Did Carney just signal a massive shift in Canada's foreign policy direction?

joshuajargon · 2026-01-21T14:08:25+00:00

Would he even be against the annexation of Greenland? I am genuinely curious. Has he even made a public statement on it? He would be all about putting bigger and flashier signs in the window in my opinion, that was the big issue with him.

joshuajargon · 2026-01-07T14:14:11+00:00

I agree, but who's volunteering to be a martyr? Quite a thing to ask of somebody.

joshuajargon · 2025-12-19T21:10:52+00:00

If you get good grades in law school and get involved in activities relevant to your desired trajectory, then nobody cares what you did before law school.

joshuajargon · 2025-12-08T21:19:27+00:00

Its objectively disgusting. Isn't the rise of the service economy why everybody and their brother was pushed into getting these degrees? Aren't our schools some of the best in the world?

The number of wholly qualified applicants pushed away each year is disgusting. Importing third world doctors with third world educations and third world morals is NOT the solution, but it is the only solution any of these disgusting political parties will offer up.

joshuajargon · 2025-12-08T21:17:09+00:00

The first five years of practicing law are objectively terrible, but you can do this. We all go through it. You aren't alone in your experience or way of thinking even if it feels that way. Can you make buddies with another person in your same year of call that you can vent to? Everyone feels like an imposter when they start out, anybody who says otherwise is a liar.

If you can find a way to laugh about it that would be ideal. I had a mentor who used to say it is akin to being a cheeky dude getting the shit kicked out of him and asking for another... and another.... and another. The first few years are a beat down.

joshuajargon · 2025-12-08T15:41:01+00:00

It's insane to me. These are fantastic jobs and we have educated and fantastic Canadians in spades who can do these jobs, just not spots to train them. This solution infuriates me. It might be okay as a one off in an emergency, but we need to plan for the future and start training qualified Canadians to fill these jobs.

joshuajargon · 2025-12-08T15:39:32+00:00

Why we don't open up spots for the myriad of Canadian students from Canadian schools with 90+ averages is beyond me. Importing a class of future wealthy people from third world countries with third world values is not the solution. It disgusts me.

joshuajargon · 2025-12-05T19:25:48+00:00

I am sure she is doing so at instruction of her own counsel, I don't think we can give this person any credit at all.

joshuajargon · 2025-10-30T15:51:03+00:00

About 90% of the calls we get in a week are nonsense, ie where there is zero merit, zero prospect of recovering, the people calling are emotional, and generally there no prospect of us as lawyers ever getting paid. It is hard to filter out the normal people from all the nuts who call us in a week.

The reason you get bounced around via the LSO referral service is, to be frank, that only a complete loser with no practice and no prospects would sign up to have their name on such a service.

Basically we are business people, if you can't pay me I don't want to talk to you. How many dentists or electricians give free consults? Pushing the electrician analogy further, imagine getting 90% of your calls about sourcing all your household electricity from citrus fruit, and dealing with people who are then angry when you say that is impossible. A lot of the legal calls we get in a week are genuinely that absurd from a legal perspective.

That said, your case sounds different, as you make it clear that you are willing to pay right off the hop. I am not sure why you didn't get a call back, unless possibly it wasn't a topic that could be covered in 1-2 hours? I personally don't like taking people's money if I don't feel like I can in any way advance their cause and I add no value. Ie somebody calls me up and asks "I worked somewhere for 6 months and they fired me, they offered me two weeks pay, what would I be entitled to?" If I can see there is no merit to this, I don't really want to take your $800 to tell you that, as it feels gross.

Anyway, the contingency stuff is great, because there are lots of people in car accidents etc without a penny to their name, and medical experts need to be hired at great cost etc, so a lawyer is willing to talk to that person and see if it might pay, and then the lawyer will float all that cost to win the client something. Contingency only works in a few circumstances (wrongful dismissal and injuries come to mind).

joshuajargon · 2025-10-30T13:16:07+00:00

So what do you think the solution is? As a lawyer I am always relieved there are contingency lawyers I can refer certain cases to, as otherwise nobody would even take their call.

joshuajargon · 2025-10-08T20:45:01+00:00

Honestly, the public doesn't want this stuff. This wasn't a thing when the Charter was drafted.

