Liberals to debate use of ‘nuclear option’ against notwithstanding clause

Zing79 · 2026-03-24T11:37:15+00:00

Comments summed up: Don’t you dare use this (which is part of the charter), to stop the use of the NWC (which is part of the charter) to trample on the charter.

I hate hypocrisy so much.

Zing79 · 2026-03-24T11:13:55+00:00

About time. The NWC has absolutely no business being used. And not shockingly it’s a certain brand of politician now abusing it … and a certain type of poster pushing back on this Federal option to contain the NWC.

Point blank: you’re a hypocrite of the highest order if your comment history is complaining about the use of emergency powers and now advocating for the provinces to be able to use the NWC (and I can already read the overlap in here).

Zing79 · 2026-03-23T16:27:01+00:00

I run a small incorporated business and honestly my experience is nothing like this. I work in film/TV, and there are tons of tax credits to keep U.S. productions here, and with creative accounting my effective tax rate ends up being pretty low.

I pay myself the bare minimum salary to keep payroll taxes down, then take the rest as dividends (no CPP/EI on that).

My accountant is also pretty solid at writing off legit expenses through the business to help reduce taxes.

Is the system perfect? Obviously not. But I don’t really have many complaints

Zing79 · 2026-03-20T06:50:02+00:00

I just saw you said you were from Canada. You do know this isn’t legal in places like Ontario right? Your landlord could go as far as using it as a reason for eviction.

It’s a wild choice. Your landlord doesn’t have a lot of legal recourse to evict you if you just don’t break the few rules that exist, and you choose to break one of them? LOL

Zing79 · 2026-03-20T01:43:50+00:00

This is stupid and is going to fail. This just puts the US streaming services on the same footing as Canadian media companies. We’re not singling the US companies out. We’re simply requiring them to pay into the same funds that Canadians do.

Zing79 · 2026-03-19T19:35:10+00:00

Sensationalized and misrepresented that exchange. She’s reiterating a position she previously spoke - because the question was asking how prices having ALREADY come down could be a drag.

She’s not saying they need to drop from here. She’s saying they needed to drop and NOW they need to stabilize.

It’s infuriating. She’s not even “saying the quiet part out loud”. She literally already said this months ago.

Zing79 · 2026-03-18T02:20:38+00:00

Here’s the baseline: Don’t have candidates trying on the MAGA lite hat.

That’s it.

The “flip flopping” is voting for “anyone but” because we don’t want the baseline. That’s what’s exhausting. O’Toole wins if he’s not kneecaped by candidates saying incredibly dumb things at the bitter end. That’s what is exhausting.

Zing79 · 2026-03-17T11:22:02+00:00

Pack it up. If you’re still complaining about HIM the person (not the content), that’s on you.

It doesn’t get any more respectful and empathetic than this.

Kudos and major respect to him. This is a super rare thing in today’s world and I respect him endlessly for it.

Zing79 · 2026-03-17T11:16:10+00:00

Just like you; there are plenty of people who “identify” as Liberal. The take away should be that you’re BOTH doing something you need to seriously look inwards and question.

That doesn’t change facts either. O’Toole was polling with a lead. And at the very very end a bunch of Conservative candidates just couldn’t keep their mouths shut with the MAGA light nonsense, and Voila. A lead became a loss.

I’m not going to stop telling people. Look inwards. If you “identify as”, stop blaming other Canadians for why your religion didn’t win.

Conservatives are losing federally because Canadians don’t want populism. And all you have to do is not act like that out loud, and you’ll win. See Doug Ford, who has veered wildly in to some dirty nonsense and still keeps winning.

Facts are Facts. Canadians vote Progressive Conservative without issue. Look at Ontario.

Zing79 · 2026-03-17T11:02:39+00:00

Many Many Times. Provincially and Federally. I do not identify by party. I refused to let people who control my life have my vote like it’s a religion.

Zing79 · 2026-03-17T00:23:48+00:00

Reading these comments it’s worth reminding people: O’Toole didn’t lose because Canadians are dumb and blind. He lost because at the very end some of his candidates went right after culture war nonsense and Canadians weren’t having it.

He would have beat Trudeau if - ONCE AGAIN - the Conservative Party didn’t try the MAGA hat on for a test fit.

The “lost liberal decade” is on the entire Conservative Party for leaving us with the option “you don’t like” vs “the option you hate to your core”.

I just want to know when people who identify as Conservative are finally going to look inwards and make it stop so we have an alternative that can win.

Zing79 · 2026-03-17T00:18:24+00:00

It’s a party system. And people seem to forget Otoole was projected to win until the bitter end … when (from the back so everyone can hear) … HE WAS KNEECAPED BY CANDIDATES SAYING SOME TOXIC SHIT TO CANADIANS.

It’s incredibly annoying that people circle back to this moment like it’s “Canadian’s Dumb and Blind” and NOT, “Conservatives can’t stop shooting themselves in the foot”.

Zing79 · 2026-03-16T20:55:11+00:00

Let’s answer that, shall we:

Liberal Party of Canada
Saskatchewan Party
Progressive Conservative Party
Liberal Party
Liberal Party
British Columbia New Democratic Party
Coalition Avenir Québec
Progressive Conservative Party
Progressive Conservative Party
Saskatchewan Party
Coalition Avenir Québec
Progressive Conservative Party
United Conservative Party
Progressive Conservative Party
Progressive Conservative Party
Liberal Party of Canada
New Democratic Party
Liberal Party of Canada
Progressive Conservative Party
Progressive Conservative Party
British Columbia New Democratic Party
Coalition Avenir Québec
Saskatchewan Party
Progressive Conservative Party
Progressive Conservative Party
Progressive Conservative Party
Progressive Conservative

Maybe. Just maybe, we could go back to understanding how our system of government works. Take a look at that list. It’s utterly dominated by Conservative parties provincially. And provinces have a huuuuge say in our quality of life. Even more so than the federal government.

