What legislation would you enact?

[Azure]

2% reduction in public sector employees & public sector spending per year for 10 years.

I would enact legislation that ties spending to inflation rates, and not allow a budget deficit within 5 years with forced reduction in spending each subsequent year.

If more revenue is needed to provide services, taxes should be raised, but first reduce the bloat in the OAS program and raise the age to 75, 1 year at a time.

$15 billion per year added to a wealth fund via:
$5 billion per year in direct tax revenue.

Additionally we subsidize the profitable oil & gas industry to the tune of $5-$7 billion per year. Therefore the oil & gas industry will be that exact amount into the Wealth Fund.

Additionally 5% of mining revenue is captured and put into the wealth fund. Chinese companies want to extract resources from our land, pay for it.

Federal legislation to remove inter provincial trade barriers. Are we a country or what?

Federal legislation to guarantee LNG projects will be approved in a certain time frame, with legislation to ensure they get built in a timely manner.

Federal legislation to force wholesale rates of wired & wireless network access. The taxpayers put those lines in the ground and built a lot of towers.

Term limits of 10 years for all elected members of the federal government.

Adopt the New Zealand concept for supply management for the dairy & egg industries.

[Locke]

Originally Posted by bizaro86

That new one is the one I was thinking of - they were cruising through my residential neighbourhood in that thing a few weeks ago when I was dropping my kids at school. My first thought was the Russians were invading. Why the hell do they need that thing - it's ridiculous.

I tend to agree with this.

Like...the Tank thing was bad enough, but come on? What are they now, the Army??

How often could that thing possibly get used?

[Lubicon]

Originally Posted by GreenLantern2814

Google let me down.

Originally Posted by Locke

I tend to agree with this.

Like...the Tank thing was bad enough, but come on? What are they now, the Army??

How often could that thing possibly get used?

You might be surprised. Not sure of how often that vehicle itself is actually used but the TAC team is deployed almost daily, sometimes multiple times daily. Info based off a tour of the facility I had about 10 years ago.

[Scroopy Noopers]

Originally Posted by Lubicon

You might be surprised. Not sure of how often that vehicle itself is actually used but the TAC team is deployed almost daily, sometimes multiple times daily. Info based off a tour of the facility I had about 10 years ago.

It would be hardly surprising they find a reason to fire it up daily (retaining operating budget, “proving” it was needed, exercises, etc…)

Now, finding a single reason they actually need that vehicle is a different question and probably a more useful one.

[#-3]

Originally Posted by Azure

2% reduction in public sector employees & public sector spending per year for 10 years.

I would enact legislation that ties spending to inflation rates, and not allow a budget deficit within 5 years with forced reduction in spending each subsequent year.

If more revenue is needed to provide services, taxes should be raised, but first reduce the bloat in the OAS program and raise the age to 75, 1 year at a time.

$15 billion per year added to a wealth fund via:
$5 billion per year in direct tax revenue.

Additionally we subsidize the profitable oil & gas industry to the tune of $5-$7 billion per year. Therefore the oil & gas industry will be that exact amount into the Wealth Fund.

Additionally 5% of mining revenue is captured and put into the wealth fund. Chinese companies want to extract resources from our land, pay for it.

Federal legislation to remove inter provincial trade barriers. Are we a country or what?

Federal legislation to guarantee LNG projects will be approved in a certain time frame, with legislation to ensure they get built in a timely manner.

Federal legislation to force wholesale rates of wired & wireless network access. The taxpayers put those lines in the ground and built a lot of towers.

Term limits of 10 years for all elected members of the federal government.

Adopt the New Zealand concept for supply management for the dairy & egg industries.

So more government programs with less workforce, and less money for retired people? Good luck.

"I want you all to cut your staff by 20% over the next decade, while your at it renationalize the telecoms, work through infrastructure legal challenges faster, build bigger wealth management funds, (I'm guessing you'd better not increase wait times or class sizes?). And you're going to do it while cutting back on the largest and most reliable voting block in the country (65-75). All of that. If we can't afford this in a given year, lets just print some money to pretend we don't have a deficit (you know cause people love inflation)."

you must like PP, bit of wishful thinking in here.

[bizaro86]

Originally Posted by Scroopy Noopers

It would be hardly surprising they find a reason to fire it up daily (retaining operating budget, “proving” it was needed, exercises, etc…)

Now, finding a single reason they actually need that vehicle is a different question and probably a more useful one.

Yeah. Them taking on it for an early morning patrol of my residential neighbourhood (and I assure you I would have heard from someone if the TAC team was deployed in our neighbourhood) doesn't prove they need it. It proves they have it.

The TAC team gets called for all sorts of stuff that doesn't require that thing. It's way overkill for a person with a gun.

If they're regularly responding to incidents where rocket propelled grenades are involves then sure. If someone locks himself and his girlfriend inside with a hand gun you don't need an armored personnel carrier. Send it to Ukraine - they need them.

[Dunnyberg]

Ban all plastics
Ban birth control
Immigrants must take an IQ test and score >105 to be accepted
Must pass a civics test in order to vote-- things like ballpark the annual budget, name the three largest industries, etc.

[GGG]

Originally Posted by Dunnyberg

Ban all plastics
Ban birth control
Immigrants must take an IQ test and score >105 to be accepted
Must pass a civics test in order to vote-- things like ballpark the annual budget, name the three largest industries, etc.

