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It seems likely that we’ll see CPC dip again, before climbing back up as we approach election day.

As long as Agent Orange down south doesn't do anything else crazy before the election!

Okay? Still not sure what unit that is.

This sub is for Canada, where every unit of measuring length is based on the meter!

if he’s 6’ tall

Not sure what unit of measurement this is, but most reports list his height as ~186cm

All of those companies have plants both in the US & Canada (and I'm sure Mexico too, I'm just less familiar). As someone who lives in Southwestern Ontario, we have a lot of car brands, both foreign and domestic, plus the supply chains for the parts that go into those cars.

Saying the big 3 are "primarily in Canada and Mexico" is just untrue, especially comparing it to Japanese brands. They're all heavily relying on CUSMA.

The about page clearly explains 338's methodology.

And while we can't be 100% confident that the future will follow the past, in the 2021 election the CPC got <13%.

Increased red blood cell production is a real world example.

I'm not crying, you're crying! 😢 😭 🥲

This is such a beautiful story.

This is a referendum vote. Turnout for major elections is higher.

Such crises are often used by political opportunists and large capital to usurp power and introduce more neoliberal policy favouring capital over labour.

Yes, because the current oil & gas industry is full of organized labour and Alberta is a socialist utopia! /s

If it doesn't make economical sense, then by definition, you're providing subsidies. Especially when you talk about infrastructure that's supposed to be amortized over decades-and-decades, yet we are aiming to be almost free of fossil fuels in the next 5 years, and net zero in 25 years. So I really question why you'd want to subsidize Canadian consumers and businesses from "global price shocks"? That's a stick to encourage Canadians to pursue energy independence through electrification, etc.

This take is completely nonsensical.

Fossil fuel prices in Canada can be decoupled from the global market if we really wanted to. We’d have to move to full domestic supply from extraction through refining to the pump. Then regulate the price in a supply management style. If we did that we wouldn’t have to be subject to price shocks caused by OPEC reducing supply, or remote wars breaking out.

At MUCH higher average costs, either directly or through government subsidies. There's a few reasons we don't have domestic processing, one of which is it doesn't make economic sense.

Then obviously reducing consumption makes the whole problem smaller. But I don’t know if we can resolve enough by reducing consumption alone.

Then one way or another, we pay the price, either collectively or individually. I don't know why we'd incentivize the decision to use fossil fuels, given not only their environmental impact, but also their high economic cost compared to other energy sources. Yes, there are exceptions where switching isn't possible (yet), but that's why we have exceptions/programs such as farm fuel (usually dyed red), the carbon-tax had a rural supplement, etc.