Great post imo, and the PM really should do this.

People might say “oh it’s easy for him to say, he doesn’t have to deal with any consequences or fallout”, but Lewis is in fact saying this while a fuckton of disingenuous assholes try to do him dirty like they did with Corbyn, smearing him as “anti-semitic” simply because he is anti-Zionist and anti-genocide. Hopefully Canadians are wise to those tactics now, but who knows :(

I’ve started being more vocal with family and friends about politics. Unless people stop supporting the Liberals over this stuff, Carney is going to continue dragging this country to the right.

no, but in retrospect, helping him gain power was probably its true purpose

Honestly it’s probably not out of the question that Carney is a secret anti-vaxxer, given his openly religious rhetoric recently.

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Was listening to the most recent episode of The Dig https://thedigradio.com/podcast/economic-warfare-w-asli-bali-esfandyar-batmanghelidj-nicholas-mulder/ and they made a really astute point that the US’s immense military budget does not exist to produce the most effective weapons (as we can clearly see in their war on Iran), it exists to spend money into private corporations’ pockets. Canada is apparently no different.

The podcast guests also mentioned that Iran’s yearly military budget is only about US$8 billion, yet they’ve been quite successful at waging asymmetric warfare in self-defense against the largest and supposedly most powerful military on the planet. As for Canada: even before all these increases, we were already spending more than 3.5 times that amount, around US$30 billion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_with_highest_military_expenditures.

And even now, the Canadian government/military are acting as if we still have to spend three times that amount in order to have any hope whatsoever of fending off attacks. It’s ridiculous. This is robbery.

Yeah why would I single out Carney, he’s only the current prime minister at a time when the genocidal states of US and Israel launched attacks against a sovereign nation that are so ill-advised, I’ve heard commentators talking about how this is akin to the UK’s Suez Canal moment that cemented that empire’s decline.

It’s funny how Carney is always described as being so brilliant and worldly until he once again steps in it. Then it’s never his fault; it’s prior governments’ policy; he’s new to the job so give him a chance; he’s playing some secret genius chess game so let him cook, etc.

Anyway, he cheered initially, that is a fact. He only re-calibrated his support after it became clear what a disaster this was becoming, and how horrified the reaction from Canadians was. His previous statements about things like a “zionist Palestine” show just how completely out to lunch on these issues he is. Or he understands what he’s talking about, in which case he’s a monster.

you’re gonna need to be specific here: what is not true about my comment?

It’s wild that you’re being accused of bad faith considering you’re repeatedly pointing out actual things that Carney has done, whereas the people arguing with you are just saying these broad platitudes, stuff like “he’s good for Canada by every metric”

Carney cheered the US/Israel’s attacks on Iran, which have since led to Iran placing a chokehold on the global economy. We are about to see massive and prolonged spikes in the price of fuel, energy, food, and a whole lot of consumer goods because of this. But the genius banker cheered. Don’t forget that.

All while Carney doubles and triples down on fossil fuel expansion, further tying Canada’s economy to the thing that the rest of the world is now 100% committed to getting away from, in order to avoid being subjected to these repeated economic shocks - not to mention the big crisis of climate change. Carney is a fool.

have you heard of SaskTel? It’s a public option for telecom/cell phones, and last I heard, Saskatchewan has by far the lowest prices on cell phone plans in the country, because the big telcos are forced to actually compete, instead of colluding with each other to rip us off.

Lol what an absolute hack job by Mulcair, clearly edited last-minute to tack on some shallow condolences to Avi for the loss of his father.

Also, I wish Lewis wanted to nationalize stuff, but it’s not what his policies actually are. The CBC was also trying to frame his call for public options “nationalization”, so I guess even the public fuckin’ broadcaster is doing red scare stuff around policies not unlike the one that allows their own network to exist

is it just me or did they choose a stock photo that looks a lot like Max Fawcett

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No one is freaking out about it. The problem is that your comment doesn’t make any sense. Invoking China is a non-sequitur. Like, sir this is a Wendy’s.

The Hatchet

no no, that’s far too onerous. But since you clearly don’t like us just blanket rejecting these applications, let’s feed the claims into this racist ai machine as a compromise

He’s devoted his professional life to capital markets. I’ve read his book, watched hours of interviews and speeches. My assessment: his interest in climate is largely limited to the potential investment returns of a given action.

That’s why his book is full of fanciful notions of hydrogen fuel, nuclear, carbon capture, AI, quantum computing, and cryptocurrency-based “smart contracts” … instead of focusing on the stuff that actually works but has a low potential ROI, and/or doesn’t funnel vast quantities of public money to the private sector: wind, solar, geothermal, public transit, heat pumps, public ownership, and so on.

Which is why it’s bizarre we’re supporting them throughout all their belligerence.

Oh sorry I thought you were talking about the US

“Yet this isn’t the first time that the Carney government has taken policy cues from the fossil fuel and AI sectors. This past October, the prime minister directly referenced in a speech the organization Build Canada, which is led by and associated with tech, oil, and gas billionaires.”

begging people to understand that Carney is terrible on climate, and his famous Tragedy of the Horizon speech was only ever about an investment pitch, not about actually mitigating climate change