I agree that Trudeau has made way too many mistakes and should not be able to win another election if we live in a sane country. Unfortunately looking around the world I don't see many sane countries. I think the best thing for Canada would be if Trudeau and Singh were both replaced before the next election with politicians who have better policies and abilities to implement them. I personally would prefer a new NDP leader winning the next election or if that doesn’t happen Singh winning the next election but I think that's not in the cards. I think the best that can be hoped for is that a “progressive” leader of the Liberals emerges, who isn’t currently being considered, who can work with the NDP to form a relatively good government after the next election. If the next election turns out to be a contest between Trudeau and Poilievre I'm not sure what would be better for Canada as Trudeau is so hated and self centred that the country needs to get rid of him. Personally I'll vote again in my constituency for the NDP's Peter Julian. A case could be made that it would be good for the Conservatives to win the next election so the NDP and Liberals could take stock of themselves and reform themselves and establish better parties and better policies.
Pierre Poilievre Marches Further Rightward
I posted this under Canada and the climate crisis, but I think it also deserves to go here.
Trudeau's 2019 pre-election statements of declaring a climate emergency in June and the next day approving the purchase of the the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion shows the hypocrisy of his fossil fuel agenda (https://www.vice.com/en/article/wjvkqq/canada-justin-trudeau-declares-cl...). When he took power in 2015, he simply adopted Harper's inadequate emission reduction targets. While Trudeau was in office a "report from Oil Change International found Canada provided an average of almost $14 billion a year in public support for fossil fuels between 2018 and 2020" (https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/oil-change-subsidies-1.6228679). A just released report from Canada's climate institute concludes "concluded that a mix of major climate policies across Canada are reducing emissions today, and market-based policies targeting industrial emissions (which we refer to as large-emitter trading systems) are having the biggest impact", with the gas tax also having a significant impact of 8% to 14% in reducing emissions. (https://440megatonnes.ca/insight/industrial-carbon-pricing-systems-drive...) So what Trudeau is doing is having some effect; the trouble is, like the rest of the world is not sufficient, not even close. Last year wildfires burnt the equivalent of 1.4 Englands in Canada as this country produced "23% of the world's wildfire emissions" in 2023 (https://atmosphere.copernicus.eu/copernicus-canada-produced-23-global-wi...), which is " "triple the annual climate pollution from burning fossil fuels in Canada. It's more than the combined emissions from 100 nations." (https://www.nationalobserver.com/2023/08/21/analysis/our-forests-have-re. We also had two thirds of the population of the Northwest Territories had to leave the territory to survive, as did many people in BC, Quebec, Manitoba, northern Ontario and near Halifax and that's just last year. Do you Remember the 2016 Fort McMurray wildfire that burned down one quarter of the town? Do you remember the 2011 Slave Lake wildfire that burned down one third of the town? Do you remember the Lytton wildfire that burnt down the entire town as temperatures hit 46 degrees Celsius? And that's just some of the wildfire community destructions, never mind the many other problems created by the climate crisis right here in Canada. ).
The vast majority of national government are grossly underestimating their greenhouse gas emissions because they are "typically out of date, inconsistent, and incomplete. For most countries, “I would not put much value, if any, on the submissions,” says Glen Peters of the Centre for International Climate Research in Norway, a longtime analyst of emissions trends. The data from large emitters is as much open to questions as that from smaller and less industrialised nations. ... By one recent count, national emissions inventories total just 70 percent of the actual additions to the air, as calculated using remote sensing and model analysis. The remaining 30 percent are unaccounted for. As a result, say analysts, the world is flying blind, unable either to verify national compliance with emissions targets or figure out how much atmospheric “room” countries have left for emissions before exceeding agreed warming thresholds. (https://e360.yale.edu/features/undercounted-emissions-un-climate-change) So like most of the world governments, Trudeau is not doing enough to deal with the survival of life on this planet.
The trouble with Poilevre is he wants to do much less than even Trudeau in dealing with the climate crisis; he doesn't even have a climate crisis plan. Conservative governments always scream over the danger of leaving the burden of the national debt to our children. Yet, the three basket cases of Ireland (whose government was the result of bailing out the debt of the high risk debts of the banking sector as it had also no government debt), Iceland and Greece from the early 2010s, have all recovered and have booming economies with Ireland now having a per capita income of $104,000 (https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.CD?locations=IE -unfortuately very evenly divided among the Irish people). Yet the same conservatives around the world pay virtually no attention to scientists warnings about the disastrous effects of climate change that will cause effects that will last centuries with catastrophic global effects. "Five important natural thresholds already risk being crossed, according to the Global Tipping Points report, and three more may be reached in the 2030s if the world heats 1.5C (2.7F) above pre-industrial temperatures. Triggering these planetary shifts will not cause temperatures to spiral out of control in the coming centuries but will unleash dangerous and sweeping damage to people and nature that cannot be undone. “Tipping points in the Earth system pose threats of a magnitude never faced by humanity,” said Tim Lenton, from the University of Exeter’s Global Systems Institute. “They can trigger devastating domino effects, including the loss of whole ecosystems and capacity to grow staple crops, with societal impacts including mass displacement, political instability and financial collapse.” The tipping points at risk include the collapse of big ice sheets in Greenlandand the West Antarctic, the widespread thawing of permafrost, the death of coral reefs in warm waters, and the collapse of one oceanic current in the North Atlantic. … Scientists have warned that some of the shifts can create feedback loops that heat the planet further or alter weather patterns in a way that triggers other tipping points." (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/dec/06/earth-on-verge-of-fi...)
