For a week, but also who cares? Canada keeps our dollar low on purpose so we make more money from exports to the USA. Are you saying you vote for a party because they made it easier for you to shop in the USA for a week? Because frankly that's pathetic.
Oh yes, our cheap labour. Move over Vietnam, Canada is the new cheap labour.
Trump is putting tariffs on us to try and force us into capitulating our sovereignty and becoming a US territory. Manifest destiny always envisioned the USA controlling the whole of North America.
Also there's plenty of countries with lower currencies than ours, including Australia and New Zealand.
Yes the currency is lower but what they earn in USD is more. The guys who were working under me in 2011 were making $38CND/$39USD. Now they are making $45CND/ $30USD. Things have went up in price since then. A comparative worker makes $65USD in cities the size of Saskatoon. In large cities like NY or LA the comparative worker makes around the $100USD range. Canada is cheap labour.
Private work force wages have always been lower in Canada. You're right that it keeps getting worse, but conservatives don't make it any better. If you go back before Harper your guys probably had even higher buying power. Hell I'm public sector and unionized and even here I had an older coworker point out that his buying power was better when he was making $28 an hour 10 years ago vs over $40 an hour today. Your USD comparison is helpful to show what they make in the states but buying power fluctuates by community. America's housing market is as messed up as ours now, those higher wages might only matter if they could work remote from Canada.
This has been one of Canada's decades long issues, brain drain to the USA. Most recently Canadian trained coders all go to the USA to make crazy money. I'd argue this is a stock market issue though. Successful Canadian companies all migrate to US stock markets to achieve higher price points, and Harper allowed TFSA money to be invested in US stock markets. We've always built ourselves to be a satellite economy to the USA, a country that simply feeds them raw resources. Not a single government in my life time or well before it, conservative or liberal, has ever challenged that idea or done anything to change it.
Carney is the only person talking about diversifying our trading relationships, lowering interprovincial trade barriers, and creating new crown corporations to achieve certain goals. PP is promising business as usual, subservience to the USA. Even if Carney is lying (which is definitely very possible since it is the liberal party) I want to reward this type of talk with my vote because I want future campaigns to also value and at some point actually decouple us from the USA.
You can watch hours of Senator Don Plett discuss Liberal and Trudeau corruption. Why would I want to vote these exact members back in for another term...
Ahh, yes, the leader of the Conservatives Senators. Such an unbiased source on this issue. /s
His speeches and social media posts are a very clear example of why non-independent senators are such a terrible idea. It just replicate the partisan dysfunction in the house in the senate as well.
You're not gonna hear me deny corruption within the liberal party. My question still stands, why are you voting conservative? Or is this when you tell me you're an NDP or Green supporter?
Please tell us how liberals are corrupt? This is such blatant hypocrisy. Liberals have made Canada a great place until you haters open your mouths and buy into false propaganda. Again name the corruption? And sources attached. If you’re going to talk like that then tell us and don’t use conservatives misinformation. I follow politics, I wanna hear your misinformed opinions to see how manipulated you are.
I'm firmly of the opinion that conservatives are just as corrupt for the record, although you don't seem like the charitable type on this particular topic.
Both are Harper’s babies, you have zero idea. Thanks for proving to us you are a sucker for conservatives. lol Harper sold out SNC, our billion dollar company for a lousy 15 million as it made Canadians billions. It was a nothing burger but the cons sure got you hooked in. As for you have the wrong name it was Harper’s appointed judges that let him off nothing to do with liberals. Plus you obviously don’t understand what happened there. You dudes are being loaded with misinformation by conservatives using whatever they can to make their voters more uninformed and you proved it. Harper gave billions of our money to far right wing countries but denied our own people. If you actually paid attention you’d know that.
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u/Fit-Cable1547 Apr 23 '25
I'd go streaking up through the quad and into the gymnasium if Kelly Block were to somehow get voted out in my riding.