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  • [OT] Canadian election called for April 28

    From Rhino@21:1/5 to All on Sun Mar 23 13:21:59 2025
    Our brand new Prime Minister, Mark Carney, has called a federal election
    for April 28, just 5 weeks away.

    Canadians have been hungering for an election for the last couple of
    years since they finally got sick of Trudeau. We had very much hoped to
    replace Trudeau and his Liberals with Pierre Poilievre and his
    Conservatives. The polls practically guaranteed it.

    Then Trump came along with his tariffs and his talk about us becoming
    the 51st state and the whole political calculus got turned upside down.
    Instead of being about turfing out the "progressive/woke" Liberals, our election is going to be about Trump and what he threatens to do to our
    economy. Somehow, a significant proportion of the electorate seems to
    think the horrible Liberal Party is once again credible even though it
    really just put some lipstick on the pig by replacing Trudeau with an
    even woker Mark Carney and doing a cabinet shuffle.

    I truly fear for this country if the Liberals win another mandate. There
    was still a chance of resurrecting this country along sensible lines if
    the Conservatives won but if Carney wins, we are going to be an economic
    basket case. He's a fanatic believer in Net Zero and will
    de-industrialize the country in the name of that goal.

    --
    Rhino

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  • From The Horny Goat@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Wed Mar 26 09:12:46 2025
    On Sun, 23 Mar 2025 13:21:59 -0400, Rhino
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    Our brand new Prime Minister, Mark Carney, has called a federal election
    for April 28, just 5 weeks away.

    Canadians have been hungering for an election for the last couple of
    years since they finally got sick of Trudeau. We had very much hoped to >replace Trudeau and his Liberals with Pierre Poilievre and his
    Conservatives. The polls practically guaranteed it.

    A 20-25% lead in the polls less than 6 months before an election is
    fairly decisive in most countries and I don't think you can pin that
    on Poilievre.

    I truly fear for this country if the Liberals win another mandate. There
    was still a chance of resurrecting this country along sensible lines if
    the Conservatives won but if Carney wins, we are going to be an economic >basket case. He's a fanatic believer in Net Zero and will
    de-industrialize the country in the name of that goal.

    I hadn't heard about the Net Zero part - can you give links?

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