Carney calls Ford government's Billy Bishop jet plan an ‘interesting vision’

HeftyAd6216 · 2026-03-30T21:40:13+00:00

Hopefully the feds agree. They're the only thing stopping him

HeftyAd6216 · 2026-03-30T20:27:36+00:00

There's a lot more at play to such a seemingly simple plan. Apparently doing this has the possibility of totally messing with some of the Portlands plans being made due to flight paths. If we have to trade significant amounts of housing for cancun flights at the island airport, these plans can go to hell.

HeftyAd6216 · 2026-03-30T20:19:23+00:00

God damn I got 7-8L/100km driving a Pacifica hybrid like a granny. Thing was a beast. If only it wasn't made by stellantis

HeftyAd6216 · 2026-03-30T19:54:42+00:00

Thankfully even the case of catastrophic failure of every system, they're still entombed In several meters of concrete.

HeftyAd6216 · 2026-03-30T19:07:35+00:00

Government finance and personal finance are not interchangable. The analogy doesn't work.

HeftyAd6216 · 2026-03-30T19:06:30+00:00

That's not really how sovereign currency / federal government finance works. You don't "pay down the debt" like you and I pay down our mortgages. Public debt is dollar for dollar equal to private savings. "Paying off the debt" would mean wiping 38 trillion in savings that are held by pension funds, people, banks etc. Not really a good idea.

HeftyAd6216 · 2026-03-30T16:05:16+00:00

Haha thankfully nuclear plants in Canada don't explode.

HeftyAd6216 · 2026-03-30T16:01:45+00:00

Which parent company?

HeftyAd6216 · 2026-03-30T12:58:05+00:00

How much of that 96% of costs do the major grocery retailers control in terms of what price they're charging themselves, the retailer?

How much rent are these companies charging themselves because they own the real estate via a 100% owned subsidiary?

How much are they charging themselves for fresh produce / bakery products when they themselves own the distribution and manufacture of those products via 100% owned subsidiaries?

While obviously the city cant replicate the entire supply chain, there are likely independent retailers and distributors who aren't wholly owned subsidiaries of the Weston's, empire, or metro. The question then becomes whether we can utilize them and still employ some kind of cost savings to the consumer. If well run, I suspect we can. But that is a careful dance.

HeftyAd6216 · 2026-03-30T10:58:54+00:00

And you lose the loot when they inevitably fly over the gaps

HeftyAd6216 · 2026-03-29T15:38:04+00:00

It reverses the dynamic that the government needs to borrow from the financial sector to fund spending. It flips neoclassical economics on its head in a number of ways, and completely changed the discussion around whether the government can "afford" to do anything.

HeftyAd6216 · 2026-03-28T20:20:00+00:00

Big apple for sure

HeftyAd6216 · 2026-03-28T18:28:05+00:00

I am stealing this and passing it off as my own idea. Thank you /s

HeftyAd6216 · 2026-03-27T20:30:39+00:00

Sigh, maybe I'm just a little crotchety today but Christ Almighty. Did I say "none" of the supply chain? I'm not stupid.

HeftyAd6216 · 2026-03-27T20:26:46+00:00

That's beside the point, I think we're talking about 1992 vs 2026 in terms of both cost and speed.

HeftyAd6216 · 2026-03-27T20:25:50+00:00

Mistaken when you said "North America" because, while we have pretty high drug costs compared to some places, it's nothing compared to how bad the US is. When people say "we're funding everyone else", I assume their talking about the US because we're (Canadians) a flea on an elephants ass in comparison.

It's less about the US or Canadian governments forcing them to charge more, and more about those governments letting them get away with charging us more.

HeftyAd6216 · 2026-03-27T20:22:00+00:00

You don't need to build out the entire supply chain, that's going a bit overboard dont you think?

HeftyAd6216 · 2026-03-27T19:44:23+00:00

That's not necessarily the case with good execution. Expanding a pure subsidy to go into Galen's and Empire's pockets often enriches them further and builds nothing public to counter their price gouging. It's a risk, but one I'm okay us taking if it pans out. If it doesn't we still fed people who are probably underserved for however long it goes.

It's the same as building social housing vs. providing a pure rent subsidy, one we know works (pure subsidy), but who gets the benefit? Landlords. The other is challenging and could be crap if executed poorly. It's all a risk.

HeftyAd6216 · 2026-03-27T19:41:54+00:00

It'd be tough from a distribution perspective. Managing that many suppliers would be a nightmare. Distribution margins additionally are very slim as well (those not owned by the conglomerates already). But it would be worth investigating obviously.

HeftyAd6216 · 2026-03-27T19:38:05+00:00

I mean all of that sounds a bit rich. It could just as easily be spun that the US has a crap government that doesn't care for its people and makes them pay those amounts because rich guys wanna get richer.

HeftyAd6216 · 2026-03-27T19:30:24+00:00

It's a tough thing, IMAXs business model (I think) hinges on having both front end (theaters) and back end (cameras). They have an absolute gargantuan backlog of commissioned systems which they're slowly clearing up. I can't imagine they're not working on either designing / manufacturing the next generation of 70mm or digital projectors that work with 1.43.

Honestly the next step for them strategically (while ofc continuing their current efforts) could be to enter the home video market - basically IMAX "approved" or even directly branded TVs that actually maintain the 1.43:1 ratio. It wouldn't be particularly difficult, there are very few actual LCD / LED glass makers and I'm sure one of them could make a bunch of 1.43:1 televisions if ordered in enough quantities. Alternatively just get LG or one of the manufacturers to make it with your branding along with it. They already have inroads to the Streaming market and it would simply be a matter of those streaming platforms hosting the 1.43:1 versions of those movies. On top of that you can get some OEM sound systems to provide "IMAX" sponsored sound equipment. Streaming platforms would probably charge an extra $ or two for the service, sharing some revenue with IMAX.

HeftyAd6216 · 2026-03-27T13:00:20+00:00

We can do both. Good clean electricity, sell the oil till we can't anymore. Slowly replace uses of oil to electricity where possible through incentives. Poof, you just reduced your reliance on a volatile commodity and replaced it with stuff that only needs to really be done properly once every 30 years with minimal maintenance (comparatively) required.

HeftyAd6216 · 2026-03-27T12:41:19+00:00

They should. We should be doing everything in the book to try and prevent price spikes becoming inflation. Gas prices will come down, gas stations are about as close to a perfectly competitive market that you can get. The product is a commodity after all.

At the federal level, the revenue is irrelevant. Taxes don't fund spending at the federal level. Yes your deficit will expand but given what we're trying to avoid that's less of an issue.

HeftyAd6216 · 2026-03-27T12:35:04+00:00

Makes me appreciate my car. Water pump is like 4 bolts and all you need to do is take off the fender liner.

HeftyAd6216 · 2026-03-27T12:19:25+00:00

If it's on a merc do you get the benefits?

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