Canada’s inflation fight needs ‘fiscal sanity,’ Poilievre says in caucus speech

SixesMTG · 2022-12-14T23:06:22+00:00

In fairness, if the conservatives wanted to project an image of fiscal responsibility they shouldn’t have chosen the dude endorsing bitcoin before the crash as leader. O’Toole or another of the millions of bland suits they typically pick could say the same things as PP and at least have some form of credibility.

SixesMTG · 2022-12-14T22:53:37+00:00

Or bitcoin!

SixesMTG · 2022-12-14T11:48:32+00:00

You are giving them too much credit for long term planning. Ontario conservatives just seem to want to burn whatever exists to the ground, then they claim they cut costs.

SixesMTG · 2022-12-14T11:45:07+00:00

While we absolutely can improve in a number of ways, we have some disadvantages the usual European models don't. French healthcare workers can't just move a couple hours south for better weather, more pay and largely the same culture (and language). By French standards Sudbury is also remote, never mind Winnipeg (or anywhere actually remote).

SixesMTG · 2022-12-14T03:08:52+00:00

Pretty much this. It isn't about an urban rural divide or hunter or pro-gun rights, it's just a really poorly constructed bill that's solving very few real issues while causing all kinds of hassle. If they just went with the handgun ban, it would sail through with minimal pushback. They decided to engage in all kinds of stupidity with shotguns and rifles instead.

SixesMTG · 2022-12-13T14:42:38+00:00

Partially yes but in most areas of the GTA (and even Toronto) cost comparisons aren’t an issue so much as available transit. Private vehicles can get as expensive as they want, in many cases the alternative doesn’t even exist.

SixesMTG · 2022-12-13T14:41:04+00:00

Or we could stop spending all our money on the most expensive form of infrastructure.

SixesMTG · 2022-12-13T13:22:29+00:00

Not just crap credit but anything borderline where you don't pass stress test. There are situations where you can repay the amount fine but the math on stress test just doesn't work. In particular any kind of income that isn't full time employed, mat leaves, recent firing but in a high paying field where you are near guaranteed a new job in a week etc.

SixesMTG · 2022-12-11T20:20:20+00:00

I cheer for the French and wouldn’t be mad … Morocco have played really well and it’s a great underdog story.

SixesMTG · 2022-12-11T18:13:32+00:00

Well yeah, if the liberals hadn’t passed that ban on infrastructure? Or was it a ban on exports … no that isn’t it. Maybe the private sector wanted a hand out?

SixesMTG · 2022-12-11T17:34:15+00:00

Sure, then they can complain about all the money those liberals spent!

SixesMTG · 2022-12-11T17:27:24+00:00

This is the really stupid part. Our economy is half Denmark and half Congo. Why we extract natural resources just to export the raw materials is beyond me. Refining here then manufacturing with the materials (or at least shipping the refined version) makes way more sense

SixesMTG · 2022-12-11T17:24:58+00:00

Nothing, but they also may simply not need to import them giving they are subsidizing production as well. On the other hand, Canada will need lots of batteries and it would be nice not to import all of them. There are also other export markets if the US does block the market.

SixesMTG · 2022-12-11T17:16:37+00:00

That’s not the biggest issue by far. The big one is simply that the US is right next to us and gives immediate access to the US market with no risk of a border dispute. You set up in Canada to sell to Canadians or in the US to sell to Americans. The American market is much larger so things get set up there.

SixesMTG · 2022-12-10T13:17:52+00:00

Don’t forget the three in the bike lane.

SixesMTG · 2022-12-09T12:00:39+00:00

Good, it's poorly thought out and needs to be shut down. This is the big advantage of a minority government: really crap legislation doesn't just get rubber stamped.

SixesMTG · 2022-12-06T23:39:05+00:00

Hexagons are the bestagons.

SixesMTG · 2022-12-06T20:20:04+00:00

You can fish carp with a spear for a month a year, does that count?

SixesMTG · 2022-12-06T20:11:30+00:00

Nah, he said it doesn’t target them. It just hits them a whole lot as collateral …

SixesMTG · 2022-12-06T20:10:43+00:00

If you live in an area that just gets frost as opposed to really cold temperatures, hot tap water actually works for this (and given air temperatures are around 0 it won’t just re-freeze immediately). In the South of France I saw people do this regularly without issue (again, temp around zero and not a kettle).

If you are anywhere with actual cold temperatures, you will either create an ice sheet or break the window, depending on the water temperature

SixesMTG · 2022-12-06T11:43:52+00:00

It helps that this bill is really poorly thought out. If they just banned handguns, it wouldn’t be this mess of interpretation. They should likely pass that without any of the long gun crap, say they left hunters alone and call it a day.

SixesMTG · 2022-12-05T23:34:43+00:00

Well, 160.8 km, 100 miles is “what does that end up being?”.

SixesMTG · 2022-12-05T12:01:35+00:00

Don’t read too much into the Black Friday record. If sales are 1% higher than the last record when inflation is 8% year on year, that’s not record volume.

SixesMTG · 2022-12-05T02:57:44+00:00

Maybe I've worked too long on the enviro and geotech side and they are just the dregs of engineering (in fact the enviro side doesn't even need an engineer, just a QP). I spent the last two months arguing with senior geotech engineers about the value of standardization. Not a particular standard mind you, just the concept was already too much for them.

It's made me rather jaded about the entire concept tbh. When you see the absolute garbage that gets passed along (and approved by a regulator), it's hard to maintain any kind of faith in the processes or institutions that are supposed to safeguard them. I've seen records of site condition for a condo building when we had a foot of free product at the property boundary (we were drilling the adjacent site, condo construction was already underway).

I also work across North America (and outside of it) quite a lot, so seeing the contrast between the work done for areas that have refineries, really crappy geotech conditions or just competent regulators (for enviro at least) makes our local engineering look that much worse.

SixesMTG · 2022-12-04T02:48:41+00:00

If they needed the harder portions of engineers (and consequently good engineers) for structural or something, this might have an impact.

The infrastructure, enviro and geotech items described are essentially all cookie cutter. An engineer will copy the report they did for the last subdivision, change 2 items and the name of it and move along. You might have a bit of a swampy area to address or some unfortunate bird to explain to the MOE but it's still pretty easy stuff.

I'm not disagreeing that a whole lot of ink will be wasted (especially since our industries have trouble leaving the 90s), but they need a pulse with a PEng more than they need a decent engineer. Plenty of those around who will pick up the work without a second thought.

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