Canadian Politics Thread

[Ricky Ravioli]

5 minutes ago, Warhippy said:

You're not showing me anything to back your statement

 

Do corporations run this country?

[Bob Long]

29 minutes ago, Ricky Ravioli said:

Do corporations run this country?

 

Some, kinda.

[Elias Pettersson]

16 hours ago, Gurn said:

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/february-inflation-rate-slows-to-2-8-as-price-growth-unexpectedly-eases/ar-BB1k8Gmj?bncnt=BroadcastNews_BreakingNews&ocid=UCPNC2&FORM=BNC001&pc=U531&cvid=e8fc468ba6ca4f13a940b5907dfafaa4&ei=13

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OTTAWA — Canada’s annual inflation rate unexpectedly fell to 2.8 per cent last month, amid sharp declines in cellular and internet services as well as slower grocery price growth.

Statistics Canada released its February consumer price index report Tuesday, which shows price growth softened for a second consecutive month.

Economists were widely expecting Canada’s inflation rate to have risen above January’s 2.9 per cent, in part due to higher gasoline prices.

CIBC economist Katherine Judge called the report "unambiguously good news" in a client note. 

The federal agency says prices for wireless services were down 26.5 per cent and internet prices fell 13.2 per cent from a year ago.

Prices for food purchased at stores in February were up 2.4 per cent from a year ago, marking the first time prices grocery prices rose more slowly than overall inflation since October 2021.

However, that’s little relief to Canadians who continue to pay significantly higher prices for food than they did a few years ago. The federal agency says grocery prices increased 21.6 per cent between February 2021 and February 2024.

Meanwhile, housing costs continue to put upward pressure on inflation, with mortgage interest costs up 26.3 per cent and rent up 8.2 per cent annually.

Still, the report Tuesday is encouraging for the Bank of Canada, which is looking for more evidence that inflation is sustainably headed back to the country’s two per cent target before it moves to lower interest rates.

The central bank’s preferred core measures of inflation, which strip out volatility in prices, also fell last month.

Economists have been widely expecting the Bank of Canada to begin cutting its key interest rate in June.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published March 19, 2024.

I just washed my car today. It was $50. Used to be $30 all in 4 years ago. A steak at Earl’s is $60. The salmon is $36. But keep trying to convince the average person with an IQ over 50 that inflation is only 2.8%. Not even Trudeau’s kids are dumb enough to believe those bullshit numbers they print in the papers. 

[Elias Pettersson]

12 hours ago, the destroyer of worlds said:

Proof that maybe, just maybe, the inflation problems have a lot to do with greedy corporations.  

 

Na, it was always Trudopes fault.  /s

Is the local car wash down the street a greedy corporation?  What about the guy down the street working the deli charging $20 for a meatball sandwich?  Is he a greedy corporation too?  

[Elias Pettersson]

11 hours ago, Ricky Ravioli said:

Every single thing in my life is vastly more expensive due to greedy corporations and absolutely nothing else! I learned a lot today 

I spent $110 today washing my car and eating a steak for dinner at a local restaurant. But according to this thread inflation is only 2.8%. Too funny. No wonder the Conservatives are so far ahead in the polls. Most people aren’t dumb enough to believe the bullshit that the Liberal government keeps shoving down our throats on a daily basis. 

[the destroyer of worlds]

5 minutes ago, Elias Pettersson said:

Is the local car wash down the street a greedy corporation?  What about the guy down the street working the deli charging $20 for a meatball sandwich?  Is he a greedy corporation too?  

 

You obviously know that small business owners are not corporations.  They are just a step up from working stiffs.  And their prices could very well be influenced by suppliers jacking their prices up because their suppliers jacked theirs up because some greedy corporation saw an opening to make more profit.

 

So your point doesn't actually refute what I said.

[the destroyer of worlds]

3 minutes ago, Elias Pettersson said:

I spent $110 today washing my car and eating a steak for dinner at a local restaurant. But according to this thread inflation is only 2.8%. Too funny. No wonder the Conservatives are so far ahead in the polls. Most people aren’t dumb enough to believe the bullshit that the Liberal government keeps shoving down our throats on a daily basis. 

Tell us exactly how your night out was the fault of the current Liberal Government and how the CONs are going to fix it.  Be specific.

[Elias Pettersson]

1 minute ago, the destroyer of worlds said:

 

You obviously know that small business owners are not corporations.  They are just a step up from working stiffs.  And their prices could very well be influenced by suppliers jacking their prices up because their suppliers jacked theirs up because some greedy corporation saw an opening to make more profit.

 

So your point doesn't actually refute what I said.

How much does it cost to buy soap for the car wash?  Isn’t tap water free in Canada?  
 

You know why it’s $50 to wash my car?  Because the people who are working there are making $16.75 an hour as a minimum wage. Also, the rent for the building probably doubled in price.  So the owner of the car wash has to jack up the prices to afford to pay the employees and the rent. Same with the deli guy down the street. 

That has nothing to do with a greedy corporation. 

