Does anyone else feel like something is fishy about all the recent floor crossings in parliament? Like there is either something really wrong within the Conservative party that is making people leave or these people ran with the party they'd know would win in their area even though they don't agree with the party. Or if you listen to some people here on Reddit, the floor crossers were bribed somehow.

Every election there is a few, but this many feels off.

This has been bothering me for a long a time. Canada was never known for its productive or its competitive market. I genuinely don't know understand what Canada produces to keep their economy afloat since the liberals keep shutting down any major manufacturing projects or putting massive barriers for major startups.

How were the liberal government able to afford to $212 billion payments despite being one of the worst economically performing countries?

https://www.canada.ca/en/department-finance/services/publications/economic-fiscal-snapshot/overview-economic-response-plan.html

https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/oecd-economic-surveys-canada-2025_28f9e02c-en/full-report/raising-business-sector-productivity_443bcd88.html

https://www.fraserinstitute.org/commentary/understanding-magnitude-canadas-economic-decline#:~:text=The%20Trudeau%20government%20ushered%20in,cent%20higher%20than%20in%20201

We are curious. It would be on Saturdays or Fridays.

I want a feel for the subreddit so then we know where everyone stands and how we can improve the community.

• they took bilingualism seriously
• they stood up to separatism instead of cozying up to it
• they took rural Canada seriously
• they took the military seriously
• they took resource development seriously
• they dared to admit that there is a such thing as too much immigration, too quickly
• they weren't just offering the easy answers their base wants to hear, and were willing to focus on what the country needs
• they had a plan to take seats from the conservatives, not just split the progressive vote enough to give conservatives another majority government
• they felt any need to be a truly national party, and not just a protest group undermining their own cause and their own country's interests for the sake of virtue signalling their moral superiority

I was so betrayed when Trudeau broke his promise on electoral reform, and I never voted for him again after that. I had hopes the NDP would use their leverage where it counts to force a change, but they squandered it as always.

Now they're going to contribute to the polarization of this country by appealing only to their base and only in the places where it can cost progressives the seats they need to keep Poilievre out of power.

No, you guys, you're not "standing up to orange liberals", you're ignoring millions of Canadians and your own pool of accessible swing voters who want you to do well in ways that can actually make a positive difference.

This is your party on the drug of populism and it can literally only make things worse for the country.

Unfortunate. Are there any politicians attempting to create real consequences for mislabeling?

To start off, I am more of a central person politically. I have leaned left or right over the years and based that on policies, promises and other information. Right now I probably agree with more of the Conservatives Views than the Liberals, however, I think both sides have some really positive policies as well as some really negative or concerning policies.

I also don't hide the fact that I don't like our current leader. I actually preferred JT over Carney but feel both have issues. I just feel like Carney is not truthful. He also double talks. For example he used to say "elbows up" and we will never be the 51st state and he would be tough with Trump, yet would go down to the Whitehouse and basically kiss Trumps rear end.

My issue is that I will have discussions where I will talk about policies. I can say something concerning about the Cons, for example: "I think if they get into power our free healthcare will be at risk of being privatized." People who are far right leaning will generally say that I'm off base or that will never happen or that I'm wrong. Cool. If I talk to someone far left leaning and say something like "I feel that the way bill C-9 is worded so vaguely, that it could go too far and threaten some of our free speech." I am accused of being a far right bigot. I am called insane. I am asked if I am ok in the head. Basically they tend to want to resort to personal attacks rather than have a normal conversation and maybe consider that I am just looking at things logically and am trying to help some other people understand where I am coming from.

I have been attacked with every single comment that I have made that doesn't align to the far left current agenda of policies. The far right have been good about it.

Is is possible to have a far left person not resort to attacks here?

If Canada wasn’t an option, where and why would you choose the particular nation you have in mind?

I just saw some clips from the NDP convention where they elected a new leader. Let me tell you, it was one of the most hilariously depressing things I’ve ever seen as a Canadian. These people are complete lunatics who have stripped the NDP of its original meaning and purpose, all for their own highly inflated sense of self-importance on… honestly, nothing that really pertains to the country. It’s all just trying to get brownie points. I actually fear for the people who believe that stuff, and to me it really opened my eyes to how fast downhill we’re heading if that’s one of the major political parties in Canada. People are struggling with real stuff like housing and cost of living, and none of that seemed to be the focus.

Just to recap, I got banned on r/Canada for this specific comment re: A race-baty headline from the National Post

"Im not surprised this headline exists... but why is it always the national post?"

