People who think this is a good idea tend to be deeply stupid. - ThreadSky

emmettmacfarlane.com • 20 days ago

People who think this is a good idea tend to be deeply stupid.

Wayne Long, newly-minted secretary of state for Canada Revenue Agency, tells reporters in Ottawa today:

"I think we're going to see our government run like a corporation, which I think is long overdue."

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bagpiper59.bsky.social•20 days ago

The bits and pieces are starting to add up already. Con light.

wilgog.bsky.social•20 days ago

Here's a better idea - run it like a country.

marnanightingale.bsky.social•20 days ago

Specifically, they somehow think they're shareholders, whereas actually voters are end-users locked into a 5-year contract that the corporation can change at any time, we can't change at all, and that provides that all disputes are to be solved by arbitrators chosen by the corporation.

marnanightingale.bsky.social•20 days ago

I’ll post the inevitable form letter I get back.

yulnative.bsky.social•20 days ago

This is so typical of anyone who doesn't have the first clue about the role of government. It isn't a business and it doesn't exist to make a profit.

alexismac.bsky.social•20 days ago

Deeply.

public4ph.bsky.social•20 days ago

You are right of course!

Considering that I had to validate my identity 2x in the last 2.5 years due CRA cyber breaches & considering that CRA needed to let go of 330 employees in 2024, I am going with the delusion that he means things will now run properly! 🤞

https://globalnews.ca/news/10814528/cra-cerb-investigation-firings-final-update/

kevinharlow.bsky.social•20 days ago

If there's one government agency that should be run like a corporation, it's probably Revenue Canada...right?

Health care, no...Veterans Affairs, no...military, hell no...police...fuck no...but taxation? Maybe?

angrybert.bsky.social•20 days ago

This is a very Ottawa response, but I'm having Larry O'Brien flashbacks.

joelwwood.bsky.social•20 days ago

Moving at the speed of business!

yvrdaniel.bsky.social•20 days ago

Seriously... one of those neo-liberal rhetoric I wish we can do away with. (Business = efficient, Business = good manager, or Business = good economic steward.)

reneestephen.bsky.social•20 days ago

Ugh, what is this sinking feeling?

marnanightingale.bsky.social•20 days ago

Our post-election reminder that the Liberals have zero object permanence and will need to be reminded every damn' day whose votes put them in power.

reneestephen.bsky.social•20 days ago

I'm gonna be writing SO MANY EMAILS aren't I

marnanightingale.bsky.social•20 days ago

When we inevitably have to come together and engage in the stakeholder feedback of flooding the streets of Ottawa with our bodies I have a spare room.

marnanightingale.bsky.social•20 days ago

Left to themselves the Liberals are going to treat the US as a purely economic problem and ignore all the rest, except when they use its influence on the Cons as leverage to keep us voting Liberal, which means that eventually the Cons get in and we're fucked. We need to be in the streets.

axedame.bsky.social•20 days ago

We need to keep telling LIBS that. To remind them that it's in *their* best interest to NOT to do that.

axedame.bsky.social•20 days ago

Yes! THANK YOU.

I know so many people who vote and do *nothing* else.

Those days HAVE to be over. We simply cannot afford the degree of complacency we've been living in for years.

axedame.bsky.social•20 days ago

Well, we're the ones who have to do that. Will we? I'm deeply skeptical of Canadian voters...always whining about the quality of politicians we have, but doing nothing beyond voting every couple of years.

WE have to hold our reps' feet to the fire on important issues.

marnanightingale.bsky.social•20 days ago

Talk to your friends, write your MP, and look up what it costs to rent a bus to Ottawa, LFG.

mcfab59.bsky.social•20 days ago

Canada, like the UK, USA, Japan, China, Australia, issues its own sovereign currency. As such, money is free. It doesn’t need to turn a profit and history shows us that when countries do take in more in tax than they spend - they go into recession.

Nothing will get better until we #LearnMMT

mjmilloy.bsky.social•20 days ago

Nothing correlational about it

seanadb.bsky.social•20 days ago

That person needs to be reassigned to something that cannot be run like a business.

dpoolie.bsky.social•20 days ago

Have to agree. My experience with corporations is they want to milk me of every penny I have any way they can. Legal or not.

hawksland.bsky.social•20 days ago

Governments cannot be run like business, ever.

jandrewpotter.bsky.social•20 days ago

I mean, they spent 10 years running it like an instagram account, which gave us a decade of deeply stupid government, so i'm willing to give something else a shot

jc-in-rothesay.bsky.social•20 days ago

Wayne Long is my MP..... very on brand for him. A conservative in a liberal costume

jives11.bsky.social•20 days ago

So is Carney

jc-in-rothesay.bsky.social•20 days ago

Absolutely. The LPC are just Mulroneys PCs now.

ddum316.bsky.social•20 days ago

What is wrong?😁

themeaningofliff.bsky.social•20 days ago

I can't believe how people are so deeply stupid that they don't just understand and hear "were here to make the rich richer and everybody else poorer."

After all that's the only point to corporations and businesses.

randchange.bsky.social•20 days ago

Maybe it means they will chase revenue by drastically increasing the number of audits on wealthy individuals… 🤓

kevinharlow.bsky.social•20 days ago

If you were running Revenue Canada like a business, that's kinda the logical outcome.

lillym2.bsky.social•20 days ago

I'm pretty sure that he doesn't reflect the rest of the government.

marnanightingale.bsky.social•20 days ago

What are you basing that on, and given that he has Ministerial authority over CRA, how does that help if it's true?

lucindacatchlove.bsky.social•20 days ago

Pretty sure he does. His appointment of a Minister of AI that got fired from the CBC for unethical behaviour as a journalist and belief in technological solutions indicates Carney is all sketchy business guy and less about society.

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