Canadian Politics Thread

Multiple elbowers!

Tom Mulcair:

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why did trudeau want to hurry things along? was brown trying to win over some votes against trudeau's assisted dying bill?

why did trudeau get in a word fight with mulcair? or was this just built-up anger from earlier this year?

i couldn't really give a shit. all this faux outrage is what's pissing me off. a bunch of jackass partisans acting like fucking children. their over reactions are dishonest to the point of being offensive. i think i'm done with the NDP. screw these clowns – when i saw how they were acting, I don't blame Trudeau one bit for losing his patience. i think most Canadians would have reacted way angrier if they were stuck in a room with that fucking behavior.

one dipshit conservative (Alberta) MP likened Trudeau's behaviour to that of a fucking drunk driver. that one had me livid. we just lost some friends of the family (almost an entire family – three very young children and a grandparent) to a drunk driver. i was kind of not-too concerned with what was going on until i saw that and totally lost all. fuck all these faux outrage assholes. i'm so fucking mad a bout that drunk driver comment. Elizabeth Fucking May is the only voice of reason here so far.

it's a step up from proroguing parliament

i think it was about the liberal attempt to make the parliament even more majoritarian...which while not as bad as proroguing, is not great: http://www.thetyee.ca/News/2016/05/19/Parliamentary-Brawl-101/

trudeau would have been so self-righteous if harper ever pulled anything like this

Elizabeth Fucking May is the only voice of reason here so far.

Agree with this btw.

Still working out what I think of the actual assisted dying bill (which seems to have gotten forgotten in all of this).

so the senate, rightly as far as actually complying with the SCC ruling, wants to amend the assisted dying bill so that it is available to people who are not necessarily close to death, and trudeau gov and jody wilson-raybould the justice minister (and mp for my riding) are not too happy.

also electoral reform, what the heck is happening with that?

i am personally a fan of mixed-member proportional representation but that would p much guarantee that neither of the big two parties would ever have a majority government so that will never happen

i haven't followed the assisted dying bill's journey at all. most of my attention when it comes to can pol news has been focused on ridiculousness of vancouver's and toronto's housing market.

I feel like im burned out on the housing market stuff living here in Vancouver as it justs dominates so much airtime and column inches. I know I will never be able to afford to buy here, luckily for me im not from here, nor do I want to live here long-term. I do feel awful for the people that I meet who grew up in Vancouver and can't hope to remain in the city if they want to be a homeowner.

Also obv there's homelessness crisis, which is just getting worse, and the affordability of renting, which isn't exactly great either (tho tbh the rent prices while steep are not as exorbitant/crazy as prices of buying real estate) and these things are not unrelated to the housing market. also the sheer amount of poor people on assistance who have the most abominable housing (rat and bedbug infested SRO rooms for $450 pcm)and pay half their monthly welfare check :/ but no level of government is going to do anything about that, as that would involve building livable social housing (and I guess the crazy real estate prices don't help in securing land for such housing).

I have real misgivings about any policy (including the current status quo) that allows assisted suicide for some people but not others, on the grounds of disability.

STV is probably my preferred voting system but I think people are realising (as we did years ago on this thread) that reforming the electoral system might likely require a constitutional amendment.

Time for a new thread? There are over 2000 posts on this one.

Makes sense. New(ish) government, new thread.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/canada-now-the-second-biggest-arms-exporter-to-middle-east-data-show/article30459788/

utterly disgusted by this

sunny ways

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