CTV News has learned that Mark Carney and a group of ministers will make a broad series of 'sector-based' announcements Friday, aimed at increasing Canada’s competitiveness, supporting sectors impacted most by tariffs and spurring domestic industry.
Didn’t this dude write a long-ass book where his whole thing was like, we need firm and predictable government policy so that markets can do their supposed magic?
Looks like even that utterly weaksauce approach to the climate crisis is entirely negotiable, if short-term profits for his Brookfield buddies are ever even slightly at risk.
This guy is pathetic. An invertebrate. Disappointment doesn’t even scratch the surface.
The problem is that the EV policy had little consideration of how EVs work in cold climates. They created a policy that was based on science fiction on some mythical technology to appear by 2030. The periodic table is not going to change, batteries are not going to get significantly better in the next decade, because they aren’t better in labs right now. You can’t even charge in typical temperatures in Northern Canada. Canadian government has a long history of avoiding qualified STEM input. Trudeau was just another CEO hanging off every word from Elon Musk.
Hybrids can cut fuel use by 60% with 1997 technology, housing codes should have had solar panels and heat pumps a decade ago. Electric or hybrid trains should be moving cargo across Southern Ontario, like we did 75 years ago, not oil burning trucks.
Where electrification makes sense is being done to save money. If we have cheap, clean electricity, burning things will be bad business.
Bro Canada isn’t the coldest country and there’s plenty of countries colder than us with absolutely no issues with EVs fuck off with that bullshit line.
So my lived experience here is battery charging is 100% fine in most of Canada’s cities, which are, as we know, clustered near the border, as south as we can get. I’ve seen EVs in the Yukon too though, and no one seemed to be complaining about them to me there when I asked.
I also think you’re not at all informed on the state of the art with regards to battery tech, there’s tons of research going into it, and several very promising technologies on the horizon.
No offense but you remind me of the pundits confidently declaring that the future of physics is to be found in decimal places a scant few years before the discovery of X-Rays.
The NDP is having their leadership race. If they get someone like Charlie Angus (ideally he gets convinced himself) and come out swinging HARD, we might have a shot at keeping our country.
I understand how you feel and am against strategic voting as well, but I really do believe strategic voting was an unfotunate necessity last election, more than any other in our history. Strategic voting was the only thing that prevented a Poillievre gov’t.
The NDP need a charismatic leader who swings for the rafters right away and doesn’t stop. The only shot they have is gaining quick support and gaining enough momentum to seem like a viable choice for the next election.
The problem is that everyone always feels like it’s important “this time”, but all it really does is strengthen the centrists who end up giving the Conservatives material to work with. Every election is further reinforcement of that with a weakening of the party you really wanted. Your vote always counts and it is your civic duty to make sure it speaks for you or else the whole thing falls apart. Why do you think the Liberals were so against the voting reform they promised?
And as far as the NDP goes it’s insane how many excuses people will make to not vote for them. Just admit you don’t want to, I’d respect that more. The NDP used the coalition to force the Liberals to actually do a few useful things and genuinely seems to at least vaguely care about Canadians but everyone talks about “Charisma” as if Trudeau was really anything more than hot in that regard or as if Carney was anything more than an available Liberal.
Strategic voting is always a net-negative in the longterm and it’s incredibly hard to claw your way out of once you reinforce a two-party system in a FPTP setup. Do it anyway.
I agree. Unfortunately most Canadians aren’t as informed as they should be about politics, and around 40% don’t even bother voting. I’m against strategic voting generally, but understand that it sometimes has its place, and the last election, in my opinion, was an example of that.
The fact is we’d be well on our way down the path the US has chosen to do down if it wasn’t for strategic voting. This is also why I mentioned the NDP needs a charismatic leader. They need to both convert people to their party, and convince the non-voters to vote. Charisma is needed for that.
If I had to call it right now, we’re looking at a Conservative win next election. The NDP is our only real shot, and it won’t happen without charisma, strong policy, and a leader who won’t shut up. They need to come out of the gate swinging, and swinging hard.
