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If you are the head of a state you don’t get the luxury of personal convictions. You should always be acting in the interest of the state.

Realpolitik says the best interests of Canada are to try to get Trump to walk back steel and aluminium tariffs buying time while to diversify exports and institute “Buy Canadian”

So the PM should let his personal life dictate state actions?

They’re waterproof for a reason

Won’t anyone think of the politicians!?! They can’t ensure a sinecure position by willy nilly throwing money at basic societal needs!

Credit where it is due. My parents are willing to question things. And that is half the battle.

My parents actually went the other way. They were very conservative while I was growing up until my mid twenties, and nowadays they are the complete opposite.

When they were conservative, I generally didn’t bring up politics, but if it came up I didn’t argue. I would just say I thought something was mean spirited and just shrug if they tried to argue. I think I accidentally psychologically fucked with them. I think being mean was against a core value of theirs and me repeating that idea slightly tweaked their thought process.

Eventually I started hearing the “mean spirited” comment from them as a reason they disliked a policy or conservative person. And they now vote for liberal or labour parties.

I looked him up. He is already retired from US military. A known democratic, endorsing both Harris and Biden. Nowadays it looks like he’s on a couple research and strategic groups and works for NATO directly.

BC has put a big effort to lower barriers to US and other foreign doctors. Also increase doctor pay. Apparently there has been a decent uptick.

The Westcoast shoukdnjust break off and do their own thing.

We care about the environment, but if you could commute an hour and a half to go on MS Teams that’d be greeeat.

But checks and balances!

Dude was too much of a coward to run in Calgary, the only bit of Alberta he has a nominal connection to.

Him winning less than 65% of the vote would be embarrassing. I think the last dude won with something like 85%

The government shouldn’t be involved in union busting. AC has no reason to bargain in good faith if the government continues to throw workers under the (air)bus

The duality of man