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It’s way more likely that he’d roll out the welcome mat for the states instead

Canada joining the EU would be great, assuming we don’t end up with lil pp in the next election.

We haven’t burned coal in well over a decade.

That’s one way to turn people off from using Canada Post, while the competition offers 7-days/week deliveries, even some doing late night/early morning deliveries with some Amazon couriers.

I believe the issue would lie with the pressure for government procurements to always go for the lowest cost bidder possible, which would be more difficult for local and Canada-first companies to compete.

While I believe that procurements should strongly prefer local/Canada-first companies, it would come at a price and provide an opportunity for one political party to cry foul over “wasteful government spending”.

Don’t forget those backups need to also be corrupted or otherwise unrecoverable as well

The bagel dog sounds amazing, but I also do love everything bagels

Even if there’s an administration dead-set on bringing back air safety standards and properly staffing ATC positions, it’ll take a while before they get back to what was previously in place

With what housing though?

Iirc, there was also a majorly catastrophic weather event ripping through the majority of prime farmland around the start of the Great Depression that caused tons and tons of crops to fail as a result, which would’ve made access to food scarce and likely more expensive.

I believe it was The great dust bowl that happened around 1934/1935, but I’d have to double check

Unless the products are made in the US, wouldn’t there be no tariffs for products made elsewhere?

In any case, it doesn’t make sense for things not made in Canada to be mislabeled as such

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That sounds like a sweetheart deal that’ll comeback to bite the STM in the coming years. Definitely Quebec is a somewhat refreshing edge case that proves that transit can be built fast, though it feels like it would be difficult to replicate on a level of building/rehabilitating several hundreds of kilometres of rail running between multiple city centres.

Even if a transit infrastructure project is announced and then funded right after an election, it would take up most of a term for the pre-project work to be completed before shovels even hit the ground. There’s utilities that would need to be mapped and relocated, land to expropriate to start, which I believe has to happen before contracts are signed.

Then there’s always going to be a vocal opposition group throwing obstacles in a major project, whether it’s because there’s no train station serving villages and hamlets, or the sight of a train will ruin people’s views of sprawling parking lots, or groups of people whose land is being expropriated at fair market value not wanting to give up property and going through legal challenges which take time to sort.

Even writing this out, it seems like a transit project does take a great deal of political will to push through, especially before shovels hit the ground.

With our current political representation setup, a big swing in majority governments means that an opposing party in power can just rip up contracts and pay out the penalty fees (or legislate away recourse for a project cancellation) which takes much less effort and provides an immediate win for their side.

Just give it some time. Like most other projects aimed at giving tiny homes to the homeless, there needs to be a continuous source of operational funding in order maintain these homes which everyone forgets about. Then once these homes stop being mobile, cops will move in to confiscate them on yet another encampment clearing. Maybe they’ll even be nice enough to wait for the first winter thaw.

Or the task can’t be done because you need to complete another task before and after.

It’s great to take out the trash, but I have to find another trash bag to replace and then maybe the bin could use a cleaning too.

If you think administrative waste is an issue with a single payer healthcare system, then imagine how much additional waste is created by having hospitals and clinics deal with multiple private insurers with their various plan coverages, exceptions, and deductibles.

There’s also the differing pre-approval requirements for the same procedure to be covered by different insurers, as well as appeal processes for denials.

Then there’s financing and collections for the people that have been treated without insurance. The hospitals and clinics still have to get reimbursed for their costs still, regardless of who’s paying.

While the public system may have its inefficiencies, a private system is rather inefficient and moderately expensive at the best of times.