People shouldn’t have to agree. They voted for a candidate, not a party.
With the current state of politics, I think crossing the floor is going to be increasingly unlikely until we get electoral reform, but crossing the floor is much more a symbolic act, sending the message that you no longer agree with your previous party’s policies.
If they just stopped voting in line with the party (and got kicked out, and became an independent), would that be fine with you?
Crossing the floor should be fine, possibly even encouraged if you no longer agree with your party’s direction. Unless you’re saying that all MPs should just follow the party line and not have any original thoughts of their own.
Whatever he does next, it’s entirely on name recognition - he won’t need to submit a resume.
Which is good for him, because like you said, his resume wouldn’t even land him an interview.
Maybe the idea of a distributed international competition just doesn’t work anymore. It’s either too hard to proctor, or teachers are willing to help or let their students cheat in order to have an advantage.
How do you propose restricting participants?
This contest takes place simultaneously in high schools across multiple countries. The individual proctors should be responsible for monitoring, but clearly they failed.
When I did it (nearly 20 years ago) we couldn’t use online resources at all. No Google, no Stack Overflow. Our proctor was there to ensure we didn’t cheat.
This isn’t about how good you’ll perform at a job, it’s about your knowledge, ability to design, and critical thinking skills.
Are spelling bees dumb because you can just look up the words in a dictionary?
The test is largely about your knowledge of algorithm design and your ability to problem solve. The actual coding part is trivial if you’re at all familiar with your language of choice.
AI is very good at those two things. Yes, it sometimes has hallucinations and is wrong, but even with the least refined prompts on the free version of chatgpt, it could probably do quite well on the test.
Racism as a tourist is very different than racism as a citizen. And racism presents very differently depending on your race. You’re not white, but the racists in England and Canada (and probably France, but I don’t have experience with that) will treat East Asians, South Asians, brown people, and black people very differently. They might even like you if you’re a tourist - they just don’t want you to live in their country.
How many “sudden important news stories” are there really? Like, there was a time when they’d interrupt your program to let you know about the Pope dying or a terrorist attack, but the truth is that if you’re sitting at home watching TV, that news isn’t actually important enough to interrupt your show.
The only actual important immediate news you need are severe weather alerts for earthquakes, hurricanes, tsunamis, wildfires, etc. And most countries have mobile notification systems for that now, and can target the specific impacted region instead of half the country.
You might be unexpectedly sick, hospitalized, dead, in jail, or otherwise unable to vote on election day. Early voting lets you avoid unexpected issues.
For some added context, this has been going on for years from all parties. Maybe this year was not the most amicable environment to do this in, and maybe these particular slogans were in bad taste, but I don’t think this is as egregious as everyone is saying.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/political-party-convention-gimmicks-1.2530848
It doesn’t really though. The only problem it outlines is that it doesn’t pay a living wage. It says nothing about why it’s a problem that people with high incomes also get this (other than it’s unfair). It then suggests making it more complicated (increasing overhead) so that poor people can get more.
But it’s much simpler than that. Just pay everyone more. Make it an actual basic income at living wage, and adjust the tax brackets appropriately.
Then expand it to include everyone instead of just seniors.
Why is that a problem? OAS is taxable income. It’s essentially what a basic income program should look like. If the problem is that rich people exist, tax reform is the issue you should be looking at.
Small group of extremists? One third of Americans voted for this, and another third didn’t hate the idea of this enough to vote against it.
I can’t wait for the companion articles:
The global network that ties Mark Carney to the Bank of Canada
and
The global network that ties Justin Trudeau to Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Is it produced in Canada? If so, that’s not fraud.
A lot of things are produced in Canada with non Canadian ingredients. Pointing out the former while still having the latter information isn’t fraud. It’s barely even being misleading.
Thanks for the links.
The IISD report is talking about a specific period (February 2021 to June 2022) where 33% of inflation can be attributed to oil prices. Outside of that 16 month period though (which was during the absolute peak of oil prices), oil would contribute much less to inflation.
I disagree with the methodology of the False Profits report. A big part of their 43% cost of living increase is attributed to interest rate hikes by BoC and associated job losses. They are also benchmarking to 2019 oil prices (to avoid the effects of the pandemic), but are ignoring the fact that oil prices had been artificially depressed by OPEC overproduction since 2014. If you look at historic oil prices, we’re still significantly below the 2004-2014 inflation-adjusted average.
Overall though, I think both of these reports are looking at specific moments in time, and oil prices aren’t nearly as impactful on our cost of living as they want us to believe.
Do you have a source for this? I struggle to see how most Canadians use enough oil products to account for anywhere near 45% of the cost of living.
Obviously there are secondary uses (shipping fuel), oil by-products (plastic), and people who still heat their homes with oil, but it really doesn’t seem like it could be approaching 45% Canada wide.
Since I wasn’t clear at all in my first comment: I’m referring to the fact that people can also get away with murder, as long as they’re driving a car at the time. Very rarely is it much more than a slap on the wrist, but it’s always significantly less than any other form of negligent homicide.
“Corporations are people driving cars”
You may have voted because of a party, but you still voted for a specific representative. If that representative decides to vote differently than the rest of the party, it’s still the same person you voted for.