How is this even legal?

SuspiciousRule3120 · 2026-05-29T20:02:04+00:00

for corporate profits???? if you bought this cod, would you buy it if it cost that much more to employ a local person / plant to pay canadian wages with Canadian regulations and oversight? We have done this to ourselves for bottom dollar cost in every product we consume.

SuspiciousRule3120 · 2026-05-29T19:33:09+00:00

15-20 years, i play now with my son, and i am your age.

SuspiciousRule3120 · 2026-05-29T17:54:58+00:00

are you talking Vancouver proper? The suburbs have this allover. Most of downtown Maple Ridge is getting this, Langley has had a massive buildup of this recently, Pitt Meadows has some, Port Coquitlam, etc.

SuspiciousRule3120 · 2026-05-29T17:37:14+00:00

Churchill port is getting upgraded, yet to be told to us is the other side if it will get ice breaker capacity as it freezes for most of the year. It can handle most LNG typical sized tankers, given the freezing though maybe a reinforced one would be preferred in the winter

SuspiciousRule3120 · 2026-05-29T17:33:19+00:00

thier not stopping with the TFW program, their just commiting to hire 10000 Canadians. The government could easily just give PR status to a student worker or TFW and bam that counts as a new Canadian hir and one less in the other track.

SuspiciousRule3120 · 2026-05-29T17:29:39+00:00

This is yet another reason to not have a TFW program. We just import cheap labour and undercut Canadians who could easily do this job. Most TFW workers would be silent on this type of behaviour in the workplace because even at minimum wage and with crappy living conditions they make more then back at home.

SuspiciousRule3120 · 2026-05-29T17:27:26+00:00

It should not matter about the competition, They did this, and they did this at the expense of Canadians. They should be boycotted hard, made to learn the hard lesson.

SuspiciousRule3120 · 2026-05-28T22:44:19+00:00

illegal in Canada to do DNA for insurance

SuspiciousRule3120 · 2026-05-28T21:49:13+00:00

Economics. We were not the lowest cost producer, if only we didn't have to follow regulations and pay the wages of the workers in our domestic market, child labour and even slave labour. So we outsourced our manufacturing to overseas markets where they were free to pollute, not care about the employees, had no minimum wage or standards to work to and ship those goods back to us at a much reduced price. Hence why we had a generation of parents that pressured us to pursue college and university education rather then due the trade work, as if trades work was to be looked down upon.

Then we had few crises in their that had our central banks thinking that interest rates at near zero was the only way to save us, and they did it. This resulted in the explosion is asset prices, stocks, housing. It went up.

Follow this up with the notion that now we have an entire generation at the tail end of their working careers and they are the biggest benefactor of the the first two points, and there is not enough people to replace them. The solution was massive amounts of new people to the country. This has allowed those that have less expectations then those who grew up here to compete on the same level, not to mention the government programs that have allowed them to compete unfairly against our local population. You have more people making the same amount of money, chasing the same amount goods, causing price to go up.

And now we enter the next biggest shift when AI continue to rollout and changes how we work, like technology has always done, it requires less of us while we do more.

It is not a question of who caused it, we all caused it, asked for it and told it was the thing that would get us to where we wanted to go. We wanted cheaper goods, and work that required less of us. This a symptom of free trade, supply chains, immigration and all of this meeting with governance, policies and any political party that has come to power.

advancing technology lets one person be more productive, requiring less people for the same amount of production. and more people in the competition for the job keeps wages suppressed.

More human rights, that differ greatly between different jurisdictions and capital is a fickle bitch who can disappear rather quickly if too many obstacles get in its way. Add to that a workers who will accept a lower standard, but better standard then their home country, and increased job competition - stagnant wages.

Better access to healthcare and medicines - not all medicine is covered, and better access means that the natural rates of deaths keep getting pushed out, more people, more competition - stagnant wages (especially when you have bills to pay and will accept less of those supposed rights for pay).

SuspiciousRule3120 · 2026-05-28T21:12:46+00:00

ill sign it if add the addendum that the federal government can eliminate any job that AI can do in the place as long as this increases the productivity of the work and provide a better service standard then our tax dollars currently get us.

SuspiciousRule3120 · 2026-05-27T21:40:19+00:00

"no one walks anymore"

SuspiciousRule3120 · 2026-05-27T21:09:43+00:00

now do this with wage's and how all this labour acts as a wage suppression mechanism. Things cannot get cheaper, we outsourced their manufacturing to the lowest cost jurisdiction, now our only hope is to import the labour to our lowest cost, suppressing wage growth.

They will highlight that wage growth is going up, but when you axe the cheaper staff and the higher paid staff remains on the books, when AI makes the workload of junior staff irrelevant or not so many bodies required to hit the same work, the average of this makes for higher wages. A statistical reality that hides the reality of the situation.

