[Canada] Canadian Politics Redux

[Grey Fox]

Albertan rules against trans and gender fluidity.

[Oexmelin]

Is this some Canadian thing where adults have to get their parent's permission to use their middle name as their given name? Or maybe just a Quebecois thing? What about using Jack instead of John?

GF is proposing a way to troll Albertan conservatives.

For a somewhat more serious answer however, there are no « middle names » in Quebec - certainly not in the way Americans and English Canadians use the notion. You can have between one and four first names, but only one « usual first name », which is the one that your various official IDs will have. Tradition, for a long time, has meant that you either get a Saint (Marie or Joseph, usually) and your godparent's name - none of which is commonly used.

It also means you can't really switch without going through some bureaucratic formality.  You have to write a letter to the Directeur de l'état civil, asking to swap your usual first name for one of the others.

When I went to the US, they randomly picked one of my other names for my « middle initial » for my green card, even though my Canadian passport does not show any other name. Created endless annoyances.

[Grey Fox]

I was not prepared at the hospital when my  first child was born that she only has 1 first name. I was ready for my 2nd therefore he has 2 first names.

I have 4.

My gf, their mother, grew up Baptist, she has a Anglo style middle name.

[Zoupa]

The Libs were too happy to be on the verge of the winning, decided to screw gun owners, the clientele they need to win over the Conservatives.

Ineffective gun ban extended to 179 new guns.

Why not concentrate on policing the border, just as it demonstrate it is working now?  You know, make effort where it counts as opposed to empty gestures?

The border is already policed and the general public supports gun bans.

Care to share an article? I can't find anything when googling "mexican cartel montreal".

https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/justice-et-faits-divers/2025-03-07/immigration-irreguliere/dans-les-cahiers-secrets-des-passeurs.php

So "the biggest illegal migrant operation in Canada" managed to get 200 illegals in. And they're "suspected" of ties to a cartel. Let's not go crazy here.

[HVC]

It'll probably make BB want to defund CBC more, but:

[Josephus]

The most mystifying thing to me about Donald Trump is his spray-tan.  I can rationalize all his bullshit as Trump being someone with no concept of shame and so cannot feel any wrongdoing when blatantly lying to your face or his overt greed... but I cannot comprehend how anyone could appear in public with that ridiculous spray-tan, at times looking like he shit his face, and think "yeah, this is normal".  How can he think this is a good look!?

It's clear to me that Pierre has duplicated that look in this video, even if unintentionally, he must've looked in a mirror before the cameras went on... unbelievably tone deaf. 

I hope this is his Howard Dean moment (which in hindsight, and maybe always was, a totally innocent bleargh).

Especially since he spends so much time in Florida. A couple of hours in the sun, he should be good to go for a week. People look at me now, and can tell I was in Cuba for a week in early February.

[viper37]

The Libs were too happy to be on the verge of the winning, decided to screw gun owners, the clientele they need to win over the Conservatives.

Ineffective gun ban extended to 179 new guns.

Why not concentrate on policing the border, just as it demonstrate it is working now?  You know, make effort where it counts as opposed to empty gestures?

The border is already policed and the general public supports gun bans.

Care to share an article? I can't find anything when googling "mexican cartel montreal".

https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/justice-et-faits-divers/2025-03-07/immigration-irreguliere/dans-les-cahiers-secrets-des-passeurs.php

So "the biggest illegal migrant operation in Canada" managed to get 200 illegals in. And they're "suspected" of ties to a cartel. Let's not go crazy here.

If you read, they get 9 illegals at a time, because from 10 and above, the penalty is much more severe.

So you have multiple small organizations operating in the shadows, concentrated in Quebec and Ontario.  Plus the usual regular asylum seekers who are not really asylum seekers and should be turned back immediately.  Emigration to improve one's economic situation is not a valid asylum request.

[crazy canuck]

Was having a team lunch at a place with sports on TV and there was an ominous "Carney's stealth carbon tax is worse than Trudeau's carbon tax" ad.

I don't know how much the carbon tax is a priority for Canadians at this moment, but I suppose the CPC's internal polling and research efforts are telling them it's a winning issue?

The more likely explanation is that the conservatives had already paid for the ads before the world changed.  These were all probably being worked on as soon as the leadership convention started.

[HVC]

I'm getting a lot of stolen valour type ads about carney. Namely Harper saying that Carney is taking credit for Jim Flaherty's work and how dare you do that to a dead man who can't defend himself.

[Oexmelin]

I keep getting ads from the old messaging (the Bloc just helps Justin Trudeau) alongside the newer ads (the "Gros bon sens" ads).

[Razgovory]

I keep getting ads from the old messaging (the Bloc just helps Justin Trudeau) alongside the newer ads (the "Gros bon sens" ads).

Get more votes with "Gros bon seins" ads, I'm just saying.

[viper37]

I'm getting a lot of stolen valour type ads about carney. Namely Harper saying that Carney is taking credit for Jim Flaherty's work and how dare you do that to a dead man who can't defend himself.

Already debunked on X by someone who was there, in the same room.  They're gasping at straws.

[HVC]

I'm getting a lot of stolen valour type ads about carney. Namely Harper saying that Carney is taking credit for Jim Flaherty's work and how dare you do that to a dead man who can't defend himself.

Already debunked on X by someone who was there, in the same room.  They're gasping at straws.

The fact that Harper is willing to further tarnish his legacy for Poilievre doesn't make me like or respect the Conservative Party more.

[Sophie Scholl]

It'll be interesting to see if Liberals can pull of a win. That would be a stunning upset and almost unthinkable just a few months ago. It kind of feels like Trump has seriously hurt every former US ally's rightwing and Conservative movements with his antics.

[Jacob]

It'll be interesting to see if Liberals can pull of a win. That would be a stunning upset and almost unthinkable just a few months ago. It kind of feels like Trump has seriously hurt every former US ally's rightwing and Conservative movements with his antics.

Pretty much. We'll see. I don't want to be too optimistic, but I do have some hope.

That said, Ontario's premier - Doug Ford - showed how to handle this from a right-wing perspective. He's basically a made-in-Ontario Trump and has been fairly aligned with MAGA; but when the tariff BS hit, Ford came out strong, taking a pro-Canadian stance. And he handily won re-election recently.