For anyone wondering if the NDP non-confidence motion goes through we still have a while till a election:

The next sitting isn’t till Jan 27 - https://www.ourcommons.ca/en/sitting-calendar/2025

Min election/campaign cycle is 37 days - https://www.elections.ca/content.aspx?section=ele&dir=cycle&document=index&lang=e

By a lot of large national metrics Canada has held up quite well, but figures like the one below is what’s damning about the current government and also why the proposed Conservative ideologies(deregulate, lower corporate taxes and reduce services) is even worse.

https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/241010/t001a-eng.htm

Posting this since I’ve seen a fair bit of people make random things up regarding this.

Data for generalized performance of CAD is harder to find than most people would think. It’s good to understand how CAD is doing beyond the USD comparisons.

I wouldn’t worry about it. The Liberal supporters is just butthurt their “good enough” party is actually shit and their only effective retort these is that at least they’re not Conservative levels of shit.

I’m not voting for the party leader. I’m voting for my riding’s candidate.

I take it you’re not much of a believer in vote whipping.

Things are going so poorly that the Conservatives is overwhelmingly going to win the next election. If that’s good enough for you I can see why you’re completely fixed on your support for the Liberals.

A & B - I’m talking about the current circumstances and how as a progressive there’s never been a better chance in recent times to vote NDP if you don’t want “waste” a vote. There can be a 20 extra seat swing coming purely from the Conservatives to the Liberals and they still have majority by 34 seats.

C & D - I don’t understand how voting for someone that lied about something as big as Voting reform is suppose to inspire optimism. The Liberals is just better than the Conservatives, they’ve never been been a good party. Even if the Liberals won the next election most Canadian will still be worse off just not as bad.

This whole I’m not the bad guy therefore I’m the good guy rhetoric is deplorable.

I wouldn’t vote for Pierre if he said he’d implement voting reform which is the only thing I’m looking for in the next election.

I really don’t understand how people can look at Canadian politics in the last half a century and want to bounce between these parties that has taken turns seeing how bad they can be before people vote them out.

Can you elaborate how you voting for the Liberals instead of NDP or really anyone else is going to impact this mathematically:

What does that change in the grand scheme of things.

In itself is strategic voting only about one election one riding at a time what about the nation and the future beyond 4 years?

Really no reason to even think about voting for Liberals now that the whole strategic voting thing isn’t even plausible thing with the current polling.

Just some random political commentary of my own:

Yesterday I heard the someone say that Trump tariffs will make Canada great again by somehow improving government efficiency. The individual was the stereotypical person that thinks any and all types of taxes is killing Canada these days but turns out if another nation taxes us then it’s good shit.

Anyways as the polls go Trudeau has the power to implement PR which could hold back Pierre garbage politics but he isn’t exactly for helping Canadians either.

Something almost never brought up in these articles is that while the union didn’t commit to a rotating strike like they did in the past, Canadapost made that decision for them by locking them out.

So if people want to point the finger as to why things went full stop they should be looking at the management for that as well.

If the CIRB agrees, MacKinnon says the labour relations board would order Canada Post and all employees represented by the Canadian Union of Postal Workers to resume operations and extend the terms of the existing collective agreements until May 2025.

“Not only have the parties been unable to show any progress towards an agreement, the federal mediator has now informed me that the negotiations between both parties are now, in fact, going in the wrong direction,” he said during a Friday media conference.

The central bank’s policy rate now stands at 3.25 per cent after the fifth rate cut in a row.

CIBC chief economist Avery Shenfeld said in a note that he also sees the Bank of Canada continuing to lower its policy rate — albeit at a more modest pace of quarter-point cuts — until reaching a low of 2.25 per cent in 2025.

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“I think what we’re seeing now is that there are probably internal negotiations in the union to determine how to move forward,” said Stephanie Ross, a labour studies professor at McMaster University.

That kind of dramatic restructuring makes it far harder to see a clear path to a settlement than if it were only money dividing the two sides, Ross said. “It’s hard to split the difference when you’re talking about expanding the presence of casual and part-time labour.”

The federal government has thus far said it won’t invoke Section 107 of the Canada Labour Code and apply to the Canadian Industrial Relations Board for binding arbitration to end the strike, but that prospect could push both sides back to the table, said Larry Savage, a labour relations professor at Brock University.

The federal government involvement should be properly discussing the future of Canada Post. We’re seeing the results of a 11 billion dollar entity stuck in limbo for much longer than it should and the government needs to decide if they want to shrink or expand it’s operations.

While job growth in the province has been strong, he said, it hasn’t been sufficient to keep up with the uptick in people moving here.

Alberta’s population grew by around 204,000 people between July of 2023 and July of 2024, according to a recent provincial news release. That’s an annual growth rate of around 4.4 per cent — the highest rate since 1981 and the highest among all provinces, it said. (It’s also the size of two new cities roughly the size of Red Deer.)

An estimated 42 per cent of that increase in working-age population was concentrated in Calgary, and 40.5 per cent in Edmonton, said St-Arnaud.

There are industries still dealing with labour shortages, even with the current job market. Home-builders need more skilled trades workers, and many hospitality businesses still can’t seem to find enough staff, said Parsons, from ATB.

While I have the same sentiment I think it’s best not to dwell to much on a person that’s been gone for more than a decade. I do feel like there’s some candidates in the NDP party that seem like they’d win the party a few more seats.

Is there much history the Bloc is for voting reform beyond the recent bill to looking into voting reform? I’m not entirely convinced they’re truly for it.

If Canadians are insistent on voting in the Conservative in the next election, I wouldn’t mind if we at least permanently get rid of the Liberals.