Alberta Politics & Government Thread 3.0

[Fighting Banana Slug]

Originally Posted by undercoverbrother

John Caravella would do a better job.

So are you telling me to dump my garbage at the Premier's home?

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by Fighting Banana Slug

So are you telling me to dump my garbage at the Premier's home?

I love that show so much.

one year my kids bought me the complete box set with original music.

[powderjunkie]

Originally Posted by Slava

Well my comment was about provincial migration and not about the creation of the APP and moving from CPP to that. Those are two different issues.

In theory, people have their CPP until a cutoff date (Say January 1,2024 for simplicity). The pension funds and liabilities stay there. From that point on, Albertans contribute to APP, and they get their pension from there depending on what they’ve paid in. When they retire, the collect CPP and APP until ~45years from now when people only have APP in Alberta.

I hear that you're saying that it could be possible, but it would almost certainly be messy. Any conservative simpleton who loves to trot out silly ideas like how 'bloated public services are sooooo incompetent' cannot suddenly ignore that notion when it suits them. FWIW I think this would end up getting screwed up by generally competent+under-resourced bureaucrats with incompetent legislative direction. The Minister of Red Tape Reduction must be hyperventilating.

An APP would start from an even weaker position if it's starting from scratch, and the theoretical advantages from our demographics could be quickly eroded if people get to take all of their contributed capital with them back to CPP when they move away.

[Torture]

This is hilarious, but honestly, where the #### do the UCP find these people? This is the head administrator expected to fix AHS after Smith fired the entire board..

https://twitter.com/user/status/1605794670272978945

[calgarygeologist]

Maybe not really relevant here but I just renewed my driver's license and they have really cut back on quality. It is no longer a typical, credit card thickness, sturdy card but instead it is a really thin, flimsy sheet of plastic. It reminds me of the old Blockbuster video membership cards.

[The Fisher Account]

Got mine too. Yeah it stinks.

Wish I could do an Apple Wallet license at this point

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by calgarygeologist

Maybe not really relevant here but I just renewed my driver's license and they have really cut back on quality. It is no longer a typical, credit card thickness, sturdy card but instead it is a really thin, flimsy sheet of plastic. It reminds me of the old Blockbuster video membership cards.

I tried to explain to my kids what the old 2 part licenses where like.

They could not comprehend carrying around a folded up piece of paper in your pocket.

[RedHot25]

Originally Posted by Torture

This is hilarious, but honestly, where the #### do the UCP find these people? This is the head administrator expected to fix AHS after Smith fired the entire board..

https://twitter.com/user/status/1605794670272978945

This guy is the best they've got?

And its second go around at this?

At this point I'm thinking I'll take Abe. My god.

[Roughneck]

Originally Posted by calgarygeologist

Maybe not really relevant here but I just renewed my driver's license and they have really cut back on quality. It is no longer a typical, credit card thickness, sturdy card but instead it is a really thin, flimsy sheet of plastic. It reminds me of the old Blockbuster video membership cards.

People were asking that health cards could be more like drivers licenses, but I guess they’re going the opposite way.

[Sliver]

Originally Posted by undercoverbrother

I tried to explain to my kids what the old 2 part licenses where like.

They could not comprehend carrying around a folded up piece of paper in your pocket.

And if it went through the washer it literally erased all of your details. I know this because I got a ticket when I was 17 for having an "illegible license".

Quick aside, though, the cop who gave that to me could have given me a ticket for a bunch of no-signal lane changes, passing a guy using the merge lane, speeding and incomplete stop at a stop sign. The deal was I would tell my friends that not all cops are bad guys. I did keep my word and that guy really was cool because the illegible license ticket didn't come with any demerits and was only $40.

[Slava]

Originally Posted by powderjunkie

I hear that you're saying that it could be possible, but it would almost certainly be messy. Any conservative simpleton who loves to trot out silly ideas like how 'bloated public services are sooooo incompetent' cannot suddenly ignore that notion when it suits them. FWIW I think this would end up getting screwed up by generally competent+under-resourced bureaucrats with incompetent legislative direction. The Minister of Red Tape Reduction must be hyperventilating.

An APP would start from an even weaker position if it's starting from scratch, and the theoretical advantages from our demographics could be quickly eroded if people get to take all of their contributed capital with them back to CPP when they move away.

