u/Left_Step

I strongly hope that democrats have nothing to do with these people because this is referencing events in Canada. Several MMA gyms were connected to a white nationalist network in Canada and were using these gyms to recruit and train people for quasi-militias. So I am not sure what being a democrat has to do with any of this.

I was not. Millions of Canadians will be affected by these cuts. All of us in various ways, directly or indirectly. Whether it’s warranted or justified is an entirely different question from measuring and evaluating the impacts of these cuts.

You might think so, but I would much rather see an increase in revenue than a decrease in public services.

Okay, I will lay out some examples of how cutting all public services by 15% has major effects.

The Public Health Agency of Canada is slated for 400 million in cuts and they do things like disease and outbreak monitoring, public health data collection,and pandemic preparation.

Health Canada is facing similar cuts and is responsible for medical device regulation (things like blood glucose monitors, hearing aids, pacemakers), pharmaceutical regulation and approvals, and health education.

After 2026, Jordan’s Principle funding is up for potential cuts, which would affect healthcare delivery for the majority of indigenous children in Canada.

Canada Food Inspection Agency is up for cuts as well. They ensure our agriculture products and food are safely regulated.

And this is just a slice of it. The agencies that do climate, weather, and water quality monitoring are all also facing cuts, and these will affect every single Canadian.

There has been a mandated 15% reduction in funding for every ministry other than defence. This is going to result in 40,000 job cuts in the next 3 years.

I think you may have misunderstood. 16,000 jobs are being cut to fund the various tax cuts this government is implementing. That is a net loss of employment and it makes it easy to conflate that as a wealth redistribution to the people who are already wealthy.

I have read the entirety of the 400 page budget document. There are innumerable program and staffing cuts across the country that will affect millions of people in big or small ways. I’m truly glad that it may not affect you much, but many will see big changes in their life.

The 16,000 workers getting laid off next year also depend on those jobs to feed their families.

Then maybe the tax should have been raised even more. You must see how an austerity budget with tax relief for toys for the rich is a poor optical choice at least.

did we need to remove the taxes on luxury boats and planes? Did the richest Canadians need to make their private jets a little cheaper?

Which armour set is this?

All great points here. I suspect that those were the exact calculations his team was making and they arrived at the choice that certainly expanded their vote share to historic highs.

It does make me wonder if this is their peak though. If they drive further right, the currently very unstable and volatile caucus will certainly splinter. If they don’t, then the…impassioned and external supports for their success might be redirected at a more right wing leader or even party. All the while they look fractured and weak and are incapable of even mounting a decent critique of the current budget, which is a prime moment for the official opposition. Instead the Bloc and the NDP are getting all of the political wind from opposing the budget.

So I ask you since I have so far really been taken in by your perspectives here, do you think the CPC has run out of road?

Close doesn’t amount to anything in our electoral system. And the crazies are anything but quiet. They run the party, and this is what is keeping the CPC out of government.

That is all true and an apt analysis. However, Pollievre is not Prime Minister. As soon as the LPC adopted a fiscally conservative platform, the support for Pierre plummeted. During the election, his own supporters were begging him to change tact and he refused at every step and now the CPC is once again out in the cold, despite having historic highs months ago.

Please correct me if I am missing something here, but what this is telling me is that the electorate is comfortable with conservative policy, but not with the CPC and especially not their social values and their propensity for authoritarian values, which are the only meaningful distinctions between them and the LPC at the moment.

With the exception of the exact things the CPC does that alienates the people they need to win over to win the election.

Carney is Prime Minister because the leadership of the CPC is obsessed with culture war policies. The exact info you brought up here just shows that if the CPC were to change course on their social policies that they would have won, especially if someone with the majority of their platform (sans the culture war stuff) did win. It’s about as damning of an indictment about the electability of right wing social values as you could ever ask for.

Unified conservatives aren’t winning either though. They are shackled by their extremists and, the evidence shows so far, it makes them incapable of winning.

What is even more fucked for the conservative government here is that this poll uses data from BEFORE they used the NWC to suppress teacher’s charter rights.

The cons are also gaming their leadership race by filling their convention with loyalists in vacant Quebec delegate slots. It’s called backfilling and many people in the party are pissed about it.

That is such a cool feature…this expansion is nuts.

Okay this is actually sick. How do I get these chairs haha

Except for all the evidence

Ah to stand there in adventure mode…now that would be something.

No, if you actually read the charter you would know what your rights are.

This is so fuckin sick

This is real medieval dynasty political alliance marriage type shit going on right before our eyes.

It’s the feature I have been waiting for with the most anticipation of all. I am SO excited by this.