If we are at the point where we need to engage in the anti-democracy of strategic voting because enough of the country is already loving what the Conservatives are up to then we are already well on the path. There’s no “starting on the path” when we’re already halfway down it. We need to get off this train, not just slow it down, because we’re going the wrong direction and have been for a while.
The US is a perfect, contemporary example of this. Even today there are people in that country like “if this next bad thing happens then we’re really in it!” and it’s like, brother, ya’ll’ve been in it for decades now! We gotta stop pretending like these things aren’t problems yet because it gives us a false sense of security and we don’t fight obviously bad shit when it’s weak enough that we actually can fight it. Our next election is going to be a fucking disaster unless the Liberals suddenly decide to allow ranked-choice voting to be a thing but otherwise people treat them as the default and we’re gunna hear the same bullshit “but I HAD to strategic vote this time because…” no matter how awesome the NDP leader is.
We have fucked ourselves out of the comfortable resistance.
no, hes bending over backwards to appease private interests while handing canadian citizens data, without warrant, over to authorities, and the american government/ corporations, including the likes of palantir. subverting our constitutional right to privacy, and weakening us to american influence.
hes a kind face, and a piece of shit surveillance state corpo. nothing more. fuck the cons, fuck pp, and fuck the libs, and fuck carney.
they moved the overton window to the right, destroyed the NDP, and still handed us over to american influence and global corporations, while pretending we are still “elbows up” while making concession after concession. and also they stepped all over indigenous land rights with bill C5, recognized the colonizer farce that is the ontario metis federation (they literally allow people with zero ancestry to have citizenship so they get more federal funding and political sway, another way for them to funnel tax payer money to private interests under the guise of metis funding)
the cons and libs are two sides of the same corporate coin.
fuck em both. they are both oil loving, land hoarding, psychopathic parties leading us to climate collapse for short term profit.
Didn’t this dude write a long-ass book where his whole thing was like, we need firm and predictable government policy so that markets can do their supposed magic?
Looks like even that utterly weaksauce approach to the climate crisis is entirely negotiable, if short-term profits for his Brookfield buddies are ever even slightly at risk.
This guy is pathetic. An invertebrate. Disappointment doesn’t even scratch the surface.
The problem is that the EV policy had little consideration of how EVs work in cold climates. They created a policy that was based on science fiction on some mythical technology to appear by 2030. The periodic table is not going to change, batteries are not going to get significantly better in the next decade, because they aren’t better in labs right now. You can’t even charge in typical temperatures in Northern Canada. Canadian government has a long history of avoiding qualified STEM input. Trudeau was just another CEO hanging off every word from Elon Musk.
Hybrids can cut fuel use by 60% with 1997 technology, housing codes should have had solar panels and heat pumps a decade ago. Electric or hybrid trains should be moving cargo across Southern Ontario, like we did 75 years ago, not oil burning trucks.
Where electrification makes sense is being done to save money. If we have cheap, clean electricity, burning things will be bad business.
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Bro Canada isn’t the coldest country and there’s plenty of countries colder than us with absolutely no issues with EVs fuck off with that bullshit line.
They say the same thing about heat pumps but we should be investing in rail not roads.
So my lived experience here is battery charging is 100% fine in most of Canada’s cities, which are, as we know, clustered near the border, as south as we can get. I’ve seen EVs in the Yukon too though, and no one seemed to be complaining about them to me there when I asked.
I also think you’re not at all informed on the state of the art with regards to battery tech, there’s tons of research going into it, and several very promising technologies on the horizon.
No offense but you remind me of the pundits confidently declaring that the future of physics is to be found in decimal places a scant few years before the discovery of X-Rays.
He will make us lose to a mini trump next election
He’s proving to be rather indistinguishable from mini-Trump 🤷
At least his voice isn’t like nails on a chalk board.
Do you talk about carney or poilievre
The NDP is having their leadership race. If they get someone like Charlie Angus (ideally he gets convinced himself) and come out swinging HARD, we might have a shot at keeping our country.
