Canadian retailers never needed an excuse to raise prices. They have and will always charge the max amount they think they can get away with.

No one ever leaves money on the table.

Yeah, this is at most a minor logistics rerouting. Doesn’t impact us.

sounds like a veiled threat.

No. I want you to go away, for precicely these irrational associations.

You cannot compare American gun juggling dipshit society, with Canadian licensing storage and usage regulations and a culture of general safety and collective cohesion.

Evidence based policy is not whataboutism. Canada is way better off without you.

Everything increases deaths in Canada. Cars, food, chemicals. Evidence based policy means you tailor the response to the problem. Legal firearms are a fart in a hurricane and doesn’t warrant the disproportionate bans and buybacks while ignoring the real problems of smuggling and crime, especially repeat criminals.

Who cares? Reddit is American and I dumped it completely and forever as a consequence for their backstabbing.

If anyone still uses it, please post in the Canadian subs to come here. Fuck Reddit and Fuck the US.

He wants to play to his base. Canadaian licensed gun owners are overwhelmingly not the problem.

US border porosity is.

This is a wedge issue. Cons lock up the gun vote which is larger than you think, especially in rural areas.

The Libs lockup the antigun vote popular in urban areas and especially Québec.

Both parties have abandoned “good government” policies, with over and under reach respectively while ignoring the real issues.

If you want to tackle gun crime, that 2 billion Fentanyl Czar and Hellicopter patrol needs to be chasing drugs AND guns. It’s the same people, using sthe same methods. We also need to build more prisons and jails so violent offenders don’t get the “commit another crime while on bail from the last one”.

Libs and Cons need to stop playing wedge politics and do their duty to grounded, evidence based legislation that doesn’t flip flop and turn innocent gun owners into paper criminals or wastr money buying back legally acquired guns that were never used in crimes or by criminals.

That’s not an “or”. I said scale one to the other. Build as many houses as you can. It still holds true.

This deep into a housing crisis and a cost of living crisis, you have to cap immigration to housing completion - natural growth rate. Otherwise you will just exacerbate the issues, and we’ll never get ahead.

Just voted. Very lineups were slim to none. 15 minutes and done.

I’m always surprised at how comfortable people are with flaunting their stupidity.

Bootz not Sootz!

A massive scourge is US private equity buying up any successful Canadian business. Canada Goose, Tim Hortons, virtually all our private media.

Selling successful Canadian enterprise for a one time payout is, well, selling out your country.

The other problem is subsidising foreign capital to operate in Canada. How many billions have we given to US auto? If it was important enough that US auto companies needed the cash, our Federal and Provincial investments should have been in exchange for equity, like any investor. Welfare for the rich and cold hard markets for the poor is what lead us to this crisis.

A fucking idiot with about a plastic spoon’s worth of microplastics in his brain. (Maybe two or three for him)

This is why we can’t have nice things.

I’ve already refuted your nonsense. You keep invoking the ghosts of authoritarian conscription and refuse to accept the parallels between an enhanced fundamental education with a coop portion and invoke your own irrational fears.

Disingenuous argumentative trolling. Welcome to my ban list.

You are certifiable. No one but you is talking about the draft. No one is incarcerated for skipping school, but it is mandatory. You keep bringing up nonsense that does not need to exist.

I think we’re done here.

Ok. I get it. You are irrational. You keep bringing up militarism while I have refuted it over and over again. That is not what anyone but you is talking about. Public education is mandatory and you are ok with that because it benefits the individual and society, but adding a 2 year PAID COOP in any number of civil projects of your choosing is now military conscription under threat of state violence? This is irrational.

Show me the lists of state violence for kids who play hookie? Where are the prison camps or mass graves or any other evidence of state violence against students? Is tree planting or community building nationalism? Is a paid coop in a field of your choosing slavery? Are you for real?

I don’t know who hurt you, but I’m sorry it happened to you. You have some PTSD sounding ramblings invoking ghosts of something or somewhere or someone that has NOTHING TO DO WITH WHAT IS BEING DISCUSSED HERE. You keep pulling these ghosts back into the conversation like a trauma response. It is preventing you from objectively seeing what is being discussed and participating rationally. You talk about the worst examples of what other countries have done like that’s the only option, rather than imagine what is possible and desirable for us all in a time of crisis. Canada is in a crisis. You also appear to be in one of your own.

For the record, I am not conservative. I’m progressive, pro-labour, class conscious NDP voter capable of complex thought, subtlety and nuance. No bigotry here. I’m fighting for a Canada that rejects American privatization for a return to Canadian standards of a mixed market economy where well regulated private enterprise thrives where it can and social enterprise thrives where it must.

I love Canada. I love even more the vision of what Canada can be when community works together.

What a weird response. Primary and secondary education are mandatory for everyone in Canada. This is mandatory CIVIC service. High School in many provinces have mandatory volunteerism in your community. E.g. Ontario requires 40 hours of volunteering.

We’re proposing 2 years additional paid service. Think of it like adding 2 years coop program. Not entirely unlike Cégep in QC, but not in the classroom, but in the workplace. Each individual could pick their program. Military service would be one possibility where THOSE WHO WILLINGLY CHOOSE IT are basically a fulltime Canadian Forces Reservist, or a newly formed Civil Defense unit for their coop term.

For conscientious objectors like you, you can select CIVIL service. Could be in daycares, nursing homes, hospitals, agriculture, homebuilding, care for the homeless, addiction treatment, filling potholes, disaster relief, tree planting, maintaining national or provincial parks, forest firefighting, disaster relief, any number of government projects etc…

No one is asking you to pick up a gun. No one is asking you to fight. No one is asking you to wear a uniform or get a haircut. Your assignment is chosen by you subject to qualifications and availability/demmand of the role. Like Katimavik, it could also be an opportunity to travel to another province and learn more and experience all that Canada is. Your time is paid so you are not a slave.

This is a win/win proposition.

Hiding behind calling yourself an anarchist, while enjoying the rights and freedoms of Canadian democracy is hypocritical. If you want to live your values you could try moving to any number of failed states and lawless lands. I hear Mogadishu is lovely in the spring.

I might have drunkenly downloaded an apk. :eek: It’s not on the play store. I’m now on Jerboa, but I’m open to recomendations.