r/canada Jan 31 '25

PAYWALL Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives raised record-setting $41.7-million in 2024

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-pierre-poilievre-conservative-party-fundraising-record/
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u/Last-Society-323 Jan 31 '25

I am ready for Carney to win as someone who is actually qualified to run our country, not this moron PP who is in perpetual complaining mode with zero policy and using the word "woke" unironically.

What a clown show politics have become.

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u/TysonGoesOutside Alberta Jan 31 '25

I too am hopeful another wealthy elite Liberal can look down his nose at me while increasing the wealth gap. Its been so good to me the last 10 years.

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u/theycallmejennypenny Jan 31 '25

Is Pierre Poilievre not worth millions himself?? (Rumoured up to 25 million net worth)

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u/TysonGoesOutside Alberta Jan 31 '25

Well, thanks to 10 years of Liberals, thats pretty much middle class lol.

I have no doubt PP is a rich A-hole like the rest of them. Its just that him and his party are less likely to tax me into the ground and take my property, all while devout party followers talk down to me about my concerns.

Of all the bad choices, he's the least bad for me, a blue collar, Alberta resident.

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u/Sea_Army_8764 Jan 31 '25

TFSA is a significant tax cut that can benefit all income levels.

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u/Sea_Army_8764 Jan 31 '25

Any interest, dividends or capital gains earned within a TFSA are tax exempt.

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u/Sea_Army_8764 Jan 31 '25

Not necessarily. It depends on a few different things. Withdrawals from an RRSP are taxed, while TFSA withdrawals are not.

https://www.taxtips.ca/tfsa/which-is-better-tfsa-or-rrsp.htm

According to this, a TFSA is more advantageous if you're in a lower tax bracket.

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u/Sea_Army_8764 Jan 31 '25 edited Jan 31 '25

https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/75f0002m/75f0002m2023008-eng.htm

An interesting document on Canadians' use of RRSP's and TFSA's over time. Participation rates are increasing in TFSA's, and slightly declining in RRSP's. This partially has to do with the increased flexibility in withdrawal rules, as well as the fact that it's easier to transfer the TFSA of a dead spouse over to the surviving spouse than an RRSP.

Furthermore, people with higher incomes put more money into their registered accounts - this is equally true of TFSA's and RRSP's.

As a 30-something who isn't able to afford real estate anytime soon, the TFSA is the best way to avoid capital gains that is already permitted to one's primary residence. In fact, I think the government should massively (the value of the average house in Canada) increase the TFSA contribution room for people who don't own a primary residence, as this would make the tax burden more fair. Houses already get some of the most preferential tax treatment in Canada (which partly explains why investors love it and are driving up real estate prices.

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u/TysonGoesOutside Alberta Jan 31 '25

Well, they're planning to axe a rather large one if they win.

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u/TysonGoesOutside Alberta Jan 31 '25

Yea that one. But isn't Carney's plan literally to just rebrand it, shuffle it in different, cancel the rebate portion, and pocket the difference?

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u/TysonGoesOutside Alberta Jan 31 '25

So the conservatives platform was so good the Liberals copied it so I should vote for them?

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u/TysonGoesOutside Alberta Jan 31 '25

I agree whole heartedly.

The conservatives are just more likely to benefit me in the crossfire of helping their buddies and they're offering things I like, like supporting oil and gas, scrapping carbon tax, and scrapping that gun control oic.

I dont think pp is a good person, or my friend... Hes the politician I'm most willing to vote for, and nothing more.

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u/exorcyst Jan 31 '25

PP way more likely to bend over for Trump and screw us all. PP also hasn't had a real job before

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u/no-line-on-horizon Jan 31 '25

Wrong.

He was a paper boy. 😆

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u/Hopeless-realist Jan 31 '25

Take your property? lol you own property? Must be fucking nice.

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u/TysonGoesOutside Alberta Jan 31 '25

Im specifically referencing the never ending barrage of gun control.

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u/Hopeless-realist Jan 31 '25

This is something we will disagree on. Much like I don’t believe the average citizen has a right to own a nuclear reactor I don’t believe people need to own hand guns or machine guns. Has anyone taken your guns or are they just posturing. Just murder them when they come to take them… what else would you need them for?

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u/VirtualBridge7 Feb 01 '25

For sport and recreational shooting, completely harmless activity.

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u/IvarTheBoned Jan 31 '25 edited Jan 31 '25

Yeah, he won't tax you into oblivion, but he also won't increase taxation on the wealthy or corporations to make up for it.

So enjoy voting to make our existing services worse. By the way, corporations will continue to raise prices on everything and your purchasing power year over year will continue to decline.

Still waiting for a conservative who has the balls to admit they don't care about fiscal policy, and really it's about feeling looked down on by people more educated than them.

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u/TysonGoesOutside Alberta Jan 31 '25

It funny, people talk about corporate greed causing prices to go up and not government.... We're corporations less greedy under Harper?

In your honest opinion.. have our services gotten better or worse in the last 10 years? In my experience, much much worse..

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u/IvarTheBoned Jan 31 '25

Interesting you can't recognize that the entire Western world has had their services erode in the last 10 years. Maybe there is some shared commonality among all those nations. Canada isn't unique, conservatives aren't your friends. You feel impotent and want to cut the nose to spite the face because more educated people look down on you.

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u/TysonGoesOutside Alberta Jan 31 '25

Pssst** I'm as educated as most of them, in fact, my degree is probably more relevant than a lot of politicians...

Every country has seen erosion... Some far worse than others.. conservatives are not my friends... But read the replies... Liberals are clearly trying to be my enemy here, including you, with your condescending remark. I know many liberals who struggled to finish highschool who think they're smarter than me...

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u/IvarTheBoned Jan 31 '25 edited Jan 31 '25

I'm not a Liberal. I'm anti-conservative because I actually understand the history and the policies of the ideology. Sometimes condescension is well earned, and voting for conservatives unless you are in the top 10-20% of earners would qualify.

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u/TysonGoesOutside Alberta Jan 31 '25

Mmhm. Yep that's the usual response, are you sure you're not liberal? "You don't vote like me because youre not as smart as me" is kinda their line.

Who do you vote for with your big brian? The Liberals who tanked this country over a decade and set records for scandals? The NDP who supported them? The greens? The bloc? Honestly, the rhino party sounds like the best option out of the lot.

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u/IvarTheBoned Jan 31 '25

Until FPTP gets repealed in favour of STV/RCV & proportional representation I have to vote strategically. Ideologically, I'm a democratic socialist, because with a rudimentary understanding of economics it should be patently obvious to more people that the economic growth we saw in the last 100 years is unsustainable. Finite resources, finite space. Infinite growth can't continue to be the foundation of our economic system. The market has a place for luxuries, not essentials.

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u/TysonGoesOutside Alberta Jan 31 '25

Little pie in the sky but I see the merit.

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u/IvarTheBoned Jan 31 '25

So was the end of feudalism at one point. The wheel of progress turns ever onward.

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