Carney seems incredibly driven to implement the Starmer plan, which has gone just great in the UK. WTF is wrong with the commonwealth left?
They're only left on a national level, that's what's wrong with them. All capitalists other than socdems are soulless rotbrains looking for financial excuses to be worse and never better.
It's my impression as an outsider that the unspoken position of the Canadian government is that the blind should seek euthanasia rather than costing the public valuable pennies. Is this a correct impression to have? If not, please correct me. This is an information-seeking post and not an insult or attempt to spread misinformation.
If you're a liability you shouldn't exist in modern day capitalism which means poor people and disabled people. Of course they thought of eugenics but then people would actually get angry so this is second best.
So if I'm reading the article right it would save like 500k? That's it? Fuck over all the blind people in your nation to save half a million? What's that as a percentage of taxes like .00001%
Gotta afford the jets and oil subsidies somehow.
It's how auaterity works. Save some cash at enormous real cost.
This is shit I would have expected from conservatives. Not liberals...
The party switch happened when Harper let the Reform Party take over the PC.
Your historic Liberal Party is the NDP. Carney was elected because he was a Conservative.
When I became a naturalized Canadian citizen I voted for the first time in my life in any election, and it was NDP, because they were the closest thing to what I want.
I honestly want this shit to stop. I want affordable housing again, I want rent control, and I want lease transfers (when they ended that people said it would absolutely show a spike in homelessness, which it did). For one thing that would make me sound conservative is that I want the current bullshit on firearms bans to be stop and be repealed. The Canadian licensing scheme for firearms has been very successful in preventing bad guys from getting guns, showing in that very few criminal guns in Canada are sourced from legal Canadian sources. The worst shooting in Canadian history that happened in Nova Scotia in 2022 was done with smuggled AR-15s from the United States. The shooter had one gun sourced from Canada, but how he got it is a monumental failure of the RCMP... the shooter was the executor of someone's estate, and that person legally owned a pistol when he was alive. The RCMP could have swept in and took it, as the shooter not only did not have an RPAL, but also had a criminal record and a history of alcoholism (both of which would bar anyone from getting an RPAL or PAL approved).
Basically the current state of the liberals with the failed gun bans is both very expensive (and they haven't collected a single damn rifle yet) and highly ineffectively and driven entirely by simple hatred of firearms and sport shooting... and the money continues to be diverted from more essential services like healthcare and housing, in addition to trying to pass the equivalent of the Patriot Act without any justification whatsoever and warrantless digital spying on Canadians and online IDs... it is giving me a headache just to think about it.
I agree with you but I wanted to thank you for sharing.
If I was better networked I would push for change.
Your first line almost reads like a typo, I am mildly confused.
You wrote a lot, rather than address it because I didn’t have much to add I just thanked you.
My comment would be seeing the NDP move to where the Liberals used to be is depressing but seeing the Conservatives move to the right of the US Democrats is worse.
However that doesn’t do justice to your effort.
Yup. Punching down on people with disabilities for petty savings
I swear I read the headline and figured this was in the US. Come on, Canada don't be like us.
Came to say the US would never offer free postage to begin with, but was surprised to find out I was wrong! https://about.usps.com/publications/pub347/pub347_v03_revision_102015.htm
I give it a week before someone from the current administration takes note and tries to follow suit.
Just sent this to my MP:
Dear Patrick Weiler
I am writing to you today to stress my significant frustration regarding Bill C-15.
As an able-bodied Canadian, I find it deeply troubling that this legislation is effectively stripping Canadian organizations and individuals of the ability to send and receive essential materials, such as books, letters, used by people who are blind, without incurring postage costs.
We are judged by how we treat the worst off, not the best, and the impossibly minor savings this will grant are not worth how it will impact the differently abled. I've never used, know anyone who has used, or expect to use this saving, but to people that need it its a lifeline.
The long-standing policy of allowing these items to be mailed postage-free is crucial for accessibility and participation in society for the blind community. I urge you to reconsider the implications of Bill C-15 and support policies that maintain or enhance this vital service.
Thank you for considering my concerns regarding this important issue.
Your MP:
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That's a great letter. Thanks for posting it here.
There are other big problems with Bill C-15 like the part where any minister can exempt a person/organization from any act of parliament (outside of the criminal code) under their responsibility. It's section 208.
So the minister of the environment could exempt a company from any environmental laws. One person could decide to let someone dump whatever they wanted into our lakes or rivers.
There are countless other acts that could be exempted at the judgment of one minister appointed to the role.
I need to write my MP and I will copy-paste what you wrote.
Disgusting...
:(
Man things like this are just the worse. Is providing free postage beuracratically hard. I mean it should not be. Just need a status or such in a portal so they can order free postage. Are there so many blind people this makes some sort of dent in the budget. Highly suspect. Then the way they seemed to be hiding the dirty deed because they know it is shameful.
We will sacrifice all services for boosting defebce for no eminent threat
I mean there's definitely an imminent threat, but this won't stop it
And they are passing the equivalent of rhe Patriot act with zero chance of any major terrorist anything happening.
All I really care about is how he will punish companies that operate in the US/people that travel there.
Hard to punish people leaving but entering or people in the country should face treason charges.
I don't think I understand the Canada/US situation well enough to understand what you mean. It sounds like you're saying Canadians who visit family in the States or need to visit the States for professional reasons should be tried with treason.
Yes.
Okay, thank you for confirming. I can't agree or disagree because I'm not Canadian, but I'm glad to understand how strongly you feel about it. I knew relations were bad, I just didn't realize they were that bad.
Growing up we’re taught to hate them. Burning down their government building more than 200 years ago is a point of national pride.
NAFTA being a disaster for us just made it worse.
Your trump is coming. Don’t think it’s not.
Yep. First austerity, then a populist con man will show up promising to fix everything that was broken by 40 years of neoliberal pain, but will happily do even more.
It seems unlikely that keeping this service would make a significant dent in their bottom line, so why?
Doing this but not addressing real savings like door to door service or daily service seems pointless. Saving pennies but losing dollars.
My God I fucking hate the liberals so fucking bad. All of their shit. The conservatives are bad... but would they be this fucking bad?
The only difference between the Liberals and Conservatives is that one pays lip service to marginalized communities while fucking them over and the other just enjoys fucking over marginalized communities.
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