[Elias Pettersson]

6 minutes ago, the destroyer of worlds said:

Tell us exactly how your night out was the fault of the current Liberal Government and how the CONs are going to fix it.  Be specific.

The Liberal government keeps spending my money. They think money grows on trees and you can replenish it with a printing press in the back of Trudeau’s house. They have no clue what fiscal responsibility means. Unlike their predecessors from 20-30 years ago. They spend money like a drunken sailor let loose from

a 4 year military deployment. 
 

Total net debt of $2.1 trillion with an interest payment of $50 billion a year. This country needs to be brought back to the days of fiscal responsibility. That ain’t Trudeau. 

[Smashian Kassian]

9 hours ago, bishopshodan said:

Some electronics are waay cheaper.

TV's, laptops, printers, etc...

 

Some basic clothing too if you dont mind places like Old Navy.

 

Now, how you're gonna afford a house to put your tv in and what you're going to eat...different story. 

 

I saw a short clip of how to turn the passenger seat of a car into a bed by removing the seat & install a makeshift bedframe.

 

Travel + Homeownership all in one. Every Gen Zer's dream! 

[Spur1]

$50 dollar car wash? I spend $5. I suggest getting off your ass and using the wand your self. 

[D.B Cooper]

2 hours ago, Spur1 said:

$50 dollar car wash? I spend $5. I suggest getting off your ass and using the wand your self. 

Thats besides the point. 
We have conveniences that we should be able to use/afford. 
It not OK for the government to price us out of a touch free car wash.  Hahahah

[StrayDog]

6 hours ago, Elias Pettersson said:

How much does it cost to buy soap for the car wash?  Isn’t tap water free in Canada?  
 

You know why it’s $50 to wash my car?  Because the people who are working there are making $16.75 an hour as a minimum wage. Also, the rent for the building probably doubled in price.  So the owner of the car wash has to jack up the prices to afford to pay the employees and the rent. Same with the deli guy down the street. 

That has nothing to do with a greedy corporation. 

Are you saying they shouldn't be paid that much? 

[Bob Long]

3 hours ago, Spur1 said:

$50 dollar car wash? I spend $5. I suggest getting off your ass and using the wand your self. 

 

Pretty sure his wand gets a lot of self use.

[bishopshodan]

Lots of calling people dumb ITT...

 

...while paying $50 to wash one's car.

[Johngould21]

7 hours ago, Elias Pettersson said:

How much does it cost to buy soap for the car wash?  Isn’t tap water free in Canada?  
 

You know why it’s $50 to wash my car?  Because the people who are working there are making $16.75 an hour as a minimum wage. Also, the rent for the building probably doubled in price.  So the owner of the car wash has to jack up the prices to afford to pay the employees and the rent. Same with the deli guy down the street. 

That has nothing to do with a greedy corporation. 

You're being hosed. Once again I'm going to call bs!

[Warhippy]

9 hours ago, Ricky Ravioli said:

Do corporations run this country?

[112]

7 hours ago, Elias Pettersson said:

How much does it cost to buy soap for the car wash?  Isn’t tap water free in Canada?  
 

You know why it’s $50 to wash my car?  Because the people who are working there are making $16.75 an hour as a minimum wage. Also, the rent for the building probably doubled in price.  So the owner of the car wash has to jack up the prices to afford to pay the employees and the rent. Same with the deli guy down the street. 

That has nothing to do with a greedy corporation. 

You're able to afford a $50 car wash and $60 steak and are angry that minimum wage is $16.75?

[Warhippy]

8 hours ago, Elias Pettersson said:

I just washed my car today. It was $50. Used to be $30 all in 4 years ago. A steak at Earl’s is $60. The salmon is $36. But keep trying to convince the average person with an IQ over 50 that inflation is only 2.8%. Not even Trudeau’s kids are dumb enough to believe those bullshit numbers they print in the papers. 

You spent $50 on a car wash and are whining about government waste and inflation?

 

Think REALLY hard on how ironic that is

 

7 hours ago, Elias Pettersson said:

I spent $110 today washing my car and eating a steak for dinner at a local restaurant. But according to this thread inflation is only 2.8%. Too funny. No wonder the Conservatives are so far ahead in the polls. Most people aren’t dumb enough to believe the bullshit that the Liberal government keeps shoving down our throats on a daily basis. 

So now you spent $50 on a car wash and $60 on a steak but it's the Liberals wasting money?  

 

Those dinner parties you go to where everyone is magically an expert in the exact topic at hand must run in the tens of thousands

 

7 hours ago, Elias Pettersson said:

How much does it cost to buy soap for the car wash?  Isn’t tap water free in Canada?  
 

You know why it’s $50 to wash my car?  Because the people who are working there are making $16.75 an hour as a minimum wage. Also, the rent for the building probably doubled in price.  So the owner of the car wash has to jack up the prices to afford to pay the employees and the rent. Same with the deli guy down the street. 

That has nothing to do with a greedy corporation. 

