Liberal Party Wins Canadian Election

With no NDP it’s going to be a terrible parliament for Palestinians. Only hope is that the Libs need the NDP for 172 seats.

Hopefully the Island and Vancouver add some more ndp seats. They kept the liberals in line enough not to throw everything away to the cons . Poliev should have never been so popular , the very definition of effete politician who has never done anything else. Its unbelievable that so many working class people love him, fucking insane. He was on the island and visited a construction site and apparently the workers emptied the building to go see him. Bloody morons the lot of them, go cheer the suit who will sell you and your children’s future to the rich.

As I recall, the Conservatives had a 25 point lead in the polls not terribly long ago. It’s amazing how quickly Trump’s rhetoric turned the tide in favor of the Liberals.

It’ll be interesting to see if the same thing happens in Australia this weekend. The conservative opposition was favored to win there, but Labor has been trying to tie them to Trump, and I’ve seen reports that it’s been working. We’ll find out soon.

My apologies, I was wrong about Carney’s campaign chair being Wiseman (although those two are clearly buddy buddy enough to be concerned). Carney’s campaign director appears to be Trudeau man Tom Pitfield. The dangers of ranting too fast people!

In any case, what I mentioned stands and I think his goals will still be the same, as pumping the econ numbers with bodies (and crushing labour power) is the overall goal of these people and always will be despite whatever lies and BS they feed us. It’s their favourite cheat code, whether through deliberate policy or the kind of “awww shucks we let in another bajillion” method they use in the Disunited States and Not So Great Britain.

In addition to Poilievre seeming too Trump like, the other weakness in the Conservative strategy was focusing their attacks too much on Trudeau as a person. That worked great until Justin stepped aside.
Not to hard to imagine folks in the US doing the same with regards to Trump and winding up with Vance.
I don’t think there is anyone in power anywhere clever and bold enough to do it, but sometimes Trump does seem like an op set up to discredit everything that he seems to stand for. Even more than Obama did.
The only other US president to serve two non-consecutive terms, Grover Cleveland, was so unpopular by the end of his second term, that his party, the Democrats, pivoted to a candidate with a completely different agenda (William Jennings Bryan, on whose behalf silver interests had hijacked the Populist Party).

The funniest thing I saw was the Poilievre apple interview.

I’m not Canadian – but as a daily visitor to Ian’s site for at least a decade, I follow Canadian politics. Wishing you all the best with your unfuckening.

@ Joan

Stats Can cites that “one in three” become permanent residents”, but that may be playing numbers games given the massive increase in their number since 2022: https://www.statcan.gc.ca/o1/en/plus/7457-temporary-foreign-workers-canada-explained How many of these people just drop off the radar and stick around illegally isn’t mentioned. The government supposedly ‘expects’ that 1.2 million will be leaving once their visas expire, but I highly doubt that figure given that enforcement is such a joke: https://betterdwelling.com/canada-expects-1-2-million-residents-to-leave-next-year-refugee-claims-soar/

The GoC made another one of its infamous negotiations with temporary residents. They announced a pullback after increasing the temporary resident population 150% since 2021 to 2.96 million people. The country will cut 891k temporary visas, distributed in roughly even amounts over the next two years. That would leave just over 2 million temporary residents by the end of 2026, conveniently double the amount in 2021.

We’ve had huge increases in both permanent residents and “temporary” foreign workers, students etc. The student entry stream was also massively abused as an easy entryway into Canada via fake diploma mills once the Trudeau gov decided to allow foreign ‘students’ to work here full time (they were previously denied working at all while studying here), and it became so much of an issue that the morons in charge had to do something about it even if only for the terrible optics: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/provinces-cracking-down-on-private-institutions-1.7091194 .

Then there is the ‘temporary’ foreign workers programme, that every company and their dog now eyes as an easy access point to cheap labour. One of the latest I’ve heard of, as an example, is WestJet who had applied to hire foreign pilots to fly their planes: https://www.ctvnews.ca/business/article/westjet-halts-bid-to-hire-temporary-foreign-workers-as-pilots/ But it isn’t limited to large corporations, even smaller mom and pop operations are in on the fun, like these folks in BC, who took kickbacks from their Indian countrymen to hire them on as TFW mechanics: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/foreign-worker-awarded-damages-1.7508140 Why the whole lot of these fraudsters aren’t deported for this kind of abuse is beyond me. This whole programme is such an obvious abuse and fraud on Canadian workers that Trudeau himself originally campaigned to “scale back dramatically” – you can see Trudy in his own words here from 2014: https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/justin-trudeau-how-to-fix-the-broken-temporary-foreign-worker-program/article_c27f214f-1fa2-5fdf-af61-5a7642e4eb7c.html

With their mismanagement of the Temporary Foreign Worker Program, the Conservatives have done serious damage to that commitment.

Since taking office, Prime Minister Stephen Harper and the Conservative Party have transformed the Temporary Foreign Worker Program — which was originally designed to bring in temporary workers on a limited basis when no Canadian could be found — into one that has brought in a large pool of vulnerable workers.

As a result, the number of short-term foreign workers in Canada has more than doubled, from 141,000 in 2005 to 338,000 in 2012. There were nearly as many temporary foreign workers admitted into the country in 2012 as there were permanent residents — 213,573 of the former compared to 257,887.

At this rate, by 2015, temporary worker entries will outnumber permanent resident entries.

This has all happened under the Conservatives’ watch, despite repeated warnings from the Liberal Party and from Canadians across the country about its impact on middle class Canadians: it drives down wages and displaces Canadian workers.

Most concerning, the program has grown dramatically in regions facing high unemployment, like southwestern Ontario. In Windsor, the number of unemployed workers has risen by 40 per cent while the number of foreign workers in the city has grown by 86 per cent. Unemployment in London has risen by 27 per cent while the number of foreign workers has increased by 87 per cent.

I am assured, of course, that the aptly named “Carney” is gonna fix this mess rather than let this clown show continue.

I wasn’t going to comment on this thread, knowing so little about Canada. However, Russell Dobular of Due Dissidence today covered that Carney as a bankster bailed out Jared Kushner when he was underwater on his bad “666” building with a $1.2 Billion deal; also Trump seems to have thrown Poliviere under the bus for personal reasons.

All the info is here via something called “Juno News”– I love that the MAGAts think that Trump is “anti-Globalist, anti-Deep State” guy. Like George Carlin said, it’s a small club and you ain’t in it! https://www.junonews.com/p/carneys-ex-company-brookfield-has

So was Trump’s endorsement of Carney meant as a “kiss-of-death” endorsement designed to get Carney defeated?

Trump is very sly and cunning and shrewd. He learned a lot from his mentor Roy Cohn. His targets fail to remember that.

We did not have a recent massive increase in the number of permanent residents. The rapid increase was in *non-permanent* residents, which went from 1.3 million in Q1 2021 to 3.0 million in Q1 2025. (Prior to Q1 2021 Statcan didn’t even generate regular estimates of nonpermanent residents – that’s how insignificant the category used to be.)

There was an increase in the number of permanent residents dating back to 2015, when the Liberals increased immigration numbers and changed the admissions criteria a bit. I don’t have exact statistics at hand and I’m working from memory because the StatCan website is down – again – but my recollection is that the numbers went from somewhere around 250K to somewhere around 450K – 500K. That increase was a lot more gradual than the spike in non-permanent residents.