Please not another liberal government, getting tired of the restrictions they place on law abiding citizens.
Which ones? Is it the “can’t not pay for social services” restriction? The “can’t secretly own a firearm” resteiction? Or the “can’t overrule other countries’ entry requirements” restriction?
Is it the “can’t not pay for social services” restriction?
You mean unnecessary use of resources tax.
The “can’t secretly own a firearm” resteiction?
Secret? The firearms bans are only affecting people apart of the Canadian Firearms Program, people who have gone through the CFSC and daily background checks.
You think criminals are actually going to follow the law and abide by these bans? It’s literal abuse of OIC just to take law abiding citizens property.
the “can’t overrule other countries’ entry requirements” restriction?
I assume you’re referring to the B.C women who was recently arrested over at the US border. Ultimately she went down there with incomplete documentation, like everyone else she should’ve sorted that out before even attempting to cross.
You can literally see a direct link between difficulty of acquiring a gun legally and difficulty acquiring a gun illegally.
Statistically, majority of guns used in crime were legally purchased at some point in their existence
Statistically, majority of guns used in crime were legally purchased at some point in their existence
That’s really not at all baffling? We’re talking guns over 100 years old ending up on these ban lists.
The recent public safety announcement they claim that the rifles banned were meant for war. Guns like the GSG (German Sports-Shooting Gun) were banned while not banning the SKS (Made literally for ww2).
The logic here is admittedly flawed and not enough Canadians realize that.
Do you have a coherent point to make or was that the attempt?
Asking as an rpal holder who finds the new round of restrictions poorly written and ill-informed, but that isn’t going to drive me to vote for an idiot like PP.
Asking as an rpal holder who finds the new round of restrictions poorly written and ill-informed, but that isn’t going to drive me to vote for an idiot like PP.
That’s disappointing to hear. PAL/RPAL holders are a dying breed among Canadians and the liberals intend to solidify it.
So… no coherent point. Thank you for clarifying.
Anyone can earn my vote by:
Prioritizing healthcare and social services (including education) Protecting basic human rights. Not being a shit-bag of a human nor tolerating them in government. Focusing on green economic growth.
I don’t base my votes off who can get me the most irrationally mad about issues that are invented or overblown. And while I have a whole list of complaints about the uselessness of the changes to gun laws here, the biggest one is how effective it is at mobilizing otherwise happily dissconnected voters into actually taking the time to go vote. It’s like 8d chess where the Liberals are looking for a way to get the Conservative vote out and found the key…
I’m baffled by the correlation of age and support of conservatives. How is their top demo the youngest one?
Is social media / podcast bro brainrot really outdoing the common trope of getting more conservative with age?
It looks more to me like being anti-Trudeau/incumbent correlates with youth. You’ll notice they’re also the top NDP group in these results.
Most young people just aren’t political, and those that are are mostly left-leaning in my bubble. It’s just hard to picture most of them complaining about wokeism or whatever.
Many are angry, so they blame the guy that’s been around for the last decade. They are too young to remember what Stephen Harper did and don’t seem interested in figuring it out.
That’s definitely a big part of it, but the alt-right pipeline/manosphere shit is real and out of control in western/American social media. Things are pretty hellish right now economy-wise all over and all the social media algorithms are perfectly tuned to push “solutions” or out-groups to blame for it all.
It’s like if you don’t already have a political leaning to purposely influence your feed, everything is now setup to push you down a far right wing path where everything is the fault of women, LGBTQ+ people, immigrants, etc.
A lot of people are going to tell you that “it’s the algorithm”, and there’s some truth to that, but honestly I think it’s a lot more straightforward:
The boomers got everything, and when they burned through that, they burned through the millennials’ share too. If you’re growing up a zoomer, you’re looking around at a world literally on fire, and the emergence of what is effectively feudalism as the dominant world
religioneconomic system. You’ll never own a home, because literally everything is rented now. You’re probably working 2 jobs, though they barely qualify for that word because there’s zero security and you’re carrying all the risk.You’re watching a literal genocide playing out on your phone, while the outgoing Trudeau proudly declares himself a Zionist, and literally everything is expensive, especially food.