The fossil fuel companies knew since at least the 1980s the risks produced by their greenhouse gas emissions. "“What we found is that between 1977 and 2003, excellent scientists within Exxon modeled and predicted global warming with, frankly, shocking skill and accuracy only for the company to then spend the next couple of decades denying that very climate science.” (https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2023/01/harvard-led-analysis-find...“What%20we%20found%20is%20that,denying%20that%20very%20climate%20science.”) Their solution was to hire the same researchers and advertising companies as the smoking industry to deny the problems cigarettes causing cancer and fossil fuels causing the climate crisis. "As early as the 1950s, the groups shared scientists and publicists to downplay dangers of smoking and climate change." (https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/tobacco-and-oil-industries-us...) And when they could no longer credibly deny the problem, they minimized it, just like Canadian conservatives such as Poilievre, Smith, and Moe. Smith is so bought and paid for by the fossil fuel industry that she is preventing wind and solar companies from investing many billions in Alberta, because their lower prices would outcompete the fossil fuel industry's oil. (https://www.nationalobserver.com/2024/02/29/opinion/danielle-smiths-wind...), thereby ignoring "The burning question for today’s adults which is how violent and unpredictable of a climate legacy are we going to saddle our children and future generations with." (https://www.nationalobserver.com/2024/02/09/analysis/gasoline-climate-em...)
So like Trudeau and many politicians around the world, Poilevre is a hypocrite on the climate crisis, but doesn't even have the half-measures that Trudeau has to deal with the existential problem of the 21st century.
Fuelling our rising horde of gas-guzzlers in Canada is burning down our nation’s climate promises and our kids’ future.
A stable climate was a beautiful thing.
It allowed civilization to develop and humanity to prosper. And it allowed all the planet’s majestic ecosystems we cherish and rely on to thrive as well.
But that’s now gone — cooked away over a few short decades by rampant fossil fuel burning. In fact, 90 per cent of all planet-heating gases humans have ever released from burning fossil fuels have been dumped into the atmosphere during the lives of the baby boomers. That’s my generation. We got to grow up under a stable climate. And we’ve spent our lifetimes helping to burn it down. ...
The burning question for today’s adults is how violent and unpredictable of a climate legacy are we going to saddle our children and future generations with. Historically, Canadians have been one of the world’s top 10 climate polluters — both in total and per capita. For the last 35 years, we’ve repeatedly promised to do something about it. How are we doing? ...
As the decades have rolled on and climate breakdown has grown ever more dangerous, Canadians have been out in front, leading our peers. But not in a good way.
My first chart shows what Canadians — and our peers in the Group of Seven (G7) nations — have done with their climate polluting since 1990.
As you can see, every G7 nation now emits less than they did in 1990 — except Canada. We are the climate rogues in the group, still emitting far more.
Collectively, these wealthy, industrialized nations emit one-third of global climate pollution and produce half the world's GDP. These nations have the resources, talent and capacity to reduce their emissions.
And most have. For example, the chart shows that our German and British peers have been steadily reducing climate pollution for decades. As a result, they’ve cut their emissions in half.
Clearly, it has been possible for Canadians to reduce our oversized climate impact as well. We’ve just refused to act.
If we want to save our kids and future Canadian generations from a dystopian future, we have to stop fuelling the crisis. And a critical place we have to slam the brakes on is the amount of climate pollution we dump out our tailpipes. Few sources of Canadian climate pollution are larger and more out of control than the gasoline and diesel we pump into our cars and trucks. It’s arguably our nation’s single biggest climate impact. My next chart compares the immense scale of these emissions to those from other sectors of our economy and lives.
That tall orange bar on the right is tailpipe emissions from all the road vehicles in Canada — around 120 million tonnes of CO2 (MtCO2) per year.
This “pump it and dump it” climate damage rises to around 150 MtCO2 when we include the additional emissions from extracting, refining and shipping all that gasoline and diesel.
That “wells to wheels” total is shown by an orange dot on the chart, way above everything else.
For scale, there are more than 140 nations that emit less than that for everything in their economy and society.
As the chart shows, it is also more climate pollution than from major sectors in our economy — like heavy industry, agriculture, electricity or all our buildings. In fact, even Canada’s notoriously polluting oilsands industry emits less (86 MtCO2) than our tailpipes.
Not only are our tailpipe emissions massive, we’ve also been increasing them twice as fast as our overall emissions. Canadian tailpipe emissions have risen 28 per cent since 1990 — versus a 14 per cent rise for everything else combined. This surge in tailpipe pollution has erased our climate progress in other areas and dragged our national emissions even higher.
What’s driving this trend? Lots more tailpipes — attached to the world’s worst gas-guzzlers. Let’s look at each of these problems in more detail.
Problem #1: Canada’s rising horde of burners.
The primary reason our tailpipe emissions are going up is that the number of fossil fuel-burning cars and trucks (a.k.a. burnermobiles) keeps going up. My next chart shows the relentless trend.
Back in 2000, we had 18 million burners on our roads. Now we have 26 million.
That means we have eight million more gas tanks we are filling. And eight million more tailpipes spewing climate pollution.
Canadians could choose pure battery electric vehicles (BEVs) instead of burnermobiles. These run on made-in-Canada electricity, which is far less climate- damaging than gasoline.
In fact, gasoline engines are about as climate dirty as you can get — producing twice the climate pollution of coal power plants to do the same work.
So far, however, less than one per cent of Canadian cars and trucks are BEVs. On the chart, they’re shown by the tiny green smear of frosting on top of that hulking black mountain of fossil burners.
That last chart showed the trend over the last couple decades. This next one focuses on what we did last year.
The height of each bar shows the percentage of new passenger vehicles that burn gasoline or diesel.
The red bar is Canada. Last year, when Canadians decided to buy a brand-new passenger car or truck, 92 out of 100 bought a burner. That’s according to the most recent data from Statistics Canada.
As you can see, that’s a higher rate than our peers in many other nations.
For example, last year in the cold, northern, oil-producing nation of Norway, new car buyers only picked burnermobiles 17 per cent of the time. They chose all-electric BEV 83 per cent of the time. As a result, total emissions from Norway’s passenger vehicle fleet have been plunging.