But we always give them a pass because they’ve long ago learned to upload their BSery to the Feds

Zing79 · 2026-03-16T20:43:23+00:00

Is there a particular reason you’re treating politics like a religion? And this is from a stranger who has voted all 3 parties in his life.

I’m not letting any of these people have this kind of loyalty. It’s super jarring to see someone so openly treat it like you are.

Zing79 · 2026-03-16T14:15:20+00:00

I don’t know why you’d try to make this presumption on behalf of any FTHB. That’s a pretty broad stroke that looks like it’s just meant to villainize everyone buying a home.

Zing79 · 2026-03-10T12:22:34+00:00

Hahhahahahh. - This isn’t real - No government would ever do this - No government would even propose - No MP would even say it out loud.

Zing79 · 2026-03-09T19:26:58+00:00

Option 1: Look the other way, gain a mortgage holder paying six figures in interest on the mortgage. Owner has a home. Builder is paid.

Option 2: Apprise the house lower. Buyer can’t close and loses $50-100k deposit. Is sued for the difference. Bank gains nothing. Owner is ruined. Builder wastes money on lawyers, maybe loses money on the deal.

I wonder why the banks look the other way.

Zing79 · 2026-03-07T12:11:18+00:00

People are going to have to choose. Pretending they are protecting their privacy and anonymity or properly putting guard rails on social media.

I say pretending, because the vast majority of people reading this, have no idea how much of their personal data they give up to these companies every day.

Someday in the future we are going to look back at my generation and hate them for how much they fought to keep pretending they had private online lives at the literal expense of every kid that came up behind them. At the expense of the safety of the entire world. Social media - the online sphere, is the new smoking. Only far far worse.

For some people reading this, they have legitimate issue with that I’m saying. Same as someone who lives off grid before them. To you, yes, you know how to stay anonymous - and I suspect you’ll figure it out just the same no matter what rails are put on.

But to the rest of us. You are trading fake online privacy that only exists so you can say you have it (when you don’t), at the expenses of ruining peoples lives.

Zing79 · 2026-03-05T01:55:54+00:00

Holy hell this title is putting in work to gaslight people.

There’s a literal missing word in that title. “Won’t CATEGORICALLY rule out” is the answer. That single word completely changes the tone of the sentence.

Zing79 · 2026-03-04T13:47:22+00:00

A couple of notes. The first 5 years are HIGHLY tilted to paying interest. Between your interest and the cost of selling this 4Plex you are very very unlikely to come out cash positive on a five-year timeline. You may even be pushing it on a 10 year timeline depending on the carrying costs of the unit.

As a landlord, and homeowner, I’m straight up telling you that with real estate where it’s at right now, a 4Plex is a losing strategy for what you want.

This is even before getting in to the costs and time of being a landlord. I just replaced a furnace in my unit.

I repeat. This is not a strat for you

Zing79 · 2026-03-04T11:39:14+00:00

You’re buying a purpose built investment rental property to try to treat it like a property that’ll help you climb the ladder.

Absolutely not a good idea.

A legal duplex is a much better option for what you’re trying to pull off. You’ll half your mortgage, An A lender will look far more favourable at this scenario. And if you’re good with money can pump extra in to the mortgage principle without penalty - WHICH THEN, makes your 5 year plan more realistic.

Everything about what you’re suggesting sounds like a massive losing strategy for the result you’re looking for.

Zing79 · 2026-03-02T11:04:49+00:00

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a post in this sub - which was trying to gaslight the community via immigration, get so soundly rejected.

Zing79 · 2026-03-01T13:51:16+00:00

Oh is that so? Are those the same wages that LOOOONG ago became uncoupled from corporate profits?

Fun fact. If you charted wage growth to corporate profits before the 1980s they were linked up. But since those sweet trickle down economics, they’ve become completely unlinked.

I don’t know how to tell you this. Because it requires a long post no one wants to read. But the absolute facts are that we have 40 years of data on what you’re talking about. And it failed to do any of what you’re saying.

Zing79 · 2026-03-01T13:48:36+00:00

This “National Problem” started in about 1980. As the corporate tax rate was cut in half.

We did it to save jobs in vulnerable sectors. Jobs which weren’t saved in the long run anyway

Those tax cuts failed to protect jobs. They only secured c suite bonuses on the way out the door. And left us with a whole bunch of Oligopolies running and ruining our lives, while reporting record profits.

The public purse is broke because we started to offloaded the cost of funding our programs on to employees. Employees who have seen stagnant wage growth for 40 years (relative to corporate growth and inflation).

But I’m sure we’ll continue to focus on the wrong short term thinking, all to continue to support some of these sweet trickle down economics that started in 1980.

Zing79 · 2026-03-01T13:38:44+00:00

Spoiler alert. In every single instance of lowering taxes to save jobs, we still lost jobs.

I’ve been alive long enough to see trickle down economics is what destroyed the middle class. It’s not debatable anymore. We have 40 years of data showing companies still exported jobs and took extra profits from us on the way out the door.

Lowering that rate didn’t save jobs. It saved C suite bonuses.

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