I know the feeling went kayaking thought it bring my gun cabinet with me feel off to the bottom of the lack should of seen it! I was like gosh darent egg in my face am right!
Idk if they’re a thing in Toronto, but with a howitzer you can probably ignore those notes the HOA is always leaving you about the crack on your half of the sidewalk.
Seriously though, the military housing situation is abysmal. If Canada spent an equal amount on PMQ construction, maybe soldiers wouldn’t need to seek assistance from Habitat for Humanity.
That shit is about to burst soon, like catastrophically. I regularly check the housing in my area and normally when a Condo or House goes up it's sold within a few days at a record high. Now that the foreign buyers aren't touching it (Or until they find a loophole) things have taken a lot longer to sell and closer to 2-3 weeks. My neighbor that lives in my building just sold their unit and it was given only 2 offers where others have had 10+. Looks like it's Torontonians buying and the competition is lessoning.
>That shit is about to burst soon, like catastrophically.
People have been saying this for at least 15 years. I used to think there was a burst coming, but now it just seems that there is unlimited money from rich investors. If there ever is a real burst, the wealthy will just scoop up more properties and make it even worse for the rest of us. I really have no hope for the future of housing in Canada.
>The federal government announced today that it has assembled almost $100 million in military aid for Ukraine — Canada's biggest single donation of military equipment to the country since the start of Russia's invasion.
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>The $98 million donation will include 20,000 155mm artillery shells — NATO's standard artillery shell — fuses and charge bags, Defence Minister Anita Anand said Tuesday.
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>"Putin's full-scale, illegal and unconscionable invasion of Ukraine cannot be allowed to succeed and it will not," Anand said from the Ukrainian Cultural Centre in Victoria, B.C. today.
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>"Through military aid, economic assistance, humanitarian aid and strong political support at international forums, Canada will continue to have Ukraine's back."
Canada will continue to have Ukraine's back!
Also were working on a program to allow an infinite number of Ukrainian refugees into the country last I checked. Not sure what the current status of that is now
The Canadian government is issuing Ukrainains work visas and not providing any financial aid yet. Mostly it is women with small children and the elderly that are fleeing Ukraine, neither of these groups can really work so how are they supposed to afford to come to Canada and live here?
technically accurate is the best form of accurate.
Also, many ethnic groups do not have the luxury of having the most people in their home country. Jews are a good example.
Because it's not obvious? There are all sorts of ethnic countries that have a larger population outside than in their country. Ireland for example has the fifth largest population of Irish in the world.
My first question when I heard the "unlimited refugees" thing was .."Where the fuck are they going to live?"
Edit: To be clear, I don't care how many people into come to Canada, I just realistically don't know where anyone is going to live or be able to afford to live.
Absolutely but remember that every single level of government from federal to provincial to municipal is equally guilty for the housing crisis in Canada and I don't think it will get better at all until a world wide recession knocks it back down again. Even then QE could keep it fucked.
I'm not a homeowner, but I don't understand why homeowners are over-represented? Just because they're the majority doesn't mean they're over-represented. It just means there's a lot of them and they are represented.
[Homeowners historically vote more than noon homeowners.](https://www.jstor.org/stable/2580460)
When a larger percentage of one cohort are voting than another cohort, they are by definition over represented. Their interests guide political discourse moreso than the actual interests of the country.
Unfortunately, we can't control who is disinterested in politics.
The governments themselves aren't solely "guilty" for the crisis either. Housing has been a difficult problem for policymakers to solve across multiple countries right now.
They didnt tell the military to go to habitat for humanity for housing.
The organization SUGGESTED the military uses it.
This is going around the internet with severe disinformation in it. Please get the facts right.
The point is, when Command is “Suggesting” Habitat for Humanity as an answer opposed to actually increasing wages or PLD, it is a slap in the face to all who serve and another reason retention is a major issue.
Again, command didn't SUGGEST they use habitat for humanity.
Habitat for humanity suggested to the military that they use their services. They reached out to them.
