Our new PM on November 4:
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Our country faces many real and immediate challenges – from a struggling middle class…
One aspect of reality:
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Canadians registered more new vehicles in the first nine months of 2015 than during the same period of any prior year.
Record auto sales volume in 2015 is powered by a boom in the SUV/crossover market and very healthy pickup truck sales…
Even Mother Corpse ran a–business–story:
Canadian auto sales up 5.1% in October
Light trucks dominate, but Toyota says it’s still selling hybrids
Canadian consumers bought 163,053 new vehicles in October, with sales up 5.1 per cent from last year, according to DesRosiers Automotive Consultants.
Canadian auto sales are on track to top 1.9 million units in 2015, setting a new record and proving consumers are still willing to spend despite somewhat slower economy. That would follow on record sales for 2014.
Once again, light trucks are the hot sellers, with more than 104,300 rolling off the lot in October…
Just wondering why these facts are treated by the MSM as strictly business news not relevant to things generally or middlingly; are all those trucks and SUVs being bought by mainly the rich and poor? Struggle on, eh?
Yes, and paying that $20,000 plus/year in mortgage payments on over-priced real estate makes you a member of the struggling middle class, but living in a dumpy little apartment and driving a 2nd hand chevy because one prefers to put 10 K/yr into the TFSA automatically qualifies the later as a member of the wealthy one percent.
It is that time and space thingy.
Justine has his temporal lobe deranged, the struggling “Middle Class” is yet to come.
In about 2!/2 years.When they cannot even afford Cuban Holidays on a 40cent dollar.
The middle class had never had it so good, these last 5 years, so they rewarded the conservatives by voting Liberal, getting what they voted for Good and Hard.
This won’t last. PM “Budgets Balance Themselves” will see to that.
Our shared opinions mean more amongst the converted.
What does it all translate too? We get to make choices. I’m not taking on debt easily repaid.
The Libs/Cons can saddle us with long term debt.
JT like JC, I will cancel da plane/helicopter contract, only after do we find the cancellation fees!
Not saying this makes a point in one way or the other, but without factoring average personal debt rates year over year, your argument is incomplete.
“Canadians registered more new vehicles in the first nine months of 2015 than during the same period of any prior year.”
Gosh, this sure proves what personal sacrifices Canadians are ready to make to combat climate change!
Take that, evil fossil fuel industry!
You see, the middle class is struggling to understand that SUVs are bad for mother Gaja. But don’t worry, Justine and his handlers will soon make sure they stop struggling.
I just bought a ’96 Dakota to replace my ’92 Silverado. When the mandatory long form census asks me, I won’t know whether to say I am struggling, or middle class, or both, or neither.
Hey, Justin!
I’m a struggling, middle-class person.
Could I have some of your money and assets, please?
No?
Well, in that case, hand it over, hot-shot.
And, while you’re at it, move out of the Prime Ministership and hand it over to me.
Sounds fair, right?
No?
Too bad, so sad. Hand it over, buster.
And where were all those car/truck sales? Alberta newscasts saying truck sales WAAAY down. Also saying downtown office vacancies WAAAY up.
Probably the same in Canada as in U.S. Low, low interest rates and long, long term financing (7 to 10 years) + pent up demand. And then there is leasing……
The full effects (negative) of this will likely be felt by the auto industry over the next ten years.
I think what PM Nummnutz means is that he and his “Liberal” comrades will make sure the “middle class” struggle… can’t wait for the crushing “carbon taxes” assuring the “middle class” will struggle… PM Butts will make life very unpleasant for the “middle class”… hey, the good news is that the union bureaucrats and the Media are very happy that “Canada is back” and the slaves have been put in their place. The Librano/Media meme “Canada’s back” reminds me of that old T.Rex song, “Lunacy’s back”. Hey, we have a snowboard instructor/drama teacher in the PMO, what could go wrong.
“Hey, we have a snowboard instructor/drama teacher in the PMO, what could go wrong.”
Lucky Justine, had it not been for the pedigree the best he could count on in the real world would be a temporary back up replacement for a second assistant fluffer.
” I just bought a ’96 Dakota to replace my ’92 Silverado.”
I picked up a 2004 Xterra a few months ago.
I think I may now be upper middle-class.
AND, this beast drives over all sorts of things.
They are actually constructed to be driven on other surfaces than asphalt (:-).
News like that does NOT fit the NARRATIVE…CBC et all must stay on script.
