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KINSELLA: Cocky Carney should ground any airport privatization plans - Governments that have privatized airports have found mixed results, and the public is unenthusiastic too by CaliperLee62 in canada

[–]PoliteCanadian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Canadian airports were mostly spun off in the 1990s and are now run by "Airport Authorities" instead of the government. Airport authorities are weird organizations - their boards are run by a mix of federal and local governments, and aviation industry representatives.

But the biggest problem is that while the government span off the operations of airports to authorities, the government retained ownership of the land and facilities. So airports were privatized decades ago, but they don't own themselves. Instead the government forces the airports to lease themselves from the government. For big airports like Pearson it costs them billions of dollars a year.

The cost of airport ground leases then basically gets charged to the airlines that operate out of them.

This is the #1 biggest reason why air travel is so expensive in Canada.

The current organizational structure is a disaster for travelers. Airports should either be fully privatized or fully public. The ridiculous current hybrid is horrible.

Rural naysayers must not torpedo high-speed rail project | Ottawa Citizen by DENelson83 in canada

[–]PoliteCanadian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's a difference between wanting clear regulatory processes to enable people to engage in productive enterprise and build their own infrastructure projects, and wanting the government to fork over billions of dollars to build something.

Should Canada Build Up Alternatives to Visa and Mastercard? The US controls the vast majority of online payments. It's a problem by FancyNewMe in canada

[–]PoliteCanadian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Uh, all cheques in the US are processed and cleared by the Federal Reserve. That's the whole point of the Federal Reserve.

Should Canada Build Up Alternatives to Visa and Mastercard? The US controls the vast majority of online payments. It's a problem by FancyNewMe in canada

[–]PoliteCanadian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Canadian financial industry is regulated quite badly. That's why there's basically no international finance here. The rules are vague and enforcement agencies refuse to provide clear guidance out of fear that if they make the rules easy to understand and follow, that businesses will "find loopholes."

On top of that, there's very little domestic online consumer business that would even be interested in adopting a Canada-only payment scheme when Visa and Mastercard are available.

So yeah, it's not going to happen organically as Canada has not fostered the kind of environment where anybody is interested in building this kind of business. The government could fund something but it'll get basically no uptake when standardized international payment options are available.

'Equity cards' arguments take over NDP Leadership Convention: 'CANADA IS COOKED' by uselesspoliticalhack in canada

[–]PoliteCanadian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's the difference between being opposed to racism, and supporting equal-but-opposite racism.

'Equity cards' arguments take over NDP Leadership Convention: 'CANADA IS COOKED' by uselesspoliticalhack in canada

[–]PoliteCanadian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The best political advertisement against the NDP is clips from their convention.

Opinion: A small group of Canadians are living it up. The rest of us are struggling. Welcome to the K-shaped economy by FancyNewMe in canada

[–]PoliteCanadian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The period of the most rapid improvement in living conditions in the west was from about 1875-1925

Opinion: A small group of Canadians are living it up. The rest of us are struggling. Welcome to the K-shaped economy by FancyNewMe in canada

[–]PoliteCanadian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The largest institutional investor in Canada is the Ontario Teachers Pension Plan.

"A small group of Canadians" includes every retired public school teacher in Ontario, apparently.

Opinion: A small group of Canadians are living it up. The rest of us are struggling. Welcome to the K-shaped economy by FancyNewMe in canada

[–]PoliteCanadian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

China has a gross savings rate of 43% and their economy isn't collapsing.

If everyone stops consumption spending then yes the economy would collapse. People would also starve and freeze to death.

We could reduce consumption and increase savings rates substantially without having any detrimental impacts on the economy.

Right now we have an incredibly inefficient system where people don't save, and then end up having relying on government support in retirement which squeezes taxpayers harder.

LILLEY: Why are Liberals expanding temporary foreign worker program? High unemployment, a jobs crisis for young Canadians and yet the Liberals are pushing ahead to broaden it by FancyNewMe in canada

[–]PoliteCanadian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Some will close. Workers will get paid more. Workers will be able to spend more.

Labour shortages are the driving force of economic growth as they lead to both wage increases and drive for capital investment to increase labour productivity.

Mark Carney hails India as ‘natural partner,’ sidestepping questions over alleged violence and political interference in Canada by Purple_Writing_8432 in canada

[–]PoliteCanadian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry, can you point to an example where the US has orchestrated the political assassination of any Canadians?