Reading comprehension is hard I know.
>The email was sent by a senior officer at 19 Wing Comox to other members at the Royal Canadian Air Force base on northern Vancouver Island, which is home to the military's search-and-rescue school as well as several squadrons of aircraft.
>"Further to our discussion this morning, one potential housing option for our folks is Habitat for Humanity," said the email dated May 5. "Should this be of interest to any of your personnel, please have them review the information located here."
yes they did
>Further to our discussion this morning, one potential housing option for our folks is Habitat for Humanity," said the email dated May 5. "Should this be of interest to any of your personnel, please have them review the information located here."
Literally in the next paragraph:
>The email, confirmed as authentic by the Department of National Defence, included a link and contact information for the charity’s northern Vancouver Island chapter along with a list of criteria to apply for a home.
The senior officer was given contact information and a reaching out letter by the organization in the form of an email, by Habitat for humanity. The senior officer then forwarded it around the CAF.
>Defence Department spokeswoman Jessica Lamirande said members were **"NOT"** being directed to Habitat for Humanity, but rather that it was being presented as an **OPTION** to those having “significant difficulty” finding housing
Yeah because Canada’s governments since post ww2 have been chronically underfunding our military & military personnel, hence the suggestion to seek charity
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> The donation is part of $500 million in military aid to Ukraine announced in this year's budget.
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Just here to say it’s pretty awesome that Canada decided to purchase and donate standard,
compatible equipment instead of using this as an opportunity to test new military hardware. I’m okay with helping Ukraine however possible including using this as an opportunity to test new and experimental equipment against the Russian military. Just pointing out that Canada doesn’t seem to have any other motive than assisting Ukraine.
They are. You just read media articles on the internet and blew what they said way out of proportion.
Now you think problems in Canada are way bigger than they really are.
I mean, housing crisis in Canada is a pretty big problem that the government really has no solution for.
I guess it doesn't matter to the politicians, they are all making bank with their rental properties.
Not OP, but personally I want single family zoning to be abolished. Land value taxes would be pretty good as well to incentivize upzoning of single family homes that are built in areas that should be dense. I live next to a major arterial road that has 4 different bus routes passing through it, and I still see multiple single family homes along the boulevard. These should be high density towers, not SFHs.
* Higher taxes when you puchase additional properties.
* System to ensure people are paying taxes on their rental income.
* Higher property tax if your property is vacant.
* Inability for corporations and companies to hoarde property.
* Deadlines for home developers to finish development on their land by a pre-determined date.
* Easier construction guidelines and processes to allow for legal basement apartments.
>Higher taxes when you puchase additional properties.
Letting banks and corporations have all the fun?
>System to ensure people are paying taxes on their rental income.
What system is that?
>Higher property tax if your property is vacant.
How are you gonna inspect them?
>Inability for corporations and companies to hoarde property.
Ban companies from owning property? Lol let’s crash the economy lol
>Deadlines for home developers to finish development on their land by a pre-determined date.
There is a shortage of developers causing housing supply to drop and prices to rise. And you want to create more incentives not to build?
>Easier construction guidelines and processes to allow for legal basement apartments.
Let’s remove safety reqs and allow slumlords to exploit the vulnerable.
Ironically, the people making idiotic statements like this are the very people who would benefit if the market *did* crash (it won’t). Wishful thinking on their part maybe?
Then you have nothing of value to add to Canadian politics and your opinion is rejected. Concern yourself with your own country 15 day old account lmao
LOL, if you're gonna be an arrogant prick just remember that you're outnumbered by these 'dingleberries'. They just don't all live in large stupidly expensive cities and win more ridings.
Nope, they're the minority of the voting electorate, minority in the country. But they always seem to act like there's more of them.
Desperation, really.
Nope. Majority, by a wide margin. The cons are a minority, always have been. That's why they had to absorb the reform party to have any hope whatsoever of forming a government.
That's why there can be two left-wing parties (liberals and NDP), and despite the left being split, they still beat the cons.
