Cross posted to https://lemmy.ca/c/fuckcars
Doug Ford and his supporters talk about “the war on cars”. So on one side of this war we have cars. Who’s on the other side of this war? I think it’s a war between cars and people and unfortunately Doug is fighting on the cars side against people.
BC Premier David Eby is preparing a digital ad campaign stating exactly that. Canadian lumber has higher tarrifs than Russian lumber imported into the USA:
https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2025/10/24/bc-digital-campaign-american-audience/
A lot has happened today after Trump’s tirade. Ontario’s Premier Doug Ford announced he would be suspending this Ad Campaign after consulting with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney:
Manitoba’s Premier Wab Kinew has a short video in the same style as the ad where he supports this Ontario Ad Campaign. It’s a well done quick response:
https://xcancel.com/WabKinew/status/1981753253055361219
I think the Ontario Ad is very well done and I’m glad to see a NDP Premier supporting a Conservative Premier on this and a Conservative Premier publicly supporting a Liberal Prime Minister. Canada is uniting and Trump is unhappy.
A term for that is underemployment
Statistics Canada collects data about this under the category of “Supplementary unemployment rate”: https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=1410007801
Their categories of underemployment include:
He has created a video paired with California Governor Gavin Newsome making a friendly wager on the Dodgers/Blue Jays series with both together taking shots against Tariffs:
https://xcancel.com/fordnation/status/1981843665669750995