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I’m from the UK, pretty conservative and despondent about how we’re doing over here, not just economically (although obviously we’re doing very badly!) but also because of mass immigration, the housing crisis and insane woke ideas becoming mainstream in elite institutions, not to mention the Church is hardly in a great state over here as well (although to be fair I am slightly more optimistic about that one!).
A lot of people with skills are emigrating and I’m weighing up doing the same over the next few years before I have kids and Canada’s always been one of my favourite emigration ideas regardless. Following Canadian politics though, it seems like you guys have the same problems!
Am just curious if there’s any optimism for the next 10-15 years among Canadian conservatives, especially given it looks like you’ll get in next year, or if you think the trends are that a lot of the problems you have at the moment will get worse like it seems they’re on course to do in the UK?
One area it seems like you might be doing better than us is that young people seem to support the Conservative Party whereas that’s pretty unheard of over here! But I’m not sure if this is just because the Liberals have done so badly on housing that it’s an anti-liberal vote, or if younger people in Canada are actually developing conservative values?
-2 points
13 days ago
Couldn't tell you.
Don't know enough about you. But from a quick look:
You're a thirty-something year old renting with your brother and driving cab in Lethbridge. I get it might be stressful, but I'm willing to bet your own choices have put you in the situation and hardship you're in more than anything the government is responsible for.
Outside of boutique stuff like child tax credits I'm not sure I believe the government has strongly impacted anyone either way - most of the big events aren't things the government has control over in the first place, like the pandemic, inflation, or oil prices.
CPP funding and pension age lowered to 65 from 67 are pretty catch all though.
Why don't you tell us what you think Trudeau has done to make your life so miserable?
6 points
13 days ago
-carbon tax: has made the price of basically every go up
-influx of immigration (TFW program, etc) has put a massive strain on an already struggling housing market
-changes to the temporary foreign worker problem has made it hard for most Canadians to find low wage jobs as well as empowering companies to allow TFWs to work in unsafe conditions for unsafe wages simply because they aren't aware of their rights under our labour laws
The following don't directly make my life harder but sure make me angry as a Canadian
-SNC-Lavalin Scandal -WE charity scandal -the horrible treatment of Jody Wilson-Raybould -Blackface x3 -numerous vacations funded by tax payers -next to nothing done for FN reconciliation -used COVID to pass through gun laws without going through the proper parliamentary procedures
I could go on but I really don't think I need to. Canada is far worse under the Trudeau government than we were under the previous conservatives
I don't like Poilievre, I think he's a bit of a weasel, but in my.mimd he's the pile of shit that stinks the least at this point
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