I come from deep blue (conservative) rural Ontario and there has definitely been some egg on faces in my hometown.

The moment 51st state came up those folks got real quiet.
Conservative Canadians are proud. F-Trudeau/MAGA Facebook became Buy Canadian real quick.

It is kind of shocking how unresponsive our democracy can be.

I think its fair to say we have at least two federal leaders keeping things going selfishly out of fear of an inevitable loss. And the result is Canadians forced to wait for a government no one wants to simply expire. Unreal.

Some of this is starting to change with @jagmeetsingh.ca but it might be too little too late if an Election gets called.

I first voted NDP under Tom Mulcair, whose smiley-pivot lost him an election that 'Angry Tom' could've won imho.

Time will tell, but feels like that is happening again.

It is not the policy wins that are shaping their fortunes, its that they have a smiles and progress-type hippy image when the public wants an angry working class brow-beater.

The problem the NDP face is their image—defined by an identifying with college kids and campus protests over working class communities.

Their policy wins were not big enough (dental/pharmacare was not universal, and most Canadians are still on employer insurance) to constitute an image change.

I don't agree. I think the NDP have clearly got some wins out of the now-dead supply and confidence agreement, and their support for the GST relief is more or less supporting a small piece of a policy they have touted for a while now—and that the Liberals seem to have yoinked.

My nephew went as Slenderman this past Halloween lol.

Well I was here at 1:30 EST on a Wednesday morning to get hyped, if its any consolation.

Hope Ben Drowned makes an appearance. One of the GOATs.

Man this really turned my hopes around on this. I was not at all hyped after seeing some of the early images of Avowed but man, this looks sick. Like, really sick.

This is going to be brutal for Canadians and the US.

The usual silver lining of a weak looney is USD buying power increases and CAD goods become attractive to US business. With tariffs, its lose-lose-lose-lose.

We both pay more for goods.
We both become less competitive in each other's markets.

Vlaakith blesses us this day