Appreciate your insights here Alex, especially those related to Conservative reactions and strategy.
With all the good news happening down south (DOGE dealing with the dodgy, potential for peaceful outcomes in war zones, etc.) it has been disheartening to think that the Red Monster has a heart beat after having been considered dead.
Recent polls are suggesting that Mark the Mortician has injected an embalming fluid akin to Red Bull into the veins of the Natural Governing Party. It would be sweet if this surge in support proved to be a short-lived sugar high.
Best to not get lulled into complacency. The detailing of outrageous USAID programs has bolstered the new U.S. administration's support from its citizens. Canada's Official Opposition might find fertile fields in the projects supported by Global Affairs Canada. Light has to be shone on federally funded activities that are deemed to be irrelevant to the lives of Canadians.
I think the Conservatives can absolutely carve out a space for highlighting and then culling/re-appropriating Global Affairs waste. In many ways, that's what the third parties groups are for (paging the CTF).
That said, unthinking and uncritical support for blanket federal aid is still a winner for mushy-middle Canadian voters. They'll have to pick and choose the most egregious examples. Austerity doesn't win Canadian elections anymore, sadly. You fight with the big government tools you're left with.
Excellent comment on the recent polling and a stark reminder of the state of our nation thanks to the actions of the current “government “. $670 billion in cancelled projects should become a major topic for Conservatives going forward. Keep up the good work Alex!
My pleasure, Peter, kind of you to give it a listen. I've been pleasantly surprised by the listener numbers for these companion pods. Talking to one's self for 30 minutes isn't all that easy, and under any other circumstance, it would be met with a trip to the psychologist... so I hope it's lucid enough!
I'll keep them honest where I can and try to push these numbers to the fore.
Ugh… in Canada seriously it is the boomers who screwed gen x millennials gen z and younger thru the plandemic so they could be kept “safe” and now it is still the boomers trying to screw everyone all over again by voting for WEF globalist Carney for Communism to protect their wealth/assets/ real estate/ and lifestyles???
Why wouldn’t Pierre and a Conservative government do that? All he wants to do is bring back fiscal responsibility, use our natural resources help the middle and lower classes to get back to a better standard of living and quality of life?
How does that hurt the old and wealthy?
It’s the Liberals who want to tax their assets..
I don’t have an economics degree but wouldn’t bringing our economy back and increasing our GDP benefit ALL generations and ALL classes of Canadians? Their dividends would go up and their wealth would increase too wouldn’t it?
The wealthier boomers will gladly sacrifice ALL of the younger generations opportunities (except for helping their own kids of course) at having a good life in order to protect themselves and their fancy lifestyles??!!
So very very disappointing and leaves a really bad taste in my mouth.
Well said, Sonya. It sure looks like a Ponzi scheme to many of us. Even being gracious, it's a protection racket for those who own, those who subsidize, and those with gold-plated parachutes. I'm in my mid-thirties, and to be truly voting for the cause of "you get to own a home or not" or, "you get to safely raise a family in a recognizable country or not" was not the future I expected.
Somewhere over the last few years, and particularly during Covid, we lost sight of the fact that it's not the young who are supposed to be making sacrifices for the old.
Yeah I fully agree, it’s as corrupted as everything else is… and you younger generations deserve to have the exact same opportunities that we had.. in all ways… in being able to own a home and to safely raise your family in the country this used to be.
The boomers who stand in the way of this only for their own selfishness deserve to lose everything they value the most… clearly of a financial nature.
I apologize on behalf of those who are selfish old rich boomers who are choosing to look out for themselves and protect their own self interests over the overall well-being of EVERY other generation who comes after them!!!
That is just sick! Truly sick!
Many of them got the covid “vaccines” along with all the covid “boosters” cause they only watch mainstream news in order to keep themselves “safe” so many boomers have been and are continuing to and will be continuing to leave this earth a lot sooner than they perhaps had thought which will change the dynamics of this situation I believe.
Unfortunately the same is likewise happening in all other generations too.☹️
Appreciate your insights here Alex, especially those related to Conservative reactions and strategy.
With all the good news happening down south (DOGE dealing with the dodgy, potential for peaceful outcomes in war zones, etc.) it has been disheartening to think that the Red Monster has a heart beat after having been considered dead.
