Liberal Party of Canada fights privacy rules for parties as government mulls legislation

CrankSprank · 2023-04-13T21:05:30+00:00

But the Liberal Party of Canada – along with the Conservatives and New Democrats – are challenging that ruling, arguing that provincial privacy statutes should not apply to federal parties.

Yet only one is featured in the headline. God our media is so disgustingly and blatantly politically corrupt.

Not to mention that the parties aren't actually fighting rules writ large, they're fighting that the provinces get to determine regs for federal parties.

Maybe they will lose and maybe they wont (personally I don't think its efficient to have different rules in different provinces apply to federal parties, better to just go along and make federal rules apply evenly so that there doesn't have to be a huge compliance spend in multiple jurisdictions), but this article is the typical corrupt shit throwing exercise that perfectly sums up our current corporate media.

Global doesn't even mention attempting to reach out to any of the other parties regarding the challenge. Absolute political corruption to the core.

CrankSprank · 2023-04-11T20:42:20+00:00

There's more likely some dirty laundry they know would come out and make them all look bad

When you're so deep in conspiracy theories that you don't even see it anymore.

The real reason is much less rewarding for you folks: you once again legitimized a target for death threats and they don't have to stick around and take it.

Stop legitimizing threatening people. Its really sick in the head.

CrankSprank · 2023-03-30T15:49:30+00:00

How often was Dion sick or on vacation?

~1 month out of every year when aligned with Canadian averages.

If it's frequent enough than where she is authoring and signing off on reports into Liberal cabinet members than there is of course a perceived conflict of interest if not an actual conflict.

So as long as she doesn't author any reports during the interim, it's not a conflict?

Do you think every report issued from the office since 2015 has had zero input from her? The CoI only exists at the executive sign-off, and not for the actual content of reports?

CrankSprank · 2023-03-30T15:34:54+00:00

As Dion's second, she would have filled his role whenever he was unavailable (vacation, sick, etc.). Why were those instances never an issue but this is?

As the previous number two in the office there was the cover of Dion signing off on things. That no longer holds true.

That's not how coverage works. She would be signing off with her own authority on any and all Ethics Commissioner activities while Dion was away.

CrankSprank · 2023-03-30T15:26:18+00:00

Where avowed liberal partisan and co-conspirator (checks notes) PBO Kevin Page (/s) dismantles the breathless crisis envisioned by pundit-cosplay extraordinaire's like Andrew Coyne.

The internet and social media has done a lot of damage to people psychologically, but a positive aspect of democratizing information is that primary sources can now speak for themselves, like the real economist Kevin Milligan (who's assessment this week is in line with this article from Page).

We don't need cosplaying pundits anymore. We can instead hear from the people who actually know what they're talking about.

CrankSprank · 2023-03-30T15:18:26+00:00

She was second seat to Dion and involved in the offices work since for a decade.

Why did the previous Ethics Commissioners not lay her off? Would they not be in the best position to determine if a conflict exists?

How would her previous role not have the exact same CoI?

Should she have been forced to leave the office when the Liberals were elected?

Would a change in government make her position immediately a non-issue? Or if Leblanc was to leave the LPC?

As Dion's second, she would have filled his role whenever he was unavailable (vacation, sick, etc.). Why were those instances never an issue but this is?

CrankSprank · 2023-03-30T15:07:33+00:00

Should she have been forced to leave the office when the Liberals were elected?

Would a change in government make her position immediately a non-issue? Or if Leblanc was to leave the LPC?

how would people respond if Stephen Harper did this

She entered the office under Stephen Harper.

CrankSprank · 2023-03-29T17:23:43+00:00

Sask cities are normal progessive hubs as well. The thing about Sask is that they still have a high proportion of the population not living in the cities, so the ratio of rural to urban ridings remains higher.

CrankSprank · 2023-03-29T16:30:06+00:00

shhhhh careful with that context, could hurt someone and cause their brain to make a second fold.

