[Canada] Canadian Politics Redux

[viper37]

The Conservatives are taking another page from US politics, straight out of MAGA playbook:

We still don't know what it was all about.  Was she right?  Was she wrong?  What is it she said that inflamed passions on the Conservative's side?

Well, well, well.  What do you know.  Freedom of speech for Canadian Conservatives is just like in the US.

Due to political pressure, CTV has cancelled their fact checking segment.
CTV Cancelled a Fact-Checking Segment in Response to Political Pressure From Pierre Poilievre's Conservatives

Snowflakes can't stand critic and fact checking.

Edit:
The recorded phone call between the journalist and CTV about the pressure from the Conservatives:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdPiBNiedQg&t=1s

[Bauer]

So the conservatives have a carrot and stick plan to force municipalities to build more,  and liberals have a top down agency plan to develop low cost housing and find efficiencies somehow.

I recall a radio interview with a local developer describing how the long approval process stifles their business.  Homebuilders should be prefabricating and hiring tradespeople well in advance to build efficiently.  They want and know how to do this, but when approvals take years it prevents it and then takes time to start the process.  That adds cost and gets passed on to the consumer.

Based on that i feel the conservative approach to try to eliminate the red tape is the way to go.

But really ideas like this need to be fleshed out more in both cases.

[Zoupa]

The Conservatives are taking another page from US politics, straight out of MAGA playbook:

We still don't know what it was all about.  Was she right?  Was she wrong?  What is it she said that inflamed passions on the Conservative's side?

Well, well, well.  What do you know.  Freedom of speech for Canadian Conservatives is just like in the US.

Due to political pressure, CTV has cancelled their fact checking segment.
CTV Cancelled a Fact-Checking Segment in Response to Political Pressure From Pierre Poilievre's Conservatives

Snowflakes can't stand critic and fact checking.

Edit:
The recorded phone call between the journalist and CTV about the pressure from the Conservatives:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdPiBNiedQg&t=1s

Waiting on the Razes and Dgullers of this world to write long winded essays about how the left is instilling a climate of fear about people being cancelled.

[crazy canuck]

So the conservatives have a carrot and stick plan to force municipalities to build more,  and liberals have a top down agency plan to develop low cost housing and find efficiencies somehow.

I recall a radio interview with a local developer describing how the long approval process stifles their business.  Homebuilders should be prefabricating and hiring tradespeople well in advance to build efficiently.  They want and know how to do this, but when approvals take years it prevents it and then takes time to start the process.  That adds cost and gets passed on to the consumer.

Based on that i feel the conservative approach to try to eliminate the red tape is the way to go.

But really ideas like this need to be fleshed out more in both cases.

And since property development is a provincial jurisdiction it'll be a neat trick for the conservatives to explain how they are going to intrude on provincial jurisdiction to deal with municipalities directly.

[grumbler]

I don't think that's remotely helpful.

The west would have talks with the USSR during the Cold War for pete's sake, even as the Soviets said "we will bury you" and the US called the USSR an "evil empire".

Actually, the "We will bury you" speech was in 1956, and all of the Western diplomats walked out in protest. That's hardly "talks." The Reagan speech chilled relations between the US and USSR, but the chill eased when Reagan announced a couple of years later that he no longer believed his words to be true.

In any case, none of the Cold War belligerent speech went as far as Trunp's stated objective of making Canada "the 51st state."

I don't think you pretend that Canada and the US are very friendly right now, but you have to talk with Trump.

Talk, yes.  Negotiate, no.  Negotiations can wait until Trump focuses on the next shiny thing.