Donald Trump is on the brink of becoming a dictator. Can he be stopped?

[shtferbrains]

There only seems to be a few on here who spends time reading the daily dose of Trump.

You've got the TDS bad Chuck.
Not healthy dwelling on the US president.

[blackpowder]

Maybe if I owned this page I could stipulate which topics were discussed and the protocols for same. But I don't.
I've agreed on Trump's pushing of their Constitution. I see no value in calling out BL, for all I know he posts tongue in cheek for entertainment. Exposure for me, interesting.
Covid is to me, a lesson in rigidity and polarization.
I choose not to dwell in passive aggression. Nor to fixate on unwinnable arguments for arguments' sake alone.
Reading and writing skills I have no control over and try to overlook.
But there is only one a-hole on agriville.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Maybe if I owned this page I could stipulate which topics were discussed and the protocols for same. But I don't.
But there is only one a-hole on agriville.

This page literally and figuratively belongs to chuck.
By starting every thread himself, he does stipulate which topics will be discussed.

By setting the tone with childish name calling, insults, emoji's, deflection, personal attacks, and non answers, Chuck single handedly sets the protocols.

Then complains about the situation he created, and blames it on everyone else.
No personal responsibility.
Typical left.

[Grain Farmer]

Parliament hasn't even started yet and carney in downward spiral.

[chuckChuck]

PP is ready to kill the temporary foreign worker program even though many businesses can't find anyone else to fill their jobs.

PP never mentions that the biggest impact on employment right now are the Trump tarrifs that are causing large layoffs in steel, aluminum, and autos.

Canada's 2025 first quarter population growth was effectively zero.

With the baby boomers retiring and needing more healthcare, the percentage of workers to retirees is shrinking.

With birthrates already very low and shrinking where are all the workers going to come from to fill jobs?

Agriculture is short skilled workers just like many other industries. He says ag needs a TFW program but nobody else does?

If there are so many people looking for good jobs, why not fill ag jobs with local employees too?

PP is back to his bullshit ideas.

[cropgrower]

So we need more workers while we loose jobs ? typical liberal logic !
or more like stupidity

[cropgrower]

The simple minded gullible chucks got conned yet again

[shtferbrains]

With the baby boomers retiring and needing more healthcare, the percentage of workers to retirees is shrinking.

With birthrates already very low and shrinking where are all the workers going to come from to fill jobs?

Agriculture is short skilled workers just like many other industries. He says ag needs a TFW program but nobody else does?

What you describe here Chuck is why Canada ramped up immigration originally.
All very legitimate reasons that few would argue with.
But that's not what we have now.
When the LPC realized the more the merrier as it was a voting block for them it was no longer about bringing people in to fill vacant job oppertunites.
It is not working out as originally planned.
It is indeed running on bullshit ideas.
There isn't jobs for millions of people when our economy isn't creating jobs because of inept government.
It is just to get the inept re- elected.
Our GDP per capita keeps declining because the increased population is less productive.
That was not the plan.

[chuckChuck]

Canada's 2025 first quarter population growth was effectively zero.

As i pointed out earlier GDP per capita is a distorted way to measure wealth because it doesn't measure how well that GDP is shared. If most of the increase in GDP ends up in the hands of the 1% then that is not a successful or fair economy.

"GDP per capita is a useful measure for comparing average economic output and wealth across countries but is a flawed indicator of overall living standards or well-being due to its limitations. While higher GDP per capita generally correlates with improved health, education, and access to public services, it doesn't account for income inequality, environmental costs, unpaid labor, or the distribution of wealth."

International comparisons reveal flaws of evaluating economic performance by GDP per capita


The top four countries on the International Monetary Fund’s per capita GDP ranking ([url]https://www.imf.org/external/datamapper/NGDPDPC@WEO/OEMDC/ADVEC/WEOWORLD[/url]) are all tax havens: Luxembourg, Switzerland, Ireland and Singapore.

A fifth, Liechtenstein ([url]https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.CD?locations=LI[/url]), is not included due to incomplete data, but its GDP per capita (US$186,000) is the highest of all – helped by the fact its population is just 40,000.

