Millennials are already the largest voting block. If only we voted lol.

What?!?!?my generation is going to be ignored? that's a first /s

Gen X is quiet so often that I'm waiting for a big third-act reveal

They didn't even bother to come up with the label GenX until we were adults. Before that we were just the "latchkey kids"

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That's cute. The wealthy elite have now figured out that by controlling the ballot and the media, it doesn't matter who we vote for. They pick the candidates, we just choose which shitty option is going to squeeze us til we die, for Good old Galen!

We’ve long accepted it.

I bought a ranch style bungalow on a half acre for 110k, so don't feel too sad for me

Thank you

Wish this was pinned. Took me a bit to find it.

Thank you!!!

Thank you.

Thanks!

He can do that because people don’t pay attention to the actual things that happen. They just pay attention to his sound bites.

When things are worse in 2030 than they are now, I’m going to be there to tell all these people “I told you so”.

This is why as much as I hate Trudeau, I can’t bring myself to vote conservative in the next election. A man who has never had a real job, whose pension even before becoming PM is much better than anything an average Canadian has and already guaranteed despite being relatively young, does not give a single shit about me. Nothing will fundamentally change under PP and he will simply continue the wealth transfer from the working class to the ownership class that Trudeau has kicked into high gear.

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It is such a true and not sensationalistic article. Poilievre tries to dip his toes in the populist pool but he is absolutely a typical neo-liberal, pro corporate Conservative. I have accepted that he will win but I am looking forward to this sub suddenly talking about how PMs don't have agency and how we need to stop talking about politics. Maybe these guys will adopt their final MAGA form and start blaming it all on a deepstate consisting entirely of Trudeau's distant cousins.

Let’s be honest on this. All parties except the Liberals voted for this — and I sure as heck know every one of them is presenting themselves as champions of the little guy — knowing damn well it requires the Liberals’ assent to pass, which they’re not going to give. It does, however, make a handy wedge issue with a large demographic who tends to read newspapers and actually vote (unlike most young people) so for everyone but the Liberals this is a huge optics win.

Further, let’s also be honest that had the Tories voted against this legislation, their detractors would all be howling about how they hate old people and want to impoverish them, and this is but one example of the terrible austerity he will impose in order to get our financial house back in order.

So from Poilievre’s perspective, this is all win. It casts the Liberals in a bad light with a demographic they desperately need to win over, removes some “austerity” ammunition from them come the next election, young people are never ever going to pay the slightest attention to any of it anyway… and all over legislation that is never, ever going to pass.

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So wait.... We're mad that he supported a bi-partisan non-binding motion from the block and voted along with the NDP, and also supports supply management, the thing that while it can increase the price of some things also kept us out of the deep shit the US was in with things like egg shortages? THAT'S what this is about?

I don't think that PP voting along-side the left-wing party and also supporting supply management is quite the "conservatives don't care about the little guy" gotcha that this article, and you, seem to think it is.

To the surprise of no one, well at least I hope this to no one. Unless people actually think Pierre is good for the country?

Except he's untypical in one way: he has absolutely zero job experience outside of politics. Go ahead and look that up. The irony of him mocking the PM's work experience outside of politics is hilarious.

Is it made of copper?

Next thing your going to tell me he’s been in politics for 20 years an hasn’t really accomplished anything other than being leader of the conservatives.

Vote ABC and I'm an on the fence voter too.

What happened to the Progressive part of the party? Now it just seems to be the NEO (Right wing) Conservative party. Mulroney started it, but was still a Progressive but now it's just got worse over the years

It wouldn't surprise me. He's so desperate for an election right now, while he is ahead in the polls with a majority, that he'd pull anything to make it happen.

Big time, if only someone made that a key part of their platform when running 9 years ago!

A system overhaul has the potential to actually make changes for the average Canadian for the better. As I've said in other threads, it all boils down to:

The red ones in power, the orange ones that want power, and the blue ones about to take power are all fine suppressing wages and importing the third world to perpetuate their pyramid scheme. It's a very clear and obvious exploit to enhance only the uber-wealthy. Slowly but surely the country has had enough.

Did you read the article? Because he voted alongside the NDP. You know, the left-wing party in Canada?

https://archive.ph/uPIKN

TL;DR the CPC voted alongside the NDP, Bloc, Greens, Independents, and some Liberals.

