Sorry your cousin is a fucking moron, but I think it's fucking absurd to curtial the freedoms of everyone because of the lowest common denominator of people.

Perhaps consider there's a lot of space between draconian government restrictions and acting like a complete buffoon.

"Trying to protect the public" aka limiting what people can and can't do. We're adults, we can protect ourselves.

Last time I checked almost the entirety of that was better than the current Liberals. Lower housing prices, lower cost of living, lower immigration, lower homelessness, lower drug deaths, less crime, higher per capita GDP

Trudeau isn't fear mongering about the CPC, they'll be every bit as bad and worse than the Liberals say.

Could you also use that crystal ball to tell me next week's lottery numbers?

I felt far more under seige by the federal and provincial mandates than by any of the related protests.

I mean, Minecraft is one of the most popular games in the world... Maybe the kids are trying to tell us something

Between all the progressive ideals that have been forced down our throats over the past few decades and it becoming socially unacceptable to do things like smoke and drink at work, I'd say we work in some of least toxic work cultures to date.

I also worked for the Parks and Rec department of the city where I grew up throughout the school year, startinf when I was 14 or 15... So yes?

I am extremely critical of Trudeau but he did the right thing

If you read the federal court ruling, they list several reasons why he didn't; largely summarised as:

(1) The invocation of the EA being overly broad (it temporarily outlaws protests on any topic anywhere in the country, which is a Charter violation of anyone not involved in the protest),

(2) Invocation was unnecessary (provinces and cities were capable of clearing out other protests without it), and

(3) It resulted in unreasonable search and seizure of those alleged to be involved in the protest (another Charter violation, with no due process to boot).

I can definitely understand disagree on point 2, but not 1 or 3. There's no reason someone in Moosejaw should be stopped from protesting croc shoes while this was going on (not saying this happened but it could have with the way the EA was invoked), nor was there any process or accountablility with selecting who's bank accounts got hit.

Work is a practical teacher of the value of money, how to work together with people, and how to deal with an actual meaningful authority structure.

School has no way to teach the first, does not realistically teach the second, and makes any lessons with respect to the third meaningless between "no kid left behind", the countless second chance opportunities given for breaking rules, and the fact that there's no effective punishments offered for breaking rules.

I think many issues with young people (including my age and a little older) is that a lot of them don't work until after highschool and have massive struggles with the transition of both having to work and being treated as an adult at the same time.

I was working summer jobs doing farm labour since before I was a teenager (and I'm not that old), so I'm gonna say that it's fine that 13 year olds are working.

To be fair, there are a significant amount of staunch conservatives who are really unhappy with how friendly Ford is with Trudeau.

It's actually a little humerous for me because I hear both sides of it IRL. I know very few people who are happy with Ford, but I know many people who are unhappy with him because he is too "far right" and even more people who are unhappy with him because he is a "conservative in name only"

I was more thinking of the stair exit being blocked by fire, not on fire itself.

It's all fun and games until the single stair is blocked by fire.

So you're suggesting that Trudeau Liberal policies were somehow preferred in this area by massive margin in 2015, 2019 and 2021 but aren't now, with the only real policy change that negatively affects these people is capital gains?

Quite honestly, I'll be surprised if this riding remains CPC during the next federal election. My gut instinct is that there's probably a small contingent of ABC voters who had planned on staying home during the next election but now that reality has hit they'll come out. And this margin was so narrow it'll flip here.

Yeah, so maybe the public service needs to take a look at say "if we have two people warming a chair for 60% of their work time, maybe we should fire two and have the third only warming the chair 10% of the time"

... you've got to be the only person then. Even the CPC is surprised they won.

Also, your excuse makes no sense. What's your reasoning for the previous Liberal massive success in thus riding? They've regularly been getting ~50% or more of the vote and even won by a healthy margin in 2011 when the party was soundly defeated from coast-to-coast... Do you think all the rich people moved in within the last couple of years?

Like what? Half baked drug and dental plans that barely anyone is eligible is for?

Unfortunately we have like 40% more public servants yet somehow services aren't 40% better... So yeah, productivity is unchanged, that's the problem.

I mean when you have NDP voters who would rather have a Con win than the liberals...

Maybe they're NDP voters who hate what's happening to this country under the Liberals and possess the conviction to vote for what they actually believe in.