At least two networks have declared the Liberals to have won the federal >election. It's not clear yet if they'll get a majority yet; we'll have a
much better idea about that tomorrow (or in the wee hours tonight if you
want to stay up that long).
In my opinion, this is awful news. The Liberals have been in power for
the past 10 years and have done a horrible job. All they're really done
is replaced Trudeau with Carney who has lied through his teeth and
claimed to favour policies which he stole from the Conservatives. He'll
be every bit as awful as Trudeau was and very possibly worse. I am
confident that he will be revealed to be a massive liar and Canadians
will hate him as much as Trudeau in much shorter time.
. . .
Rhino <[email protected]> wrote:
At least two networks have declared the Liberals to have won the federal
election. It's not clear yet if they'll get a majority yet; we'll have a
much better idea about that tomorrow (or in the wee hours tonight if you
want to stay up that long).
In my opinion, this is awful news. The Liberals have been in power for
the past 10 years and have done a horrible job. All they're really done
is replaced Trudeau with Carney who has lied through his teeth and
claimed to favour policies which he stole from the Conservatives. He'll
be every bit as awful as Trudeau was and very possibly worse. I am
confident that he will be revealed to be a massive liar and Canadians
will hate him as much as Trudeau in much shorter time.
He made himself popular by standing up to the Trump tariffs, not by any issues he personally supported. Voters ignored who he truly is, and
voted instead for the theatrical performance.
2025-04-28 11:27 PM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:
Rhino <[email protected]> wrote:
At least two networks have declared the Liberals to have won the federal >>>election. It's not clear yet if they'll get a majority yet; we'll have a >>>much better idea about that tomorrow (or in the wee hours tonight if you >>>want to stay up that long).
In my opinion, this is awful news. The Liberals have been in power for >>>the past 10 years and have done a horrible job. All they're really done >>>is replaced Trudeau with Carney who has lied through his teeth and >>>claimed to favour policies which he stole from the Conservatives. He'll >>>be every bit as awful as Trudeau was and very possibly worse. I am >>>confident that he will be revealed to be a massive liar and Canadians >>>will hate him as much as Trudeau in much shorter time.
He made himself popular by standing up to the Trump tariffs, not by any >>issues he personally supported. Voters ignored who he truly is, and
voted instead for the theatrical performance.
I think that's a pretty accurate analysis for a foreigner ;-) Well done,
sir!
All those people who fell for Carney's BS are in for a rude awakening.
They deeply deserve the stress they're going to feel when they realize
that they were duped - again.
Rhino <[email protected]> wrote:
2025-04-28 11:27 PM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:
Rhino <[email protected]> wrote:
At least two networks have declared the Liberals to have won the federal >>>> election. It's not clear yet if they'll get a majority yet; we'll have a >>>> much better idea about that tomorrow (or in the wee hours tonight if you >>>> want to stay up that long).
In my opinion, this is awful news. The Liberals have been in power for >>>> the past 10 years and have done a horrible job. All they're really done >>>> is replaced Trudeau with Carney who has lied through his teeth and
claimed to favour policies which he stole from the Conservatives. He'll >>>> be every bit as awful as Trudeau was and very possibly worse. I am
confident that he will be revealed to be a massive liar and Canadians
will hate him as much as Trudeau in much shorter time.
He made himself popular by standing up to the Trump tariffs, not by any
issues he personally supported. Voters ignored who he truly is, and
voted instead for the theatrical performance.
I think that's a pretty accurate analysis for a foreigner ;-) Well done,
sir!
I've merely read news reports from both the US and BBC, plus the
comments you've been making.
All those people who fell for Carney's BS are in for a rude awakening.
They deeply deserve the stress they're going to feel when they realize
that they were duped - again.
Maybe he'll do what he was elected to do?
On 2025-04-29 10:27 AM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:
Rhino<[email protected]> wrote:
2025-04-28 11:27 PM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:
Rhino<[email protected]> wrote:
At least two networks have declared the Liberals to have won the federal
election. It's not clear yet if they'll get a majority yet; we'll have a
much better idea about that tomorrow (or in the wee hours tonight if you
want to stay up that long).
In my opinion, this is awful news. The Liberals have been in power for
the past 10 years and have done a horrible job. All they're really done
is replaced Trudeau with Carney who has lied through his teeth and claimed to favour policies which he stole from the Conservatives. He'll
be every bit as awful as Trudeau was and very possibly worse. I am confident that he will be revealed to be a massive liar and Canadians will hate him as much as Trudeau in much shorter time.
He made himself popular by standing up to the Trump tariffs, not by any issues he personally supported. Voters ignored who he truly is, and voted instead for the theatrical performance.
I think that's a pretty accurate analysis for a foreigner ;-) Well done, sir!
