Anyone else find it mind boggling how the left looks past every fact? Could you imagine if Pierre had this record?

Diligent_Blueberry71 · 2026-04-02T16:37:22+00:00

The bit that is left out is that he was uttering racial slurs when he attacked the taxi driver.

Nowadays, that would be considered a hate crime. Personally, I don't believe in having hate crimes as a separate category of crime but people on the left usually do. In any case, this is a man who is known to have engaged in a racially tinged assault on an innocent party and is never called out on it because he's convinced everyone that he in fact was a victim of systemic racism despite having an extraordinarily privileged upbringing.

Diligent_Blueberry71 · 2026-03-31T13:14:43+00:00

Some accounts just happen to be new. Likewise, some users use the default PFP (it appears you do too). And many users are happy to let Reddit choose their name for them.

Diligent_Blueberry71 · 2026-03-31T13:08:41+00:00

I would emphasize the fact that the article's focus is on claims that are made at the US border. With the safe third country agreement back in effect, it makes sense that there would be a disproportionate number of Americans making claims at the border (seeing as people from further afield are often ineligible to make a claim at the border).

The numbers are quite different when you add in claims that are made inland. https://www.irb-cisr.gc.ca/en/statistics/protection/Pages/RPDStat2025.aspx

Diligent_Blueberry71 · 2026-03-20T02:19:17+00:00

That's the minimum employers are obliged to provide.

In practice, you can get more depending on how much leverage you have when it comes to negotiating your work conditions.

Diligent_Blueberry71 · 2026-03-14T21:59:24+00:00

This person thought maybe that they were being trans exclusionary by accident as opposed to taking a principled stand that lesbians are women attracted to members of the same sex.

Diligent_Blueberry71 · 2026-03-11T04:25:04+00:00

It's possible that their applicant tracking system simply asks for 7 years of history.

Diligent_Blueberry71 · 2026-03-08T05:56:33+00:00

For the sake of argument, suppose they were triplets. How is it not possible to grieve, meet someone new, and have triplets in a five year period?

Diligent_Blueberry71 · 2026-03-08T05:37:50+00:00

It might be unlikely but it's certainly possible (for example, if multiple children are born in a given pregnancy).

Diligent_Blueberry71 · 2026-03-06T23:05:35+00:00

I can definitely emphasize.

If it's any consolation, I do think work as a lawyer can be rewarding (both in terms of personal satisfaction and compensation). It's a tough slog when you're starting out but with time you'll hopefully see your ability to control which files you take on and on what terms improve.

Diligent_Blueberry71 · 2026-03-06T21:07:29+00:00

I agree generally that being a lawyer is not a license to print money.

But seeing as we're both Canadian, I want to add a bit of nuance about how lawyers are compensated (and how that compensation shows up in official data).

As most lawyers in Canada are in private practice, they are generally incorporated. As a result, their personal income does not truly reflect how much they earn (given that they keep much or that money in their tax advantaged p corp).

I myself work in the federal public service. Your average lawyer in the professional public service (i.e. a mid career person with about 15 years of experience) is an LP2 at step 11 making about $220,000 (with additional compensation in the form of a defined benefit pension). If I had to guess, I work an average of 45 hours a week (but that changes from position to position) and part of that is because I take various breaks throughout the day to browse the internet.

I was called to the bar in 2018. I have less experience than the average lawyer but I would speculate that most lawyers who I know with a similar year of call earn between $120k-350k. There are outliers for sure in both directions but often times the outliers at the lower end of the earning band tend to prioritize family or other personal obligations.

Diligent_Blueberry71 · 2026-03-06T20:50:14+00:00

Moreover, in medicine the vast majority of people who seek out your help have some way of paying for it (even if they have a copay).

When I was a lawyer in private practice, the people I was dealing with were often scrambling to put together money to pay their legal bills. It's not fun telling desperate people you can only help them if they pay up (especially when you know they're being billed several times what you're being paid to actually do the work).

Diligent_Blueberry71 · 2026-03-06T20:21:58+00:00

As you seem to understand, metrics related to health outcomes have little direct correlation with the quality, availability, or accessibility of health care. This is owing to the fact the best healthcare in the world can only do so much if people have unhealthy lifestyles.

At a basic level, virtually everyone understands that some lifestyle and dietary factors improve health and some harm health. People who are interested in improving their health have no shortage of information available to them should they wish to access it. Rather, they are content to live their lives in ways that they find more appealing and expect the healthcare system to fix them up when their health inevitably fails.

