Some 5D chess

This is pretty funny, during an interview with Trump he was being truthful about preferring Carney so boomers & Liberals voted for Trump’s preferred candidate.

Skipped ahead in the video to where Trump talks and I also laughed when he mentioned the Conservative hated Trump more but that’s ok Liberals will justify this because they’re always right…  I do agree that no matter what happens, we need to have to deal with the US and they’ll always be our biggest trading partner but man it’s just funny how things work out.

Thanks boomers!

Liberal minority

So Canadians voted and we now have another Liberal minority government, albeit a pretty strong one with 168 seats (172 required for a majority).  It’s not the result I wanted but we have a parliamentary system of government so I guess we’ll see what comes of it.  I really hope that Prime Minister Carney cleans house and gets rid of all the Trudeau staffers that still surround him and also does not have a cabinet full of Trudeau ministers.

Too bad the only social issue that he talked about during the campaign was guns and how he’ll continue with the confiscation but only a small number of people care about that.  I do worry a lot about the budget, Canada has been spending well beyond its means and while I know that the federal budget is not like a household budget, it still an only borrow so much.

Boomers were scared of Trump and went with the Liberals, let’s see how long this government lasts.

Voted!

Maggie and I voted in advanced polling yesterday so we’ve done our civic duty.  Unfortunately it looks like Mark Carney & the Liberals may have scared Canadians enough to forget the last shitty 10 years but hey Trump bad right.  Someone on Reddit shared this article yesterday and I had to laugh, it was talking about Canada’s soaring middle class and the piece is dated April 23 2014.  How things have changed, no way would people talk like that about any of the last 10 years of Liberal rule…

Too bad Pierre Poilievre & the Conservatives ran such a lousy campaign.  Yes the stuff they’re talking about is very important and highlights Liberal failures but they didn’t read the room and when people (mainly boomers, who are scared of everything) wanted a different message, they didn’t shift fast enough.  The softer Poilievre we saw at the debate was pretty good but he should have done that back in January.

Voting day is on April 28th so we’ll see what we get.

Poor judgement

Paul Chiang resigned today (no it’s not an April fools joke) but I still think it shows poor judgement by the Liberal leader Mark Carney.  He could have taken a strong stance, condemn and turf his candidate all while looking like he’s taking foreign interference seriously but instead he stood by his seriously flawed candidate calling it a teachable moment.  Yeah it was teachable & showed where Carney stands, who cares about foreign influence when it’s infested in your party and already here.

Bad move

A Liberal candidate Paul Chiang told supporters they should kidnap his former Conservative opponent Joe Tay, deliver him to the Chinese consulate for the $1 million HKD reward (Hong Kong authorities have a bounty on Joe Tay) and for some reason Mark Carney decided to keep his Liberal candidate.  Big misstep, I mean they turfed someone on Friday so why keep this guy around, they could replace him and slot someone else in quite easily.

Mark Carney’s response is even worse.

Liberal Leader Mark Carney says Paul Chiang will remain a candidate under his party’s banner, despite calls to drop the Markham-Unionville incumbent for suggesting people turn in a Conservative candidate to the Chinese consulate and collect a bounty.

“I view this as a teachable moment,” Carney said during a campaign stop in Vaughan, Ont., Monday.

Carney is facing external pressure to drop Chiang after he told a Chinese-language media news conference in January that people could cash in if they turned Joe Tay in to the Chinese consulate in Toronto. Tay is running for the Conservatives in the suburban Toronto battleground riding of Don Valley North.

Source: CBC

Bold emphasis is mine but what?  Rumors are that the Liberal party is soft on Chinese influence and this does nothing but reinforce that image.  I certainly hope the Liberals make more of these idiotic mistakes and that it costs them dearly in this election.

Typical Toronto Star, deceptive

I do not like the reporting in the Toronto Star, I’m ok with bias (everyone has that) but they’re simply not objective with their reporting and this article is a prime example.

Source: The Toronto Star

For anyone who only reads headlines, that’s a big AH HA moment but there’s absolutely nothing there.  Pierre Poilievre bought a broad based Vanguard Canadian ETF that happens to have Brookfield stocks in it, it’s not like he purchased them directly himself.  By the headline’s logic, I’m a Nazi because I buy Vanguard VFV every month and it holds Tesla.  It’s so bad that the article rebuts the headline, so what was the point?