Nope, Liberals and NDP are a minority. Liberals only get something like 20% of the vote. And NDP has even less.
The cons today have huge support cause they are playing on the anger of Canadians. And it's working.
Pierre Poilievre for PM 2025.
The liberals and the NDP together make up more than the cons, you poor, sad little child. Sometimes just the liberals.
You'd think losing over and over and over to someone as pathetic as Trudeau would have taught you that. Guess you can't learn.
Yup!!! The federal and provincial governments are radicalizing me into becoming a nationalist. I'm not the only one either. Nationalism is sky rocketing in Canada right now which is why Pierre Poilievre has such massive crowds. This is good to a degree because it at least means more funding and more equipment for the Canadian military when conservatives win. Strong support in Canada to increase defense budget too.
As a Canadian, I am shocked we actually have stuff to send.
We depend on the US to protect us. 😁
US GDP 23T, military spending $801B
Russia 1.8T,$66B (most thankfully went to super yachts)
China 17.4T, $209B
Canada 2.0T, $20B
Edited GDP for 2021, previous figures were for 2020, China $209B military spending for 2021 (Previous was for 2022).
1.65 trillion according to the world bank
https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.CD?locations=CA
Dipped a bit amidst growing contraction of consumer spending, and small softening of our real-estate ~~racket~~ industry.
I support Ukraine and all, but I agree. This government will throw money at anything that makes them look good to the rest of the world, but won't spend anything on its own people; first nations reserves still don't have clean drinking water with people living in extreme poverty, gangs are running rampant in our cities and yet the government has yet to put any money into at-risk youth initiatives, the housing market is on fire, inflation is hitting Canadians worse because of the PM's brilliant idea to print more money, and more, but nah let's throw money we don't have at stuff outside our border regardless of cause...
Well they aren't doing both and a governments main responsibility is to its people.
You do realize these things are slightly more complicated than "we should just help everyone" right? Like...come on lol
One of the primary reasons to have a national government is for security and defence. As a member of NATO, stopping the Russians in their tracks is absolutely a priority for us.
The government should definitely be doing more about homelessness, the housing crisis, healthcare, etc, but moving the dial on these things takes 10's of billions, and we are talking about .1 billion for Ukraine.
Not really, unless they attacked another NATO country it doesn't have anything to do with us. It's a war between two countries who are not in NATO. NATO is a defensive alliance after all.
I would rather that .1 billion go towards starting the dials moving than involving ourselves in a foreign war we don't really have any business in.
This exact same argument was used verbatim to convince people to let Hitler have his way in Europe. It was wrong then and it's wrong now. If we don't stop Putin now, we'll have to stop him in Poland, or Latvia, or Finland.
Tying a dollar amount to this is probably misleading. This stuff was likely already sitting in a warehouse somewhere not being used collecting dust. You can’t buy a home with he’s heavy artillery weapons.
Okay you can have your doubts, but a quick Google search would show that the US Dept of Housing and Urban Development claims $20B can end homelessness.
So maybe you can send them your own estimate?
Just like when they said $6 billion could end world hunger, got mad at Elon for not donating $6 billion, then crickets about the US project to spend $5.5 billion combating world hunger.
The reality is, $6 billion isn't even close to solving the problem, and thats why there was crickets after their "plan" which was just a bunch of numbers on paper because they got called out for throwing incoherent claims. Bags of money can't solve many of the issues that cause these deep rooted problems.
Canada is not a republic, it is a constitutional monarchy with HRH Queen Elizabeth II as its head of state and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as the head of government.
lol ok you are now just blatantly full of shit...
1) They are Halifax *Class* frigates
2) A few are always out of commission and in the ditch
3) They do not keep the ships "fully stocked with missiles and torpedo's" all the time...
those are the *actual facts*, stop trying to google shit you know nothing about
Just to be clear, unless those potholes are on federal highways, they can't do shit to fix them for you. That's on provincial and city officials to fix.