So long as all the “strategic” voters get their heads out of their rotten, fetid assholes, at least.
I understand how you feel and am against strategic voting as well, but I really do believe strategic voting was an unfotunate necessity last election, more than any other in our history. Strategic voting was the only thing that prevented a Poillievre gov’t.
The NDP need a charismatic leader who swings for the rafters right away and doesn’t stop. The only shot they have is gaining quick support and gaining enough momentum to seem like a viable choice for the next election.
The problem is that everyone always feels like it’s important “this time”, but all it really does is strengthen the centrists who end up giving the Conservatives material to work with. Every election is further reinforcement of that with a weakening of the party you really wanted. Your vote always counts and it is your civic duty to make sure it speaks for you or else the whole thing falls apart. Why do you think the Liberals were so against the voting reform they promised?
And as far as the NDP goes it’s insane how many excuses people will make to not vote for them. Just admit you don’t want to, I’d respect that more. The NDP used the coalition to force the Liberals to actually do a few useful things and genuinely seems to at least vaguely care about Canadians but everyone talks about “Charisma” as if Trudeau was really anything more than hot in that regard or as if Carney was anything more than an available Liberal.
Strategic voting is always a net-negative in the longterm and it’s incredibly hard to claw your way out of once you reinforce a two-party system in a FPTP setup. Do it anyway.
I agree. Unfortunately most Canadians aren’t as informed as they should be about politics, and around 40% don’t even bother voting. I’m against strategic voting generally, but understand that it sometimes has its place, and the last election, in my opinion, was an example of that.
The fact is we’d be well on our way down the path the US has chosen to do down if it wasn’t for strategic voting. This is also why I mentioned the NDP needs a charismatic leader. They need to both convert people to their party, and convince the non-voters to vote. Charisma is needed for that.
If I had to call it right now, we’re looking at a Conservative win next election. The NDP is our only real shot, and it won’t happen without charisma, strong policy, and a leader who won’t shut up. They need to come out of the gate swinging, and swinging hard.
If we are at the point where we need to engage in the anti-democracy of strategic voting because enough of the country is already loving what the Conservatives are up to then we are already well on the path. There’s no “starting on the path” when we’re already halfway down it. We need to get off this train, not just slow it down, because we’re going the wrong direction and have been for a while.
The US is a perfect, contemporary example of this. Even today there are people in that country like “if this next bad thing happens then we’re really in it!” and it’s like, brother, ya’ll’ve been in it for decades now! We gotta stop pretending like these things aren’t problems yet because it gives us a false sense of security and we don’t fight obviously bad shit when it’s weak enough that we actually can fight it. Our next election is going to be a fucking disaster unless the Liberals suddenly decide to allow ranked-choice voting to be a thing but otherwise people treat them as the default and we’re gunna hear the same bullshit “but I HAD to strategic vote this time because…” no matter how awesome the NDP leader is.
We have fucked ourselves out of the comfortable resistance.
Pathetic invertebrate disappointment seems a biiiit strongly worded given the other people on the global stage
no, hes bending over backwards to appease private interests while handing canadian citizens data, without warrant, over to authorities, and the american government/ corporations, including the likes of palantir. subverting our constitutional right to privacy, and weakening us to american influence.
hes a kind face, and a piece of shit surveillance state corpo. nothing more. fuck the cons, fuck pp, and fuck the libs, and fuck carney.
they moved the overton window to the right, destroyed the NDP, and still handed us over to american influence and global corporations, while pretending we are still “elbows up” while making concession after concession. and also they stepped all over indigenous land rights with bill C5, recognized the colonizer farce that is the ontario metis federation (they literally allow people with zero ancestry to have citizenship so they get more federal funding and political sway, another way for them to funnel tax payer money to private interests under the guise of metis funding)
the cons and libs are two sides of the same corporate coin.
fuck em both. they are both oil loving, land hoarding, psychopathic parties leading us to climate collapse for short term profit.