[Admiral Beez]

Fully electrifying passenger vehicles barely gets us to 10-15% of the required amount.

Considering that any gas-powered cars sold today will still be on the road well into the 2030s we won‘t see any climate impact of electrical car adoption until the 2040s. My car is 22 years old, my motorcycle is 40 years old, and they’re still running well.

 

[Northern Light]

Suggestion in this Star article that the government has caved on Pharmacare due to feeling the need to placate 'Big Pharma' for vaccine delivery.

Thomas Walkom: The federal government wants to make peace with Big Pharma. That’s why it is scrapping plans for pharmacare

Political leaders quickly realized that their fate relied on their ability to deliver life-saving vaccines. In Canada, that meant staying on the good side of the drug giants.

www.thestar.com

Not sure I buy that.

I think they caved to Big Pharma along time ago.................

That said......given the pace of vaccine delivery and the state of domestic production of same here; after many years of promises to the contrary in exchange for extended patents............

I think this would fall under the category of ......with friends like these...........who needs enemies

 

[Videodrome]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1385412799069888513

Trudeau is getting the AZ shot tomorrow.

 

[AlvinofDiaspar]

Suggestion in this Star article that the government has caved on Pharmacare due to feeling the need to placate 'Big Pharma' for vaccine delivery.

Thomas Walkom: The federal government wants to make peace with Big Pharma. That’s why it is scrapping plans for pharmacare

Political leaders quickly realized that their fate relied on their ability to deliver life-saving vaccines. In Canada, that meant staying on the good side of the drug giants.

www.thestar.com

Not sure I buy that.

I think they caved to Big Pharma along time ago.................

That said......given the pace of vaccine delivery and the state of domestic production of same here; after many years of promises to the contrary in exchange for extended patents............

I think this would fall under the category of ......with friends like these...........who needs enemies

True or not, now is not the time to pick these fights with big pharma anyways - it can wait till the crisis is over and the "never again" and "national security" card can be played.

AoD

 

[Videodrome]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1385775692109946880

He isn't running for re-election, so he decided to go out in a blaze of idiocy. Remember that he got busted in the travelgate scandal.

 

[Videodrome]

338Canada: The Liberals are winning over older—normally Conservative—voters - Macleans.ca

Philippe J. Fournier: Recently vaccinated seniors could be driving up Liberal support over the Tories. Enough of them in key ridings could turn a slim majority into a blowout.

www.macleans.ca

Interesting article.

 

[Videodrome]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1386723272721588229

Nice!

 

[Richard White]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1386723272721588229

Nice!

I would love to have 30 million of those in Canada.

 

[Videodrome]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1386674760373899265

Erin O'Toole is in big trouble.

 

[Towered]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1386674760373899265

Erin O'Toole is in big trouble.

I can just picture the party shooting an own goal by turfing and replacing him with someone more socially conservative, thereby doing exactly what he warned the party not to do if they ever want to get elected again...

 

[Videodrome]

No election! The budget passed with NDP support.

Canada avoids election with lawmakers backing budget - BNN Bloomberg

Justin Trudeau’s government survived a confidence vote, avoiding an election for now, as its first budget in two years passed in Canada’s legislature with the support of a left-leaning opposition party.

www.bnnbloomberg.ca

 

[Richard White]

No election! The budget passed with NDP support.

Canada avoids election with lawmakers backing budget - BNN Bloomberg

Justin Trudeau’s government survived a confidence vote, avoiding an election for now, as its first budget in two years passed in Canada’s legislature with the support of a left-leaning opposition party.

www.bnnbloomberg.ca

I wonder what the record is for a minority?

 

[AlvinofDiaspar]

I can just picture the party shooting an own goal by turfing and replacing him with someone more socially conservative, thereby doing exactly what he warned the party not to do if they ever want to get elected again...

Peter MacKay must be having the last laugh.

AoD

 

[DSC]

I wonder what the record is for a minority?

A quick Wiki search reveals:

At the federal level, no minority government (excepting the odd case of the 14th) has lasted a standard four-year term. Most minority governments have lasted less than two years. The average duration of completed minorities in Canada is 479 days or approximately 1 year, 140 days counting only that part of the 14th Parliament that was a minority, or 1 year, 207 days counting the entire duration of it.

From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_minority_governments_in_Canada

 

[Towered]

A quick Wiki search reveals:

At the federal level, no minority government (excepting the odd case of the 14th) has lasted a standard four-year term. Most minority governments have lasted less than two years. The average duration of completed minorities in Canada is 479 days or approximately 1 year, 140 days counting only that part of the 14th Parliament that was a minority, or 1 year, 207 days counting the entire duration of it.

From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_minority_governments_in_Canada

Still has a ways to go to beat the record.