New cars and trucks last a long time. As each new one rolls off the dealer’s lot, it commits us to tonnes more climate pollution spewing out its tailpipe for the next decade or two. How many tonnes are locked in depends on how big of a gas guzzler each car is.
And here again, Canadians lead the pack.
Problem #2: Canadians choose the world’s most climate-polluting cars.
A second major reason for Canada’s huge tailpipe emissions is the sad fact that Canadians choose to buy the world’s most climate-polluting new cars.
This was true a decade ago, according to a survey I covered back then by the International Energy Agency (IEA). And it’s sadly still true today, according to a new report by GlobalFuelEconomy.org.
My next chart shows what this most recent report found.
Each bar on this chart shows litres burned per 100 kilometres (L/100km), for the average new passenger vehicle.
For example, at the top of the chart, we see that the French, Germans and British choose cars that burn five litres on average. In the middle of the pack, we see that the Chinese buy new cars that burn six litres on average. And the world average is a bit under seven litres.
Where are Canadians? Way down at the very bottom. Our new passenger vehicles average 8.3 L/100km.
Some common new Canadian vehicles that burn around 8.3 L/100km include the all-wheel drive versions of the Toyota RAV4 and Camry, Honda CR-V, Ford Escape and Subaru’s Impreza, Forester and Outback.
Cars and trucks last a long time and those litres add up. In Canada, the average new passenger vehicle requires the owner to pump over 20 tonnes of gasoline into it over its lifespan. At recent gas prices of around $1.50 per litre, it will cost more than $40,000 at the pump.
All that gasoline gets dumped out the tailpipe and straight into the environment as it’s burned. That will pump more than 75 tonnes of planet-heating gases into our already destabilized climate.
It is easy to appreciate the massive size and weight of our cars and trucks. But hidden from view are the vastly larger amounts of gasoline and climate pollution that come with them. They each weigh many times more than the vehicle itself.
All that future gasoline production, burning and resulting climate damage gets locked in the minute the new car or truck is purchased.
Driving off the climate cliff…
We’ve got the kids in the back seat. Are we really going to drive them off the climate cliff? Because that’s the direction we’re headed with our growing horde of the world’s most climate-damaging vehicles. If we want to give our kids and future Canadians a fighting chance at a decent future, we'd better reverse course quickly — while there is still time.
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2024/02/09/analysis/gasoline-climate-em...
I think currently two primary issues are global man made climate change and another issue is increasing Canada's productivity rates to become competitive again with other higher income countries leading in productivity. How do you think those issues should be addressed and do you think Poilievre is up to accomplishing that?
No idea about productivity.
I think the Carbon tax is a giant shell game and money grab that takes advantage of Canadians who care about the environment and future. There's no source on how much the government collects from Carbon tax or where is goes. So trash that. Instead look at green technologies we can use for the betterment of Canadians AND can export to other countries.
Paladin1 wrote:
I think the Carbon tax is a giant shell game and money grab that takes advantage of Canadians who care about the environment and future. There's no source on how much the government collects from Carbon tax or where is goes.
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That’s not true. Poilievre is using smoke and mirrors and outright lies to fool people. That’s a very bad indication about what he would be like as prime minister. Poilievre lies more than any other major Canadian politician I can think of and that says a lot considering how politicians tend to twist the truth.
This is what reputable economists think:
An Open Letter from Economists on Canadian Carbon Pricing
https://ecofiscal.ca/2024/03/26/open-letter-carbon-pricing/
Mar 26, 2024
As economists from across Canada, we are concerned about the significant threats from climate change. We encourage governments to use economically sensible policies to reduce emissions at a low cost, address Canadians’ affordability concerns, maintain business competitiveness, and support Canada’s transition to a low-carbon economy. Canada’s carbon-pricing policies do all those things.
There is plenty of discussion about carbon pricing in Canada today. Healthy public debate is good, but it should be based on sound evidence and facts. Let’s examine some of the claims made by critics of carbon pricing and compare them with what the evidence shows.
Critics’ Claim #1: Carbon pricing won’t reduce GHG emissions.
What the evidence shows: Not only does carbon pricing reduce emissions, but it does so at a lower cost than other approaches.
Since federal carbon pricing took effect in 2019, Canada’s GHG emissions have fallen by almost 8 percent, although other policies were also at work. A new report from the Canadian Climate Institute shows that federal and provincial carbon pricing, for industries and consumers, is expected to account for almost half of Canada’s emissions reductions by 2030.
The reason carbon pricing works is simple: when something costs more (in this case fossil fuels), people use less of it. That is basic economics, and common sense.
Carbon pricing is the lowest cost approach because it gives each person and business the flexibility to choose the best way to reduce their carbon footprint. Other methods, such as direct regulations, tend to be more intrusive and inflexible, and cost more.
That is not to say that carbon pricing should be Canada’s only climate policy. Other complementary policies are also needed. But the more we use the lowest-cost policies to achieve our climate goals, the more resources will be available for other important things—like health care, education and other social programs.
Critics’ Claim #2: Carbon pricing drives up the cost of living and is a major cause of inflation.
What the evidence shows: Canadian carbon pricing has a negligible impact on overall inflation.
The sharp increase in inflation between 2021 and 2023 was caused by several factors, mainly related to the COVID-19 pandemic (disrupted supply chains, rapid growth in the money supply, and pent-up demand), and the impact of the Russia-Ukraine war on commodity prices. These forces are global, which is why most advanced countries—whether or not they have a carbon price—experienced very similar inflation. According to the Bank of Canada, carbon pricing has caused less than 1/20th of Canada’s inflation in the past two years.
In addition, a central feature of the federal carbon price is that approximately 90 percent of the revenues generated are rebated back to households. Most families receive more money in rebates than they pay in carbon pricing, particularly those with low or medium incomes. Rural residents get an additional rebate. In other words, the policy is designed to ensure it does not raise the cost of living for most Canadians.
