Had a conversation with Liberal candidate for my riding during her campaign office opening about PR.

Honestly, while it wasn’t quite the answer I hoped for, I did appreciate that she didn’t beat around the bush with her stance, and it did have me thinking about things. Essentially the gist of her stance was that while she as an individual did think it was a good idea to institute PR, she felt that doing it with the House of Commons might be a huge undertaking that would take time, and that a faster approach would likely be to reform the Senate from being by appointment, to having them represent voters proportional to the vote share.

End of the day it does come to actions in the House of Commons, but seeing that she seemed to be a very genuine and down-to-earth candidate despite her involved political background definitely has my hopes up that there will be movement within the Liberal party to get things shifting in the right direction, even if it takes a little more time than what’s preferred.

“Not a tiny selection of them who want to maximize rent seeking”.

Ah yes, indigenous people. The greediest people in the country. Get the fuck out of here with your garbage. Human rights are not on the debate table, and you frankly saying they want to “maximize rent” as if they’re leeching to profit off the country rather than have a means to reasonably support themselves fiscally is downright disgusting.

If a rich person decided to buy the resources off the indigenous, and they decided it was in their best interest to take the offer, then yeah, while I’d be opposed to the idea of that, it’s still their treaty rights to decide for themselves.

Treaty rights are human rights and they are not on the table, and to suggest otherwise in any matter is to ignore the bullshit indigenous people have had to deal with for generations. They are to be included in the conversation because they are quite literally more “Canadian” than anybody else in the country and deserve to have their voices heard and their standard of living raised just as any other person’s should be with harvesting our natural resources.

Answer the question directly. Do you, or do you not respect the rights of indigenous people to their ancestral lands? Do you or do you not believe they have the right to dictate the projects that happen on their treaty lands and how they benefit from those projects?

Or do you want to see Canada see the profits of the exploitation of these resources, all while these people continue to beg for fucking potable water, left behind yet again by the federal government?

Tell us how you really feel about indigenous people rather than hide it behind this thin veil.

So you’re of the opinion that we should just say “fuck you” to indigenous people and their treaty rights, and just continue exploiting the resources of their ancestral lands that we invaded and violated their rights to all to make a quicker buck?

What do you think is going to happen, that indigenous people are just gonna say “nah” and purposely be a pain in the ass for the government? Cause if that’s what you think of them, which this thought process of “oh this just gets in the way of things” heavily implies, then perhaps that’s a you problem and not a problem of the government’s to respect and reconcile with the people it’s fucked over since Europeans and the likes stepped foot here.

Ah yes the foreign interference of…

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Indigenous people.

I too love learning how the brain works in my physics lessons.

Tell that to Dan Sullivan.

What exactly do you mean by this?

Just a reminder that a Conservative vote is literally a vote to destroy Canadian culture with their plans to defund the CBC.

Either is fine! I’ve posted I think one French song to date. Think it would be a good idea to tag it as Francophone however. Might add it to the sidebar to tag French music, but might give it more thought since while I do want to give attention to Francophone music, I also don’t want things working the other way where people are purposely ignoring Francohpone music and musicians.

Article says everybody agrees on there not being any Canadian options, and it being a public safety issue. Framing it as “Conservatives are traitors, ammarite” is kinda gross here tbh.

Re-watching it, and yeah, has to be gagged. If you listen closely, there’s a small “click” after what at first sounds like “gay”, which is likely an “ed” sound.

I think he was trying to say “gagged” but it does sound like “gay” lol

Wish I could watch and see what specifically the video is about, but unfortunately on the bus and left my earbuds at home :(

In any case, not to self-promote, but I made this community little bit ago that I hope will help things out: https://lemmy.ca/c/maplemusic

Remembering how my sixth grade teacher back in like, 2012, was telling us a high speed train from Edmonton to Calgary would be a stupid idea, and that waiting for the hyperloop would be a smarter idea.

Hope he’s enjoying that curdled milk.

You’re not funny bro.

Got any other jokes to sell us, or are you supposed to be the punchline here?

I swear, Americans will sooner protest a Disney movie or Oreo Cakesters being discontinued before they end up protesting their country invading ours.

Would’ve been nice if they actually mailed me the 1000 I signed up for. Two people emailed later, and still nothing.

“We meet the criteria” no you don’t, you pulled several of your candidates and gave them the false pretext that you met the same criteria the other parties did.

The PPC didn’t meet the criteria and neither did you, maybe next time grow a spine and run candidates in Conservative-likely ridings because the fight for your cause is worth the uphill battle.

As someone in a Conservative-likely riding, I’m furious that I wasn’t given the option to vote and canvass for the Greens. Pedneault had me thinking that he was a positive change in the party leadership, and now the “strategic” decision to pull candidates in ridings like mine is coming to bite the party in the ass.

Ah yes, cause the less than one million green voters would have filled a nearly three million vote gap in November.