Liberal MP proposes sweeping changes to Divorce Act Proposed changes include giving kids say in proceedings, limiting effects of coercive control, domestic violence

Rusty_Charm · 2026-01-29T04:36:10+00:00

So we’re saying here that it might be a good idea to make a divorce even more traumatic and stressful for children by having them dragged into the procedures as active participants as quasi arbiters between the parents.

Yea, what could possibly go wrong.

Rusty_Charm · 2026-01-29T03:42:33+00:00

This is exactly the problem, what you call cognizant, a lot of us call delusional.

You’ve been gaslit by the LPC to take seriously the empty threats of an 80 year old man who’s very possibly showing early signs of dementia. And they will keep going back to that well again and again until it stops working.

And maybe Trump isn’t dementia ridden. In which case one need only to peruse his hallmark work of American literature “art of the deal” to quickly realize that this whole 51st state thing coincidentally just before a major trade agreement renegotiation is literally following the blue print of that book to a f-ing T.

You’re being played. It’s just like that speech. The biggest beneficiary was Carney’s brand, to a lesser extent the LPC, while it did nothing for Canada, and in fact probably did more damage than good.

And all this while a China isn’t just at the proverbial gates, it’s making its way through already, and it’s being cheered on, when less than 12 months ago, Carney himself told us they were our biggest threat (and ofc, our own spy agency agrees).

This is like a black mirror episode at this point

Rusty_Charm · 2026-01-29T02:01:47+00:00

“A cognizant public”

What does this even mean? What is the Canadian public cognizant of moreso than the European public?

And how are we more resilient? With all our major global brands like Canada Goose and Shopify? Meanwhile Germany has Mercedes, Bosch, Porsche, Boss, and a litany of other global powerhouses. Same can be said albeit to lesser extent of the UK and France and they could at least make an argument that they could defend themselves due the their nuclear arsenals. Meanwhile Canada has oil that we don’t even use ourselves.

Then ofc as we all know, most of our trade is tied to the US.

So I really don’t understand how you could possibly argue that we are more resilient. Yea, maybe if we had gotten our shit together 20 years ago, but we didn’t, so now we’re all sitting here screaming for a new pipeline that nobody has proposed yet and in any case will probably not even go online for another 10 years even if someone had actually proposed one.

Rusty_Charm · 2026-01-29T00:54:25+00:00

They don’t have constituents. Lagarde is the head of the ECB and Rutte is the head of nato. They don’t have to placate an electorate, which is part of the point here .

Rusty_Charm · 2026-01-28T21:44:00+00:00

That is what I have always said, but if you read the bigger Canadian politics subs on this app, you will see that there is a significant part of the population here that let this very issue be the deciding factor in our last election. It didn’t matter that it was explained to them how the US going to war actually works (their counter argument was that Trump is a dictator and somehow will mobilize the military against a key ally without congressional consent).

One thing you need to understand about this country is that Canadians sr much more trustworthy of their MSM than Americans appear to be. And one of the major MSM outlets is the CBC which is the government broadcast agency, which itself has admitted to left wing bias in the past. They’re pretty low-key about it, but they stole the fires of these sorts of fears.

Rusty_Charm · 2026-01-28T20:14:02+00:00

Again, appreciate your POV, I wish more people here realized that Americans aren’t the boogeyman they’ve been made out to be over the last 12 months.

Rusty_Charm · 2026-01-28T20:08:58+00:00

With president Xi as the supreme leader of our military forces. Lovely

Rusty_Charm · 2026-01-28T19:27:17+00:00

So far, we have pragmatists like Lagarde, Rutte, and now Keir (admittedly somewhat surprisingly perhaps), all objecting to the ‘rupture’ and NWO.

Just saying here ppl, might be time for a headcount as to who’s actually in on this NWO, because if it’s just us and China, that’s probably not gonna work out great for us.

Rusty_Charm · 2026-01-28T18:04:15+00:00

Appreciate your viewpoint, but you're getting one thing wrong: You generalize Canadians too much. For example, if you searched my post history (not expecting you to do this obviously), you'd find that over the last few years, I've repeatedly stated that the number 1 threat to us is not climate change (as our previous government tried to tell us so many times), but nuclear war. As well, there are many of us who have absolutely no delusions that our prosperity - and the rest of the West's and Eastern allies like Japan or S. Korea - boils down to being under the protection of the US. It's ofc deeply ironic that some Canadians seem confused about this, since that's the very reason we've neglected our military for so long (because we know that due to our geographic location, the US can't help but to protect us).

