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Formerly a đ¨đŚpolitical staffer. Currently finding something new.
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He did everything he could to ignore the problem as it was raging, as did the BC government I worked for at the time. None of them are blameless and putting him in that portfolio is an insult.
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The only way I can think to do it is through a government agency who reviews film and decides what % of it is âforeignâ and then charges a tax or levy on the company based on that %?
Itâs an absurd idea, but the best I can come up with as a former policy advisor.
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My guess is he gets a senior advisor position in Pierreâs office. Get a salary, no responsibilities, get to hang out in parliament anyway.
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The ABNDP needs to identify things like this that need to be reversed and put forward a living, draft, piece of legislation that will be the first to be introduced when you win.
This, coal mines, local elections, show people what you will do day 1.
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People listening to podcasts like yours likely already know the news. They want your take and to hear you talk to your guests. đ
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Political parties have trained those people for decades that the only political act required of citizens is voting every couple years and sometimes donating, thatâs it.
The largest political actors in the system prefer a populace who is not engaged deeply.
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His true believers are in a cult. That is the best way to view them.
The others ignored much of what he was say in because the alternative was to have to reflect on the broad political reality, which a great many people kinda do not want to do.
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With EMay as speaker. Or more likely a Bloc speaker.
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If we go to another election soon, I suspect that very topic may be popular in many ridings.
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Obviously "working-class" has two uses. The colloquial American one that you support. As well as the use inside Marxist and other economic theory.
I don't understand why everyone is being so weird about this. They are referring to different things for different reasons.
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Their base camp where Pat King lived was outside my front door. I couldnât leave my house for a week as Nazis swore in fake deputies.
I am still grappling with the trauma from that time.
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Jenniâs gambit was if I just rile up the CPC hardcores, we can get to 38-39% and win. They did that part.
The part they totally ignored was that doing so would scare the shit out of the NDP and make tons of them vote Liberal.
If the CPC lose on Monday, they will be consumed by knifing each other
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I was once in a meeting with a big Canadian bank. An MP asked why they donât invest in small business more like US banks do.
The executive looked incredulous and said essentially: why would we? Mortgages make us so much money.
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Provinces may require company vehicles be licensed and insured within that province to work there. That is a huge expensive lift for an SME in a bordering province to do just to take up work across the border.
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I am suspicious of his claims, but the biggest economic benefit is from removing disparate rules. If an SME in construction in Alberta wants to do work in BC they have to redo a ton of the business operations they already do in Alberta. Provincial rules require tons of paperwork and expense.
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Oh ya it is real. The worst nightmare is you announce a policy way ahead that is so good, public sentiment makes everyone steal it. Then you have nothing, as the public wonât usually give you credit.
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Or this? Itâs the day after and rights are already being taken away. The ruling is as bad as people are saying.
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What was that?
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Former campaign manager and staffer here: the belief among parties is releasing a platform before the end of a campaign is bad. That you have to wait until the last minute to try to get as much media coverage of each policy. Also donât give your opponent ideas to steal.
I disagree with that belief.
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We never get positive coverage. And this case has led to some headlines that finally speak to the scope of the attacks on us.
It feels bad when small l liberals like yourself seem to defend the ruling and umm actually the coverage.
We feel like we have no allies
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I believe the court has decided to not read a large and liberal interpretation of minority protections into the law, as is typical. They did this in order to explicitly remove protections of trans people because they donât agree trans people are valid.
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And the court should always interpret rulings on civil rights with the largest and broadest scope possible. In my opinion anyway.
And saying a law should be passed on this is correct, if meaningless. The current UK govt is making trans lives worse, not better.
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Lesbian groups being required to not discriminate against trans women results in "a loss of autonomy and dignity to lesbians"
That would never be allowed for a black lesbian, nor should it. The court explicitly endorsed a view that trans women are not women but instead a different thing.
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In the case of the lesbian club posited in the ruling the court says that there cannot be discrimination between people who are lesbians but that disallowing trans women who are lesbians is ok. That they must allow discrimination. Just that part states the court sees me as less of a woman.
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Im sorry professor but you are incorrect. The ruling states that definitions of gender at birth are âself explanatoryâ. They refused to even engage with modern science.
Trans women are women. Like literally exactly women. This ruling says actually no they are not âbiological women.â Which is false.
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Because a lot of these people believe in live and let live, but they don't actually accept that people like me are the gender we say we are. They are very happy to, in their eyes, humour us to make us feel better. But when it comes to actual equality, that seems a bridge too far.
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Because Canada has low property taxes that donât pay for things. But Canadian think they have high property taxes that should pay for everything.
Politicians are responding to how Canadians think, not how things are.
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What would you advise political parties to do to address public concerns about ease of access to bail? Is there nothing that can be done?
The public concern is widespread.
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We seriously cannot diminish the amount that many of these people have become increasingly radicalized in recent years. I am noticing with situations here in Alberta that people's politics have seriously changed. People are different. It isn't just mask off.
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He didn't though. The 10% tariff on everyone is still in place.
I don't understand why some media reporting that fact and others saying all tariffs (but China) are paused.
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Honestly, I think a lot of people in finance and media are reading into what he said what they want to be true and acting on it.
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Even CBC headlines are implying its a total pause not down to 10%
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CBC headline implies total pause not a 10% for everyone.
I think this is being reported very badly.
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My read is that a lot of international news is reporting no tariffs in the pause. Saw the Guardian post that.
I think people are reading into his post different things and different social networks are experiencing this differently.
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You said âI canât see my generation wanting to head into condosâ. You said itâs ânot healthyâ.
I was quoting you.
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Please understand that you and your friends are not your entire generation. Many people want different things, and many people like busy cities with a lot to do.
Saying the way billions of humans have lived and thrived is ânot healthyâ is wild.
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We need to start making these changes. We cannot keep pretending these things can go back to the old way if we keep hoping. People in those border towns that straddle the line ned support right now too.
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Yep. For a long time the extremism was somewhat tampered by long term political strategists and attitudes from the old days. Now Pierre and Jenni are driving the bus and it is scary.
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Yep. I used to work for Erin OâToole. He tried to remove the rot and the rot won.