toastmeister

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[–] toastmeister@lemmy.ca -2 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Its concluding that if Alberta leaves Quebec will be screwed, so its in Quebecs interest to allow a pipeline to prevent secession. The tariffs on manufacturing emboldens this with an even larger crisis. The long term plan would be to end the reliance on Russian energy, assuming its true, but it seems to be unfolding as predicted so far which is neat.

Heres who was predicting it, starting about 28 minutes in:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enHNWDawcQo

[–] toastmeister@lemmy.ca 1 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (2 children)

What if I'm against immigration due to a housing bubble that is destroying the poor and dramatically increasing price to income ratios, am I a racist or a saint?

I think anyone with a brain can see that in many countries mass immigration is being used to depress wages and invert the phillips curve after QE, or to prop up GDP to avoid a technical recession in favor of a per-capita recession, which is for some reason not defined or acknowledged. It also clearly hurts the poor and benefits the rich via asset price inflation and higher rental income.

[–] toastmeister@lemmy.ca 17 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

The reason Trumps idea appeals to people for those unaware is that free trade destroyed a lot of union jobs, which were outsourced to emerging markets. After the industrial revolution unions fought for worker rights and salaries, and they were then shipped away to places that didnt have those rights, and they want to see a reversal of this.

Not sure if its right or wrong, but you cant fault them for holding out hope, its actually a left wing ideal I would say, large government protectionism interfering in the free market. Saying that all factory jobs are bad is a silly retort, there are many factory jobs in the US already that people are happy to have; even ASML making advanced semiconductor fabs is a "factory job".

[–] toastmeister@lemmy.ca 4 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

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[–] toastmeister@lemmy.ca -1 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (3 children)

The theory is they're drumming up a crisis in order to get Quebec to agree to pipelines. Its not about actually separating.

Fixing that fork in the road created with 1961 National Oil Policy, that then brought up huge amounts of pain in the 70s and 80s, which basically flipped the table leading to nationalization attempts and the inevitable failure of the national energy policy.

[–] toastmeister@lemmy.ca -2 points 16 hours ago (5 children)

The Alberta babies are the one who are changing their referendum laws, I'm unsure what point you think you're making, is it just an attempt at an ad hominem?

[–] toastmeister@lemmy.ca 2 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Thats just the microplastics talking, go back to sleep.

[–] toastmeister@lemmy.ca -4 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (10 children)

Its not nonsense, Alberta gets 0$ in equalization payments most years. They also have a small population with extremely high corporate profits with high margins, so those corporations pay more taxes, regardless if it trickles down to workers or not. Also during a recession oil generally does okay, while other provinces are wiped out.

[–] toastmeister@lemmy.ca 12 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Its boring. You open a web browser or Steam, you do a thing, you go to sleep.

[–] toastmeister@lemmy.ca -2 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (4 children)

The immigration plan was decided long before Carney.

https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/corporate/publications-manuals/annual-report-parliament-immigration-2024.html#annex-4

As far as prefab or anything else, housing prices are a majority land value, taxes, and bureaucracy, it can't make a dent since its not the main issue. Houses don't cost more to build in Canada that in places with cheap housing, its not like laborers are making 300k a year, they can't afford housing either.

[–] toastmeister@lemmy.ca 4 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Hydro definitely killed a lot more people than nuclear. Funny how there's no stigma against it.

[–] toastmeister@lemmy.ca 0 points 20 hours ago

Well its not for no reason. Its so they can sell DRM.

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