Employment and Social Development (ESDC), tasked with overseeing affordable housing initiatives under the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) — and delivered six homes. Six. In a nation facing a full-blown housing emergency.

• Democracy?
As Minister for Democratic Reform, tried to gut voting rights through the "Fair Elections Act" — an open assault on Canadian democracy, condemned nationwide.

• Economic Stewardship?
Cheered on Harper’s austerity, hollowing out Canada’s social safety net and leaving Canadians exposed when global economic storms hit.

• Public Trust?
Mocked it, undermined it, and cashed in on its destruction — selling fear, lies, and division for personal gain.

• Human Rights?
Voted against legalizing same-sex marriage in 2005.
Voted again in 2006 to repeal marriage equality.
Proudly stood against LGBTQ2+ Canadians and their families — then pretended he "respects rights" when politically convenient.

• Women’s Rights?
Claims he won’t personally ban abortion — but refuses to stop his MPs from introducing legislation that would rip away women’s access to healthcare and bodily autonomy.
Cowardice disguised as neutrality.

• Extremism?
Rubbed elbows with convoy organizers, conspiracy theorists, and extremist figures — enabling a movement that attacked Canada’s democratic institutions, threatened violence, and waved Confederate flags on Parliament Hill.

• National Security?
Refused to undergo national security vetting — leaving Canadians wondering what he’s hiding, and proving beyond doubt that he can’t be trusted with Canada’s most sensitive secrets.
A man too reckless for a clearance is a man far too reckless for the Prime Minister’s Office.

• Division?
Mastered the dark art of rage politics — dividing Canadians by region, race, class, and creed — weaponizing distrust to climb the political ladder.

• Cowardice?
Refused to denounce foreign interference when it benefited him.
Refused to defend Canada’s democratic institutions when it mattered most.
Refused to lead — and chose to inflame.
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And now?

• A spike in politically-motivated violence.

• Communities torn apart by fear and lies.

• A poisoned national dialogue where truth is optional and rage is the currency of power.

This isn’t a side effect. It’s the plan.

Pierre Poilievre’s fingerprints are all over the crises he now pretends to oppose.

He doesn’t want to fix Canada — he wants to break it beyond repair and rule the ruins.

He’s not the antidote.

He’s the disease.
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Pierre Poilievre’s Career Is a Warning — Not a Resume:

A shrine to self-interest.
A blueprint for destruction.
A cautionary tale of what happens when ambition rots into betrayal.
Twenty years.
Zero solutions.
Zero leadership.
Maximum chaos.

If Canadians hand him the keys to 24 Sussex, it won’t be a government.

It’ll be a crime scene — run by a man who couldn’t even pass a basic security screening.

Pierre Poilievre isn’t Canada’s future.

He’s Canada’s funeral procession.

And we either fight back now — or we live forever under the wreckage he leaves behind.

No retreat. No surrender. Not now. Not ever.
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Sources:
• “Pierre Poilievre’s Record on Affordable Housing,” CBC News, 2024.
• “The ‘Fair Elections Act’ and Its Assault on Canadian Democracy,” Globe and Mail, 2023.
• “The Conservative Legacy of Cuts and Austerity,” Toronto Star, 2022.
• “Political Violence in Canada on the Rise,” CTV News, 2024.
• “Rage Politics and the Global Spread of Authoritarian Rhetoric,” Policy Options, 2024.
• “Parliamentary Pension Costs and MP Benefits,” Canadian Taxpayers Federation, 2023.
• “Poilievre’s ‘Three Strikes’ Policy: Tough Talk or Dangerous Fantasy?” Maclean’s, 2024.
• “Alberta’s Compassionate Intervention Act and the Erosion of Civil Liberties,” Canadian Lawyer Magazine, 2024.
• “House of Commons Vote Records on Bill C-38 and 2006 Marriage Motion,” Parliament of Canada, 2005–2006.
• “Poilievre’s Position on Abortion Legislation and Free Votes,” CBC News, 2024.
• “The Ties Between Poilievre and Far-Right Convoy Organizers,” Global News, 2024.
• “Security Vetting and Political Leadership Risks,” National Post, 2025.
 
Never thought I'd have anything positive to say about Doug Ford but here we are

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Election Day 2025: leave it to Doug Ford Doug Ford to blow one final hole in Pierre Poilievre's sinking boat of slogans. No PP it's not about "change" or "woke" or "carbon tax Carney" - it's about standing up to Trump. And you ain't the guy.

I love when Conservatives scrap in public.

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