The pauses will not stop the rest of the world from moving away from reliance on the US. Not just in Canada but Europe and Asia and Mexico and others too.
This instability and recklessness and irrationality is terrible for businesses. And noting you can say can change the fact that US voters selected these asshats twice. America cannot be relied up, they are fucking cooked.
The rest of the world will work together, without them.
I think there’s a lot of room in the market right now to leverage the HBC name and locations to implement a Costco-like retail experience but with a Canadian focus.
I’m unfortunately too subconsciously arrogant to think I need to read the docs before starting to use something. “I’m not some newb who needs their hands held, I’m an expert user and I’m sure I can figure it out”
But thank you! Now that I’m enjoying Lemmy and being part of these communities I owe it to myself to revisit this attitude and read it over now.
I have zero problems with legal surveillance related to investigations of serious crimes, including the specific issue mentioned in this article — foreign interference in our electoral process.
With any surveillance it’s important to have safeguards to ensure it’s not abused and to ensure that unrelated private data is not exposed — such as the union conversations being called out in your snippet here. But this is not unique to phone-based surveillance, the same would be true for conversations recorded in an old fashioned bug or wire recording.
What’s important to me here is legal oversight to ensure the collections are warranted, and safeguards to prevent abuse of the collected data.
My emotional instinct is to agree. My rational brain has serious concerns about revoking citizenship as a punishment.
If this was to be done, it would have to be done with the most extreme caution possible. Paper citizens with zero ties to the country and who promote treason, but not just Canadians we are super mad at.
I’m torn because on the one hand I’m concerned about the precedent and how a hypothetical future CPC PM might abuse it. Then again the American example shows that not having precedent set isn’t a huge barrier to evil policy, and the CPC shares near-identical ideology to them.
At the very least though we can encourage our representatives and institutions to cut ties with X
It feels all but inevitable that we will lose many jobs. We have to brace for significant disruption across many industries.
The trick will be to replace the jobs we do lose with better ones, jobs not dependent on the whims of fickle American overlords. However it feels like turmoil will be inevitable.
Actually, you understand how it works just fine. It’s they who misunderstand.
The system of getting cheap materials from Canada (and more) for their industries was a tremendously good system for the US.
Likewise being the recipient of a “brain drain” where educated and trained people from Canada and other countries was insanely good for the US. I worked for a major US tech company and well over half of their technical staff was educated outside the US.
Their greed and idiocy is our gain. We can use our own timber, our own oil and hydro power, our own minerals. We can invite the Canadians and other foreigners who want to leave the US to found and join innovative firms here instead.
Or we could have a digital services tariff, charging a stiff fee on American techbro monopolists like meta Google reddit Apple amazon etc.
Also hits their ads, and then if they don’t like it they can pull out of Canada. This would open the space to domestic and non-us companies, and noncommercial entities like lemmy.
The American firms hold on because of the network effect and their headstart thanks to VC investments but if we break their network effect we can break our dependence on them. I believe europe is working on something along these lines.
This is a good article but I wish we would stop asking questions when the answers are obvious, and instead make statements.
This headline should be “Danielle Smith and Postmedia are on Team Trump”. The article supports this conclusion well.
As it stands it gives the article a cowardly vibe of “oh we’re just asking questions” when this article clearly is not. It would feel more authentic to just call a spade a spade.
The pauses will not stop the rest of the world from moving away from reliance on the US. Not just in Canada but Europe and Asia and Mexico and others too.
This instability and recklessness and irrationality is terrible for businesses. And noting you can say can change the fact that US voters selected these asshats twice. America cannot be relied up, they are fucking cooked.
The rest of the world will work together, without them.