I’ve a friend who lives in the Canadian PM’s election riding. He also happens to own a company with 1500 employees, it’s high tech, and he does a lot of business with the US. He says he’s nervous he’s going to be deliberately targetted because of where he lives. If one of his US competitors gets the ear of Trump, could be a problem.
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- The Canadian PM is also an MP
- As an MP, the PM was elected to represent a district
- The concern is that businesses in that district could be targeted
- Canadians refer to their legislative districts as “ridings” because they don’t know the etymology of the term
Summary
“Riding” as an administrative unit comes from when a few regions in England were split into thirds - “thridings”. (At that time the r in third was still before the vowel, as in “three”.) However since “thriding” was generally preceded by a cardinal direction, all of which end in -t/th, the duplicate th- at the start of thriding was eventually dropped out of linguistic laziness, leaving “riding”. But it only applies where a previous district was split into three.
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Voting areas are called ridings, each riding elects someone. that someone belongs to a political party. The party with the most members after the election leads the country.
the party also, on its own, votes in its leader.
The leader of the party leading the country is our Pm. so we don’t vote directly for our pm. the pm is just some member of parliament, elected, or not, like all the others.
The leader of the opposition, pierre poliievre, actually lost his election in his riding. So an elected member in a safe riding actually quit, leaving room for Pierre to run in that riding and get elected - allowing him to actually show up in parliament.
there is a hidden flaw in the system. The leaders of the parties are not elected by voters. They’re elected by official party members. and in the case of the conservatives, the fundies have hijacked the party and are electing people like Pierre who represents party members, not Canadian voters. I mean,.like pierre can’t even get elected in his own riding, doesn’t that say that voters don’t want him? he travelled to another.orivince entirely, to a hotbed of fundies, to get elected.
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Certainly true, but the leader of the party is a huge factor as to whom people vote for locally. The swing in the Liberal Party’s fortunes when Trudeau was replaced by Carney was huuuuuge.
I immediately jumped to ‘Steading’ from the Wheel of Time series. I genuinely hoped there was a mystical power that re-energized you Canadians upon your return to them. But no. Political nonsense and linguistic laziness instead. Typical.
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Will be surprised if a deal is reached today. Canada’s thinking is that no deal is better than a bad deal. Any maybe any deal with Trump is not a deal that will be honoured.
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/new-trump-tariffs-deadline-9.7311125
“Trump says he’s pausing 50 per cent tariffs on Canadian goods for 3 days”
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I am skeptical there is a deal forthcoming. If Carney has sold out Canada he is history.
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If history is any guide, Trump bluffed himself while Carney watched in amazement.
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Dude’s gotta stop setting deadlines on Tuesday, TACO…
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Carney sounds cautious on a deal.
"After Trump’s announcement, Canadian prime minister Mark Carney said “substantial progress” had been made towards a trade deal but more work was needed.
“While we continue this work, Canada remains focused on building a stronger, more independent and more competitive economy at home,” Carney said."
From FT:
This week, Leger, one of Canada’s top polling agencies, reported 56 per cent of Canadians want the federal government to take a hard line with the US, compared with 31 per cent who favour flexibility if needed. “Canadians are watching what the country gives up, how firmly the government negotiates and, for many, whether the final deal warrants a new political mandate,” said the pollsters.
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Not surprised the “deal” fell through. Carney couldn’t accept a bad deal for Canada because of the country’s mood
I think we have to look at export taxes on oil, electricity and potash and tariffs on digital services.
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Sounds like the US negotiators tried to squeeze Canada further at the last minute.
"Canadian prime minister Mark Carney has promised to match US tariffs “dollar for dollar”, after the two sides failed to agree a trade deal by the midnight deadline.
“Last-minute changes in the US proposed terms were unfair, uneconomic, and called into question the reliability of any deal,” Carney said in a statement."
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Good for Carney. Its enormously sad that we have reached this point, but you cannot keep acquiescing to a bully. They will keep coming back for more if you do.
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Fuck it turn off the oil and electricity. You wanna dance, let’s dance. He’s dead in the mid terms anyway, no deal is better than a bad deal that the US can’t be trusted to abide by anyway.
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