I've merely read news reports from both the US and BBC, plus the
comments you've been making.
All those people who fell for Carney's BS are in for a rude awakening. They deeply deserve the stress they're going to feel when they realize that they were duped - again.
Maybe he'll do what he was elected to do?
And maybe pigs will fly....
During the campaign, he promised to make Canada an "energy superpower".
He also spoke in favour of pipelines so that we could get our oil and
natural gas to somewhere other than the US, where we have to sell it
highly discounted to sell it at all. But Quebec is decidedly
unenthusiastic about the pipeline that would run from Alberta to the
East Coast so Carney insisted that Bill-69, which effectively prevents
new pipelines, will NOT be scrapped. Despite that, he claimed to support pipelines - but carefully hid a few key conditions deep in the fine
print: he will give indigenous people, climate activists and each
province on the proposed route a veto over new pipelines. That
effectively precludes building new pipelines. His proposal to become an energy superpower is premised solely on the notion that we are going to export solar power and green hydrogen and such things. But most of the
voters didn't understand that.
The good news is that Carney has a minority government, meaning he HAS
to get the support of other parties to pass any major bills, otherwise
the government falls and we get a new election. Assuming he can't get
the Conservatives to go along with him, he has to have support of the
NDP (what's left of it) or the Bloc Quebecois, which is dedicated to
Quebec independence. The NDP propped up the government this past term
and it cost them dearly: they fell from 23 seats to just 7 and leader
Jagment Singh lost his own seat by finishing third and has already
resigned. I would expect the NDP to be VERY leery about another deal
with the Liberals any time soon!
There's even a distant possibility that the Conservatives and Bloc could
find common cause and defeat the government forcing an election although
it's hard to picture them agreeing on much.
Unfortunately, Pierre Poilievre lost his own seat and it's not clear if someone else in the Conservative Party will give up the seat they've
just won so that Poilievre can have that. There have already been
pundits saying he should give up the leadership so that a new leader can
be chosen but it's not clear who might replace him. Poilievre is the 3rd leader of the party since Harper stepped down after the 2015 election
and has been by far the most effective, increasing the seat count substantially over the past two leaders. But there is a percentage of
the population that doesn't trust him and tries to liken him to Trump. A
new leader would have to be a real dynamo to be able to keep all the
existing seats and build from there without scaring the left-leaning
voters into sticking with the Liberals.
Danny Burstein will be happy that Chrystia Freeland was re-elected to
her seat. It's not clear yet if she will be in the new Cabinet but she
is in Carney's current cabinet so he obviously doesn't hate her. (He is actually godfather to one of her kids and it was her shock resignation
that was the straw that broke Trudeau's back and forced his resignation, opening the way for Carney. He ought to be appropriately grateful.)
If Trudeau had stayed on rather than resigning - or if Trump had kept
his yap shut about tariffs until after our election - we would have seen
a VERY different result in this election.
Danny Burstein will be happy that Chrystia Freeland was re-elected to
her seat. It's not clear yet if she will be in the new Cabinet but she
is in Carney's current cabinet so he obviously doesn't hate her. (He is
actually godfather to one of her kids and it was her shock resignation
that was the straw that broke Trudeau's back and forced his resignation,
opening the way for Carney. He ought to be appropriately grateful.)
[snip]
Danny Burstein will be happy that Chrystia Freeland was re-elected to
her seat. It's not clear yet if she will be in the new Cabinet but she
is in Carney's current cabinet so he obviously doesn't hate her. (He is
actually godfather to one of her kids and it was her shock resignation
that was the straw that broke Trudeau's back and forced his resignation, >>> opening the way for Carney. He ought to be appropriately grateful.)
If Carney doesn't show her proper appreciation, I'll
be glad to take over...
At least two networks have declared the Liberals to have won the federal election. It's not clear yet if they'll get a majority yet; we'll have a
much better idea about that tomorrow (or in the wee hours tonight if you
want to stay up that long).
On Apr 28, 2025 at 7:37:23 PM PDT, "Rhino" <[email protected]> wrote:
At least two networks have declared the Liberals to have won the federal
election. It's not clear yet if they'll get a majority yet; we'll have a
much better idea about that tomorrow (or in the wee hours tonight if you
want to stay up that long).
Yep. Your voters seem to share the same bizarre Helsinki Syndrome that California voters exhibit, where they reward their abusers with re-election.
Even after the liberal government froze the bank accounts of (actually) peaceful protesters, arrested journalists in the streets, trampled old ladies with horses, disarmed the entire population, effectively banned independent journalists from posting their content on social media platforms, started pushing for more and more citizens to kill themselves as a solution to life's normal problems, firmly (and openly) established a 2-tier legal system where native Canadians can be arrested and jailed for things that migrants (both legal and illegal) are allowed to say and do with impunity, and declared martial law over a bunch of truckers whose sole offense was that they didn't want to be forced to take an experimental medical treatment...