Climate change, on the other hand, poses a real threat to Canadians’ economic well-being. For example, it increases the risk and severity of natural disturbances, such as fires, floods, and severe storms. A conservative estimate is that the impacts of climate change will cost our economy at least $35 billion by 2030, and much more in future decades.
Critics’ Claim #3: It makes little sense to have both a carbon price and rebates.
What the evidence shows: The price-and-rebate approach provides an incentive to reduce carbon emissions (due to the price), while maintaining most households’ overall purchasing power (due to the rebate).
Carbon pricing works by raising the price of carbon-intensive products, so consumers and businesses are incentivized to adopt lower-carbon options, such as smart thermostats, heat pumps, or hybrid/electric vehicles.
Giving back most of the carbon-pricing revenues in rebates doesn’t undermine this goal; consumers still have the incentive to reduce emissions. The rebates just ensure that most households come out ahead, because they receive an amount back that is slightly above what the average household spends on carbon pricing. Those that reduce emissions the most will come out further ahead; they will pay less in carbon fees but still get the full rebate.
Critics’ Claim #4: Carbon pricing harms Canadian business competitiveness.
What the evidence shows: Canada’s carbon-pricing scheme is designed to help businesses reduce emissions at low cost, while competing in the emerging low-carbon global economy.
For large emitting sectors in most provinces—like oil, steel and cement—there is an “output-based” carbon pricing system. In effect, it means most large industries pay the carbon price only on the last 10-20 percent of their emissions. The lower-emitting firms pay less while higher-emitting firms pay more—creating a strong incentive for all firms to reduce emissions.
The output-based system is designed to maintain industries’ competitiveness: ensuring that the carbon price does not hamper their ability to stay profitable and generate jobs in Canada while competing internationally.
In addition, carbon pricing stimulates innovation by encouraging the development and adoption of low-carbon technologies. These incentives help Canadian businesses—in all sectors—stay competitive in the global transition to a low-carbon economy.
Critics’ Claim #5: Carbon pricing isn’t necessary.
What the evidence shows: Here the critics are right. Canada could abandon carbon pricing and still hit our climate targets by using other types of regulations and subsidies—but it would be much more costly to do so.
Unfortunately, the most vocal opponents of carbon pricing are not offering alternative policies to reduce emissions and meet our climate goals. And they certainly aren’t offering any alternatives that would reduce emissions at the same low cost as carbon pricing.
Canada has many economic challenges to address. In a world of scarce resources, it seems imprudent to abandon carbon pricing, only to replace it with more costly methods of reducing emissions—or, worse still, take no measures to reduce emissions.
In short, carbon pricing is the least-cost way to reduce emissions, drive green innovation, and support Canada’s transition to a clean and prosperous economic future.
For more research on carbon pricing in Canada, see https://ecofiscal.ca/reports
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Richard Lipsey
Emeritus Professor
Simon Fraser University
Christopher Ragan
Director
Max Bell School of Public Policy, McGill University
Elizabeth Beale
Former President and CEO
Atlantic Economic Council
Mel Cappe
Distinguished Fellow
Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto
Bev Dahlby
Professor (retired)
School of Public Policy, University of Calgary
Don Drummond
Stauffer-Dunning Fellow
Queen’s University
Stewart Elgie
Jarislowsky Chair in Clean Economy
University of Ottawa
Glen Hodgson
Chair
VeriStell Institute
Justin Leroux
Professor
Department of Applied Economics, HEC Montreal
Nancy Olewiler
Professor
School of Public Policy, Simon Fraser University
France St-Hilaire
Former Vice-President of Research
Institute for Research on Public Policy
Lindsay Tedds
Professor
Department of Economics, University of Calgary
Kevin Milligan
Professor
UBC
Andrew Leach
Professor of Economics and Law
University of Alberta
Joel Wood
Associate Professor
Thompson Rivers University
Blake Shaffer
Associate Professor
University of Calgary
Jim Stanford
Economist and Director
Centre for Future Work
Stephen Gordon
Professeur titulaire
UNiversité Laval
Christopher Barrington-Leigh
Associate Professor
McGill University
Guy Lacroix
Professeur titulaire
Université Laval
Arthur Silve
professeur agrégé
Université Laval
Nicholas Rivers
Associate Professor
University of Ottawa
Vincent Boucher
Full Professor
Laval University
Sylvain Eloi Dessy
Professor of economics
Laval University
Fabian Lange
Professor
McGill University
Rob Gillezeau
Assistant Professor
Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto
Marcel Boyer
Emeritus Professor of Economics
Université de Montréal
Maya Papineau
Associate Professor
Carleton University
Philippe Barla
Full professor
Université Laval
Catherine Deri Armstrong
Associate Professor
University of Ottawa
Mikal Skuterud
Professor
University of Waterloo
Justin Beaudoin
Associate Professor
Acadia University
Ross Hickey
Associate Professor
University of British Columbia Okanagan
Sonia Laszlo
Associate professor
McGill University
Kevin Devereux
Assistant Professor
Peking University
Michel Roland
Professeur titulaire
Département d”économique
Frances Woolley
Professor
Carleton University
Kenneth Carlaw
Professor
University of British Columbia
Okanagan
Lars OSBERG
McCulloch Professor of Economics
Dalhousie University
Minjoon Lee
Associate Professor
Carleton University
Charles Séguin
Professor
UQAM
Baxter Robinson
Assistant Professor
University of Western Ontario
Stephan Schott
Professor
Carleton University
Yuri Yevdokimov
Professor of Economics
University of New Brunswick
Kevin Moran
Associate Professor
Université Laval
Jennifer Stewart
Director
School of Public Policy and Administration, Carleton University
Nicolas Schmitt
Professor
Simon Fraser University
Lanny Zrill
Adjunct Research Professor
Carleton University
Tom L Green
Senior Climate Policy Adviser
David Suzuki Foundation
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Professor
UQAM
Bruno Larue
Professeur titulaire
Université Laval
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Professor
Université Laval
Curtis Eaton
Emeritus Professor
University of Calgary
Alain Paquet
Full professor
Dept of Econ., Univ. of Quebec at Montreal
Stephen Williamson
Professor
University of Western Ontario
David Gray
Professor of economics
University of Ottawa
Yazid Dissou
Professor
University of Ottawa
Catherine Haeck
Full professor
Université du Québec à Montréal
Florian Mayneris
Full professor
ESG-UQAM
Hashmat Khan
Professor
Carleton University
Tammy Schirle
Professor
Wilfrid Laurier University
Grant Gibson
Assistant Director
McMaster University
Ruth Rose
Retired professor
Université du Québec à Montréal
David Green
Professor
Vancouver School of Economics, UBC
Leslie Shiell
Assistant Professor
University of Ottawa
David Macdonald
Assistant Professor
University of British Columbia, Okanagan
Andrei Munteanu
Assistant Professor of Economics
UQAM
Munir Squires
Assistant Professor
University of British Columbia
Mauricio Drelichman
Professor
Vancouver School of Economics, UBC
Patrick Baylis
Assistant Professor
University of British Columbia
Arvind Magesan
Professor
University of Calgary
Paul Beaudry
Professor
University of British Columbia
Rob Oxoby
professor
University of Calgary
Claudio Ferraz
Professor
University of British Columbia
Louis Hotte
Associate Professor
University of Ottawa
Jean Robitaille
Professor/Researcher
