I do hope QS will continue to grow and eventually start being a viable opponent to the CAQ.
An actual socialist party ruling in Quebec? I don't think the rest of Canada can handle that.
just as long as they wipe the PQ off the map, I'm fine with thatI do hope QS will continue to grow and eventually start being a viable opponent to the CAQ.
What the fuck does the rest of Canada has to do with provincial politics
a) the PQ polling poorly is good news to all Canadians coast-2-coastEverybody else pays for it all because Quebec is dependent on federal funding? Equalization to Quebec has been a thing for like 50 years.
Everybody else pays for it all because Quebec is dependent on federal funding? Equalization to Quebec has been a thing for like 50 years.
voters are stupid, they just want a shiny new object without knowing what it stands for. Just for the sake of "change".
Ironically, the economny and emplomyent numbers are at their best in decades. This whole "throw the bums out" mentaliy is non-sensical when the economy is doing well
Australia never had a Pierre Trudeau like we didSo Australia is finally putting the marriage equality bill to parliament and an MP took the occasion to propose to his partner:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/201...-partner-same-sex-marriage-debate-parliament/
It's just been interesting watching this whole process given how long it took Canada. I still find it kind of strange that Australia doesn't really have a "Bill of Rights" or Charter like we do, so they didn't have a court process to force the issue like we did here.
If anything a strong economy potentially makes it more likely that the incumbent party will get replaced, because people are having their basic needs met, and are becoming more comfortable with risk, such as the risk of going with a new government that is promising new things that the incumbent won't.
An actual socialist party ruling in Quebec? I don't think the rest of Canada can handle that.
The actual revenues and expenditures of provincial governments do not affect the equalization payment calculation.
Equalization payments are based on a formula that calculates the difference between the per capita revenue yield that a particular province would obtain using average tax rates and the national average per capita revenue yield at average tax rates.
It's basically a direct injection of Albertan funds into Quebec. A middleman doesn't change anything.
Here is a good article on the subject, http://business.financialpost.com/opinion/joe-oliver-why-equalization-no-longer-works
The whole system punishes provinces for being economically sound and rewards provinces for actively sabotaging their economy. What's not mentioned in the article is that the whole system also ignores the cost of living.
It's basically a direct injection of Albertan funds into Quebec. A middleman doesn't change anything.
FTFY. Quebec Solidaire being left-leaning party in favor of Quebec sovereignty does not erase their advocacy for Quebec sovereignty.Another separatist party ruling in Quebec? I don't think the rest of Canada can handle that.
So Australia is finally putting the marriage equality bill to parliament and an MP took the occasion to propose to his partner:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/201...-partner-same-sex-marriage-debate-parliament/
It's just been interesting watching this whole process given how long it took Canada. I still find it kind of strange that Australia doesn't really have a "Bill of Rights" or Charter like we do, so they didn't have a court process to force the issue like we did here.
FTFY. Quebec Solidaire being left-leaning party in favor of Quebec sovereignty does not erase their advocacy for Quebec sovereignty.
Poorly argued positions with little connection to facts, Joe Oliver? Checks out.Someone using Joe Oliver as a source? That's... certainly one way to argue position, I guess.
Yeah, that's really frustrating. Being leftist and non-separatist, who the fuck can I even vote for?It's a bit more complicated than that. I'm not pro-sovereignty at all, but in the QC political scene there really aren't any other viable left-wing parties. And I assume a lot of the QS voter base also thinks the same.
I like his response to people who said he's just doing it for a publicity stunt by saying the entire political process made his relationship a publicity stunt.FTFY. Quebec Solidaire being left-leaning party in favor of Quebec sovereignty does not erase their advocacy for Quebec sovereignty.
Aww, that's so cute!
Welp...A significant contributor to Quebec's population "loss" is from new immigrants that got into the country via the Quebec Investor Immigrant Program, whom never actually had any plan to settle in Quebec, and move straight to Vancouver.
Quebec immigrant program increases in popularity … with 'downsides' for B.C.
The wealth of these new immigrants has no relationship to the local incomes of Vancouverites, and so this disproportionate buying power has contributed to the severe price increases in housing and the housing affordability crisis in Vancouver.
It would be nice if Trudeau would grow a backbone and get Quebec to stop selling Canadian citizenship.
Ending the tolls: A case for congestion pricing?
I enjoy Maclean's annual economic charts piece. I generally pay more attention to the charts submitted by economists working as professors but there's a lot of good stuff in there. My two favorites:
Tax the rich! (But not me, I'm middle class.)
Yeah, it's kind of ridiculous for people that earn 100k in most municipalities and call themselves middle class.
I just hit that this year, and I'm under no illusion that I'm middle class at all.
(Then again, that definition changes in different jurisdictions. The CBC As It Happens TV show just interviewed one of the Canadian winners of the Progress Prize (or something along those lines) and they joked that the prize was just enough for a downpayment in Vancouver's real estate market.)
If you are working on a new Saskatchewan government highways project, you'd better not have an Alberta licence plate.
The province is banning workers with Alberta plates from all new road projects. The new rule won't apply to existing projects like the Regina bypass.
The Ministry of Highways is targeting Alberta specifically because it says Saskatchewan workers in Alberta feel forced to register their vehicles in order to work there.
Is this is the kind of crap they're pulling now what's it going to look like in the run up to the election?
If they're going to run on Islamophobia and cater to the alt-right then the CPC must be destroyed, they need to lose their official party status and Scheer should lose his seat and crawl back into whatever hole he crawled out of.
Which by-election? There's at least four coming up December 11th.
the one in South Surrey-White RockWhich by-election? There's at least four coming up December 11th.