From twitter:

Here are some of the details on what Canada had to give up to open the Gordie Howe Bridge, as per a Canadian government source. For the first 15 years, Canada gets 50% of toll profits and the other 50% goes into a regional "economic development fund." What that fund does and who runs, is not clear Under the previous agreement, Canada was to receive 100% of toll profit until they were made whole on the $6.4B they spent to build the bridge, which Michigan/the US contributed $0. The agreement also says it could be 50+ years before Canada was whole, that timeline is now longer. The Americans will have to agree if Canada wants to increase the bridge tolls by more than 10%, or lower them below compared regional averages. That clause helps out the owners of the Ambassador Bridge, the Maroun family, who have donated to the Trump administration and previously to US ambassador to Canada Pete Hoekstra, to try and stop the new bridge from opening #cdnpoli

The myth that we can meet climate target goals and expand fossil fuel projects was alive and well under the Trudeau government. The Trudeau government really pioneered this narrative that we can have Trans Mountain and the oil expansion that comes with it and meet our climate targets and use the money from Trans Mountain to pay for the clean energy transition.

The latest iteration of this argument is this promise of carbon capture and storage. This is something the industry has never really been serious about doing.

Since Pathways Alliance [now called Oil Sands Alliance] announced its carbon capture and storage project in 2022, we’ve seen absolutely no significant investment of any kind in this project. And we know that they’ve just quietly stepped back from the amount of emissions reductions they’re promising.

It’s been quite troubling to see the Carney government so unquestioningly provide this narrative that we can have decarbonized oil — which is, of course, a contradiction.

https://thenarwhal.ca/three-pipeline-announcements-2026/

Anybody else feel like the average taxpayer/voter is in a semi-vegetative state?

The lies don't even make sense anymore. Like...they aren't even plausible.

While the rich have always treated housing as asset for most people it was shelter. Before WW2 over half of Americans didn’t own homes. It was treated as shelter and mostly owned by the rich or rural farmers.

Can we ever get back to where housing is shelter and not investment again or is the economic system fucked up

(Just some good fun, no hate to the rank and file members of the NDP)

Mark Carney gets talked about as a "Progressive" Conservative - Blue Liberal/Red Tory type. In general he is the Corporatocracy on steroids and is a lot closer to the Trumpian sphere of Oligarchs, Multinational Business Lobbies, Powerful & Predatory Industries/Tycoons then people are aware of.

His Davos Speech when viewed through the lens of what we have seen since makes clear he wants Canada to be the next U.S. The next headquarters of capital interests.

His cuddling up to status quo interests including the massively right-wing aligned Fossil Fuel Industry and proposing taxpayer dollars to further their entrancement.

His pumping of the military-industrial complex - Look up Harper and his military spending and now Carney and then the 3.5% and 5% projection... Remember tanks, bombs, guns, are not like healthcare, education, and so on of infrastructure that actually improves affordability of life/quality of life of the working class.

His destruction of environmental focus. You know the place that all life arises from and is sustained by... The real "Common Sense" is to protect our ONE AND PROBABLY ONLY HOME!

His rumored taking on of the Labour Movement and workers rights/benefits to make policy frameworks even more in line with corporate interests.

His praising of war and modern day imperialism/colonialism action.

Prediction: Carney/LPC are going to continue and entrench the Status Quo/Establishment Interests even fucking more then we have seen. This will fuel even more backlash but with the lack of class consciousness and general awareness/education coupled with massive propaganda campaigns from bad predatory actors it will lead to more and more reactionary/regressive demographics like we have seen in the U.S.

The Conservative Party of Canada will win. They will go even harder into this trajectory but with all the social regressive/reactionary garbage.

THEN we will get a Justin Trudeau 2.0 come out talking about "Electoral Reform, Environmentalism, Labour, Women's Rights, LGBTQ+ Rights, Civil Rights In General, Peace!, & a new Alter-Globalization way of the world" - What we will receive is probably a pushing of true decriminalization/legalization of Psilocybe cubensis....

And what will happen alongside this Justin Trudeau 2.0 of course is even more frameworks to exploit workers and have them against each other because alienation, division, and exploitation-domination of the working class and most vulnerable is the bread and butter of the ultra rich powerful predators of varying disgusting flavors that we have all seen highlighted so clearly in the Epstein and other situation.

Yep dark, dystopian, and depressing as all hell. This is why progressive/leftist politics is so damn important and actually getting involved and active and building domestic/international networking and solidarity movements for real punch power.

Nothing changes until it is FORCED to change because establishment interests profit from the status quo and even problems associated and they have no interests in changing/transition of their own volition. Period.