/ot/ - off-topic

Did younger people vote conservative thinking they're going to stop immigration? PP is married to a Venezuelan immigrant while talking about how he wants more "skilled" immigrants. Even the conservative candidate in my riding is an immigration lawyer and of course wouldn't want to go against interests that would hurt his business.

I found this video and it made me laugh. The actor really sells it.

>>2517045
I think a lot of young people voted conservative because they were tired of having liberals in, nothing to do with the actual politics of the parties or anything. Young people don't matter anyway, as long as the over-50 crowd is satisfied that's all that matters.

>>2517045
PP is pro-immigration just like every other major party leader, but the Liberal government ramped up immigration as soon as they got in power and have pledged to keep immigration levels higher than PP did (I think PP suggested 250k/year and Carney said 550/year). They're both acolytes of the Century Initiative so they're both into 'postnationalism' and rapid population growth through immigration but I think young people believed the Conservatives were the better of two bad choices especially considering the Liberals' track record to fuck everything up in never-before-seen ways.

The other major reason is probably housing and carbon tax shit and just affordability in general. The Liberals are extremely invested in keeping housing expensive and PP talked a lot about housing affordability during his campaign, Carney was one of the main architects of the current housing crisis and most Liberal voters are boomer homeowners so young people want to vote against them for obvious reasons. Carney threw some bones about reducing the carbon tax but is introducing other 'hidden' carbon taxes while Poilievre was against them in general from what I understand. I agree with >>2517159 though that it's largely just about wanting a change. The messaging from the Liberals has been 'yeah we fucked everything up for the younger voters and we think we did a great job' so younger people's voting patterns were a reaction against that. They don't want to continue rewarding a party that congratulates itself on fucking up their futures. Most people I've talked to reluctantly voted Conservative because they didn't feel PP would change as much as he should but they thought it would be better than nothing.

>>2517269
Why did you bring up the mexican fruit pickers anon? Nobody cares about them

>>2517278
Jesus christ do you really want to resurrect this infight? An anon asked why groceries are cheap in UAE even though it's a desert. I said cost of living in the UAE is cheap because most of their population is unpaid slaves, mass enslavement tends to make things cheap for residents plus the UAE is funded through government oil money anyway. Someone then mentioned that we have slave-like positions in Canada which I assumed meant TFWs so I said that hiring TFWs to work at Canadian farms for low pay isn't the same thing as having a slave based economy where 10k foreigners drop dead from heat stroke every year, and government-subsidized low-cost farm labour isn't enough to make Canadian groceries cheap (especially since most of Canada's produce is imported). Some anon said they weren't talking about farm workers so I stopped talking about farm workers, but some other anons later in the thread came in posting links from Amnesty International about TFW farm workers so obviously someone in the thread did care about them and people started talking about them again. I don't get why my one offhanded mention of TFWs working on farms in the context of grocery prices is making you have such a bee in your bonnet a week later, and I really don't get what it has to do with discounting the everyday experiences of Canadians. I just came into the thread, noticed anons were having some infight about whether to move to the middle east, decided to casually respond to some anon's seemingly casual question about why the UAE has such low prices and I know someone who used to live there so I thought I would answer, I didn't know I was falling into some well-laid Chinese finger trap. Can you stop being weird now?

>>2517278
Kekkkk don't kick the autist

>>2517303
What's more autistic, spending a week obsessively trying to re-start a dead conversation about farm workers that you were inexplicably triggered by to the point of trying to cozy up to the same anon who made the post with your schizo theory about Amerifag boomer thread infiltration to talk about it, then dragging it into a new thread, or stating that the UAE is a slave economy, a point 5-6 different anons all agreed with because it's blatantly obvious? I guess we will never know, but if you don't want to seem like a sperg you could just stop sperging about it and move on. I think there are only 1-2 anons in this thread dead-set on continuing to talk about mexican fruit pickers and it's obvious who they are.

Kek though at
>What you're saying sounds typical and most people have been hearing these things
>You are also simultaneously an American boomer hellbent on silencing discussion of Canadians' everyday lived experiences
while derailing a conversation about the canadian job market because of your special interest, mexican fruit pickers, apparently.

>>2517337
>What's more autistic,
Nta but I love that you started another multi-paragraph sperg with this kekkk(bait)

>>2517361
>zoomers acting scandalized by 2-line 'paragraphs'
there there, it's ok. so do you want to contribute to the thread or nah?

>>2517361
Honestly, just report and ignore. Whenever she starts raving like this, I just leave and wait for her to go to bed or whatever.