It is time to recognize that Marxism doesn't work. Rent is a direct consequence of private ownership of homes.

Anywhere that speed cameras were implemented it inevitably ends up as a tax generation tool. Speed limits are lowered and additional cameras are added until almost everyone get speeding ticket on a regular basis.

Even if you are a good driver you should not agree to insurance collecting telemetry. Since auto insurance is mandatory and regulated, insurers are regulated in how they can increase premiums. They DO NOT operate on premiums - payouts * profit margin, but more accurately max(premium market will bear) - what regulators allow. As such, telemetry is just a roundabout way to get around regulators and charge you more premiums.

Your view on trade is warped by stock-market investor perspective, where trade is flow of goods and increased productivity due to a local specialization. That view obscures that reducing labor costs is directly tied to reducing worker's quality of life. Shipping jobs to foreign countries may be good for shareholders, but it is not good for blue collar workers. Likewise, tariffs might not be good for the shareholders but if they bring jobs back to US they are good for blue collar workers.

Canadians advocating "elbows up" need to understand what that means. Canada absolutely can exist independently from US, but do you think anyone in Canada willing to accept drastic hit to quality of life and personal wealth that would come with such decoupling?

This is the dark side of international treaties - your rights could be subverted in a foreign court and now your domestic apparatchiks have a way around courts, rights, etc. They don't advertise that when you become "global citizen" you have no rights.

One in five Americans can't afford their heating bills. Do you think US should be sponsoring other countries while this is domestic situation?

Give me a couple examples where you think Poilievre said Trumpian things.

You think China is sensible? You might want to look up how Road and Belt countries that took Chinese money are doing.

Do you understand what it would look like? To help you visualize it, half your personal income while keeping the cost of everything the same. You are cutting off the nose to spite your face.

Having a spine (or as I see it pointless posturing) is a luxury belief that Canada can ill-afford.

If you look at Poilievre platform and Clinton platform, they are surprisingly similar. Poilievre is very similar to a US Centrist Democrat. Carney portraying him as a Trumpian figure when actual Trump was antagonizing Canada was both good politics and completely untrue.

I think at the time it was well-understood that Trudeau would resign or get pushed out. Even then, there was no way Liberals would have won if not for Trump comments and Carney skillfully tying his opposition to MAGA. Which is laughable, because Polievre is politically left of Clinton.