They’re just as involved in the Arctic as Russia is, not to mention a lot of their illegal fishing in our waters. They’ve been just as involved in trying to put people in positions of power in our government, and have had their own CCP police stations where people can report on dissenters of the CCP on Canadian land.

This thread is so focused in other comments about how “America is just as bad if not worse of a problem for Canada!” And that alone makes me wonder how much Chinese propaganda is showing up on Canadian social media channels, even newer ones like Lemmy. The fact of the matter is that there can be multiple threats, and ignoring China just because the US is being a big, loud, scary threat right now is not what I want the leader of my country to be focused on. Carney has been doing well to bring up the problem of the US wanting our minerals, while also pointing out other adversarial problems focused around trying to open up shipping lanes through the Arctic in our land.

I agree, we have that problem in more ways than one.

then they vote left for unfunded spending

Explain how the Doug Ford victory falls under this with his $400M spent on rushing the beer in grocery stores policy instead of waiting 6 months and getting it for free, or the proposed $800B highway tunnel under the 417 (which would likely be over 1T). I suppose I just don’t see the left being the party of unfunded spending, because I don’t think he’s going to make the profits from this just by selling Ontario Place.

Maybe I’m missing something, but he ripped up a contract that was just recently signed. This seems to be related to existing contracts that are separate from the 100m contract.

It’s tough to balance the worth for me on this one. Should we expect these communities to have to rely on internet when they are clearly so broken off, or should we be providing these services as infrastructure as a country through installation of cables to connect them (which would likely admittedly be tough with the distances through bushes).

I’d argue the best option is to continue funding this service separately, just to keep the users up north online for their court visits, while working on establishing our own service. I’d prefer if we didn’t have to litter the skies with satellites for our solution as well, I don’t like the amount of space junk above us currently.

At which point that would require funding from our government, and it looks like regardless of who gets in, we’re going into austerity measures, so I won’t be holding breath that our R&D goes into this service.

Tough one and unfortunately it looks like the north is going to be underserved. Which, also unfortunately, with the number of voters/people up there, is likely to continue as I doubt this will be a focus on people’s voting decisions. Especially not 4 years from now when we have another provincial election.

The way I understand CSIS is it’s more focused on tracking online actions, akin to chats plotting terrorism. I dont think they focus on actual bodies in other countries or tracking other country activities.

“We need people to have the threat of death to work” isn’t the offer you think it is you fuck.

Absolutely a fair question, and to answer, I have a number of friends that I skate with who represent many swaths of the community. We get along great and enjoy each others company, but at the same time, most are also younger than me, mostly younger to mid 20s, so I’m aware that how engaged we are is different.

These youths are engaged heavily, being involved in the Palestine protests, and very vocal about the war since it began. I’ll admit I’ve known about the settler issue in Palestine for the better part of a decade now, so I did find it upsetting that at the beginning it felt like there were a number of people “jumping on the bandwagon” of protesting, but after a little introspection I remembered that I was young and didn’t know about these things, and it had to be taught to me too.

A few of my older friends who identify as gay though also had a similar hesitation of getting involved in the protests. I think there’s a subset who have been harassed by the religions communities (and I don’t just mean palestinian religions, Christian and others as well) and would prefer that the pride parade stays a reminder of what they fought for in the generations before, and have overcome to have a much more free society for them today. Liberation does mean liberation for all, just that some people don’t feel like that group wants them to be liberated. I think the difference in age gap is what has interested me about this difference (is dichotomy the right word?

All of this to say, I just didn’t attend. I was happy that the people attending felt seen or heard, and I went on with my day. It’s a reminder that while I had an opinion and didn’t agree how things were handled, it’s not the end of the world and doesn’t really affect me that much.

It likely won’t be the best received, but I wasn’t a fan of the Ottawa Pride group making this decision last year to allow the pride parade to become a Palestine protest as well.

The largest reason for me is that here in Ottawa, we have had Palestinian protests each week through the summer. There was no shortage of Saturdays where Elgin and other areas were shut down for the protests to move through town. All of this I have no problem with, and it’s part of living in the nations capital.

The problem I had with it was including the movement in the pride parade because I’m uncomfortable with a pro-palestinian message from the LGBTQ+ community because it just doesn’t exist over there. There’s a positive vibe during the pride parades about what the community has worked through and what it continues to work through, and I’m sorry but I still think too much about what some religions want to do to these groups, so mixing the messages doesn’t sit well to me.

This inclusion of the Palestine protest in the pride parade ended up with it losing a lot of funding, and supporters as well who didn’t want to get involved in the Palestinian protests, whether they supported them or not. For some of them pride is a celebration and seeing it turned into something else didn’t sit well.

Just a local opinion and the vibe that I sensed from the less-online community (read:older). It’s really not something that ended my support of anything, just something that I felt tried too hard to be inclusive.

If I had to guess for NFLD, it’s likely it’s distance from everything. Costs to ship foods, plus I don’t know what sort of ability there is to grow their own food there, isn’t most of the province just rock? Maybe someone from there would know that better but otherwise I think just fuel and shipping costs are enough.

Doesn’t help that they haven’t stood with labour groups enough that the Conservative party has had chances the past couple years to become “the labour party” with Unifor getting behind them recently. It was already sort of going that way with people in the trades generally leaning right on a lot of newer issues that are becoming the focus of the NDP.

There’s not enough with these specific credentials. We could also hire these people to teach our next generation of scientists. These are highly skilled people and should be sought after the same way sports teams try and sign superstar players.

If bird flu is coming north, you want aa many of these people on your team as possible.

No, the American importer would pay the taxes. It’s why people have been saying “tarrifs are a tax on your own people” for months now. They know the American people will hurt the most.

It affects Canada because then American businesses have less money to buy goods with. Lose-lose situation for everyone except for the rich getting the tax cuts elsewhere.

Not even the thin “poke your finger through” sheets in school bathrooms and corporate offices? Everyone can at least agree to hate those

Highways above and underground. How about we all try and remember that stupid fucking “underground highway below the 417” idea to “reduce traffic” in that eternal hell hole. However many billions (possibly even trillions) that ends up being.

From what I’ve heard lately of the Liberals trying to get their guy to step down so that they could keep the money that he’s fundraised, as opposed to losing it if they removed him. Apparently he’s raised somewhere north of 1.5M.

I’d also be interested to know how much this Conservative member raised, and if that might be a reason they were quick to remove him as opposed to waiting to step down. There’s so many things at play in these decisions it’s hard to know.

Sometimes you have to go to that users profile page, I had to do the same since it didn’t allow me to block off of the comment. Hope that helps!

A reminder to everyone seeing the troll in this (and future) threads. The faster people just block idiots like that, the better.

“It doesn’t effect people, even if people are upset about it, so why should we do anything” is not a good and effective way for a government to work.

The same trust in self-governing is what made the Internet the shithole that we’re dealing with now. I’d rather the parties make an adjustment before something is abused, not after.

Turns out that the intensification of the suburb sprawl for the Ottawa valley is going to come back to bite them in the ass.

Cool, I just wrote “this guy is helpful on you” for that. Really helping start to figure out Connect.