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« on: February 27, 2018, 06:10:29 PM »

Trudeau is the worst PM ever and he is much worse than even Trump: https://globalnews.ca/news/4049900/trudeau-omar-khadr-lawyer-john-norris-justice/
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« Reply #1 on: March 06, 2018, 03:37:55 PM »

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Not a single one of the changes as per the defined regulations would have been bad for small businesses whatsoever, as only the already extremely profitable small businesses would have been subject to the tax changes. There were a handful of proposed regulations that according to the small business community might have been harmful because they were not precisely spelled out.

The arguments of how these small business tax changes would have hurt small business or Canada in general are definitely 'neo liberal' arguments:

1.Business people deserve extra tax advantages because they are 'job creators'

2.If business owners (not the businesses themselves) are taxed at normal rates they won't grow the economy is an argument which is the very definition of 'trickle down supply side economics.'



Small Businesses are the job creators and should be taxed at less than the Income Rate
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« Reply #2 on: April 09, 2018, 01:59:16 PM »

A year ago, I was lamenting that the Boy-Emperor would be with us until the 2030s and now it seems that the only thing that might save his hide is... Doug Ford.

Funny world we live in.


Go Doug Ford then



Trudeau is he worst Canadian PM at least since WW2
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« Reply #3 on: April 19, 2018, 01:44:58 AM »

Tories next time they get in power should deregulate the media



If CBC is good enough they should be able to handle new competition
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« Reply #4 on: September 11, 2018, 11:48:01 PM »

Doug Ford so far has been awesome
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« Reply #5 on: October 28, 2018, 09:27:26 PM »

Hope this passes: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/doug-ford-teachers-math-test-ontario-1.4878114
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« Reply #6 on: January 29, 2019, 02:51:03 AM »

Harper goes on Prager U : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFWE2jl5mwA&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR2vlhsyxA3UGJJrG15E4f88L8CscC3QVIkDwywoM7Yz35uVQUchPPZFz0s
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« Reply #7 on: January 29, 2019, 02:59:26 AM »


Harper though almost always make a reasonable and intelligent point
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« Reply #8 on: January 29, 2019, 03:33:49 AM »


I'm familiar with Harper's arguments because he wrote a book on it that had some discussion in the media. Even with some conservative leaning Canadian columnists (Andrew Coyne and Tristan Hopper at the National Post) the concept of the 'anywheres' was ridiculed.

Andrew Coyne: Stephen Harper comes across as banal in effort to claim mantle of populism
Harper’s book is largely an attempt to portray his own government, not as the cynical power-seeking machine it appeared to be, but as populist before its time.

I disagree in that Harper did market his government at the time as 'populist' but without using that word: a 'Tim Horton's conservative' and his signature tax cut was the reduction of the GST from 7% to 5% 

Canada has also benefited from our large resource economy: young people, not necessarily straight out of high school, but after maybe a 6 month certificate program can get a relatively well paying job in the oil patch or in mining.  For most other jobs, it's now almost impossible to get a high paying job roughly straight out of high school.

However, this does bring up the point.  The irony of Trump and the Congressional Republicans benefiting from the 'somewheres' revolt against the 'elites' is that it was Republican policies that led to the real elites (the 1% approximately) gaining a larger and larger share of national income.

I support free trade and oppose tariffs, but there was always a concern with a fallacy of composition/commons problem: each individual wealthy business owner benefited from taking nearly all of the gains from trade for themselves, but all together, they've poisoned the well a great deal for support of free trade.

Republican policies that enabled this include:
1.anti union policies like the so-called 'right to work.'
2.tax cuts that mostly benefit the wealthy
3.rising tuition rates
4.Inadequate social programs in order to ensure that corporations have a pool of unemployed to keep wages depressed
5.Opposition to campaign finance reform



Harper did negotiate most of Canada's Free Trade Deals , and handled the 08 Recession better than America or Europe Did .
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