Pam Palmater joins Desmond Cole on The Breach Show to discuss legislative efforts to fast-track resource extraction projects at the expense of Indigenous rights and sovereignty
I knew when Trudeau raised capital gains taxes that it wouldn’t gather a single dime before it was revoked. In my opinion everything around Freeland’s letter and the capital gains hike was an orchestrated attempt to replace Trudeau.
I mean in a sense we got the Canadian version of Harris-mini in place of Trump-mini, a Bill Clinton, or in our terms a Paul Martin type. We avoided the mistake our neighbours made, thanks to a glimpse of the consequences.
That said, I am still confident that with enough attention paid to resistance movements, Carney’s Liberals will be able to turn it around. Liberals aren’t always conservative or progressive, all the time. There’s ebb and flow, give and take.
So I’m not saying “relax, everything’s fine” but it’s not “the sky is falling” panic situation either. Targeted action, supporting progressive bills and protesting regressive bills is what we as Canadians to do to deliver the federal government we asked for.
When something seems too good to be true, it usually is. Carney definitely seemed to be entering that territory in the run up to the election, so I’ve always reserved some suspicion. At this point if they form a coalition government with the conservatives, as laughable as that idea seems, then we know we’ve definitely been had.
Recent news all really just make me wonder if we just voted the Conservatives into power.
We did, that was the whole point
The Liberals are the old Conservatives and the Conservatives are the Reform Party
I knew when Trudeau raised capital gains taxes that it wouldn’t gather a single dime before it was revoked. In my opinion everything around Freeland’s letter and the capital gains hike was an orchestrated attempt to replace Trudeau.
I mean in a sense we got the Canadian version of Harris-mini in place of Trump-mini, a Bill Clinton, or in our terms a Paul Martin type. We avoided the mistake our neighbours made, thanks to a glimpse of the consequences.
That said, I am still confident that with enough attention paid to resistance movements, Carney’s Liberals will be able to turn it around. Liberals aren’t always conservative or progressive, all the time. There’s ebb and flow, give and take.
So I’m not saying “relax, everything’s fine” but it’s not “the sky is falling” panic situation either. Targeted action, supporting progressive bills and protesting regressive bills is what we as Canadians to do to deliver the federal government we asked for.
When something seems too good to be true, it usually is. Carney definitely seemed to be entering that territory in the run up to the election, so I’ve always reserved some suspicion. At this point if they form a coalition government with the conservatives, as laughable as that idea seems, then we know we’ve definitely been had.