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u/GBi10ba 1d ago
Less regulations always works out well. /s
Then, what? The savings will “trickle down” to us commoners?
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u/camelsgofar 1d ago
The savings the builder got will definitely trickle down through the ceilings to you. That’s for sure.
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u/Carbon900 1d ago
Bypassing all that red tape down south seems to be working out for people just fine. /s
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u/thefumingo 1d ago
Introducing MOGE - Ministry Of Government Efficiency
Has nothing to do with DOGE, I swear: we don't even have a dog!
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u/julienjj 1d ago
What do you mean ? there is nothing wrong with doing a 500 car long train filled with unidentifed chemicals ! Filling manifest is just poor efficiency !
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u/helth-memes 1d ago
Average precision scheduled railroading moment. PSR on Canadian Pacific sucks. The crews hate it, all it does is increase profits to the company while compromizing safety. One feature of PSR is much longer trains, which can get risky quite often.
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u/doomwomble 1d ago
All of the parties need to pay for their promises somehow. The deficit is already too big and nothing serious has been proposed from any of them to bring spending down.
So, it won't trickle down. It'll be used to pay for things we are already doing but can't actually afford. The "trickle down" comes in the form of not having to do massive service cuts in future when debt markets force it on you.
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u/trewesterre 1d ago
Or we could just tax the rich.
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u/Marijuana_Miler 1d ago
Terrible idea. I’m going to be rich one day and dont think you realize how demotivating it would be to have to pay 5% more. /s
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u/julienjj 1d ago
I'm with you. Just short of about nine hundred ninety-nine million eight hundred thousand dollars of being a billionaire !
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u/craigmontHunter 1d ago
You rich jerks deserve more taxes, I’m about $1,000,400,000 away from being a billionaire. /s (you pick which part)
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u/Kaplsauce 1d ago
But then all the companies would just leave Canada and Canadian markets!
Which is why all those American companies are so totally, definitely, completely unbothered by the push to buy local Canadian goods /s
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u/pheakelmatters Ontario 1d ago
"I'll cut that incredibly loosely defined thing by an incredibly specific amount"
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u/jello_sweaters 1d ago
"What criteria will you use?"
"MORE!"
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u/edjumication 1d ago
"how are we supposed to know how much fuel we are selling these people?"
"Well its simple! You pour it in the tank and Ill count it as it goes in!"
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u/ZombieDisposalUnit 1d ago
"You used to have 100 bureaucratic red tape, but under me you will only have 75 red tape."
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u/jello_sweaters 1d ago
[Poilievre] introduced a "two-for-one" law, which mandates the repeal of two existing regulations for every new one.
The blind hubris of assuming everything is simple, and everyone who came before you was evil or stupid.
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u/ProbablyDaTruthMaybe 1d ago
Hmmm, where have I seen this two for one thing before….oh wait, Trump in 2017!
President Trump has been steadfast in his commitment to reducing the regulatory burden on everyday Americans; their pocketbooks, and their businesses. This new Executive Order builds on the President’s Actions, which include:
Requiring that for every new Federal regulation, two existing regulations be eliminated.
Yeah PP is totally not MAGA though…
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u/TheEpicOfManas 1d ago
Thanks for doing the work - I remembered that as well, and was going to look for a source. It's such a simplistic and (dare I say?) childish idea that it had to come from Trump. I literally did a face-palm reading it.
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u/ProbablyDaTruthMaybe 1d ago
No worries. Gotta call this con garbage out and provide receipts nowadays.
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u/planemissediknow 1d ago
Bro, what does that even mean
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u/Still-Train 1d ago
It means he will make it easier for foreign companies to rape and pillage our natural resources all while polluting our environment and taking advantage of workers
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u/Ok_Bad_4732 1d ago
And stick his nose in municipal affairs by bullying mayors and city councils by threatening to withhold federal funding for things they don't necessarily control, thereby making a farce of democracy and of the real needs of Canadians.
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u/Lordmorgoth666 1d ago
That scares the crap out of me. We just avoided having an untested silica extraction operation open up in Manitoba that had the potential to contaminate an enormous underground water supply that supplies drinking water for at least 100,000 residents. (The plan was to pump water and sand up from the reservoir, filter the sand out, and send the water back down. What could possibly go wrong??)
I could absolutely see him being punitive to residents in the name of “red tape reduction” when they just want to protect their drinking water. We can’t drink money.
