• LarmyOfLone@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    You can predict what likely happens next: more neoliberal policies and degradation of quality of life. In one of the next election the fascists take over Canada. They never learn.

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      8 months ago

      This is my fear as well. Neoliberal policies are exactly what have made the extreme right so strong and powerful over the past decades. When people have no means to get forward in life, they resort to despotism, which is exactly why the poorest parts of the USA are so strongly in favor of Trump, while the wealthier parts are still clinging onto the liberal train.

      Like I said in other posts, this is a good day for the current term, but if the Liberals aren’t serious about making life better for real Canadians (not the super-wealthy ones), there’s a good chance that this is only exacerbating an inevitable collapse.

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      8 months ago

      In one of the next election the fascists take over Canada. They never learn.

      At least we stopped Maple MAGA from taking over now… we learned this one trick from the Americans

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        8 months ago

        Yeah neoliberals… the reason they want that is to get cheap laborers. Can’t believe they are so brazen about it.

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          Immigrants = scary 🥺

          Cons seriously need to come up with new talking points, trying to paint Carney as some kind of WEF great replacement agent clearly wasn’t a winning strategy.

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          Narrator: the infrastructure was not there

          Voted liberal, ndp, and green my whole life btw, and spent a decade as a public servant; im not a hate filled person who shits on immigrants, I just want responsible immigration policy, and McKinsey Consulting is evil.

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              The Canadian population rose by almost 20% in the last 5 years. The infrastructure we currently have was not ready for irresponsible immigration policy, and these things need to be done in coordination. I can’t predict the future, but I’m sayin’ my political concerns lie in this decade, not the next century.

              Bad immigration policy also fuels distain towards immigrants, and it bolsters people like Pierre Pollivre, and I think we probably both agree that’s a bad thing

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                and it bolsters people like Pierre Pollivre, and I think we probably both agree that’s a bad thing

                Yes

                And you’re right to say we have housing issues. Getting rid of rent control was a poor choice in ontario. Corporate landlords are another. We have many vacant homes in Canada that should be filled. There are many things that need to change, and I am hopeful that these changes can be made before canada had 100 million in population

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          It isn’t? Drive by Hamilton or any other GTA city, shits unreal how expensive housing is and homeless is more pronounced post-covid since they opened the flood gates and reduced CRS requirements so that anyone with a pulse could get in. They only back pedalled now on resuming policies they had pre-covid, but the damage is already done…

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            8 months ago

            They want 100m by the end of the century no? You don’t think we can build infrastructure to support that in 75 years? I wasn’t saying now

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              No I dont think so, because I have lost faith in provincial governments actually realizing that goal. They cater to nimbys and the status quo

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                Well, with climate change warming stuff up, we will build on the old permafrost i guess