Canadian politics thread

[inv4zn]

This sums it up quite well.


I know (hope) the US is fundamentally different than Canada, but trends here are chilling nonetheless.

The US republicans are literally the Taliban, just whiter.

[underscore]

Originally Posted by 68style

But............... they will also get oppressed lol

A lot of them vote against things that would help them, just because it would also help someone they don't like, so I doubt they can figure that part out.

[GLOW]

Originally Posted by whitev70r

First of all, I don't even know what the hell they are protesting anymore ... all mandates are removed. Can someone tell me what the hell they are protesting ... I mean ... what a waste of time.

based on the news, they literally just said.... "mandates"

[68style]

One idiot said “The mandates are just SUSPENDED they’re not gone!!! Just suspended to be brought back at any time!”

Yah even if they weren’t just suspended they could be brought anytime there bud.

[sonick]

Originally Posted by GLOW

based on the news, they literally just said.... "mandates"

Maybe they're so stupid they think they're protesting against gay dudes going on dates.

[JD¹³]

Originally Posted by whitev70r

First of all, I don't even know what the hell they are protesting anymore ... all mandates are removed. Can someone tell me what the hell they are protesting ... I mean ... what a waste of time.

James Topp is a 25yr Army veteran and reservist who was also a contractor with the RCMP. He got fired for not taking the VID vaccine along with thousands of others across the country. There are tens of thousands of people who were in the public service from military, police, fire, or municipal, provincial, or federal jobs who got fired with no severance and have not been allowed back to work. Want to know why BC Ferries is now constantly understaffed and having to cancel sailings? Why there isn't enough airport staff causing insane backlogs at Canadian airports? Those mandates still exist, as do others. You admit you don't know then call it a waste of time anyway. Strong post.

Originally Posted by mikemhg

New-age conservatism does not believe in democracy, and would happily see us in a dictatorship if it meant their values and ideals are enshrined.

Originally Posted by westopher

All they truly want is freedom. As long as that comes with taking away the freedom of anyone who believes in anything different.

Originally Posted by underscore

They want to be free to oppress anyone they don't like.

Originally Posted by 68style

they aren't exactly going to get taken care of when their grand overlord starts oppressing the entire country.

They say as they clap and cheer on a PM and Minister of Public Safety that fabricated justification for the enacting of the relabeled 'War Measures Act' against non-violent protestors. You guys are FOR the unjustified (with the exception of a tiny handful of actual troublemakers) arrest, imprisonment, seizing of assets, freezing of bank accounts, and physical violence against your fellow citizens simply because they are of a different political stripe or have different values than you do. And then you make the statements above? COLOSSAL hypocrites, the lot of you. You guys have the mentalities of goldfish.

But carry on from your anonymous soapboxes against anyone who didn't want a medical procedure while in another thread you foam at the mouth for women who can't get a medical procedure

[westopher]

You can pick and choose comments as you like without acknowledging yet again that the emergency act literally affected no one other than protest organizers with malicious intent or those involved in illegal activity and occupation with WEEKS of organizing and the court injunctions that proved that.
You can also compare abortion to vaccinations.
It doesn’t look smart, it doesn’t prove a point to anyone with any shred of knowledge on the situation, and doesn’t show hypocrisy on any of our parts to anyone other than those that share your uninformed viewpoints (as proven by your comparison of abortion to vaccinations) but yes, please pat yourself on the back for “exposing the radical left.”

[underscore]

Originally Posted by JD¹³

They say as they clap and cheer on a PM and Minister of Public Safety that fabricated justification for the enacting of the relabeled 'War Measures Act' against non-violent protestors. You guys are FOR the unjustified (with the exception of a tiny handful of actual troublemakers) arrest, imprisonment, seizing of assets, freezing of bank accounts, and physical violence against your fellow citizens simply because they are of a different political stripe or have different values than you do.

Unjustified? I can't speak for others, but I have no issue with people having whatever values they want, as stupid as their "values" may be. What I do have an issue with is them terrorizing the citizens of Ottawa and people like you who pick and choose things to misrepresent what actually happened (what physical violence are you even talking about?) and what people actually say.

You insult our "mentality" but if you actually think there was only a tiny handful of troublemakers methinks you are projecting a bit here because apparently you have the mental capacity of a turnip.

[68style]

Uhm fed government dropped vaccine requirements for employees.

Buddy didn’t get fired. He just didn’t get his contact renewed, for good reason, contractors are contractors for a reason his job was temporary vaccine or not.

Nobody who works for the fed gov got fired, they just got put on leave without pay until 2 weeks ago. At least get your facts straight.

TLDR your reservist friend is full of shit if he said otherwise.

[68style]

91.3% of BC’s population is double vaccinated. So about 460,000 total people in the province are not double vaccinated.

91.3%!!! And you think that is the reason that services are suffering so bad? Cuz a whopping 8.7% of the population isn’t vaccinated? Probably a massive percentage of those are dumb shits outside of city centres too.

So on average less than 1/10th of employees in any particular stream of work where there might be mandates in place that make them ineligible and you think that’s the reason so many services are not able to operate???

What a clownshoe lol… yah we’re goldfish okay bud… did you pass fuckin grade 2 math class?

[hud 91gt]

The shortages at the airport are not from vaccine mandates. The airlines laid off 90% of their workforce, offering retirement packages to anyone who was in the realm of retirement. These people are not coming back. The group I work with had about a 1-2% rate of non Vaxxers. This summer we planned to be at 80-90% of the flying of Pre covid, yet we’re still massively short. It’s not from a few anti vax’er who can’t work.

