For my Canadian friends
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Shiftless2
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In reality Pierre Poilievre (aka PP) lost two elections - he blew a twenty point lead going into the Federal election and then he lost his own seat when his constituents showed him the door.
But the party parachuted him into what had to be the safest riding in the country - if you'd painted a rock blue it would have won. And Rigby's quote doesn't mention that the party asked the sitting MP (Damien Kurek) to resign so PP could run in his place.
Fact is, PP has never held a job outside of Parliament but he's somehow managed to convince the party to support him.
Shiftless2
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You hate Mark Carney because he's a Liberal. Cool. I don't care, I'm non-partisan. But I keep hearing "he's done nothing" from people who can't name a single policy he's passed. So I'm going to list some of what the man has actually done in 12 months, just to clear a few things up.
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1) He killed the carbon tax.
Gone. Day one. The thing you've been posting about for five years. He ended it. You're welcome.
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2) He scrapped the EV mandate.
No more government forcing you to buy an electric car. Replaced it with a $5,000 rebate if you want one. Your choice.
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3) He reversed the capital gains tax hike.
The one that had every doctor, investor, and small business owner looking at the exit door. Reversed.
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4) He passed the One Canadian Economy Act.
Tore down interprovincial trade barriers that have been strangling this country since Confederation. Passed with Conservative support by the way. Nobody talks about that part. CMHC says this alone could unlock 30,000 new housing starts a year.
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5) He launched Build Canada Homes.
Not a press conference. An actual federal agency building 45,000+ homes on government land across six cities.
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6) He dropped $51 billion on real infrastructure.
The Build Communities Strong Fund. Hospitals. Bridges. Water systems. Transit. Universities. Stuff you can walk into and touch.
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7) He cut 40,000 government jobs.
Trimmed the federal machine and committed to balancing operational spending by 2029. With a plan. On paper.
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8 ) He slashed temporary resident admissions.
From 673,000 down to 385,000. Because he understood what the last government refused to accept: you can't add people without adding capacity.
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9) He hit the NATO 2% defense target.
Something every PM has dodged for decades. Canada just made the biggest defense spending jump in generations. Over $63 billion. Then at the NATO summit he committed to 3.5% of GDP by 2035. The Americans aren't laughing anymore.
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10) He flew to the UAE and came back with $70 billion.
A $70 billion investment pledge into Canadian infrastructure. Not a handshake. A signed agreement.
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11) He went to China and played hardball.
Got tariffs on Canadian canola dropped from 85% to 15%. Cut EV tariffs from 100% to 6.1%. That's not weakness. That's someone who knows what leverage looks like.
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12) He signed Canada's first bilateral free trade deal with an ASEAN country.
Indonesia. New market. New money. New doors.
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He's made 26 international trips in one year.
Building trade relationships, signing deals, and putting Canada back in rooms we got quietly removed from (yes by Trudeau ... enough about Trudeau, he is NOT Trudeau).
Read that list again.
Carbon tax gone. EV mandate gone. Capital gains hike gone. Immigration reduced. Defense spending up. Government jobs cut. Trade barriers removed. Foreign investment pouring in.
Again, not Trudeau, enough about Trudeau, he is not Trudeau, he is Mark Carney after barely a year leading our country!
A Liberal made all these things actually happen.
And that's what's really eating some people alive. It's not that they disagree with the results. It's that the wrong team delivered them. So instead of saying "good, keep going" they say "he's done nothing" because their brain won't let them give credit to someone wearing the wrong jersey.
That's not politics. That's a personality disorder.
You don't have to like Carney. You don't have to vote for him. But if you're going to yell he's done nothing after reading that list, just say what you actually mean:
"I don't care what he does. I decided I was against him before he started."
At least that would be honest.
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I also did not like the carbon tax or EV mandate, so he sounds great.