I believe you would be correct if the roles were reversed. For our sake we should be thankful they are not.

I don’t want to be overly optimistic, but if we can find a way to heal our country and make a positive change in our politics, I’m all for it.

The difference here is that the Liberals are not the Democrats. They will stand up and push back. If Poilievre makes it about needless opposition, they will just work with the other parties and keep going. They don’t need him.

But yes, I can appreciate what you say. It seems clear that the Republicans and those like them have only ever paid lip service to good faith and respectful dialogue, and they’ve never done anything but take advantage of anyone who offers them goodwill. I can see this starting in western Canada, and I do believe Poilievre is cut from the same cloth. But I think Carney has a strategic advantage here and it doesn’t disadvantage him to at least try to create a better environment. Hard liners won’t change, but Canada seems to have softer support in the centre and they generally prefer civil politics.

If the Liberals take electoral reform it will be yet another massive Conservative fumble.

It would be by far the funniest funniest thing.

Yeah that’s fair. He’s not above politicking, in fact I’m sure his decisions weigh many factors, politics being one of them.

On the topic, I hope that the left doesn’t build a personality cult around him. He’s not particularly charismatic, he’s just a technocrat with skills that can help us. Let the man do his job without deifying him. We don’t need more populism right now, we need experts… and we sure don’t need celebrity politicians.

I’m not religious, but I feel like this is somehow extra super duper disrespectful. Religious folk are not known for their tolerance of false or satirical iconography.

But I guess he’s insulting Catholics so it’s probably totally cool with his evangelical base. Oh who am I kidding, he could make AI scat porn with their Lord and Saviour and they’d find a passage in the Bible that supports it.

I’d flatten my nuts with a mallet before I go on truth social, but if you google it you can find other sources talking about it. Such as New York Post, who I assume is proud of his announcement: https://nypost.com/2025/05/02/us-news/trump-declares-may-8-victory-day-for-world-war-ii/

As usual with Trump, when you look into it you realize it’s worse than you originally thought:

Trump acknowledged in a Truth Social that “many of our allies and friends” already celebrate on May 8, but said America should join in because “we did more than any other Country, by far, in producing a victorious result.

Man, fuck this guy.

Yes, to all strategic resources - hydro, oil water, telecom, probably even critical minerals.

Manufacturing perceived disagreement is politics 101. However, in this case there’s no reason to believe that Carney isn’t being sincere. I haven’t met anyone that doesn’t believe Trudeau fucked that up. Even if he knew it was domed to failure he should have gone ahead. Unless you’re predisposed to dislike Carney, there’s no reason to assume he isn’t holding the same opinion on this as everyone else. Do you know something we don’t?

I think this is nearly impossible. I believe it’s the most conservative-safe riding in the country.

I’m referring to the fact that he could have made Poilievre wait until November (I think he has up to 6 months). He did not have to do it immediately, it was Carney’s decision to make.

This is not entirely unlikely. And I would not prima facie be against this approach.

Except for the fact that the common people don’t get nuance like this, and it just makes the division infinitely worse. The rest of Canada is going to consider Alberta to be traitors, and the part of Alberta that are traitors are going to get fired up with false hope, further stoking their hatred when they are inevitably let down.

Maybe this is the only way to get east west pipelines. Maybe there are pieces in place behind the scenes. Unfortunately I think it’s unlikely to be this sophisticated, because Smith doesn’t come across to me as a sophisticated thinker. I’m inclined to think the simpler explanation is that Smith is self serving and we really have rural Albertans who have grown up knowing nothing but hatred for eastern liberals, and they’ve been sold a bill of goods that they don’t question and wouldn’t understand if they did.

What do you believe this article is concluding? Do you think it’s a completely objective and fair assessment of the topic?

Alberta went for many years benefiting from equalization. Saskatchewan just recently became a ‘have’ province after spending decades as a have not. Yes, both provinces were sucking off Ontario’s tit while they were scratching dirt trying to feed themselves, and there were no complaints then…but now, conveniently when oil oligarchs started deciding the politics of those two provinces, now they become ungrateful assholes who want to keep all their money and not help anyone else. Fuck you, I got mine. A tale as old as time.

We need to nationalize oil and gas and start a proper sovereign wealth fund. Get the private money (especially US) out of there. As soon as we do that I bet all this division would fizzle out.

This can’t be a real thing.

If they move it will raise the average IQ of both countries.

No kidding…this corpulent hemorrhoid is as soft as baby shit, what the fuck is he going on about?

The day Idi AnOrange Dada decides to shuffle off his mortal coil will be the day the world can start to heal. And it will be a long, long road, littered with a hopefully diminishing cadre of cultist partisans.

Yeah as I said in another thread, it’s a Triumph for Diaperius Maximus.

Truly, America is a parody of itself.

I’m Canadian, with a family that’s been in the military and fought in every war as far back as we trace our genealogy on the continent. United Empire Loyalists that separated from a New Jersey revolutionary family to move to Ontario.

Having said all of that, my comment was only meant to illustrate that even Canada, with a population and a manufacturing base a fraction of the US, bled more per capita. But not according to any American narritives, certainly not according to Trump and his cult.

Yeah, if we’re being honest, Russia fought beyond the bounds of mere bravery, and sacrificed in numbers incomprehensible in the west. And their country is still suffering national PTSD from it.

Even Canada sacrificed more per capita than the US in both world wars.

The above may have been different if the US had been there from the beginning, rather than showing up two years late. Don’t talk about bravery, brilliance and principle when you can’t even be bothered to join the fight until after everyone is beat to a pulp. And if you do, try not to brag and boast for decades about how amazing you were.