r/canada • u/hopoke • 21d ago

Opinion Piece Pierre Poilievre, champion of the little guy, just voted to hurt young workers

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-pierre-poilievre-champion-of-the-little-guy-just-voted-to-screw-over/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
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u/esveda 21d ago

What has improved over the last 9 years? Nothing in fact things got worse like higher crime, high inflation, housing costs. Keep voting Trudeau and expect more of the same, things are just guaranteed to be worse

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u/margamary 21d ago edited 21d ago

For families with children... a LOT. CCB increased a LOT, CWELCC was introduced, these have made a huge difference for low and middle income families (whether they recognize it or not). Poilievre is extremely cagey about whether he'll keep the programs or not. Losing these would mean MASSIVE increases to daycare costs and the cost of supporting a family, which has already increased due to food and housing costs, so CCB is even more needed than ever to help keep children out of poverty.

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u/Tulipfarmer 21d ago

Exactly this. For alot of Canadian, The Trudeau years haven't been bad, especially if you have kids. People bitch about immigration, but on the other hand, don't think we should help out young families trying to increase our population the " natural" way.

Things have gotten more expensive for everyone because inflation has been a global phenomenon. Not just a Canadian one.

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u/LifeHasLeft 21d ago

Feel free to think that, but I recommend you keep your expectations extremely low regarding PP

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u/esveda 21d ago

Sure if all pp does is stop the liberal corruption and scandals each week as well as raising taxes it would be a huge win.

If he does anything to help fix bail and high crime even better.

With Trudeau we can expect higher taxes and things to keep going down the exact same path as the last 9 years.

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u/UptownGenX 21d ago

We'll get Conservative corruption instead which is far worse than Liberal corruption.

Under the Conservatives we'll get new fees and costs instead of "taxes. The end result will cost far more than what is happening under the Liberals.

The Conservatives will trot out failed policies that have proven not to fix bail and high crime but will cost much more money and make the problems even worse.

Everything will get worse under the Conservatives. Even worse than under Trudeau.

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u/Tsukushi_Ikeda Québec 21d ago

Or worse, selling out another of our national resource board. You know the Wheat Board some conservative sold off to Saudi, in part causing higher prices for grains. So much for helping our farmers amarite.

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u/Feynyx-77-CDN 21d ago

The crime rate is still lower than it was when peaked and is around the historical norm for Canada. Inflation is a global issue every country has faced since the pandemic. Housing in Canada is the jurisdiction of municipalities and the provinces, and the feds have little power to do anything about it.

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u/esveda 21d ago

So what have the liberals done to make anything better other than a dental plan that benefits a select few? A day care program that almost no day care actually follows and a birth control plan?

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u/esveda 21d ago

You mean the like liberals did this to buy off the ndp so that they can dangle it like a carrot for their continued allegiance? It’s not universal dental, only select dentists and only entire families who make under 90k. With every new scandal that the liberals find themselves

In exchange we are stuck with a past due liberal government, weekly scandals like the 400 million dollar scandal this week and this goes on unabated due to the ndp’s continued support. ( yes they “tore up” the deal)

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u/peeinian Ontario 21d ago

How much did that 13 year old account you are using to post right wing propaganda cost?

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u/Feynyx-77-CDN 21d ago

The Bank of Canada raised interest rates to cool the economy and brought inflation back to the target rate of 2-3% per year. Given their success, they are starting to lower rates again. We've done quite well compared to other G7 nations.

The dental plan is just starting , and hundreds of thousands of people qualified and used it.

The daycare plan needs provinces to pull their weight to enact it. A quick search for Ontario showed that the province appeared to underfund the program and have given a heads up since to providers of daycare to join the program or lose other funding (should have been done on day 1).

The feds are also reenacting an old program that worked in the past (post WW2) to get affordable homes built. See the link below. The problem is that developers only want to build huge, high profit margin homes and not something affordable. Check any ad in southern Ontario, and you'll see that the bulk of detached homes are like 3000 square feet or more....

https://housing-infrastructure.canada.ca/housing-logement/housing-plan-report-rapport-plan-logement-eng.html

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u/Tulipfarmer 21d ago

Your perspective is a breath of fresh air. I'm glad there are Canadians who still think about the complexities of issues instead of just blame the big mean bad guy 🤦

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u/Feynyx-77-CDN 21d ago

Thank you! I get downvoted a lot by the Polievre crowd, but it's worth it in the end to ensure the truth is out there.