Right, but people wouldn't be able to take money from APP to CPP. I'm not advocating that we do this, so let me just say that again. But this kind of thing happens with pensions all the time. People live in say the UK, and work there for a number of years and come to Canada. You can't just take the pension and move it with you, so when you retire you get a pension from the UK (or wherever) and then one from CPP (assuming that you were here, and qualify and all that).

Bottomline...this is super common and lots of people have all kinds of little pensions they've earned and accrued from various places. APP could have the same functionality and it wouldn't be anything new or difficult in that world.

Again though, just because you can...

[TorqueDog]

Originally Posted by The Fisher Account

Wish I could do an Apple Wallet license at this point

Do you want to physically hand over your unlocked phone to a police officer every time they ask for ID? If you pick up your iPhone and look at it before double-tapping the lock button for Wallet, it will unlock the rest of your phone. The only way it doesn't is if you double-tap lock and wait for the Face ID prompt before directly facing the device, which is a very intentional behavior most people probably wouldn't think to do.

I could have my TD Meloche pink cards for my car insurance on my phone if I wanted to, but screw that.

[calgarygeologist]

Originally Posted by TorqueDog

Do you want to physically hand over your unlocked phone to a police officer every time they ask for ID? If you pick up your iPhone and look at it before double-tapping the lock button for Wallet, it will unlock the rest of your phone. The only way it doesn't is if you double-tap lock and wait for the Face ID prompt before directly facing the device, which is a very intentional behavior most people probably wouldn't think to do.

I could have my TD Meloche pink cards for my car insurance on my phone if I wanted to, but screw that.

Ideally with a digital ID, which is something that is coming at some point in the future anyways, there would a QR code that the police or whomever scan on some device and take your info with them back to their car.

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by Sliver

Quick aside, though, the cop who gave that to me could have given me a ticket for a bunch of no-signal lane changes, passing a guy using the merge lane, speeding and incomplete stop at a stop sign. The deal was I would tell my friends that not all cops are bad guys. I did keep my word and that guy really was cool because the illegible license ticket didn't come with any demerits and was only $40.

Awesome,

I remember when we had our first child. My wife struggled post birth. One day I was rushing to get home while still do my new job (I was 3 weeks in the role).

Cop pulled me over on Deerfoot by Douglasdale. Said he had been following since 16 Ave, I got onto Deerfoot @ 32 Ave.

He listed off everything he was going to charge me with, then asked where I was going and why.

I told him about my new child (2 weeks old) and my struggling wife. He told me to slow down and get off the phone. Then he let me go.

I'd love to be able to know who that dude was now and thank him properly.

[The Fisher Account]

Originally Posted by TorqueDog

Do you want to physically hand over your unlocked phone to a police officer every time they ask for ID? If you pick up your iPhone and look at it before double-tapping the lock button for Wallet, it will unlock the rest of your phone. The only way it doesn't is if you double-tap lock and wait for the Face ID prompt before directly facing the device, which is a very intentional behavior most people probably wouldn't think to do.

I could have my TD Meloche pink cards for my car insurance on my phone if I wanted to, but screw that.

I really don’t care

[TorqueDog]

Originally Posted by calgarygeologist

Ideally with a digital ID, which is something that is coming at some point in the future anyways, there would a QR code that the police or whomever scan on some device and take your info with them back to their car.

Where's the money going to come from to equip the police that way? They're already cutting costs by using thinner plastic on the IDs.

[Red Potato Standing By]

Originally Posted by Roughneck

People were asking that health cards could be more like drivers licenses, but I guess they’re going the opposite way.

That’s why I like the way BC does it, my healthcare number is on the back of my license. Easy peasy and less waste.

[powderjunkie]

Originally Posted by Red Potato Standing By

That’s why I like the way BC does it, my healthcare number is on the back of my license. Easy peasy and less waste.

Someone alert the Minister of Red Tape Reduction and Embezzlement Enlargement! But don't tell them where the idea came from, or else they'll just mandate we all carry a 3rd card at all times that states we are not BC Granola Munching Communists

[blender]

Originally Posted by Roughneck

People were asking that health cards could be more like drivers licenses, but I guess they’re going the opposite way.

Not to turn this into a "BC is better" thread, but here they took the novel step of simply putting your personal health number on the back of your driver's license. Solid thickness of plastic, too. Works pretty well.

Edit: Red Potato got to it first

[Muta]

If BC got it right (which must piss off Smith), I'm sure the UCP will just rebrand the exact same thing and call it their own idea. They did it with the NDP's film credit