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This guy gets it.

Topper wrote: ↑Fri Mar 21, 2025 8:57 am https://nationalpost.com/opinion/franco ... ry-tariffs

This guy gets it.

Totally agree with this article.

The only exception being Canadian tariffs on items that Canadians can avoid buying, like American booze.

If you think about it, if American (import) tariffs are bad for Americans, we should retaliate with export tariffs. Result: it's bad for Americans and we also collect the taxes. Only sensible on things that Americans can't avoid buying eg potash., electricity.

5thhorseman wrote: ↑Fri Mar 21, 2025 9:29 am

Topper wrote: ↑Fri Mar 21, 2025 8:57 am https://nationalpost.com/opinion/franco ... ry-tariffs

This guy gets it.

Totally agree with this article.

The only exception being Canadian tariffs on items that Canadians can avoid buying, like American booze.

If you think about it, if American (import) tariffs are bad for Americans, we should retaliate with export tariffs. Result: it's bad for Americans and we also collect the taxes. Only sensible on things that Americans can't avoid buying eg potash., electricity.

Which is exactly what Doug Ford has been talking about doing. It's just basic, grade-level economics. What's Pissypants Pierre talking about? How bad Trudeau....sorry...Carney is?

Inspire hope, have a platform, get a security clearance. It's really basic shit any moron except Mr. Let's-His-Wife-Speak-For-Him could do. And he wants to be our latex salesman? C'mon.

Trump's already slapped lil PP around in the press talking about how easy it would be to roll him over. Trump's actually afraid of Carney, which is why he's said the exact same thing about Carney as he did with Pissypants Pierre.

E: Proposal. Give Trump Quebec, let Doug Ford become Canadian PM because we don't have to placate the frogs in their native tongue, and Trump will return a kicking and screaming Quebec to us. Hopefully they give us another Chretien, and not Inspector Clouseau.

Hammy, since you seem to know PP's plan (or total lack of one that some lefties keep saying), what is Carney's election plan?

So far, what I have heard him say is:

Remove GST from homes for 1st time home buyers, but no clarification if it is for new builds, or all homes under $1m.
Remove the retail carbon tax, and jack up the hidden carbon tax on Industry.
Cancel the capital gains inclusion rate increase.
Work to open up our mining and energy industries, as long as Quebec says it is OK.

Have I missed anything?

So, Carney, who has claims to have no conflict of interest sure has a funny way of showing it.

Once his assets are in a blind trust, the assumption is that he will not know what is going on with his investments, so he can't be in conflict. 2 really big problems with this. He has over $6 million in stock options with Brookfield. If those options are triggered, Carney will know, because he gets a massive capital gains tax bill. If they are not triggered, then he knows that anything that increases Brookfield share price makes him a ton of money. That is likely true for his other shares in other companies. Now, his second conflict of interest is on the capital gains issue itself. He said he would not go ahead with the increase from last fall. It shouldn't be much of an issue, but, he could easily save himself $500k or more in taxes by stopping the increase, knowing full well that he may have a pile of capital gains fairly soon.

($6 mil in capital gains at 50% (current rate) is $3 million in taxable income, or about $1.5 million in taxes. If the rate went to 66% as the Liberals announced last year, he would be paying tax on $4 million of income, or about $2 million in taxes)

Argay Ham wrote: ↑Fri Mar 21, 2025 10:11 am What's Pierre talking about? How bad Trudeau....sorry...Carney is?

Nothing wrong with highlighting Carney's last 5 years as a financial advisor to Trudeau as we have had 5 of the worst years in our history.

But, let's see. Poilievre. Poilievre. Poilievre.
1) Blue Seal certification process to recognize our immigrant's education credentials, and get them working in fields such as medicine that they are trained for, helping to relieve a shortage of doctors and nurses
2) Removing the entire carbon tax, instead of adding hidden taxes to our manufacturing, energy and mining industries
3) Remove the GST from new homes to both lower cost, and increase the supply without adding to the buraucracy.
4) open up our nation to increased mining and energy, including pipelines to open up additional markets.
5) Scrapping the gun buyback program.
6) reducing immigration to levels that our housing and medical systems can accomodate.
7) Lowering taxes, reducing government waste, and reducing our debt.

