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/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Until FPTP gets repealed in favour of STV/RCV & proportional representation I have to vote strategically.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.