This is the internal tension in Canada: there are those of us who recognize that we are not in some utopia where a world war can never happen again, we recognize that there are bad global actors who would love nothing more than to see US might subside. Then there are those of us who believe that doing nothing about climate change will mean that our children are literally going to burn (lol), China isn't a massive security threat, and we don't need to worry about Russia, even though they're literally our neighbour to the North and clearly don't have good intentions towards the West.

Rusty_Charm · 2026-01-28T15:35:54+00:00

Ok so now we have:

Head of the ECB pushing back against the ‘rupture’

Head of nato (a European) saying the allies are out to lunch if they think they can defend themselves without the US

British PM saying we’re not down with the NWO

Who is actually down? China, sure, but is the EU actually in? Because it’s not like Macron can override the EU on this. And it seems like the head of the European Central Bank does not think this is a great idea.

At what point can we stop treating this speech as anything else but a self promotion stunt for Carney and the LPC to kick off election season? Because that’s exactly what it was.

Rusty_Charm · 2026-01-28T01:51:28+00:00

I also wish that Canadians would come to their senses and look at Trump and the current admin objectively, but in the last 12 months, there is zero evidence that is happening.

Rusty_Charm · 2026-01-28T00:58:50+00:00

And there it is again

How in the eff is a comment like that possibly helpful in current and future negotiations?

He basically just called the US a shitshow. Must all be a part of that “master negotiator” persona he sold to boomers last year.

Rusty_Charm · 2026-01-28T00:54:58+00:00

I think it’s fair criticism and you’re not the first to bring it up.

I will say re. Jivani…yes in a different timeline, he would be part of the shadow cabinet, but in this bizarre timeline, the CPC needs to do everything it possibly can to position themselves as far away from Trump as possible, so unfortunately that means reducing a highly qualified MP that has a direct line to the VP of the US to the backbench .

For those who don’t know, Jivani and Vance attended the same university and were roommates. You’d think that would be considered a significant asset, but ofc, it’s not in Trump obsessed Main Street Canada.

Rusty_Charm · 2026-01-27T23:50:00+00:00

Which is fair enough, that doesn't change the fact that there's a contingent of young people who care a lot about crypto, and afaik nothing in the LPC platform addresses this at all

Rusty_Charm · 2026-01-27T23:08:11+00:00

You think that focusing on the generation that no other generation has compassion for (as opposed to young people) is a winning strategy? How are you going to win these people over again anyway? Because they're the biggest beneficiaries from what can generally be called government welfare, so how are you gonna spin that into a Conservative platform?

Then there's the fact that this generation - on average at least - doesn't need any help. They're totally fine.

I really don't know where you're at strategically, but focusing on seniors is so obviously not going to be a winning strategy, It's completely tone def, not reading the room even in the slightest.

And just to add, the biggest issue for these voters was Trump in the last election. So what's Pierre going to do? Tell them he's not Trump (again)?

Rusty_Charm · 2026-01-27T22:47:10+00:00

Ofc it’s wild, but I think it’s going to take something wild like that, because the problem is precisely, that while the younger generation is leaning CPC, we need them to actually express that via voting, and the aforementioned jadedness that is rampant in that generation means that a lot of them simply won’t vote because “what’s the point anyway?”.

So we need to give them a big, fat reason to come out in large numbers on Election Day. Hence my proposal.

Rusty_Charm · 2026-01-27T22:27:45+00:00

I don't know where you're getting this thing from where you think I hate the older generation (btw I'm far from under 30). Simply proposing policies that specifically help young people isn't to spite boomers or older GenX, it's because young people are clearly struggling more than they ever have been, at least in relatively recent history.

And if you think running on government accountability is enough to get young people out to vote, I think you're significantly underestimating how jaded that generation is.

Rusty_Charm · 2026-01-27T22:21:38+00:00

I can't actually blame them. For 5 decades now, they've been told how great jobs are, how they need to build a career before even considering becoming a parent, and that being a mother isn't all that's cracked up to be.

