Coolwhoami posted:

You mean cable?

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May is really terrible, Dion would be far better

Amgard posted:

Predicting Bernard Lord announcing his leadership bid within the coming months.

#NewBrunswickProblems


Dion, Garneau and Goodale are basically guaranteed ministry at this point. They're all well-established, intelligent, and reasonably well-liked.

Alctel posted:

Also if AV passes the cons are amazingly hosed.

Majuju posted:

Blue Jays clearly election-hungover, way to go Justin

toe knee hand posted:

They don't have a lot of Western MPs to choose from for Cabinet seats. Who are the potentials there?

toe knee hand posted:

They don't have a lot of Western MPs to choose from for Cabinet seats. Who are the potentials there?

Ron Paul Atreides posted:

Wait Justin took this whole principled stand against the senate is he just gonna leave posts vacant until it's empty

Dallan Invictus posted:

You're misremembering I think: when it comes to the Senate he's in the reform camp - he wants to set up an appointments commission and recruit non-partisan eminences for it (and accordingly he removed all the existing Liberal senators from the party caucus because the idea is for them to be independent.)

We'll see how that works out.

angerbeet posted:

They're going to put him on the team at the last moment so he can sock some dingers and win the penant

ZeeBoi posted:

I admit complete ignorance about the cons and Atlantic Canada but I'm guessing that they really didn't like Harper. Danny Williams must be proud.

Ron Paul Atreides posted:

Wait Justin took this whole principled stand against the senate is he just gonna leave posts vacant until it's empty

Helsing posted:

toe knee hand posted:

They don't have a lot of Western MPs to choose from for Cabinet seats. Who are the potentials there?

BERGfu posted:

Haha Holy gently caress you have the same av I loving had in 2012

Helsing posted:

Helsing posted:

Orcs and Ostriches posted:

The best two times in Canadian politics were Trudeau Sr. hanging out with Castro, and Trudeau Sr. flipping off a bunch of protesting oil workers from his car.

Vintersorg posted:

Conservative tears are the best tasting kinda of ones.



Shared by a 30-something.

Baronjutter posted:

Yeah average canadian's just stashing away 5k a year no problem.
Overall vibrant victoria wasn't too bad, I was hoping for more

Baronjutter posted:

I decided to dig into Vibrant Victoria to get some con tears and general insanity.

"I'm looking forward to Trudeau's first meeting with a world leader. Will he hold his own? Will he garner respect? Will he adequately represent Canada on the world stage?
Love him or hate him, Harper was a phenomenal leader on the world stage. He commanded respect.
If you can put your bias aside for just a moment perhaps you'll recognize that he was a highly respected leader on the world stage. He was a good speaker, he commanded respect. Whether or not you agreed with him or supported his party doesn't change how he represented Canada. "

"The Liberals balanced the budget with higher personal and corporate income taxes not to mention a 7% GST and by absolutely gutting the military.
Harper balanced the budget with the lowest taxation levels since WW2. I thank him for that!"

"Agreed. The TFSA is a wonderful thing. It's not tremendously difficult for someone to put away $5k per year, even on a tighter budget.
Rolling it back is a lame move that Trudeau may very well reconsider when his supporters start raising a stink."

Yeah average canadian's just stashing away 5k a year no problem.
Overall vibrant victoria wasn't too bad, I was hoping for more

tinfoilhat posted:

Trudeau will essentially be Obama of Canada. The darling of the media. Trudeau could be found with a dead body and a smoking gun in his hands and they'll look the other way. If we're depending on the media to keep the new government in line, I've got a bridge to nowhere to sell to you. Canadian media bias makes Fox News look balanced.

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The Globe and Mail has spent the whole day effectively publishing brochures of Trudeau's promises. It's beyond ridiculous. The CBC didn't even bother to hide their bias and contempt last night. They shrugged, they mocked and the laughed and not just at the CPC but the NDP as well. It's a one party country in general and now we've entered a de facto dictatorship period backed by the media. If you have a differing opinion, sit on it.

Entropic posted:

I'm seeing that crap on facebook, entirely from guys who moved to Alberta for tar sands jobs.

ZeeBoi posted:

and even though oil tanked during harper's stable strong conservative majority they'll still blame trudeau

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In selecting Canada’s next finance minister, Prime Minister-elect Justin Trudeau can pick between an old hand, a Toronto business executive and the head of his economic advisory group whose stimulus advice helped carry the Liberal Party to power in Monday’s election.