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u/GreatBigJerk 1d ago
He saw how everyone loves DOGE and thought that was a good thing to pitch here.
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u/50s_Human 1d ago
If you have no social programs to help Canadians at the time we need it the most while under severe economic attack by Trump, we are not the person to lead our Canada.
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u/j_roe Calgary 1d ago
What "Red Tape" exactly is he referring to?
Environmental reviews? Permitting and Life Safety? Planning reviews? It would be nice to get a sense of what is being cut rather than just blanket "I am going to cut red tape" sound bites because for the majority of Canadians I believe the three I mentioned are pretty important.
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u/Ok_Bad_4732 1d ago
What ever it means, regardless, it is all fully outside of federal jurisdiction in the context used by MAGA PP.
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u/ProbablyDaTruthMaybe 1d ago
Listening to him discuss the Ring of Fire resource development plan a couple weeks ago it clearly meant bulldozing through the “red tape” that would probably be indigenous claims which are actually one of the main reasons why it hasn’t been developed yet as negotiations are ongoing.
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u/iRunLotsNA 1d ago
Hey, doesn't a proposal like this sound pretty familiar?
I thought you wanted to distance yourself from Trump, little PP. Instead you're just parroting him. This is why the CPC is crashing in the polls.
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u/TerrorizeTheJam 1d ago
How do you add a numerical figure to that? Do you start by hiring consultants to find out how much red tape there is to establish the baseline and then cut 25% of whatever THAT is? Anyone who stops and thinks for a second knows this is an empty promise.
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u/QueasyRider1 1d ago
It’s as meaningless as Trump's magical calculation of tariffs charged by penguin-inhabited islands
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u/OneTripleZero Vancouver 1d ago
Like, what if the amount of red tape isn't evenly divisible by four? Do we cut one regulation somwhere in the middle, or do we round to the nearest law?
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u/quadralien 1d ago
Do we cut the tape lengthwise as if we're finishing some fancy Christmas wrapping, or across like a a quick gift? Do we curl it with our scissors?
Is the red tape in a Turing machine? Can I rewind the red tape with a pencil?
Is the red tape in the room with us now?
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u/fromaries 1d ago
My first thought was " Ah, the magical 25%. Guess where that number came from." I am surprised that Trump hasn't tried to copyright it.
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u/Hay_Fever_at_3_AM Toronto 1d ago
Aren't there studies that these sorts of "two for one" laws just don't work? You end up having to convolute new regulations and "omnibus" them to work around the problem and now you've got megaregulations that are way less efficient than hyper targeted regulations.
It's one of those "simple solution for a complex problem" that ends up just being a lie. Typical right-wing snake oil policy.
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u/realhumanpersonoid 1d ago edited 1d ago
Advisors: “We really need to keep up this strategy of distancing yourself and the party publicly from Trump/Musk until the election is over. Hell, Musk has openly supported you in the past so we need to do this carefully and not mirror anything they do. I think…”
PP: “I hear you. And I’ve got this great idea for a Minister of Government Efficiency. I’ll call them MOGE and my rabid base will love it!“
Advisors: “…”
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u/Kingalthor 1d ago
So what are the 6 regulations being cut for these 3 new ones, and where are the cuts for the funding for the auditor general to audit the entire government to follow this?
We have Carney over here releasing full plans for new government agencies to have a national housing plan, and then a maple maga proposing chainsaws.
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u/taylerca 1d ago
I cannot wait till the debates. Carney is going to destroy PP if all he has are these empty plans based on rhetoric.
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u/Empty_Antelope_6039 1d ago
This is the worst type of pandering BS, with a completely pulled-out-of-his-ass percentage based on nothing, and would mostly benefit corporate owners and shareholders, without helping working class at all.
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u/stahlhammer 1d ago
It doesn't even make sense, just saying numbers without tangible KPIs, bad management.
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u/MoaraFig 1d ago
Regulation =/= bureaucratic red tape.
Regulation is restriction on what type of development can go where, and what chemicals are allowed in which products
Bureaucratic red tape is how many forms need to be filled out and approved by how many departments before an action can be taken.
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u/MinuteLocksmith9689 1d ago
I watched the clip on tv and he announced the 2:1 rule: if one comes with 1 rule needs to cut 2…??? My brain could not take the bs…
This plan is very similar to one that he presented to tackle tariffs
“There's going to be a three step plan. 1- An immediate plan 2-Then after that, solve the whole problem with plan 2 3-Then after that have a long term plan
So the plan is to have 3 plans. Ok? “
Our Bullshitter in Arts! There nothing of substance in anything that he talks. If this guy becomes PM we are all screwed
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u/ABC_Dildos_Inc 1d ago
Once again, no specifics.
