Pierre Poilievre

[Serryah]

There is a group called Fair Vote Canada, pushing for a version of ProRep. They want to be able to list your choices, so if your first choice doesn't win, your vote then goes to the next person on your list. They also want super ridings, which is a group of existing ridings to be able to assign seats to parties based on their total share of the vote. I haven't figured out how this is supposed to help independents,or exactly how votes are counted, but somehow this is supposed to make everyone inclusive?
BC has voted 2 or 3 times against a ProRep version called STV(single transferable vote) that also gives seats to parties, and somehow your representative would not necessarily live in your riding, or even close to it.
Somehow, it seems like none of these groups understand the basics of our electoral system, where we vote for the person, not the party, or party leader. To a large extent, the parties themselves don't seem to understand this fact either, based on their advertising.

So why not just join the newest party in Canadian Politics?

Revolution Party of Canada | The Human Rights Party

The Revolution Party of Canada (RPC) will make food and shelter Charter rights, tax billionaires out of existence, and introduce proportional representation.

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I'm sure you'd fit right in!

(that IS sarcasm)

 

[Serryah]

 

[Retired_Can_Soldier]

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[petros]

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Did they invest in bicycles?

 

[Ron in Regina]

This is interesting in a “Let’s protest the guy & party that hasn’t been in power the last decade….because electoral reform that the Liberals promised & didn’t deliver upon three consecutive elections?”

So…on that note, here’s the candidates list for Nepean (so Carleton adjacent):

Nepean & Carleton are literally side by side in the same city (?) so what…the bus schedules didn’t link up or something?

Then, in the electoral riding of Carleton, I'm just going to post a link ‘cuz there’s 91 candidates…seriously…as a protest against Justin Trudeau’s failed promises towards election reform the Liberals last three consecutive Liberal terms…the irony is as thick as the hypocrisy.

Tomas Szuchewycz, an organizer with the committee who acts as the protest candidates' official agent said the group had also intended to sign up dozens of candidates in Liberal Leader Mark Carney's neighbouring Nepean riding. But he said the group didn't have enough time to organize because Carney only announced where he'd be seeking a seat the weekend he triggered an election.

Voter Information Service - Who are the candidates in my electoral district?

Why are so many candidates running in the Carleton riding?

There is a record-tying number of candidates on the ballot in the Ottawa riding of Carleton this election. That also happens to be the riding of Conservative...

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Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is one of 91 candidates registered in the suburban Ottawa riding of Carleton.

Eighty-five of the candidates registered to run in Carleton are associated with the electoral reform group ‘The Longest Ballot Committee’ and all have the same official agent – Tomas Szuchewycz.

 

[Taxslave2]

A normal person would think these clowns would run against Carnage, not the only politician that is trying to fix the damage 10 long years of wokism has done to us. The bright side is that the leftard vote will be so split that Poilievere will easily win.

 

[Ron in Regina]

A normal person would think these clowns would run against Carnage, not the only politician that is trying to fix the damage 10 long years of wokism has done to us.

This is what a ballot looks like in Carleton. In Nepean, it’s got 5 names on it. These ridings are literally physically side by side.

The bright side is that the leftard vote will be so split that Poilievere will easily win.

 

[Serryah]

A normal person would think these clowns would run against Carnage, not the only politician that is trying to fix the damage 10 long years of wokism has done to us. The bright side is that the leftard vote will be so split that Poilievere will easily win.

Do you throw out more of Skippy P's lingo too, or just sort of "Lost Liberal Decade" bullshit?

 

[pgs]

Do you throw out more of Skippy P's lingo too, or just sort of "Lost Liberal Decade" bullshit?

Are you happy with continuing deficits and putting future generations into penury?

 

[Taxslave2]

Are you happy with continuing deficits and putting future generations into penury?

Of course it is. It lives in a welfare province.

 

[bob the dog]

Are you happy with continuing deficits and putting future generations into penury?

Refreshingly honest comment from the Manitoba premier stating Manitoba Hydro being $25 billion in debt. Never heard that news from the previous leaders. How is it possible that a company could display such ineptitude without competition?

Seems it is the mindset of public sector employees that there is no requirement to be accountable. There is no chance of ever balancing the books and eliminating interest payments. Instead we spend more.

If it was me, the bank would have already been here to take my house. And these are our highest paid people.

 

[Ron in Regina]

Conservative election platform pledges $75-billion in tax cuts, referendums before future tax hikes — The Globe and Mail

The platform also states a Conservative government would lower education requirements for federal civil servants

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Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives are promising $34-billion in new spending and $75-billion in tax cuts over the next four years.

They would help fund these expenditures with $56-billion in spending reductions over the same period, the Conservatives say.

The party’s 2025 election platform, released Tuesday, also shows the Conservatives are betting that economic growth from their policies will generate significant tax revenue for the government. They estimate by 2028-29 this would be more than $21-billion annually.