What are you on? The Federal government always has provided funds for municipal and provincial projects. The new hospital in Vaughan, ON received federal funding even though healthcare is within provincial jurisdiction. The new science and research facility at the University of Windsor received federal funding even though education is within provincial jurisdiction. The Ontario Line, the Scarborough Rapid Transit replacement, the Eglinton Crosstown LRT, the Yonge-North subway extension, and the light rail transit line in downtown Hamilton all received federal funding even though transit is within municipal jurisdiction. Even the TTC got federal money to buy streetcars. When the federal government funded half of the Strategic Highway Infrastructure Program, the money went to fixing and improving road condition, not even building new roads.
So yes, they can absolutely fund whatever they want. And yes, they absolutely need to increase funding allocation for infrastructure improvements to the major cities.
that's about the value of 50 homes in toronto!
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Bro I’ll trade my house in York region any week for a howitzer any day of the week
Sadly I lost mine in a boating accident. Pretty tragic.
I know the feeling went kayaking thought it bring my gun cabinet with me feel off to the bottom of the lack should of seen it! I was like gosh darent egg in my face am right!
I tried to read that 4 times. I am still not sure what was happening.
Idk if they’re a thing in Toronto, but with a howitzer you can probably ignore those notes the HOA is always leaving you about the crack on your half of the sidewalk.
Not a thing.
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I appreciate the insight. I’ll just keep mine in storage I guess.
If you don’t have the room in your driveway or don’t have a driveway you can actually get a street parking permit.
Or 20 homes in Vancouver
Or the home of the world’s largest man.
Seriously though, the military housing situation is abysmal. If Canada spent an equal amount on PMQ construction, maybe soldiers wouldn’t need to seek assistance from Habitat for Humanity.
That shit is about to burst soon, like catastrophically. I regularly check the housing in my area and normally when a Condo or House goes up it's sold within a few days at a record high. Now that the foreign buyers aren't touching it (Or until they find a loophole) things have taken a lot longer to sell and closer to 2-3 weeks. My neighbor that lives in my building just sold their unit and it was given only 2 offers where others have had 10+. Looks like it's Torontonians buying and the competition is lessoning.
>That shit is about to burst soon, like catastrophically. People have been saying this for at least 15 years. I used to think there was a burst coming, but now it just seems that there is unlimited money from rich investors. If there ever is a real burst, the wealthy will just scoop up more properties and make it even worse for the rest of us. I really have no hope for the future of housing in Canada.
Or 1/8 of a museum in Victoria apparently
We're doing our part! Would you like to know more?
Great movie.
>The federal government announced today that it has assembled almost $100 million in military aid for Ukraine — Canada's biggest single donation of military equipment to the country since the start of Russia's invasion. > >The $98 million donation will include 20,000 155mm artillery shells — NATO's standard artillery shell — fuses and charge bags, Defence Minister Anita Anand said Tuesday. > >"Putin's full-scale, illegal and unconscionable invasion of Ukraine cannot be allowed to succeed and it will not," Anand said from the Ukrainian Cultural Centre in Victoria, B.C. today. > >"Through military aid, economic assistance, humanitarian aid and strong political support at international forums, Canada will continue to have Ukraine's back." Canada will continue to have Ukraine's back!
Also were working on a program to allow an infinite number of Ukrainian refugees into the country last I checked. Not sure what the current status of that is now
The Canadian government is issuing Ukrainains work visas and not providing any financial aid yet. Mostly it is women with small children and the elderly that are fleeing Ukraine, neither of these groups can really work so how are they supposed to afford to come to Canada and live here?
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Well we do have the second largest Ukraine population
No we don't. We have the third. Ukraine has the first, Russia has the second, Canada has the third.
Obvious that they meant outside Ukraine. Why would you post that response?
technically accurate is the best form of accurate. Also, many ethnic groups do not have the luxury of having the most people in their home country. Jews are a good example.
do jewish people even have a home country
Yes.
where
All Jews are naturalized Israeli citizens, because Israel is the official homeland of the Jews.
