@strauss_matt Turns out the current govt also isn’t very convinced that they are the “new govt”.
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Jackson Blue
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Jackson Blue
@JacksonBluSky
🇨🇦 Software Engineer, loves ranting. Whines as much as my cat.
British Columbia, Canada Katılım Kasım 2023
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What is even the point of Parliament?
At Health Committee, we asked to see the PrescribeIT contracts, in which the Liberals blew $250 million on NOTHING.
But Mark Carney’s Chief Filibuster Officer spent 2 hours talking to prevent us from seeing it.
I asked why at Question Period, but the Chief Filibuster Officer took the question and…. Filibustered.
That’s why I went to ask again tonight in the House:
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Retarded take. For starter there are plenty of low-cost / freemium with ads streaming options that you don’t want to watch. You want exclusive shows but didn’t want to pay the exclusive price.
To your logic why Costco isn’t raising their clothing price to Chanel-level? Why the greedy capitalists are leaving money on the table?
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This is why streaming services have famously reduced their prices, not added stream quality tiers below HD and not added ads. The free market makes sure that if they all raise their prices a new streaming service will enter an-…
Wait. [checks notes]
No… no no no no, noooooo
Tushar@Tusharufo2
In a free market, I can’t sell bread at 100× the normal price. Competitors will undercut me, and even if I buy them out, new ones will keep entering. That cycle never ends. Predatory pricing fails because the moment I raise prices, customers leave. Cartels fail because members cheat and new entrants break in. The only reliable way to maintain a monopoly is through the state. By trading favors with politicians, I can use government power to block competitors under the guise of regulation, public safety, or national interest. In reality, those rules exist to protect cronies like me. This can only happen publicly when the government passes regulations, because regulations are the public face of cronyism. Thus contrary to what dumb socialists think, solution is to protest and ask removal of regulations not billionaires and capitalism itself.
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@gregbradyx @BenMulroney To be fair we burnt $5B on just fixing payroll.
Consider we are lucky this time given the track record.
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Please find 7 minutes. This is far from political gamesmanship, which does happen. This is a doctor & a representative of the public asking very focused & fair questions - maddeningly frustrating. I appreciate his efforts.
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@Prominent_Bryan Make everyone bike to downtown from other cities every morning. 😂
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Yes we should switch roads to bike lanes and sidewalks, it's going to be so much more efficient lol
big_pedestrian@big_pedestrian
Automobiles are an extremely stupid, inefficient and unpleasant way to move people in a city.
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JohnnyFSE@JohnnyFSE
I built CourtWatch.us — a free public database for American citizens who deserve safer communities. You can track which judges released defendants who then got rearrested, skipped court, or violated their release conditions. All public records. All free. I started with Orange County FL and will be expanding to all 67 Florida counties and eventually every state in the country. This first batch of info is from 2024 and since public reports are released in March/April for the previous year, data is behind. But I wanted to see if this is plausible. After adding 2024,I'll add 2025 and then figure out how to get real-time-data uploaded. It's in beta — would love to know what you think 👇 Numbers don't lie, but criminals do. courtwatch.us @bennyjohnson @jockowillink @GrantCardone @LauraLoomer @nickshirleyy @j_fishback
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There’s a real conversation to be had, in how Canada can stop subsidizing California’s education and _incentivize_ people to stay. Some visa changes would also be a good idea.
Punitive taxes aren’t a good idea, and Patrick Pichette is the wrong person to make this argument.
melody@melkuo
YOU HEARD IT FROM MELKUO FIRST
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@ryangerritsen I think a lot of problems in this country is because of these people, who don’t need to rely on the social services here, who don’t need to work in the private sector here, want to tell those who do what’s the best for them.
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While onstage at the Liberal Convention ex google senior VP Patrick Pichette outright lies about the U.S. & H1b visas. They are still available & yes they can bring their family. He also points to the immigration Minister & says whatever amount of people you think you should bring in, you need to TRIPLE IT. The Immigration Minister says “there’s a lot in my head”
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@priorconfirmed I would actually support a form of loan instead of subsidies.
If they stay long enough in Canada they don’t have to repay the loan, otherwise they pay the full tuition fee, which is fair.
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The responses to this are either ignorance or bad faith.
"Is the net return to subsidizing education positive?" is a good question to ask.
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melody@melkuo
YOU HEARD IT FROM MELKUO FIRST
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@RomanFisher__ It’s about leaderships and principles. If the PM spent this amount of money do you think anyone else would be mindful of their spendings?
$524k per year is insane. Even if he flew 365 days a year that’s still 1.4k per day.
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I couldn’t care less about this tbh. We have real issues to deal with and we’re getting distracted by catering? Lots to criticize without getting into the small ball issues.
TrendingPolitics.ca@TrendPolCa
PM @MarkJCarney billed taxpayers $524K on in-flight catering in his first year, 11x more than fuel on one Ottawa-DC flight, as critics slam extravagance amid cost-of-living crunch — Toronto Sun
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@KirkLubimov Based Canadian boomers.
