Funny that Conservatives more likely to claim misinformation, exactly the group most frequently (as of recent) subjected to incredible amount of misinformation (mainly from their own leaders). Unfortunately poll doesn’t disclose what kind of disinformation did they perceive.
Just like Trump screeched rigged elections all the way up until he was ‘elected’ than suddenly quiet about it?
After he won in 2016 he still continued to claim the election was rigged against him.
I would bet the other quarter would be the most likely to be influenced by misinformation.
A good chunk of those influenced by misinformation seem to think everyone else is brainwashed.
We must demand that the Canadian government switch to Mastodon to avoid the biased algorithms.
The conservative platform and policy declaration should have been enough for people to vote against it. They’re an absolute mess of contradictions with harmful ideas mixed in.
Its hard to compete with a party that offers programs using debt while also cutting taxes, because a high debt load can be kicked down the road and rolled over until it reaches a crisis.
A repeat of Trudeau Sr, which caused pain during Chretien who had to cut spending and raise taxes during a recession, which had his polls fall dramatically by the end.
It’s a bit more complex than this.
Debt at the national level is less about “money we have to pay” and more about the “money that moves through the economy”.
G7 countries aren’t really expected to pay their debt some day, that’s what Trump gets wrong.
Debt represents how much their economy is valued by others, the more debt you can comand, the more trust and the more cash you have available. As long as you make 1% more in yearly income than you pay in debt, you never have to pay your debt, you can just keep borrowing and growing. That’s the “ideal” world.
And that’s the problem. Reality isn’t looked that. If instead of using that money for growth you use it for bullshit, like lobbying politicians, you make it harder and harder to make more income flow than you have to pay out, and then you spiral into crisis because each time you need to make more and more money, but you look less and less reliable, and so on.
Caroline Rogers “rang the alarm bell” on productivity, and interest rates will be higher going forward due to aging demographics, so debt will compound faster than it had been. We also had the second to last per capita GDP growth of the 38 country in the OECD since 2015, which was below inflation.
You can import a lot of people to spread the debt amongst more people, though you’ll have Trudeau’s polling numbers by the end due to severe shortages of basic necessities. Trump allowed Carney to win this last election, though if the tariffs stay in place our interest rates will also rise dramatically, and we need to spend less.
You’re aware Chretien served for 11 years, 9 years after P.E.T was out? That’s a 20-year time bomb.
Blaming something on a Trudeau is just oh, so fash right now, but if you want to hang some toxic debt on a decade-long leader, maybe look to the intervening 9 years of no-tax regressives first?
You’re aware decades exist, right?
But I was told by Stephen Harper than only Pierre had a plan, despite him not having any sort of plan… But I guess if I was just an idiot I would have taken him at his word…
My family brought up the “liberals canvassing prisoners” story that turned out to be bullshit during Easter. So I’m confident that it did.
Exactly. If it weren’t for all of the far right/russian propaganda, the Liberals would have gotten over 190 seats.
I don’t know why that would be a bad thing, anyway.
Every single Canadian (except governor general) is legally allowed to vote in all elections. And they have the same rights to information and access in that regard.
Misinformation prevented a Liberal majority IMO
That’s partisan liberal trolling.
A glance through all of the disinformation about PM Carney on Facebook/Twitter/Youtube tells a different story.
I agree with you that the conservatives received too much support for their shambles of a party.
One thing I hope this government does is go after weaponized disinformation. Force these shitty social media CEOs to moderate their content. Fuck Zuckface and Space Karen so hard.
No…it doesn’t point to a *deterioration in people’s faith in institutions" like the article surmises.
It points to the fact that Right Wingers especially are so enshrined in the cult of Maple Maga that they’ve adopted the “Anything I don’t agree with is rigged.” Saying that it’s about “faith in institutions” is disingenuous because they know damn well there was no rigging, but they learned from Trump that if you cry loud enough, people believe you.
