politics

both parties are the worst option

the majority isnt gonna stop being dug in for their party unfortunately

The way our politics revolves around ensuring the other side doesn’t get elected or else they’ll ruin the country and then when they do get elected they don’t do anything is just kinda sad

it would be so good if an independant won but it will never happen because people dont even need a reason to vote for "the party"

That’s why I wanted the 4 man race

Because if Trump won as an independent at least thats something 🤷🏻‍♂️

Canada briefly had a good system where there were 3 actual parties, then the NDP imploded because they replaced the guy everyone liked with the sikh guy everyone thinks is a hypocrite because he is

But no, Iowans like Trump so now it’s gonna be boring

I don’t understand why Sikhs, Chinese and French Canadians have to have such a stranglehold over Canadian politics

It feels so odd and silly

French Canadians makes sense

it is literally codified

because otherwise they would not have joined Canada in the first place

Sikhs is weird, chinese is because they are invading us

They’re just Quebec, you’d think the other provinces could just say fuck off

If they did, I think the last referendum to leave would've been different

we have to vaguely play ball with Quebec and let them keep to themselves more than most provinces if we do not want to collapse as a country

Quebec leaving Canada would be bad for both but worse for Quebec : p

that is true

But I guess it’d be just like them to cecede anyway

The only provice I think that could have left and did well was Alberta during the height of the oil sands

but now, I doubt any would do all that well

I wonder how well a Trump like figure would do in Canada

gotta maintain that supply of maple syrup

I do not think he'd do as well here

“Close the borders, focus on Canadians”

That sentiment is growing popular

Unironically something they should do tbh

but you'd need someone different than how trump is

i wish we had that in the US

Loveland, did you see the latest stats

Trump but nice I guess

over 1 million international indian students in Canada right now

+ their families

that is at a minimum 2.5% of Canada's pop

Yeah I heard about that during the diplomatic incident

I was sad nothing really came of that

its actually crazy

Aren’t a majority of the Sihks? Which are a pretty small population of India to begin with?

I thought the chinese were bad, but that is just selection bias because Uwaterloo is mostly chinese because we are a real school

It’d be worse in BC, I heard Vancouver is a Chinese city basically

It depends where you are, but yeah

my town is very indian because of the proximity to conestoga college

which used to be an okay trades school and now is just a shitty indian visa mill

I wonder if Trudeau actually loses this election

housing/ cost of living crisis is making people way more mad than usual

does canada have a term limit for PM pika

no

you can in theory run and win forever

Mckenzi King was like 15-20 years, but that was during the wars

most pms only last 8-10 years

i wish more positions had term limits

a PM can also call an election whenever they want

so Trudeau called one 2? years into one of his terms

so he is technically on his 3rd elected run as PM

wait you can pre-empt an election?

The rule is you must have an election after X amount of time

you can have it whenever you want before

so just call it when it looks easiest to win

Usually early elections are a gambit

"I want to pass this thing, if you really hate it, vote me out"

Harper and Trudeau both did it in recent memory

i wish US congress had term limits

some of those dinosaurs have been in there since pre-historic times

No term limit, just age limit

you can start running at like 40, you must retire at 65 or something

too old and too young both have problems

Honestly, easy fix for poltiics

you cannot run if your immediate family held a political position

so if your dad was a congressman, you cannot be a politician

your kid can, but you can't

that kills generational politics

obviously that would never get passed

unfortunately

Yeah of course

lmao

the last time a political party passed rules that limited themselves was probably 200-300 years ago

well well well

(translink is not a tranny thing)

Also pika for the record Pelosis laptop was stolen