How this guy manages to make his policies more and more similar to Trump as the campaign goes on is something to behold.

One things for sure, Canada is toast if he gets elected.

Should be 338canada.com.

That’s not true for every riding. Vote strategically using 338canada.com.

Based on current projections there is minimal risk of NDP winning enough seats to seriously hurt Liberals positions over Conservatives.

If your riding is leaning conservative but NDP is a close second, you should vote NDP, not Liberal (if that’s consistent with your values).

A Liberal minority government is the best outcome of this election on my opinion. An unchecked Carney is a risk of over-privatization (though not nearly as dangerous as Conservatives).

Carney is essentially a conservative (except for socially) by most metrics.

He handled Trump really well in his first month but there is legitimate risk he has private (as opposed to public) interests at heart.

I guess that’s better than the alternative (Poilievre) who will undoubtedly prioritise private interests. At least there’s a chance Carney might do some good.

Hoping for a liberal minority government. Canada is very fortunate to have a third party (NDP) to keep their mainstream “progressive” party in check. We’ve seen how things have gone to shit in the US.

I wouldn’t say it’s cheating. The guy is without a doubt fiscally conservative but holds some social liberal values.

They must enter a unique switch serial number (that corresponds with inventory) to make the purchase? Don’t see why it has to be contigent on a subscription.

The stakes in Canada are certainly higher than in the US where many do not know or are just now learning what a tariff is.

Perhaps this election is less vibes based due to those high stakes but I do feel Carney is the right vibe, or at least the one Canadians are looking for, even if it is not intentional and just happens to be who he is.

He is in many ways the antithesis to Trump, in terms of being relatively dry and matter of fact, which is the type of leader Canadians are looking to rally around.

I appreciate your insights. Far right wolf-in-sheeps-clothing conservatives have seen success globally by presenting themselves as reformists and it seemed like Canada was about to go down the same path.

Perhaps it wouldn’t have played out that way once Poilievre’s lack of substance received broader scrutinity but Trudeau’s and the Liberal party’s approval rating just a few months ago would suggest otherwise. Poilievre, Jenni Byrne and the rest of the conservative party likely assumed this would be a cakewalk.

Credit to Trudeau for realizing people were tired of him and Canada for having a system where a new leader could be voted in by the party before an election was called, so that it didn’t turn into the shitshow that was the Biden-Harris handoff.

His policy proposals are acceptable but in this day and age that is not how elections are won, especially with misinformation being pumped directly into our veins.

Elections are won on vibes and he comes across as calm and rational in a time when Canadians are desperate for that energy (with an agent of chaos ie. Trump breathing down our collective necks).

If we’re being completely real, the liberals were getting decimated in this election regardless of who they put forth if not for Trump’s aggressive threats towards Canada’s sovereignty and economy.

Trump’s actions will create a power vacuum that will benefit the worlds biggest players, especially China.

But smaller players may also have a chance to jump a few rungs on the influence ladder. Could Canada be one of those nations?

Most people are afraid of how tariffs will tank the global economy (which they will) but there may be a small window of oppurtunity here too.

Divesting in fascism is the only way forward.

Staring at Instagram and TikTok updooting anti fascist content and whining about the Democrats.

None of those affect Canadians directly. At the end of the day we’re all just monkies fighting for resources.

When America says ‘we own you now and if you fight it, we’ll make sure you starve’ it’s a different conversation.

People don’t (nor should they) take it likely when he says he’s going to use economic force. Canada already has an affordability crisis with its social services under incredible strain. If he proceeds full throttle, Canadians will die.

What would the average Canadian be afraid to hear and why does Canada have the longer runway?

What could he have caved on? Carney seems to understand that a country can impose any tariff that it wants and there is nothing he or Canada can do about that. All they can do is focus on the response. Trudeau and Ford rushing over to the US to beg for exemptions didn’t exactly play well.

Carney said he would not talk to Trump until he respected Canadian sovereignty. Trump did not call him governor or refer to Canada as the 51st state. At the very least it’s a step forward in discourse which no one else has acheived up until this point.

Definitely a liberal plant. No one is stupid enough for fuck it up for their federal party the way she has.

Lost liberal decade

Axe the tax

Putting Canada first, for a change

Boots, not suits

Hug a thug (disastrous hug a thug policies contextually)

Slogans is half the job from their perspective. They just haven’t found one that’s stuck.

People said the same about Kamala vs Trump and now the US is fucked. Now is not the time for apathy.

I would add that the definition of hate crime is relatively fluid depending on cultural bias. For example, there are many Jewish communities that invest heavily into tracking the nature and number of hate crimes suspected to be related to antisemitism. As a result the threshold is often lower to define such crimes as hate crimes

This isn’t to say that those hate crimes are overcounted, rather it’s that other groups are more likely to have crimes be dismissed / written off as for a reason other than ‘hate’.

People within a group can almost always tell you when a crime is due to hatred but unfortunately we often don’t take it seriously unless they have a foundation with millions of dollars and a team of lawyers behind them.

It really just comes down to… how else are western markets supposed to access the fruits of cheap labor in a post colonial world?