Electoral reform is one of very few things – possibly the only thing – that could actually avert this otherwise inevitable result. If Carney delivers on housing and pulls an economic miracle out of the hat I’ve never seen him wearing, we’ll maybe defer payment for another election cycle, maybe two.
We probably don’t have that long to stop systematically pitting left and center against each other, paving the way for a worse outcome that represents fewer Canadians than ever before.
The intended meaning is too easily subverted. Just ban or tax them out of existence on Canadian soil. Nothing says outsider like having to dispatch your propaganda from the outside.
It was way closer than it should have been. Over 41% of a highly engaged electorate at best saw no deal breakers in Poilievre’s platform. That’s got to be unsettling to anyone with any form of vulnerability or marginalized position. Nearly half of Canadians are ready to see you as an optional inconvenience under (unrelated, no less) pressured circumstances.
The battle for this nation’s soul is far from concluded.
Are we just scapegoating the gov now?
As always, but only when the other side is in power.
I’m no expert on international trade relations, but this feels like a meaningful reciprocation of our earlier outreach. It’s heartening.
“Don’t assume a specific individual isn’t among the 30% who tried” isn’t a “both sides” argument. Neither is there any pragmatism in proactively excluding someone who might already be your ally, nor in purity testing those who wish to be.
No matter how angry you are today, that anger will fade. I hope your decisions are being driven by something more steadfast.
The principle remains: judge the group for its collective behavior, but don’t stereotype the individual.
I’m not terribly familiar with Brazil’s politics or economics, but I’d wager they’re implying the hazards of becoming a direct, unambiguous threat to (external/private) capitalism. Canada’s not too big to become a banana republic, if enough forces get behind manufacturing consent for war special military operations.
It’s “linguistic repositioning” at its finest.
I’m sure Modi will be delighted to join a coalition against authoritarianism. India would make a pretty tenuous ally – to put it mildly.
Maybe men should start supporting each other. You know, as long as admitting to having feelings isn’t too gay or whatever.
I was waiting for some context like this before forming an opinion. Thank you for surfacing it.
The article seems to be rather incomplete. Just off the top of my head I notice the absence of anything regarding foreign affairs at all, let alone tariffs, and no mention of sales tax, national defense, food safety and supply management…
Presumably, it’s pruned to focus on the things people confuse. But these days that’s likely to include foreign affairs and trade. I don’t think premiers are normally anywhere near as involved in that as currently, and I don’t have a solid understanding of provincial authority there myself.
Earning condemnation from Campaign Life Coalition is an extremely low bar. Case in point: even Poilievre cleared it. I don’t know what could possibly warrant even mentioning the opinion of a gossamer-masked hate group.
There’s a generalization being made here that’s only supported by one anecdote. But as anecdotes go, holy hell and fuck that guy. One could have no regard for the most basic human decency and he should still be deposed for abject incompetence as a negotiator/salesperson.
I wouldn’t be surprised if Ford said some overtly divisive stuff in his zeal for mining developments. But behavior like Rivet’s cannot be laid at Ford’s feet. That’s the behavior of a man who made a choice long, long ago about what kind of person he’d be.
Strongly agree. It’s a service that federal or provincial governments could maintain for all (lower) levels of government, crown corps, etc. where account creation is restricted to those entities and prominent public figures within them. And just like that you have a secure, reliable, and accessible general purpose communications platform where every post is from a verified identity with clearly specified qualifications.
A conservative woman is still a conservative, so…
I think the problem is partly that at least a couple generations have been taught about exactly one genocide: the holocaust. So to them anything short of the holocaust isn’t genocide, because they simply have no grasp of the general concept beyond systematic mass-murder of epic proportions. These people grew up with the UN Genocide Convention – arguably the most authoritative definition and certainly the most influential one – and have probably never even read or heard Article II (the definition).
But it certainly doesn’t get much more explicit than:
(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group
The other part is just refusing to recognize crimes committed against a group you don’t like or want, if doing so might negatively affect you. I shake my head when people complain about leftist discussion getting bogged down on definitions. These things matter, which is exactly why the right treats words like a game based on deception and subversion. Caring about definitions is just a communication fundamental necessary so we can actually have the same conversation. But individualistic philosophies don’t even need that; they need wedges for grievance politics and maximally-flexible boundaries.
The big question in my mind is why are dictionaries adopting modern slang and responding to other drift in linguistic meaning while still maintaining super-narrow and otherwise vague definitions of genocide?
Indeed. He was the first federal Green besides May that actually impressed me as an individual. Further, I don’t think the circumstances of this election should be treated as a “normal” loss. But I don’t know his prior vote share, and this time was not close. He came in last place, behind BQ and NDP candidates.
Realistically he’s probably making the right choice, but I’m still sad about it. May needs a strong successor, and I got the impression he was that.