This signals a departure from the Trudeau government’s approach, which saw a 40-per-cent increase in the number of public service employees between 2015-24
This is a little more nuances when you also note that the population increased by 15% from 2015 to 2024. Whether or not you think this population increase is a good idea (I personally do support it for full disclosure), fact show it was driven by immigration, and I think we can all agree new residents require more services that existing ones. Given these facts, did Canada require 40% more staff to keep the same level of service?
That's not the cost of running the election, that's the parties spending on the election, correct? So those funds were never going to go into infrastructure. I definitely agree we overspend on politics for politics sake, but please don't conflate political party funds with government funds.
It’s like when you sell a car, once the title is signed over and you get the money the deal is done.
No, if you want a car to be your analogy, it's more like a rental. The US is actively paying El Salvador to detain them. They can end that deal whenever they want.
I know that the BIG issue everyone's worried about is they obviously did something (actually, quite a few things) wrong and aren't being held to account.
However, the other thing I can't let go of is the fact that they complain about Clinton & Biden, but then refuse to investigate this situation. Whatever you feel about those 2 (personally I think they were handled properly), those situations were investigated and they were cleared. Simply declaring this matter closed without even going through the motion to investigate just increases the level of sketchiness.
IMHO, you should consider doing more troubleshooting on Kmail. I've never used it personally, but from my understanding, it's a stable program and shouldn't have problems doing the basics of email, like you're reporting.
All of those companies have plants both in the US & Canada (and I'm sure Mexico too, I'm just less familiar). As someone who lives in Southwestern Ontario, we have a lot of car brands, both foreign and domestic, plus the supply chains for the parts that go into those cars.
Saying the big 3 are "primarily in Canada and Mexico" is just untrue, especially comparing it to Japanese brands. They're all heavily relying on CUSMA.
Such crises are often used by political opportunists and large capital to usurp power and introduce more neoliberal policy favouring capital over labour.
Yes, because the current oil & gas industry is full of organized labour and Alberta is a socialist utopia! /s
If it doesn't make economical sense, then by definition, you're providing subsidies. Especially when you talk about infrastructure that's supposed to be amortized over decades-and-decades, yet we are aiming to be almost free of fossil fuels in the next 5 years, and net zero in 25 years. So I really question why you'd want to subsidize Canadian consumers and businesses from "global price shocks"? That's a stick to encourage Canadians to pursue energy independence through electrification, etc.
Fossil fuel prices in Canada can be decoupled from the global market if we really wanted to. We’d have to move to full domestic supply from extraction through refining to the pump. Then regulate the price in a supply management style. If we did that we wouldn’t have to be subject to price shocks caused by OPEC reducing supply, or remote wars breaking out.
At MUCH higher average costs, either directly or through government subsidies. There's a few reasons we don't have domestic processing, one of which is it doesn't make economic sense.
Then obviously reducing consumption makes the whole problem smaller. But I don’t know if we can resolve enough by reducing consumption alone.
Then one way or another, we pay the price, either collectively or individually. I don't know why we'd incentivize the decision to use fossil fuels, given not only their environmental impact, but also their high economic cost compared to other energy sources. Yes, there are exceptions where switching isn't possible (yet), but that's why we have exceptions/programs such as farm fuel (usually dyed red), the carbon-tax had a rural supplement, etc.
I don't disagree there's too much money in politics, but let's compare apples-to-apples. With inflation, $100M in 2025 would be ~$54M in 2000.