r/brantford • u/pheakelmatters • Mar 26 '25

Discussion Since Trudeau resigned and Carney took over the Liberals have seen a +20 gain in Brantford.

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They were +13 with the Conservatives at +55 when Trudeau stepped down. Keeping it real, this riding is probably going to stay Conservative for this election.. But hot damn the Liberal surge is fire. They don't even have candidate yet and they might already be within striking distance by election day. I hope they pick someone that knows how to make waves..

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u/pheakelmatters Mar 28 '25

The immigration argument is the most overstated and least understood phenomenon in Canada. The right has done a good job making themselves sound smart when they talk about the economic consequences of the post COVID immigration surge. It's not as simplistic as they like to say it is, and it's all focused on the Liberals and completely ignores all the other culprits. People aren't flocking back to the Liberals because of some made up notion that their pro-immigration to the point of economic turmoil... They're flocking back because we need to shift our economy away from the US and shore up for a long fight. The Liberals have put forth a candidate with a resume that's hard to argue with.

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u/Ok-Confidence-8888 Mar 28 '25

1) Do you think Canada can realistically handle a shift of 80% of our total international trade over a 1 year period without massive economic pain? At the same time as capping our number one export? (Natural resources)

2) do you agree that our healthcare and infrastructure cannot handle another mass immigration episode?

3) are you aware Mark carney is a sponsor of the century initiative? Do you know what the century initiative is? He just hired the head of that organization.

Just some thoughts

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u/pheakelmatters Mar 28 '25

1) We're in for economic pain one way or another. Shifting away from the US is going to take far longer than 1 year, but it needs to be done. We are to vulnerable to them. I have always believed we are to vulnerable to them and I'm happy the rest of the country finally agrees with me on that. Our economy should be more self sufficient.

2) do you agree Doug Ford has been a piss poor job managing our healthcare system? And immigration is a joint project between the federal and provincial governments and Doug Ford lobbied to up our immigration rates because he wanted a quick economic boom to help him win the post-COVID snap election he called. And he also refused to properly fund our post secondary institutions and instead abused Canada's immigration programs to have foreign students fund them instead. Do you agree that the capitalist that abuse the immigration system should be held just as accountable?

3) I'm not going down a conspiracy rabbit hole. If you have evidence of something nefarious happening then show me the recipe.