Liberals’ lead shrinks as Canadian mood plummets to historic lows
Liberals’ lead shrinks as Canadian mood plummets to historic lows
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Liberals' lead shrinks as Canadian mood plummets to historic lows
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Liberals got elected on a platform of divorcing the Canadian economy from the Americans and rejuvenating the Canadian economy through nation-building megaprojects from coast to coast built with Canadian natural resources. What do we have so far?
- No announcements on any megaprojects
- No homes built, instead just a big tax giveaway to developers
- all counter-tariffs on the US dropped to appease trump
- digital services tax repealed to appease trump
- despite appeasement, no end in sight to US trade war
- Also started a trade war with China for no reason, so we're getting spitroasted by tariffs from both superpowers
- austerity programs at Canada Post leading to the 2nd strike in a year
Unfortunately I don't think the NDP or BQ have the balls to topple the government this early, but Carney came into office looking like a MVP and he's a big fat bust.
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Counter-tariffs just raise prices here. They were a terrible idea to start with, just like tariffs are in general. The digital services tax was on its way out even before Trump was elected. China likes kicking people when they're down so we got restrictions on ag products just to twist the knife.
Plenty of reasons to be pissed off with the Liberals, but those aren't some of them.
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Counter-tariffs just raise prices here. They were a terrible idea to start with, just like tariffs are in general
No they aren't, blanket tariffs the way Trump is doing it is stupid, but counter-tariffs on American products that can be replaced with made-in-Canada products works and helps keep jobs in Canada.
The digital services tax was on its way out even before Trump was elected
This is also wrong... the Digital Services tax was introduced as a Liberal priority all the way back in 2020 and passed in 2024. It probably would have been repealed by Pollievre if he won, but Liberals repealing their own years-in-the-making policy, a day before going into effect as an act of appeasement to Donald Trump was definitely not inevitable.
China likes kicking people when they’re down so we got restrictions on ag products just to twist the knife.
Their tariffs on us are counter-tariffs in response to us imposing a 100% tax on Chinese-made solar panels.
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oh...wait until you see the cuts in the fall budget. The most anti-science PM since Trudeau.
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People voted for a guy that said he would stand up for Canada after Trumps deranged threats. Instead they got a zionist worm that folds at the slightest whisper of "tariff".
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As opposed to a Nazi simp who would have sold us straight into the gas chambers of America? Right call. Every time.
Also so far Carney has been harder on Israel than any Canadian prime minister to date. So get out of here will your bullshit propaganda calling him a Zionist. Go back to the US.
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Strange. We don't have a two party system, but somehow the seat distribution reflects that. If only the Librerals addressed FPTP like promised during their "crisis election" of the time.
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Literally nothing in the parent comment even alludes to PP what are you even talking about?
Also so far Carney has been harder on Israel than any Canadian prime minister to date.
Really? What did he do? Not say, do.
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He is a Zionist, he wants a "Zionist Palestine". What does that mean, other then he supports the Zionists agenda of murdering and replacing all Palestinians? At the same time his government continues to sell weapons to Israel, while saying they aren't.
Thus, for all intents and purposes, Carney is a Zionist as he is actively supporting Israels goals.
https://www.cjpmemap.ca/2025_06_25_lb_cbc_news
https://rachelgilmore.substack.com/p/carney-reiterates-call-for-a-zionist
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He literally said he want Palestinian to accept Zionism the supremacist ideology that caused the whole mess
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Ah yes, as we saw in the US the best thing to do when a left-leaning leader isn't as harsh on Israel as we'd like is to swing our support over to the right-leaning leader.
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It’s working out great down here!
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Trump won because Americans was fooled by his promise of fixing the economy and Carney will lose for the same reason next time and like in the USA they will be people who claim that Palestine is the reason he lost and the other side with complain about how anti occupation people are the reason Carney lose
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Is that what the poster said? This isn't America, we have 3rd and even 4th and 5th parties to choose from. There's no reason to vote for the zionist if you want a principled anti-Zionist party like the NDP.
