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@tomaspueyo Mountains of the Canadian shield.

And Canada! Did you notice it has a line, west of which if has few lakes, and east has plenty? That's because the Rockies bring their sediments eastward, and where they hit the mountains of the Canadian Shield is the lowest point. Water accumulates there

Why is this corridor in northern India so flat, while the adjacent Himalayas are so rugged? Where else can we see this?

@fcp1992 @BagelPolling @Prominent_Bryan @SomeGuy67791867 I thought this was a fun tool that the PBO put out. Unfortunate it doesn't cover any dramatic changes to the tax mix, though I understand why their model doesn't cover that. pbo-dpb.ca/en/research--r…

@argueswithbots @BagelPolling @Prominent_Bryan @SomeGuy67791867 It should be higher why do we tax investment businesses and people at high rates? Why do we tax productivity and tax and people investment? Why do we tax things that we want more of it doesn’t make sense we tax tobacco to help people stop smoking that makes sense.

Liaisons has the Liberals at 43% and CPC at 31% Carney's approval at 59%, very much in line with Abacus Like I'm genuinely asking: what's the plan for the Conservatives? Just waiting for Carney to become unpopular? I'm not even saying I know what the CPC should do. But the situation seems just... Really bad? Canadian voters have just decided that they loved Carney and I'm not sure there is anything the CPC can do about it

@BagelPolling @fcp1992 @Prominent_Bryan @SomeGuy67791867 Yeah I think it's helpful to think of how much revenue the government should bring in, and how that revenue is structured as two separate questions (though of course they're not really).

@argueswithbots @fcp1992 @Prominent_Bryan @SomeGuy67791867 Personally I favour a 10% GST rate and then cutting personal income taxes. We could quibble if we should structure this tax change to cause a relative surplus in the short term, but my main goal is to encourage long term growth - VAT's have lower GDP/growth impact than PIT's.

@fcp1992 @BagelPolling @Prominent_Bryan @SomeGuy67791867 The differences seem a lot smaller in retrospect. I think that's just like a general rule. Think of how either unimportant or in universal agreement the major issues of the previous centuries are to us now. Whatever we're arguing about will seem small potatoes to our sons.

@argueswithbots @BagelPolling @Prominent_Bryan @SomeGuy67791867 Play it safe and try to Paul Harper Harper played it safe and one and then govern very cautiously. Harper didn’t really legislate a lot of conservative ideas. He basically just govern like a manager or conservatives afraid of pissing people off? I would love get inside of party

@davidportier @RomanFisher__ As a traditionalist, I wish we had just sent a couple guys to westminster in the middle of the night to nick one of theirs and copy it.

@argueswithbots @RomanFisher__ Hopefully. I imagine no expense was spared, but here we are:

I certainly hope they aren’t actually using pressboard construction. Looks like these were made by IKEA.

@davidportier @RomanFisher__ Height hopefully during the install. Looks like they've just got flat in the room so people can come check them out. Wood is a bit tacky though though I agree with OP. Probably look better with a few years of hand grease on it.

@RomanFisher__ Weird they aren’t raised like the British ones so you can see over the row in front.

@fcp1992 @BagelPolling @Prominent_Bryan @SomeGuy67791867 9) No disagreement here, competition good! See, we have a lot more to agree about than disagree!

@fcp1992 @BagelPolling @Prominent_Bryan @SomeGuy67791867 8) Totally agree. We need to lower the clawback threshold a lot. Something like the one used for the CCB.

@fcp1992 @BagelPolling @Prominent_Bryan @SomeGuy67791867 GST back up to 7% would be a bold attention grabbing move to close up most of the structural deficit and moving revenue away from taxes on income and towards taxes on consumption would be more efficient.

@argueswithbots @BagelPolling @Prominent_Bryan @SomeGuy67791867 Multicultural end it do something that’s gonna make you stand out this little tweaking around the edges, cutting taxes by one percent isn’t moving. They keep trying and they keep losing biggest loser party in the western hemisphere.

@SpaceWalkerReal Vote to Protect: ✅Your Home ✅Your Property

@argueswithbots I mean sure, but to a regular Canadian that doesn't know all the nuanced details of this specific issue and instead has their basic civics knowledge to go off of, what do you think this looks like at a glance?

Honestly, it does get tiring to see Pierre Poilievre's Conservative Party always sticking their noses in provincial political issues that the Federal government has no jurisdiction over, and then blaming the Liberals for it. Like, bro. Lmfao.

@SpaceWalkerReal I don't think it's fair to say this is a provincial only issue. While property law is typically the domain of the provinces, the federal gov't is responsible for indigenous treaties and rights and was a defendant in this case.

@argueswithbots They legitimately have no idea how to message effectively, it's actually just so baffling to me

@lamphieryeg The federal government should have more power over the economic development, and the provinces less.

Simplistic answer. Equalization is rigged. Quebec lowballs hydro rates and won't develop its own O&G resources to intentionally suppress its economic capacity. New Brunswick does the same. Fairness Alberta has done a lot of research on it.

@Eddiethehead23 @CarsonJerema Well we did vote on it. I agree it was an error to remove the consumer tax too.

@argueswithbots @CarsonJerema Public good is subjective in many instances and climate/environment is one. To me abundant, reliable and cheap energy is a paramount public good. To others, saving the planet is. Let the consumers vote on it consuming goods/services. It was an error is removing consumer c-tax.

If it is "basic economics," deregulate oil and gas and remove subsidies for renewables. If it is only economics, then wind and solar will excel... Anti-oil and gas advocates claim the market doesn't want fossil fuels, yet insist on heavy regulation and taxation.