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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • Sounds good to me. No point leaving a bunch of open senate seats for some future govt to fill.

    I look forward to Trudeau’s many non-partisan senators to blocking a future attempt by Poilievre to bypass the charter of rights using the notwithstanding clause federally. The senate would be right to reject that when conservatives try to advance attacks on whatever marginalized group they want blame for their own failings (probably transgendered people).

    The senate would be right to reject that.


  • family farms are a tiny part of the ag industry. In the US it was under 10%. The image of a pastoral low-intensity 19th century family farm has been drilled into peoples’ minds by food industry advertising for 100 years. People like that image but it’s not real.

    Ag is big business. Loans and leases for land, equipment, inputs, most of the labour isn’t from the business operator.

    There’s probably under 10k family farms in Canada that would be impacted by a transfer to family and they can easily be exempted, it’s chump change for tax revenue.







  • the NDP isn’t putting any sort of socialist reform on the table. They aren’t talking about redistribution and optimising the economy for continuing prosperity with redistribution and environmental sustainability. They don’t organize well and treat volunteers poorly. They let Trudeau scoop their long held positions on social justice while Mulcair wanted to talk about balanced budgets. Singh has done little to reform the party. Otherwise…great job on squeezing a few concessions out of the LPC. Even if they stick, they’ll be under permanent attack until they’re in as bad shape as the rest of Canada’s antiquated social programs.










  • I don’t really mind more frequent elections. If anything, the govt needs a shorter leash and more accountability. The population should be able to remove a bad govt almost instantly, say in 30 days, not in 3.5 years. Regardless of their success in the previous election.

    I’d be even more insistent on a low bar for recalls if the electoral contest was truly fair, ie the advantages of the wealthy in influencing outcomes were entirely removed. That seems very far away. The problems in the contest really seem to obscure the problems with choices of election systems like FPTP vs PR etc.