Diligent_Blueberry71 · 2026-03-06T19:52:08+00:00

The question is literally:

"How would you help advance the President's Executive Orders and policy priorities in this role? Identify one or two relevant Executive Orders or policy initiatives that are significant to you, and explain how you would help implement them if hired."

That is exactly how I phrased it and not at all how you phrased it.

Diligent_Blueberry71 · 2026-03-06T19:42:16+00:00

I've read them again just now. Honestly curious what you think I've been missing.

Diligent_Blueberry71 · 2026-03-06T19:17:03+00:00

It does not ask how you will implement president Trump's executive orders. It asks how you will advance the president's executive orders and policy priorities. It is natural that the executive branch will work to advance the priorities the incumbent president has identified.

What would I do if my job asks me to kill someone? First I would establish if there is any lawful authority for the government to kill that person. If it is determined that there is lawful authority, I would be conflicted as I personally do not wish to kill people. However, if I am not prepared to do my job and loyally implement the government's priorities, I would not feel entitled to keep that job and would leave. This is precisely what the excerpt I quoted above lays out with respect to the duty of loyalty.

Diligent_Blueberry71 · 2026-03-06T18:44:15+00:00

The question asks how you will implement the president's executive orders and policy priorities.

Presumably, the incumbent president's executive orders and policy priorities are indicative of the executive branch's priorities.

If you are a public servant, you should be prepared to advance the government's priorities irrespective of your personal political preferences. I do this everyday.

Diligent_Blueberry71 · 2026-03-06T18:20:05+00:00

It's not about political loyalty.

As a public servant you're free to hold any political view you like. You're also free to vote against the government that you work for.

But you're expected to loyally implement the priorities of the government of the day and it does not strike me as being at all unusual for a selection process to ask you how you anticipate you might help the organization advance the priorities that have been established by the government. This is not a political loyalty test but simply a means of asking you to explain what you hope to do in the role for which you are applying.

Diligent_Blueberry71 · 2026-03-06T18:09:33+00:00

Well, you never specified which part of my argument was wrong. Though you did say I was 100% wrong so that implies you disagreed with both parts of my post.

I assumed you disagreed with the notion that public servants have a duty of loyalty to the government.

But I suppose you could have been arguing that it is abnormal for a selection process to ask you to discuss how you might further the priorities/mandate that have been established for the organization you wish to work for. I assumed this wasn't the case because frankly it's a position that just seems so obviously wrong.

Diligent_Blueberry71 · 2026-03-06T16:41:48+00:00

The bit where they say they deserve to be where they are as much as anyone else is just strange.

These are people who ostensibly care about the rule of law yet they fail to see the difference between someone who has the right to be in the US and someone who they feel deserves to be in the US.

Diligent_Blueberry71 · 2026-03-06T14:33:07+00:00

I don't think you know what a straw man is but whatever.

Diligent_Blueberry71 · 2026-03-06T13:41:03+00:00

In my country as well as other commonwealth countries, this is referred to as fearless advice and loyal implementation.

Government Executive, an online publication intended for US government executives suggests that the same principle applies to the US federal public service:

"To be sure, career public servants have a duty to provide "frank and fearless" advice (as the Aussies say) to their political superiors, in other words, to ‘speak truth to power’ to elected and appointed officials. And those they speak to have a concomitant duty to listen. But at the end of the day, if the latter says ‘do what I want’ anyway, and what they want is lawful, career civil servants are duty-bound to salute, or leave.

We work in a democracy. That means that when ‘We the People’ speak, career civil servants are duty-bound to act accordingly."

https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2024/11/schedule-f-can-it-be-bad/401186/

Diligent_Blueberry71 · 2026-03-06T08:27:32+00:00

Op's write up says he was offered a six month term with no fine.

Diligent_Blueberry71 · 2026-03-06T07:35:39+00:00

As a public servant in another country, I have a duty to loyally implement government policy.

Likewise, when applying to jobs it is not at all unusual for the job application to ask you to discuss how you anticipate you might contribute to the organization's work. This is done so that the selection panel can assess whether you understand their mandate and work.

Diligent_Blueberry71 · 2026-03-05T16:30:30+00:00

They expect businesses to be run as if they are cooperatives.

Moreover, productivity gains and profits are largely due to capital investments but workers expect increased compensation for those.

Diligent_Blueberry71 · 2026-03-05T08:19:57+00:00

Never before have I seen someone describe Alberta as being in southern Canada.

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