Sorry your cousin is a fucking moron, but I think it's fucking absurd to curtial the freedoms of everyone because of the lowest common denominator of people.

Perhaps consider there's a lot of space between draconian government restrictions and acting like a complete buffoon.

"Trying to protect the public" aka limiting what people can and can't do. We're adults, we can protect ourselves.

Last time I checked almost the entirety of that was better than the current Liberals. Lower housing prices, lower cost of living, lower immigration, lower homelessness, lower drug deaths, less crime, higher per capita GDP

Trudeau isn't fear mongering about the CPC, they'll be every bit as bad and worse than the Liberals say.

Could you also use that crystal ball to tell me next week's lottery numbers?

I felt far more under seige by the federal and provincial mandates than by any of the related protests.

I mean, Minecraft is one of the most popular games in the world... Maybe the kids are trying to tell us something

I am extremely critical of Trudeau but he did the right thing

If you read the federal court ruling, they list several reasons why he didn't; largely summarised as:

(1) The invocation of the EA being overly broad (it temporarily outlaws protests on any topic anywhere in the country, which is a Charter violation of anyone not involved in the protest),

(2) Invocation was unnecessary (provinces and cities were capable of clearing out other protests without it), and

(3) It resulted in unreasonable search and seizure of those alleged to be involved in the protest (another Charter violation, with no due process to boot).

I can definitely understand disagree on point 2, but not 1 or 3. There's no reason someone in Moosejaw should be stopped from protesting croc shoes while this was going on (not saying this happened but it could have with the way the EA was invoked), nor was there any process or accountablility with selecting who's bank accounts got hit.

I was working summer jobs doing farm labour since before I was a teenager (and I'm not that old), so I'm gonna say that it's fine that 13 year olds are working.

To be fair, there are a significant amount of staunch conservatives who are really unhappy with how friendly Ford is with Trudeau.

It's actually a little humerous for me because I hear both sides of it IRL. I know very few people who are happy with Ford, but I know many people who are unhappy with him because he is too "far right" and even more people who are unhappy with him because he is a "conservative in name only"

I was more thinking of the stair exit being blocked by fire, not on fire itself.

It's all fun and games until the single stair is blocked by fire.

So you're suggesting that Trudeau Liberal policies were somehow preferred in this area by massive margin in 2015, 2019 and 2021 but aren't now, with the only real policy change that negatively affects these people is capital gains?

Quite honestly, I'll be surprised if this riding remains CPC during the next federal election. My gut instinct is that there's probably a small contingent of ABC voters who had planned on staying home during the next election but now that reality has hit they'll come out. And this margin was so narrow it'll flip here.

Yeah, so maybe the public service needs to take a look at say "if we have two people warming a chair for 60% of their work time, maybe we should fire two and have the third only warming the chair 10% of the time"

... you've got to be the only person then. Even the CPC is surprised they won.

Also, your excuse makes no sense. What's your reasoning for the previous Liberal massive success in thus riding? They've regularly been getting ~50% or more of the vote and even won by a healthy margin in 2011 when the party was soundly defeated from coast-to-coast... Do you think all the rich people moved in within the last couple of years?

Unfortunately we have like 40% more public servants yet somehow services aren't 40% better... So yeah, productivity is unchanged, that's the problem.

I mean when you have NDP voters who would rather have a Con win than the liberals...

Maybe they're NDP voters who hate what's happening to this country under the Liberals and possess the conviction to vote for what they actually believe in.

Did you asking about getting a heat pump to run the AC coil above the gas furnace instead of just a regular outdoor AC unit? The cost difference in hardware is only a few hundred dollars at most (for same sized unit, maybe $500-$700 if you are going up a size to hear for longer into the winter), installation cost should be the same and while it doesn't eliminate gas burining you can reduce it by probably 50% - 70%.

This is basically what I'm in the process if doing, except rather than a furnace replacement I'm only doing it to add AC because I currently don't have AC on my furnace.

Perhaps the NDP shouldn't have hitched their horse to the Liberal bandwagon. The fact that they're showing so poorly is just as mind boggling as the Liberals losing this seat.

What I see is 5k NDP and Greens voters who would rather see a conservative MP having the seat than make sure it's someone fairly progressive in place.

It's called having integrity. Although I largely don't agree with their politics, I am proud of the 5k NDP and Green for being uncompromising in their values.

ABC voters have no commitment to ideals or integrity, they'd vote for the likes of Stalin and Mao if it meant keeping a conservative out of office.

This is a stupid take, why on earth would they give up majority rule, which they regularly get, in favour of a forever minority in which the partners in the coalition would have far more power than they ever do under FPTP?