Trudeau flees as first 1,000 Trucks Arrive in Ottawa

Post Reply New Topic

There is more about other countries now avoiding putting money into Canada because of Trudeau's irresponsible attack on bank accounts.
I haven't the mental energy to find the articles, atm.
Klearly, he lacks economic acumen/acuity.
Another dud politician.

For those who now want to bring up the bank runs:

Tuesday: news reports that banks aren't going to freeze accounts and those that were frozen will be unfrozen. Unfortunately, the damage was done.

Wednesday: Trudeau drops the emergency act saying there is no need for one. I would suspect that the announcement from the banks had a role in this announcement

Thursday: Russia invades Ukraine. News report has predicted gas will climb to above 2 dollars a litre by next month. One can't forgot the carbon tax increase scheduled for April 1.

One way or another, this man will find a way into your wallet for more money. The Russia thing isn't his fault though. But doing nothing about our oil reserves falls on him and other politicians. The carbon tax is solely on his government alone. I would assume future protests may not be about vaccine mandates.

94 octane is already over $2/L.

Meh. Gotta pay to play!

87 octane over $2/L sucks tho.

My point was that the protest isn't really about freedom given there are viable alternatives. All choices carry a cost, freely made or not. Taking a job to drive the international route is a choice that can be changed. Given that 90% of all Canadian truckers are already vaccinated, swap around a few positions so that the un-vaccinated ones stay within country, and the vaccinated ones take the cross border routes, and everyone is living freely with their choices. I know swapping around jobs doesn't happen without some disruption, but it remains enough of a viable option to cast doubt on the pretense this was ever solely about "freedom."

Even many vaccinated people believe in "Freedom of Choice".

Uh-huh.. and some of us Also comprehend consequences of choice, too!

must have been mostly pazis?



(pacifist + nazi = Patsy?)

Apparently, 90% of the canadian truckies are vaccinated.

One tank of "gas" lasts me 2 months. (seriously)
Ner, ner, ner ner, ner.

During early covidtimes, one tank of gas lasted me 6 months or so.. when I parked my car uninsured for a while.

I'm probably at 3 tanks or so per month at around $90-95/tank, which is cheap compared to when I'd regularly go through 5 tanks/month, sometimes more.

This is ret*d here , the gasoline companies are gouging people , 3.59 a gallon to 4.01. In less than a week.
In the middle west , US …. This is criminal and will certainly cripple the economy here .

That's all it takes to cripple the economy where you are ? A 13-14% increase in gasoline prices from low to still low ?

Wow.

Regular is approximately $6.75cdn per US gallon here right now, and rising. Gasoline is super cheap where you are - even at it's new price. It shouldn't "cripple the economy."

A whole Lot of working class people here and lower , Like everyone I see in any given day , are right in the edges of trying to get by ….. economy here has been right on the edge for years now. When you endanger a situation like this
And try to cover it up . As our lower level politicians would like to make things appear . The crime rate has to up up in order for people to just get by. This does not even address the lower income class here.
Am sorry your fuel costs are high but your economy in Canada is a bit more solid . And less likely ? Possibly?
To have citizens preying on each on a daily , hourly basis .
Fuel prices here were 2.69 USD a gallon three weeks ago here, where I am .

Monthly budgets for working class people here are a house of cards - at best. Housing costs continue to spiral out of control (a house costs nearly $2M), gas is expensive, insurance is expensive, food is expensive etc etc and people don't earn much more money today than they did 40-50 years ago.

So it looks ridiculously inexpensive, by comparison, to pay the bills where you are.

Gas prices hit rural areas hard because of long commutes.Here it’s a two hours (50 mile )round trip to get to most jobs.With low wages ,rising food costs and gas prices, rural areas get hit hard.

Was just pointing out the , gas jump was not necessary for us.to have it jump suddenly
.We do not get gasoline from Russia, , also we
Are getting slammed by all the same price increases you wrote of in Canada, housing has jumped 20% in this year
Just to try to get into a low rent place.
And everything else prop taxes jumped ,all insurances jumped . And peoples pay has not even come close to keeping pace with inflation or the cost of living .

Am sorry to hear Canada is getting hit hard too.