Don't we usually haul out our 60 year old snowbirds for that?

People joke that Carney is like we got Harper back but it's getting hard to see the difference

It's probably the safe bet

Wild to me to see the government threaten people's rights and the response isn't to question that incessantly

Jeneroux was allegedly about to cross the floor before he announced he's quitting next year. Stubbs is apparently ill.

But 2 more (Scheer and Scott Reid) weren't at the initial vote and came in just after to vote no when it was clear they could do so safely.

I choose the NDP not shitting the bed again. Ideally they reduce the Liberals to a smaller minority and gain some real influence again.

It's a bad budget though.

It did pass

Indeed, we have more than enough evidence that harsher penalties aren't a deterrent, and that there are root causes (a phrase Harper famously shat on) to crime that require more meaningful and systemic policy solutions. But all we get from right-wing commentators is lazy penal populism. 3/3

Governments have never addressed the reality that “the majority of individuals in B.C. who died from drug poisonings did not have a diagnosed opioid use disorder or use opioids on a daily basis.”

governments created ministries of mental health and addiction to deny this fact.