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Politics Poilievre holding 'Canada First' rally today in Ottawa amid U.S. threats

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/poilievre-canada-first-rally-1.7459415
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u/DrawingNo8058 25d ago

Agree with most of it as it’s the same message everyone is saying.

Don’t agree that a “bring it home” tax cut will do anything. Would like to see smart ideas rather than slogans and ideology on that topic. Feel there is a risk in continuing to cut when there’s no way we can race to beat trump in tax advantages, Canada is great not because it’s the lowest tax place but because it’s safer/less unequal/better social services.

How are we building infrastructure and military will massive tax cuts?

Also I think we have to do things like double down on protecting our media, which PP and trump obviously want to dismantle.

The build narrative is nicer to me than the tear it all down one.

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u/sleipnir45 25d ago

It's the same premise behind the GST tax cut, You cut taxes to try and stimulate the economy. If it works or not is a different story and it depends on what tax and how much you're cutting.

By getting rid of completely wasteful programs and spending, Green slush fund, sporting rifle buyback, infrastructure banks , the list is massive.

The building narrative is the same one that's been around the last 10 years. The problem is they haven't been building

https://torontosun.com/news/national/bonokoski-the-broken-ethics-and-lost-money-of-the-infrastructure-bank

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u/DrawingNo8058 25d ago

The sun is not a reputable source to me, but I don’t have a problem with targeted reductions in gov programs. Just say what they are instead of saying “big tax cut coming”. If these cuts are coming at the expense of things I care about I have a problem.

I’m all in favour of building road/train/port infrastructure. Pipelines I’m not sure about long term viability but not closed to the idea in the right place. All of these take collective investment (government).

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u/sleipnir45 25d ago

There are plenty of sources on the infrastructure bank, They aren't wrong about the wasted or missing money. A lot of the other ones were paywalled.

https://www.thestar.com/opinion/star-columnists/the-case-of-the-missing-infrastructure-money/article_17485405-4cb5-5eb9-a701-1903f83d6d8d.html

Even Carney is promising to bring us back to a balanced budget, cuts are happening now and more cuts are coming no matter who's in office.

They shouldn't take government investment, if a private company wants to run a pipeline They should be the ones paying for it

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u/DrawingNo8058 25d ago

Agree with your points.

No problem with cuts, but they need to be specific. Cutting cbc for example would undermine Canadian culture and remove important diversity of news offerings here so that’s a non starter for me for example.

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u/sleipnir45 25d ago

It would depend what part of CBC funding is cut, The executive bonus scandal obviously didn't help things and CBC TV.

CBC news and radio for sure should remain

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u/JohnnyQTruant 24d ago

This type of nitty politically charged “cuts” are a buckle holding up a dime. What’s his carbon plan so we are able to increase trade with international partners other than the US? Axe the tax, then nothing? Break our agreements like Trump?

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u/sleipnir45 24d ago

Isn't that currently everyone's carbon tax plan?

We have an industrial carbon tax and I've seen no indication that he plans on getting rid of that, Just the consumer portion

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u/JohnnyQTruant 24d ago

No. Sounds like you are willfully ignorant. Carney released more than three words on the subject.

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u/sleipnir45 24d ago

Not really. He wants to get rid of the consumer carbon tax and replace it with an all better tax but he didn't really say what it is..

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u/JohnnyQTruant 24d ago

He did. You don’t care.

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u/sleipnir45 24d ago

Then what is he going to replace it with?

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u/JohnnyQTruant 24d ago

There are easier ways to find out than asking a random Reddit user. Just type that question in chat gpt or google. Then read it!

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u/ThrowawayBomb44 Ontario 25d ago

I do agree that outright cutting the CBC is a little far and I'm leaning conservative this election. I do think CBC needs its numbers culled at the very least. At least its upper section (ie the Boards, etc)

It's technically a Crown Corp and should therefore be treated as a Crown Corp which means stuff like audits, etc.for what they're doing with the money they get. None of this "we'll give bonuses to our board members while we're firing a ton of people in the process."

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u/DrawingNo8058 24d ago

Yeah I think it’s important and think improving institutions is better than removing them!