For the ‘Carney is basically just Poilievre’ Crowd, a look at Poilievre’s proposed legislation (note: this from about a month ago)
I’ve seen this take that Carney is just as bad as Poilievre more than a few times. And while Carney may not be as Green as some had hoped for but my goodness, the difference between him and Poilievre is staggering.
Figured it’s worth posting the legislation that Poilievre put forward in August which includes removing pipeline regulations, scrapping the West Coast oil-tanker ban; killing the industrial carbon tax; eliminating the electric vehicle mandate and reversing the single-use plastics ban.
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Their brain hurts. Give hoser a break. 😄
It’s honestly crazy that we saw the US do this literally months ago with Trump and Harris and somehow no lesson was learned.
The US did the exact opposite of this: rally behind ineffectual neoliberals who would not and could not get the job done.
I mean, the US rallied behind Trump, if anything.
Democrats in particular didn’t go for somebody from the progressive wing, but I’m not sure if that would have helped. Look at Jeremy Corbyn. The actual alternative would be for party leadership to recognise the system was done for and aggressively manage it’s collapse, but they didn’t come anywhere close to that. The class of people in charge seemed to prefer the theory that they could manifest a functional democracy by believing in it hard enough.
Maybe there was another path if you change things all the way back in the 'oughts. By Obama’s presidency things were already in a deadlock death spiral.
Yes, we don’t need to exaggerate, Carney’s neoliberal austerity doesn’t have to be fascism to be overall bad for us.
We do not choose the ideal; we choose the best from the choices we’re given.
There is no liberal so bad that a conservative cannot make it worse.
My problem is that poor governance from the lesser of two evils almost inevitably results in a swing towards the greater of two evils.
It just delays the worst, doesn’t avert it.
We had other options, as uninspiring as they may have been. Now we’re locked into a FPTP two-party death spiral, and both parties bear the responsibility for it; the cons for being unrepentant monsters, and the libs for pandering to the right and to capital at the expense of the best interests of the majority of the electorate when they could and should be choosing policy directions that don’t perpetuate ballooning inequality and the decay of the social safety net.
Carney in particular watched (and to some extent, presided over) decades of just this kind of decline in the UK, he absolutely knows what his policy directives are going to do to this country.
Poilievre said the Sovereignty Act would also include his campaign promise to exempt people from capital gains tax when they reinvest the proceeds of an investment in a Canadian company.
This one is insane. The 1% would accumulate so much more wealth, tax free, with this. JFC.
Yeah, but saying that shows you’re a bigger leftist than the next poster. Who cares if it’s not factually accurate? /s
Pssssh, amateurs, actions speak louder than words! For example, whenever I’m on public transit and we’re about to turn
rightnot Left, I stand up and demand the driver instead make three Left turns instead. Admittedly, this has been difficult on trains but it’s the effort that counts.Edit: formatting
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