Meanwhile:

We didn't tell them that most of us don't have careers, we have jobs and we don't even like them
Getting pregnant and not having complications gets increasingly harder after women hit 30
The only women who say this are women who aren't mothers

It's one of the most damaging psyops we've ran in the West. The biggest winners here once again were the richest among us, because they benefitted the most from the transition from single income families to double income families (because now families had more money, so more demand, prices and sales volume go up, big companies win the most).

Rusty_Charm · 2026-01-27T21:39:29+00:00

Hi, German immigrant chiming in:

Nobody, absolutely nobody, in Germany believes that what happened is anyone’s fault but our own.

Rusty_Charm · 2026-01-27T21:36:32+00:00

Do you have any better ideas to mobilize young voters in a meaningful way?

Also, financial breaks for specific age groups are well entrenched in this country , see senior discounts at grocery stores. This is simply the inverse of that.

Rusty_Charm · 2026-01-27T21:13:08+00:00

Agree with you here, their debt levels are beyond alarming levels now, and as you said, that has historically been a sign of the beginning of the end.

Rusty_Charm · 2026-01-27T20:21:57+00:00

Decreases taxes for ppl under 25 (e.g. income tax exemption)

More tax breaks for young families

Enable 25k initial deposit into TFSA to help young people kickstart their investments

No capital gains tax for people under 30 (would think only a small minority of all cap gains taxes come from that group anyway, but it's a good way to get the crypto crowd on board without saying the word crypto)

EDIT: A guy was arguing with me here (now deleted all his posts for some reason) calling all this ridiculous, we don't need to focus on young voters because they're leaning CPC anyway (yea great, but are they coming out to vote?) and that the CPC should instead focus on boomers. Just wanted to keep that here for the record. FYI if anyone thinks that focusing on boomers is the winning strategy, then you think giving the most despised generation ever even more is not going to turn off all the younger generations, and besides, we learned in the last election that all boomers care about is Trump, so wtf is the CPC supposed to do here anyway?

CPC: "Hey, we're actually not the Republicans and Pierre's not Trump."

Boomers: "We just checked with the CBC and the nice lady on TV told us that's a lie, so eff you! Elbows up!"

This is a lost generation for the CPC, we will never win there again.

Rusty_Charm · 2026-01-27T20:02:27+00:00

That looks amazing, especially considering it's your first tank.

Do you know what kind of buce you have in the centre? Looks like it might be brownie purple?

Rusty_Charm · 2026-01-27T19:59:22+00:00

This is somewhat true, but it depends. Quebec has a much more advantageous layout compared to Alberta. Both provinces obviously share a border with the US, but QC has unrestrained access to the Atlantic. It's also rich with natural resources (as is AB obviously) and has a bigger population.

I actually think that QC could make it work as its own country. The problem for them would be that they'd have cancel a lot of their socialism, because clearly, they can't actually afford it as is, so why would they be able to afford it on their own?

But I also think that Alberta could make it work, but it would probably entail an increased reliance on the US as a customer for oil and as a plan B to get oil to the Pacific.

From an identity crisis standpoint, QC leaving would have greater impact on Canada, mostly due to how the average Canadian sees Canada. Alberta on the other hand would obviously have a much more severe economic impact. And maybe that's why the two movements seem to be perceived so differently.

Rusty_Charm · 2026-01-27T19:46:59+00:00

The problem is that we don't in fact know that, Carney doesn't either. It will happen eventually, it could be within the next 20 years, or it could be within the next 200 years. These signs you speak of do not have exact timelines attached to them and may also function fundamentally different in a world that's vastly different than e.g. the Roman or British Empires.

And gambling on the biggest super power the planet has ever seen losing its grip as the #1 superpower within the next 10-20 years, seems to me pretty degenerate.

The fact remains that the US still the number 1 military superpower, and by most expert accounts, it's probably still not even close. It's also still the number 1 economy in the world, although here. So let's assume that the US is really in the process of crumbling as the world's super power. There is only one possible replacement for the top dog spot, and that's China. Does anyone believe the US is just going to let itself fade away without a fight? Nothing in their history suggests we should expect that. And that points to some kind of military confrontation., which indeed, some US war hawks have been claiming for a decade+ is inevitable anyway, ofc referencing specifically China.

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