pipsqueak1984 @ northmaple1984 @lemmy.ca

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Yeah... Except there's already a massive surplus of unskilled labour and a decent surplus of certain STEM and certain other fields as well thanks to the massive amount of TFWs, foreign students and loose immigration standards. If all the homeless people get cleaned up and start applying for jobs they'll just join the 50 and 100+ applicant lineups that already exist.

It's not about being Conservative, it's about being the Official Opposition. The Liberals did the same thing when the Conservatives were in power and they'll do the same thing when the Conservatives are in power again.

It's gamesmanship is what it is: why offer up ideas that your opponent will then proceed to attempt to take full credit for (and many will fall for it)? This is part of the NDP's big failing: lots of people will ignore that they were the reason any of the good stuff got passed (the other major failings are the fact that what they did get passed is extremely watered down and that although they keep calling out the Liberals on bad policy/failings the continue to support them; they look like massive hypocrites)

Arch documentation is great, if you're only doing it once it shouldn't really be a concern.

One way it was explained to me many years ago was that the partial rate was supposed to very, very roughly account for the fact that capital gains are very often not earned entirely in the course of a single tax year so that the math doesn't get horrendously complicated.

For example, you buy into a bunch of mutual funds, let it sit for like 2) years then sell for like $200k profit. You didn't earn that $200k in a single year, you earned it over the course of 20 years. For this simply example you could compare to how much taxes would you have paid at your marginal rate on an extra $10k income Evert year for 20 years, say your marginal rate is 30%, $3k x 20 years = $60k in taxes you could have paid otherwise. (Versus if the assumption was that you made $200k in one year your average tax rate on that might be 40% you'd pay $80k in taxes)

They needed the government funding approved in order to award the contract and the approval process (which required all bids to be submitted, not just the planned awarded one) unexpectedly took 9 months with the feds. It wasn't a municipal project either, it was a local nonprofit org.

I work a lot with the architect that is overseeing the project and not once did they complain about having to submit extra info to the fed (and I have a pretty solid relationship with them so while not completely professional to complain like that it's the type of thing that would have come up in side conversations in-person when meeting up for other projects)

Not sure it's illegal but I've never seen it done. Every front end specification I've seen says the contractor must hold their price for 30/60 days and many of them stipulate by what date the contract is expected to be awarded.

If the type of pricing you say was submitted when it wasn't asked for the bid would be tossed for not conforming to the required format. If that type of pricing was asked for you'd have pricing all over the place and you'd probably end up with a shitty contractors who bud extra low and bank on a drawn out approval process getting the job for less than they can actually do it for (and cutting corners like crazy)

The issue is that nobody really expected the approval to be that drawn out.

The main issue with our telecom industry is that it's heavily protected by government regulation.

The government can be efficient and competent if it wants to be.

See, this is the problem with the typical mindsets of people who support the parties that make in into the HoC (and many people who support parties who don't): you can't count on the government (or anyone or any organization for that matter) being benelovent all the time, especially when it doesn't align with their own interests. You need to design a system where benevolence is always a byproduct of acting in one's own interest, and what is described in the comment I replied to isn't it.

The CMHC isn't a constructor, they have no way of building houses themselves. They need to pay people to build it through their funding, except them providing funding comes with issues too.

I am a designer on a low-income apartment building being constructed by a non-profit organization in Niagara Region and it is 100% government funded (through CMHC I believe). The government took nearly 9 months to approve the funding after all the bids by constructors were received around April 2022 and given the rate of inflation at the time (and construction inflation was higher than the general rate) no subtrades held their price. The government refused to increase the funding to cover the extra cost due to inflation and as a result this building is being value engineered to high heaven and will probably be pretty terrible build quality.

What you're asking for is effectively a blank cheque for subtrades (and to an extent, designers... even if CMHC uses generic plans everywhere they need local professionals to take responsibility for the permitting process of each individual build, which includes regular inspections and reports) because none of these people trust that the government is competent enough to actually do it properly so they price high to account for fuck ups. (Ex. If CMHC handed me plans to be used I definitely would not blindly sign things off for the local AHJ and put my professional license at risk)

We're 4 years on in less than a month, do you think that if the Liberals and RCMP really knew what they were doing they'd have at least started confiscating by now, especially since these guns are apparently too dangerous for regular citizens to own?

Wes Winkel is a jackass so take all the runs at him you want, but the article is very much news.

Buying a pile of guns is a good investment regardless.

This has nothing to do with 3D printing and everything to do with the government being incompetent when it comes to gun control (which is par for the course)

I think you're mixing up Blackrock and Blackstone... Blackstone is the one that's far, far more heavily into real estate.

The vast majority of federal and provincial politicians, the leaders of companies like SNC, Irving, Loblaws, Bell, Rogers, Telus, Metro, Sobeys. None-exhaustive list of course.

The funny thing about the polls on guns is polls that have asked about the respondents knowledge indicate that the more educated one is about our gun laws, the less likely they are to support bans. Much of the ban support is being generated by anti-gun propaganda where a lack of understanding of how our actual system works exists.

Thing is, there's no "existential threat" to Israel. If they would just retreat behind the borders suggested by the UN in the late 1940s and stay there, the other nations of the world would defend them to the death.

History has proven this statement to be false.

I'm pretty pissed about that too. All corporate subsidies need to end

Sorry, but if I giving money to what's essentially a charity cause I want to do it on my terms (like I already do for several charities) not the governments, that way I get some say about meeting my own needs rather and giving what I can actually afford instead of getting fucked by taxes and inflation and having useless government bureaucrats siphon off money for themselves.

Lol, like the government doesn't siphon off money. I'm no fan of insurance companies either but I'd rather them than the government if I was forced to choose.

Lol, clearly you didn't actually read the pharmacare bill. It doesn't get us pharmacare, it gets us a study, an option to enter into agreements with the provinces (on an individual basis) and an uncertain amount of funding.

And this is ignoring the fact that about 2/3 of Canadians already have dental benefits and ~50% have drug plans... so yeah, maybe those items aren't quite as big of a win as you thought.

Also, I'm not sure which party you are referring to that wants to help Canadians, because the Liberals clearly don't and the NDP obviously have no interest in holding the Liberals accountable for their many fuck-ups.