Makes me think they all need to switch to NDP

We’ll see if Nenshi can talk them into that when the next provincial election comes around.

Danielle Smith is going to find out very quickly that she and Alberta need the rest of Canada a lot more than Canada needs Alberta. Also, say goodbye to your CPP, OAS, and EI contributions. The impact on schools, water treatment, pharmaceuticals, food safety, and road regulations alone are significant cause for concern.

Not to mention all oil leaving Alberta would still have to travel through Canada to get to an ocean port. They would have to negotiate with a “foreign country” for that …

Sorry, convicted criminals are not permitted entry to Canada.

Trump says he’ll meet with PM Carney at the White House ‘within the next week’

Trump says lots of things. Very few of them are true.

The Prime Minister’s Office did not confirm a date for the meeting between the two leaders.

Yeah, that’s what I thought.

Helluva legacy after 30 years in office…

“Bleeding heart” for telling him that he can’t just do whatever the hell he wants?

There’s a lot of quotes from Ford in the article that sound far too Trump-ish.

Pay judges to quit? Elect judges (regardless of qualifications)? Hold judges “accountable” to the politicians whims? Override other levels of governments when they make decisions in their jurisdiction that you don’t happen to like?

Dammit, Ontario, why did you re-elect this guy again?

All that said, I hope that Carney instead chooses to build consensus.

As I understand it, that has been how he has operated in his previous roles.

I think an election sooner is likely.

I don’t see the government falling in less than a year. Maybe after 2, but probably longer unless something dramatic happens.

• The NDP can’t afford to fight an election any time soon, they need a new leader and they need to re-energize their supporters.

• The Bloc has a common cause with the federal government until the Trump threat is neutralized (and they’re even more angry about their sovereignty being actively threatened than most Canadians). And the housing program that Carney speaks about would benefit all provinces, including Quebec.

• The Conservatives need to turf PP and replace him, which he will fight against. That’s going to take some time, and if Carney is doing a good job while they’re busy with that, it’ll be even harder for their new leader to credibly justify bringing down the government…

• And finally, the public has no appetite for going back into an election unless Carney screws up badly. And any competent political strategist from any party should be able to recognize that.

Any time someone claims “my one vote doesn’t matter” I reply with this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_close_election_results

Yes, there are a lot of elections that are decided by a very small number of votes.

As the saying goes: “The only wasted vote is the one left uncast.”

They’ve also “deported” (exiled is a better word) actual citizens. Someone on a green card has less protection than that.

Well, the voters did fire him.

Now it’s up to his party to do the same, as they have done with so many other former leaders who lost.

Is next quarter’s line going up a bit faster really more important than not putting yourself in a situation where you have to convince your security team to wear explosive collars?

He also talks about changing how executive incentives work to encourage a longer term outlook and to account for the externalities that their companies/decisions create. Making sure those corporate decision makers have much more personal “skin in the game”.

He sounds like he’s ready to spend on capitol projects at the moment.

In his book he calls for government spending on capital projects in order to kick-start private investment in expanding their businesses (and payrolls, ultimately leading to more employees in better paid jobs and therefore at a higher taxable level)

it sounds like the Bloc really wants a rematch.

I doubt they’ll try to topple the government until the threat of Trump is neutralized. Or at least significantly muted. They have a common goal with the rest of the country on that issue.

Plus, what’s their warchest look like at the moment?

that’s in to a lot of conservative ideas

Fiscal conservative ideas, maybe.

Socially he’s relatively liberal. Maybe not quite as much as Trudeau, but nowhere near what the CPC has become.

The numbers allow a continuation of a Liberal-NDP confidence-and-supply arrangement.

Or a less formal agreement, if there is no appetite for a similar arrangement as last time.

Or, my preference, working to consensus with both BQ and NDP.

In the long term, of course, it means nothing because climate collapse effectively makes wealth moot

That is another repeated theme in Carney’s book

I further hope the party gets some introspection and ditches a lot of their dumbass culture wars inspired policies.

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Yeah, I know. I might as well wish for a pony while I’m at it…

I completely agree the liberals wanted all the seats for themselves

It’s an election. What party doesn’t want that??

I wouldn’t take anything for granite.

That’s not a very gneiss thing to say.