Social Justice
Fairness
REFUGEE’s
Whatever Justin did in the last 24 hrs
Liberal this Liberal that
Blah blah blah……..
So: NEW Vehicle Sales In Canada
But these newer vehicles are becoming mobile Cell phones…a fact I am not altogether crazy about particularly having witnessed on the 50″ screen a Jeep being driven in Chicago taken completely over by some IT gomer in California…!! hacked so it where.
SCREW Dat boys n girls. I will keep on maintaining and repairing my NON INTERNET Connected – EFI Live Tuned – Non Emissions Compliant 06 2500 HD Duramax LBZ thank you very much. A phone.? I keep in my pocket…I don’t drive it.
443,625 km’s on the clock – another 500k easy..left in er yet.
Even so, it now attains an avg hi way mileage of 22-23 mpg @ 107 km/hr (thanks to Water-Meth injection),……and for a vehicle that weighs 7800 lbs – That is not too shabby eh.?
Unfortunately and given its build date (olds style HG’s), I just had to do the Head Gaskets…so at the same time added nice PPE manifolds – up/down pipes and a new Sinister intake – EGR delete..for $10K. WAAAaaay Cheaper than a new one no..??
Absolutely the Best Vehicle I ever owned..
I think I can now cancel my burial insurance…just hire a backhoe to build a nice ramp…and drive it in with me in it…holding a bottle of Hi grade Tequila with a gagger hanging from my lips.!
Tim, I think Canadians are at about 169% of income when it comes to debt, and that is not good.
Justine Trudeau: “We need to focus our policies on the struggling middle class”
Trudeau fart-catcher: “but Justine, in Canada we don’t have a struggling middle class”
Justine: “Well, lets make one then!”
Oh, don’t worry. It’s just a minor oversight in timing. Just wait a couple of years … then the middle class will be poor(er) and struggling.
Drive by any police station and tell me the parking lot looks like the Canadian tire parking lot.
That’s who.
Once Our Hero signs on to the latest UN robbery scam, we’ll be paying about $2/l for gas,so those p/u truck sales won’t stay up, not much sense getting 22 mpg when gas is $9 a gallon.
Paris, here he comes, and away our jobs and money go.
Anyone that thinks Justine is competent to be PM can take comfort in the fact that Gerry Butts is actually making the decisions. Oh no they will both be selling us out in Paris anyway, what have you lieberals done to our country?
Contributing to the CBC hit count once again are we?
How about “All of the above”. Thats a great answer.
i was thinking the same, i see people buying expensive vehicles they can’t really afford, but borrowing is cheap for now.
The false narrative of the struggling middle class during the election campaign and abetted by the mediocracy will become our future reality with government “investment” and carbon “pricing,” which apparently nobody pays, just the inhuman “polluters,” kind of like “corporations.” As usual the “middle class” aka the tax cow, will pay the freight of big government and get to suffer as taxation, present and deferred eats into their disposable income. Of course the poor get poorer, but the statists ditched them long ago. Somebody on the right better step up to the plate soon and show it for what it is, and call the mediocracy to task for their bias and ignorance. Canada needs a grass roots revolution to pursue the rights and aspirations of the individual, within their families and communities, and through the state if necessary, but not necessarily, so therefore limited government. Instead, we have the individual and the state, who decides for them their rights, views and morality.
This must stop. PET took us there after he became PM, now his son wishes to pursue his vision of justice through even larger government than now with Harper unable or unwilling to bring the leviathan down to limited levels.
Libertarian ideas can find oxygen in the conservative message that the answer from government cannot simply be to do “more” because it is cutting off productivity gains for Canadian workers and employers going forward in a deeply complex and worrying international economic climate. Deflationary forces are having an effect on our economy already. Sprinkling productivity killing taxes collected from “rich” Canadians to use a political lubrication will not stem a period of 2-4 years of anemic Canadian and world growth. If the US does raise their interest rates what will that mean for us? If our dollar does drop to 55cents as some predict, what kind of drag will that be.
We’ve got to get government out of the faces and wallets of our citizens! Harper was going to do that because it needs doing but the statists and the mediocracy blocked & tackled him in a display of unethical illogic that continues to reverberate as consumers boycott mediocracy news outlets with an obvious future effect on advertising revenue.
We who believe in limited government that is already more than big enough and getting more than enough revenues must step forward with one voice, starting in the coffee shops and moving up the ladder to a political voice to stop the madness, united in our belief in limited government. IOW it’s up to us.