Canadian Federal Election - Page 137

YOWetal · #**2721** Posted **Mar 17, 2025, 4:29 PM**

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Originally Posted by Marshsparrow

Someone put it to me like this. You have two candidates who show up for a job interview:
Candidate 1 has flipped burgers for the past 20 years with no accomplishments but blames everyone around them for their current stuck state.
Candidate 2 flipped burgers, managed the restaurant, now owns the restaurant and is looking at ways to expand and protect the restaurant.

Which candidate do you want overeeing your operations?

It's really a no-brainer. PP thinks Canadians are stupid. We aren't and we know which candidate is the right one for the time right now.

You analogy isn't really on the money. More like you have someone flipping burgers and a brief stint as a shift manager at McDonalds. Well trained and a success. You have someone else who has worked for the other various less well run franchises. Canada under the Liberals is probably Tim Hortons in this analogy. But granted he was the Manager at Burger King so knows every angle of the business.

Hackslack · #**2722** Posted **Mar 17, 2025, 5:07 PM**

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Originally Posted by YOWetal

Sure but I don't expect that to happen. There aren't a lot of votes there. Anyway who cares deeply about resource development is never voting Liberal and those of who only care because it pays the bills for the rest of us are a tiny minority. Meanwhile those on the left who will vote to block Poilievre who have climate justice as one of their top issues need to be thrown a bone.

Same story pretty much on DEI and woke. The small cohort who are anti-woke and anti-racist are overwhelmed by those that vote on it from the left who think it's just about giving everyone an opportunity.

“… for the rest of us are a tiny minority”

I completely disagree. “For the rest of us” benefits immensely from the increase revenue generated from the resource sector, if not anything else.

Not to mention the secondary, tertiary, and beyond industries that support the sector. For example, tariffs on steel from the US? Produce the steel in Canada to use for Canadian projects. Manufacturing of components and equipment? Source from Canada. labour shortage? Source from all corners of the country.

This country is incredibly rich is resources, that the entire globe demands. We need to leverage our resources to the absolute maximum, now that our largest trading partner has decided to completely undermine our relationship. F the USA, let’s leverage our resources to the max with our new global partners.

Why does the majority of the west vote conservative? It’s because we know we are a resource based economy, and simply want all red tape that serves a very minimal purpose, if any at all, other than to make it look like we are reducing our impact t on the global environment, when in fact we are just re-allocating it to the next country who would happily fill the void in supply.

We all benefit to some degree by leveraging our resources, and developing them in a sustainable way.

WarrenC12 · #**2723** Posted **Mar 17, 2025, 5:28 PM**

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Originally Posted by samne

Trump thrown out because of protests? When has that ever happen in American history with things such as civil rights, Vietnam or Iraq wars.

I don’t think Canadians understand that Trump’s favourability is still quite high. Democrats are actually at record lows.

Don’t confuse loud extreme left wingers as the majority.

By what metric? He has the lowest ever approval rating for any President at this stage of their Presidency.

elly63 · #**2724** Posted **Mar 17, 2025, 5:56 PM**

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BlackDog204 · #**2725** Posted **Mar 17, 2025, 6:02 PM**

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Originally Posted by WarrenC12

By what metric? He has the lowest ever approval rating for any President at this stage of their Presidency.

Actually, Trump's approval ratings are at the highest they have ever been, including his entire first term. Just like Germans during the Third Reich, Americans are brainwashed. Project 2025 is proceeding as planned.

https://www.axios.com/2025/03/16/trump-high-dems-low-new-poll

someone123 · #**2726** Posted **Mar 17, 2025, 6:10 PM**

They've been doing airstrikes in Yemen and Trump was on about global shipping lanes. Is his policy to continue to pay to protect global trade but also enact tariffs so that the US itself doesn't actually participate as much as other countries?

MolsonExport · #**2727** Posted **Mar 17, 2025, 6:17 PM**

Here you go, Dump. Some welcome news from a small town a few miles from where I live.

Southwestern Ontario town's signs send clear Donald Trump message

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Frustration and anger over Donald Trump’s trade war against Canada is boiling over and has taken on a somewhat comedic tone in Strathroy, where two billboards mocking the U.S. President have started drawing laughs and eyeballs in the community of 23,000 west of London.

The first of the signs, visible over the weekend on an electric billboard on Front Street, shows a dog defecating on top of the word “Trump.” A second sign reading “Know your parasites” features a picture of Trump’s face with the words “Luna-Tick” below it, positioned next to images of a dog and deer ticks.

whatnext · #**2728** Posted **Mar 17, 2025, 6:26 PM**

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Originally Posted by MolsonExport

Here you go, Dump. Some welcome news from a small town a few miles from where I live.

Southwestern Ontario town's signs send clear Donald Trump message

Personally I'd love to see bilboards in a similar vein at Canadian border crossings. How about "Real Canadian Don't Shop at Traitor Joes'"?

MolsonExport · #**2729** Posted **Mar 17, 2025, 6:27 PM**

^hear! hear!

GeneralLea · #**2730** Posted **Mar 17, 2025, 6:30 PM**

I'd love to see that. Just set up a few points by Ottawa, Port Erie, Windsor, and along other major entry points in Quebec and western Canada.