Laval University (Université Laval)
Ken McKenzie
Professor
University of Calgary
Pierre Fortin
Emeritus Professor of Economics
University of Quebec-Montreal
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Assistant Professor
University of British Columbia
Robert Leonard
Professor
UQAM
Lucas Herrenbrueck
Associate Professor
Simon Fraser University
Nicholas Lawson
Associate Professor
Université du Québec à Montréal
Gillian Petit
Senior Research Associate
University of Calgary
Anke Kessler
Professor
Simon Fraser University
Peter Victor
Professor Emeritus
York University
Laure Saulais
Professeure titulaire
Université Laval
Aidan Hollis
Professor of Economics
University of Calgary
Geoff McCarney
Professor
University of Ottawa
Teresa Cyrus
Associate Professor
Dalhousie University
Victoria Barham
Professor
University of Ottawa
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Associate Professor
Simon Fraser University
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Spencer Family Associate Professor
McMaster University
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Assistant Professor
University of Regina
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Associate Professor
Department of Economics, Carleton University
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Assistant Professor
University of British Columbia
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Professor
Western University, Ivey Business School
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Professor and Associate Dean
Simon Fraser University
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Carleton University
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Full Professor
Université Laval
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University of British Columbia
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Associate Professor of Economics
Carleton University
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Postdoctoral Researcher
University of Ottawa
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Professor
McGill University
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Professor of Economics
University of Toronto
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Associate Professor
McGill University
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Assistant Professor
Western University
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McGill University
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Associate Professor
HEC Montréal
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Professeur émérite
Économie, Université de Montréal
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Queen’s University
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Adjunct Assistant Professor
Queen’s University
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Emeritus Professor
Queen’s University
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Professor Emeritus
Queen’s University
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Assistant Professor
University of British Columbia
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Professor
University of British Columbia
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Assistant Professor
UBC
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Professor
McMaster University
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Associate Professor
McMaster University
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Professor
McMaster University
W. Craig Riddell
Emeritus Professor of Economics
Vancouver School of Economics, University of British Columbia
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Associate Professor
Wilfrid Laurier University
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Assistant Professor
University of Calgary
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Emeritus Professor
Simon Fraser University
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Professor of Economics
McGill University
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Professor
McGill University
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Assistant Professor
University of Calgary (School of Public Policy)
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Professor
Queen’s University
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Professor
HEC Montréal
Oscar Zapata
Assistant Professor – Centennial Chair in Community Energy Development
University of Saskatchewan
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Associate Professor
University of British Columbia
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Professor
Polytechnique Montréal
Fanny Moffette
Professor
Université du Québec à Montréal
Horatiu Rus
Associate professor
University of Waterloo
Bernard Fortin
Emeritus professor in economics
Université Lavaal
Richard Harris
Emeritus Professor
Simon Fraser University
Leonard Goff
Assistant Professor
University of Calgary
Matthew Webb
Associate Professor
Carleton University
Larry Epstein
Professor of Economics
McGill University
John Richards
emeritus professor
Simon Fraser University
James MacKinnon
Sir Edward Peacock Professor of Econometrics
Queen’s University
Rui Castro
Professor
McGill University
Isaac Holloway
Lecturer
UBC Sauder School of Business
Umut Oguzoglu
Professor
University of Manitoba
Fernando Saltiel
Assistant Professor of Economics
McGill University
Mokhtar Tabari
Assistant Professor
University Canada West
Jean-William Laliberté
Associate Professor
University of Calgary
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Professor
Queen’s University
Sanghoon Lee
Associate professor
UBC Sauder school of business
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Professor of Economics
HEC Montréal
Alain Delacroix
Professor of economics (full)
UQAM – École des sciences de la gestion
John Janmaat
Professor of Economics
The University of British Columbia – Okanagan
Luc Godbout
Professeur
Chaire en fiscalité et finances publiques – Université de Sherbrooke
Clyde Reed
Professor Emeritus
Simon Fraser University
Philippe Goulet Coulombe
Professor
Université du Québec à Montréal
Thomas Davidoff
Associate Professor
Sauder School of Business, UBC
Luc Clair
Associate Professor of Economics
University of Winnipeg
Franque Grimard
Associate Professor
McGill University
Christine Neill
Associate Professor and Chair
Department of Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University
Peter Tsigaris
Full Professor
Thompson Rivers University
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Assistant Professor
Wilfrid Laurier University
Jim Gaisford
Professor
Thompson Rivers University
Ridwan Karim
Assistant Professor
Wilfrid Laurier University
Meng Sun
Associate Teaching Professor
Thompson Rivers University
Laura Lamb
Professor, Chair of Economics Department
Thompson Rivers University
John Hartwick
Professor Emeritus
Queen’s University
Anya Hageman
Adjunct Professor
Queen’s University
Azim Essaji
Associate Professsor
Wilfrid Laurier University
William Sims
Professor Emeritus
Concordia University
David Scoones
Associate Professor
University of Victoria
William Sims
Professor Emeritus
Concordia University
Allan Gregory
Emeritus Professor
Queen’s University
Catherine Michaud-Leclerc
Assistant Professor
Université Laval
Heather Eckert
Associate Professor
University of Alberta
Mostafa Askari
Chief Economist
Institute of Fiscal Studies and Democracy
Gajendran Raveendranathan
Assistant Professor
McMaster University
Randall Wigle
Professor Emeritus
Wilfrid Laurier University
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Associate Professor (Teaching)
University of Calgary
Chris Auld
Associate Professor
University of Victoria
Francisco Alvarez-Cuadrao
Associate Proxfessor
McGill University
Ruth Forsdyke
Senior Instructor
Dalhousie University
Michael Barber
Continuing Adjunct Assistant Professor
Queen’s University
Nicolas-Guillaume Martineau