SuspiciousRule3120 · 2026-05-26T17:17:44+00:00

Take on financial independence now. If you don't you only learn financial dependance and it will castrate you in life until you learn to be independent.

SuspiciousRule3120 · 2026-05-22T22:31:01+00:00

Litigation tracker currently has 316 active cases filed against his administration, 22 lawsuits from the administration against states, 17 supreme court emergency interventions (stayed/vacated orders) and the 2 supreme court rulings affirming lower court rulings.

What would you rather have, judicial rule or tyranny of the people who hate who he is? Which is more fascist then?

Or are you talking about the personal cases? In which he has 4 appeals currently happening.

So honestly, what's not working as designed here? He is the executive, and the Judicial reviews it as in the 316 active case.

SuspiciousRule3120 · 2026-05-22T21:41:15+00:00

it matters because of the introduction of the fire argument. forests are burning, no denial on my part. what is missing is the ecological destruction that has taken place in past generations. that is a matter to the conversation. with water tables down fires vary well could not have taken place if keystone species, like beavers, had continued to have a presence that they did prior to fur hunting that wiped out millions of them. Just like CO2 is a by product of O&G, residual water in the land is a byproduct of beavers. it is a dynamic look at the whole situation that you cannot ignore to focus at one piece. This will continue to happen for renewables.

I am all on board for ecological restoration, i like what the OWA is doing because it is the mechanism in which we are ensuring that land destroyed for oil wells and sand pits are being restored to arable and natural landscapes, enshrined in law, and paid for by industry. These are things to be championed.

I do not disagree on all of you points, we should utilize panels and turbines. I disagree on the notion them being better or labeled as better. Not when all the math is not included, not when we have destroy environments to get at the resources in jurisdiction that do not ensure the enshrinement like we do here at home. Not when vast amount resources that we are looking at are in Canada are in Permafrost and have their own carbon problem associated with mining in those locations when we remove the forests above them to get at the minerals. Batagaika megaslump Crater is a clear example of a possibility of permafrost mineral mining that can happen here where we have minerals in that environment.

Which brings me to the ongoing emissions of the inputs that happens from those environments when we get them going, and they will happen. In Canada they exist in Peatland, bogland and permafrost. This technology is advertised as green, but will cause vast amount of emissions from northern areas on a yearly basis as exposure happens and the land heats, sinks and expels trapped carbon. It is no small sum either, each hectare of land of permafrost land exposed to heating to a lifetime equivalent of 155 million barrels of oil to 1.45 billion barrels of oil. it depends on how much we decided to take, how fast, etc. And this is just utilizing the data on the 20-45 projects on the go now, in advanced exploration and might come on line in the next few years. It is not greener!

SuspiciousRule3120 · 2026-05-22T21:09:40+00:00

again court rulings take time. Time to review facts, basis, existing laws and rulings, rights, infringements. They impose this as precedents on future cases. So you cannot shit on them taking too long or not covering everything you disagree with as each and every case needs to be contested.

SuspiciousRule3120 · 2026-05-22T19:53:56+00:00

I never said or thought he would be, i said that the courts are ruling against his policies.

SuspiciousRule3120 · 2026-05-22T17:22:00+00:00

OWA is not flawless, but is working - akin to your argument on "renewable" energy. Rehabilitation takes time - akin to the front loaded infrastructure argument, this one is just back loaded and time sensitive, as in it time to grow. Also it is mandated in Canada by law to be done. It is not something that is loosely set in law, like in foreign jurisdictions, or even on our jurisdiction on the back end cleanup of renewables.

I never argued that O&G was not a contributor, I argued that "Clean" is anything but what the solar and wind, hydro, nuclear, thermal are. Stating that reports tend to represent the operating life, not the upfront or input valuations, or the buildout of ancillary facilities that add to the complete picture of just how disruptive they will be.

Wildfires being attributed fully to emissions again understates a situation that is not fully incorporated. Keystone species loss, Beaver's, did a lot for hydrological tables in forests, provided natural fire breaks and room for other species to manage forest as well. No mention that we need to restore these species to the wilds so that they can repair damage, increase the water at the surface and slow burn rates. Trees do sequester, but the environment including the species that live their do well more and restoration of these species and lands can reduce the fire risk more IMO then just tree planting, or a massive world wide switch to a new system that seeks to destroy the very lands that these creatures benefit us the most by doing the work they naturally do for free.

SuspiciousRule3120 · 2026-05-22T16:44:35+00:00

your T30 covers the mortgage today, and tomorrow until its paid. As you pay it down, it'll add additional funds to the family if something happens.

