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It’s Been Canada’s Weirdest Federal Election (thetyee.ca)
submitted 1 day ago by HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works to c/canada@lemmy.ca
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According to virtually all the polling, that choice is between Liberal Mark Carney and Conservative Pierre Poilievre. One wants to bring back fiscal prudence; the other, plastic straws.

Remarkably, the Liberals have held a five-to-seven-point lead in the polls from the beginning of the campaign, which they carry into the last, mad dash to the finish line.

In fact, according to the latest Nanos Research survey, Carney now leads Poilievre by six points. Several other polls, including on 338Canada, CBC/The Writ and Mainstreet Research, project a Liberal majority government of between 178 and 189 seats.

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[–] SamuelRJankis@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

For many years places like the Fraser Insistute would point to the USA larger economy and more competitive salaries as why Canada should be copying their policies.

As usual the progressive arguments needed context like higher proverty rates or underlying social issues which to people that can barely make it past a article title is a largely lost cause. But in 2025 we can pretty just point to the flaming turd that is America and unless people are a special flavor of nuts they just kinda nod.

[–] Perhapsjustsniffit@lemmy.ca 2 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

I'm not denying you are correct however we as Canadians also need to hold our government to a much higher standard than we do right now in regards to the treatment of minorities especially First Nations, less privileged persons and the disabled in our society. Those that exist already from our own capitalist practices.

The Americans are not alone in treating some like slaves to the system. Our government does the same, just not toward the entire population.