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[–] IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works 59 points 5 days ago (5 children)

Trump winning was the worst thing that could have happened to the Conservatives. Dealing with Trump's bullshit is the one thing that most people seem to agree that Trudeau and the Liberals handled well.

PP wanted his "carbon tax election", but just about no one is very concerned about that right now.

[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 36 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Good luck, y'all. If Canada manages to avoid the global shift to the alt-right, it will be one of the few political bright spots in an otherwise dark future.

[–] villasv@lemmy.ca 9 points 5 days ago
[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

And they’ve got water

[–] datavoid@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 days ago

Don't get any ideas

[–] shittydwarf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 5 days ago (1 children)

In a strange way it's the best thing that could have happened here. PP would be gargling fascist hog if elected and it's plain to see

[–] Daelsky@lemmy.ca 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The worst case scenario would have been an early election before the one in the US and be stuck right now with both Trump down south and PP here.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Yes! I was sweating bullets when Jagmeet announced an early end to the confidence agreement.

It sounds like it was always going to take a while for the non-confidence motion to pass, but I didn't realise that at first.

[–] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 14 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Funny how building your whole platform around "not Trudeau" was short-sighted. Never could have seen that coming....

[–] tiefling@lemmy.blahaj.zone -4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It's the same thing that happened in the US but in reverse. Democrats ignored their constituents and made their platform "more genocide" and "we're not Trump"

[–] Albbi@lemmy.ca 8 points 5 days ago

I feel like their platform was "less genocide than Trump", but still genocide. Which wasn't very good either obviously.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 5 days ago

Winning power is usually what undoes fascists. Hopefully it makes somewhat less of a mess this time.

[–] tiefling@lemmy.blahaj.zone 35 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Keep fighting! Fuck the cons! There is a literal fire underneath you, geographically and metaphorically speaking

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 20 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] Daelsky@lemmy.ca 7 points 5 days ago

Aye! Down with PP!

[–] twopi@lemmy.ca 15 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Use ISO-8601 date format: YYYY-MM-DD (Its way better!)

[–] CanadianCarl@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I just assume DD-MM-YYYY when wrote like this. Because it is what most of the world uses.

[–] twopi@lemmy.ca 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Which works out here because it's literally 03-03.

But ISO-8601 is an international standard, by the International Standards Organization, to remove this very confusion.

Its like the SI / metric system.

[–] sbv@sh.itjust.works 18 points 5 days ago (3 children)

It'd be cool if it was some party other than the Liberals that was getting the lift. Greens? NDP? Uh... That's about it.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 17 points 5 days ago (2 children)

For the 20 years I've lived in Canada, it's been the country of "best I can do is ..." πŸ₯Ή

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

If only the proportional rep thing hadn't been a damned lie.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 days ago

We regret nothing, majority here we go!

[–] datavoid@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Beats America, the country of "go fuck yourself, you poor bastard"

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 days ago

Any day. It's why I never had any desire to go work in the US.

We don’t have PR yet. When the NDP or any of the other β€œ3rd parties” gain big, it splits the left wing vote which results in a win for the conservatives.

[–] Nemean_lion@lemmy.ca 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Ill be voting liberal that's for sure. It won't matter because I'm in an overwhelming conservative voting region. But I will vote.

[–] SaturdayMorning@lemmy.ca 6 points 4 days ago

I too live in a very conservative area but I will still be voting and I will be voting Liberal. Voting is my right and responsibility as a citizen and I intend to exercise my right regardless of what others do.

[–] surph_ninja@lemmy.world -2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Too bad both parties are working with profiteers to fuck up your healthcare system.

[–] zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 4 days ago

Housing market

[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 0 points 5 days ago

In a press conference just now, "tariff money must not be spent on relief, but be spent on tax cuts" for those people who will still have plenty of income despite tariffs.