Not yet, we still have hope it won’t happen.

Our system is a bit different. We elect a party and that party has a leader. The leader of the elected party is the Prime Minister. The leader can step down and the party stays in power and selects a new leader, who then becomes Prime Minister. Trudeau stepped down and his party selected Carney to replace him, so we have a new prime minister and maintain a centrist government. (Centrist to us, left wing to the US.)

We can also have elections at any time, either by choice of the party in power, or forced by the opposition parties if they have enough seats in the government. Our current party in power, The Liberals, don’t have a majority, so they’ve been maintaining power by making deals with a left wing party (the NDP or New Democratic Party). Liberal + NDP is one seat or so from a majority right now, so they’ve been finding additional support from other parties. This has actually worked out pretty well, as it has forced the government to be a little more proactive and given the left a good amount of power. There is always the threat of losing power and having to make different parties happy.

If the NDP (or others) decide they don’t like Carney, they can force an election and then we will have the chance of getting that Conservative government you were worried about. Most likely they will wait a bit to see how things are going before doing that because their worst fear is forcing an election and ending up in a worse position (a Conservative majority.) If you hear that Canada has a new Prime Minister named Poilievre in the next year, you’ll know we just ran into the same shit you guys did.

because we want him to be better than Poilievre

Or at least seem better than Poilievre to the people who might vote conservative.

I just learned about it, but it’s called the “Newfoundland Curse” not the “Newfoundlander Curse” or the “Newfie Curse”.

It’s a curse of the land that some newfies get struck with, not a curse of the people that all are afflicted with.

A Newfie Curse would be “Lord tunderin’ Jesus, the arse is gone out of 'er!”

Will shit, this would be quite the way to find out I’m cursed. I get irregular heartbeats all the time and half my ancestry is Newfie going way back…

Get Brianthompson’d, Reddit.

There’s more, but this is the full quote where he tries to equivocate the term first:
“The term Zionist increasingly being tossed around as a pejorative, in spite of the fact that it simply means believing in the right of Jewish people, like all people, to determine their own future, is not normal. No one in Canada should ever be afraid to call themselves a Zionist. I am a Zionist."

What a way to leave. I guess he’s trying to bookend his, “I am a feminist” speech.

If it’s bought and paid for, how does it support Nazis?

How does trashing a working vehicle fight Nazis?

Better than sitting behind a keyboard literally doing nothing. I applaud them for taking action.

But what was put in place recently won’t do anything for that.

Now that I think about it, we should drastically reduce security going south (even beyond removing what was set up in the last month) to enable smuggling to get around the tariffs.

The point was to secure stuff going south. Who cares now?

Part of the response should be to remove everything put in place to appease Trump. Pull back the new border plan, take away the fentanyl czar, remove the terrorist designation from cartels (and apologize to Mexico), etc.

And I also like Doctorow’s idea of removing all the copyright protection shit we put in place to appease the U.S. in the past and anything else we can think of like that.

Or Deadpool as Ryan Reynolds. Either way.

Tbh, this is why I didn’t entertain the idea of signing it. It’s a bad precedent if nothing else.

Now, what are the treason laws in Canada?