Recent content by kEiThZ

Setting politics aside. This is such a proud moment for us. I was fortunate enough to meet Jeremy Hansen when he came for his centrifuge training at DRDC Toronto à decade ago. An amazing Canadian.

For good measure, we also live in a world where the highest opposition to High Speed Rail is from the Green Party:

Y'all are misunderstanding what happened. The aircraft was parked on a taxi way. And it's regularly flying. Knowing where it's parked and when it's on the ground is not easy intelligence for a country with no high visit rate intelligence satellites. I'll also note that there's unconfirmed...

Nice try. Left =\= far left. Just because you vote for Dentacare doesn't make you suddenly okay with honour killings.

Most of the Leap Manifesto overlaps with GPC positions today. Not sure how much sway that platform has today. But look at these points: Honestly, I'm not sure how much daylight there is between the two parties. They'd be better off merging. At least they'd get more seats in common.

Simpler. It's an entire worldview driven by dislike of the US. And more broadly the West. There's nothing more to it. It's the overriding principle. Ergo, you can oppress women and gays as long as you make a show of opposing the US or an American proxy (Israel here). To me Evangelical...

I don't get this tactically. We don't vote by socio-economic cohorts. We vote in ridings. What ridings do you think Lewis can actually flip? I see Lewis as running up the score in key urban ridings. This is basically what keeps the Conservatives out of power. They pander to the rural base...

Nobody is suggesting we should be isolationists. Just that the Israel-Palestine conflict isn't as relevant to us. Ukraine is. The war in Ukraine is literally driving defence spending higher.

What law is this?

Mostly agree. They are going well beyond self-preservation now. And I think a lot of it is driven by their own internal politics (Netanyahu staying out of prison). I don't see the argument. We support Ukraine with weapons and training. We have substantially more ability to influence the...

There's different ways to swing left. And what policies are emphasized matters. Singh was perceived as pushing social issues. And whatever economic ideas he had got co-opted by Trudeau. How'd that work out for the NDP? But as somebody who wants things built, I'm more than happy to have the...

Nobody said it was extreme. Supporting Palestine and having it be a major part of a Canadian political party's identity are two different things. Heck, you might think of me as one of those "captured by the Israel lobby" based on our interaction here. But if I was asked by a pollster if I...

The economy isn't great. Sooner than later, it is going to bite Carney. I don't think the honeymoon lasts forever. I just hope he's in power long enough that Alto gets shovels the ground and we're past the point of no return.

It's too bad the party that professes to care the most about that comes with a whole bunch of cultural politics that most Canadians don't want to vote for. Gonna be a hard sell for most to vote for a party that has more Palestinian flags than Canadian ones at a rally.....

Poilievre has come out opposing HSR. Despite supporting HSR being in the party platform. Useless party. Apparently the only infrastructure they'll ever support is pipelines. Which, of course, they didn't build much of, when in power. Between the party stuck in the 1940s and the 2010s...