"I will make hard things easier and bad things gooder, by 25%".
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u/Diastrophus 1d ago
Specifically, which regulations are people upset about? Safety ones? Ones that keep wealthy from gaming the system? Most of the regulations I work within are there to keep people safe
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u/lilbeesie 1d ago
Please explain how he will measure this? Like do we have a baseline that we can use for comparison? Otherwise this is entirely anecdotal.
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u/shadesof3 1d ago
Ya the conservatives in Alberta said the same and then they opened up a "war room" and attacked a netflix animated movie.
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u/artistformerlydave 1d ago
pffft.. as if a guy who has never actually worked a day in his life gets to be in charge of getting rid of bureaucratic redtape. the world is messed up
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u/ApoplecticAndroid 1d ago
Trudeau is gone so his solution is to target “red tape”
Wow, he is as smart as his southern MAGA buddies.
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u/banyanoak 1d ago
Putting aside the question of whether this is good policy.... Why would he double down on policies championed by Trump, when he's losing the election largely because Canadians can't stand Trump?
If his goal is to get elected, the silliest thing he can do is continue showing Canadians that a vote for him is a vote for MAGA. Which suggests that either he has good reason to worry about a big chunk of his base not voting or flipping to the PPC, or he really, truly does align with Trump in ways that Canadians can't stand, and genuinely thinks he can convince us to agree with him. I don't think I'd bet on that second one working out for him...
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u/usernamesallused 1d ago
My guess is that he knows he’s not going to be Prime Minister and instead is going to nearly immediately get kicked out as party leader. Now he’s just trolling for a conservative think tank talking head role or interviewing to be a ultra-right wing media personality*
*Having a personality not required.
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u/MechanismOfDecay 1d ago
How the fuck can you even measure this? Is every bureaucratic process considered “red tape?” Let’s say it is defined and there’s criteria, what are the trade offs?
I hate when politicians try to make something sound quantifiable when it isn’t. Like sure, efficiencies should always be sought, but “red tape” is there for a reason. Administrative fairness and due diligence slow things down for good reason.
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u/falsekoala 1d ago
There are times and ways that red tape should be removed.
There is also a lot of ways that regulations help Canadians.
Just a word salad, means-nothing campaign promise. Too bad he doesn’t let anyone question his policies.
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u/momentum77 1d ago
"For each new regulation, two will be removed.".. I've heard this one before.. south of the border. "But he's not aligned with Rump!"... Ya ok..
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u/alice2wonderland 1d ago
Gosh, I wonder where he got that idea from: https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/01/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-launches-massive-10-to-1-deregulation-initiative/
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u/Mental_Cartoonist_68 1d ago
Anyone notice how Trump has toned down the 51st State rhetoric?
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u/usernamesallused 1d ago
I thought he just got distracted by tariffing penguins and the rest of the world. He’ll be back up to it soon enough, probably in a rage when PP loses.
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u/Mental_Cartoonist_68 1d ago
I suspect that Poilievre's team using the Javani/Vance connection is to blame. I cant imagine Maralogo Smith being actually effective enough. I would think shes a joke amongst some Republicans.
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u/chipface Ontario 1d ago
That's an exact copy of Trump's executive order 13771 in his first term. If he's trying to distance himself from Trump, he's not doing a very good job of it.
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u/Gwtrailrunner19 1d ago
We would be able to balance the budget and then properly fund healthcare, education, childcare,infrastructure, etc. if the feds and the provinces cut some of their bureaucratic spending and red tape. That’s where the budget cuts need to happen, but they won’t.
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u/UncleDaddy_00 1d ago
Is his next campaign event his standing with a giant chainsaw and trying to muster a manly "Chainsaw!" Shout?
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u/rseager1990 1d ago
Eveytime he tries to distance himself from Trump, he ends up sounding more like Trump
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u/Wherestheshoe 1d ago
Regulations on agriculture is the reason we can still afford eggs up here. If this jackass wants to just start citing regulations to reach a magical number, that’s even more reason not to vote for his party.
