No reason to try explain, they made up their minds. It's insane. Like that person says he is voting for the person, not the party. Yet completely fine with Carney being shooed into the liberal party LOL.

This is what's wrong with Canada. Sigh.

I mean Paul Chiang on Chinese paper said that he wants to kidnap his conservative opposition and to deliver him to China, so that he can collect the bounty. When he got caught, he said just jokes though! Worst part? Carney defended this guy lol, cos... He was a cop for 28yrs??that makes it worse... Dude ends up resigning anyway lmao. Carney is already compromised by China, borrowed like quarter Bil for his bsns. That's why hes trying to play nice for the Chinese

This post was edited by Secksii on Apr 1 2025 10:41pm

anyone voting liberal has a room temperature level IQ.

if you can't process the last 9 years objectively, and realize that electing that same party, in hopes of somehow them doing a better job with an even WORSE party leader, you lack logical thinking.

While the previous administration did in fact do a horrific job, its not like the grass is that much greener if we're being honest. The Harper Polly gov't before Trudeau was pretty horrible too.

You might be looking back with rose tinted goggles but if you were actively looking for a home during that period, it also exploded during that time period. I think home prices went up like 65-70% during the Harper Polly period. So is Polly the guy to fix housing, probably not, lets be real. Are the liberals going to pivot off their previous plan, probably not significantly.

So Canadians don't really have the best representation either way to be honest.

Look back in retrospect, Harpers figures are horrible. Housing starts, housing price increases, etc. The only reason its not deemed absolutely catastrophic is because the liberals did slightly worse.

This post was edited by SBD on Apr 2 2025 08:43am

I fully agree,
but change is needed, as it was with harper.

and realistically we only have 2 parties in canada.

But that being said, I have a hard time hating on most of PP's running platform, wether he comes through with that or not, who knows as we never know with politicians.

Logically a change is the best option for canada, because it can't be any worse than what we've experienced over the last decade.

Carney is a terrible option, worse than trudeau IMO.

You think carney is worse than trudeau? Curious as to why

I think that's ultimately where most Canadians are at. They just want change, or i'd hope that's where the majority are at.

But polling isn't great now for change. Trump seems set on ensuring Carney takes it.

Calling him PM, saying he will make good positive progress after the election implying Carney will win, etc.

This post was edited by SBD on Apr 2 2025 08:46am

well if we are to believe that Carney can turn things around, despite being involved with Trudeaus administration, why shouldnt we believe Pierre can turn it around also?
if Carney wont act like the liberals did over the last 10 years, why assume Pierre wont be any different from Harpers time in power?

its bizarre to me that people will blindly trust those who got us in this situation rather than choose new leadership.

given Carneys writings, its pretty obvious where he stands on the green agenda and the century 100 initiative which will continue to cripple the country. at least the conservatives are also pushing other policies which will
help alleviate some of the pressure on the housing market. not to mention some of the ideas that Carney is copying straight off of Pierre in an attempt to save face.

but we all gotta watch what we say, wouldnt want to be extradited to the chinese gulag.

This post was edited by C4NTWO on Apr 2 2025 08:54am

hes MORE of a global elitist,
how can you think he puts canada first when his family doesn't even live in canada, and he hasn't in a decade.

he can't answer questions from the media, usually pivots and either has them removed, or doesn't answer the question

he is trying to buy votes, pretending to care about carbon tax, and our military.

He's a WEF puppet, that should be enough tbh lol.
He's pro china.

He did a terrible job in the UK. Most UK politicians have laughed at the idea of him being a politician.
He even said himself asking a banker for political advice is a terrible idea lmao.

theres probably 2 dozen more reasons i just don't care to memorize them, but very easily you can find out information if you hangout on a decently sourced right wing social media page (again, the ones that provide sources)

he was the economic advisor to trudeau for what, last 5 years i think? and well we're pretty irrefutably in a worse economic position since he's been in that role.

just off the top of the head anyways, i try and avoid politics as my mental health is better off doing so.. and watching boomers who watch global and ctv news all day thinking they get unbiased information drives me crazy.

Trump has obvoiusly stated he'd rather deal with carney beacuse liberals are easier to deal with (so if you're anti trump voting carney is not a good idea)

etc

have you seen PP's running platform? how can you argue against it. if we vote based on what a leader is trying to do for canada (and not looking @ party) are we not objectively happier with no capital gains tax? 15% lower income tax? less illegal immigration? more money in our pockets, better housing market, better trade agreements and bargaining, hundreds of thousands of jobs being created in canada etc.

besides, PP hasn't had a chance, where as we know carney was heavily involved in the last party.

I don't trust any Politician, but trusting the ones who have arguably ruined our country for the last 10 years is probably not a smart idea.
what do we have to lose by giving someone another chance?

politics are so polarizing in todays society, if PP doesnt' deliver, we'll have another party switch pretty fast.

As a person that manages a growing residential and commercial real-estate portfolio for a company, we need drastic change to permitting, review times, permitting costs, etc. '

The difficulty to get to the point of shovel ready and costs have ballooned. Anyone running on fixing that area specifically gets my nod. By the time any variance or god forbid rezoning needs to occur, architectural, electrical, mechanical, structural permitting takes place, tipping fees paid, drawings going from a class C to class B estimate, etc. you can be millions deep before any material is purchased or a shovel hits the ground.

Not only that, the changes to code for both commercial and residential buildings have driven costs through the roof. The little compiling items, that some engineer is rubber stamping as mandatory without any consideration or implications to cost has snowballed building costs. Code getting updated every 3 years and rather and making it simpler to promote building it continues to get more complex and more costly materials.

Also, lets be honest, its a bureaucratic tick box practice, are honest actually better quality now? I sure don't see it as so, to make up for all these mechanical and electrical requirements the quality of building materials suffers terribly resulting in cheap structural and finishing. A pig with lipstick. But great, we can have a ton of different circuits, GFCI everywhere, 6 vents going out the house and 15 zone valves.

/end rant.

This post was edited by SBD on Apr 2 2025 09:11am