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  • Bomb threats to local schools were also being sent via Proton.

    If they aren't going to help deal with that then I can understand why turning them off and figuring out is the next best step.

    Other services likely engage with local authorities when illegal activity is pursued in their platform.

  • An MP in a conservative stronghold has to resign and then he can run there in a byelection to get back into the House of Commons. The timing of the byelection is determined by Prime Minister Carney though, so he could very well be put until 2026.

  • Too close from whose perspective?

    The liberals had no business winning this election. All metrics pointed to a conservwtive land slide until Trump got involved and Carney seemingly handled him better than Trudeau.

    Carney is going to have to perform above average in his first term otherwise the liberals will be absolutely decimated in 4 years.

    This is borrowed time. Even an average performance now will guarantee Poilievre a win in 4 years. The Liberals are going to have to get more done in 4 years than they have in the past 10 to prevent that.

  • I don't know if America is the right place to take advice on that at the moment. Whatever plan is being implemented there has clearly failed profoundly.

    Unless you're saying Canada should learn from America's mistakes but the countries are very different so I doubt the lessons would be meaningful.

  • I'm totally okay with taking a shot on someone who is actually educated and respected as opposed to a career politician.

    Many Western nations are turning to political outsiders out of frustration with the status quo. Conservatives and the far right have more effectively tapped into that underlying desire and capitalized on it.

    Here we have an outsider who isn't a dog whistling regressive populist. That's a huge win for Canada in my book.

  • This has been my experience as well and I'd like to highlight your insightful point on how it seemed like both options were still trying to work towards a greater good decades ago.

    Modern day conservatism seems entirely based on the ethos that inclusivity has gone too far. Since the world has become (in a very general and oversimplfying sense) more fair and inclusive over time, the ideology now feels inherently regressive.

  • What happens when a 'safe third country' starts adopting extractionary systems left behind by colonial empires that have, in part, held back third world economies for decades? Keep an eye on America to find out!

    I'm sure America's substantial purchasing power will help prevent the rot from spreading within. Right? Right?!

  • I think he performed well in the debates. I wouldn't be surprised if the NDP has trouble filling his shoes. Though they may be able to by picking someone who is more 'demographically palatable' to the average Canadian.

  • I recall in the past Western nations would hold their social progress over emerging nations with an air of arrogance. But anyone who has been alive long enough understands that social progress is a function of Maslow's hierarchy of needs. When basic needs become more challenging to secure (as they have been in Canada and the US with affordability crises), social progress unfortunately takes the back burner.

    Its often less about the people and more about the circumstance, though religion can be an important modifier.

  • Taking it a step further, this isn't even hypocrisy to them.

    Conservatism requires ingroups and outgroups.

    Brown and black people are examples outgroups to conservatives.

    Their ingroup is straight binary white people.

    In their world view, treating an ingroup poorly is a violation of human rights. Treating an outgroup poorly is giving them what they deserve (for not being part of the ingroup).

    For this to be hypocrisy from their perspective, Trump would have to be currently deporting who they perceive to be in their ingroup en masse.

    Behavior matters less than identity to conservatives.

  • The US managed to horde 80% of global reserves of gold by selling weapons to allied nations during WW2.

    Being the greatest beneficiary of WW2 is a story that rarely gets told.

    I mean kudos is deserved for rapidly industrializing into a weapons manufacturing hotspot when the demand was skyrocketing but a lot of Americans are taught that US ascension post WW2 was entirely self determined which is brain rot level propoganda.