Associate Professor
York University, Glendon College
Bill Dorval
Assistant Professor
Royal Military College of Canada
Joseph Steinberg
Associate Professor
University of Toronto
Ardyn Nordstrom
Assistant Professor
Carleton University
Benoit Dostie
Professeur titulaire
HEC Montréal
Anupam Das
Professor
Mount Royal University
Francisco Ruge-Murcia
Professor and Chair
Department of Economics, McGill University
Brett House
Professor of Professional Practice
Columbia Business School
Christian Trudeau
Professor
University of Windsor
Simon Woodcock
Associate Professor
Simon Fraser University
Brian Copeland
Professor of Economics
University of British Columbia
Stefan Staubli
Associate Professor
University of Calgary
Adam Lavecchia
Assistant Professor
McMaster University
Lucija Muehlenbachs
Associate Professor
University of Calgary
Andrea Craig
Assistant Professor
University of British Columbia Okanagan
Simon Woodcock
Associate Professor
Simon Fraser University
Hafiz Rahman
Associate Professor
Thompson Rivers University
Etienne Billette de Villemeur
Adjunct Professor
Université du Québec à Montreal (UQAM)
Vivian Hoffmann
Associate Professor
Carleton University
Bettina Brueggemann
Assistant Professor
McMaster University
Nick Manuel
Assistant Professor
Saint Mary”s University
Tony Fang
Professor and Jarislowsky Chair
Memorial University of Newfoundland
David Benatia
Assistant Professor in Economics
HEC Montréal
Rémi Morin Chassé
Professor
Université du Québec à Chicoutimi
Nahid Masoudi
Associate Professor
Memorial University of Newfoundland
Joel Bruneau
Associate Professor
University of Saskatchewan
Joel Bruneau
Associate Professor
University of Saskatchewan
Margaret Insley
Professor Emerita
University of Waterloo
John Livernois
Professor
University of Guelph
Jim Sentance
Professor of Economics
University of PEI
Stephen Snudden
Assistant Professor
Wilfrid Laurier University
Ian Herzog
Assistant Professor
Huron at Western University
Wing Chan
Professor
Wilfrid Laurier University
Jean Eid
Associate Professor
Wilfrid Laurier University
Elizabeth Dhuey
Professor of Economics
University of Toronto
Yuntong Wang
Professor
University of Windsor
Elizabeth Caucutt
Professor
University of Western Ontario
Madeline Turland
Assistant Professor
University of Alberta
Brian McCaig
Professor
Wilfrid Laurier University
Roberto Martinez-Espineira
Professor of Economics
Memorial University
Marcin Pęski
Professor of Economics
University of Toronto
Akio Yamazaki
Associate Professor
National graduate institute for policy studies
David Rosé
Assistant Professor
Wilfrid Laurier University
Nikolai Cook
Assistant professor
Wilfrid Laurier University
Peter Morrow
Associate Professor
Department of Economics, University of Toronto
Karen Huff
Contract Teaching Faculty
Wilfrid Laurier University
Janice Compton
Associate Professor
University of Manitoba
Sang-Chul Suh
Professor
University of Windsor
Ryan Compton
Professor of Economics
University of Manitoba
Bruno Salcedo
Assistant Professor
UWO
Davide Alonzo
Assistant Professor
University of Montreal
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professeur titulaire
université de montréal
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Distinguished James McGill Professor
McGill University
Devin Serfas
Assistant Professor (I will receive my PhD from UC Davis in June and start at U of A in July)
University of Alberta
Kathleen Day
Associate Professor
University of Ottawa
Marcelo Arbex
Professor
University of Windsor
Andrew Sharpe
Executive Director
Centre for the Study of Living Standards
Shahidul Islam
Associate Professor
MacEwan University
Carmen Dybwad
Dr
University of Regina
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Assistant professor
Université de Montréal
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Associate Professor
Wilfrid Laurier University
Cherie Metcalf
Associate Professor
Queen’s University
Marc Lévesque
Former Chief Economist
Public Sector Pension Investment Board
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Assistant Professor
Université de Montréal
Christopher Nicol
Professor of Economics
University of Lethbridge
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Associate Professor
University of Saskatchewan
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Professor
Université du Québec à Rimouski
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Professeur titulaire
Université de Montréal
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Professor of Economics
University of Manitoba
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Associate Professor
University of Manitoba
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Professor
University of Manitoba
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Associate Professor
Brock University
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Associate Professor, Economics
Wilfrid Laurier University
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Professor
University of Manitoba
Teddy Y. Samy
Professor
Carleton University
Sumeet Gulati
Professor
Food and Resource Economics, University of British Columbia
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Professor Emeritus
University of Western Ontario
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Professor
University of Toronto
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Associate Professor
University of Saskatchewan
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Associate Professor Emeritus
University of Regina
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Professor, Teaching Stream
University of Toronto
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Professor Emeritus
University of Toronto
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Professor Emeritus, Economics
Trent University
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Associate Professor
University of Toronto
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Professor
University of Toronto
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Professor
University of Manitoba
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Professor Emeritus
University of Toronto
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University of Toronto
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University of Toronto
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Professor Emeritus
University of Toronto
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Professor of economics
University of Ottawa
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Professor
Dept of Economics, University of Victoria
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Professor and Head
University of Regina
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Professor
University of Ottawa
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Associate Professor
Wilfrid Laurier University
Michael Abbott
Associate Professor (retired)
Queen’s University
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Professor
Carleton University
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Professor
University of Toronto
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Assistant professor
University of Manitoba
Pavel Sevcik
Associate Professor
ESG-UQAM
Colette Salemi
Assistant Professor
University of Victoria
Patrick Francois
Professor
University of British Columbia
Philip Oreopoulos
Professor
University of Toronto
Chris Willmore
Associate Teaching Professor
University of Victoria
Peter Dungan
Associate Professor of Economics Emeritus
Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto
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Professor
UBC
Marcel Oestreich
Associate Professor
Brock University
Ken Stewart
Professor
Department of Economics, University of Victoria
Robert Clark
Professor
Queen’s University
Tom McCurdy
Bonham Chair in International Finance
University of Toronto
Gorkem Bostanci
Asst. Prof.