Why are you banning birth control at the same time ensuring a higher level of intelligence for immigrants?

If you want dumb people to have kids make not having kids more difficult. If you want dumber kids make people who don’t want kids have kids.

[GGG]

Originally Posted by powderjunkie

Cars are so all-encompassing to our lives that it would be hard to nail down just a few metrics. But it would be super interesting to do a meta-analysis of all the benefits/harms of personal vehicles and speculate how an alternative system would work.



A few random thoughts:

1. Overall economy would suffer to some degree, but a lot of different economic activities/services would fill the void.

2. It would also lead to different consumption patterns. Good/bad/different? Depends on the eye of the beholder, but I don't think it would be the worst thing in the world if there was an additional impediment to some consumption (and the local economy doesn't benefit nearly as much from physical consumption as it used to).

3. A lot of the benefits of this change would be hard to establish precise causal links, but the physical and mental health benefits would be huge. We here a lot that just 30 minutes of walking a day can do so much to improve one's health...this basically guarantees it for nearly everyone.

4. A slightly healthier populace without any big car accidents (though certainly still some bike/etc accidents) would be some pretty substantial savings.

5. The system could still fail at times, but I think it would be a lot less frequent and severe than our current level of accepted failure (rush hour traffic), let alone unique failures like car vs lrt collision.

6. Mobility challenges - I think would actually improve dramatically if people started navigating the world actively...instead of adding another lane here or there we'd smooth out a whole bunch of curbs. Obviously para transit services would remain/expand.


This would involve a transformative redefinition of prosperity. If the overall GDP decline is comparable to the offset total expenditure on personal transportation then it's almost certainly a win. Physical activity instead of the subtle (and sometimes not so subtle) aggravation of navigating the metal box rat race.

I would pay more taxes to pay less on my personal transport to have an often less convenient form of service that is also very often less aggravating.

I like the concept, I think to reshape cities takes 50 years so you have to tax your way there instead of just banning.

[RW99]

Some ideas I haven't seen yet related to construction:

• Actual updates on construction projects progress (I'm looking at you South Bow River Bridge).
• Mandate all lane closures to use ZIPPER MERGING. We are Canadian, so 90% of us will just move to the open lane, creating one long line that goes into intersections, while the less polite use the closed lane and pisses everyone off.
• If there is no work being done for a period of time, and there are no safety issues, original speed signs need to be put back up. Fine contractors that forget to do it.

[GreenLantern2814]

Originally Posted by powderjunkie

Alright, I've got an idea that will earn me a hasty assassination, but someday future generations will deify me: ban personal car ownership.

Which I know sounds crazy and absolutely is, but it would be crazy awesome. It involves a major reallocation of resources, but imagine how efficiently a massively expanded transit system would work without traffic.

There's a whole lot more to unpack there and I need a few more napkins to sketch it out, but it will be great. I'm just gonna need a decade of total authoritarianism to implement it.

*chambers round*

[powderjunkie]

Originally Posted by GGG

I like the concept, I think to reshape cities takes 50 years so you have to tax your way there instead of just banning.

Boring. Under my radical plan we all get free tickets to a demolition derby. And a tire swing in every yard.

[Wormius]

I wouldn’t care about car ownership as long as I can get around easily with whatever Car2Go type system comes up next that didn’t penalize you for living in the burbs.

[Yamer]

Originally Posted by Dunnyberg

Ban birth control
Immigrants must take an IQ test and score >105 to be accepted

The irony of these two proclamations appearing back to back shouldn't go unrecognized.

[chemgear]

Something, anything that would crush this kind of ridiculousness. Constant bail and freedom being offered to repeat offenders like this is a joke.

Maybe a SIXTH ####ing lifetime ban would magically mean something. Ridiculous.


https://toronto.citynews.ca/2024/04/...e-peel-police/

A man from Brampton, whom Peel Regional Police called a prolific offender with five lifetime driving prohibitions and over 30 charges, was arrested again.

Authorities noted that 41-year-old Nirmal Singh of Brampton has been convicted of 35 criminal code and eight Provincial Offence Act (POA) charges since 2017.

[iggy_oi]

Originally Posted by Dunnyberg

Ban birth control

Would that include pulling out?

[Muta]

Originally Posted by Dunnyberg

Ban all plastics

The irony of you writing this on a keyboard, smart phone or tablet is stunning.

Originally Posted by Dunnyberg

Ban birth control

I assume you'll be the first to immediately sign your name up to adopt many of the incoming, unwanted babies then?

[Finger Cookin]

Annex all lake based communities within municipal limits and turn them into landfills.

[metallicat]

Originally Posted by Scroopy Noopers

It would be hardly surprising they find a reason to fire it up daily (retaining operating budget, “proving” it was needed, exercises, etc…)

Now, finding a single reason they actually need that vehicle is a different question and probably a more useful one.

Well the whole multi day standoff that included over 100 rounds being fired at police and hitting their equipment is probably reason alone. If Calgary tactical is anything like Edmonton they are using it a lot on high risk warrant executions. They just don’t publicize how much it actually get used.

https://calgary.ctvnews.ca/calgary-m...sirt-1.6821360

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by Dunnyberg

Immigrants must take an IQ test and score >105 to be accepted
Must pass a civics test in order to vote-- things like ballpark the annual budget, name the three largest industries, etc.

Sure as long as we can deport all the mouth breathers that score under 105