Harper took us from a budget surplus to the previously single highest deficit in history, created both the housing crisis and the TFW program Trudeau accelerated, sold our national assets to foreign owners, including China, created the Pheonix Pay crisis, gutted our national science programs, and sent our troops to fight in foreign wars while fighting to throw veterans off their medical benefits.

As bad as Trudeau was, Harper was worse, and Poilievre would make them both look like minor inconveniences. Anyone who thinks voting for a Tory is going to make things better either doesn’t understand history or is willfully ignoring it. That or they hate Canada so much they want it gone. Which are you?

Said like someone who never lived through the Harper regime.

The military budget needed to be tripled. The rest is a problem. Literally nothing could be worse than Poilievre so I’ll take it, but I’m not happy about it.

I have to say, I’m a bit shocked that we have to accomodate publicly funded Catholic schools as a charter obligation “out of respect for francophone culture” when you don’t even consider it a part of your culture.

Until very recently we’ve all been under some pretty scary religious leadership of one denomination or another. Some of us still are (as many of us in Alberta will happily admit). That said, I think it’s a bridge to far to associate all religion with its worst, extremist elements, regardless of which faith it happens to be.

As far as the “private” school thing, at least here Catholic schools aren’t even technically private. They’re public, provincially funded schools with semi-autonomous regional school boards, with religious oversight from the local Diocese. It’s referred to as the “seperate” school system, which is entirely different than the “private” (aka pay-to-play) school system, which is different still from the “charter” school system which most other religious schools fall under (Lutheran, Pentecostal, Jewish, etc.).

I admit to not being as familiar with how Quebec handles their Catholic schools. Is it not run the same there?

Those are constitutionally mandated, but if you want to back an amendment, I’m down.

I’m not a fan of religious schools either, but they’re not going away anytime soon. You want to try for a constitutional amendment to get rid of them, good luck. As long as they’re a fact of life, the least we can do is teach our kids that no one creed is particularly better or worse than any other.

Never been in a Catholic school I take it? Here in Alberta we have publicly funded religious schools all over the place and access to Catholic schools are a constitutional requirement. Even in fully secular public schools, good luck taking any kind of music or performing arts without having to sing some creed’s hymns or performing a play with religious themes. I’m actually really thrilled when a school has some religious diversity and isn’t afraid to include some Jewish, Islamic, Hindu, or Indigenous representation in the day-to-day, because it gets so monotonous to have so much Christian representation and nothing else.

I don’t know about Quebec, but I’d rather my kids get used to the idea that no one of any creed is particularly terrible (or has a monopoly on virtue). As for head scarves, I have no more objection to Islamic women wearing them than I object to Hutterite or Mennonite women wearing them. They’re wearing a hat, not reading scriptures.The whole “religious symbols” thing seems like a lot of pearl-clutching over nothing.

Yes, we’ve never had any kind of religious representation in schools like crucifixes and rosaries or religious figures teaching classes…🙄

Dump his ass, we don’t need traitors on our teams.

Y’all need to fight them with everything possible to avoid being screwed like we were.

As an Albertan, I promise some of us are trying. Keep a close eye on BC, because I hear they have a BC “Prosperity Project” now too to swat down. Our hands are full trying to contain the damage here.

Uh, did people think “socialize the risks, privatize the profits” was just a slogan?

Should be obvious, but at least someone is saying it.

Eh, I would say quite a lot of Albertans have done quite a bit. The protests, attempted recalls, and other attempts to get these maniacs out of our legislature are happening but… we’re a little outnumbered and outfunded.

It would be a big help if we could ban foreign media conglomerates like Post Media from being the primary way 95% of our people got their “news” (ie propaganda propping up the traitors).

That’s what they said about Coding for the last 20 years.

If you want a job, learn how to make friends, preferably in high places. You take a good look at who you have access to, and study whatever it is they tell you they need you to know to work for them, and if that’s underwater basket weaving, plumbing, or communications, you learn it, because who you know is how you get a job. What you know is how you keep it. Your competence means nothing. Your connections mean everything.

There’s no such thing as a viable degree. It’s a myth. You’re asking teenagers to look into a magic crystal ball and figure out what skill set is going to have any value at all in 5 years. Meanwhile the richest men and all the experts on Earth can’t tell you what’s going to be valuable in 5 months. If they want to go to a vocational school, send them to a vocational school. The market will be flooded by the time they graduate so they aren’t going to make good money. Don’t expect to actually get an apprenticeship either, you don’t even want to know how few of those there are to go around.

You may as well tell those kids to take $1000 to Vegas and hope they win enough for a down payment on a house.

Trusting any country without being well aware they’re going to be aggressively trying to manipulate us in their favour these days is foolish. At this point they’re less dangerous than the US propaganda machine. It probably won’t stay that way, but it is what it is. We live in a lion’s den.

And Iceland. And Belgium. Their Diplomatic corps are a poorly delivered joke at this point.

Given that right now our Canadian media is largely a US propaganda and election interference machine, what difference does it make if we invite another foreign authoritarian regime to participate. What’s good for the goose is good for the gander.

Can someone that hasn’t been brain-poisoned by the AI hype machine take this portfolio? No one is comfortable with a corporate kool-aid fountain running a government department.