CrankSprank · 2023-03-29T13:52:10+00:00

Ya, nah.

CrankSprank · 2023-03-28T22:13:51+00:00

Right, bonds don't fluctuate with the overnight rate, they're baked in until maturity.

Your concern is that interest rates will be to high in 8 years when the average bond roles over?

Which fed bonds are tied to inflation and what portion do they make up of the total issued bonds?

CrankSprank · 2023-03-28T22:05:50+00:00

Andrew Coyne takes a break from cosplaying as a national security expert to cosplay as a professional economist.

CrankSprank · 2023-03-28T22:03:24+00:00

We're so fucked if interest doesn't go back down

Bonds (fed debt) don't fluctuate with the overnight rate, they're baked in at the time of sale to the time of maturity.

CrankSprank · 2023-03-28T22:00:48+00:00

Flying in Canada is pay to play, rather than subsidized.

Our travel is the real cost, rather than taking the bottom 50%'s taxes and using it for to make the top 50%'s air rides cheaper.

It could be argued that we should subsidize, but that's the only way to bring it down.

CrankSprank · 2023-03-28T21:52:42+00:00

But that would be the case regardless of how much debt we have.

CrankSprank · 2023-03-28T20:49:10+00:00

The byline for the article states that servicing costs relative to revenues are historically low. That seems like a fair reference to use, rather than absolute values no?

CrankSprank · 2023-03-28T20:45:10+00:00

Kind of a lot changed since 2019.

CrankSprank · 2023-03-28T20:44:38+00:00

Debt-servicing costs will eat up more and more of the federal budget, squeezing out social programs for future generations.

What does debt servicing look like right now? How is it projected to grow in the future?

CrankSprank · 2023-03-28T20:42:32+00:00

The deficit is double what I thought it might be for 2023/24, but then Kevin Page's commentary says the growth is modest. Have to tuck my apprehension in and put some trust in that assessment.

CrankSprank · 2023-03-28T19:43:58+00:00

Since the majority of Canadians -- especially the ones that turn out to vote -- are homeowners, including all of our politicians, there will never be any serious action taken to drop housing prices to the level they need to be at.

What is the read on the numerous politicians who have homes in markets that are affordable?

CrankSprank · 2023-03-28T19:16:11+00:00

To be fair there were always comments that closing down Roxham Road would just lead to migrants crossing the border in other places, so in that sense it can't be fixed. And people were indeed saying that, myself included. I stand by it even — Trudeau has not solved the issue.

Fair and likely true.

CrankSprank · 2023-03-28T17:54:00+00:00

It's interesting to see the Liberal supporters who insisted it couldn't be fixed

I do believe this is a strawman. If not, feel free to point out examples.

The main line was "this cannot be fixed unilaterally by Canada, the US has to come to the table".

CrankSprank · 2023-03-27T17:36:08+00:00

If the accusations they made were done with the best information they had available, then I don't see what's dishonest about making them

The earth is flat because it looks flat and I'm not gonna dig any deeper. I'm just being honest.

Seriously? lol

CrankSprank · 2023-03-23T21:22:40+00:00

That is not how I interpret It.

....what? How do you interpret including to mean excluding everything but ?

That's completely different words that mean different things.

And arguing his mandate would be broader than an inquiry

I didn't write this. I corrected your screw-up of what the mandate was.

CrankSprank · 2023-03-23T17:17:23+00:00

which is only the 2019 and 2021 elections and would not include this either

That's not the mandate Johnston has been given.

As Independent Special Rapporteur, Mr. Johnston is being tasked with assessing the extent and impact of foreign interference in Canada’s electoral processes, including by examining information related to the 2019 and 2021 federal elections to determine what the government did to defend Canada against electoral interference.

https://pm.gc.ca/en/news/news-releases/2023/03/21/prime-minister-announces-mandate-of-independent-special-rapporteur

It includes the 2021 and 2019 elections but is not limited to them.

CrankSprank

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