and because the housing market is like 20% of canada's economy on its *OWN*
<dilyn>
lord have mercy
<midfavila>
which is 3-4x the entire oil and gas industry's gdp contribution by the fucking way
<midfavila>
the second the housing bubble bursts that's going to send the dollar into outright freefall
<midfavila>
we just hit .69usd and we'll make that look like a deal at this rate
<midfavila>
but yeah that's going to trigger bank failures and a run on banks
<midfavila>
which means either we take the hit and our not so great but still pretty okay depression becomes a great depression two
<midfavila>
or the government enacts extreme austerity to bail out the banks
<midfavila>
which is going to leave the aging populace in limbo considering nobody can afford to have kids or go to school
<midfavila>
meaning no taxes for public programs like the CPP or EI or medicare
<midfavila>
etc etc
<midfavila>
:3333333333333333333333333333333333333333333
<midfavila>
also we're about to elect a supermajority of tories at the federal level and in almost every province and territory
<midfavila>
and given how westminster works they'll probably get 8-10 years of unrestrained power unless they blatantly fail at their goals in the first term
<midfavila>
they're running on a populist-nationalist platform of so-called "common sense" economics
<midfavila>
and i'm hoping when people realise that cutting basic government services won't un-fuck the everything crisis they'll be unelectable before people forget the trudeau liberals
* midfavila
breathes heavily
<midfavila>
please smuggle me to europe holy shit
<midfavila>
this has all been in like the past four days
<midfavila>
that it's become so pointed
dilyn
quit (Quit: Client closed)
<phinxy>
Dont you Canadians have that french blood in you to revolt
<midfavila>
unfortunately that's only in quebec
<midfavila>
by and large
<midfavila>
:x
<midfavila>
they've been trying to leave and become an independent country since they were conquered by the english
<midfavila>
they were basically forced into confederation and then in 1982 to sign our constitution
<midfavila>
unfortunately because quebec is one of the few pockets of sanity in canada it's been flooded by people from other provinces who don't understand that the reason quebec is mostly sane is *because* they try to do different things
<midfavila>
and so that influx of mostly anglophonic canadians keeps tipping the scales just barely over 50% on remain every time there's been a referndum
<midfavila>
referendum
<midfavila>
but to be honest if quebec voted to leave tomorrow i would sell my shit, hop on a plane, and beg them to let me go too
<midfavila>
i barely speak french at all and i'd still go :X
<midfavila>
British Columbia wants to become Bitcoin Capital, Alberta wants to join the USA, Saskatchewan only just figured out that electrocuting people for liking the wrong people is immoral *this year*, manitoba is still jailing people for getting sick, ontario is... ontario, new brunswick has shina elec- i mean the irvings fucking them 24/7/365, nova scotia is... well they're honestly fine they're just poor
<midfavila>
like the rest of the maritimes, PEI is literally fucking sinking
<midfavila>
the territories are all on fire and have no way to evacuate in case they get hemmed in again by fires
<midfavila>
and yet people can only bitch about the WoKe MoRaLiStS or some shit
<midfavila>
it's insane
<midfavila>
sorry i kind of went off on a tangent there
<midfavila>
things are just ridiculous right now
dilyn
joined
<midfavila>
now pollievre is calling for a special session to bring down the government...