Mark Carney favours the wealthy and privileged over working-class Canadians
Mark Carney favours the wealthy and privileged over working-class Canadians
Mark Carney favours the wealthy and privileged over working-class Canadians
Mark Carney favours the wealthy and privileged over working-class Canadians
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Prime Ministers who have favoured the the wealthy and privileged: 24
Prime Ministers who have favoured the working class: 0
Yep, still undefeated.
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Carney is not just some corporate suit. He has a real progressive track record especially with climate finance. He ran the UN push to force massive corporations to disclose climate risks because he believes private capital needs to pay to fix the environment. He also pushed billions into conservation and Indigenous led projects while cutting middle class income taxes and dropping the GST for first time homebuyers.
Reversing the capital gains tax hike fits right into that. He knows Canada desperately needs private investment for major infrastructure and energy plays. If investors face a heavy penalty just to realize a profit they will just take their money to the US. Dropping the inclusion rate back to 50 percent was a calculated move to pull in private trade dollars that would have completely skipped Canada. He is just using the market to build a strong economic engine so there is actually money to fund the social safety net in the first place.
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The expression “working-class” doesn’t mean anything anymore.
A discussion of “working class” and “bourgeois” people is a discussion that is truly stuck in the past.
Blue-collar workers? You have some of them who have 6-figure salaries while at the same time you have teachers (white-collar workers) making less than $50,000/year.
If it means people who are living paycheck by paycheck or paid by the hour with a precarious job, then it’s essentially related to a level of annual income, and not a “class”.
Yes we know. We all figured that out when he launched his first budget with massive benefits to corporations, huge spending for places like Ukraine, OAS, and indigenous issues, while saying average Canadians had to make sacrifices.
The liberals have made it crystal clear over the last 11 years that they only care about their corporate buddies and their biggest support voters. They don’t care about average Canadians, they expect us to foot the bill for whatever they decide to spend on, then blame everyone else or call them racist when their plans are questioned.
They refuse to do anything about grocery prices, they’ve openly stated they can’t bring down housing costs because it’ll negatively affect the now-wealthy boomers and seniors who religiously vote LPC (and are also the recipients of OAS, the largest spending in his budget with absurd criteria for qualification), and they’ve been caught admitting they’re spending billions on a buyback program just to please a small group of Quebec voters that inexplicably have a ton of influence.
Yet people are so scared of the word conservative they’ll just keep voting liberals as they’re blatantly lied to, and their lives are run into the ground for Carney’s buddies’ benefit.
>Even many of those who are critical of him say, given what they call “the alternatives”, they would probably vote for Carney and his Liberals again.
This is *exactly* the problem with first past the post. I don’t care who *could have* won the election. I care about what the government is doing after they won. If we are constantly judging the government not on their actions, but against hypothetical scenarios that aren’t happening, there is no limit to what we won’t tolerate.
This is how you get “controlled opposition”. If you can just keep pointing to another group and suggesting we think about how bad it could be, or could have been, we will completely ignore how bad it *actually is*. And, as the article mentioned, *it is getting bad*. Carney ran on a platform of environmental protection, and is doing the opposite. He ran on building hundreds of thousands of homes, and has not touched that since election.
I don’t care that PP would have been worse. He isn’t the PM, and frankly won’t be. I care that I still can’t afford a home, and this government is showing no interest in changing that.
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The last thing we need is a Bernie or Trump style populist occupying the Prime Minister’s residence.
The so called “working class” tend to be bitter reactionaries anyway. Wealthy doctors, lawyers, bankers, & business owners with professional degrees living in urban areas like Toronto are the most progressive demographic in Canada.
It’s the same LPC with or without Trudeau. They annihilated the brief leverage that the working class had during the pandemic by allowing companies to bring in unlimited foreign workers.
Carney is a steadier hand than Trudeau, but did anyone expect the globalist banker to **not** be in it for the wealthy? Especially during the trade war, people tried to paint him as this antithesis to Trump, but the two largely serve the same crowd.
Mark Carney is extremely wealthy and privileged, were people really expecting anything different?
He appointed a multi-millionaire landlord and real estate speculator as his Housing Minister who has said housing prices can’t come down.
Even all his elbows up rhetoric is more for public consumption, well Carney himself retains over 90% of his investments in the US, owns multiple US properties, has 3 children who live and go to school in the US and up until fairly recently his own wife lived and worked half the time in the US.
Politics is all for show, end of the day these people will all serve their own interests.
Mods, is there anything we can do about the fringe news sites that are constantly shared on this sub? I really feel the quality of the sub has gone downhill and “paint-by-numbers” editorials and opinion columns like this one really don’t do anything for our discourse. I read the article out of a sense of duty when writing this comment and honestly it’s the exact same as everything else written on that site and I could’ve written it by myself in my sleep had you asked.
Mods, hear my plea for sanity and substance.
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You know what helps the working class more than any other single thing? Making sure there are well-paying jobs for them to take. This is what Carney is working on in a time where US tariffs are threatening jobs in steel, auto manufacturing, softwood lumber, and more. He’s put his focus on developing infrastructure and new markets for our goods that the US won’t buy any more.
If you want to see the difference, look at Poilievre’s interview with the Globe last week, where he is criticizing the government for overspending on public works.
We elected Carney to be an economic wizard. Trade deals, infrastructure projects, interprovincial trade, bringing investment into Canada, **diversification and strong negotiation in the face of American belligerence**.
I think we all knew to a kind of crystalline clarity that Carney wasn’t an NDP-style “workers first” platform. He’s a weapons system of extreme economic capability elected to protect our economy. Right? Like, we all witnessed the same election and same series of Trumpian hostility, didn’t we?
What’s nice about Carney is we get competency and sober economic know-how without the insane culture war baggage the Conservatives *necessarily* bring with them. Not to mention that Poilievre is an empty suit, thank god we didn’t choose him.
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Mark Carney is coming in as the macroeconomic prime minister. Some societal reform level shenanigans are afoot on the international stage like nothing I can remember seeing in my lifetime.
It’s true he’s favouring the wealthy, because that’s pretty much what he was hired to do. To ride the shifting international economic tides and make sure Canada’s boat stays upright, and hopefully even gets lifted.
If this was 2010 and we had a stable global order marching towards the end of history I’d probably have a lot more beef with Carney. At this exact moment in time I’m inclined to let the pro-capitalist, economist, national banker do his thing.
That’s every PM we’ve had in my lifetime but probably ever. Hell that’s just about every single world leader that’s existed
You were going to get a business friendly Prime Minister one way or another. This was the better one.
I wish people, particularly on the left*, would remember why Carney won. All of those factors are still in play.
*The right would do better to remember why Poilievre lost.
This slop should be banned from this sub. How can the government favour the wealthy when everything he’s doing is in the spirit of driving economic growth in Canada? Who benefits from building infrastructure if not the working class?
This article provides no opinions or evidence outside of the title that this government is favoring the rich.
“Canada’s political and economic systems favour the wealthy and privileged over working-class Canadians”.
Because that is EXACTLY WHY you can talk about “working-class Canadians” to begin with.