Beat the shit out of young people until morale improves. 😂
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Liberal boomers just love destroying the opportunities for future generations and pulling up the ladder behind themselves.
This guy, Patrick Pichette, who built his career working for American companies, thinks young talented Canadians should not be able to go work for American companies without paying a penalty;
"Make them pay if they leave."
How about Canada actually competes for talent and develop companies instead of think on how to geographically imprison talent?
This from the Liberal Party convention.
Oh, and he doesn't live in Canada himself anymore.
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Imagine holding young people hostage in their country — unless they pay $500,000 to leave.
Mark Carney’s Liberals are applauding this idea.
You likely won’t have to imagine much longer… x.com/AntonioTweets2…
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@jkenney @kinsellawarren This consistent with our support to Hamas lmao. wtf is going with this country seriously.
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Canada voted for Islamic Republic of Iran.
The theocracy that just murdered ~30,000 of its own people for demanding democracy, and that is executing young democracy activists every day.
This is a complete perversion of the values that Canada claims to represent on the world stage.
For shame.
UN Watch@UNWatch
SHAME: The Islamic Republic of Iran has just been nominated to the U.N. Committee for Program and Coordination, which meets soon to shape policy on women's rights, human rights, disarmament, and terrorism prevention. ECOSOC members who backed this include: 🇬🇧🇪🇸🇨🇦🇫🇷🇩🇪🇳🇴🇳🇱🇦🇺🇨🇭🇦🇹🇫🇮
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@junonewscom The rate this evolves is truly crazy. The last time that I was aware of the acronym it was 2SLGBTQ+. But that’s really not that long ago.
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NDP MP Leah Gazan condemns Budget 2026 for cutting $7B from Indigenous Services Canada and Crown Indigenous relations.
"They provided $0 to deal with the ongoing genocide of MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+," she said.
"Rates of violence are increasing, and the PM is turning a blind eye."
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@BagelPolling @purrlitics While I do like the idea of allowing diverse opinions in a political party, this is obviously more about personal opportunism.
It would be super cool if she keeps her voice though.
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At this point you have to start making the calculation if taking over the LPC is a more efficient way to change the country for the better than hoping the OLO smartens up on policy and messaging.
Marilyn Gladu@MarilynGladuSL
Proud to be the newest member of our new Liberal Government.
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@jonkay Start more private transitioning centers, profit off the foreign libtards to fund our collapsing public healthcare please.
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It increasingly looks like Canada will be (literally) the last place on the planet where parents who think their kid was “born in the wrong body” can come to get the child sterilized, drugged, & surgically disfigured to conform to their cultish beliefs
nationalpost.com/opinion/canada…
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High tax rate on cars is obviously to manage the density. (I guess you have no idea how large Singapore is.)
Your points are actually good examples of using tax as incentives/disincentives rather than just “put more money in your pocket by adding a tax and then further put more money in your pocket by removing it”.
Btw as a thought experiment, try imagine how Canada could achieve 80% govt housing given our income tax and corporate tax are both higher than Singapore (you wouldn’t think that 300% car & 65% second home tax are the major tax revenue source of Singapore right?)
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Pierre Poilievre said Singapore is an example of a successful economy with low taxes. 😂😂😂😂
Singapore Taxes:
65% taxes on a second home.
Tax rate on a car is 300%
80% of Singapore people live in government housing.
Oh yeah they has Industrial Carbon Tax...$40 CAD.
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@Jason___YYC Soooo are the govt, who are definitely not funded by big grocers, going to do something about this? 🥱
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Canada has the highest grocery profit margins in the world
All of them fund hacks like Larry and the CPC
Larry Brock@LarryBrockMP
Canada has the worst grocery inflation of all G7 countries under the Carney Liberals. After 11 years of Liberal government, are you better off?
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@mehdirhasan @Kasparov63 That’s lots of words to say let dictatorship continue their terror.
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You can go all ad hominem Garry, and I know you supported the disastrous Iraq war too, but the fact that a country is a dictatorship doesn’t give a foreign nation a right to attack it. It’s not legal or legitimate for Putin to attack Ukraine or for Trump to attack Iran. Weird to see you defending Trump on of all days today. You’re warmongering has gotten the better of you.
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That’s a lot of words Garry to avoid agreeing with the undeniable fact that I stated: in both cases, Ukraine and Iran are the ones that were attacked in violation of the UN charter. That’s a fact.
Garry Kasparov@Kasparov63
Zelenskyy's credibility comes from moral leadership of democracy against dictatorship, not a mythical international rule of law that has turned into a one-way street exploited by authoritarians like Russia and the Islamic Republic and their terrorist catspaws like Hamas.
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@DrDiGiorgio The lucky 10 gets the appointments, the other 40 wait.
If some of them die while waiting, that’s good news to the other waiting survivors.
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If there are 50 people who want to see the neurosurgeon but he only has 10 appointments available, how does one guarantee that right to healthcare?
European Commission@EU_Commission
Healthcare is a basic right. Not a privilege. Not a luxury. This World Health Day, we stand for access, protection, and care for all.
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