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u/CanehdianAviehtor 1d ago
Can someone explain what the fuck "cut bureaucratic red tape" actually means to someone feeling dumb as rocks right now? I saw Ford spew the same crap before he became hero for a day during this trade war, but I don't understand it. I also feel like SOME "red tape" is necessary to keep assholes from running amok wreaking havoc wherever there's a dollar to be made. I'm okay with this just being my opinion, I'd just like to understand where I'm going wrong.
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u/PlutosGrasp 1d ago
Love how there’s always fat to trim. Always red tape to reduce.
Danielle Smith said the same shit and she has the biggest cabinet, the most give away committees and study’s, than anyone before.
PP will be the same. They’re best buddies. If anyone reading this is considering voting for PP, you are making a mistake. He doesn’t have a plan. He never has demonstrated he has a viable plan. It’s all virtue signaling which is something Con voters claimed trudeau always did. Now PP is doing the same.
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u/kooks-only 1d ago
I hate it when people give percentage increase/decrease without defining what the thing is. Okay cutting red tape by 25%, how will you measure the “red tape”. Like 25% fewer forms to fill out? 25% fewer approval steps? What are you doing specifically?
Like when I read resumes that say “improved efficiency by 50%” with no other details. What’s the measure of efficiency?
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u/Gameonall 1d ago
I feel like there’s really only 2 reasons to not say what the “red tape” is.
- He has no actual plan saying this
- The voters wouldn’t like to hear what he’s changing
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u/mangoserpent 1d ago
So do what Trump did and fire everybody?
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u/ninjacat249 1d ago
Fire tens of thousands of people so they stop buying anything at all, Canadian or no Canadian .
Watch markets burn and fucking die.
Call it Trudeau’s fault.
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u/spidereater 1d ago
25% reduction in red tape? What does that mean? Which rules are red tape and which are necessary life or environment saving regulations?
Anyone that thinks this is a good idea needs to think about why he won’t list specific regulations he wants to cut. Do you honestly think the ones he wants to cut will be the same as the ones you want to cut? Are you sure he will want to save the ones you find important?
He wants to cut two regulations for every new one. Why does that make any kind of sense? Regulations are usually created because someone is abusing a guideline most people thought was not worth codifying. Why would it make sense to remove two for each new one? Are people really just going to do the right thing after the regulations are removed?
All this “red tape” nonsense is asinine. Just say which regulations you want to cut and we can all judge whether you actually understand the issues or if you are just pandering to big monied interests.
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u/JunkDrawerVideos 1d ago
I loved seeing his demeanor change from arrogance to "just kill me already" as he grasps at straws to turn things back around. The only time he lit up was when he said Carney was copying him. He then went back to boo boo face and even ended in a forced attempt to smile. I guess we won't see him aggressively and condescendingly eating an apple while being interviewed by someone out of their league anymore.
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u/kandiirene 1d ago
Oh yes, please allow US billionaires to continue to to earn the lions share of profits from canada while conducting pyramid schemes of selling off all the dead wells and declaring bankruptcy in order to force Canadian tax payers to clean up their environmental damage!! That’s exactly how we will benefit!
If you read that and want to stop BlackRock from building the PRGT pipeline with a 10 year old environmental assessment that the government should let expire you can sign Dogwood BC’s petition and also email the new environmental minister.
Make BlackRock get a new environmental Assessment at least
I want the government to boycott letting US companies profit from our resources.
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u/ninjacat249 1d ago
Those who upset with liberals being in power for the last decade need to look at US and ask yourself if they want the same shit here in Canada. And no, it’s not gonna be different, they do the same shit right here in front of your surprised faces. Fucking conservative clowns want to do exactly this.
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u/Raptorpicklezz 1d ago
“during a speech in British Columbia”
I know Carney is busy with, y’know, actually governing, but he needs to get out to BC ASAP
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u/estherlane 1d ago
Oooo, maybe Poilievre can hire Musk once he’s done decimating the entire American civic structure!!!! Musk has been so efficient!!!!
(Obviously /s)
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u/AvenueLiving 1d ago
This, based on no knowledge of government red tape tape whatsoever. He will just set a target and make government meet it, regardless of the outcomes.
I'm all for reducing red tape, but it needs to be strategic.
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u/stornasa 1d ago
The irony is that this "two-for-one law" would add more bureaucratic overhead by forcing a bunch of deliberation and consulting over what gets cut when adding something new
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u/anemic_royaltea 1d ago
My ‘My policies are in no way deeply inspired by the inane libertarian kleptocratic grifters running amok in the states’ t shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt.