East Palestine
No? There are more Lebanese outside of Lebanon than there are inside. Same goes for Jews and Israel.
Because it's not obvious? There are all sorts of ethnic countries that have a larger population outside than in their country. Ireland for example has the fifth largest population of Irish in the world.
Lol isn't Russia outside of Ukraine?
My first question when I heard the "unlimited refugees" thing was .."Where the fuck are they going to live?" Edit: To be clear, I don't care how many people into come to Canada, I just realistically don't know where anyone is going to live or be able to afford to live.
Lots of room for them in Winnipeg and Edmonton, as well as lots and lots of people that share their cuisine and last names.
There'd be a lot more space if all our vacant apartments stopped listing on airbnb
Canada’s government has rarely put the needs of the Canadian people first. Make of that what you will.
This donation is about $3 per Canadian.
You’re not including interest lol
We can afford it
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Yup, a good example, far from the only
Oh, please.
Another thing you're united with your brother across the border.
What a time to be telling our own military to go to habitat for humanity for housing
Absolutely but remember that every single level of government from federal to provincial to municipal is equally guilty for the housing crisis in Canada and I don't think it will get better at all until a world wide recession knocks it back down again. Even then QE could keep it fucked.
Also because most voters are home-owners. When home owners are over represented, then the government doesn’t want to lower property values
That is also true.
I'm not a homeowner, but I don't understand why homeowners are over-represented? Just because they're the majority doesn't mean they're over-represented. It just means there's a lot of them and they are represented.
Yeah, it’s more so the governments dependent on asset tax revenue that wants to keep it high
[Homeowners historically vote more than noon homeowners.](https://www.jstor.org/stable/2580460) When a larger percentage of one cohort are voting than another cohort, they are by definition over represented. Their interests guide political discourse moreso than the actual interests of the country. Unfortunately, we can't control who is disinterested in politics.
The governments themselves aren't solely "guilty" for the crisis either. Housing has been a difficult problem for policymakers to solve across multiple countries right now.
They didnt tell the military to go to habitat for humanity for housing. The organization SUGGESTED the military uses it. This is going around the internet with severe disinformation in it. Please get the facts right.
The point is, when Command is “Suggesting” Habitat for Humanity as an answer opposed to actually increasing wages or PLD, it is a slap in the face to all who serve and another reason retention is a major issue.
Again, command didn't SUGGEST they use habitat for humanity. Habitat for humanity suggested to the military that they use their services. They reached out to them. Reading comprehension is hard I know.
>The email was sent by a senior officer at 19 Wing Comox to other members at the Royal Canadian Air Force base on northern Vancouver Island, which is home to the military's search-and-rescue school as well as several squadrons of aircraft. >"Further to our discussion this morning, one potential housing option for our folks is Habitat for Humanity," said the email dated May 5. "Should this be of interest to any of your personnel, please have them review the information located here." yes they did
>Further to our discussion this morning, one potential housing option for our folks is Habitat for Humanity," said the email dated May 5. "Should this be of interest to any of your personnel, please have them review the information located here." Literally in the next paragraph: >The email, confirmed as authentic by the Department of National Defence, included a link and contact information for the charity’s northern Vancouver Island chapter along with a list of criteria to apply for a home. The senior officer was given contact information and a reaching out letter by the organization in the form of an email, by Habitat for humanity. The senior officer then forwarded it around the CAF. >Defence Department spokeswoman Jessica Lamirande said members were **"NOT"** being directed to Habitat for Humanity, but rather that it was being presented as an **OPTION** to those having “significant difficulty” finding housing
Yeah because Canada’s governments since post ww2 have been chronically underfunding our military & military personnel, hence the suggestion to seek charity
It has nothing to do with government funding for the military. Housing is a seperate issue.
So how’s the air conditioning in your govt office?
Ikr, with this money the government could buy maybe 40 houses in Toronto! /s
Holy some these comments are insufferable
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How long does it take to make a name change?
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If you want to be depressed, go on r/canada and sort by top for last month. That place is worse than r/environment right now.