Recent polls are suggesting that Mark the Mortician has injected an embalming fluid akin to Red Bull into the veins of the Natural Governing Party. It would be sweet if this surge in support proved to be a short-lived sugar high.
Best to not get lulled into complacency. The detailing of outrageous USAID programs has bolstered the new U.S. administration's support from its citizens. Canada's Official Opposition might find fertile fields in the projects supported by Global Affairs Canada. Light has to be shone on federally funded activities that are deemed to be irrelevant to the lives of Canadians.
Agreed Ted! And thanks for tuning in.
I think the Conservatives can absolutely carve out a space for highlighting and then culling/re-appropriating Global Affairs waste. In many ways, that's what the third parties groups are for (paging the CTF).
That said, unthinking and uncritical support for blanket federal aid is still a winner for mushy-middle Canadian voters. They'll have to pick and choose the most egregious examples. Austerity doesn't win Canadian elections anymore, sadly. You fight with the big government tools you're left with.
Excellent comment on the recent polling and a stark reminder of the state of our nation thanks to the actions of the current “government “. $670 billion in cancelled projects should become a major topic for Conservatives going forward. Keep up the good work Alex!
My pleasure, Peter, kind of you to give it a listen. I've been pleasantly surprised by the listener numbers for these companion pods. Talking to one's self for 30 minutes isn't all that easy, and under any other circumstance, it would be met with a trip to the psychologist... so I hope it's lucid enough!
I'll keep them honest where I can and try to push these numbers to the fore.
Ugh… in Canada seriously it is the boomers who screwed gen x millennials gen z and younger thru the plandemic so they could be kept “safe” and now it is still the boomers trying to screw everyone all over again by voting for WEF globalist Carney for Communism to protect their wealth/assets/ real estate/ and lifestyles???
Why wouldn’t Pierre and a Conservative government do that? All he wants to do is bring back fiscal responsibility, use our natural resources help the middle and lower classes to get back to a better standard of living and quality of life?
How does that hurt the old and wealthy?
It’s the Liberals who want to tax their assets..
I don’t have an economics degree but wouldn’t bringing our economy back and increasing our GDP benefit ALL generations and ALL classes of Canadians? Their dividends would go up and their wealth would increase too wouldn’t it?
The wealthier boomers will gladly sacrifice ALL of the younger generations opportunities (except for helping their own kids of course) at having a good life in order to protect themselves and their fancy lifestyles??!!
So very very disappointing and leaves a really bad taste in my mouth.
Well said, Sonya. It sure looks like a Ponzi scheme to many of us. Even being gracious, it's a protection racket for those who own, those who subsidize, and those with gold-plated parachutes. I'm in my mid-thirties, and to be truly voting for the cause of "you get to own a home or not" or, "you get to safely raise a family in a recognizable country or not" was not the future I expected.
Somewhere over the last few years, and particularly during Covid, we lost sight of the fact that it's not the young who are supposed to be making sacrifices for the old.
Yeah I fully agree, it’s as corrupted as everything else is… and you younger generations deserve to have the exact same opportunities that we had.. in all ways… in being able to own a home and to safely raise your family in the country this used to be.
The boomers who stand in the way of this only for their own selfishness deserve to lose everything they value the most… clearly of a financial nature.
I apologize on behalf of those who are selfish old rich boomers who are choosing to look out for themselves and protect their own self interests over the overall well-being of EVERY other generation who comes after them!!!
That is just sick! Truly sick!
Many of them got the covid “vaccines” along with all the covid “boosters” cause they only watch mainstream news in order to keep themselves “safe” so many boomers have been and are continuing to and will be continuing to leave this earth a lot sooner than they perhaps had thought which will change the dynamics of this situation I believe.
Unfortunately the same is likewise happening in all other generations too.☹️
Harper wants Canadians to go down with the ship as it were.
No thanks, I don’t think “we are all in this together”. Me thinks Harper will do just fine on his lifeboat
I have much respect for the Right Hon., and I can fully appreciate the need to defend one's sovereignty. We wouldn't be much of a country without it.
That said, we've already been made to carve pieces of ourselves to mass immigration, China, the global fentanyl trade...
And I worry greatly about the costs that will primarily fall on the lower and working class, as all these problems and government disasters tend to.