Spending cuts including ending funding for English-language Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, while preserving funding for the French-language Radio-Canada. They would also cut foreign aid, starting at $1.3-billion in cuts in the 2025-26 fiscal year and rising to $2.8-billion in cuts by 2028-2029.

The Conservatives are also promising to “never hike taxes” while in power unless a referendum allows. They are promising a “Taxpayer Protection Act to ban new or higher federal taxes without asking taxpayers first in a referendum.”

Conservative election platform pledges $75-billion in tax cuts, referendums before future tax hikes — The Globe and Mail

The platform also states a Conservative government would lower education requirements for federal civil servants

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[Ron in Regina]

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s platform released on Tuesday, unlike Liberal Leader Mark Carney’s released on Saturday, didn’t resort to accounting tricks to minimize the deficits he said a Conservative government would run over the next four years.

Poilievre estimated them at $31.4 billion in the 2025-26 fiscal year which began on April 1, $31.5 billion in 2026-27, $23.6 billion in 2027-28 and $14.2 billion in 2028-29.

He said his 2028-29 deficit will be 70% lower than Carney’s for that year and he will save Canadian taxpayers almost $125 billion in deficit spending over the next four years compared to Carney.

In his platform, Carney predicts deficits of $9.2 billion in 2025-26, $9.1 billion in 2026-27, $8.6 billion in 2027-28 and a $222.4 million surplus in 2028-29.

But that’s only counting the operating deficits he predicts his government would run up.

It doesn’t include deficits related to capital spending for public infrastructure, which are listed as if they were assets and not costs.

Those deficits, which must be paid by Canadian taxpayers, are listed separately as $53.1 billion in 2025-26, $50.1 billion in 2026-27, $46.2 billion in 2027-28 and $48 billion in 2028-29.

What that means is that Carney isn’t predicting a $9.2-billion deficit in 2025-26, but a $62.3-billion deficit.

His predicted 2026-27 deficit of $9.1 billion is actually $59.9 billion, his predicted 2027-28 deficit of $8.6 billion is actually $54.8 billion and his predicted $222.4 million surplus in 2028-29 is actually a $47.8-billion deficit.

The Liberals say this new way they are presenting the government’s deficit figures is the same as some other governments do.

However, that’s not the way the Canadian government has done it up to now. And it won’t change the costs federal taxpayers will face in paying for those deficits.

EDITORIAL: Mark Carney’s fun with deficit numbers — Toronto Sun

Taxpayers should be suspicious of so-called “fully costed” campaign platforms during elections. Former Liberal prime minister Justin Trudeau’s “fully costed” platform in the 2015 election which brought him to power, predicted federal deficits over the next four years — from 2016 to 2019, the...

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[Ron in Regina]

Poilievre is promising to implement fast change in the first 100 days if his party ends up forming government. That means passing three bills in priority — on affordability, on crime and on the economy — to reverse many of the Liberals’ decisions in the last decade.

“We need a new Conservative government that will get busy on day one,” pledged Poilievre during his announcement in Saskatoon on Friday. “So, I have some good news and bad news. The good news is Canadians can elect a government that will bring change. The bad news for the politicians is your summer vacation is canceled.”

“We are going to keep Parliament open all summer long to pass three laws to bring change,” he added.

Poilievre pledges to cancel Parliament's 'summer vacation' to pass three key bills — National Post

'We are going to keep Parliament open all summer long to pass three laws to bring change,' said Poilievre

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The first piece of legislation — called The Affordability–For a Change Act — would seek to implement many of his key platform promises, including cutting income taxes by 15 per cent, axing the federal sales tax on new homes up to $1.3 million, repealing the entire carbon tax law including the industrial levy and scrapping the single-use plastics ban.

“We cannot afford more expensive food to meet radical Liberal eco-fanaticism,” said Poilievre. “Our priority is affordable food for Canadians.”

The second bill — The Safe Streets–For a Change Act — would introduce a “three strikes, you’re out” rule which would see offenders face a mandatory minimum 10-year prison sentence after three serious offences and restore consecutive sentences for multiple murderers, which would see the Conservatives use the notwithstanding clause.

Poilievre promised his crime bill — which he described as the “biggest crackdown on crime in Canadian history” — would also extend to auto theft, tent cities and drugs.

“We’ll crack down on organized crime, auto theft, extortion, arson, fraud, with tough new laws that make no more excuses, that ensure that people stay behind bars. We will give the police the power to shut down tent cities and get people real help, so our children don’t have to step on dirty needles and crack pipes,” he enumerated.

Finally, The Bring Home Jobs–For a Change Act would repeal C-69 and C-48 which the Tories have tagged as anti-resource development laws and a “one-stop-shop” to approve resource projects within one year. It would also bring in a Canada First Reinvestment Tax Cut, which would allow capital gains tax referral when proceeds are reinvested in Canada.

“Until these laws are passed, Parliament will not shut down for summer vacation. We need change. Change can’t wait, but the politicians’ vacations will have to wait,” said Poilievre.