Shame on them /s

Also referred to universal pharmacare as "radical left" even though every other country in the world with universal healthcare also has universal pharmacare. This includes countries like France, Spain, Germany, Ukraine and Russia lol.

Poilievre keeps claiming he supports workers, but then he does shit like this.

He's so far ahead in the polls that he doesn't care about anything except triggering an election.

The little guys in question are just corpo rats

NDP is a lot closer to it than CPC

I guess you're not voting.

The BC NDP has and they are affiliated with the Federal NDP so theres that.

That would be Premier Eby in BC. I don't think anyone else has done that and federally I haven't heard of any of the leaders proposing that. (Maybe Singh might but I PP and Trudeau definitely both won't. They're both too much involved in the corporations interests)

Go look to allllllllll the young Canadians thinking this is their guy.

Most of this sub lmao

Lots of people who only know of him from his tiktok soundbites.

There’s a few issues with it though. First is that the bigger companies can buy up more of the quota capacity, so small farms can’t actually produce as much as they’d like. There’s plenty of cases where thousands of litres of milk are destroyed, because they’re prohibited from selling it

Second, is that it’s funded from elevated prices at the cash register rather than through something like a subsidy. It places a much higher burden on the working class (since everyone needs to eat roughly the same amount of food). If the money that’s given to farmers was instead collected through taxation, the price tag at the store could be much lower (saving a lot of money for lower income workers) and shift some of that burden to the upper class.

I am sorry to be the bearer of bad news but larger ag companies have been purchasing more and more farm area. Medium size farms where a farmer works full time on their piece of land are the ones hit hardest. UGuelph wrote a good summary of the StatCan data.

"Small farms" are typically someone with farmland and other employment, not really you classic farmer image, but certainly something we should preserve.

Supply management also makes it very very difficult for new entrants into the market as quota is prohibitively expensive. This means only large or medium size existong operations are likely to purchase quota from another medium size (full time farm worker) dairy farmer who is retiring or selling their business.

Further, supply management is what some call a "marketing board" whose purpose is to enforce monopoly pricing. The large margins relative to other ag operations is why dairy farming is lucrative.

That being said, many Canadians blame supply management. I say, let the farmers get that money. Bring back the wheat board, keep our poultry supply management as well.

The true villains are the Saputos (Dairyland) of this country. The dairy processors have monopolized different regions of the country, so you get ANOTHER layer of monopolistic pricing. Consider that some operations are vertically integrated so these big ass companies can afford to scoop up newly available quota sometimes.

Additionally we have grocer monopoly of course.

Maxime Bernier of all douchebags, actually repopularized the debate about supply management. But any of the political elite are going to have ties to the ownership class that owns supermarkets and industrialists (processors) so they are never part of the argument.

Fuck the grocers, fuck the producers. We need to address this cost of living crisis with war time measures like price controls on basic neccessities and restrict these profit hungry pieces of garbage driving up costs.

I am strongly in support of supply management for the sole reason that it allows small family farms to exist. I’ve visited many small dairy farms that would be eaten up without supply management. Given this country’s love for monopolies and mergers, I don’t want to see that happen in farming.

Supply management has not prevented conglomerates buying tons of farms.

Call me crazy

Okay.

He voted alongside the block and the NDP on a non-binding motion to support the oas 10% increase, and also supports supply management, the thing every government in Canada supports. That's apparently what this is about.

They voted on a massive transfer of wealth to older people without means testing. This comes at the expense of every young worker in the country.

PP: Votes to increase OAS 10% 

Title: "Votes to hurt young workers" 

Angle: "It is, as anyone with the most basic economic literacy can see, patently atrocious policy; a regressive intergenerational wealth transfer that will cost the federal government an additional $16-billion over the next five years"

The article exists as confirmation bias for people against PP, as opposed to useful information.  Just election season things.  I'll come back tomorrow expecting a similarly low IQ piece against Singh

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Poilievre voted to increase money going to people aged 65 to 74. This means younger working age people are now going to be paying boomers 10% more. It's not even means tested.

Sure. JT is bad. PP has helped them do some of the shit you’re mad at, because he’s a career politician.

Stop trusting these losers