...Canadidians saw all of those things and said, "Yep, give us more of that, plus a shit-ton more taxes so the weather won't change."
As John Carter said in his election post-mortem:
Have you ever noticed how election results are regularly broken
down geographically as well as by demographic categories of age,
sex, and-- depending on the country-- race, yet we almost never
see the results separated out based on tax-payer vs tax-eater status?
It is absolutely no surprise that Ottawa voted solidly for the Liberal
Party, whose base consists of three primary groups: migrants, public
sector employees, and baby boomers, all of whom are regime client
groups, and all of whom are tightly packed into the nation's capital.
Perhaps it's that it's tax season and I'm in a grumpy mood because I
just got the bad news, but I can't help but wonder about how electoral
politics would change if taxpayers alone were allowed to vote.
Here's a chart that shows the most important factors upon which Canadidians base their vote, broken out by age.
https://ibb.co/9m943tjh
Notice how for people under 44, reducing the cost of living is their top consideration when deciding to cast their vote. But for those 60 and over, their *top* issue facing their country is "dealing with Donald Trump".
In other words, Canadidian seniors are, by and large, not even pretending to be interested in the affairs and issues facing their own country. They don't seem to be concerned about the fact that young people are overdosing in ever-increasing rates or that a not insignificant number of them are well into
their 30s, crammed into tiny apartments, shared with roommates just to make ends meet.
What they care about instead is "dealing with Donald Trump", an elected official in a different country who has not caused a single ounce of the misery that Canadia has been enduring for the last decade or more. And what do
they mean by "dealing with him"? Are they trying to elect globalists that will
send equally mean tweets back at Trump when he launches his 3AM toilet missives?
It's a sobering realization, but it's true: Countries like the UK, Australia, and Canadia, who have been traditionally allied with us through our shared culture and values are moving farther and farther away from that benchmark with us. No longer do any of these countries have a functioning conservative movement.
With every election that takes place in Canadia and every humiliating hearing on the dangers of white supremacy that Parliament entertains while muezzins literally wail away on loudspeakers right across the street and traffic is brought to gridlock five times a day by thousands of Muslims kneeling in prayer in the middle of the road, the truth becomes more clear by the day and it's time to admit it: the future of conservatism and thus of Western civilization is in our hands and, increasingly, our hands alone.
On 2025-04-30 6:28 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
With every election that takes place in Canadia and every humiliatingI'm not aware of Muslims blocking the streets to pray
hearing
on the dangers of white supremacy that Parliament entertains while muezzins >> literally wail away on loudspeakers right across the street and traffic is >> brought to gridlock five times a day by thousands of Muslims kneeling in
prayer in the middle of the road, the truth becomes more clear by the day >> and
it's time to admit it: the future of conservatism and thus of Western
civilization is in our hands and, increasingly, our hands alone.
On Apr 30, 2025 at 8:08:00 PM PDT, "Rhino" <[email protected]> wrote:
On 2025-04-30 6:28 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
With every election that takes place in Canadia and every humiliatingI'm not aware of Muslims blocking the streets to pray
hearing
on the dangers of white supremacy that Parliament entertains while muezzins
literally wail away on loudspeakers right across the street and traffic is
brought to gridlock five times a day by thousands of Muslims kneeling in >>> prayer in the middle of the road, the truth becomes more clear by the day >>> and
it's time to admit it: the future of conservatism and thus of Western
civilization is in our hands and, increasingly, our hands alone.
I was referencing the UK Parliament. I can see that wasn't clear. Apologies.
Praying in the streets-- as if there aren't enough mosques in London-- and blocking traffic has become the latest way the Muslims are asserting their control of the culture in Britain. It's a power move over the native population and the government doesn't do anything to stop it.
https://ibb.co/5XgJ68pm
Rhino <[email protected]> wrote:
At least two networks have declared the Liberals to have won the federal >>election. It's not clear yet if they'll get a majority yet; we'll have a >>much better idea about that tomorrow (or in the wee hours tonight if you >>want to stay up that long).
In my opinion, this is awful news. The Liberals have been in power for
the past 10 years and have done a horrible job. All they're really done
is replaced Trudeau with Carney who has lied through his teeth and
claimed to favour policies which he stole from the Conservatives. He'll
be every bit as awful as Trudeau was and very possibly worse. I am >>confident that he will be revealed to be a massive liar and Canadians
will hate him as much as Trudeau in much shorter time.
He made himself popular by standing up to the Trump tariffs, not by any >issues he personally supported. Voters ignored who he truly is, and
voted instead for the theatrical performance.
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