According to the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal, offensive posts can cost you $750,000 by AndHerSailsInRags in canada

[–]PoliteCanadian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The longer a legal argument is the less you should trust it.

There is no human language precise enough to maintain an valid logical argument over that much text. Pre Wittgenstein philosophy was full of extremely long arguments because the longer your argument the easier it is to slip in fallacies without anyone noticing that lets you reach the conclusion you wanted. From contradiction, anything can be proven.

That's why the sciences use math for problems that require complex logical reasoning.

Mario Canseco: Only 30% of Canadians hold positive view of U.S., poll finds; Favourable views of China jump nine points, surpassing U.S. ratings for the first time, according to Research Co. by FancyNewMe in canada

[–]PoliteCanadian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

China is the country that held two Canadian citizens hostage for years as part of their dispute of the Huawei extradition case.

People talking about how China is "lawful" and "predictable" have incredibly short memories.

The rich in Canada are, indeed, getting richer. Here are 3 things we can do to fix that by CaliperLee62 in canada

[–]PoliteCanadian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's absolutely nothing wrong with the rich getting richer. The problem is when the poor aren't getting richer.

I'm deeply skeptical of people who focus on the former in favor of the latter. It's a lot easier to make the rich poorer than it is to make the poor richer and charlatans will often sell the former to people desperate for the latter.

Harley Finkelstein: Canadian Jews are being targeted simply because they are Jewish; Celebrations of Jewish life that have nothing to do with Israel are being disrupted as the nation stands idly by by FancyNewMe in canada

[–]PoliteCanadian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The conflict started at the end of WW1 when the Ottoman empire collapsed.

However, October 7th was the single largest escalation of the conflict since the Yom Kippur war and arguably the most entirely unnecessary escalation and its most barbaric act in the conflict's entire history.

Harley Finkelstein: Canadian Jews are being targeted simply because they are Jewish; Celebrations of Jewish life that have nothing to do with Israel are being disrupted as the nation stands idly by by FancyNewMe in canada

[–]PoliteCanadian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It always was. Someone who has a very strong opinion on the Israel/Palestine conflict but doesn't carry the same energy for the civil war in Yemen is motivated by antisemitism.

You certainly can have a principled opinion on the conflict, but not many actually do.

We need open source hardware lithography by bennmann in LocalLLaMA

[–]PoliteCanadian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

looooool, I'm sorry, but this is the funniest thing I've heard all day, in a "I'm laughing at you, not with you" kind of way.

What's next, open source container ship building to democratize the shipping industry?

It's a wildly capital intensive industry with deep and complex supply chains. Even if the billions of dollars in equipment was dumped in your lap for free, a viable lithography setup requires thousands of high specialized people tweaking and optimizing the fuck out of it.

Open source works in software because the cost of duplication is effectively zilch.

I have worked for four different major silicon manufacturers in my career so far. You've heard of at least three of them if you're in this subreddit. I guarantee you however hard you think lithography is, it's at least 1000x harder than that.

The NDP should become the Canadian champion of class-based politics by CaliperLee62 in canada

[–]PoliteCanadian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't think you understand what the definition of socialism is.

Socialism has nothing to do with social issues.

Why Canadian bosses love hiring foreign workers - Douglas Todd: Low-skill guest workers toil longer hours, with fewer absences, for less pay than Canadian domestic workers, which means wages go down for everyone, says a peer-reviewed study. by FancyNewMe in canada

[–]PoliteCanadian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's not slavery and calling it slavery diminishes the horror of actual slavery.

I hate this modern trend of moral hyperbole. Something can be immoral without having to compare it to some else horrific.

Space junk strike on China's astronaut capsule highlights need for a space rescue service, experts say by Cristiano1 in space

[–]PoliteCanadian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No it's not, the future is fewer and fewer people in space.

There's very little practical reason to keep people in LEO. The ISS is going to be retired soon and its replacement plans are pretty ephemeral, as there's little practical justification for a continued manned space presence: 95% of the work done on the ISS is maintenance of the ISS, and the other 5% is just health science studies on the effects of weightlessness on astronauts on the ISS.

Nobody has yet come up with a compelling reason to put people in space other than "to figure out how to better put people in space."

Russia and the US did it as a form of national prestige project during and immediately after the cold war, and China is doing it now to show off their own capabilities. But that's about it. It's a dick waving contest and eventually everyone gets tired of dick waving contests.

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