We’re going to see every single government in Canada cover their ears, eyes and more to say everything is fine while propping up the natural resource extraction industry. It’s the only thing Canada has left as the ‘easy’ answer to prop up our economy. We don’t have a booming tech industry - we only have unicorn tech companies. We don’t have a boom financial industry - most people would rather invest elsewhere. We export more raw resources instead of turning them into higher margin value added goods. Every industry that’s worthwhile has a good chunk of foreign investment already (oil and gas for example), even the auto industry - most are foreign and the federal government bends over backwards trying to save it rather than pivot out of it over time.

I’d also say that the clear cutting of Canada’s old growth to barely even 3% left is the result of what happens when we do not let our forests recover - I believe the forestry industry and their sustainability practices is a farce. This is a century time scale problem not a few decades problem. Every subsequent government has been kicking the can down the road and now we’re getting into the ‘find out’ phase in FAFO. And still there are people still taking the stance of ‘it doesn’t matter/it doesn’t affect me’.

Amazon wasn’t profitable for many years until it was. Now make your own conclusions about AI.

What’s left unsaid at all of these events and among those in power is the admission of guilt that we as a species still cannot make peace among our own kind. NATO is an emergent reaction from historical events rather than a true solution. With the current trajectory of things, things are not looking well. We need real adults in the room to agree that killing each other is a bad thing and violence should not be used. But here we are…squabbling about money in an imperial capitalistic framework. We’re so fucked.

Why are they trying to sell insurance now?

Lol no. How about you lockdown your own wireless system so that we don’t get spam calls all the time first?

“For reference, a small business is a company with 499 employees or fewer, including those of its affiliates, or a joint venture whose total number of employees does not exceed 499.”

“Small Business” - Up to 499 people eh?

Then the real question should be… why do Canadians feel otherwise? Why are Canadians feeling poor when from a macro view we seem to own our own corporations. Is it the taxation? Is it the monetary policies?

Reading the comments and it can be summed up in:

Where does Carney’s integrity start and end, or the lack of. Compared with - political manoeuvring. One is actually for humanity and the other is just an excuse.

I for one, push for the long term, sustainable well being of humankind, not just Canadians. Our politics and government is no different than the US - it’s filled with insincere, unfaithful people towards Canadians and humanity all for short term solutions while bowing to external influences that aren’t Canadians. Our entire system is barbaric, stuck in the middle ages, the rich have more or less hijacked the system and people are still taking it for granted - even those that are elected in.

Which part? The part that industries are foreign owned, have a significant stake and/or anything in Canada is up for sale? I guess in hindsight the sentence is loaded. Ones that come to my mind would be the natural resources and energy sector in BC as an example that would have significant amounts of foreign ownership. BC itself would prefer to ship out raw materials for cheap rather than have added value processes done locally. This extends to the energy sector too.

Canada has industries…sure. But all these industries are more or less dominated or owned by foreign companies/countries/institutions etc. In Canada, anything is up for sale as long you know how to lobby your way through (usually with enough capital).

Also anything that is ‘Canadian owned’ usually turns into something like - “the owners become so big, that they are multinationals and likely have a base in another country”. We can keep touting ‘Canadian sovereignty’, but it’s really empty when corporations have no concept of what a social fabric of what ‘Canada’ is.

Even the big 6 banks, the big telecoms, the big grocery chains, who are homegrown, like to screw us.

The real target is not the industries, but the approach to monetary policy in Canada, that overwhelmingly incentivizes capitalistic behaviour. Canada is extremely weak when it comes to reigning in corporate power - ask yourself when was the last time anti-trust was enforced on big, dominant multi-billion dollar companies?

Until monetary policy changes or heavy regulation at the federal level, with the province in lock-step, expect nothing to change.

You are only viewing this as a business. Not a public service. Private delivery companies can refuse to deliver for any reason. Now, let’s take this into the context of sensitive parcels or mail-in voting. How do you know for sure that this future version of delivery will deliver it in good faith when it is in the hands of private control? Laws, rules and legislation be damned even if they exist for when there are high stakes things involved we know there is risk of cheating (like elections). Why would you even want to invite such a risk? We also know that the government are incredibly bad at keeping public data secure - so I wouldn’t count on a fully electronic voting system.

Look at what electronic payment providers (Visa and Mastercard) have done to artists and indie developers. They are being deplatformed simply because under the eyes of these payment processors, they do not fit their broad and obscure guidelines, when the hosting platform (Steam and Patreon for example) and laws itself allows for such content. Under a neutral payment processor this wouldn’t have happened. People’s lives and income streams would collapse overnight.

