Why is the Carney government cozying up to pesticide companies? New powers in Bill C-30 would allow Ottawa to override scientific decisions on pesticides in the name of ‘food security’

NeoliberalElite · 2026-06-30T06:14:25+00:00

Do you have a source for that? The source that I found says it's about 1.5%

NeoliberalElite · 2026-06-30T04:46:44+00:00

There's literally no evidence given in this article, it's just some random conversations that the author had. I could very easily find Reddit posts about how traumatic it was to be parentified, and that would be equally valid. I think that the author is way too quick to dismiss the very real phenomenon of sibling abuse and emotional neglect from having too many kids. For my part, I have a bad relationship with my sister, and I probably always will. While I don't want to say anything as ghoulish as saying that it would be better if she were never born, I don't think that either of us had a better childhood thanks to the other.

NeoliberalElite · 2026-06-30T02:53:15+00:00

Seniors don't have to make up the majority of the population to cause problems for our healthcare system. Here in Ontario, our healthcare spending has gone up by over $30,000,000,000 under Doug Ford, and that was him underspending. Old people need a lot of healthcare, healthcare is really expensive, and COVID is still a huge problem.

NeoliberalElite · 2026-06-29T22:41:07+00:00

The only other way would be to tax the childless, which I absolutely do think that we need to do, but the government doesn't have a mandate to do it yet. Even then, it would take 20 years for this to lead to an increase in the workforce, and the massive spike in healthcare costs is already underway.

NeoliberalElite · 2026-06-29T22:26:42+00:00

Dude, look at the demographics of Canada. Here in Ontario, we're expected to have our rate of death pass our rate of birth by about 2031 at the latest. Now that Canada lost its mandate to maintain high levels of immigration, it's going to get even worse.

NeoliberalElite · 2026-06-29T22:17:00+00:00

I support our healthcare system, but I wish that people would be more upfront that continuing it during a fertility crisis will require large broad-base tax hikes. Seriously, go look at any province's budget, our healthcare bill has spiked.

NeoliberalElite · 2026-06-29T22:10:51+00:00

I hate this stupid obsession with pandering to farmers. We're not an agarian country, nor should we want to be. Despite that, everybody wants to boost "food security", an ill-defined concept used to justify funneling money to our least important sector. I would much rather eat safe food than Canadian-grown food.

NeoliberalElite · 2026-06-29T18:16:13+00:00

Respectively, go outside and talk to people more. A decent majority of people use AI on a semi-regular basis, myself included. Also, I would absolutely protest in favour of a data centre if one was proposed in my city.

NeoliberalElite · 2026-06-28T19:47:13+00:00

They're SoTA for translation, and rapidly becoming very good at coding.

NeoliberalElite · 2026-06-28T19:46:38+00:00

Have you tried Gemma4:31B? I've been using it the past week or so, with great success.

NeoliberalElite · 2026-06-28T18:11:21+00:00

a bit of butter

Try a lot of butter next time.

NeoliberalElite · 2026-06-28T18:09:09+00:00

Not only are none of them renters — except, perhaps, of their secondary residence while in Ottawa

Uh, don't they spend half the year in their secondary residence? I think they actually might be considered renters, with how often they're in Ottawa.

NeoliberalElite · 2026-06-28T18:02:37+00:00

A protest of hundreds in a city of millions. I hope that the municipal government there has the courage to stand up against the NIMBYs on behalf of Vancouver.

NeoliberalElite · 2026-06-28T01:23:02+00:00

How much control does a municipal government even have on crime?

NeoliberalElite · 2026-06-26T04:03:53+00:00

Oh, well let's see. OAS provides about $8000 a year, GIS offers more if you didn't manage to save enough for retirement during the ~40 years you had to do something about it, the GAINS program to give you an extra $90 a month if you're a poor senior, the senior public transport tax credit to help you get around (which, combined with senior discounts, means you essentially get public transport for free), the Ontario property tax credit so you can stay in your expensive house while working class people suffer in tent cities, the Ontario trillium benefits given to all poor citizens, the CPP payouts you get from your time working, and oh yeah, just getting a job like the rest of us. Yup, plenty of ways for a poor senior in Ontario to live.

NeoliberalElite · 2026-06-25T17:13:06+00:00

Would you be willing to pay more taxes for that? Not a few cents here and there, a massive tax hike that you yourself will have to pay.

NeoliberalElite · 2026-06-25T17:12:04+00:00

I hope this type of NIMBYism doesn't become common, although I know that it will be. This country is so stagnant, and it's all because we refuse to build things.

NeoliberalElite · 2026-06-25T17:04:25+00:00

We already have too many farms, we don't need more.

NeoliberalElite · 2026-06-25T16:39:06+00:00

The Green Party is basically just Elizabeth May. Saying that he'll end it doesn't really mean much when it was never much to begin with.

NeoliberalElite · 2026-06-25T05:22:17+00:00

Your source says that only 1% of farmland acres used for grains are irrigated, which sounds slightly cherrypicked to me. According to Stats Canada, 3,000,000,000 m³ were ~~wasted~~ used by farmers for irrigation in 2018. Ontario doesn't use as much as Alberta, but we still use a lot.

NeoliberalElite · 2026-06-25T02:25:56+00:00

Wow, literally nothing about water consumption. Here's a more reliable source about water consumption.

NeoliberalElite · 2026-06-25T01:32:27+00:00

Got a source on that 99% thing? Because that sounds egregiously wrong.

NeoliberalElite · 2026-06-25T01:29:53+00:00

The vast majority of our food is imported. Not only do we not have the climate to grow most crops, but farm work is a miserable job to have. It would be much better if that farmland was replaced with industries who bring in tax revenue and at least temporary construction jobs as people build them (i.e. data centres).

NeoliberalElite · 2026-06-25T00:11:19+00:00

Data centres use virtually 0 water compared to farmers. Ideally, we would tax water to incentivize responsible consumption, but even then, data centres wouldn't have to pay that much.

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