SpaceCowboy

Your comment is exactly why electoral reform can't happen now. When all of the people pushing for changes in the elections really just want to make it so their party will win (or some other party will lose), it's obvious to everyone the push for electoral reform isn't being done in good faith, so it's not all that different from vote rigging.

It's possible that the CPC might split and if that were to happen, then there might be a broad support for electoral reform. Unless that happens, it's just a bunch of lefties trying to rig the system so the Conservatives can't win.

And trust me I'm no Conservative, I can just understand what electoral reform sounds like to anyone outside of the lefty bubble.

Also proportional representation is just straight up a bad system. It only looks good from the perspective of a spreadsheet, it's terrible when you consider power dynamics. But that shitty system is constantly sucking up all of the attention so people pushing for electoral reform are pushing for a system most people don't want. Stop trying to make proportional representation happen in Canada, it's not going to happen.

Look at the polling. When asked which party people preferred (ignoring leadership) the CPC had way more support than when leadership is considered.

Did you notice the CPC ads in the last week and a half didn't have PP in them? It's obvious to everyone (including CPC strategists) that PP drug down the CPC. If the CPC didn't even have a leader, they would've won. But PP led them to defeat.

But I'm not a Conservative, so if half of the CPC wants to remain faithful to PP, I'll get out my popcorn and enjoy the CPC civil war that'll happen if PP refuses to step aside.

Ranked choice doesn't make sense in a proportional representation system.

The left has to get their shit together before that can happen. Right now the left cares more about purity tests over being effective.

Really, Mark Carney is what a conservative used to be. These days people who identify as "conservative" are internet weirdos that stress over "wokeness" and whichever conspiracy theory is popular on the internet on that day.

I feel like with Walken it would be more like:

You know! Bob Sue and, Greg! They? Came to my house!?

It's probably rehearsals, but I want to believe they put on a full performance and do a curtain call for the dogs.

I can get a Whopper Meal (includes fries and a drink) for $8.50CAD ($6.13 in fashy bucks) with a coupon or on Whopper Wednesdays.

If you're gonna be an elitist about ground beef of all things, you deserve to get scammed for $17.

A lot of people don't read or watch the news, or maybe they just watch Fox News sometimes. Or maybe they get their news from social media and where there's algorithms that are designed to give us each the news we want to see.

Everyone gets scammed sometimes. If you're spending a lot of time on the internet and watching some influencers, you're probably being scammed by some of them in some way. Maybe it's just making you think some bullshit entertainment story is more important than it really is so you'll continue watching. Or maybe you're being scammed into supporting some horrible people, you're just not aware of how horrible they are.

What matters is if someone can admit they were wrong and work to make things right.

Why is the message in the Trash folder?

You know economics is about resources and there isn't some magical system that gets around resource distribution, right?

Economics has been termed the dismal science for a reason. A permanent solution to the demographic problems of people living longer will either involve people accepting a lower living standard than they otherwise could have or having people work longer before retiring. Or maybe Logan's Run? It doesn't matter if it's a capitalist society or a socialist society the problems are the same, large population not producing anything but still consuming resources.

But chill, as a great economist once said, in the long run we're all dead anyway. There's still a massive pool of people that want to live in our ever-growing populations. We just gotta stop letting people make us think immigration is a bad thing. It'll be a long time before the entire world is living at the same standard of living we enjoy in the developed world, and with so many people getting suckered into making their countries backwards and authoritarian (thanks, Putin!) it doesn't look like we're going to run out of immigrants that will be willing to move to an affluent democracy any time in our lifetimes.

If we get to a point where we can no longer depend on attracting immigrants because every country in the world is an affluent democracy... well that's a good problem to have, isn't it?

As a friend who was going through the process of getting citizenship once said "I think Canada wants me as a citizen for the tax revenue."

Yup. That's the deal... immigration = more tax revenue. It's actually way better than having more children. Society has to pay for the education and healthcare for children and doesn't see a dime of tax revenue until the very earliest 18 years, and more likely >20 years. An immigrant that's already educated immediately starts working and paying taxes.

Immigration is basically the cheat code for demographic problems.

The main problem is that boomers didn't move out of their houses into nursing homes (or at least small apartments) as early as previous generations so we have some housing problems. But the boomers won't live forever and when they die off, housing will be freed up.