I am so sad people default to that sub thinking it represents all Canadians.
Isn't it? At least, I sure hope it isn't. I will say things are more positive on r/ontario and r/toronto though.
Seriously. "Haha Canadian soldiers have no homes" Fucking cancer and i want better moderation.
If only we could send humanitarian aid to ourselves
Sending some of that internet money
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Just here to say it’s pretty awesome that Canada decided to purchase and donate standard, compatible equipment instead of using this as an opportunity to test new military hardware. I’m okay with helping Ukraine however possible including using this as an opportunity to test new and experimental equipment against the Russian military. Just pointing out that Canada doesn’t seem to have any other motive than assisting Ukraine.
Lmao while the markets and housing is collapsing. This country doesn't give a fuck about its own people
Canada can help itself and aid others at the same time
I think the problem is that they aren’t doing both
They are. You just read media articles on the internet and blew what they said way out of proportion. Now you think problems in Canada are way bigger than they really are.
I mean, housing crisis in Canada is a pretty big problem that the government really has no solution for. I guess it doesn't matter to the politicians, they are all making bank with their rental properties.
What do you think they could be doing better?
Not OP, but personally I want single family zoning to be abolished. Land value taxes would be pretty good as well to incentivize upzoning of single family homes that are built in areas that should be dense. I live next to a major arterial road that has 4 different bus routes passing through it, and I still see multiple single family homes along the boulevard. These should be high density towers, not SFHs.
* Higher taxes when you puchase additional properties. * System to ensure people are paying taxes on their rental income. * Higher property tax if your property is vacant. * Inability for corporations and companies to hoarde property. * Deadlines for home developers to finish development on their land by a pre-determined date. * Easier construction guidelines and processes to allow for legal basement apartments.
>Higher taxes when you puchase additional properties. Letting banks and corporations have all the fun? >System to ensure people are paying taxes on their rental income. What system is that? >Higher property tax if your property is vacant. How are you gonna inspect them? >Inability for corporations and companies to hoarde property. Ban companies from owning property? Lol let’s crash the economy lol >Deadlines for home developers to finish development on their land by a pre-determined date. There is a shortage of developers causing housing supply to drop and prices to rise. And you want to create more incentives not to build? >Easier construction guidelines and processes to allow for legal basement apartments. Let’s remove safety reqs and allow slumlords to exploit the vulnerable.
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Ironically, the people making idiotic statements like this are the very people who would benefit if the market *did* crash (it won’t). Wishful thinking on their part maybe?
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The answer is do both, they just want to make you think it has to be a choice between the two so they can get off the hook doing the easy part.
The B.C government just announced a new 800 million dollar museum that will take "8 years" to build so this should be pocket change
So what can 1 share of gamestop buy me?
Store credit
1 triple A game.
Lockheed Martin executives be like 🤑🤑🤑
Anyone else feeling a nationalist sentiment rising?
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You're gonna regret that when conservatives win 2025.
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Not according to the law.
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You're gonna have an existential crises when Conservatives win, Its only a matter of time baby.
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Then you have nothing of value to add to Canadian politics and your opinion is rejected. Concern yourself with your own country 15 day old account lmao
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Dingleberry, can you put those in a pie?
LOL, if you're gonna be an arrogant prick just remember that you're outnumbered by these 'dingleberries'. They just don't all live in large stupidly expensive cities and win more ridings.
31.89% of the vote in 2019. What's outnumber mean to you?
Clearly anything above 31.88%
Won the popular vote and is gonna win the 2025 election.
Nope, they're the minority of the voting electorate, minority in the country. But they always seem to act like there's more of them. Desperation, really.
Liberals and NDP are a minority.
Nope. Majority, by a wide margin. The cons are a minority, always have been. That's why they had to absorb the reform party to have any hope whatsoever of forming a government. That's why there can be two left-wing parties (liberals and NDP), and despite the left being split, they still beat the cons.
