As much as I wish she'd be investigated for treason, I don't think there's even a snowball's chance she'd get a conviction. Instead, I hope she'd get a proper investigation on corruption. There's plenty of evidence of that already, and tons of it is hard written into the policies she's tried to put into law.
Dearche
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This guy needs to shut up and just do the electricity surcharge he threatened to do weeks ago but became too spineless to actually implement. Hell, if he does that, I'll personally go and cheer for him, despite being a Ford hater for the better part of two decades.
Put his words into actions for once and stop being such a traitorous wuss.
This is by far the most important thing to remember. Don't forget to vote. Hell, since you're reading this, you've probably already decided who you're voting for (Not PP, but for the only guy who stands a chance to beating him). Go vote early so you don't forget. Or register for mail-in votes.
And don't forget to encourage those you know to vote. Hell, go together to vote as a group. The more people vote, the more likely PP will lose, because almost all the seats he has a decent chance of winning come from the rural prairies, and they live so far apart, it's impossible for them to coordinate in person.
I wonder if there's a way for many of these auto factories to pivot towards a different product. For example, getting a license to produce parts for Leopard 2s or something. Some parts of the EU are already doing that, especially Germany.
The entire auto sector has been stagnating and parts of it has been shrinking lately, so the best way to save the jobs in the industry is for the factories to pivot to a different product within a similar industry, something the government can invest in that they themselves will know how much demand there will be, since basically all of Canada's tanks and IFVs are so out of date and unmaintained that we have to replace them all in the next decade or two anyways.
I've heard that one of the reasons airBNB was successful wasn't due to costs (outside of the initial burst) but because the sheer lack of hotels in many major cities. I do know that there is almost no hotels in downtown Toronto despite the sheer number of convention centres and tourist attractions. No way a tourist or business person is going to book a hotel on the edge of the city when everything they're doing is in the downtown area.
This is another area that the NIMBYs have been screwing over people and certain groups have been discreetly taking advantage of people.
Either way, both problems would be solved quite easily if supply was simply greater. Hotels shouldn't be blocked from being built where they're needed the most, nor should any group have the power to block housing development unless if it's actually unsafe to do so for some reason. This is why it's actually cheaper to buy a house in downtown Tokyo than it is within 100km of Toronto. And I'm talking about a detached house in Tokyo, not a condo.
Another part for really hoping that the government won't let this chance go, since the US automakers are already isolated only selling domestically built vehicles in the US, further isolating them by making them impossible to import into Canada would help crush their industries while Canada's becomes more internationally competitive by adopting EU regulations.
Hell, since EU regulations are tighter than US regulations, we'll still meet US regulations for the most part, so once the changeover is done, we can still sell over there while they can't sell over here after the tariff situation is over. A flat-out win-win for Canada and lose-lose for the US.
If the government is going to get more involved, they should build more, not force owners to fix their prices in a volatile economy.
Instead, the rent should be managed by the markets, which will be beneficial to all renters if government built supply can beat the demand. We shouldn't stop building until we reach such a point.
Honestly, EU regulations for vehicles are far safer for all involved. Adopting them in whole, even if it'll take time to implement them, would help greatly as well as opening new markets. Not to mention it'll block American cars from our market without having to rely on tariffs in the future.
This is exactly the perfect time to implement such regulations, and I hope the government will introduce laws about it once the election is over.
It's probably not an issue of balls, but that her supporters just don't pay attention. The same happened in Ontario. When reporters interviewed Ford supporters during the election, they just said "he seems to have done well enough" despite all the lawsuits and fraud and other serious issues that his opposition kept yelling about.
One theory I've been hearing lately is that he doesn't have clearance because he knows he won't pass the needed background check. While it's impossible to know if it is true, to me at least that's a more convincing reason why he keeps refusing to get clearance, especially since he was almost guaranteed to become the next PM until two months ago, and apparently sitting PMs get automatic clearance without a background check.
This is also the reason why Carney went through the entire procedure for his clearance instead of accepting the free pass, so he can use it as a sting against PP.
Dunno in oz, but a US pint is 473mL, and a British pint is 568mL. Quite the difference TBH, and a bunch of bars in Vancouver got fined a few years ago due to shorting customers not providing a full pint when selling them. Some of them were even forced to buy new glasses because they weren't big enough to fit a full pint.
This is a reoccurring problem with the imperial system, since the units just turns into words and no longer hold their meaning as measurements because they're so arbitrary in the first place and are next to impossible to convert on the fly. Like a span is the width of a hand, but that's useless when the difference in size is easily 50% to double just comparing between women and men. Or how you need to specify fluid or dry ounces, yet people often don't bother and just confuse each other by not specifying. Or how complicated conversions and comparisons are to the degree that most people don't do them in imperial and just force themselves to memorize what each arbitrary unit is in a vacuum.
Exactly. His excuses are weak and easily disproven for why he won't get clearance, so it's more looking like he has something to hide, like maybe he won't clear the required background check.
Besides, becoming a PM means you automatically get clearance without a background check (Carney didn't need to, but getting a background check was just being cheeky, and frankly fun), so trying to get the job entirely goes against his own words.