All parties do the same thing. Is it time to be governed by ChatGPT?
I can't figure out how a government that promised in 2015 to reduce the reliance on consulting contracts can add 50,000 public sector workers and nearly double consulting costs from $10 billion to $17 billion. All while having some serious questions on why a lot of these contracts go massively over and the work can't be tracked (ArriveCan) for example.
I expect we'll get more massively redacted paperwork and evasion from the government.
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We all know they're not going to address it, as if you put the PCs in power for 10 years, they'll be doing the same things.
That is why we need to switch things around every 4-6 years to keep them accountable.
Canadian voters can't possibly be that this is going on. The Liberals especially are corrupt as #### these days.
The liberals get more and more corrupt the longer they are able to stay in power, and this gets multiplied every time the Cons nominate a lame duck to run against them. After O'toole the liberals have had a blank check to do whatever they want essentially. Pretty disgusting. But, who the #### would want to risk Pierre Pollievre running the show?
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Why do any of you pay any attention to and attempt to interact with Yoho whatsoever? Stop quoting his posts and clogging up this thread with such mindless drivel.
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I’m not in support of this gun ban in its current form but can someone tell me what socialism has to do with it? Of course the answer is nothing, but PP is just fear-mongering, which is what he claims JT is doing. Bang on indeed.
"Banning hunting rifles" is there for effect...it suggests that all or the majority are banned. Some rifles are classified as hunting rifles to get through loopholes in the past but realistically nobody needs a semi automatic rifle to hunt deer but we are going to hear form people "just trying to feed their family" or whatever nonsense to get the base all riled up.
I say this as someone who has killed my fair share of woodland creatures.
slow news day in otawa yesterday. All that happened was:
. as mentioned above, the PM slips into saskatoon to visit some jobsite, and does not mention anything to Scott Moe. Since the the PM was mixing with the commoners, he naturally had his shirt sleeves rolled up. Also, I felt like some of the PM's comments could be taken as a dig at Moe - but maybe that is me, as I keep reading on Twitter how the PM is great at uniting folks, while the Conservatives are the great dividers. Perhaps I need to listen more closely
. seems that some memo about trudeau's just transition was leaked/released and reproted on by blacklocks and then don braid from the herald: https://calgaryherald.com/opinion/co...ion-on-alberta. if the memo is accurate, seems like great news from many traditional employment sectors in canada
. a rookie NDP MP Lori Idlout may be a federal contractor whose company pulled in $454,000 since she was elected in 2021. I guess this is yet another chance for us to learn something about ethics?
. and a lithium mine was green lit in Quebec. Minister Guilbault is excited about this good project
and how was your monday?
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^Buddy is playing pretty fast and loose with the facts.
E.g. his timeline with respect to CUSMA is non-sense, and I don't believe for a second the photo at 4:33 is "Freeland finding out about a bilateral US-Mexico agreement." His anecdote that Freeland was told "'The United States is going to proceed with this in eight days, with the Mexican. You have eight days to accept the original terms. If you don't: fine, you're on your own.' Seven days later Justin Trudeau signed," is a pure fabrication. In point of fact the Mexicans and Americans had agreed to a tentative deal near the end of August, 2018. Canada did not sign on to that deal under its original terms, and the agreement with Canada was not reached until September 30th, over a month later.
His remark at 3:20 that "all of those exemptions that Canada spent 40 years building into American trade law were jettisoned in the NAFTA 2 discussions," isn't true: CUSMA is really only a slightly reworked NAFTA. Canada still has pretty much all the exemptions it had before. His following remark, that "the only reason there's even an adjudication function in there isn't because of Canada, it's because Nancy Pelosi put it in there at the last second within the US House," is big stretch of the truth. The Trump administration did want to get rid of the dispute resolution provisions of NAFTA, but they were reinserted back into the agreement by Canada, prior to the Sept. 30, 2018 agreement. (see this USA Today article published Sept. 30: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...nt/1453244002/ "A dispute resolution process that the U.S. had wanted to scrap but Canada wanted to keep will remain in place.") It didn't even go in front of the US House until 2019. The House did tweak the dispute resolution process though, tightening up the language around the appointment of dispute resolution panellists. Under NAFTA the US used to just refuse to appoint panellists, making dispute resolutions under the NAFTA terms essentially moot, so Canada and Mexico would just go to the WTO instead (and almost always win, and the US would almost always ignore the WTO decisions anyway...).
The map at 5:17 is also pure non-sense. Montreal is coloured red to indicate the metro area "can't expand", but is very obviously just considering the Island of Montreal alone. Apparently bridges aren't a thing and suburbs like Laval and Longeuil don't exist... Boston is right on the coast and apparently can grow in "4-7 directions", but Montreal is on an island and can't grow anywhere. Hmm, okay...
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That's the same guy who has said China will collapse within 5-10 years for the last 20 years or so, so I'd take his opinions with a grain of salt.
In recent years there has been a real trend of public intellectuals talking about things way outside their wheelhouse and being completely out of their depth (Malcolm Gladwell and Jordan Peterson being two famous examples). Zeihan doesn't necessarily fit that mold as he does have a geopolitical background, but Canada is hardly his expertise and like a lot of American analysts, he seems to have a fundamental misunderstanding of the rest of the world.
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I've never heard about the 're-industrialization of North America' before and the argument about how we NEED the 500k immigrants a year to avoid a demographic collapse. Interesting concepts, again.. not sure about the accuracy but always open to new viewpoints and ideas.
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The demographic issue is common across pretty much every industrialized country on the planet: more Baby Boomers than any other age cohort, so as they age they'll have a disproportionate drag on our social safety net.
For Canada the "age pyramid" diagram looks like this (2021 data):
The biggest cohort of people is people born between 1958 and 1965. People born between 1983 and 1992, the so-called "Echo Boomers", are the next biggest. What is worrying is that the numbers at the bottom of the graph, our youngest population, are waning and have done so steadily since 2008. Ever year the numbers keep getting smaller and smaller.
The US has the same problem, but not to the same degree:
Their "Echo Boom" peaked about five years after Canada's, and the population in lower age groups hasn't dropped as significantly as Canada's has.
