• I mean, I really like the notion of training more tradespeople. Our lack thereof is a huge impediment to upping new home starts etc. But of course Polievre has to fuck it up and pair it with “and we’ll pay for it by gutting government.”

    I hope Carney swipes the trades training thoughts from him and leaves him scrambling again just like the carbon tax.

  • Of course he would. Funding Trade Schools at the expense of universities gives him a population of skilled manual labourers who have never learned critical thinking, history, or social policy.

    A Trade School teaching one thing and one thing well, priding itself on “cutting out” all the rest of what they think of as unnecessary nonsense. And you will never change my mind that THAT is a major contributing factor to the dumbing down of the current electorate. The Greeks considered the Liberal Arts necessary for the public to be able to effectively contribute to the political discourse.

    But that doesn’t suit conservative purposes.

  •  wampus   ( @wampus@lemmy.ca ) 
    link
    fedilink
    English
    57 days ago

    Frankly, I can’t take anything the conservatives say seriously given their close alignment with Trump-style conservatism. They use practically the same campaign slogans, court the same style of extremist bullshit, and PP even wore Trumps orange bronzer for a bit lately.

    Trump’s overtly lying about things like trade deficits, cartels controlling Canada, fentanyl flowing over the northern border, and he overtly mislead people in the USA in regards to things like project 2025. they made it clear that they’d do/say anything they wanted to get elected, and then they enacted policies that they’d previously claimed they weren’t aware of. I don’t see why I would believe a single thing that comes out of the Trump-style conservative party that exists today.

    Carney and his policies are honestly a lot more in line with ‘traditional’ conservative principles, along the same line as the Reform party under Manning, and the Cons under Harper. One reason he’s got potential to win a big majority, is that he can bring in many of the voters who normally go conservative, who are pissed off at PP’s bullshit machine and divisive rhetoric.