How much does it cost to buy soap for a car wash.  That's actually a good question as I don't know.

 

But as for why it cost $50 tow ash your car, that's easy.  You paid it.  I go to Wise Guys in Penticton and it costs me about $14 to pressure wash, high pressure soap, soap brush, high pressure rinse, spot free rinse and then vacuum my car out.

You know why it cost you $50 to wash your car?  Because you paid it.

 

7 hours ago, Elias Pettersson said:

The Liberal government keeps spending my money. They think money grows on trees and you can replenish it with a printing press in the back of Trudeau’s house. They have no clue what fiscal responsibility means. Unlike their predecessors from 20-30 years ago. They spend money like a drunken sailor let loose from

a 4 year military deployment. 
 

Total net debt of $2.1 trillion with an interest payment of $50 billion a year. This country needs to be brought back to the days of fiscal responsibility. That ain’t Trudeau. 

The liberal government keeps spending your money!  They think it grows on trees and it can be replenished with a printing press in the back of a car wash that sells $60 steaks!  They have no clue what fiscal responsibility is as they pay $50 for a car wash and then moan about people making minimum wage.  They'd never cut it at one of my dinner parties

 

Total net debt of $2.1 Trillion federally AND PROVINCIALLY with an interest payment of $50 billion a year and it's ALL Trudeau's fault that this happened because he forced the provinces to spend this much and spent it all federally himself.

 

This country needs to be brought back to fiscal responsibility and the perfect guy to do it is an angry guy with a social religious bias who has never in his life paid a bill or taxes and somehow amassed over $10 million in personal wealth who managed to spend half a billion while housing minister to build less than 300 homes!

[Bob Long]

4 minutes ago, 112 said:

You're able to afford a $50 car wash and $60 steak and are angry that minimum wage is $16.75?

 

and he doesn't tip. 

 

Its a silly argument, study after study has shown how beneficial a living wage is to our economy, and how little it actually impacts costs in things like the food industry. 

[112]

That the Conservatives have managed to acquire the image that they're 'the party' for those struggling to make ends meet is bizarre. They're absolutely not. They're for those at the top.

[Bob Long]

1 minute ago, 112 said:

That the Conservatives have managed to acquire the image that they're 'the party' for those struggling to make ends meet is bizarre. They're absolutely not. They're for those at the top.

 

tbh I don't think even thats the case. They are for their own jobs, imo. PP is a career politician, most of his back benchers are nothing special in the real world, this gig is it for them.

 

No one party represents "the people" imo because we're a diverse bunch and have many different needs. 

 

As far as PP goes tho it should be clear to everyone, even the most passionate Trudeau haters, that PP simply says whatever he needs to in order to keep the anger going. He's offered nothing viable, no ideas beyond the most shallow takes on things. 

 

[112]

4 minutes ago, Bob Long said:

 

tbh I don't think even thats the case. They are for their own jobs, imo. PP is a career politician, most of his back benchers are nothing special in the real world, this gig is it for them.

 

No one party represents "the people" imo because we're a diverse bunch and have many different needs. 

 

As far as PP goes tho it should be clear to everyone, even the most passionate Trudeau haters, that PP simply says whatever he needs to in order to keep the anger going. He's offered nothing viable, no ideas beyond the most shallow takes on things. 

 

it's the same thing with Falcon provincially. "... because unlike Eby, I have a plan to fix BC". Well, what's the plan? We'd be better served if the running idea was not to stir up outrage about every little thing. This goes for every party in some capacity, but the Conservatives are the biggest abusers of it imo.

 

When the average person's political consumption comes down to the attack ads they witness on TV, it doesn't do the country any favours to just spend the entire ad lambasting the other guys without explaining what you'd do differently.

[Bob Long]

6 minutes ago, 112 said:

it's the same thing with Falcon provincially. "... because unlike Eby, I have a plan to fix BC". Well, what's the plan? We'd be better served if the running idea was not to stir up outrage about every little thing. This goes for every party in some capacity, but the Conservatives are the biggest abusers of it imo.

 

right now, but its a pendulum. All parties do it to some degree or another. 

 

6 minutes ago, 112 said:

When the average person's political consumption comes down to the attack ads they witness on TV, it doesn't do the country any favours to just spend the entire ad lambasting the other guys without explaining what you'd do differently.

 

governing by meme. 

[NewbieCanuckFan]

16 minutes ago, Bob Long said:

 

tbh I don't think even thats the case. They are for their own jobs, imo. PP is a career politician, most of his back benchers are nothing special in the real world, this gig is it for them.

 

No one party represents "the people" imo because we're a diverse bunch and have many different needs. 

 

As far as PP goes tho it should be clear to everyone, even the most passionate Trudeau haters, that PP simply says whatever he needs to in order to keep the anger going. He's offered nothing viable, no ideas beyond the most shallow takes on things. 

 

At least Harper was a mail clerk early on his career.  Castro Jr a school teacher.  I think Pee-Pee interned in some government civil servant job a few summers (though this is just a guess)?