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u/IlluminatedMoose 1d ago
He's literally just making shit up now... I'm thrilled the Conservatives have such an amazing talent for positioning really unlikable people as their leaders. Truly stunning.
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u/seamusmcduffs 1d ago
Does he really want to be invoking the image of Musk in people's minds right now? That's the first thing I think of when I see these cuts
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u/weekendy09 1d ago
Also, he keeps going on about MC’s PhD. He’s now spreading false information/lies as this has been refuted by Oxford themselves… since when is this ok? It all feels so bizarre to me.
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u/rotorboy1972 1d ago
That’s all this clown has is dog whistle slogans. Saw him speak once at my workplace. Empty suit surrounded but human garbage.
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u/No-Accident-5912 1d ago
I was hoping he’d have a red ribbon and a pair scissors. I’m going to cut 25%, not 24, not 26. As if “red tape” could be measured in percentages. What a clown!
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u/new2accnt 1d ago
If there's one thing I've noticed about the reich wing talks about "red tape", it's about people doing their job. Instead of simplifying/optimising a process, they make a regulation unenforceable because they've sacked the people that actually enforce it.
BTW, a reminder that it's not the common citizen that usually demands the repeal of existing regulations. Pretty much like it's not the average citizen that is behind orgs like "the canadian taxpayers federation", despite what those names imply.
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u/Holdover103 1d ago
If it's to make certain applications easier, then yeah let's do it.
I recently had to apply to renew a government document. Website directed me to download an app, input some info, take my photo in the app and share my location (I guess to verify my home address?). Took 5 minutes and was great.
Let's do more of that.
Leverage AI to make low risk functions faster? Sure.
Passport renewals could be easier. Let me scan my old passport, it self populates a form inside myServiceCanada. Take a photo using an app, hit submit.
Taxes for T4 workers? Yeah, just send me my taxes, let me verify if everything was claimed and if I say nothing then I consent to CRAs math.
Cutting red tape in a 2 for 1 deal? No, that's stupid.
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u/bapper111 1d ago
Does he always parrot the Trump Style of campaigning? I swear he just takes GOP campaign ads and just changed the names, nothing original out of this guy.
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u/IJourden 1d ago
Promises like this are just so plainly stupid.
My only question would be " how did you determine 25% Was the correct amount to cut? Be specific."
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u/VexedCanadian84 1d ago
For somebody that claims he's the anti Trump, pp sure seems to be copying Trump a lot
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u/_Batteries_ 1d ago
PP is trump. Canadian trump. If thats what you want, move to the states.
Fuck this guy.
Here is a fun fact:
For most rules, the reason they were put in place is because we needed them. Example: safety regs and permits. Yes, it is annoying to get them all and it can be confusing. why this and not that? Usually, because someone died.
IMO the only 'red tape' we should be cutting is for stuff that no longer makes sense. For example: rules and regs about horses and horses stalls in public buildings. Im not saying there are any, I'm saying those would be the type I would be ok getting rid of.
The Conservatives do not do that. They just tare up environmental regs amd ethical rules that dont let them do what they want.
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u/notbuildingships 1d ago
lol by 25% no less. How the fuck do you even measure the percentage of red tape?
Does he know there’s not a measurable amount of red tape physically restricting the government?
Does he know there’s nothing for him to cut on day one and be like “well there goes one percent!”
Do his followers know that?
Fuck sakes man, the contrast between him and Carney is night and day.
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u/Ynot_zoidberg88 23h ago
What does he mean by red tape? Environmental protections? Indigenous land rights? Safety regulations?
99% of the time, red tape is there because without it, people abuse the land and do irreparable damage to the environment
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u/Biuku 23h ago
The fact that PP is smart enough to know a policy from bullshit, and says stuff like this, makes him incredibly unlikable.
His campaign sees voters as objects to manipulate.
25% of red tape??? Why not say, “I’ll make Canada 25% more beautiful.”
Carney has policies that he tries to simplify for speeches. PP has only slogans, but he’s not dumb. so who he is and what he’ll do must be a different thing.
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u/fullmetalsprockets 20h ago
Vague, non-specific policies are the rule for conservative demagogues (and wannabe demagogues, like Little PP).
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u/csoups 1d ago
What does this even mean? Like sure, cut red tape, but be specific about what you’re going to cut. Literally just empty platitudes from an empty suit