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General Politics Discussion
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10-10-2025, 11:33 AM
(10-10-2025, 11:26 AM)Acitta Wrote:(10-10-2025, 11:16 AM)Kodra24 Wrote: https://www.fraserinstitute.org/commenta...orm-ottawa No problem, here is another link: https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/business/202...scal-path/
10-10-2025, 05:32 PM
Government budgets are not like personal budgets, and one should not think of balancing the budget as actually a good thing. Having bonds outstanding means that you are paying interest generally to Canadians and investing it in things that are going to help Canada as a whole.
10-11-2025, 06:30 PM
More deficit...68.5 billion! Lol, lmao even. Canada should just throw in the towel. Agree to become an Indian or US state or something. This country is a disaster. I will continue to take a low key left wing accelerationist stance against everything from student visas to daycare to ION 2.0 to military spending until this so called nation implodes.
10-11-2025, 06:54 PM
(10-11-2025, 06:30 PM)ac3r Wrote: More deficit...68.5 billion! Lol, lmao even. Canada should just throw in the towel. Agree to become an Indian or US state or something. This country is a disaster. I will continue to take a low key left wing accelerationist stance against everything from student visas to daycare to ION 2.0 to military spending until this so called nation implodes. If you don't like our country, then leave and go somewhere else instead of whining to us about it.
Well, I'm Indigenous. I don't really need anyone telling me whether or not I should whine about Canada. From my point of view it's an occupied land and you're all occupiers. Fortunately I'm not that black and white, although whether Canada should exist the way it does is questionable. I could say you should just hand the keys back to us and go home, but that's not how it works.
It's not that I don't like this country. I just don't like how it is run or how we view ourselves now. It's a broken mess with little to take pride in anymore, though that was not always the case. Our national identity is basically gone, we lost our industrial capacities, intellectualism and science has slowly been disappearing, it has become harder to extract sources (lumber, mining etc), the cost of living is mind blowing, our cultural output is nonexistent and so on. Nothing we do is working and very little we do stands out to make us unique amongst the rest of the world. My issue is that the country is obviously broken and yet those in charge are still spending money we don't have while we watch every corner of this country from coast to coast slowly fall apart. The day to day choices being made in this country should put every one of us to shame. Positivity is fine to have but c'mon...I feel like cynicism is the only reasonable response left. This is heavily influenced by my political points of view - that of an insurrectionary anarchist - but if you ask me the best course of action is to just let it all collapse, then pick up the pieces. You can't fix this mess, only slow down the rot. (10-11-2025, 08:29 PM)ac3r Wrote: Well, I'm Indigenous. I don't really need anyone telling me whether or not I should whine about Canada. From my point of view it's an occupied land and you're all occupiers. Fortunately I'm not that black and white, although whether Canada should exist the way it does is questionable. I could say you should just hand the keys back to us and go home, but that's not how it works. I apologize about saying you should leave. I will speak to all the other descendants of settler-colonialists about going back where we came from (though in my case that includes 3 countries, one of which is being bombed).
10-12-2025, 08:56 PM
(10-11-2025, 08:29 PM)ac3r Wrote: Well, I'm Indigenous. I don't really need anyone telling me whether or not I should whine about Canada. From my point of view it's an occupied land and you're all occupiers. Fortunately I'm not that black and white, although whether Canada should exist the way it does is questionable. I could say you should just hand the keys back to us and go home, but that's not how it works. I was born here. My parents were born here. My grandparents were born here. My great-grandparents were born here. I am home. (none of this is to imply that people with more recent immigrants in their ancestry, including actual immigrants, are less “home” than I am; the point is that I am not an occupier in any meaningful sense that doesn’t apply to almost everybody) We all have to learn how to live together here. Talking about some people being occupiers is not helpful. “Who owns Poland?” I like to ask, rhetorically, picking it as an example of a land that I understand has been invaded and fought over many times. Almost nothing “should” be the way it is; everything is the way it is because of a long historical process that involved many injustices along the way. Everyone is a descendant of a rapist and a rape victim. Everyone has, ancestrally, benefited from and been subject to theft, violence, and probably every other crime. That’s not just not how it works, it’s not how it could possibly work. 
10-13-2025, 12:12 PM
(10-12-2025, 08:56 PM)ijmorlan Wrote: Almost nothing “should” be the way it is; everything is the way it is because of a long historical process that involved many injustices along the way. Everyone is a descendant of a rapist and a rape victim. Everyone has, ancestrally, benefited from and been subject to theft, violence, and probably every other crime. That's pretty much the case. Of course, there were peaceful individuals in our family trees, too, but wars and conquests have been part of human history ever since people learned how to use sticks as weapons, and probably even before that. It has really only been since the end of WW2 that (most) countries agreed to stop this, and to live within their existing borders. Even now, there are wars and lesser conflicts, but if you compare 1945-2025 with 1865-1945, it is a night-and-day difference. We need to accept each other, regardless of where are families are from, and work together to build better countries.
10-15-2025, 06:58 AM
https://www.therecord.com/news/waterloo-...9e190.html
Bloody pay wall. This came up in April too. What's the jist? And if so, why the hell arent we diversifying more...
10-15-2025, 08:14 AM
(10-15-2025, 06:58 AM)Momo26 Wrote: https://www.therecord.com/news/waterloo-...9e190.html https://archive.ph/wcnFd 1 in 5 people in Preston and northwest Kitchener are employed in sectors affected by tariffs.
10-15-2025, 06:56 PM
10-15-2025, 07:36 PM
10-18-2025, 09:11 PM
(10-11-2025, 08:29 PM)ac3r Wrote: It's a broken mess with little to take pride in anymore, though that was not always the case. Our national identity is basically gone, we lost our industrial capacities, intellectualism and science has slowly been disappearing, it has become harder to extract sources (lumber, mining etc), the cost of living is mind blowing, our cultural output is nonexistent and so on. Nothing we do is working and very little we do stands out to make us unique amongst the rest of the world. I always like to start with defining the problem. What are the actual metrics that you’re looking at to back this up? Particularly your last sentence about standing out amongst the rest of the world. I find most of the time people have you attitude: 1. They have no idea what the actual metrics are and life is quite fine compared to historical trends in Canada. Some things better. Some things worse. 2. They absolutely have no idea what the rest of the world is like compared to Canada.
10-18-2025, 09:13 PM
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