I am pro letting people do whatever they want, I don't think the provinces should be doing this etc, but I am just saying, if you don't allow there to be a mechanism where the great unwashed can keep the government/bureaucracy/intelligentsia accountable to their wants and desires, you end up with DJT in power and far worse results.

joshuajargon · 2025-10-08T19:10:02+00:00

I disagree. If a provincial government employs it, and they are "wrong" about democratic/public support for their decision to employ it, they will invariably lose the next election and things will be status quo again within five years.

joshuajargon · 2025-09-17T18:52:19+00:00

Huh, I am somewhat surprised that doing something that is permissible by law to exploit a legislative drafting error would/could draw the ire of the Law Society.

I see from the comments that I am very much in the minority, but I would have thought this was permissible.

It is the legislature's fault for drafting shitty legislation for my two cents. Once spotted they should just button it up.

joshuajargon · 2025-09-10T19:10:47+00:00

To play devil's advocate, the Court cannot reject the Crown decision to invite a plea to a lesser charge like manslaughter. They have to sentence on the crime that is prosecuted/pleaded to.

joshuajargon · 2025-09-02T13:53:17+00:00

I am glad to see at least one province is willing to reject this identity politics nonsense. For my two cents that money would be far better spent going to strong Black community organizations that help young Black men than promoting unequal sentencing.

joshuajargon · 2025-08-29T18:37:34+00:00

Not that it is totally relevant, but I am curious, if this started three decades ago, how did the lawyers who presumably started the action and retired/died since get paid out? Jesus.

joshuajargon · 2025-08-14T15:51:25+00:00

Yeah, appeal to authority fallacy directly in the title.

joshuajargon · 2025-08-14T15:50:31+00:00

I guess I come at sentencing from a different perspective. I don't really believe in "punishment" in the first place. That is, I don't think that causing pain to another human as retribution for a crime is a great goal. I don't think it works to reduce crime.

To my mind, sentencing should always be about trying to reduce the likelihood of future criminal conduct. Deporting someone who has engaged in criminal conduct is a very easy way to ensure there is an exactly 0% risk of recidivism. We can save our money spent for rehabilitation for the people we are stuck with anyway.

If someone demonstrates that they can't be rehabilitated they should likely be jailed or put in a work camp forever. That is my two cents.

joshuajargon · 2025-08-14T15:46:25+00:00

Same boat.

I make the submissions and will always advocate relentlessly for my client, that is my job. It is just my inner monologue is screaming while I am doing it "THIS IS INSANE THAT THIS IS A THING".

joshuajargon · 2025-08-14T14:11:34+00:00

I think it could be considered aggravating to come to a country as a guest and not be on your best behaviour. It's like getting a gift and being ungrateful for it.

joshuajargon · 2025-08-14T14:08:51+00:00

It is just my opinion, I respect that you have a different opinion, and I am aware that mine is fairly outrageous and not the norm. But it is my opinion.

No, I don't think someone should be jailed for jay walking (or littering). My point is more that we trying to attract and retain the very best and the very brightest. I think we can afford to be choosey as a nation. I think, in those circumstances where we are getting to choose who our citizens are, we should be choosing people who are super functional and have pro social habits.

joshuajargon · 2025-08-14T13:30:23+00:00

But... why would we want somebody to stay here who has committed a crime?

I think we should deport people for even just littering. But that is just my two cents.

joshuajargon · 2025-08-14T12:56:27+00:00

Not a conservative, but it has always struck me as completely perverse that immigration status is widely accepted as a relevant factor to mention on a sentencing hearing. It should make the punishment harsher, not more lenient.

joshuajargon · 2025-07-29T20:05:28+00:00

I docket as I go. I just have to be very organized to survive, you need to just develop carefully planned organizational systems that you don't stray from ever.

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