Paraphrasing a little here because the annoying streamer pauses every two words to interject with something like "wow!" or "muh muh muh muh" making it difficult to actually hear the answer to the question.

Poilievre: The instruction is that we put Canada first whether that means standing up to American aggression or against the destructive Liberal policies that have made us weak and helpless and reliant on the US. I also made it clear we need to unleash the free enterprise system to reverse the destructive Liberal policies of the last ten years of taxes that have made us weak and supported extremism so we can restore the Canadian promise.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So he dodges the question by sliding in talking points:

libruls bad .. somehow
free enterprise .. because regulation and safety are bad
drop taxes ... and then services because no money

What's the Canadian promise? Is it the same "private healthcare, fuck the unemployed, fuck the outsiders, why am I even talking to you plebes" conservative M-O?

[–] turnip@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

We have had stagnant GDP growth for a decade, exploding housing prices, doctor shortage, food bank usage is skyrocketing, people are living in rest stops, on average we are poorer than the poorest state as they attempt to plaster over falling GDP using mass immigration. That is why Liberals are bad and why economic growth is important, part of that is dropping taxes so we can accrue investment, as the Bank of Canada literally raises the alarm bells for a lack of productive investment into Canada.

When you hurt poor people this badly for a decade usually you'd recognize the reality around you. If you're going to tax people it also needs to be spent on something productive, not consumption but mass transit, why we still dont have high speed rail spanning from every major city while spending this much is a joke.

[–] Jarix@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If only there that someone who understood there warnings Bank of Canada issues....

[–] turnip@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Central banks dont recognize it themselves given the huge amount of money being ploughed into housing, to attain the rampant speculation their low interest policies created. There was an article I saw today that there isnt even a housing shortage, just dimwitted people bidding up home values much like the US prior to 2008.

https://betterdwelling.com/canadian-real-estate-shortage-overstated-condos-wont-fix-costs-bmo/

Housing obviously acts as a liquidity sponge for debt to increase the wealth effect, but surely there is a reckoning like the US had at the end of all of this.

[–] rekabis@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

We have had stagnant GDP growth for a decade

Understanding basic math and economics can help a lot here. If the country’s population is growing at the same speed as its economy, the per-capita GDP will be about 0%. After inflation, Canada has seen a 17% GDP growth, which is more than the average.

exploding housing prices

Because of investors, and for no other non-trivial reason.

It’s the investors who buy up 5, 10, 15 or even more homes to then rent out, which are the problem. They are the ones who drive up the price and then leverage the “captive market” to charge whatever rents they want, because prices are too high for renters to afford, and rents are too high for them to save.

It’s the investors who buy homes “on spec” only to flip them near completion for twice (or more!) what they originally paid which are the problem. They are the ones driving home prices up purely for profit, likely having never seen the place.

It’s the investors who buy homes to flip, slap on a coat of paint and shove in a cheap IKEA kitchen before listing it for 20% more than what they paid which are the problem. They make no material improvements, frequently introduce problems via shitty work, and then expect to reap outsized rewards for something that is usually worse off than when they first got it.

And who encouraged these “investors”? The mortgage deregulation of the Mulroney and Harper administrations.

doctor shortage

Decades-long Conservative defunding of healthcare in order to “prove” it “doesn’t work”.

food bank usage is skyrocketing

Greedflation, thanks to food chain consolidation. Most of which was enabled by Conservative policies. The Libs looked the other way, but didn’t explicitly encourage it like the Conservatives did.

people are living in rest stops

See: “investors”, above.

on average we are poorer than the poorest state as they attempt to plaster over falling GDP using mass immigration.

How bad at math are you?

Canada’s GDP has grown by 17%, after inflation, over the last decade. They only reason why per capita GDP is near zero is because it is per capita… if population grows in lockstep with GDP, the math is inevitable that the per capita GDP will be almost nothing. But the overall after-inflation GDP is better than most OECD countries.

If anything, mass immigration hurts GDP numbers, it doesn’t help them.

part of that is dropping taxes

Except the only taxes that Conservatives will actually be dropping will be those of the wealthy and hyper-wealthy, because those are their campaign donors. This will put the taxation burden on those who can least afford it - the working class. And when tax revenues drop, out comes the cuts to social services, leading to more cracks that people and families fall through and more homeless people living out of their vehicles.

It’s a well-worn path walked by all conservative political parties world-wide, PeePee will be no different.

[–] turnip@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago

Mark Miller was the one who said it. He said immigration helped us avoid a recession, which means GDP would have shrunk without them.

[–] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Politician spews BS to avoid answering question about why one of his aides wore a stupid red MAGA hat.
Random Youtuber comments.

[–] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

spews BS to avoid answering question

It's wild to witness! Not only did he avoid the question, but he started going off about "The Liberals"! LOL

[–] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Answering a question other than the one that was asked is a common avoidance technique used by politicians. It allows then to simulate a conversation and fill the air without actually saying anything.

Paying a modicum of attention to the actual content of what a politician says and rating how relevant what they say is to the matter being discussed is a very effective way to quickly determine whether you're watching a guy with real convictions you want to vote for or a con artist.

I don't find Poilievre's performance wild so much as depressingly common.

[–] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When it's done once in a while, sure.

But I think Trump set the stage for normalizing this, and it's maddening to think that someone can hear what PP just said, and believe that he did a great job with that answer.

[–] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 1 year ago

I think Trump set the stage for normalizing this,

Oh hell no. I've heard politicians use that trick literally for decades.