Maybe an inflatable Trump Baby too

-like this example from the UK, but much bigger

Baby Trump by Gilder Kate, on Flickr

mousquet · #**2731** Posted **Mar 17, 2025, 6:32 PM**

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Originally Posted by someone123

They've been doing airstrikes in Yemen and Trump was on about global shipping lanes. Is his policy to continue to pay to protect global trade but also enact tariffs so that the US itself doesn't actually participate as much as other countries?

The Houthi rebels in Yemen are deadly enemies to Israel, putting trade in their country / region at stake.
That must be the reason why the current US administration is getting involved.
Israel seems to be the very last of their allies they're still faithful to. It is currently run by a hard-line right-wing coalition.

Moreover, as a Shia movement, the Houthis are closely tied to Iran. And Trump deeply hates Iran, to the point that it would almost be irrational, or so I heard.

Airboy · #**2732** Posted **Mar 17, 2025, 6:38 PM**

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Originally Posted by WarrenC12

By what metric? He has the lowest ever approval rating for any President at this stage of their Presidency.

His favorability numbers are high, its his economic numbers that are dropping. We shall see when 1st quarter earnings come out and look at the unemployment rates. I do not see any real uprising in Anti trump, but that may also be the media is not covering it.

When and if his favorability numbers tank things will be so far gone I do not believe there is any chance that he will be out of office.

whatnext · #**2733** Posted **Mar 17, 2025, 6:40 PM**

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Originally Posted by mousquet

The Houthi rebels in Yemen are deadly enemies to Israel, putting trade in their country / region at stake.
That must be the reason why the current US administration is getting involved.
Israel seems to be the very last of their allies they're still faithful to. It is currently run by a hard-line right-wing coalition.

Moreover, as a Shia movement, the Houthis are closely tied to Iran. And Trump deeply hates Iran, to the point that it would almost be irrational, or so I heard.

It certainly makes you wonder who is pulling the strings in the USA.

mousquet · #**2734** Posted **Mar 17, 2025, 6:45 PM**

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Originally Posted by whatnext

It certainly makes you wonder who is pulling the strings in the USA.

Conspiracy theory, not allowed.

Some Israelis are hardcore leftists, far more to the left than I am.
I know, I saw them in reports. Like farmers in the Israeli countryside who still have Palestinian mates.

Warning: mere and dumb antisemitism is felony. A lot of Jewish folks are good people.

CanSpice · #**2735** Posted **Mar 17, 2025, 6:46 PM**

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Originally Posted by Airboy

His favorability numbers are high, its his economic numbers that are dropping. We shall see when 1st quarter earnings come out and look at the unemployment rates. I do not see any real uprising in Anti trump, but that may also be the media is not covering it.

When and if his favorability numbers tank things will be so far gone I do not believe there is any chance that he will be out of office.

Trump's approval rating is at 47%. If you compare his rating with the approval ratings for other presidential terms at the same time, you'll see Biden at 54%, Trump 1 at 40%, Obama at 62%, GWB at 58%, Clinton at 53%. Sure, he's doing better than first time around, but compared to other presidents he's lower. Saying his favourability numbers are high is kind of not accurate.

Ozabald · #**2736** Posted **Mar 17, 2025, 6:47 PM**

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Originally Posted by whatnext

Personally I'd love to see bilboards in a similar vein at Canadian border crossings. How about "Real Canadian Don't Shop at Traitor Joes'"?

You do realize Trader Joe's is German owned.

trueviking · #**2737** Posted **Mar 17, 2025, 6:51 PM**

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Originally Posted by samne

Tying Carney to Trudeau is very accurate as it’s the exact same Liberal government.

Connecting Pierre to Trump makes zero sense to any logical thinking other than they’re both not left leaning. Unfortunately many people don’t think logically.

if it didn't make sense to link trump and Poilievre, it would look comical when they do it....yet it doesnt....wonder why that is.

shouldn't have partied with the truckers and used his clothing as a billboard for slogans I guess.

CanSpice · #**2738** Posted **Mar 17, 2025, 6:54 PM**

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Originally Posted by samne

Connecting Pierre to Trump makes zero sense to any logical thinking other than they’re both not left leaning. Unfortunately many people don’t think logically.

Go talk to Danielle Smith who said "The perspective that Pierre [Poilievre] would bring would be very much in sync with the new direction in America." Who's leading that new direction in America?

whatnext · #**2739** Posted **Mar 17, 2025, 7:15 PM**

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Originally Posted by Ozabald

You do realize Trader Joe's is German owned.

Somebody feeling guilty about sneaking across the border?

BlackDog204 · #**2740** Posted **Mar 17, 2025, 7:19 PM**

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Originally Posted by trueviking

if it didn't make sense to link trump and Poilievre, it would look comical when they do it....yet it doesnt....wonder why that is.

shouldn't have partied with the truckers and used his clothing as a billboard for slogans I guess.

It does not help that his mentor Stephen Harper is currently going out of his way to seek closer ties with Victor Orban's Hungarian dictatorship.

It also does not help that Poilievre's "Axe The Tax" t-shirts and merchandise were made in Hungary, by a company whose board of directors include Stephen Harper.