University of British Columbia
Frank Reid
Professor
University of Toronto
Jonathan Holmes
Assistant Professor
University of Ottawa
Kelly Foley
Associate Professor
University of Saskatchewan
Eric Howe
Professor of Economics
University of Saskatchewan
Jon Cohen
Professor of Economics Emeritus
University of Toronto
Raji Jayaraman
Associate Professor
University of Toronto
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Professeur émérite
Université de Montréal
Gordon Anderson
Emeritus Professor
University of Toronto
Felix Pretis
Associate Professor
University of Victoria
Nusrate Aziz
Associate Professor
Algoma University
Michael Baker
Professor
University of Toronto
Peter Phillips
Distinguished University Professor Emeritus
Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy, University of Saskatchewan
Eduardo Souza-Rodrigues
Associate Professor
University of Toronto
Bruce Cater
Professor
Department of Economics, Trent University
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Professor
Brock University
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Assist. Prof.
University of Saskatchewan
Vasco Gabriel
Professor
University of Victoria
Carol McAusland
Professor
University of British Columbia
James Vercammen
Professor
University of British Columbia
Lilia Karnizova
Associate Professor
University of Ottawa
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Professor Emeritus
University of Toronto
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Teaching Professor
Department of Economics University of Alberta
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Professor
University of Alberta
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Assistant professor
Université Laval
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Professor
University of British Columbia
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Professor Emeritus Economics
Mount Allison University
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Assistant Professor
University of British Columbia
Michael Hoy
Professor
University of Guelph
Gregory Mason
Associate Professor – Economics
University of Manitoba
Diego Restuccia
Professor
University of Toronto
Ingrid Bryan
Professor Emerita (PH.D, economics)
Toronto Metropolitan University
Roderick Hill
Professor of Economics (retired)
University of New Brunswick
Margarida Duarte
Professor
University of Toronto
Pierre Brochu
Associate Professor
University of Ottawa
Luc Savard
Full Professor
Mohammed VI Polytechnic University-FGSES-AIRESS-PEP Network
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Associate Professor
University of Toronto
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Professor
McMaster University
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Professeur Adjoint
Université Laval
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Associate professor
Laval University
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Professor
University of Guelph
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Professor
Lebanese American University
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Associate Professor
University of the Fraser Valley
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Professor Emeritus of Economics
University of Toronto
I'll work on a response to that JKR.
Meanwhile
This one chairty is moving 250,000 pounds of food every day.
Pierre Polyester's heavy $uck-up raiding party on Trudeau's Zio base...
Poilievre Wades Into Middle East Conflict During Speech To Montreal-Area Synagogue
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/pierre-poilievre-middle-east-synagogue-...
"...This is a true indigenous people', Poilievre said to applause and cheers."
Polievre's slavish obedience to the US empire is a problem for the Cons but one they've had for 30 years. Merely1 Majority government in 3 decades even as the Liberals imploded with the Sponsorship crisis and a long string of historically weak leaders. I know Ontarioans who voted for Ford and bought into his faux-Canadian nationalism but they just can't shake the feeling the Federal Conservatives are straight up quizlings.
This last couple of weeks highlighted that this is that same Conservative party and the polling numbers reflect that.
Trudeau Liberals narrowing polling gap, Poilievre Conservatives' lead declines to 12 points: Nanos
The federal Liberals are narrowing the months-old gap with the Conservative party, with a former 20-percentage point Conservative ballot advantage shrinking to a 12-point lead, according to latest tracking data from Nanos Research.
The Conservatives under Pierre Poilievre have maintained a safe lead over the Liberals since September, reaching a nearly 20-percentage point gap a month ago, with 42.8 per cent support compared to the Liberals' 23.8 per cent.
But new Nanos ballot tracking shows the Conservatives are now closer to 38 per cent, compared to the Liberals at 26 per cent.
Canadians know a Conservative Party government would have committed troops in the Iraq War and they know that a Conservative government would also be enthusiastic about military involvement in a wider war caused by Israel's ongoing genocide and ethnic cleansing. People are sick of the Liberals but they also don't want a government that gets it's orders from rightwing American think tanks and completely ignores Canadian public opinion. The results are predictable. In Quebec you see the Cons plummetting and the Bloc numbers shooting up and Liberal number firming up. 38% with the Conservative's inefficient vote distribution and dropping support in Quebec sure isn't a majority government and may not even be a minority. You would think after 30 years of being the least successful conservative party in the Western world, the Cons here would have figured out that being spineless sycophants was not a great strategy but their quiffed leader seems as clueless as the rest.
