Comments by "Travis Cutler" (@traviscutler9912) on "CP24" channel.

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  6. PIERRE'S HOLLOW TALKING POINTS federally I think Mad Max is actually what Polllievere talks about but doesn't vote for. As for policies I don't think "stop the gatekeepers" is a policy as I'm sure he's not going to allow mixed social housing to be built next to his house or any of his wealthy donors either. Same with firing bank of Canada, sounds good but the corporations that back him won't accept anything that hurts their bottom line. He'll cut taxes, probably save the middle class about $800-$1000 in taxes but will cut carbon tax rebates so more like a $500 savings while giving corporations millions in tax breaks. Now when you cut revenue it drives up the deficit and destroying the CBC won't save billions in lost tax revenue so he'll have to go after government services and add "service fees" for other government services (exactly what Harper did and PP voted for). As for the Oil industry, he can't force multinational corporations to use Canadian oil as that amounts to nationalization and that's commie talk. But let's pretend that he did, Saudi oil is almost 5 times cheaper to produce a barrel of sweet crude than Canadian oil not to mention we don't have refining capacity so imagine how paying quadruple the price of "Canadian gas" would go over. Pretending he's going to build a pipeline to the east coast (that the multinational companies said wasn't financially viable) may sound good but won't actually happen either. The only thing he's said that appeals to me is how he's going to force the medical profession to accredit immigrants BUT that industry is incredibly powerful and is unlikely to give away their monopoly not to mention most Albertans won't want to see a Bangladeshi Dr. His platform is buzz words and slogans without numbers or anything that is measurable because he knows that people would actually crunch those numbers and tear him to shreds. It's easier to make promises to the base, reassure the wealthy that nothing will change and ride a wave of dissatisfaction with the Liberals to office. Sounds familiar, that's what Trudeau did with Harper.
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  10. PIERRE'S HOLLOW TALKING POINTS federally I think Mad Max is actually what Polllievere talks about but doesn't vote for. As for policies I don't think "stop the gatekeepers" is a policy as I'm sure he's not going to allow mixed social housing to be built next to his house or any of his wealthy donors either. Same with firing bank of Canada, sounds good but the corporations that back him won't accept anything that hurts their bottom line. He'll cut taxes, probably save the middle class about $800-$1000 in taxes but will cut carbon tax rebates so more like a $500 savings while giving corporations millions in tax breaks. Now when you cut revenue it drives up the deficit and destroying the CBC won't save billions in lost tax revenue so he'll have to go after government services and add "service fees" for other government services (exactly what Harper did and PP voted for). As for the Oil industry, he can't force multinational corporations to use Canadian oil as that amounts to nationalization and that's commie talk. But let's pretend that he did, Saudi oil is almost 5 times cheaper to produce a barrel of sweet crude than Canadian oil not to mention we don't have refining capacity so imagine how paying quadruple the price of "Canadian gas" would go over. Pretending he's going to build a pipeline to the east coast (that the multinational companies said wasn't financially viable) may sound good but won't actually happen either. The only thing he's said that appeals to me is how he's going to force the medical profession to accredit immigrants BUT that industry is incredibly powerful and is unlikely to give away their monopoly not to mention most Albertans won't want to see a Bangladeshi Dr. His platform is buzz words and slogans without numbers or anything that is measurable because he knows that people would actually crunch those numbers and tear him to shreds. It's easier to make promises to the base, reassure the wealthy that nothing will change and ride a wave of dissatisfaction with the Liberals to office. Sounds familiar, that's what Trudeau did with Harper.
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  15. POILLEVERE'S RECORD OF FAILURE ON HOUSING WHEN LAST IN POWER. by Charlie Smith on November 14th, 2012 at 3:33 PM The Harper government has failed to keep its 2009 promises to the UN. The federal government will have to answer to the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva for its failure to keep its promises to the international community around housing. Michael Shapcott, director of affordable housing and social innovation at the Toronto-based Wellesley Institute, told the Georgia Straight by phone that in 2009 Canada made several pledges to the Universal Periodic Review process. This was created by the UN in 2006 to hold countries accountable for their human-rights records by forcing them to answer to questions from other countries. In April 2013, Canada is scheduled to undergo scrutiny of its performance since the last review. “[Canada’s] specific commitment was we recognize more needs to be done, we promise we’ll work with the provinces and territories, and we’ll come up with a strategy,” Wellesley said. “They’ve absolutely completely failed in that regard of having a strategy.” The Wellesley Institute filed a five-page document with the Universal Periodic Review citing a litany of Canadian cutbacks to housing programs. It states that in 2009 the federal government announced $2.1 billion in new funding for affordable housing over a two-year period, plus another $5.7 billion for homeowners in middle- and upper-income brackets. By 2011, these short-term measures were terminated, and there was a 39 percent reduction in affordable-housing funding compared with the previous year. “Since most federal dollars were matched by provinces, territories, municipalities, non-profit and private housing organizations, the combined loss added up to more than $3.5 billion in one year,” the institute declares in the document. “Included in the federal cuts were: 97% cut in Affordable Housing Initiative (new affordable homes) from $452 million to $16 million; 94% cut in national low-income housing repair program from $674 to $37 million; 27% cut in on-reserve Aboriginal housing from $215 to $156 million; and, 5% cut in assisted housing from $1.7 to $1.6 billion.” In addition, the institute revealed that a federal Crown corporation, the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, will cut the number of households receiving assistance under federal programs by almost 100,000, or 16 percent, between 2008 and 2016. And CMHC’s expenditures on the Affordable Housing Initiative will fall from $582 million to $0 between 2010 and 2015 CONSERVATIVES ARE AS MUCH TO BLAME AS THE LIBERALS FOR THE HOUSING CRISIS IF NOT MORE SO. BUT MEMORIES ARE SHORT AND PEOPLE ARE STUPID. The system works.
