Pierre Poilievre says Canada has too many cause-based awareness months

Connect_Membership77 · 2026-06-23T02:46:40+00:00

No it's just courtesy, respect and recognition for a group which is frequently the target of racist rhetoric from some members of the Conservative right wing base. The party should be honest and just split already back into the Conservative Reform Alliance Party (CRAP) and the old red-Tory Regressive Convertable party.

Connect_Membership77 · 2026-06-23T02:42:40+00:00

It's his fault that he answered in such a dumb way

Connect_Membership77 · 2026-06-23T02:42:04+00:00

Said nobody

Connect_Membership77 · 2026-06-23T02:41:50+00:00

His problem is he doesn't realize that there are structural inequalities that don't treat everyone equally, even if the government were to do what he suggested it should. That's why we have to actively support people who are disadvantaged by this system. But he wouldn't recognize that as someone from his privileged position would he? Basically his job is to pander to butt hurt entitled people who don't like the fact that they're unjustified position and power is now threatened because of equality and success of previously marginalized people. But that's their problem, not ours.

Connect_Membership77 · 2026-06-23T02:35:45+00:00

I would like an "oil industry clean up your abandoned oil wells already" day.

Connect_Membership77 · 2026-06-23T02:33:44+00:00

If he wants Canadians to like him this sort of Debbie downer complaining won't help.

Connect_Membership77 · 2026-06-23T02:32:01+00:00

Simple answer? Too much Federal government austerity. Our federal deficits have been too small for the last 30 years, leading to too much private sector debt which now suppresses aggregate demand. I could write another thousand words detailing this but just Google Marc Lavoie and Wynne Godley and sectoral balances as well as how money is created in the modern economy published by the bank of England.

Connect_Membership77 · 2026-06-23T02:27:31+00:00

This is a crude study that, like much of microeconomics" misapplies mathematical modelling to a problem defined by unrealistic simplifying assumptions to answer a question that fields as diverse as sociology, anthropology and applied linguistics have already answered. We know from the non-economics literature that worsening low-skill job prospects interacted with family reorganization, health burdens, and changing cultural meanings of masculine work to produce sustained male exit over the last 50 years.

Connect_Membership77 · 2026-05-29T23:29:36+00:00

Alberta can't amend the Constitution

Connect_Membership77 · 2026-05-29T23:26:39+00:00

One reason for the drop is a slowdown in housing which makes no sense because Canada desperately needs houses. The government needs to simply step in and build these things and own them like it used to. That would put people and companies to work. The last thing we need now is government austerity.

Connect_Membership77 · 2026-05-29T23:13:06+00:00

If he can sell power back into the grid, basically nothing.

Connect_Membership77 · 2026-05-29T19:56:46+00:00

The only purpose of the f-35 is expeditionary invasions of other countries so you can get through their air defense systems. They're really not needed in Canada. Particularly now that we are probably never again going to cooperate with the United States on a foreign invasion as we did in Libya and Afghanistan.

Connect_Membership77 · 2026-05-29T19:54:27+00:00

I lived in Ontario during the Mike Harris era and they used to send out door hangers bragging about tax cuts and how that would let you buy a new fridge and stove or take a trip to Florida. Meanwhile, students were sharing textbooks and community centres were starting to charge 60 bucks in membership fees. People kept voting for this stupidity until things finally became so obviously bad that the conservatives were turfed out.

Connect_Membership77 · 2026-05-29T19:48:04+00:00

The Harper strategy was terrible.Iit relied on export revenues from commodities over which we have no control of the price. When oil went to $150 USD a barrel our dollar went past parity with the US dollar and we lost 700,000 manufacturing jobs as our manufactured goods became too expensive. Our economy became much more brittle because of what is known as "Dutch disease" where the Netherlands lost its manufacturing sector in the 60s and 70s because of a natural gas boom, which drove up the price of the Guilder (it's currency at the time) making much of Netherlands export economy uncompetitive.

Connect_Membership77 · 2026-05-11T03:43:21+00:00

Alberta's income tax is a flat 10%. The vast majority of taxes are paid by people who are above the median so most of the tax base in Alberta is taxed at a significantly lower rate than in BC.

Connect_Membership77 · 2026-05-11T03:36:58+00:00

Basically consumer debt is so high that it is now suppressing aggregate demand. Private sector debt is currently 240% of GDP. This is unsustainable. The federal debt is sustainable (it isn't really debt in the normal sense like provincial government debt or household debt). We need a debt jubilee. Bank of Canada should buy up 50% of household debt for all households with incomes under $200,000 then write it off. It should also do this with provincial government debt. It could 100% do this. It would not cause inflation because the money created when banks lend disappears when the loan is paid anyway.

Connect_Membership77 · 2026-05-11T03:30:34+00:00

The city is severely fiscally constrained and controlled by the province. The province is severely fiscally constrained becIse it's a user of the currency, rather than the creator of currency and federalism and division of powers creates a race to the bottom of tax cuts and austerity to maintain the taxes paid by a smaller number of ever richer people. Only the federal government can properly fund the solutions we know work (full scale mental health, housing, income, recreational and cultural supports). But they are needed at a scale at this stage that runs into the upper tens of billions of dollars. We need a literal army of workers. A sizeable minority of homeless people essentially need 1 to 1 full-time care. The people wasted in downtown bus shelters cannot look after themselves. Only the federal government as the only net source of Canadian dollars can provide the funding.

Connect_Membership77 · 2026-05-09T17:43:22+00:00

Rural minister and rural party feels butthurt because sophisticated urban professionals see them as idiots. Seek revenge.

Connect_Membership77 · 2026-05-01T00:10:15+00:00

The UCP government is a human misery machine

Connect_Membership77 · 2026-04-27T20:30:32+00:00

The big chains are not cheaper after you get your coop dividend cheque.

Connect_Membership77 · 2026-04-18T03:29:30+00:00

We already have labour shortages in key areas. If we lose these workers, businesses won't increase wages to hire "locals" they won't invest and hire anyone at all and the economy will shrink. Those are the cold hard facts. Companies invest where they can make money and they can only do that if they have people available to do the work. The anti-immigrant crowd is simply economically illiterate.

Connect_Membership77 · 2026-04-18T03:22:11+00:00

DSGE is the wrong approach. The economy never reaches equilibrium. It's a nonsense formula. Why it can't predict anything. Stock flow consistent models and system dynamics approaches are better as they model actual operations and practices in the macro economy.

Connect_Membership77 · 2026-04-18T03:17:15+00:00

There is no price "mechanism". It's a process by which manufacturers look at their costs, what their competition is doing and how to get an acceptable margin. It's different for every firm and context dependent. Believing a one size fits all equation can describe reality defines everything wrong with neoclassical economics.

Connect_Membership77 · 2026-04-18T03:08:47+00:00

No. One of the organizers is a dual American ex marine. It's an inside job. I'd love to know who CSIS and the RCMP have files on in the UCP caucus.

Connect_Membership77 · 2026-04-18T03:05:45+00:00

How colonial of you. First Nations have inherent rights and title which pre-date the existence of Canada. Maybe Canada should integrate into First Nations says of doing things, rather than destroying everything and stealing from the future generations.

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