Now, consider the political climate:
- The NDP (and to a greater extent, the entire global left) is toothless and obsessing over identity politics, and if you tell your friends you’re going to vote for them you’re either laughed at or told you’re “wasting” your vote.
- The Liberals are refusing to recognise the dire state of the economy and the fear & frustration you have. Instead they go on TV and say that the problem with the economy is “vibes” and that voting for Conservatives means you hate gay people.
- The Conservatives acknowledge that fear and frustration. They don’t gaslight you with claims that “the stocks are up, so the economy is fine”. No, they cast blame: “Trudeau did this. He torched the economy for ‘wokeism’. He put on silly costumes with foreign dignitaries while you had to move back in with your parents. He did this. Him, and those immigrants, and if you vote for us, we’ll get rid of all of that”.
They’ve got the best story, and their opposition is either inept or oblivious. If they hadn’t made the mistake of cozying up to Trump, they’d be a shoe-in for the next election.
The NDP (and to a greater extent, the entire global left) is toothless and obsessing over identity politics,
They’re not though. The NDP has concrete policies about affordability, the economy and the environment, and also advocates for minorities to be treated fairly. Whereas the Conservatives don’t have any plans except to stir up resentment and hatred.
Alt-right pipeline is alive and flourishing. Check on your loved ones mental health and reach across the aisle with open arms if you can, block if you can’t. Try not to feed the trolls, and Godspeed!
E: can to can’t
That can have pitfalls itself, can’t it? If I knew someone who was going down that path I’d worry about it feeling like I’m policing them rather than valuing and supporting them.
Next, we really need proportional representation.
Proportional representation only looks good on a spreadsheet. It’s terrible when you consider power dynamics, which you should when thinking about political systems.
You mean like the shit power dynamic of a party always forming a majority government with only 40% of the vote?
I saw Liberals leading Alberta, which made me do a double take.
Then I read the small print. Yeah, keep your expectations in check it’s not that hype.
Better than UCP? Or they don’t run federally I guess? Idk much about Alberta
UCP was and no longer is the combination of the old AB Progressive Conservative Party and the alt right party Wildrose. Jason was a shortsighted greedy twit and Wildrose cannibalized his party from within as everyone could’ve and did predict. It was the only quick way to win an election again after the PC’s disgraced themselves with a string of incompetent/corrupt leaders in a row and the ANDP finally won a single term. Unite The Right was the slogan. United Conservative Party. Straight forward naming.
UCP is a provincial party only. They’re basically Republicans, and work with Take Back Alberta which are kinda like the Heritage Foundation behind Project 2025 in the USA. They’re currently preoccupied with forcing diversity policy out of Edmonton Public Libraries.
Provincial Liberals are irrelevant here because the ANDP is closer to the political alignment of the federal Liberals than the federal NDP, so they’re redundant. Federally the Liberals name has been mud in Alberta since Trudeau Sr. and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Energy_Program
edit: ANDP only lost the last election by a couple thousand votes. Notley stepped down, Nenshi won leadership for opposition, the ex mayor of Calgary. Moved party further to center? I guess. That’s the speculation, and Nenshi mused about changing the color from Orange to Purple. As in, mix conservative blue with center-left orange.
idk may as well give a better overview.
The liberal majority in Alberta is shocking. I never thought I’d see the day
From the article:
The Liberals enjoy decisive leads in seat-rich Ontario and Quebec. Curiously, the Liberals have a statistically insignificant edge in Alberta; however, this finding is almost certainly an artefact of chance given the small sample size in the province (this finding did not appear in our parallel Probit survey).
Everything about that sentence makes the statistician in me cry
Take anything Ekos post with a grain of salt please