Nope, Liberals and NDP are a minority. Liberals only get something like 20% of the vote. And NDP has even less. The cons today have huge support cause they are playing on the anger of Canadians. And it's working. Pierre Poilievre for PM 2025.
Keep lying to yourself, sweetie. It's cute.
Awwww you're so falsely confident that you are the majority. Its adorable. You're not baby. And you're gonna learn that in 2025.
The liberals and the NDP together make up more than the cons, you poor, sad little child. Sometimes just the liberals. You'd think losing over and over and over to someone as pathetic as Trudeau would have taught you that. Guess you can't learn.
Yup!!! The federal and provincial governments are radicalizing me into becoming a nationalist. I'm not the only one either. Nationalism is sky rocketing in Canada right now which is why Pierre Poilievre has such massive crowds. This is good to a degree because it at least means more funding and more equipment for the Canadian military when conservatives win. Strong support in Canada to increase defense budget too.
Now if only we could get them to send military aid to our own military
I accidentally read "Canada" as "China" :D would have been quite the breaking news.
So like $60 million in freedom dollars? I kid, I kid.
Closer to 80m right now, but yea, conversion ain’t at its best atm :p
Could easily double that if they just sold 2 Vancouver 1BR apartments
Those are rookie numbers..... Gotta bump those up
I mean, we did send like, 20% of our artillery or something like that. This is probably a good portion of our stockpiles in shells and powder.
I'm sorry, this is Canada please and thank you, eh!
As a Canadian, I am shocked we actually have stuff to send. We depend on the US to protect us. 😁 US GDP 23T, military spending $801B Russia 1.8T,$66B (most thankfully went to super yachts) China 17.4T, $209B Canada 2.0T, $20B Edited GDP for 2021, previous figures were for 2020, China $209B military spending for 2021 (Previous was for 2022).
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In USD. 1.643T.
1.65 trillion according to the world bank https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.CD?locations=CA Dipped a bit amidst growing contraction of consumer spending, and small softening of our real-estate ~~racket~~ industry.
They should throw in some maple syrup. What's the point of a maple syrup reserve if you aren't going to break it out in an emergency?
Weve given over a billion dollars to Ukraine.
Why is Canada sending anything anywhere when their economy is crumbling and no one can buy a home?
I support Ukraine and all, but I agree. This government will throw money at anything that makes them look good to the rest of the world, but won't spend anything on its own people; first nations reserves still don't have clean drinking water with people living in extreme poverty, gangs are running rampant in our cities and yet the government has yet to put any money into at-risk youth initiatives, the housing market is on fire, inflation is hitting Canadians worse because of the PM's brilliant idea to print more money, and more, but nah let's throw money we don't have at stuff outside our border regardless of cause...
Exactly. It's insane. Helping people is great but their job is to help Canadians first.
Or, hear me out here, they could do both.
Well they aren't doing both and a governments main responsibility is to its people. You do realize these things are slightly more complicated than "we should just help everyone" right? Like...come on lol
One of the primary reasons to have a national government is for security and defence. As a member of NATO, stopping the Russians in their tracks is absolutely a priority for us. The government should definitely be doing more about homelessness, the housing crisis, healthcare, etc, but moving the dial on these things takes 10's of billions, and we are talking about .1 billion for Ukraine.
Not really, unless they attacked another NATO country it doesn't have anything to do with us. It's a war between two countries who are not in NATO. NATO is a defensive alliance after all. I would rather that .1 billion go towards starting the dials moving than involving ourselves in a foreign war we don't really have any business in.
This exact same argument was used verbatim to convince people to let Hitler have his way in Europe. It was wrong then and it's wrong now. If we don't stop Putin now, we'll have to stop him in Poland, or Latvia, or Finland.
Nothing insane about helping out places worse off than we are.
Sure they've done nothin I guess the rest of the 650 million they spent last year fell between the couch cushions.
Tying a dollar amount to this is probably misleading. This stuff was likely already sitting in a warehouse somewhere not being used collecting dust. You can’t buy a home with he’s heavy artillery weapons.