These countries receive inflows of profits from global companies lured by low corporate taxes and lax banking rules. Those inflows boost GDP per capita (with profits credited to local subsidiaries of those global firms), but have little impact on work, production or living standards.

Ireland, for example, has recorded the fastest growth of real GDP per capita of any OECD country over the last decade and its GDP per capita is purportedly twice Canada’s.

Ireland is a wonderful, fascinating place. But any visitor can immediately confirm it is not rich. Average living standards (evidenced by wages, housing, health and poverty) are no higher and, by some measures lower, than Canada’s.

Because Ireland’s corporate tax rate is lower than other European Union countries, global multinationals have established Irish subsidiaries to receive intracorporate transfers. In 2023, more than half of all net value added ([url]https://waronwant.org/sites/default/files/Tax%20Justice%20Irelands%20Role%20in%20Internation[/url] al%20Context.pdf) in Ireland consisted of business profits – two thirds of which belonged to foreign firms.

GDP per capita has soared but living standards have not. Because the whole model is driven by corporate tax avoidance, the Irish government’s ability to capture some of that largesse for domestic use is constrained."
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Per Capita GDP is a Deeply Flawed Measure of Economic Performance and Living Standards

By Jim Stanford
[url]https://centreforfuturework.ca/2025/05/06/per-capita-gdp-is-a-deeply-flawed-measure-of-economic-performance-and-living-standards/[/url]


It is misleading to use per capita GDP to grade Canada’s overall economic performance or, as it often is used, as a proxy for measuring living standards.
Per capita GDP is a simple ratio of the total value of goods and services produced for money in an economy divided by that jurisdiction’s population.
The math sounds easy. But the methodology is complicated. Equating average output per person with the standard of living in a country is not credible.
Per capita GDP has a numerator (GDP) and a denominator (population). Canada’s numerator has not performed badly by international standards.
Real GDP growth over the past decade averaged close to two percent per year, despite a shallow recession in 2015 and a bigger downturn during the COVID-19 pandemic. That’s the second fastest
It is the denominator, therefore, that explains Canada’s seemingly poor performance by this measure. GDP has grown but not as fast as the population.
Indeed, in recent years, Canada has had its fastest population growth ([url]https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=1710000501[/url]) since the 1950s. The population grew three percent in each of 2023 and 2024, almost entirely due to immigrants – two-thirds of whom were non-permanent arrivals (on temporary work or student visas).
The impact of rapid population growth on an arbitrary statistical ratio hardly proves a broader economic failure.
The link between immigration and GDP is indirect and felt with a time lag. Canada cannot expect the arrival of new Canadians to immediately boost GDP in the same proportion as the existing population for many reasons. It takes time to find work, gain skills and develop productivity.
Any surge in immigration will normally result in lower average per capita GDP, but that doesn’t mean Canada’s previous residents suddenly became poorer. It simply means that Canada is absorbing new people to lay the groundwork for future expansion. The resulting decline in per capita GDP cannot be interpreted as evidence of a more general malaise.
It is also worth noting that many of the business voices now bemoaning Canada’s per capita GDP performance were the same voices demanding more access to temporary foreign labour after COVID-19 (to solve purported labour shortages and reduce wage pressures).
It’s contradictory for them to now complain about poor GDP per capita resulting precisely from the temporary immigration they demanded.
GDP itself – the numerator of the ratio – encounters numerous conceptual and methodological questions, casting further doubt on its validity as a measure of living standards.
GDP includes many components that have no direct bearing on the quality of life, such as depreciation, real estate commissions and imputed rents on housing.
It is tricky to measure real GDP over time and even trickier to compare it across countries, different currencies and different prices.
Moreover, simple per capita averages ignore how GDP is distributed. Only about half of GDP is paid to workers. Much is captured in profits and investment income, disproportionately concentrated at the top of the income ladder.
Very high incomes for a rich elite can pull up average GDP per capita figures, even when most members of a society face hardship.


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[furrowtickler]

In other words , a bunch of lame excuses for poor economic output in Canada by Liberal sympathizers lol