Damn, and that was all without google.

Topper wrote: ↑Fri Mar 21, 2025 8:33 am Carney skating with the Oilers reminds me of a passage from Ken Dryden's "The Game".

That was a fantastic mini-series.

Same old, same old.

Carney says something in Alberta, his Environment Minister says the opposite in Eastern Canada.

https://x.com/ABDanielleSmith/status/19 ... esghg&s=19

Tciso wrote: ↑Fri Mar 21, 2025 1:19 pm

Argay Ham wrote: ↑Fri Mar 21, 2025 10:11 am What's Pierre talking about? How bad Trudeau....sorry...Carney is?

Nothing wrong with highlighting Carney's last 5 years as a financial advisor to Trudeau as we have had 5 of the worst years in our history.

But, let's see. Poilievre. Poilievre. Poilievre.
1) Blue Seal certification process to recognize our immigrant's education credentials, and get them working in fields such as medicine that they are trained for, helping to relieve a shortage of doctors and nurses
2) Removing the entire carbon tax, instead of adding hidden taxes to our manufacturing, energy and mining industries
3) Remove the GST from new homes to both lower cost, and increase the supply without adding to the buraucracy.
4) open up our nation to increased mining and energy, including pipelines to open up additional markets.
5) Scrapping the gun buyback program.
6) reducing immigration to levels that our housing and medical systems can accomodate.
7) Lowering taxes, reducing government waste, and reducing our debt.

Damn, and that was all without google.

Ok I’m confused, aren’t all politicians liars? Or just the ones we don’t like?

Keep asking him questions. Even he doesn't have a clue what he is saying.

https://x.com/KatKanada_TM/status/19032 ... 561ow&s=19

Production call remains even if called an emissions cap

Topper wrote: ↑Fri Mar 21, 2025 5:13 pm Keep asking him questions. Even he doesn't have a clue what he is saying.

https://x.com/KatKanada_TM/status/19032 ... 561ow&s=19

Production call remains even if called an emissions cap

So we cap emissions and make it hard (a production cap in all but name) and then need to get the investment in the area that you are making it more expensive for private corporations to invest in. Genius level shit.

Argay Ham wrote: ↑Fri Mar 21, 2025 4:59 pm

Tciso wrote: ↑Fri Mar 21, 2025 1:19 pm

Argay Ham wrote: ↑Fri Mar 21, 2025 10:11 am What's Pierre talking about? How bad Trudeau....sorry...Carney is?

Nothing wrong with highlighting Carney's last 5 years as a financial advisor to Trudeau as we have had 5 of the worst years in our history.

But, let's see. Poilievre. Poilievre. Poilievre.
1) Blue Seal certification process to recognize our immigrant's education credentials, and get them working in fields such as medicine that they are trained for, helping to relieve a shortage of doctors and nurses
2) Removing the entire carbon tax, instead of adding hidden taxes to our manufacturing, energy and mining industries
3) Remove the GST from new homes to both lower cost, and increase the supply without adding to the buraucracy.
4) open up our nation to increased mining and energy, including pipelines to open up additional markets.
5) Scrapping the gun buyback program.
6) reducing immigration to levels that our housing and medical systems can accomodate.
7) Lowering taxes, reducing government waste, and reducing our debt.

Damn, and that was all without google.

Ok I’m confused, aren’t all politicians liars? Or just the ones we don’t like?

So, if they all lie, how do you choose, Argay?

As I do with most important decisions - consider the facts and information available to me and go with my gut. At least if we go down, I was true to myself.

Just because I hate pissypants Pierre doesn’t mean I was a fan of Captain Nepotism either.

Argay Ham wrote: ↑Fri Mar 21, 2025 9:57 pm As I do with most important decisions - consider the facts and information available to me and go with my gut. At least if we go down, I was true to myself.

Just because I hate pissypants Pierre doesn’t mean I was a fan of Captain Nepotism either.

But, what facts are you using ?

The fact that Carney mitigated the 2008 financial crisis with the BoC during Harper’s gov isn’t a bad start.

Also the fact Polly can’t get a security clearance makes me wonder if he’s being paid in rubles.