"I'm not the other guy" will always be a weak argument
this post was submitted on 27 Apr 2025
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That’s exactly PPs argument though.
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That's PP's ONLY argument, though.
Mark Carney actually has experience in life being more than just a politician.
i mean, for PP isn’t it even more ridiculous?: not the other other guy
It's easy to miss but there are other words in the quote where he talks about his experience, get an adult to help you sound them out.
"I was a banker" might not be the strong point you think it is... Especially if we're talking about 2008, but it'd take an adult to remember that time.
Uh… do you know what contribution he made to 2008? Or are you just free associating “banks” and “2008”?
Carney's actions as Governor of the Bank of Canada are said to have played a major role in helping Canada avoid the worst impacts of the 2008 financial crisis.
The epoch-making feature of Carney's tenure as governor remains the decision to cut the overnight rate by 50 basis points in March 2008, one month after his appointment. While the European Central Bank delivered a rate increase in July 2008, Carney anticipated the leveraged-loan crisis would trigger global contagion. When policy rates in Canada hit the effective lower bound, the central bank combated the crisis with the non-standard monetary tool "conditional commitment" in April 2009 to hold the policy rate for at least one year, in a boost to domestic credit conditions and market confidence. Output and employment began to recover from mid-2009, in part thanks to monetary stimulus. The Canadian economy outperformed those of its G7 peers during the crisis, and Canada was the first G7 nation to have both its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and employment recover to pre-crisis levels.
While I do agree that he did help, he wasn't very instrumental in saving Canada from that meltdown. It was the policies that were already in place at the time that prevented Canadian banks from being overleveraged, which made fixing the issue in Canada far easier than it was in the states.
Carney did help prevent a major disaster, but he also started from a far better position when doing so.
Unfortunately Harper removed all the safeguards that prevented the 2008 meltdown, so we're as vulnerable to it now as the US was back then.
Honestly, who the hell wants a guy who's advocating for the removal of Canadian rights, funneling tax dollars to the rich, and is part of the same international conservative advocacy order as Trump and some other neo-Nazi fascist leaders? We see how much one bad actor can do to a nation, and while Canada has some safeguards to prevent such unilateral damage from coming into place, the Conservatives are full of yes-men who'll just sign off anything that PP wants, so he'll have defacto control over the parliament if he's elected.
A vote for the Cons is a vote for a fascist dictator.
If you want to vote for a right-wing leader, then vote Carney. The liberals are center right and always have been. A fare safer and more reasonable choice than someone who repeatedly walks all over the average Canadian and says that its "for your own good". A man who refuses to answer questions and goes back on his promises like they were just things he said while drunk on some friday bar crawl.
I hope the lack of election signs in my riding are a sign that the usual con voters are not voting con. Lots of lifers here.
Is Pierre Poilievre the person you want sitting across the table from Donald Trump?
Across the table? He'd be sitting beside him!
Yup.
why?
Are you blind to what the liberals have done to this country over the last 10 years? And who wants more WEF goons in power?
I don't know anything about this election other than the fact that Elon Musk endorsed Pierre Poilievre, and that is a massive red flag
I mean, elons a pile of garbage and can “endorse” whomever he likes. I don’t really care. It’s nothing more than a distraction. Trump “endorsed” the liberals too. Bigger red flag?
The cpc are literally wearing maga hats...
It was like one or two people. Yeah, they’re garbage. The CPC is not.
Except when asked point-blank what his position is on his party wearing MAGA gear, Poilievre refuses to address it. Silence is complicity, plus Poilievre has been doing everything he can over the past several years to ape Trump.
That's not an answer. Why do you want Poilievre sitting across from Trump? What is the upside you see to that scenario?
Sorry, that’s my answer.
Second this.
Edi: I was comparing pollieve to trump....
The fucking Russian embassy staff in Ottawa is working overtime for Poilievre.