Kind of interesting that all these truths you are told to believe continues to cost you elections. You can certainly go with the theory that the population are sheeple and only the group you are in see things clearly (despite pretty much every other poster here easily pointing out how often both of you misrepresent reality). Not sure what you want me to add here, if you want to go full alt-right media consumption derp then go for it and drop any whatabouts and just embrace that lifestyle choice like that Brian James or Shifty do here. At least they do not pretend with whatabouts or any fake routine that anyone or anything except what they believe has merit. I may not agree with much of what they say, but I appreciate that they have gone all-in on their approach with no excuses/whatabouts etc. They just charge in on the derp 100% of the time, every time, and while their views are often laughably bad - at least they do not pretend to be something they are not. Perhaps you are finally going to make that choice given your most recent post and join Brian and Shifty in their club moving forward. The one benefit of that lifestyle choice (if you make it) is you can then make zero effort to back your opinions and you can simply spew what you read on fringy Twitter accounts or opinion pieces and then pretend nobody else exists, because you see the truth and they are all the ones that are brainwashed, perhaps by watching "The View."

By the way - that whole deep deep deep whatever media thing - pretty sure I never used that type of description, but alt right derps use it all the time. Kind of interesting that the lifestyle choice you are likely going to embrace does that often where they project their own behavior on others. Just try to be entertaining when doing so!

All the best.

Hey can the conservatives really decrease immigration rates? The accepted stance on reddit seems to be that magically they will. But can they?

With the amount of Canadians leaving, the amount of people who moved here and within a few years head home, and the dying boomers, I'm not even sure the ponzi can continue without these levels of immigration. The tax and pension base aren't there.

I'm just so curious what a fictional 2026 immigration total might be under a hypothetical conservative majority of some kind. Maybe they "lower" to 500k only to quickly resume after? Just to score a little goodwill?

They need to magically summon a huge construction workforce, totally fix zoning, cut red tape, etc. All while it's often left to the provinces to manage that stuff. It's gonna be tough. I know no government refuses power. But man the conservatives are inheriting something they may genuinely have no shot at fixing. They could get stuck with a quick 4 years before a minority (or less).

while still true (I think?) cpi did just tick up slightly over expectations right after posting this.

A lot of people got free money from the government because of covid ?
If they all spend it already , yeah it will hurt them a bit .
That is how inflation works .
Free stuff free money increases prices in other places .

Have the Conservatives pledged to reduce immigration?

Your not wrong you know what they say it takes a year to build a home and only 15 minutes to burn it down. To defend Justin Trudeau he was correct building affordable homes isnt a federal priority and yet he kept promising he would do that . Like clean drinking water the excuse is "Well its hard"

Look at the USA getting their debt downgraded Canada may looking at a similar scenario with no plans to balance the budget under Justin .

Imho the hard part about « sticky » inflation is just starting with recession risk (to me inevitable) .
It’s because we entering in a period where prices stop going higher by big margin now from last year .
So as soon gaz prices goes up or any other thing cpi will go up compared to last year .

Probably the BoC (like many others) will hike interest rates even more and it will kill the economy to reach that « ideology » of 2% cpi .
I think the kind of economy we have today could be manage at 3-4 % inflation but for many politicians
(and their political donators that don’t want to see their profit margin to go lower with higher wages ..) , higher then 2% inflation is unacceptable .
Despite the fact that 3-4 % inflation , ex 2005 +, was in the norm

https://www.worlddata.info/america/c...20was%202.8%25.

« During the observation period from 1960 to 2022, the average inflation rate was 3.8% per year. ».

Inflation is rising again not good . OIl is expected to rise as well with the Saudi cutbacks

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/money/tops...3df23b6f5&ei=7

I guess Saudi wanted to make sure all their US dollar derived from selling oil for decades keep their value ?
Forcing the US to raise interest rates while lowering their oil reserve .

Isnt the US oil Reserve already depleted ?

IM sure youll bet big on it. You remind me of a soccer buddy that went to Vegas with us. He brags about his big time wagering and were playing poker and often he has to be reminded its his turn. His reply sorry guys got some serious cash on the game he is watching . Later you see his betting slip and its a $5 wager

Youll love this opinion piece which I think reflects many voters

Warning Warning Opinion Piece for Monteroy

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/other...1aafc9f08&ei=9

Not too shocking that you and your buddies bet 5 bucks a crack (you must hang out at some low end casinos, pretty sure the minimum was $10+ the last time I was there over 10 years ago). Not sure why you project that behavior on others, but guess projecting on others and constantly making stuff up is your skill set as many people here tell you (with actual breakdowns of how you are wrong).

