The worst part is that I would love to move back home to Windsor and be able to work remotely on my Salary (or hell, even less). But like despite the fact that it is the 21st century and we have Fiber connections, instant access to anybody over the internet, 24/7 365. Too many employers don't want to do it. They want you to be local, to be in the office, you suddenly become the first in line during any layoffs and it in general just feels like an uphill battle to even bring the topic up with them.
In that industry, depending on what your company makes and where they are geographically, they can get subsidies from government when they hire local employees. That's primarily why net-commuting isn't prevalent, they want you local to sop up that tax money to pay your wage.
Damn i was really hoping for Prime minister freeland...
I had no idea it was legal to record private conversations. I gotta take a note of that...
A point of clarity for those not aware: it is legal to record private conversations
if you are one of the parties in the conversation. Wire-tapping or recording a conversation you are not a part of is still illegal.
Isn't that what also happened in Saskatchewan? Lol.
Yup. Liberals weren't very popular here to begin with, so there wasn't much lost, but considering the state of the Saskatchewan Party, it does raise eyebrows as to just how invested Liberals are in leftist policy, rather than just using it as a tool to achieve power. It's a benefit to the voter right up until the point where it no longer matters to the party. That'll be a dark day for any Liberal loyalists who have never had to experience that.
Edit: This is dynamic of the Liberal party is also why ranked ballots is also a terrible option for Canada that could yield peculiar results.
Suppose there was a fairly close Conservative, Liberal and NDP race. The NDP do quite well, and receive a plurality of votes in the first round. The Liberals stumble and get a close third and are eliminated. Turns out though that most of the Liberal voters chose Conservative as their second place, so the Conservative party moves up the ranking and in a come from behind victory, defeats the NDP which got the plurality on the first round.
Ranked ballots aren't the issue, but the vote redistribution method. What you've described is simply one method (albeit the most utilized) of several methods to do so, which all produce different results. A Condorcet method of vote redistribution would likely yield a different result in your example, as most Condorcet methods would also have to factor in ALL 2nd-choice votes.
Let's use your example in the context of ranked pairs, a Condorcet method. NDP gets 44% (a plurality, but not a majority), Tories get 26% and Liberals get 25%, with let's say the Greens getting 5%. In ranked pairs, each individual party is pitted against each other with all other parties excluded, with those excluded first-choice votes redistributed.
First contest is Liberals vs. Tories. NDP second-choice votes split in favour of the Liberals primarily, they win the contest. 1 point for Liberals.
Second contest is Liberals vs. NDP. NDP 2nd-choice gets the Green vote and a tiny sliver of Tory vote (I can confirm that 'orange Tories' are an astounding minority, but they exist), putting them at 50.03%, Liberals get 49.97% from 2nd-choice. Contest is decided by less than 10 votes. 1 point for the NDP.
Third is NDP vs. Tories. NDP gets 51% based on how the Liberal vote splits, while the Tories get 49%. 1 more point to the NDP.
Let's assume that the Greens lose every contest they're in. 1 point for Liberals, Tories and NDP.
At the end, the Tories won 1 contest, the Liberals won 2 contests, the NDP won 3. The NDP wins the riding, being the Condorcet winner of the most individual vote contests against each party candidate in isolation.
So, ranked ballots are fine in and of themselves, with the results of them depending entirely on how vote redistribution is handled.
Andrew Coyne's point every election when the conservatives win and people lose their shit about the electorate not being represented.
The push for electoral reform in BC was actual started by BC Liberal voters for the reason you described. So it's not quite that cut-and-dry.
What was the decrease for only consumers? I don't doubt it'll go down as a whole like in BC, just that it'll barely do anything for the end consumer to reduce it themselves.
End consumer behaviours aren't the primary cause of climate change. We collectively have our part to play, but industry is the #1 cause. Giving money back to the consumer is to offset the inevitability that industry will attempt to recover lost costs by raising prices for consumers. But since the consumer carbon tax rebate doesn't get paid out until tax time, the consumer behaves more frugally in the interim and does not consume at the same rate. So it incentivizes industry to find ways to avoid carbon emissions and bring their prices back down to encourage consumer spending.
As an example, the dairy industry. Currently, when milk is picked up from farms in Saskatchewan and Alberta, most of it is put in a tanker trailer destined for pasteurization and packaging, but the tanker trailer ends up in Manitoba or BC, because processing was centralized there to save money. That's a lot of kilometres those semi trucks are driving, but right now, this business model is a lower cost for the industry, because they're not being held financially liable for their carbon emissions driving semi trucks all over creation.
With the carbon tax, because they engaged in this business model, milk and dairy prices will go up when they try and offset the carbon tax cost onto the consumer. The consumer buys for necessity but does not indulge, which inflates their costs in a way that they can't pass on to the consumer without further ramifications to their bottom line. Their centralized processing business model now costs them more than the method they moved away from to save costs, which was pasteurize and package in the province the milk was picked up in and reduce travel time.
So if they can't keep increasing prices without shrinking their market to a point where consumer spending does not offset the cost of the carbon tax, the solution becomes really really obvious.
Doubt the CPC or NDP will risk having JWR amongst their ranks.
She's gonna be lowkey recording everything, lol
I doubt they have much to be concerned about in that regard. The only people who would be paranoid about being recorded are people who are doing things that they're ashamed of or doing something they know isn't right.
Honestly, if the parties don't extend an offer to her, that's just tacit admission that they've got some pretty big skeletons hidden behind a wall of partisanship themselves and they come off as no better than the Liberals. So it'll be interesting to watch and see what happens there.
"traitors"? lol
If Harper did this shit you guys would be foaming at your mouths. lol
There's very little consideration of what happens when the shoe is on the other foot among the populous with regard to politics. It's a hard lesson to learn, so most people refuse to learn it.