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While I wish Carney was more openly 'elbows up' I acknowledge there's a tonne at that level of government I don't really know about. I'd say at this point, yeah, I'm disappointed in Carney, but for now I'll give him the benefit of the doubt. From day one his path was to pull away from the strongest ally Canada has ever had and an ally we were near-totally tied to. It takes time to find alternate deals and countries to replace those broken agreements. Cutting ties instantly would have led to the greatest recession Canada has ever seen and may well have destroyed the country. Honestly, if he announces some major shifts to other countries within his first year I'd expect that to be a pretty significant success.
Just like how Trump's policies have taken 6 to 8 months to start showing results in the US, moving away from a country we were so closely tied to will not only take a long time to do, but seeing the results will take longer beyond that. Carney's only been PM for 8 months and is arguably facing the greatest challenge any PM has had to face in decades. I've tempered my expectations and am waiting to see how the next few months play out. My hope is that he's just stringing Trump along until we get our shit sorted, like setting up a new job and place to live before leaving an abusive relationship.
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Canadian imports and exports are an absolutely massive ship to change course -especially when a lot of private contracts are years into the future. That said, we are already trading a lot more with pretty much everyone except the US.
https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/features/2025/canada-international-trade/
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I mean, I more just wanted a guy that wouldn’t just bend over and present himself and let Trump go to town.
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I mean lets face it the only reason Carney won was because of what Trump said. that's it. We Canadians are honestly pretty dumb when it comes to politics and we sure do love our sound bites. Remember PP had this thing in the bag until Trump opened his mouth and then suddenly we all said "oh yeah...yeah we don't want that lets vote for the guy that kinda isn't that" while the NDP "here's Singh, sure he doesn't have a single original thought in his head but...yeah it's the best we can do"
Like our choices were unoriginal man, nazi man, or none of the above man.
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I thought Singh was great, but didn't stand a chance against white men.
Carneys been a real disappointment, but I guess he's not Bitcoin pete
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There were plenty of people who were in the "Anyone but Pete" camp before Trump said his piece. If Pierre had said anything to denounce Trump's statement, a good chunk of those who joined that camp probably would have stayed with the Conservatives just because they were tired of the Liberals. So maybe Pierre is a terrible person, but at least he's willing to say what means, even if doing so loses him an election. And to be clear, what he means is not doing anything against Trump, America, our local far-right head cases, oh, and also run-of-the-mill conservative...businesses.
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But who could've seen this coming?!
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Maybe we can trade? I mean... If you want to? 👉👈
To be honest I didn’t really expect anything from Carney beyond being a less insane seeming conservative. Which seems to be what he is.
I’m not really a fan, but I really dislike Pierre.
I don’t expect a lot from the people in this country. If more people voted more left of either L or C I might. But we aren’t dealing with an especially intelligent populace. Made worse by the bleed of US style political bullshit into our country like a shit stain we can’t ever get clean.
Pollievre will do tax cuts, deregulation and austerity while keeping us distracted with 24/7 idiotic conservative culture wars. Carney is doing tax cuts, deregulation and austerity while keeping us distracted with the promise of "nation building projects" that will never materialize. Either way it's tax cuts, deregulation and austerity. The only difference is the type lies they're telling to distract us. :-)
Not true, PP would also be directly and purposefully eroding minority rights and be attacking the vulnerable. Carney is at least leaving them alone. As a minority that is being directly targeted in the states right now I am really happy to be in Canada with a PM that isn't spreading active hate towards me right now. Instead I live in a province where that's happening. I will take only one level of government hating me.
But what is the other option the stuff the NDP is pushing and Trudeau was. I mean how many times did they try to push gender rights or something in a trade deal? I mean we can't force our values on other countries and what are we supposed to do when they don't follow them?
Poilievre would increase GST so poor pay taxes. That was the whole point of Mulroney's GST.
I think we need an actual left-of-centre party. The NDP is just a right-of-centre party who support some minor social programs as long as they don't interfere too much with extracting money via capitalism. I'm not looking for a socially progressive right-of-centre party. I want to see an actual left-of-centre party. A party that would nationalise our resources and use the proceeds to fund centralised housing, healthcare, education, parks and recreation spaces, infrastructure, and other things that people need and enjoy. A party that wants to improve labour standards and invest in ourselves, and move away from US style capitalism. It can be done.
NDP is not a right wing party