Yeah, I'm gonna go and suggest the GST vacation is probably a "costly political gimmick". Honestly, I'm with her on not signing off on that.
Yeah it's gotta be that and the $250 cheques.
The GST vacation offloaded all the work to the local businesses, many who weren't ready to apply the exemption in time. Kind of a dick move to them.
It would have made more sense to give that back in the form of a tax rebate during income season, or through bonus child benefit / pension payments, etc who are usually those that needs it the most if they wanted to put it back in people's pocket faster.
The thing that bothers me most about it is that it's making the tax less progressive.
The people who will benefit the most are people who spend the most on: toys, games, eating out, etc.
I get that the whole point is to allow some luxuries for Christmas, but this is going to do jack shit for people who are really struggling.
non-amp link: https://www.cbc.ca/lite/story/1.7411380
I've never really thought about her, but my support for Freeland is at an all-time high. With Trudeau ignoring calls from within his party to step down, the tax holiday and $250 cheque gimmicks, and thinking that working Canadians give a crap about Mark Carney - he has shown he is sooo out of touch, and Freeland's backing off feels like the most principled move available. It's nice to see someone left-ish in politics signaling "the status quo is not good enough - I expect better. Canadians expect better"
Freeland also took a jab at Trudeau's handling of the country's economy, denouncing what she called the government's "costly political gimmicks"
thinking that working Canadians give a crap about Mark Carney - he has shown he is sooo out of touch
I think this is a serious problem with all the Carney sycophancy. I've tried to tease out what he'd be like at the helm from some interviews I've seen with him. What I've figured is that he's very much into finding solutions using markets but I don't think he's a free market fundamentalist. That puts him right where the current LPC thought is, which is in the words of Comr. Dyatlov - not great, not terrible. Unfortunately we need better than that because our current trend isn't a positive one for the working class.
With all that said I don't know where Freeland sits. I wouldn't be surprised for her to ideologically close to Carney given they're close.
Interesting insights, thanks for sharing! I'm not as savvy as you are in this area but I thought about this more today. I believe Freeland to be pretty similar to Trudeau policy-wise, and Freeland is perhaps seizing an opportunity to lay the groundwork to distinguish herself as fiscally prudent for later leadership bids. All that's to say, I'm not excited about the idea of Freeland taking over for Trudeau. I hope she just stirs things and motivates the LPC to consider more attractive candidates
Well, that's a bombshell.
Jesus fucking Christ. So he told her he'll shuffle her to another ministerial spot and she resigned instead, before issuing the FES. 💣💥
Can this trigger an LPC leadership election?
I would love that frankly.
Trudeau should have been dropped in 2021, he only won because the COC imploded. At this point the entire cabinet and party is burned, and the CPC would rally behind a Labrador retriever if it got them power rather than repeat their mistakes.
Internationally every incumbent party is getting wiped out, it’ll be no different here. Letting Trudeau fall on the sword is going to obliterate the party, but switching all the leadership roles based on party member input will at least tell Canadians the party knows we want change and badly.
They’ll probably get destroyed anyways, but this might be a unique opportunity to clean house and capitalize on the unpopularity of Pollievre and Singh.
It might also be political suicide, which means the deadweight lifers won’t take it. I would admire a leader taking that all or nothing gamble though.
"On Friday, you told me you no longer want me to serve as your Finance Minister and offered me another position in the cabinet," Freeland wrote, addressing Trudeau. "Upon reflection, I have concluded that the only honest and viable path is for me to resign from the cabinet."
Scenario: Freeland foments party revolt against Trudeau, figuring it's her chance to be PM. Leadership contest ensues. Carney steps in and wins it.
Freeland won't run for party leader, if for no other reason than she knows she'll just be a sacrificial lamb.
And the old boy's network hasn't yet been able to get Carney to sign on the dotted line, so he's a ways off from being a sure thing.
”That means keeping our fiscal powder dry today, so we have the reserves we may need for a coming tariff war," Freeland wrote. "That means eschewing costly political gimmicks, which we can ill afford and which make Canadians doubt that we recognize the gravity of the moment."
Really felt like she was dropping what we’ve all been thinking about gimmicks and politicians more interested in themselves than the country.
Honestly if she felt this way then she failed at her job by not pushing that perspective.
Why did she push forward the cheques and tax holiday if they’re gimmicks. She could have said she’d resign before the gimmicks, but now that they’re out and have backfired I think that ends her political career in any future cabinet.
Honestly going ride or die on your beliefs is needed. Now she’s burned herself, yet she’s still throwing shade like it’s the parties fault, which just hurts everyone. Funny how she has this perspective now.
ETA: I might be too hard on Freeland here, I had mistakenly thought she announced these programs.
What makes you think she DIDN'T say she would resign if he did it??
If she wanted it to look like a principled choice, she should have done it before it was officially announced (and a done deal in private) or just after it was announced. Waiting until it's in place and public opinion is clear gives the appearance of yet another politician checking which way the political wind is blowing before making a move.
I could see her using this as pressure and a lead up to Trudeau stepping down so she can throw her hat in the ring with a little extra political capital and distance from the ruling cabinet.
Great news. Ukrainian nazis should not be part of Canadian government deciding on funding for Ukrainian nazis. I'd rather "cash gimmick" then more theft for US sponsored war. That's the importance of exterminating her from cabinet voice.
Da comrade.
Have you filled your post quota for the day yet?
Looks like 100 Putin bootlicking posts a week on Lemmy. It's hard not to feed the trolls, but I try not to.
If every dumbass gives their $250 to Ukraine voluntarily, you can hopefully bless them with an extra month or 2 of war and destruction. So that Russia increases military production more, and our NATO master tells us we need to give up health care, pensions, and welfare to boost militarty spending to 3%.
So the question is whether you have a quota as a traitorous US empire/CIA stooge, or Ukrainian nazi sympathizer, on posts diminishing Canadians into subservience?
