If they want to keep him, someone who won a safe, rural western riding will suddenly step down, forcing a by-election. That’s the usual path back into parliament that we’ve seen in past elections. If that doesn’t happen immediately, it will be telling for his leadership prospects.

Unless the knives come out for him as leader, a newly elected MP in a nice, safe western riding will likely step down and trigger a by-election for PP to carpetbag his way in. It still isn’t official yet, but is still looking very much like a bunch of federal public servants in his riding didn’t trust him not to sack them.

Unless you replied to a Flintstone. Then he is correct.

Provinces actually cap what a doctor can charge the system. Family doctors basically have to run a business and bill the insurance plan of their province, and there are limits to how much they can charge per year. This keeps salaries lower than in the private sector, which can charge some provinces much more for the same services. It is a big part of the drive for doctors to go private. Many doctors are also expected to do walk-in clinic and ER hours, or to supervise new doctors in their province as well, but I don’t know if that applies to the private ones. I hear that the waning supply of public doctors makes it harder to train new doctors in their residency years. Canada has been aggressively growing its population through immigration for the last decade, but hasn’t addressed the doctor supply problem, so this is reaching a breaking point for the health care system. Ideally they would be attracting doctors and nurses to come to Canada as part of that immigration, which they try to do, but then they want them to take equivalencies which often amount to going through med school all over again. Without having the people to train them. And to have them pay for it while starting out in a new country with a high cost of living. So the system keeps salaries low and supply low, and they set up rules to trap doctors in their province so they can’t escape it.

It sounds like both doctors and dentists licenses in Canada are restricted at the provincial level. So they could move, but would have to recertify in another province. I know for some of the dental schools, you can graduate and go through the licensing process in any province, but for others, you can only practice dentistry in the province of the school you graduated from. That prevents out of province kids from going to Manitoba for one of a handful of placements and then immediately going back after graduating. Medical is probably similar. It sounds like there are a lot of high barriers in place to keep their investments secure, but those also prevent us from recognizing the qualifications of immigrants. Sadly, I hear a lot of complaints about that from taxi drivers.

Makes sense if you run it once per year and use the results to determine the admissions list. This assumes your goal is to maximize the number of doctors trained each year given a limited number of slots available. If you can take it whenever you want and it is just another hurdle to get into med school, then I’m not sure what value your score relative to your cohort is. Maybe it assumes all classes should have equally capable applicants, and since the content of a test would necessarily change to prevent cheating, they can’t guarantee that all tests will be of equal difficulty. So to even that out, they just take the top performers from each cohort.

Hey now! I believe the preferred term is reality challenged.

Every populist comes into power talking about how they are going to end the government gravy train, and every one of them discovers two things: first, you aren’t going to find the minimal levels of waste from the thousand foot view at the top, and two, there is no waste when the money is spent and taxed in the country. If we want to fund new initiatives, we need more taxes on those who can afford it. Our highest personal tax rate was at a low of 70% until 1982, and was an anemic 28% by 1988. Want to make Canada great again? Time to take a page from tax history.

Yeah, unfortunately we’re investing tens of billions into EV manufacturing. Another major investment from Siemens was announced just this morning. If we drop those very justified tariffs, we won’t have an EV industry in Canada anymore. As long as the Chinese government is heavily subsidizing BYD research and production, tariffs are appropriate to balance the playing field. Otherwise our nacent industry will get smothered in the crib.

Or they know the state of the current airframes, and know we’ve already waffled on this to the point that any further changes are going to cause a delay that would result in a loss in operational capability, potentially for years. As much as I’d like to see us drop the F-35 on general principal, there is no magical fighter jet dealership where we can go pick something else up in any reasonable timeframe. We could accept the first batch and try cancelling the rest, to be replaced at some future date with something else, but for a small airforce like the RCAF, that presents operational challenges as well. I’d say renegotiate the deal. Get more jobs and a skilled workforce out of it. Lockheed is already offering, given the global drop in demand for their products. But for future purchases, we’re either going to have to make our own or buy European.

I can see the difference in my pantry versus what is on the grocery store shelves today. Tins that used to proudly state Product of USA Imported by some company in Mississauga ON, now only mentions the importer and hides the country of origin. Evidently many American companies are ashamed to be associated with their own country.

He was popular enough to be their mayor until he decided not to run for a fourth term, and Calgary has generally not been adverse to voting NDP before, so I’d say its Nenshi’s race to lose.

Better dead than spread.

Gotta stop them poachers, I reckon.

Aylmer is a Canadian company that used to make really good ketchup. I’d buy it whenever I found it, but nobody stocked it regularly. Looks like they no longer make it, but this might be a great time for them to start up again.

Pretty sure we couldn’t buy enough of anything to make a difference against the US in even the long term. Except nukes. Those are the only feasible deterrents we could use.