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Even right wing economists agree that carbon tax is the best way to do it. The only case against it is a climate change denial case. It uses the laws of economics to attack the problem of climate change at the source. The issue is whether the tax rate is right and whether we allow corpos to buy “offset credits” that are actually worthless.
“Increasing competition” without lowering prices is meaningless.
Tell me you know nothing about economics without telling me you know nothing about economics. The effect of increasing competition in a heavily monopolized industry is to lower prices.
Edit: I slightly misread the quoted text. I had assumed that “increasing competition” meant breaking up Canadian monopolies, not opening the floodgates to other markets. I’m really surprised that a party called “Canada future” is against protectionism. I still stand by my point here, but I see where you’re coming from.
I don’t disagree with most of what you’ve said here, but in what way is Trudeau a “technocrat”? The main conservative critique of him before his election was that his previous work was as a teacher and that he was too young to lead the country. One of his big claims to fame has been appointing cabinet positions based on identity rather than aptitude. I don’t see how you could claim that he’s a “technocrat”. He’s a fairly run-of-the-mill politician.
If anything, Harper had a better claim to the title of “technocrat” since he had a background in economics, although he then went on to fill his cabinet with people who viewed the government as a stolen car in a chop-shop, so he wasn’t really a technocrat either.
I’ve never been clear on what exactly the mitigation is for WNV. It’s not like you can prevent mosquitoes biting you. Often you don’t even know it’s happening. What exactly are you supposed to do?
The article says “don’t get bit” but thats basically impossible if you enjoy the outdoors, especially in more wooded areas like northern Ontario. You can’t just wear a full body bug net the whole time. I mean I guess you could but it’d be miserable.
The classic Liberal playbook. They know what would make a real positive impact on people’s lives, but rather than doing it, they save it until the last moment before the election and then promise it will become a thing during their next term. Kathleen Wynne did the same thing with pharmacare before losing to Ford, who rolled back all of her programs. Imagine if Liberals governed their entire terms the way they govern in the last year before getting ousted.
Global Affairs Canada was forced to admit it was behind the purchase after some New York real estate gossip reported that the condo deal was done for King Charles himself.
The deed for the property shows it was listed for more than US$6.6 million and was sold last month to “His Majesty the King in right of Canada.”
Pretty funny that the only reason this got out is because we use such an ostentatious phrase to refer to the legal entity of the Crown. It’s pretty mundane if you work in the government, but I can see how a bunch of New York real estate agents would have no idea what that phrase means.
No offense, but that’s because you live in a bubble. The majority of Canadians generally land on the neoliberal part of the political compass right now. That’s not to say they can’t be convinced to vote differently, but there’s a reason why the red team and the blue team have been dominant for such a long time.
FWIW, I live in a bubble too. Lots of the people I interact with are orange liberals or red NDPers. However I would say even more are people who fundamentally agree with the NDP more than any other party, but have been brainwashed into thinking the Liberals represent their views better than any other party.
I don’t doubt that. All I said is that it’s not a panacea. As I said, I would be very happy for PR to be a thing here. Once you make the government more proportional, you then need to actually make everyone give a shit about fixing problems. To get everyone pulling in the same direction on some of these issues is going to be an extremely uphill battle.
A significant chunk of Canadians think we are currently doing too much to mitigate climate change, that we should not endorse urbanist policies in our city planning or transportation infrastructure, and that we should reduce social programs that help people with addictions.
I would love to see PR implemented, but it’s not a panacea. It might reduce the conservatives representation in parliament but the Liberals would still be a strong party under PR. The Liberals set most of the existing climate targets and policy, and they are insufficient because the Liberals are a neoliberal party. They are fundamentally opposed to short term economic loss as a political ideology. They won’t invest in the sort of measures needed to mitigate climate change.
Yes even if your supervisor is bilingual, it’s still possible that your office has a dominant language by virtue of the majority.
But anyone who works in IT knows that the price of entry is knowing a certain amount of English, so I would be surprised that IT workers are the ones complaining. They wouldn’t have completed whatever postsecondary taught them IT without learning the basics in English. It’s baked into the industry. Like how biologists need to learn Latin names.
Being bilingual is a metric for hiring, so some people who can say “Jim apple George” or “monet es George” will call themselves bilingual. So knowing enough to be hired, and knowing enough to actually do the job are two different things.
For rank and file this is true, but there is a certification process for supervisors.
But I can see the other points being relevant, especially about technical jargon with colleagues. I guess I’m lucky that almost everyone I work with knows enough of both languages to flip back and forth as needed. The french training in my dept is excellent.
TBF, being a member of a military alliance does give us certain economic advantages since it keeps us friendly with the other members, many of whom we trade with. But you’re right that the military industrial complex doesn’t pay back into Canada very much. And I say that as someone who grew up in London and so knew lots of people employed by General Dynamics. But one of Canada’s biggest exports after our natural resources has long been STEM graduates, many of whom go to work in private industry in Europe or the US. It would be great if we could entice them to stay more often. But that’s more a conversation about free trade agreements than military alliances.
NG may actually be just as bad or worse. Methane amplifies the greenhouse effect (IIRC) 4x as much as CO2 per unit volume emitted, and it’s much harder to track the emissions of the NG industry because most of it comes from methane leaks. The FF industry loves NG for that exact reason. If you are leaking an odourless gas, you don’t need to report what you can’t possibly track. So the self-reported emissions numbers look way better than they probably actually are.
Yeah as someone who works in IT in the government I have to agree with that assessment.
Idk about “more arrivecan-like debacles likely”, but we do basically everything in the dumbest possible way when it comes to IT procurement and project management.
Though I would have said “more Phoenix-like debacles likely” since that was more about the project oversight being a shitshow and less about there being some kind of cronyism involved.
That is definitely not the case. All sides of the political spectrum try to push their views in other countries. John Oliver, a British American media personality, urged Canadians to vote for Trudeau in 2015 on his show.