Now look at media companies, are you also suggesting that CBC should be sold off and privatized when it’s obvious that every private media company out there is out to push their version of propaganda and bias? Last I checked CBC doesn’t make money either.

Using modern technology to fill in much of the services, while viable, is simply not a complete solution and it invites more risk than necessary.

The cost for sending parcels domestically is relatively cheap only because we are collectively subsidizing it - which in turn every Canadian actually benefits from this. This anchors the prices of parcel delivery among the private ones to stay relatively close to Canada Post’s prices. You, in fact, benefit from this. Canada’s population simply cannot be compared to many other country’s postal rates because we do not have the population density for cheaper rates. What makes it worse is that Canada Post doesn’t have the right of first refusal for any kind of mail or parcel delivery.

Your frustration with Canada Post should be directed at the series of federal governments that even let this happen in the first place when Canada Post itself have been telling the feds that they need to change their mandate for it to be more solvent.

Maybe you should also look into the cost of operating public transit, why Canada doesn’t have a robust passenger rail network, and the duopoly of Air Canada and WestJet.

Good point. This is why I pointed out how the system is actually working underneath. It’s all about how the funding and money is flowing in this so called party system. It’s by association and purity tests. It’s not really by “you got in because you have actual good ideas for the greater good of society and humanity”. It’s about “they/him/her scratched his back so now we scratch their backs”.

Then this would lead to the result of - how do we get money influence out of politics? In a simple way of explaining, one way would to do it would be to publicly fund each nominee/contender/incumbent BUT make the funding equal, make the media coverage equal, etc. Have an unified standard of how these metrics are presented. Even their promises presented, measured and compared. These are just ideas, but it’s not impossible to do these. I’m sure there’s many ways we can to level the playing field to an extent where it’s not always big money crushing everything.

I can’t tell if that’s sarcasm or not, but cultural protectionism is in a way anti-progress, it sequesters cultural ideas to be almost ‘stuck in time’. But let’s be real, Canadian artists, while talented, haven’t really been backed by the government to push beyond the North American market, or even beyond its own nation’s borders. Look at K-pop and all of what South Korea has managed. It’s clear that language isn’t really the barrier - but rather what companies and governments are willing to back and put money where it matters.

How about we start by getting rid of Microslop and use an opensource alternative? That would save Canadians real money in the long run and achieve sovereignty at the same time. The fact these politicians are pushing AI into federal policy and workforce like some sort of magic bullet is severely out of touch.

Also, Carney seems to be trying to make headlines by tossing money into it - say 100 million or even 3 billion - but these amounts are comparatively peanuts in the realm of AI and scaling. He’s setting this up to ultimately fail, but rely on US big tech in the long run.

How about we get rid of political parties and ban them from identifying themselves as ‘X party’ to begin with, huh? After all, political parties aren’t even supposed to be part of the system. At the same time, ban these political parties from funding specific member campaigns. At the heart of it is how these MP’s are backed by these so-called parties - which enables these parties to ‘whip votes’. It all functions like a mafia group right now. Money is the reason why these political parties exist, but it also keeps out those that deserve/want to serve Canadians out due to the lack of funding because of ideological purity tests of bullshit.

Would it be a mess? Of course, at the start. But maybe a new system would emerge that would actually represent each constituents better rather than being held by a ideological gun-point via party funding.

We desperately need voting and government reform.

The headline is straight up a logical fallacy. Read it like this: “Canada buying weapons because weapons were used to bomb Iran.” Straight up sloppy rage-baiting.

FIFA is corrupt AF. The amount of FIFA advertising and promotion coming out from all of BC’s public services is gross. What makes it even more disgusting is how much our services seemingly rolled over and just signed away every leverage and right and let FIFA dictate all the terms.

Incorrect. They’re stealing from TSMC.

Canada - especially the federal government - is balls deep in with Microslop. Policy makers are 100% being lobbied + no idea how to even navigate the clusterfuck of a tech stack that’s been built up over the decades.

But hey they going to keep mandating everyone to go back into the office and use Microslop Teams when US tech companies have already publicly said they cannot guarantee that Canadian data doesn’t get router through US servers. cue applause /s

Just banned from owning Canadian newspapers? What kind of shortsighted headline is that. Canada has been consistently sold off and facilities shut down over time. And this all happened with the stamp of approval from our federal governments (both Liberal and Conservative).

Look at our natural resources sector for example. We ship raw materials out (lumber, oil, minerals) for cheap and it is sold back to us at a premium. We need to keep these resources here so that people here can turn them into goods that is sold at a higher premium. This elevates our wages and allows our government to collect more taxes which in turn improves public services. Alas, our politicians are not only bought and paid for, but love to stick to their neoliberal ideology. It’s all short term gains.