Canadian Federal Politics Thread v5

[Bill Bumface]

Originally Posted by TorqueDog

One catch is that tech salaries in the US are appreciably higher than in Canada.

Sauce: Levels.fyi

For sure, but it's narrowed a lot. The boom of remote work during the pandemic meant Canadian companies were in more competition with US companies than ever before for Canadian talent.

Anecdotally, after working for US companies for the past 6 years, I was pleasantly surprised that there are now Canadian companies at least in the ballpark these days.

What the families of H1-B workers go through in the event of a layoff sounds awful. What was it before the extension, 3 months to find a job, or pack up your life and go back where you came from?

[Doctorfever]

Originally Posted by PeteMoss

I dressed up as Trudeau for Halloween

What colour of Trudeau?

I had to ask! Hahaha

[2Stonedbirds]

Come on now, it's not like he did something stupid. Such as switching to contacts.

Recognize

[Yoho]

https://twitter.com/user/status/1676895609708584960

https://twitter.com/user/status/1676766908434071552

[Firebot]

Speaking of hyperboles and rhetorical, Trudeau claims Meta hates democracy and compares C-18 to fighting in WWII

https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2023/07/...ral-party-ads/

In addition to raising the economic cost to Meta for stopping news sharing, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau increased the rhetoric, describing Canada as having been “attacked” by Meta and likening the government’s fight over the bill to defending democracy in Ukraine or during the Second World War [at 13:30]:

Facebook decided that Canada was a small country, small enough that they could reject our asks. They made the wrong choice by deciding to attack Canada. We want to defend democracy. This is what we’re doing across the world, such as supporting Ukraine. This is what we did during the Second World War. This is what we’re doing every single day in the United Nations.

There are strongly held views on both sides of the Bill C-18 debate, but the suggestion that stopping sharing news links on a social network is in any way comparable to World War 2 is embarrassingly hyperbolic and gives the sense of a government that has lost perspective on the issue. Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez has repeatedly described the manner of compliance with Bill C-18 as a business choice for the Internet companies, yet the Prime Minister now calls that choice an attack on the country.

If it were truly comparable to a world war, then surely the Liberal Party (joined by the NDP) would not continue to advertise on the platform. Yet since the 2021 election call, the party alone has run approximately 11,000 ads on Facebook and Instagram.

[2Stonedbirds]

The LPC should recognize how helpful it could be trotting Freeland out to regurgitate stories from her dear old grandad, on how his work and experience during WW2 is comparable to the actions of their govt right now.

[Monahammer]

Originally Posted by 2Stonedbirds

The LPC should recognize how helpful it could be trotting Freeland out to regurgitate stories from her dear old grandad, on how his work and experience during WW2 is comparable to the actions of their govt right now.

Have you even watched a single PP video my guy? 98% of them start with a similar anecdote of dubious pedigree.

This is a pretty obtuse cut from the PM though. How is this in any way similar to a world war?

[2Stonedbirds]

Dubious pedigree like Freeland?

[fotze2]

Originally Posted by Monahammer

Have you even watched a single PP video my guy? 98% of them start with a similar anecdote of dubious pedigree.

This is a pretty obtuse cut from the PM though. How is this in any way similar to a world war?

The choices are so abysmal in this country. Politics just seems to attract the biggest life losers. Bitter, unexceptional, self-interested turds.

They should just randomly select our representatives every year like jury duty.

You've been selected to be Prime Minister! You are now the Minister of Finance!

[TorqueDog]

Originally Posted by Bill Bumface

For sure, but it's narrowed a lot. The boom of remote work during the pandemic meant Canadian companies were in more competition with US companies than ever before for Canadian talent.

Anecdotally, after working for US companies for the past 6 years, I was pleasantly surprised that there are now Canadian companies at least in the ballpark these days.

What the families of H1-B workers go through in the event of a layoff sounds awful. What was it before the extension, 3 months to find a job, or pack up your life and go back where you came from?

The difference for me if I were to live stateside, using USD as the benchmark currency, is a ~$120k a year uplift over what I get in Canada. The gap hasn't narrowed as much as it realistically should have, it isn't like our CoL is lower than the US... hell, a lot of the time it's higher thanks to their population and purchasing power.

[FlamesAddiction]

Former PM Stephen Harper seeking closer conservative ties and cooperation with Viktor Orban's government in Hungary.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/har...ties-1.6898904

Former prime minister Stephen Harper says he wants closer ties between right-leaning political parties — including the Conservative Party of Canada — and the Hungarian government, which has been accused of democratic backsliding.

Harper chairs the International Democrat Union, a global alliance of right-leaning political parties that includes Canada's Conservatives as well as the Fidesz Party led by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban.

The two met Thursday in Budapest. Harper said on Twitter they discussed "the importance of centre-right parties strengthening their collaboration."

[Aarongavey]

Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction

Former PM Stephen Harper seeking closer conservative ties and cooperation with Viktor Orban's government in Hungary.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/har...ties-1.6898904

Orban and his policies are sort of a northern star for most conservatives.

[Monahammer]

Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction

Former PM Stephen Harper seeking closer conservative ties and cooperation with Viktor Orban's government in Hungary.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/har...ties-1.6898904

How do the anti globalists feel about this?

[Monahammer]

Originally Posted by 2Stonedbirds

Dubious pedigree like Freeland?

Lol did you see the one of him talking about old woodworking in a barn?

That #### has been on a farm like 3 times, one of which was to shoot the video in question.

[Yoho]

https://twitter.com/user/status/1677505288281419776

[Firebot]

Looks like government blinked, a few days after Trudeau compared defending C-18 to fighting Nazis in WWII. What a monumentally stupid bill, biting the hand that feeds you.

https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2023/07/...line-news-act/

Fourth, this quagmire is entirely the government’s own making. There were alternative options proposed that look much like this structure. Those were consistently rejected and those proposing the alternatives dismissed as shills. Yet faced with emerging disaster that is Bill C-18, the government seems prepared to ditch the principles it said were critical in its news bill in the hope of a face-saving compromise. Whether it is also willing to drop the visions of hundreds of millions for the sector will likely determine whether it can convince at least one of the platforms to drop their plans to block news links or news sharing in Canada.

[Doctorfever]

What do the Trudeaus and covid have in common?

NSFW!

The second wave is worse than the first.

He does know that we actually have to pay back the debt, right?

Way more costly now that interest rates are up.

It’s now costing Canadians 4.58 million dollars to service our debt.

That not per month, that’s not per day.

That’s PER HOUR.

How are we going to spend our way out of this one? We either have to raise taxes or cut services (or both). Boy, I can’t wait for a tax increase, less money for families already dealing with huge cost increases due to government spending.

[Yoho]

https://twitter.com/user/status/1679233059915452417

[iggy_oi]

Originally Posted by Yoho

https://twitter.com/user/status/1679233059915452417

If that’s the same Dwayne Chomyn who was the architect instrumental in the UCP’s gutting of the Alberta labour code I’m not sure why we should be led to believe that he gives a rats ass about the average Canadian. Just my 2 cents.

[Ferarri]

Originally Posted by Yoho

https://twitter.com/user/status/1679233059915452417

Since you always just post links and never follow up with any personal insights I assume you are referring to that hair of his. My god that is something indeed.