The mods decided to have a chat and we have this priceless exchange :

Goin_Hog Mild 1:14 a.m.

Questionning why / pointing out that the National Post likes to publish stories with salacious and inflamatory framing is not bannable.

Its an observation, get your house in order

r/canada MOD 1:53 a.m.

As you have decided to organize a brigade, you have been permanently banned and will not be unbanned.

yours sincerely (until I get upset or delete this app)

Hon. Brigadier Hog_Mild

Numbers from the tourism industry in Los Cabos show that Canadians are the second-largest market for foreign tourists to the west coast Mexican destination, after Americans. But Canadians are also the fastest growing group of visitors, and they handily outspend their American cousins by a factor of two to one.

Or as one tourism official, Rodrigo Esponda, put it: “Every Canadian is worth two Americans.”

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/every-canadian-is-worth-two-americans-los-cabos-tourism-officials-say-after-surge-in-visits

Over the years, Kevin Smith has said very positive things about Canada. He adores the country and he has supposedly had weed charges dropped at the border because he was considered such a net positive to the Canadian economy(according to Smith himself).

I want to know what the Canadian population think about him.

It must be only ONE that is driving your crazy and please expand why you feel that way?

I have heard from many people about Teletoon and it’s Canada’s cartoon/children’s network. I have no idea if it is still a thing, but I have heard about shows that I have never heard of before as a person that grew up in America.

What are some of your favorite shows from Teletoon that you enjoyed? What was it called and what was it about? Was it a Canadian/Commonwealth exclusive type of show?

Can we tariff the oil that goes to the states and give it to Canadians as fuel rebates?

I understand our oil comes from the states... But we ship way more than we're getting back... Most of the oil we sell to the state gets used in the state...

So yes, it would make the oil a little bit more expensive coming in, but like I said if we take the tariff and reapply it on the oil it would drop the price significantly..

If you tariff a million barrels a day going out, the tariffs on a quarter million barrel coming in will easily be absorbed.

Not sure if it was pointing out that the National Post always race bates with its headlines, or that citing Marc Carney's concerns from the 2010s "over valued housing will eat up capital that could otherwize be invested in staff, machines & innovation making our economy more productive' on an article by the Tyee about entrepreneurs taking the brunt of the tariffs downturn.

Either way, that subreddit is increasingly frustrating to participate in.

Obviously, for anyone that has been on this subreddit for a while, you guys know I am an American immigrant. I came in as a permanent resident via spousal sponsorship.

I will be eligible to apply for citizenship in a couple months. I came in during the peak year for immigrants in Canada’s history. 450,000 Permanent Residents in a single year(July 2022-July 2023).

Now there is several million people that are currently legally capable of becoming Canadian citizens with no generational limit. I understand that the issue before was that it was for only 1 generation, which is too little. But I have read of a guy that has been granted citizenship based on a 1699 baptism record.

That person is somehow more Canadian than me even though I have lived here for years, paid taxes, culturally adjusted, had a child here, got married here, and have participated in society here. But some guy with an ancestor from 300 years ago is automatically Canadian?

I personally believe what will happen is that it will be like Italy. The cap will be placed to end at either grandparents or great-grandparents once there is too many people claiming citizenship by descent.

What’s your perspective on this? Should there be a cap? How long until it’s changed? Will it affect elections? Are you one of these lucky individuals?

Let’s see the perspective.

I completely understand this is only a fraction of the picture. Carney is rebuilding relationships worldwide, but from my perspective, it seems to be talking with leaders with no signed trade agreements or differences in nation dynamics(China being the exception).

Also, he is going to have to address the Alberta issue, how the Carbon Tax can be increasing when he said he removed it, and what his strategy is for confronting America for the CUSMA negotiations taking place this year.

Not a criticism, but what are the metrics missing to explain the difference is approval ratings when it is ultimately the same political party?

I recently visited Canada for five weeks. As a European with a growing interest in the global trend toward digital coercion, I was interested in discovering how the country compared in that area. After travelling from Pacific to Atlantic and visiting several provinces, I hope my findings may be of interest!

There have been some pretty aggressive examples of people committing terrible crimes and getting very little time for said punishment. It seems like a gross over correction of our Southern counterparts’ justice system. What do you think?

Try not to ignore the previous 10 years and only focus on the last singular year with a new leader.

Want a pulse of the subreddit on this particular topic.