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Carney's sound check

 The Liberals are advertising a summer survey. Let me Mr Carney know what you think!

Of course, the multiple choice questions force you to give the answers Carney wants to hear, but fortunately, there's an open box for further comment at the end with a 2500 character limit. 

I don't have all day to spend on this so it's a slightly in coherent rant, but I can't let this man think everything is fine while he turns this country into a totalitarian surveillance police state whose only industry is war-making. 

https://action.liberal.ca/a-summer-sound-check/

Here's what I think, Mr Carney. 

The things that "stand out" the most for me are the things that horrify the most. Every single thing Carney has done or championed since April 2025 is awful for ordinary Canadians (only good for Carney's investment portfolio). You can shove your AI. Yes, Canadians need protection from AI but your disgraced grifter of a "AI minister" is the last person to do that for us. Cutting pollution pricing -- the proven most effective way to get society-level fossil fuel reductions at scale -- is criminal. Investing in the military WILL NOT keep Canadians safe: every dollar spent on supposedly Canadian military actually ends up in the pockets of US defense contractors or goes directly to the American military. Removing environmental protections and indigenous consultation in order to "speed up" projects is the worst thing to do in an age of climate change. There's plenty of deadeningly stupid bureaucracy that should be dismantled -- but these aren't that. Laying off half of the CRA while we still haven't even attempted to prosecute the Canadian kingpin of the Panama Papers is a clear sign you don't actually care about responsible use of money and following proper laws. Firing scientists and shutting down long-term research projects -- especially agricultural projects when we're about to face completely unpredictable growing seasons that will make it hard to grow anything -- is cut-off-your-nose level spite, as is whittling down Environment Canada. Anyone with a lick of sense knows GenAI's predictions *based on past patterns* are useless when the definition of climate change is *unprecedented* weather. Your grocery benefit puts a tiny bandage on the gaping wound of food security while ensuring Galen Weston's profits aren't affected at all. Your constant refrain about how much Canada Post "loses" each day (when its top management is clearly tasked with running it into the ground so you can justify privatizing mailing/shipping) is disgusting -- attacking solid union jobs where folks can actually have a full time job and make a decent living, and pretending the gig economy delivery jobs they'll be replaced with will be an improvement. Stripping democratic rights and increasing surveillance on Canadians while criminalizing all forms of protest is beyond Machiavellian. You've pulled a Dr Jekyll/Mr Hyde on Canadians. Most are too bamboozled by the fact that you're 100x more polite and erudite than Trump to realize you're just as much of a villain as he is. 

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