Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Bill C-5 signals a dramatic shift in Canadian politics, allowing major industrial projects to bypass environmental and Indigenous consultation. This move threatens to rupture Canada’s liberal foundations, sparking Indigenous resistance and raising fears of an authoritarian turn in response to growing civil unrest and dissent.
Bill C-5, Indigenous resistance, and the authoritarian turn at the heart of the settler state
Rooted in Enlightenment-era thinking, liberalism positions individual political rights and equality as the foundation of a free and just society.
I think we’ve seen enough of liberalism to know this is just marketing slop. Liberalism is the belief that profit-maximizing capitalism is compatible with democracy.
Marketing slop from who? There is no Liberalism authority.
Those are literally just the foundational ideas it’s had since Voltaire or therabouts. Before anyone had thought of capitalism or whatever it’s opposite might be.
I think we’ve seen enough of liberalism to know this is just marketing slop. Liberalism is the belief that profit-maximizing capitalism is compatible with democracy.
Marketing slop from who? There is no Liberalism authority.
Those are literally just the foundational ideas it’s had since Voltaire or therabouts. Before anyone had thought of capitalism or whatever it’s opposite might be.