Unfortunately most people don’t read past the headline and will assume Mr. Poilievre is a hypocrite when that’s not justified (in this case).

Try to win by default

TVA a private Quebec broadcaster cancelled its political debate today after Mark Carney of the Liberals refused to join its debate.  This isn’t an obscure thing, it’s been going on for a long time now (2021, 2019, 2015 as an example) but the Liberal candidate is skipping it and now it’s cancelled altogether.

Contrary to what he suggested Monday morning, Liberal leader Mark Carney will not participate in the TVA network’s Face-to-Face debate , which has decided to cancel this election campaign event.

“Why not?” Carney simply replied on Monday in Gander, Newfoundland, after being challenged to attend by Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre. But on Monday afternoon, the Liberal Party’s Guillaume Bertrand nipped the leader’s participation in the bud, specifying that he would only take part in the debates in French and English on Radio-Canada and CBC.

Source: Le journal de Monteal

Sorry I don’t speak French so it’s translated by Google.  Imagine the Liberal outrage if Pierre Poilievre skipped debates but because it’s the Liberals doing it, it’s ok.  I understand why Mark Carney & the Liberals are skipping it, they’re trying to ride the honeymoon period of him becoming Liberal leader and win the election by default.  I can’t speak for other people but I like debates, it shows how someone performs under pressure and it also gets people on the record regarding policy…  Important to know for this election and the next but because Mr. Carney is skipping it, they’ll cancel instead.

Imagine the Liberal outrage (rightly) if Pierre Poilievre skipped a debate, man we’d never hear the end of it about how he’s scared or cowardly but because it’s the Liberals well it’s some how ok.

I’m obviously partisan but this is objectively bad and should be seen as a sign that Mark Carney can’t handle the pressure.

Bizarro world?

I mean this is just pretty funny, the Liberal party of Canada celebrating PM Carney getting rid of the consumer carbon tax.

With this & the higher capital gains inclusion rate (generational fairness remember?) Liberals are cheering Mark Carney undoing everything Trudeau has done and stood for.  What’s funnier is that they’re perfectly fine with the hypocrisy too.  Well I mean you got to give it to the Liberals, they do whatever it takes to win.

I just hope that Canadians are not stupid enough to fall for this crap, the last 10 years have been a disaster and won’t get better with a new face leading the Liberals.

New PM

Mark Carney has been voted in as the next Liberal party of Canada leader and will become the next PM despite having told Liberal supporters no real policy positions…  Funny because I remember Liberals complaining about the lack of policy from Pierre Poilievre but Carney well that’s ok.  To be fair the few policy positions that he has released (along with the other Liberal leadership candidates) have stolen a lot of what PP has proposed, I guess that’s ok since it’s good policy but yeah it’s kind of funny to watch the Liberals run away from everything they’ve stood for in the last 9 years.

Unfortunately Trump has shaken politics up in Canada and looks Liberal fortunes are on the rise, I certainly hope come election time people aren’t fooled by the same people who are now running on almost a completely opposite platform.

On the Conservative side, PP really needs to stop talking about the carbon tax.  You won, talk about how even without being in government, you’re able to get everyone to drop that lousy policy but talk more broadly about affordability or how the last 9 years of Liberal rule has left Canada weak and vulnerable to Trump and his antics.  Sigh what a mess but it appears team sport politics is most important and it’s maddening.

Get out of here

These types of articles drive me nuts, it’s been well known for decades that criminals get their guns from the US and don’t bother with the licensing system we have in Canada yet the only solution the Liberals ever have is banning guns from legal owners.

The data from GTA police is in line with what research has shown for many years, says Jooyoung Lee, a professor of sociology at the University of Toronto who studies the underlying causes and long-term consequences of gun violence.

“One thing we’ve known for many, many generations is that the U.S. is a global exporter of firearms and the vast majority of crime guns in Canada are originating in a very small kind of handful of U.S. states that have much more lax and porous gun laws,” he said.

Source: CBC

If our news organizations were truly objective, they’d question the powers that be why they’re enacting policy that doesn’t do anything and is all for show.

There’s no way I’m voting Liberal (probably ever again) but I take a lot of pleasure to see all the candidates in the leadership race to replace Trudeau are running as fast as they can away from his stupid policies.