In theory wealth inequality can be getting worse as GDP per capita gets better, for sure.
But conversely, if wealth inequality is getting better while the GDP per capita is going down, most people will still be worse off which definitely isn't good.
Try millennia-old war, the last 50-60 years is only the most recent flare-up
Lol, "most documented genocide" where the civilian:combatant death ratio is on the low end compared to other wars and the population supposedly being genocided for the last 50-60 years has more than doubled.
Per capita GDP is far better than what the government is using, which is total GDP that is technically slowly rising but not faster than our population growth rate.
CPI doesn't give near a good picture as per capita GDP does. CPI increases can be at or below target levels but if per capita GDP growth is negative it's still very bad. Having good per capita GDP data and bad CPI data and way, way less common, I'm even actually sure it's ever happened in modern times.
If per-capita gross domestic product does not recover in 2024, the decline since mid-2019 may be the longest in the last four decades
That seems like an odd take. Literally any tax or incentivization would be "punishing" those who can't/don't use it.
Exactly. Treat people equally
Still not a big fan of this system as it effectively punishes stay-at-home parents.
If the federal government wants to fund childcare just increase the CCB from ages 0 - 4 and let parents decide what childcare works best for them.
So we're expexted to provide fully for any Tom, Dick or Harry that shows up?
For some time now, the common thread between targeted murders, deaths or injuries of bystanders, communal mourning and even robberies, has been the choice of weapon: handguns.
My wife and I are providing for my MIL (aka she is living with us and not working) and she has barely cracked 60.
She does provide some childcare for us, but man is she lazy as shit while doing so... Just throws on TV and screws around on her phone. Somehow my wife can't even work full time despite the fact that her mother is home almost all the time, that's how bad it is.
None of the grocery stores or drug stores in my town are associated with Loblaws and the one grocery store on my way home from work is Costco, so I already don't shop at Loblaws 99%+ of the time.
However if I'm out and about I'm not going out of my way to avoid it.
Considering that we have protesters literally calling for genocide ("from the river to the sea") which way above and beyond what happened with the truckers... Yes, the government is playing favourites.
A lot of tough talk considering that the Liberals and their NDP enablers have also been hard at work accruing power and avoiding accountability:
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"Independent" senators (go look at the ISG's voting record)
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Massive backlog in appointing judges (legal system is a major part of government accountability)
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Dumping MPs who step out of line for the public good (JWR)
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Bills such as C-10 and C-36 (killed by the 2021 election), C-11 and C-63 that lay the groundwork for heavyhanded media control
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Violating / attempting to violate provincial autonomy (yes many of the provinces are doing a shit job but that's not a good excuse)
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The May 1 2020 OIC and C-21 (pretty common theme among countries that turn into dictatorships)
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Massively contributing to conditions conducive to crime in order to justify authoritarian legislation
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Being far more lenient on those with similar ideologies (ex. it's understandable that churches are burned down, all the pro-Hamas protests) and more heavy handed on ideologies they oppose (ex. truckers)
It seems like a poor policy to just trust that other people are dropping the guns off in a safe condition.
Guns shipped from retailer/manufacturers have a smaller risk of being improperly stored or loaded when shipped.
These concerns don't track with literal decades of experiences with individuals shipping firearms to each other and for factory warranty.
There is still a risk of a Canada Post employee realizing these boxes contain restricted firearms and arranging them to be stolen/stealing them themselves.
This is a much, much bigger concern. Canada Posts chain of custody is not the greatest on good days with mundane mail.
The article makes it sound like the guns will be dropped off by owners already packaged, it would be no different than guns that are already shipped through Canada Post. I think the danger is that post offices and vans will become gun loot piñatas for anyone that wants to give it a shot during the time frame that the confiscation takes place (unless the government spreads it put over many months, ex. people with PAL # ending in 1 go for three months, then people with PAL # ending in 2 go for three months, etc)
I don't think the issue is whether the guns are safe to ship or not, Canada Post figured out how to safely ship guns from both retailers and individuals years ago.
And the way I read this, it doesn't sound like the issue of conflict is from licensed owners either because it sounds like we'll be expected to simply drop off boxes with guns in them so those that don't want to participate simply won't show up to the post office (aka avoid the conflict all together).
If I'm wrong and the government actually expects Canada Post carriers to go door to door bringing people boxes and say "pack up your guns right now and bring the box back out to me" that's an entirely different story and way, way outside of Canada Post's regular duties. They definitely aren't equipped or trained for that sort of thing; that's the type of thing you'd expect police to do.
I think the fear of conflict is because everyone and their grandma will know when there are tons guns flooding into post offices all at once and both post offices and carrier trucks will become prime targets for criminals. The locations and vehicles aren't designed to resist that type of intrusion and the staff aren't trained or equip to deal with it (I'm sure there are a few locations/vehicle that are but not only is it a very large, spread out volume to begin with, it's not hard to find info from industry groups claiming that the Liberal estimate for the number of affected guns is quite low).
Crown corporation says it's concerned about the risk of conflict between staff and gun owners
Based on past experience with various Canadian gun control schemes and schemes abroad on other Commonwealth countries, you can't say with certainty that most people, nevermind a commanding majority, will comply.
I don't know, they seen pretty effective at getting supremely dumb shit passed with the help of the other parties except for the governing party who simply wants their own version of the supremely dumb shit (S-210 and C-63)
It's pretty damn informative, that's why I encourage people who are interested in Arch to do it once.
I agree that if you are doing it several times it's a waste to do manually all the time.