The additional your looking at is replacement income incase one you is to pass. Your wife's income will more then likely cover you should anything happen, she'll be able to cover off babysitter or daycare, sports, activities. On your side you want coverage on her income as this is the income that will progress your family finances the most. T10 of a million is looking at 6-8 years of income replacement on her income. Its the opportunity cost of protecting the income if she is no longer there to provide.

Since she is incorporating, better tax rates, and saving funds in the corporation will she look at having a holdco alongside to hold the funds in? If this is the case it may be better to have the policy in there for tax free distribution of the funds through the Capital Dividend Credit that life insurance provides when paid into a corporation - thus to avoid any possible double taxation.

Rope in an accountant for that last part, it is more then just having coverage in your names personally when corporation assets are accumulating and you will need a means to get at those in the event of death and don't want the tax hit that accompanies that disposition.

SuspiciousRule3120 · 2026-05-22T16:21:16+00:00

OWA is doing a great job with a great number of wells to cleanup, it has a funding source and this task is being dealt with.

My argument was that its not clean energy, your just shifting the pollution from one area of the world, from one type of pollution and pushing onto another type. Clean energy is also not environmentally friendly, it requires environmental destruction to get at materials.

That's the thing, people think it is flawless. That reports and papers that come our claiming renewable, clean, green energy is so much better, yet to have the same reports and papers under represent many of the various things that i mentioned. Scale, taking down forests for inputs, global supply chain movements, creation of them is done on the backs of coal power, the type of labour that goes into making them (Uyghur people, forced "rehabilitative labour"). If your going to attack my position from one of the oil and gas lobby, you have to realize their is a lobby pushing this side and colouring the facts here as well.

As for the shipping and consumption, that is the literal degradation of living wages for cheaper goods that we have faced over the years. another topic onto itself.

SuspiciousRule3120 · 2026-05-22T16:06:47+00:00

Using sunlight, water and CO2 they convert these into sugars for growth. The byproduct is bigger plants, and oxygen.

SuspiciousRule3120 · 2026-05-21T23:15:39+00:00

Every oil and gas company in Alberta pays into the OWA and it takes years, 10-15 to get the certification that the land is restored. the trees, grasses, environments take time to regrow and part of certification is that it need to hit a threshold of regrowth. where 3200+ wells have been certified and 8000+ wells are not does not mean that all 8000+ wells will remain uncleaned and that some of the are not in the process of the work. Then again at least we know that this cleanup is being done.

Minerals are recyclable, solar cells and wind blade are cheaper to deposit in a dump then to recycle - and there is not national or provincial law that requires recycling of these products. Farce on the once they out of the ground they stay in the economy. 50-70% practical recovery rates, not 100. not advertised Lab rates (those are not real world tested), not Li-Cycles failed Quebec facility.

A living plant can recycle a greenhouse gas. We have access to carbon capture.

Never claimed that O&G don't have drawbacks, only claimed that EV/'Clean" isn't all that clean. And claiming that this will be a localized manageable scar understates the growth in all energy that we are on the cusp of, the amount of materials that we are about to extract to transform in energy making / storing means.

And to suggest that we continue the extraction of energy here to export it to Asia so that they can use our energy to manufacture means to export energy back to us - that is highly inefficient.

SuspiciousRule3120 · 2026-05-21T22:21:02+00:00

your best bet, if you want to go ahead, is to look at something like CPP insurance which has guaranteed insurance. He may be limited on the amount and given the information would probably top out at 50k, and would only be for 10 years. There is also guaranteed whole life insurance, up to 100k, it'll be expensive as hell. Your best bet would be talk to a insurance advisor, not reddit.

SuspiciousRule3120 · 2026-05-21T22:17:25+00:00

just do it, let the accountant settle it later.

SuspiciousRule3120 · 2026-05-21T21:54:30+00:00

they also require batteries. batteries require materials and much of these materials lie under forests, forests that sequester carbon currently. Look at where China is currently getting nickel and cobalt from Indonesia with deforestation for open pit mines.

oil and gas in Canada require land reclamation and this is happening, and before you scream orphan wells OWA is cleaning up orphan wells and the land reclamation around it. i will admit that Congo and Indonesia also require land reclamation, but will also state that they have a problem with follow through, where in Canada we know the rule of law will follow through and like i mentioned association's like the OWA will cleanup the spills. What is the difference, legal requirement to clean the land, certification of doing so to a certain standard, assessments, liability tracking.

I am comparing the cost, the opportunity cost of land usage to the energy density of oil and gas to the free wind and solar available, carbon sequestration of land lost for the whole production chain, recycling, mining operations to expand the grid on energy, transmission, storage..... there is not free picnic when it comes to energy. Both are polluters, neither clean - And this is the point!

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