Also, for your info, there is very minimal one can wager on the Canadian elections as there is not much of a market. You would be happy to know this bit of trivia - the only time I did wager on a Canadian election was with Intertops probably for the 2011 election on the Conservatives, because it was clear they were going to win but Intertops had them at even money for some reason. When I tried to place a bet of $2,000 on it I found the limit on that wager was a weird $55, so that is what I bet - 11x what you and your buddies typically bet!

Also, I did not click your latest link of derp, but while you may try to be snarky by announcing it is an opinion piece (no doubt an extremely biased one against I assume Trudeau) - before I helped you in that area you would try to pass off that nonsense as news articles, so with my help you now lie just a little bit less!

All the best.

It was actually the Aria Maybe it was $10 was just annoying holding up a game for that wager
Though my two favorites are Southpoint and Red Rock. As for what I wager I only play 1-3 NL or PLO . Not like the old days when I was a member of fatbonus and Trugansta. You probably never heard of either. Back in those days I played $25-$50 a hand at the Alladin


To bad you didnt read it as the author tells Pierre to stop the conspiracy crap

I don’t think so .
The growth of oil yeah probably .
( if I remember correctly the US shale oil account for like 90% of growth oil production in the world the past years ) .

So the US can still produce no problem but if prices goes up they won’t be able to increase oil production to lower the price down .

https://www.rigzone.com/news/is_the_...20talk%20shale.

« The U.S. shale boom is done, according to Stephen Brennock, an oil analyst at PVM Oil Associates. “Several factors are behind the end of the U.S. shale boom,” he told Rigzone. Representatives at PVM Oil Associates, Fitch Solutions, EIR and Westwood talk shale.Jan 17, 2023 ».

In the end imo , paper money will always lose eventually to commodities money .
Oil > paper money unless u increase interest rates to crazy level aka 1980s.
Be ready to lose lot of real estate value tho lol.

No reason for the CPC to comment on immigration right now. As far as I know Bernier and the PPC have been the only party to really say they want a decrease immigration.

I think were talking a different thing . I am talking about America's Strategic Petroleum Reserves. Biden depleted them to the lowest levels since 1984 and from my understanding has yet to replace.

I guess will see were the price goes

It's almost as if the Liberals know their time is up and are doing everything they can for the CPC to inherit a complete disaster. It's either that or gross incompetence, probably a bit of both.

Indeed, Poilievre has been slippery as **** trying to simultaneously bash the liberals without offering any plan or targets of his own: https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/poil...ions-1.6502699

The strange thing is you seem to think this is ok. Personally I'd think a good reason for the CPC to comment is because they are supposed to be the official opposition, heck they even have their own shadow minister of immigration. However, because the current CPC party ship is on total messaging lockdown with a narrow set of issues and phrases repeated ad nauseum across the party (it's own problem, but that's for another day), we don't get comments. I guess that is a reason, but it certainly isn't a good one.

This of course is just pure conspiracy. Just as your leader peddles conspiracies.

Because there isn't an election called and he continues to climb higher in the polls. Why give the media/Liberals ammunition when what he's currently doing is working just fine by letting Liberals Trudeau self destruct.

No conspiracy. Just a logical opinion on why the Liberals are failing the country so badly.

https://ycharts.com/indicators/us_en...roleum_reserve

went down by like 45%
its still ok but i guess they will buy when it hits a low floor in prices to prevent a bust in the oil market .

I've said many times I think Poilievre is an extremely effective politician and that his dishonesty and evasions unfortunately in our political climate are big tools in his tool bag. So sure. If dishonestly critiquing current immigration practices while evading attempts to get the leader of the official opposition to say wtf he would do differently is a good electoral strategy, well, the system sure rewards him for doing that. But I think we - and most importantly you - should be able to call him out for it when he does so.

At some point he is going to have to say what he is going to do on immigration and climate and any number of other issues he is utterly mum on. In normal cycles a lot of this is flushed out during leadership elections, but unfortunately given that the CPC did a coronation he was able to say nothing then either.

Yes and that point will be when an election is called. His job now is to point out the incompetence and lies of the current PM .

Pierre obviously has hired an image consultant as well no more glasses and looking fit as a fiddle even the way he is dressing.

Lol, another one on the team that the official opposition should duck and evade and not actually articulate a position on key policies like immigration and climate.

And yes, it’s pretty funny his attempts to copy the trudeau good looks card of uh well trying to appeal to white conservative males I guess. Never pegged him for an image consultant, focus group, cares what he looks like type but here we are.

I do think there's going to be a pretty obvious spot to sell US dollars pretty soon (and buy CDN ones). Unquestionably we're about to see a natural resource boom in Canada. I don't see parity, but if you told me a 20 cent swing I'd believe it. Then it'll be a nice time to get back into USD again.