Although CON slapheads are somewhat more crude and obvious, 'slavish obedience to empire' is clearly a disease afflicting ALL Canadian parliamentary parties. Ultimately fatal unless reversed.
Canadians know a Conservative Party government would have committed troops in the Iraq War
Do you think we didn't commit troops to the Iraq war?
Thanks To WikiLeaks: Myth of Canada's Non-Involvement in Iraq War Discredited.
https://policyalternatives.ca/publications/monitor/thanks-wikileaks
"Although few members of America's 'Coalition of the Willing' actually contributed more to the Iraq war than did Canada, this fact is still being covered up by our mainstream media..."
'One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only 9 lives.' - Mark Twain
I know we had aircraft and naval ships that were used and there were officers embedded in the US/UK/Australian militiaries but it is also a fact that Stephen Harper at the time was adamant in promoting his opinion that Canada was not enthusiastically supporting the US illegal invasion of Iraq enough. No attempt to even acknowledge let alone manage Canadian public opinion because for the Canadian Conservative Party, Canadian public opinion is irrelevant when it comes to pleasing their masters in rightwing US thinktanks. That's why they were full-throttle supportive of the obviously illegal disastrous Iraq war despite it being incredibly unpopular in Canada and really among anyone with a brain who was paying attention.
It is easy to see the parallels with how Polievre thinks he knows better than Canadians when it comes to his complete support of Israel's war crimes and ethnic cleansing in Gaza. That utter obsequiousness and sycophancy is why the Conservative Party of Canada is irrelevant in Quebec, has won one majority government in the last 30 years and counting, and loses more elections than any other conservative party in the Western world.
For six months, Pierre's Conservatives have been trying to block Bill C-50 that is aimed at ensuring "government accountability and engagement with the people who will be most affected as the world shifts away from fossil fuels toward renewable energy sources." They have put forward 20,000 AI generated amendments that do not address anything beyond changing a title here or a few words there rather than trying to improve the working conditions and job transition that is going on around the globe as the world shifts away from fossil fuels. Following the Conservative agenda of, what Jason Kenney said, namely "We want to take the last barrel of oil ever taken out of anywhere in the world" would leave workers ill-prepared for a non fossil fuel future. Pierre is showing every sign of following the same philosophy that will end tragically for fossil fuel workers if Alberta and the rest of Canada do not start transitioning away from oil. It also shows that Conservatives have no intention of developing any meaningful climate crisis plan.
Energy Minister Jonathan Wilkinson says the bill ensures government accountability and engagement with the people who will be most affected as the world shifts away from fossil fuels toward renewable energy sources. It requires five-year action plans, regular reporting and the inclusion of labour and Indigenous leaders in discussions. The Liberals contend their bill isn't meant to kill energy jobs but rather to lay out a way to create more of them in the renewable energy sphere.
Conservative critic Shannon Stubbs calls it a blueprint for what she deems the Liberals' "wide-scale radical economic restructuring." She argues it will put thousands of energy workers out of work by favouring renewable energy at the expense of oil and gas.
The bill passed second reading in October, with the Conservatives voting against it.
When it moved to the natural resources committee in November for study, the debate descended into a chaotic mess and lengthy filibuster that at one point had MPs screaming at each other to shut up.
The noise was so loud during the final meeting in early December that two MPs voted the wrong way on a motion because they couldn't hear what was being proposed. During that committee, the Conservatives proposed 19,600 amendments to the 18-page bill. That number decreased to 200 once the bill left committee and headed back to the House of Commons.
Government House leader Steven MacKinnon said Thursday those amendments were "robo-amendments created by AI." The Liberals haven't moved to debate the bill again since December, when they pulled it off the order paper to prevent another voting marathon just days after the Conservatives had forced 30 hours of straight voting on government spending plans. MacKinnon said the Conservatives were getting a "time out," but the time has come for the bill to move forward. "[Conservative Leader Pierre] Poilievre now will have to have his members come here and vote for as long as it takes on a couple of hundred amendments that survived that robo-amendment process that they admitted was undertaken by artificial intelligence, by robot caucus members and robot parliamentarians," he said. "This is not the way to make progress for Canadians, it's not the way to make progress for climate change and it is not the way to offer economic opportunity for Canadian workers."
MacKinnon said the amendments didn't make "one single constructive suggestion" for the bill.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/sustainable-jobs-bill-amendments-1.7171414
Just before debate on Bill C-50 was about to start VP Siobhan Vipond of the 3 million strong Canadian Labour Congress, VP Patrick Dunphy of the International Union of Operating Engineers, and National Director Marty Warren of the United Steelworkers all spoke up on the importance of Bill C-50. VP Vipond of the CLA said "Canadian jobs of the future need to be good jobs that support families as we transition out of fossil fuels. The Conservatives did not offer one constructive amendment. This bill gives workers, environmentalists and indigenous people a seat at the table during this transition". Pierre's Conservatives seem to only want to have fossil fuel companies at the table.
NDP MP Charlie Angus also spoke at the meeting: "We made a promise to energy workers who told us we see a worldwide energy transition happening and we don't want to be left behind on the side of the road. We want a seat at the table. The need to have organized labour involved in the worldwide transition that is taking place is a milestone. It's about reaching out to our environmental partners who are saying our planet is on fire. Enough talk. Enough press releases. We need an action plan. Bill C-50 is part of an action plan to make sure we maintain sustainable jobs while protecting our planet. If you listen to the Conservatives, they tell us this is a globalist agenda. They're using the language of disinformation. In committee, we had to listen to eight hours screaming, gong-show talk as we tried to make sure workers had a seat at the table. These are the tactics of Pierre Poilievre because they cannot support an agenda that is pro-worker, pro-environment, and pro-democracy. "