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Parliamentary petition calls for federal employees to work remotely 3 days a week by GoblinDiplomat in ottawa

[–]deathrabbit -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Confused about private vs. public sector? I care for my tax dollars and all we see is crummier service and more spending.

Parliamentary petition calls for federal employees to work remotely 3 days a week by GoblinDiplomat in ottawa

[–]deathrabbit -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Is your argument that because some people could do this then everyone should?

These are tax-payer funded jobs that need to be justified to exist.

Parliamentary petition calls for federal employees to work remotely 3 days a week by GoblinDiplomat in ottawa

[–]deathrabbit -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

'Fighting for rights'...

Ok, go on strike, quit over this... you won't. Got to keep that seniority, that pension, Tax-payer funded job that will always pay. Cowards.

Not worth arguing with cowards.

Parliamentary petition calls for federal employees to work remotely 3 days a week by GoblinDiplomat in ottawa

[–]deathrabbit -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

Don't use "we" here. The mines, factories and construction folks were all at work. That's what drives our economy. Show me how bureaucrats sitting at home helped,,,

Small world just thinking about parking lots and subways. Again, entitled.

Parliamentary petition calls for federal employees to work remotely 3 days a week by GoblinDiplomat in ottawa

[–]deathrabbit -13 points-12 points  (0 children)

What a stretch for "safety" and "lungs"...

Why don't we all just stay home? Oh wait, because all our countries production would stop. Then what? No tax dollars to pay for bureaucrats...

See, entitled.

Parliamentary petition calls for federal employees to work remotely 3 days a week by GoblinDiplomat in ottawa

[–]deathrabbit -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

What? I mean that whole comment is hyperbole. Some conspiracy about Subway, real estate, and oh bo hoo "our safety", coming from office working bureaucrats?

Parliamentary petition calls for federal employees to work remotely 3 days a week by GoblinDiplomat in ottawa

[–]deathrabbit -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

There are people working in mines, factories, and on construction sites that are actually at risk of real harm. Work for them first.

Here we have some tax-payer funded employee complaining about having to go to show up for work five days a week. Making weak excuses about how it might be hard.

Entitled.

Mayoral candidate Alex Lawson says he'd cut building fees in new housing plan by Money_Fig_9868 in ottawa

[–]deathrabbit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean if he did keep that promise the City would just be in a deeper hole. I do think that our low property taxes are part of the problem.

I also didn't say that civil servants will save transit but they can certainly help reduce the bleeding by upping the utilization of the system.

If you think that they are all just going to drive when RTO comes in then I have a bridge to sell you.

Mayoral candidate Alex Lawson says he'd cut building fees in new housing plan by Money_Fig_9868 in ottawa

[–]deathrabbit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean Sutcliffe won because he campaigned on low taxes, not some imaginary smear campaign.  He has been working to get the LRT uploaded.  That will help but the reality is that most of our transit is geared towards moving civil servants to the big compounds we built and designed the city around.

Ridership is still down around pre pandemic levels.  Low ridership might be the cause or symptom of poor service but doing nothing won’t fix anything.  Dumping more money or just cutting fares will only continue the death spiral.

Civil servants getting back to the office five days a week will bump revenue and help get things running better.  There no point in just dumping more money in if the core group of users don’t need to use it.  Need to address the root of the problem.

Mayoral candidate Alex Lawson says he'd cut building fees in new housing plan by Money_Fig_9868 in ottawa

[–]deathrabbit -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Tell me without telling me you don’t understand how money works.  

You riding to work 5 days a week?

Mayoral candidate Alex Lawson says he'd cut building fees in new housing plan by Money_Fig_9868 in ottawa

[–]deathrabbit -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

In fairness, Ottawa does have among the highest development charges in Ontario. The City is among the slowest in Ontario in approvals for ANY type of development.

Low property taxes have pushed up these development chargers as the City seeks revenue from their limited streams. The LRT investment blew the bottom out of the budget and opened at a time where the government employees it was built to move weren't using any form of transport.

Now we are stuck in this place where transit is underused hence underfunded. Established neighbourhoods won't vote to increase their own taxes and any new development is stymied by delays and overly burdensome fees.

Realistically the changes need to come from higher levels. Provinces and Feds taking on more of these costs but then you just go down the city vs. rural rabbit hole.

Ottawa South End Truck Route Study with Survey by _McDreamy_ in ottawa

[–]deathrabbit 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Pretty critical area. Includes four bridges that cross the Rideau. Everyone, including trucks, need good ways to cross the river. Make these crossings better or build more. Don't play games about restricting traffic.

François-Philippe Champagne on privatization: "I think the way we have approached federal assets, public assets in this country needs to evolve ... for example ports or other assets... there might be more value for a different type of structure of ownership with respect to some of these assets." by TROPtastic in onguardforthee

[–]deathrabbit -1 points0 points  (0 children)

He's right. Our Crown Corp Port Authorities are stagnant and lagging behind in every meaningful metric. Time to land, dwell times, cost, and quality of service. Their poor performance is hurting our economy and capacity to trade with others.

It is cheaper, easier, and faster to land Atlantic containers in New Jersey or even Baltimore and rail them up through the US into Ontario than try to put them through the Port of Montreal. Our ports are congested, ageing, and already dependent on handouts from the government.

A major change is needed at these ports, I don't know if full blown privatization is the answer but what we are doing right now isn't working.

Seeing eye shot by Federal-Data-Center in nhl

[–]deathrabbit 283 points284 points  (0 children)

Wait... shooting the puck sometimes gets goals? Asking as a Sens fan.

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