CARNEY - Some people think......... How do you feel?

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WhyCzar said:
Will the outcome of the Canadian election change anything in your life one way or another?
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Depends on what the new government does once in power, doesn't it? I think a lot of Americans thought electing Trump wasn't going to change their lives, only others, and are now finding out otherwise. From the platforms so far, though, I don't really see much changing, esp. since the carbon tax and capital gains reforms are already scrapped (and only the former affected me since my capital gains were well below the threshold).
 
I question that one about university degrees. There are fields where the university degree provides the baseline knowledge and skills, e.g. while I entered the IT field without a degree or diploma in Computer Science I had to make it up by doing a professional certification through self-study. And such credentials are the first thing I look for when hiring. IT and computer science have a lot of baseline knowledge to be able to even learn the specific skills for a position so absent a relevant degree or diploma, you have to delve into their experience and certifications to really know if they have that baseline. So I would say rather than eliminating the degree requirement entirely, make sure the words "or equivalent" follow it and review all position descriptions to see where there are ones where it is not needed or that might be better served by a diploma or professional credentials of some form.

Actually, another good example. We have a Ukrainian immigrant, new arrival after the war started, who just moved into an accounting role from a more clerical role. She isn't accredited here yet but has a Master's in Finance back home so that provided us the assurance that she had the baseline knowledge to do the role (she has also worked for us since arriving in Canada so we what she is capable of). And all accounting roles need at least a diploma and some require a degree. Similar to IT, there's baseline knowledge they need and that's how you get it. Which would apply to a lot of CRA and Dept. of Finance roles.
 
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Jaebius said:
None of that will affect me, a Canadian who, along with about 4 million other Canadians, lives outside Canada
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Well, some people can think beyond their own noses and how it affects their family and the rest of the country residents. Its ok not to vote if you are living abroad.
The 20 years that I was still allowed to vote in Germany while living in Canada, I made a point to support the democratic parties versus the right wing fascists.
 
WhyCzar said:
The CBC should be defunded, they should have to operate like any other news outlet. Tax payers should not be forced to pay for the spread of government approved propaganda. They are not unbiased media, they have been bought through federal spending and they do not hold government to account.
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CBC for me is very special;

It doesn't have to compete in the dog-eat-dog survival of the fittest rampant greedy capitalist market

Some forms of "socialism" are a necessary good, despite what our Neoliberal/Techbros/FreeMarketeers feed us all the time

I grok why there is a movement to defund the CBC. Part of the "Canadian gov't is corrupt and serving the WEF/part of the plandemic/working for the [insert group here, from Evil Aliens to Ancient Spirits to Old Legacy Families to Globalists to etc] who want to murder us all/enslave us all
 
If people are so passionate about the CBC, why doesn't the CBC just stop the debate by going all in on the subscription model? They could generate more money, produce better content, get off government funding, and not burden people who want to defund them by taking their money. If the majority of Canada actually wanted it, there should be no problem selling it.
 
Mrs.Anteater said:
Well, some people can think beyond their own noses and how it affects their family and the rest of the country residents. Its ok not to vote if you are living abroad.
The 20 years that I was still allowed to vote in Germany while living in Canada, I made a point to support the democratic parties versus the right wing fascists.
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Jump back. Read my comment #156
 
WhyCzar said:
If people are so passionate about the CBC, why doesn't the CBC just stop the debate by going all in on the subscription model? They could generate more money, produce better content, get off government funding, and not burden people who want to defund them by taking their money. If the majority of Canada actually wanted it, there should be no problem selling it.
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Keep in mind that if you're talking the PBS/NPR model, they do get government money, just not directly but through things like the National Endowment for the Arts. But is certainly much less percentage-wise than the CBC.

The main reason we have the funding model we do for the CBC is because past governments, and to some degree the people, saw it as unifying force and a way to ensure a focus on domestic news and content production. Frankly, absent a "Great Firewall" to keep things like Netflix out, I would argue that mandate still matters.
 
The CBC is a bloody treasure and defunding it is more about allowing right-wing news outlets to dominate.

If Poilievre loses, the Cons will have to do a lot of soul searching. I think it's difficult to win in Canada with this anti-"woke", culture war, slogan-based bulls**t. Take that crap back to the States.

You can be Conservative without that junk. Be fiscally conservative, jettison the religious wingnuts from the party, and come back as a sane alternative to the Liberals. That's all they had to do, and they are blowing it.
 
chansen said:
Be fiscally conservative, jettison the religious wingnuts from the party, and come back as a sane alternative to the Liberals. That's all they had to do, and they are blowing it.
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This exactly. Which is largely what we had with the old PCs, esp. in the Mulroney era. It was the merger with the Reformers that screwed things up.
 
Mendalla said:
This exactly. Which is largely what we had with the old PCs, esp. in the Mulroney era. It was the merger with the Reformers that screwed things up.
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Let Bernier and his Peoples Party of Canada have the SoCons. I'd wager they'd gain more than they'd lose. But no, they have to rip off Trump, and then when Trump turns on Canada, they freak out that they are being associated with him? After copying his rhetoric?
 
Mendalla said:
This exactly. Which is largely what we had with the old PCs, esp. in the Mulroney era. It was the merger with the Reformers that screwed things up.
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I wonder aloud how many "old PCs" are left? Maybe that's the problem - they're all Reform-type nutjobs, so they can't jettison the rhetoric because that's literally what they are now. And the NDP don't seem electable. So if the religious culture was stuff doesn't turn you off, you vote Conservative, but for the rest of us, we hold our noses and hope the Liberals are gonna be better this time.
 
i wish people could choose, on a whim, to believe what they want

politics shows me eh eh...

no Christian Free Will in that respect

so we follow our habits and conditionings (Buddhist concept), follow our in groups and not follow our out groups

makes for entertaining tv

and so it goes
 
chansen said:
I wonder aloud how many "old PCs" are left? Maybe that's the problem - they're all Reform-type nutjobs, so they can't jettison the rhetoric because that's literally what they are now. And the NDP don't seem electable. So if the religious culture was stuff doesn't turn you off, you vote Conservative, but for the rest of us, we hold our noses and hope the Liberals are gonna be better this time.
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Why don’t the NDP seem electable?

I think that “Overton window” thing is true. Things have shifted right so that the Conservatives are now the far right nuts (PPC are a fringe consultancy wing), the Liberals are like the “old PC’s” further to the right of centre, the NDP are like the old Liberals, and the Greens have the only sensible socially democratic policies for the greater good, that nobody is paying attention to.
 
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