Who the fuck cares about IP theft lmao. They can have it, ideas should be free.

We don’t even need to be “friends” with China, we just need to recognize the situation we’re in and work with them pragmatically. Rejecting China in the current economy is like rejecting gravity.

You could install Batocera and use it as a home theatre PC and retro gaming station.

He would have become an iconic drag queen if he made a couple different choices in the 1980s… so sad.

Gordon Ramsay meme

delicious, finally some good fucking policies

Oh brother, this guy reminds me of the racist freak mayor in Quesnel …

It’s about not having the mindset of someone lives in the 51st State and instead lives in a sovereign, equal nation to the US. A lot of people in this thread seem to think that Mark Carney should bow down to Trump and nod along to everything he says, no matter how bigoted or indefensible, which is the implicit mindset of someone who sees their country as weaker, inferior one to the US.

Its not a Nintendo franchise. Iirc there were harvest moon games for Playstation back in the day.

How? I found it cringe. He doesn’t even have to interject but he could at least not do this act of listening intently to him while he speaks nonsense as if he were giving a high level lecture. It feels like performative kowtowing in hopes that Trump will reward him for it… which he will not.

The way carney was staring intently at Trump with lovers eyes while he blathered on… very embarrassing

The notwithstanding clause kind of made sense in the 1980s as a legal cutout for the uniqueness of Quebec, but it’s clearly become a “get out of jail free card” for violating the charter of rights. The problem is it assumes politicians have enough shame to not slam the NWS clause button every time their policies get challenged, but our politics has turned sharply towards shamelessness in the last couple decades.

I don’t support forcing our values onto other countries, at least to a certain extent. The NDP definitely lost its way under Singh and became blinkered by identity politics. But I have hope that they can be rejuvenated with a strong economic populist and leftist message for the next election.

There are no Canadian-made panels because we don’t tariff the panels coming in from the US and other Asian countries. Only China is singled out because Canada is playing second fiddle on the US’s new cold war strategy against China - sucks that we aren’t a sovereign country that can make our own policies and forge relationships with whatever country we want, but it is what it is. 51st state, baby!

It costs our politicians nothing to say the truth - that this is the modern day Holocaust and that Israel should be boycotted, isolated and sanctioned. Your comment just makes excuses for cowardice and sells it as pragmatism.

Counter-tariffs just raise prices here. They were a terrible idea to start with, just like tariffs are in general

No they aren’t, blanket tariffs the way Trump is doing it is stupid, but counter-tariffs on American products that can be replaced with made-in-Canada products works and helps keep jobs in Canada.

The digital services tax was on its way out even before Trump was elected

This is also wrong… the Digital Services tax was introduced as a Liberal priority all the way back in 2020 and passed in 2024. It probably would have been repealed by Pollievre if he won, but Liberals repealing their own years-in-the-making policy, a day before going into effect as an act of appeasement to Donald Trump was definitely not inevitable.

China likes kicking people when they’re down so we got restrictions on ag products just to twist the knife.

Their tariffs on us are counter-tariffs in response to us imposing a 100% tax on Chinese-made solar panels.

True, it’s like a hostage situation. Conservatives threaten to harm trans kids, or immigrants or whatever, and Liberals say “you’ll have the vote for us if you want $(minority group) to live, but don’t worry, you can vote your conscience next election”, then never do anything to actually protect those minority groups in law, so the cycle repeats next election.

Liberals will never give real protection to vulnerable people because they want them to be constantly under threat of the Conservatives to keep the left from voting for the actual left-wing parties that WOULD give those groups protection that isn’t subject to the whims of whatever party is in charge. Diabolical.

Please do not turn our multi-party democracy into an America-style duopoly with your “strategic voting”. All it’s done is turn our elections into another Red-vs-Blue nightmare where both parties have the same policies and are only differentiated by culture wars.

Pollievre will do tax cuts, deregulation and austerity while keeping us distracted with 24/7 idiotic conservative culture wars. Carney is doing tax cuts, deregulation and austerity while keeping us distracted with the promise of “nation building projects” that will never materialize. Either way it’s tax cuts, deregulation and austerity. The only difference is the type lies they’re telling to distract us. :-)

Is that what the poster said? This isn’t America, we have 3rd and even 4th and 5th parties to choose from. There’s no reason to vote for the zionist if you want a principled anti-Zionist party like the NDP.

Liberals got elected on a platform of divorcing the Canadian economy from the Americans and rejuvenating the Canadian economy through nation-building megaprojects from coast to coast built with Canadian natural resources. What do we have so far?

• No announcements on any megaprojects

• No homes built, instead just a big tax giveaway to developers

• all counter-tariffs on the US dropped to appease trump

• digital services tax repealed to appease trump

• despite appeasement, no end in sight to US trade war

• Also started a trade war with China for no reason, so we’re getting spitroasted by tariffs from both superpowers

• austerity programs at Canada Post leading to the 2nd strike in a year

Unfortunately I don’t think the NDP or BQ have the balls to topple the government this early, but Carney came into office looking like a MVP and he’s a big fat bust.