Trudeau, 43, may choose to emphasize stability by naming Ralph Goodale, who was finance minister the last time the Liberals were in power a decade ago. Goodale, 66, was first elected in his 20s when Pierre Trudeau, Justin’s father, was prime minister. Goodale has also served as minister of natural resources and public works.

Bill Morneau would have closer contacts with the financial hub of Toronto, having run for office after leaving a job as executive chairman of human-resources consulting firm Morneau Shepell Inc. and chairman of the C.D. Howe research institute.

Scott Brison, a veteran lawmaker from Nova Scotia who started out as a Progressive Conservative, enjoys perhaps the closest direct relationship with Trudeau, serving as co-chair of the leader’s economic advisory panel. All those candidates won their districts according to preliminary results from Canada’s election agency.

The new minister will help Trudeau craft a budget to fulfill a pledge for a middle-class tax cut funded by boosting taxes on the highest earners, a key plank of the plan that unseated Conservative Leader Stephen Harper’s government in Monday’s election. The Liberals also plan to run deficits to revive an economy crippled by low oil prices, to set a price on carbon emissions and to boost infrastructure spending.

Investors will breathe easier after voters gave the Liberals a majority of seats in the House of Commons, according to Hamish Telford, head of the political science department at the University of the Fraser Valley.

“Companies hate uncertainty,” Telford said by phone. “At least they’ll be relieved that it’s a majority which means more stability.”

Progressives

Liberal cabinets have often been a mix of “big spend” progressives and more right-leaning candidates, said Jonathan Rose, who teaches political studies at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. “People in the business community may have some questions about his bona fides,” he said of Trudeau’s ability to deliver on his campaign promises.

Other cabinet posts focused on managing Canada’s C$1.8 trillion ($1.4 trillion) economy include the ministers of industry, trade and natural resources. The new defense and public works ministers also must decide what type of fighter jets to buy after Trudeau said he would reject Lockheed Martin Corp.’s F-35.

The new cabinet will need to decide whether to ratify a trade pact that Harper’s government negotiated this month, gaining access to the dozen nations in the Trans-Pacific Partnership, while giving up some protection for Canada’s dairy and automotive industries. Trudeau has said he favors trade agreements, but needs to see the full details of the TPP deal.

Trudeau has signaled confidence in former journalist Chrystia Freeland’s ability to manage an economic file, naming her co-chair of his economic panel along with Brison, and as party spokeswoman on trade in the last parliament. Freeland was re-elected in her Toronto district.

Based on considerations including region of representation, gender, diversity balance and language, here are some other possible cabinet contenders:

• Marc Garneau is a former astronaut from Montreal, where the Liberals draw much of their support in Quebec. He served as the party’s spokesman on foreign affairs in the last parliament and in the past as Liberal spokesman on the industry and natural resource portfolios. Dominic LeBlanc is a former head of the Liberal caucus in the Atlantic provinces and a former house leader who controlled the party’s day-to-day legislative moves.
  
• The other members of Trudeau’s economic advisory panel include Goodale, former Royal Bank of Canada economist and minister John McCallum and Judy Sgro, spokeswoman on the industry file and a former immigration minister.
• Navdeep Bains has been a key organizer for the Liberals in the immigrant community around Toronto, and has been the party’s critic for trade and natural resources.
• The Liberals have several people with experience that would be relevant for the portfolios of public safety, justice and defense. Bill Blair is a former Toronto police chief, Andrew Leslie is a former army Lieutenant General who led international forces in Afghanistan, and Lawrence MacAulay of Prince Edward Island is a former two-term Solicitor General under former Prime Minister Jean Chretien.
• Those with a strong regional profile include Jody-Wilson Raybould, a prominent leader from Canada’s aboriginal community based in Vancouver. Hunter Tootoo is a former lawmaker from Nunavut, one of Canada’s three northern territories, and Jim Carr is a prominent Manitoba business leader. Former journalist Seamus O’Regan from Newfoundland and former Montreal mayoral contender Melanie Joly are also star candidates brought in after Trudeau became party leader.
• Trudeau says half of his cabinet ministers will be women. Prominent female Liberal lawmakers include Judy Foote, a former Newfoundland cabinet minister; Joyce Murray, British Columbia’s former environment minister; Carolyn Bennett, a Toronto doctor and veteran Liberal lawmaker and Ottawa lawyer Catherine McKenna.