[quasi]

I did some flying this weekend, went and seen my parents for the first time in 3 years. Airport was pretty fucked, minor delays for me not that bad but I won't be booking anything else within Canada anytime soon. The amount of bags I seen stacked up in a roped off area at YVR (Lost Luggage) I burst out laughing what a shit show, I guess it was funny only because it was not me.

I agree with above, I don't think the delays have much if anything to do with the vaccine and laying off people without vaccines, it's such a small demographic. Even at the Government operations where my wife work, a few hundred employees I think she said maybe 2 people didn't get the jab and were put on temporary leave, if that is fucking up your operation you have bigger problems.

[CivicBlues]

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/cana...ical/#comments

More F**k Trudeau Konvoy supporter-types flying off the handle. Maybe we should start putting them on Terrorist watch lists.

Weren't the Dease Lake murders a couple years ago also caused by 2 kids from the Island? What's in the water over there?

[mikemhg]

Originally Posted by JD¹³

James Topp is a 25yr Army veteran and reservist who was also a contractor with the RCMP. He got fired for not taking the VID vaccine along with thousands of others across the country. There are tens of thousands of people who were in the public service from military, police, fire, or municipal, provincial, or federal jobs who got fired with no severance and have not been allowed back to work. Want to know why BC Ferries is now constantly understaffed and having to cancel sailings? Why there isn't enough airport staff causing insane backlogs at Canadian airports? Those mandates still exist, as do others. You admit you don't know then call it a waste of time anyway. Strong post.





They say as they clap and cheer on a PM and Minister of Public Safety that fabricated justification for the enacting of the relabeled 'War Measures Act' against non-violent protestors. You guys are FOR the unjustified (with the exception of a tiny handful of actual troublemakers) arrest, imprisonment, seizing of assets, freezing of bank accounts, and physical violence against your fellow citizens simply because they are of a different political stripe or have different values than you do. And then you make the statements above? COLOSSAL hypocrites, the lot of you. You guys have the mentalities of goldfish.

But carry on from your anonymous soapboxes against anyone who didn't want a medical procedure while in another thread you foam at the mouth for women who can't get a medical procedure

68style already parroted a response to this, but your comment about anonymity made me chuckle.

Bud, I would happily give my full name and repeat any of the comments I make on this forum directly to your face, or anyone else's here without a single hesitation.

[mikemhg]

Originally Posted by CivicBlues

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/cana...ical/#comments

More F**k Trudeau Konvoy supporter-types flying off the handle. Maybe we should start putting them on Terrorist watch lists.

Weren't the Dease Lake murders a couple years ago also caused by 2 kids from the Island? What's in the water over there?

Be prepared, rightwing media has done a killing on platforms like Youtube, and FB.

Websites and media outlets like PragerU have become very popular with young angry "disenfranchised" white men.

It's created a powder keg of discontent that we'll see play out more and more in the future here. The US has dealt with this issue for years now, in Canada it's just starting.

[westopher]

The rightwing victimhood epidemic is spreading like wildfire. Everything has apparently been stolen from them, and they have been endlessly victimized by any sort of government organization that's done anything that doesn't directly benefit them and them only.
They are like spoiled children that lash out for having a toy taken away for bad behaviour.

[Tapioca]

I used to be neighbours with a F*ck Trudeau guy. Early 40s with a beer gut. Used his company truck and company yard for storing and transporting his toys - snowmobile, RV, etc. - and dipped into his HELOC to buy other shit all of the time. Had two kids from a previous relationship (never married - mother of his children shacked up with another guy and had a baby with the other guy). Still had women who were interested in dating him. A nice enough guy when you needed to borrow a tool, but not someone I'd be friends with. Basically, a guy who had coasted through life, rode the real estate wave to fund his lifestyle, and yet was still angry.

I'm sure Trudeau and his government's policies have had a lot to do with his lot in life.

[68style]

^ His dating pool will dry up soon and he'll likely start taking trips to Thailand or Philippines while complaining about immigrants.

[sdubfid]

Originally Posted by Tapioca

I used to be neighbours with a F*ck Trudeau guy. Early 40s with a beer gut. Used his company truck and company yard for storing and transporting his toys - snowmobile, RV, etc. - and dipped into his HELOC to buy other shit all of the time. Had two kids from a previous relationship (never married - mother of his children shacked up with another guy and had a baby with the other guy). Still had women who were interested in dating him. A nice enough guy when you needed to borrow a tool, but not someone I'd be friends with. Basically, a guy who had coasted through life, rode the real estate wave to fund his lifestyle, and yet was still angry.

I'm sure Trudeau and his government's policies have had a lot to do with his lot in life.

What rate was the heloc at?

[Manic!]

PP talking about scraping shit off wood and reclaiming freedom.

Twitter

[westopher]

This is like a "this hour has 22 minutes" skit, Jesus fuck.

[68style]

Those posts have been around for HUNDREDS of years... those boards have been on barns in Canada for CENTURIES have they? Cuz Canada has been around for... many hundreds of years / centuries ????? Mills fashioning think boards have been around for centuries?

What a clown! I like the random swear word and the working shirt, trying to appeal to the everyman too. I bet lots of construction workers wear LACOSTE plaid button-ups PP.

[sonick]

What are you talking about, his analogy makes complete sense... If the the scars on the post represents the damage inflicted to the indigenous population and the shit that society is figuratively scraping off is the years of colonialism and whitewashing.

The nationalist movement is in fact smearing shit all over the walls of society.

It makes complete sense when you see it that way.

[underscore]

I think that's the first time I've heard him speak, is he always like that?

[GLOW]

will the strat of pandering to the far right vs the moderate right actually garner more votes?