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[-] Davriellelouna@lemmy.world 44 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

1. Marc Carney promised to increase CBC funding. Not slash it. This kind of bullshit combined with a flawed voting system, is exactly why people are losing trust in democracy.

2. You want Crown Corporations to save money? I'll give you savings.

  • Stop paying millions of dollars to use Microsoft Office. Instead, use LibreOffice.

  • Stop paying millions of dollars to use Microsoft Windows. Instead, use Linux.

[-] yannic@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

I'm all for what you're suggesting about software, but the training and I.T costs alone make me question the savings.

Information technologists adept at supporting users of Microsoft products are a dime a dozen. Anything outside of that, and you're paying the big bucks and/or have a much smaller hiring pool.

[-] yannic@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

He's asking them to propose ways of cutting spending. Spending is different from funding. They can cut operational funding and still get earmarked funding for certain projects that wouldn't have otherwise got off the ground.

Government loves to make funding announcements that turn out to have 'small print'.

[-] patatas@sh.itjust.works 53 points 3 days ago

I seem to recall an election promise to increase the CBC's funding by $150m, so clearly Liberal voters weren't voting for a nearly $200m reduction.

[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 20 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Was just looking for that bit as I seem to recall the exact same fucking thing. Here it is. I'm starting to keep receipts.

[-] FireRetardant@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

The conservatives wanted to fully defund the CBC and unfortnately most of Canada has fallen into the two party trap. I'm not thrilled about the cuts but hopefully letting the corp decide what has to be cut is less harmful than it could be otherwise.

[-] patatas@sh.itjust.works 30 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I'm confused. Are you saying that Carney doesn't have to keep any of his campaign promises, so long as he doesn't do things that are quite as bad as the hypothetical actions of the party we were told was an existential threat to Canada?

Apologies if that sounds rude, but I'm getting incredibly frustrated with folks who seem to want to give this government a pass on just about anything, even breaking their explicit campaign promises. Is this really how low the bar is now? If so, we're absolutely doomed.

[-] FireRetardant@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

I'm just trying to look on the bright side and glad the cbc still exists, albeit with less funding. I've grown numb to politicians, liberals included, not following through with promises. We never got electoral reform and how many times have liberals ran on that promise?

[-] rumimevlevi@lemmings.world 7 points 3 days ago

I'm just trying to look on the bright side and glad the cbc still exists, albeit with less funding

That's why things always get worse.

[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 days ago

This is why we have to scream at them every time we catch them.

[-] patatas@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago

If you've grown numb to it, then why are you in these comments actively defending it?

[-] FireRetardant@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

I'm not defending the cuts, i said i wasn't thrilled about it. If cuts are happening, at least the cbc decides what is cut.

[-] patatas@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 days ago

You're defending the promise being broken by saying it's no big deal/could be worse.

This is a 15% cut to the CBC. Do you think that what normally happens is that Mark Carney goes in and starts randomly firing people? Of course not. The budget gets cut and the CBC has to figure out what to do next.

The only reason this is being said ahead of time, IMO: the Liberals don't want to unveil all their devastating cuts in a single budget bill, because the outrage would be incandescent, so they're dropping a new bombshell every week to keep Canadians on their back foot.

None of these cuts are necessary!

[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 15 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I'd have agreed with your sentiment if Carney didn't promise increased funding during the election campaign. A promise that was important to me. Now this is some bullshit. It can't be shrugged off with the rest of the "operational efficiencies" which were suggested during the campaign, because there was explicit statement to the opposite.

[-] cecilkorik@lemmy.ca 13 points 3 days ago

"Well this shit sandwich sure is unpleasant, but at least it's fresh"

[-] ProgrammingSocks@pawb.social 3 points 2 days ago

Apologetics for Carney only hurt us now. It's time to put pressure on the government.

[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 19 points 3 days ago
[-] SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago

Electoral reform when

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