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  18. PIERRE'S HOLLOW TALKING POINTS federally I think Mad Max is actually what Polllievere talks about but doesn't vote for. As for policies I don't think "stop the gatekeepers" is a policy as I'm sure he's not going to allow mixed social housing to be built next to his house or any of his wealthy donors either. Same with firing bank of Canada, sounds good but the corporations that back him won't accept anything that hurts their bottom line. He'll cut taxes, probably save the middle class about $800-$1000 in taxes but will cut carbon tax rebates so more like a $500 savings while giving corporations millions in tax breaks. Now when you cut revenue it drives up the deficit and destroying the CBC won't save billions in lost tax revenue so he'll have to go after government services and add "service fees" for other government services (exactly what Harper did and PP voted for). As for the Oil industry, he can't force multinational corporations to use Canadian oil as that amounts to nationalization and that's commie talk. But let's pretend that he did, Saudi oil is almost 5 times cheaper to produce a barrel of sweet crude than Canadian oil not to mention we don't have refining capacity so imagine how paying quadruple the price of "Canadian gas" would go over. Pretending he's going to build a pipeline to the east coast (that the multinational companies said wasn't financially viable) may sound good but won't actually happen either. The only thing he's said that appeals to me is how he's going to force the medical profession to accredit immigrants BUT that industry is incredibly powerful and is unlikely to give away their monopoly not to mention most Albertans won't want to see a Bangladeshi Dr. His platform is buzz words and slogans without numbers or anything that is measurable because he knows that people would actually crunch those numbers and tear him to shreds. It's easier to make promises to the base, reassure the wealthy that nothing will change and ride a wave of dissatisfaction with the Liberals to office. Sounds familiar, that's what Trudeau did with Harper.
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  20. POILLEVERE'S RECORD OF FAILURE ON HOUSING WHEN LAST IN POWER. by Charlie Smith on November 14th, 2012 at 3:33 PM The Harper government has failed to keep its 2009 promises to the UN. The federal government will have to answer to the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva for its failure to keep its promises to the international community around housing. Michael Shapcott, director of affordable housing and social innovation at the Toronto-based Wellesley Institute, told the Georgia Straight by phone that in 2009 Canada made several pledges to the Universal Periodic Review process. This was created by the UN in 2006 to hold countries accountable for their human-rights records by forcing them to answer to questions from other countries. In April 2013, Canada is scheduled to undergo scrutiny of its performance since the last review. “[Canada’s] specific commitment was we recognize more needs to be done, we promise we’ll work with the provinces and territories, and we’ll come up with a strategy,” Wellesley said. “They’ve absolutely completely failed in that regard of having a strategy.” The Wellesley Institute filed a five-page document with the Universal Periodic Review citing a litany of Canadian cutbacks to housing programs. It states that in 2009 the federal government announced $2.1 billion in new funding for affordable housing over a two-year period, plus another $5.7 billion for homeowners in middle- and upper-income brackets. By 2011, these short-term measures were terminated, and there was a 39 percent reduction in affordable-housing funding compared with the previous year. “Since most federal dollars were matched by provinces, territories, municipalities, non-profit and private housing organizations, the combined loss added up to more than $3.5 billion in one year,” the institute declares in the document. “Included in the federal cuts were: 97% cut in Affordable Housing Initiative (new affordable homes) from $452 million to $16 million; 94% cut in national low-income housing repair program from $674 to $37 million; 27% cut in on-reserve Aboriginal housing from $215 to $156 million; and, 5% cut in assisted housing from $1.7 to $1.6 billion.” In addition, the institute revealed that a federal Crown corporation, the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, will cut the number of households receiving assistance under federal programs by almost 100,000, or 16 percent, between 2008 and 2016. And CMHC’s expenditures on the Affordable Housing Initiative will fall from $582 million to $0 between 2010 and 2015 CONSERVATIVES ARE AS MUCH TO BLAME AS THE LIBERALS FOR THE HOUSING CRISIS IF NOT MORE SO. BUT MEMORIES ARE SHORT AND PEOPLE ARE STUPID. The system works.
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  25. okay, just so I'm clear. You're feeling is that despite the over a 150 years that Canada has traded back and forth between the Liberals and the conservatives government commitments to Corporations (NAFTA, GATT, FIPA & TPP had Hilary won & USMCA) that we will be able to indefinitely push back a conservative's government agenda despite a massively pro conservative billionaire owned Canadian media, massive American pro conservative corporate media, massive pro provincial corporate media, as well as a trade war that's specifically targets the liberals and NDP's current government??? All by managing to avoid PP, by a couple digits in an election where the liberals at best would possibly be another minority government (after a decade in power which no government has ever done) and this would be the long-term strategic goal to keep PP indefinitely out of government while Trump and every corporate interest in the world rains down their worst possible punishment for a liberal/NDP government fighting for Canadians rights and has Carney as our champion who was last in government under Harper and prioritized as always corporations instead of working class Canadians?!?! Sorry, I swear to God I'm not trying to be a dick but I have to say that having studied Canadian politics for almost 30 years I have considerably less faith in our first past the post system and the world's most concentrated corporate media that has explicitly ensured that the corporations and Israel are always under every single circumstances prioritized over the Canadian people let alone doing anything even approaching morality. However, if I've missed something I would love to hear it because I am not only super depressed, sad about the inevitability of what's coming but also filled with dread as the hammer comes down. For me, what we need to accept is that things are going to get a lot f**** worse and if we don't start preparing for that it's going to not only make things impossible to address but worse, the possibility of Alberta and Ontario's right-wing agenda actually turn us into the 51st state because Trump purposely bankrupted our government. Please the love of God tell me you have a better solution?!?!?!?
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