7/7 All I want is for sense to prevail and for five out of the NDP, Green, Bloc, and remaining sane CPC to support some version of the Libs terrible budget. Canada can't afford to trade Carney for Poilievre.
Oh, and for the PM's office to say Trump is full of shit and Reagan was a free-trader.
6/7 I wouldn't vote Green because, well, that's basically not voting as they zero chance in 99% of ridings. I mean, Elizabeth May is great and all, but why vote-split on the left for a party that can't win and isn't 100% aligned with my views?
5/7 I wouldn't vote NDP as they're a shadow of the party I remember and in no way prepared to lead anything. The CPC are socially conservative, anti-science, anti-immigration, anti-environment, anti-bilingualism, anti-everything uniquely Canadian Trumpy fascists, so no.
4/7 With a no confidence vote likelihood sitting around 60%, I don't know what to do if the government collapses. I don't want to vote Liberal as I consider too much of their platform abhorrent, but I feel we need Carney.
3/7 None of the other party leaders have his economic experience, or really any valuable global experience, but the Libs normalize Trump far too much and allow him to portray them as allies when the US regime is well aware Canadians do not want a pushover or a Trump pal as PM.
1/7 Trump is claiming PM Carney "apologized for what they did" over Premier Ford's Reagan ad, adding that it's a "false commercial" and that "Reagan loved tariffs. Naturally, the PM's office has no response, which allows the insinuation that Carney agreed it was a false ad and apologized to stand.
3/3 The LPC, NDP and Bloc are all on the centre left to leftist side of the spectrum while the CPC is rightwing. Is it worth it to plunge Canada into step with Trump's US regime? The majority of Canadians voted for one of the left-leaning parties. Get your shit together, NDP and Bloc!
2/3 If the NDP decide to follow the Bloc and the CPC in not supporting the budget, we will have another federal election. The MAGA-aligned CPC is set to win if that happens.
FFS, if my NDP collapses a Lib minority government AGAIN, at this critical moment, I will never forgive them.
1/3 While others continue to focus on Trump's tantrum of the week - Are we not used to this by now? He doesn't want a trade deal with Canada. - my fears revolve around the budget vote. The CPC just want to topple the LPC and the Bloc are doing Bloc things.
6/6 A CPC led coalition with either the Bloc or NDP is unlikely, which would mean a second federal election in under a year.
Polls say Poilievre's MAGA-aligned rightwing CPC would win a clear majority, giving them 4-5 years of secure hold on Canada. We may be very, very fucked.
5/6 I think - Hope I'm wrong! - a budget vote failure means PM Carney would need to step down. After that, the opposition parties have the chance to form a coalition to govern, which means the CPC would need to get either the Bloc or the NDP, both further left than the Libs, to support them.
Caney's Libs are MUCH further right than Trudeau's were, and they seem unlikely to bend to NDP demands since they've already dismissed the not-unreasonable Bloc's requests.
The CPC wants a budget similar to Trump's, which is also a non-starter with the Libs. This is dangerous.
3/6 The NDP did this when the rightwing CPC had a massive lead over everyone, an idiotic move that cost them official party status as many NDP folks, like me, voted Lib to limit vote splitting.
(Longtime NDP - socialist here - b/c they are the closest viable party to my politics)
2/6 This is why I was upset that we ended up with a minority Liberal win.
Many on the left, some with influential platforms, wanted a minority as it gives the NDP leverage, but the NDP threw us into the last federal election when they refused to keep supporting the Liberals.
1/6 My worst fear has come true - we could be on the verge of another federal election in Canada.
Both the Conservatives and the Bloc have said they will not support the Liberal budget. Unless the Liberals can win over the NDP, the budget will fail, triggering a no confidence vote.
7/7 Both the CPC and the LPC are regarded as more open to Trumpian disregard for regulations. What is happening? Did Trump's threats force us into becoming a defacto 51st state to survive? In that case, he won. Otherwise, the LPC was taken over from within the same way the federal PCs were.
6/7 US investors are pouring into Canada, scooping up shares in environmentally damaging companies that Canadians are more hesitant to invest heavily in. Why? Because the Canadian political landscape shifted dramatically right, signalling we would be dropping green protections.
5/7 If so, they have failed Canadians because who we are matters more than economics. Do they know something they won't share, facts about US plans that would horrify and frighten Canadians?
Or did we elect something else pretending to be the LPC?
4/7 I don't know a single Liberal voter - party supporter or otherwise - who voted to stop immigration. Canadians rejected the CPC and closer ties with Trump's US. The majority of us do not want this. Have the Liberals decided to fall in line with the US for "trade and security"?
3/7 When asked, Liberal representatives refuse to say anything that indicates otherwise - Canada is cracking down on immigration in ways that mirror the Trump regime. Is this part of a new "security agreement" with the US? Or is it capitulation to Conservative Party voters, who lost the election?
2/7 Add in our new border security bills designed to somewhat fall in line with current US immigration policy, and it's looking like wide-scale cancellation of current immigration applications is coming.
1/7 Who did we elect in Canada? The Liberal government has confirmed that immigration processing wait times of 9 to 50 years are "not a mistake", but in keeping with a promise to Canadians to bring immigration in line with "available space".
Authoritarians fear embarrassment, and nothing embarrasses Trump like bigger crowds against him than those gathered to praise him.
That so many people have adopted the frog and similar costumes - fun stuff that mocks Trump's threats - makes it all the more embarrassing for the regime.
I hope that seeing so many people come out for No Kings across the US will encourage corporate media, and other cowards, to rethink caving to the Trump regime.
The support is there for resistance. Maybe today might energize the establishment Dems to fight harder too!