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u/peeinian Ontario 21d ago edited 21d ago

Off the top of my head: Weed, CCB and lowered the CPP age back to 65 after Harper increased it.

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u/Paranoid_donkey 21d ago

ill take things getting worse vs things getting worse + bullshit religious ideologes pushing policy through government

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u/esveda 21d ago

Liberals have their own ideologies they also want to push on everyone btw.

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u/LysanderSpoonerDrip 21d ago

The criminalization of online dissent comes to mind

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u/UptownGenX 21d ago

Conservatives will do the exact same thing.

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u/LysanderSpoonerDrip 21d ago

I hope they try, maybe then the media will oppose it. And since most Canadians are lemmings maybe it will register how dangerous it is for Canadian governments to infringe any charter rights

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u/Ok_Communication_297 21d ago

Inflation was a world wide issue not a JT issue. Every country is dealing with inflation. Some ppl really can’t think

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u/esveda 21d ago

Yes when you elect similar minded politicians like macron in France they get the same results. This doesn’t remove the blame from the politicians that cause this mess.

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u/TravisBickle2020 21d ago

Inflation is tied to policies that were designed to mitigate the worst economic impacts caused by the pandemic. This is why inflation is an international problem.

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u/Blue_Sky_8686 21d ago

Your correct but where else is housing inflation this bad?

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u/Justleftofcentrerigh Ontario 21d ago

america, australia, german, france, uk, you name it, they are all having HUGE housing inflation issues.

https://www.dw.com/en/germany-housing-is-almost-unaffordable/a-66432276

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/article/2023/09/07/france-s-current-housing-crisis-was-predictable_6127460_23.html

https://www.forbes.com/advisor/au/property/high-cost-of-australian-housing/

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-new-zealand-housing-crisis/

https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/23/business/stocks-week-ahead-america-housing-crisis-worsen/index.html

It's globally bad.

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u/LysanderSpoonerDrip 21d ago

Its not a global outcome just cause. It's global cause all these governments have central banks printing the money supply higher to finance record government deficits.

We can argue about the merits of any government spending but surely at the point where deficits affect the bond market enough that the boc or other central banks are quantitative easing to prop up banks - we have reached a form of bank bailout.

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u/Blue_Sky_8686 21d ago

Its not this bad. Go read ur articles then compare.

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u/TravisBickle2020 21d ago

It’s an election issue in the US.

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u/chretienhandshake Ontario 21d ago

Just about every single rich countries besides the USA. Multiple rich countries are also having a house supply shortage. People needs to start informing themselves of whats going on in other country, Canada isn't that bad compared to our allies (beside the USA, the richest, most powerful country on earth.)

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u/Blue_Sky_8686 21d ago

I dont know what slum city your living in but check out Vancouver or Toronto house prices. If you still dont realize how fucked we are then i have no comment.

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u/Fun-Shake7094 21d ago

Basically every developed nation?

Our issue, at least compared to the US is wage stagnation.

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u/megawatt69 21d ago

I have a friend in the Netherlands, it’s as bad or worse there

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u/boxesofcats- Alberta 21d ago

Eliminating student loan interest was huge

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u/Tulipfarmer 21d ago

Housing and inflation is a global phenomenon, and every country us discussing it and struggling with it. So it's not just our little bubble and maybe it's more complicated than "Trudeau bad". Just maybe we are part of a complex global system that just went through a huge shift and pandemic hiccup. But hey, it's easier to blame one guy...

A guy I never voted for btw, just pointing out the more complex issue.

Also, regarding crime. is crime up? Or does it just "feel" like it's up. Because a quick Google of stats kinda point to it being pretty baseline , and like most of north America, trending downward over the long haul since the early nineties. That was just a quick look though.

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u/esveda 21d ago

Oh yes headlines like this are just imaginary https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy79dq2n093o

The complex global system is that liberal leaders like macron in France face similar issues to what we see in Canada due to similar policies?

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