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Good new thread. Do you have links to articles from security / privacy people who say that the suggested c51 changes don't go far enough?
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jm20 posted:They are merely adding committees to the bill, it's terrible. Keep in mind the Canadian Bar Association says the bill is hot garbage. None of these comment on the proposed changes. Like, at all. Because they are from much earlier in the year. The list of changes that I've seen pretty much is this: quote:— Guarantee that all Canadian Security Intelligence Service warrants respect the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. This would roll back provisions allowing CSIS to disrupt terror plots through tactics that contravene the charter as long as a judge approves. Critics have called the provisions an extraordinary inversion of the judicial role to uphold — not sanction violations of — the charter; That seems like more than just adding oversight.
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Oct 26, 2015 23:20
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RBC posted:wheres the moron who was arguing in the other thread that prominent gay politicians don't have a responsibility to come out of the closet They don't.
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Oct 27, 2015 01:24
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THC posted:Gay people who contribute to oppressive political movements should be criticized imo. everyone who doesn't agree with me should be criticized imo
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Oct 27, 2015 01:28
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You guys are shitheads. I too would like it if gay people who appreciate their privacy stay out of politics.
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Oct 27, 2015 01:50
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He has lovely politics so what dislike him all you want for that.
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Oct 27, 2015 02:32
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brucio posted:http://www.cbc.ca/m/news/politics/tom-mulcair-post-election-niqab-1.3289816 I think he's saying he's an idiot who wants to ignore the fact that the Liberals took essentially the same position.
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Oct 27, 2015 12:55
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In provincial news, Alberta budget comes out today. They're saying deficits until 2020. It'll be interesting to see how this flies. Its a good thing they've got a majority. e: I liked Trudeau's bit where he both tried to downplay it, while also attacking Harper on women's rights / abortion as a response. It was pretty effective in that one debate.
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Oct 27, 2015 13:07
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Kafka Esq. posted:I'm upset about the regressiveness of these taxes, it should just be a one hundred percent tax on PT6A. It's not a regressive tax disproportionately targeting the poor if they're doing something morally wrong.
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Oct 28, 2015 01:03
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PT6A posted:Neither smoking nor drinking, nor illegal drug use in fact, is morally wrong. They are all amoral. Yeah I was being sarcastic. Taxes like this are lovely.
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Oct 28, 2015 01:59
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BattleMaster posted:Somehow I'm not surprised that Harper left 24 Sussex in poor shape, all things considered It's been an issue since before Harper, and the reason they leave it that way is because it looks bad when the PM is paying 10 million dollars to fix the house they live in. Good on Trudeau to risk lovely press to do this.
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Oct 28, 2015 04:03
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drat right. Eliminate corporate tax, massively increase personal income tax for those above the median. Don't like it? Leave. The company that hired you is going to stay though, and will find someone else.
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Oct 29, 2015 18:29
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Ikantski posted:So you advocate abolishing tax on the profits of corporations and making that up by massively increasing personal income tax on people making above $30,000? Median not average. But yes. I am hugely in favour of significantly higher marginal tax rates for top income brackets. Of which I would argue we should have significantly more. Also yes part of this means changing how we tax capital gains, as well as the rules around corporations of one.
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Oct 29, 2015 19:26
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jfood posted:Every city and small town is famous for that, it's a mountie tradition. If the local police are something other than mounties, they're just keeping up standards. If we weren't on a list for posting here before, we are now. Christ.
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Oct 30, 2015 15:18
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Nocturtle posted:Honestly I though this was the new normal? Who gets a good job these days with just an undergrad? I'm pretty sure you'd find plenty of applicants in this scenario. Learn SAP.
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Oct 30, 2015 19:03
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Falloutboy posted:http://www.macleans.ca/politics/ottawa/whats-an-unemployed-politician-to-do/ I am really happy this person is no longer an MP.
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Nov 2, 2015 03:15
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Cultural Imperial posted:
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Nov 2, 2015 05:57
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PT6A posted:Also, he didn't scare men by being attractive enough that they became irrationally afraid their wives wanted to gently caress him. Which, beyond all reason, actually seemed to be an issue with Trudeau. Trudeau is basically Lennon, no marriage is safe.
