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I think this is the key thing to remember about those that commit crimes. The penalty is never in their minds when they're considering committing a crime. Either they're presuming that they'll get away scott-free, or that the alternative of not committing the crime is worse than any penalty that could come.

Find me a single person who debates if they'll get two years or five for doing something. Most criminals are completely unaware of what the penalties are in the first place. It could be life for anything worse than shoplifting, and they'll still do it because the penalty was never in their minds in the first place. This is why putting the entire burden of crime prevention on punishments don't work.

Not saying that punishments don't work, but they don't prevent serious crimes in the first place, only minor ones. Punishments only deal with criminals by preventing them from having any opportunities to commit crimes because they're in jail. It's having people be in a good enough position in life that the prospect of ANY jail time enough of a detriment to avoid committing the crime. Having too much to lose is a far better way to prevent crime than guarantee the destruction of a life when you're already destroying their life via other means.

Either way, people who commit violent crimes are never thinking about the punishment before doing so. It's only those that do minor ones like speeding that think about it. Though that said, if you get jail time for speeding, maybe people would actually stop doing 80 in a 40 school zone.

Honestly, it's only a few countries that can do much to fight things. Canada due to how critical our outputs are for them is one, though we're going to suffer a ton for the ordeal (still worth it IMO), Mexico as well for the same reasons, but the EU and China are basically it for being able to make any notable impact.

In fact, this is actually the best time for China to stand up to the US, because of their imploding economy and population (some estimates put it as low as 400million), they won't have the international power to do much in a decade, like how little influence Russia has now. Not to mention that the EU's been declining for a while now, though they feel like they might be in a resurgence since Russia kicked them in the asses before Trump started backing a dump truck of salt their way.

If this happened just a few years later, the US's relative position in the world would've been twice as strong, so we're lucky it's happening now since the rest of the world has the power to resist effectively. But thanks to Trump, all nations that have strong trade relations with the US will have no choice but to diversify in the fear of Trump doing this sort of stuff for the next four years (or more if he amends the constitution for a third term like what Putin did).

You can only feel for the little guys like the Philippines that gets their entire industries rocked by the US tidal wave when they're so poor that all they can do is beg and hope the US realizes that they're too poor to give Trump anything at all.

In my experience, most issues that feel like a minority issue at best, but overall is a general negative to the entire nation and probably not that great for the people advocating it themselves, there's a high chance of it being Russian psyops.

I mean, they've uncovered quite a bit of evidence that Brexit was exactly that even.

While this is a worrying number, it isn't significant. Last I heard, Quebec separatists numbered greater than this by a lot.

25% means nothing in practical terms, but it is enough that such ideas need to be dissuaded from spreading, and frankly the best way is to find a way to push public spending in Alberta. Federal funding towards such an initiative that can't be embezzled or cheated would be nice, though it's hard to think of something that can't be diverted considering how slimy their premier is.

Yup. Gotta love it when the guy tries to call out Carney on doing what several Conservative premiers have done over and over these last few months without being questioned by media. Hell, Smith did a meet and greet in Florida just last week, and Ford gives more interviews to Fox News than any Canadian outlets it seems.

I've been hearing some calls for California independence, but frankly it's a very recent thing as far as I know. The movement is probably weaker than the Alberta separation movement, and that thing is so weak modern Quebecan separation feels more likely.

As much as I'd like to, fully disengaging with the US, even only on trade, is simply impossible. Even if we were at a shooting war with each other, we'd probably still be trading because stopping entirely just isn't realistic. Hell, Ukraine still trades with Russia right now.

We will always trade with the US unless if one of us somehow ceases to exist. That doesn't mean that we can't diversify though. We are far too reliant on the US for trade, as that puts us at their mercy on quite a few issues. It's the entire reason why Alberta sells them oil far below world market prices, because we don't sell oil to anybody else, so the US gets to dictate prices, and they say that they won't buy unless if we give them 30% off on everything.

One guy actively stands firm against the bully, the other sticks to him like goldfish poop.

Doesn't take a genius to know which of the two will fight the bully, but apparently 24% of Canadians don't.

I think there's a Spanish one being deployed to be EU's Starlink, not to mention the ones in Japan for their domestic usage, and China and Russia making their own.

Frankly, nothing is going to stop mass deployment of satellites, and aside from meterologists and astronomers, few really have a strong argument against them. Putting up a few thousand more satellites won't make space any less accessible if you spend two seconds to realize just how huge space is. I mean, it's like saying that a thousand car parking lot is running out of space because you dumped tens of thousands of grains of sand.

Very minor feel-good pledge. Makes me wonder how much it'll actually cost the government, though I suppose it's probably very little.

Makes a great sound byte, though I wonder how many people will actually take up their offer. I think if they add some tourism features like more busses and tour guides, along with some nature-related activities, we could get some serious traffic to these parks. Though admittedly I'd then worry about the negative impacts so many people would have towards these parks.

Unfortunately this isn't illegal on any counts. It's slimy and corrupt behaviour, but it's not illegal, so there's no point in even trying to investigate.

That said, this is an election, so making people more aware of behaviour like this is far better than making the authorities spend their time on a red herring.

PP is already scared of the media and people talking about the Conservatives. That's why he's the only candidate that doesn't allow the media onto his plane, know his plans beforehand, nor even answer their questions (As of a few days ago, Carney answered over 100 media questions after his speeches, while PP barely answered 20).

Make PP's power base know that this is the sort of stuff that their candidate is doing, and make them ask themselves, is this really in their best interest? Only through self reflection will the hardcore Conservative voters actually think about voting to their interests rather than instinctively voting Cons because that's the way things go.

To be honest, quite a few people've been saying this for the last half century or so, even including a few prime ministers. But saying that they were right all along ignores all the benefits we've been getting this entire time by integrating our economy with the US's. We don't know what sort of position we would've been in if we avoided NAFTA and other trade agreements with the US.

Maybe the same thing would've happened anyways, just that we'd be in an even weaker position due to a lack of economic growth. Or maybe we would've had tighter relations with the EU instead, making Trump a minor bump rather than a national crisis.

But we can't know, because we don't know that timeline. It might've been better, but it also might've been worse, and dwelling on it is useless pandering. We need to reorient our current economy to minimize damages and diversify as fast as possible. And only once we're through this crisis, we can look back and figure out what lessons can be learned from this whole ordeal, not wish that things went a different way.