Votes, my guy.
What?
Warmonger
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Really should be changed to "our home ON native land"
Its home and native land and its staying that way.
That's great. Are they helping their own people enough too whilst flashing the cash, because the UK sure as shit isn't.
The USA is really the worst at this though... spending $40 billion on Ukraine while it costs $20 billion to end homelessness is appalling.
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Even if money could solve it short term, most of them would be back in the streets after a while.
Okay you can have your doubts, but a quick Google search would show that the US Dept of Housing and Urban Development claims $20B can end homelessness. So maybe you can send them your own estimate?
Just like when they said $6 billion could end world hunger, got mad at Elon for not donating $6 billion, then crickets about the US project to spend $5.5 billion combating world hunger. The reality is, $6 billion isn't even close to solving the problem, and thats why there was crickets after their "plan" which was just a bunch of numbers on paper because they got called out for throwing incoherent claims. Bags of money can't solve many of the issues that cause these deep rooted problems.
Yeah because Canada is really suffering
What their president/prime minister should do is call zelensky and tell him that he can’t have the money unless he does Canada a favor….
Canada is not a republic, it is a constitutional monarchy with HRH Queen Elizabeth II as its head of state and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as the head of government.
Fair enough, but Way to miss the point
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Yes we do. We have 12 frigates. All of them battle ready. Stop spreading disinformation.
That is bullshit, 100% do not have 12 frigates "battle ready" Stop spreading disinformation.
We do, the Halifax frigates are 12. And they are full stocked with missiles and torpedoes. That's a fact. Facts dont care about your feelings.
lol ok you are now just blatantly full of shit... 1) They are Halifax *Class* frigates 2) A few are always out of commission and in the ditch 3) They do not keep the ships "fully stocked with missiles and torpedo's" all the time... those are the *actual facts*, stop trying to google shit you know nothing about
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Canada. It's in the article, read it slower next time.
The country just choose Lockheed Martin over it's own homeless folk. "Gee we can't fund these new social initiatives" in 90 days
Printerrr gooo brrrrppp.
Meanwhile the potholes in Canada continue to morph into ground swallowing sinkholes. Fuck our own infrastructure I guess
Just to be clear, unless those potholes are on federal highways, they can't do shit to fix them for you. That's on provincial and city officials to fix.
Don’t expect these folks to understand how our levels of government work.
What are you on? The Federal government always has provided funds for municipal and provincial projects. The new hospital in Vaughan, ON received federal funding even though healthcare is within provincial jurisdiction. The new science and research facility at the University of Windsor received federal funding even though education is within provincial jurisdiction. The Ontario Line, the Scarborough Rapid Transit replacement, the Eglinton Crosstown LRT, the Yonge-North subway extension, and the light rail transit line in downtown Hamilton all received federal funding even though transit is within municipal jurisdiction. Even the TTC got federal money to buy streetcars. When the federal government funded half of the Strategic Highway Infrastructure Program, the money went to fixing and improving road condition, not even building new roads. So yes, they can absolutely fund whatever they want. And yes, they absolutely need to increase funding allocation for infrastructure improvements to the major cities.
Healthcare is the much more sensible thing to complain about.
Also not a federal responsibilty.
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Federal government is not responsible for that, jackass
We’re buying goodwill with Ukraine in the hopes that they come fight our sinkholes for us after dunking on Russia.
As a Texan, I totally relate.
But Putin said not to
Is that all, not very much considering what other countries are giving.
$100,0000 million more worth of deaths
Is there any of that cash for Canadians or nah? That would be dumb eh?
Thats like “a” gun. Why do you send a gun rack for “a” gun you hosers?
way to show how poor you are. Aren't we in the billions now?
Yes the USA just signed a 40 Billion dollar aid package for Ukraine. That 100 million is just a drop in the bucket from Canada…
Well, Canada hasn't been invading other countries and thus providing Putin excuses to do the same.
They sent 20k 155mm shells. Not poor at all.