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Nov 3, 2015 04:38
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You do the back pat because it demonstrates dominance. Given it moved you to silence it seems to have worked. That's a really weird story though man. I'm guessing you misinterpreted generic hand movement to be something else, but maybe Harper is a weirdo who gets off from tickling men / teenage boys while being photographed. (insert joke about Baird here)
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Nov 3, 2015 04:50
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THC posted:Some conservative men are mad because an MLA in Alberta is having a baby and now she's demanding parental leave at the long-suffering taxpayer's expense! (she's actually not) How could she be so irresponsible as to have a child while having a job! What about her constituents?!! I don't think elected officials should get parental leave (and MPs don't, as far as I understood it). On-site child care is a good and reasonable thing to have. e: also from that article: quote:The Wildrose party said it will filibuster the motion because it had agreed to a 10 a.m. session start three days a week, which it said the government pushed to 9 a.m. without notice. The Official Opposition also said an earlier legislature start time means an earlier workday overall, since MLAs must prepare for bill debates. Jordan7hm fucked around with this message at 04:58 on Nov 4, 2015 |
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Nov 4, 2015 04:56
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Melian Dialogue posted:Uhh why not? Shouldn't they have the same labour rights afforded to anyone else? It's a form of highly paid short term employment that is basically equivalent to what a self-employed consultant would undertake. I'm all for making accommodations such as child care on site (and they basically set their own hours anyway, so more of that), but not for taking extended time off. Stretch Marx posted:Today is my 30th birthday. I get to celebrate it with the best gift of all: watching that shithead Harper resign. Well, you get to hear about it secondhand. I'm sorry I couldn't take the morning off and go to see Trudeau and the rest show up. Apparently there will be 28 ministers.
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Nov 4, 2015 14:35
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I think expectations are and should be different in different types of employment. Anyway in other news you'll be happy to hear Kent Hehr is in cabinet.
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Nov 4, 2015 15:44
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PT6A posted:Why? Does this apply to all labour laws in your mind, or just the ones concerning leave? All labour laws. Expectations on placing yourself in danger, on hours worked, on leave conditions all vary based on employment type. I don't see anything wrong with this. There need to be good reasons for not following the norm, but I'd say the nature of short term employment for elected officials is a good enough reason to limit non-essential leave. Plus, parental leave is nice, but less important than the other things organizations do to accommodate parents.
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Nov 4, 2015 15:55
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Nope
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Nov 4, 2015 16:03
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Some odd ones there.
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Nov 4, 2015 16:59
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Biggest snubs? I'm thinking Blair and Leslie.
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Nov 4, 2015 17:01
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Finance, Defense, immigration, public safety are all probably bigger than those. Except for Justice and Environment, those seem really prominent positions.
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Nov 4, 2015 17:12
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Kafka Esq. posted:Sci-Tech went to Navdeep Bains, who is an entrepreneur? Skews heavily towards poverty research too.
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Nov 4, 2015 18:10
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Mulcair is speaking to reporters at 3:15. Curious to hear what he has to say.
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Nov 4, 2015 21:14
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ZeeBoi posted:NDP already bitched about the size of the cabinet Yeah I saw that. Too big! (i do think stressing you'll have a smaller cabinet then going with 30 is kind of silly, but I assume they just didn't realise the difficulty of representing different groups with a cabinet of ~25) I continue to really dislike Mulcair.
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Nov 4, 2015 21:29
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El Scotch posted:I was initially really surprised Leslie wasn't picked for Defence, but after reading Najjan's bio I think it's a great idea. I laughed at the response I heard (second hand) from someone close to Leslie. There is a definite "military elite" in this country. And they are white. It'll be interesting to see what impact the new guy has. It he's implementing Leslie's plan anyway... He was (in addition to being actual military) a full time reservist if I'm not mistaken, something Leslie recommended mostly doing away with.
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Nov 4, 2015 21:38
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Hexigrammus posted:Well, Guru Nanek's best friend was Muslim, so the founder of the religion was a fellow traveller. She was in that tight Vancouver race where leadnow endorsed the NDP candidate (a friend of the leadnow founder). Pretty cool story about how Trudeau heard her speak and afterwards chased her to run for them.
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Nov 4, 2015 21:48
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Pinterest Mom posted:
Continuing to act like he didn't just lead his party to an incredibly disappointing election result after an incredibly disappointing campaign - check that box, mission accomplished. I'd feel a lot better about the NDP if I heard some mea culpas.