Because it is literally the job of the Canadian Government to do what is best for Canadians.
"Canadian Government" refers to the executive (ministers and Cabinet) and the federal civil service. By definition, no party other than the Liberals is the government until the Liberals decide to add non-Liberal MPs as ministers or cabinet members. This is further supported by titles used, such as "His Majesty's Government" and "His Majesty's Loyal Opposition" in the House of Commons or "the representative of the Government" in the Senate (who is responsible for introducing and representing Government bills in the Senate after the pass the HoC).
This is how the Parliamentary system we inherited from the British works. Perhaps you are confusing our system for a republic (like the US) where all elected members collectively form the government.
Anyone paying attention will know that the NDP is working to help Canadians
That's not evident given the current decline of the country during the time period over which the Liberals have required NDP support.
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)
David Vigneault says he’s been warning Liberal government for years that Canada has been and ill-equipped to combat foreign interference.
"The way the regulation was drafted ... it'll cause issues for the buyback down the road," the president of one gun association says.
The RCMP report authors warn that whatever Canada’s current situation, it "will probably deteriorate further in the next five years."
Reading things like this makes it make sense as to why the government is putting big efforts into reducing legal gun ownership (and the type of guns targeted, ex. 50 cal rifles) instead of going after criminals and makes sense of things like the Online Harms Bill... The elites are trying to prevent a repeat of 1789 France or 1917 Russia.
Kamar Cunningham of Toronto was arrested as part of Project Patton in June 2018 for his involvement in an organization that trafficked guns over the U.S. border, police said.
Anthony Housefather among three Liberals who voted against the final motion which called for progress towards a two-state solution
Get past the paywall:
Quebec Liberal MP Anthony Housefather said Tuesday he is “reflecting” on his future in the Liberal party after a heavily amended NDP motion on Palestinian statehood passed in the House of Commons on Monday.
“I think it’s the first time in my parliamentary career that I’ve had a reflection like this,” a sombre Housefather said Tuesday as he arrived on Parliament Hill.
Housefather was among three Liberals who voted against the final motion, which passed Monday night with a vote of 204 to 117 after extended negotiations between the Liberals and the NDP.
The original version, put forward by NDP MP Heather McPherson, called for Canada to “officially recognize the state of Palestine.” The amended motion adjusted that to recognize Palestinian statehood as part of a two-state solution within a peace process in the Middle East.
It also added language calling for Hamas to lay down its arms, identified it as a listed terrorist organization in Canada and replaced language calling for Ottawa to “suspend all” military goods and technology trade with Israel with a paragraph calling for Canada to stop approving the transfer of “arms exports” to Israel.
The final version was very close to Canada’s existing Middle East policy.
Housefather, along with most major Canadian Jewish organizations, decried the original motion as one-sided, saying it rewarded Hamas for its Oct. 7 terrorist attack in Israel.
He said the amended version was better but still not one he could support.
Housefather added he doesn’t think his colleagues fully appreciate what Jews around the world are facing amid a “strong wave of antisemitism,” or realize that Israel, the only Jewish state, is the last refuge for Jews “when they’re exiled or thrown out of countries.”
“I didn’t feel like some members of Parliament, or a lot of members of Parliament, understood the existential threat that Israel faces and the fears of Jewish Canadians as a result of what’s happening domestically, what’s happening abroad,” he said.
The Liberals could have chosen to vote against the flawed NDP motion, he said – but “we did not do that.”
“And then we give a standing ovation to the NDP member who sponsored the original motion, and I have to reflect now,” he said.
Housefather added he will have more to say soon.
The other two Liberals who voted against the motion were former public safety minister Marco Mendicino and Manitoba MP Ben Carr.
Both said Tuesday they are not looking to leave the Liberal party even though they could not support the motion.
Mendicino said he did not agree with making more than a dozen “substantive” amendments to a motion at the 11th hour without proper time to reflect and debate.
“Canada must play a constructive role in the Middle East but our foreign policy should not be negotiated on the back of an NDP motion,” he said.
The original NDP motion called for “the unilateral recognition” of the state of Palestine “absent a peace process, which would have been inconsistent with Canada’s well established support for a two-state solution,” he said.
The original motion did call for Canada to work toward a two-state solution, but not alongside its demand that Ottawa recognize the state of Palestine. The final version of the motion bridged the two together.
Last week, Carr said he wouldn’t support the motion because it contained many elements he could not back, including that unilateral recognition.
Carr said you cannot have peace as long as Hamas remains in charge of governing the Gaza Strip, as it has since 2007.
He added many of the amendments reflected his concerns, but there was not enough time to think them through and decide whether to change his vote.
Liberal House Leader Steven MacKinnon said the amendments came after lengthy negotiations on a “complex, delicate and emotional” topic.
He did not apologize for the fact they were introduced so late in the process.
“It took the time it took,” he said.
“I am very proud that almost two-thirds of the Parliament of Canada was able to back something of that level of complexity, and I think that Canadians should be very proud that there was a uniquely Canadian position taken yesterday by their Parliament.”
He said the Liberals are reaching out to Housefather.
“He’s a colleague that I have enormous respect for and who has been an incredible spokesperson for his community, and we’re going to continue talking with Anthony,” said MacKinnon.
Industry Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne said the Liberals need a voice like Housefather’s in the caucus.
“I have enormous respect for him and the community he represents and I think we all benefit from having people like Anthony among our caucus, so I certainly wish that he would stay with us,” said Champagne.
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... and the government gets to decide what's harmful. There's no possible way this will be abused.