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Nov 4, 2015 22:52
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BGrifter posted:We're settling in for a four year nap. There's nothing Mulcair or any New Democrat could do that would matter one bit four years from now. Mulcair could smear himself in chicken blood and streak through parliament screaming "Blood for the blood God, skulls for the Skull Throne!" and it'd be forgotten long before an election were called. What the Liberals started to do in 2011 set them up for 2015. Maybe the NDP will reflect on the nature of their failure between now and April, and on how they can put themselves in a position to form our next government, but they're not really saying anything in public to suggest that's what is going to happen. We will have another election in only 4 years. The time to start planning how to win it is right now.
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Nov 4, 2015 23:05
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I've been bitching about the NDP (along the lines of what Helsing posts about) to my mom, and she sent me this article this morning: http://ottawacitizen.com/opinion/columnists/glavin-the-ndp-and-the-crisis-on-the-leftquote:It’s been more than two weeks since Canadians gifted Trudeau with the grand electoral victory that New Democrats had convinced themselves was rightfully theirs, and there is still no sign that anyone in the vote-ravaged ranks of the NDP leadership is capable of even wondering out loud: What the hell happened? Her comment was: did you write this? I'd ask the same of Helsing. Looks like even people on the right are noticing the way the NDP is handling this defeat. Some other stuff after reflection from yesterday: - I really hate how the government can create, merge, and split departments on what is essentially a politically motivated whim. I would love to see legislation to prevent that from happening. It's incredibly costly and damaging to the people involved in the actual transitions. It's one thing to have a government in power for a decade and make minor changes along the way, but to come in and rehaul departments that are still in transition from the last government coming in and doing the same thing, is just plain stupid. - The NCC portfolio is going to someone who isn't from Ottawa (Joly, as minister of heritage). At first glance, I don't like that at all. - The media is really overplaying the work of the ministers and downplaying the work of the bureaucrats. For example, the Citizen had a piece saying how much of a challenge it will be for the immigration minister to come in and figure out how to get 25000 refugees here in 2 months. It in fact won't be a challenge for him at all. He'll meet with the deputy and say "hey we need 25000 refugees from Syria" and the deputy will say "yeah we know, we're working on it". His input will be to tell the bureaucrats to do it, and to be mad at them if they don't do it. The ministerial role is to set priorities and targets that are actually achievable, and to pick key personnel to help implement them, but the actual work has always been done, and will continue to be done, by the people who are there regardless of the government. (e: also to take the blame in the press if things go badly, which isn't unimportant) - McKenna was on CBC this morning and really needs to go talk to a speech person about her incredible overuse of the phrase "you know". Jordan7hm fucked around with this message at 14:23 on Nov 5, 2015 |
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Nov 5, 2015 14:08
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Kraftwerk posted:I wonder if joining the NDP and trying to reform it from within is a viable strategy? I heard party insiders have a way of keeping the dissent down and ensuring the status quo remains. I dunno but I took Helsing's advice and joined.
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Nov 5, 2015 16:07
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Ron Paul Atreides posted:Also Catherine McKenna is the sister of Patrick McKenna right? I didn't imagine that? I could've sworn it was mentioned in a past thread but googling reveals no info one way or the other Patrick McKenna is from Hamilton, and his mom is named Pat. That can't be a coincidence.
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Nov 5, 2015 16:33
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Pretty sure I heard that line in the early 1990s in every form of popular media. At the time it was "welcome to the 90s". Sad that someone thinks they should assign credit to something like that. This is no "axis of evil".
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Nov 5, 2015 22:32
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a primate posted:I could have sworn we had a forum for this... They'd agree with Brannock. Bunny - I am totally down for getting you that beer I said I'd buy if the Libs won a majority. Maybe after going for a run  Rona Ambrose as interim leader is interesting if only because of the leaders of the opposition parties being invited to go to the climate talks.
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The letter (and all the other assorted stuff like US reports) going around about Sajjan is pretty ridiculous. It doesn't mean he'll do a good job, but the guy is certainly talked about in glowing terms, not just his "military" qualities like bravery etc, but his intelligence, and the quality of his analysis. When is the last time we had a defense minister with that level of personal experience in the military?quote:LETTER OF APPRECIATION—DETECTIVE CONSTABLE NUMBER 1967-HARJIT SAJJAN
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