Liberal Minority Government 2025 - ???

[Blackadder1916]

Well this is interesting, former deputy PMs firm sueing a company for unpaid lobbying. Company says they never hired them to lobby on their behalf.

Former deputy prime minister Sheila Copps’ firm sues for share of $2 billion federal contract

BTNX says if Copps' firm lobbied on its behalf, "then it did so by illegal means"

theijf.org

Previously (three months ago), she said she wasn't a lobbyist, but a "salesman".

Former Liberal minister worked government contacts to ply COVID contracts without registering as lobbyist

Former deputy PM Copps said she had permission not to register as lobbyist with the Trudeau government. One offer was flagged as suspicious.

nationalpost.com

 

[MilEME09]

Previously (three months ago), she said she wasn't a lobbyist, but a "salesman".

Former Liberal minister worked government contacts to ply COVID contracts without registering as lobbyist

Former deputy PM Copps said she had permission not to register as lobbyist with the Trudeau government. One offer was flagged as suspicious.

nationalpost.com

Well someone's lying, shall be interesting to see who

 

[lenaitch]

But what if it indicates he has a serious nervous disorder of some kind? You know, like 'Bafflegab Joe' Biden

Sadly, I did not see mention of this (oddly named) condition in the article.... I shall try to use this term at least once weekly in random conversations

Blepharospasm​

• •A benign nervous system condition characterized by uncontrollable eyelid spasms
• •Symptoms include loss of ability to control eyelid movements, uncontrolled blinking, frequent blinking
• •Treatment includes Botox injections, tinted glasses, medication, surgery, psychotherapy

Blepharospasm

A benign nervous condition in which the eyelids spasm uncontrollably.

www.yalemedicine.org

I'm no medical professional but I think there is a difference between a wink and a tic.

This one here, he appears to be 'communicating' with Macron while Trump is babbling on about something.

#Canadian PM #Carney's wink sums up everything......and French President #Macron's reaction is priceless....😍😂 What a mockery you have made of yourself, Donald J. Trump because of you being big mouth! #G7Summit | Ashutosh Tripathi

#Canadian PM #Carney's wink sums up everything......and French President #Macron's reaction is priceless....😍😂 What a mockery you have made of yourself, Donald J. Trump because of you being big...

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[Kirkhill]

Another voice from the same wing as Sheila Copps.

Axworthy accuses Carney of taking ’bootlicking’ approach to Trump

Former Liberal foreign affairs minister Lloyd Axworthy issued an online broadside last Sunday against the Carney government.

torontosun.com

....

Can Carney beat Starmer?

 

[Halifax Tar]

God, they look for anything to write/talk about.
If the PM routinely cracked his/her knuckles, they’d talk about that.

Agreed.

 

[Haggis]

To be inadmissible at Cornwall takes a lot...

No more than anywhere else.

 

[Czech_pivo]

The gov is ramming all kinds of crap down our throats, such as electric vehicles and other green garbage we don't want, what's to say housing corrections aren't next.

Automakers ask Carney to repeal zero-emission vehicle mandate

As U.S.-Canada trade talks continue, sector CEOs warn Ottawa’s targets would be impossible to reach amid drop in EV sales

www.theglobeandmail.com

Read this over - the 2035 timeline is dead, its just a matter of government acknowledgement and that won't be done until a trade truce/agreement is hammered out with Orange Man.

Automakers ask Carney to repeal zero-emission vehicle mandate​

 

[Quirky]

Automakers ask Carney to repeal zero-emission vehicle mandate

As U.S.-Canada trade talks continue, sector CEOs warn Ottawa’s targets would be impossible to reach amid drop in EV sales

www.theglobeandmail.com

Read this over - the 2035 timeline is dead, its just a matter of government acknowledgement and that won't be done until a trade truce/agreement is hammered out with Orange Man.

Automakers ask Carney to repeal zero-emission vehicle mandate​

According to a controversial policy Ottawa announced in 2022, by next year 20 per cent of Canadian car sales must be powered by a battery, fuel cell or plug-in hybrid system. This rises to 60 per cent by 2030 and 100 per cent by 2035.

Not happening. There isn’t enough public infrastructure to keep up with such a law, not to mention the power grids. It’s impossible to give everyone at home a charger. More unrealistic woke policies from the Trudeau era about to get cut.

 

[Czech_pivo]

Not happening. There isn’t enough public infrastructure to keep up with such a law, not to mention the power grids. It’s impossible to give everyone at home a charger. More unrealistic woke policies from the Trudeau era about to get cut.

Plugin hybrids are going to be the future over the next decade. Toyota is going all in on them and they require any ordinary outlet to charge them.

On another note, I just came back from a roughly 2k km trip to visit my wife's family in RI and CT in our 2024 Toyota Corolla Hybrid and I finally decided to monitor my miles/gallon (yes, I'm old enough to think in miles/gallon) on a long trip. For the first portion we drove from our home in Burlington, ON to Albany, NY via the I90 NY Thruway for a total of 569km driven before requiring the need to gas up. The car was indicating that I could drive only another 61km before draining the tank. I filled the tank up with a total of 7.71 gallons of gas (roughly just over 29litres - 7.71 X 3.8 = 29.298L) for a total cost of 25$ USD. If my math holds up that meant that our miles/gallon was 569km X 0.6 = 341.4miles driven and then 341miles / 7.71 gallons = 44.28 gallons per mile - or for those thinking in metric - 569km / 29.298L = 19.42KM per Liter. The best I did in 100% city driving around Burlington last summer when I just got the car was an astounding 52 miles/gallon! I made a conscious effort to use the battery as much as possible and not heavily accelerate or blast the AC and I was rewarded with 52 miles/gallon. One thing that I've not figured out is how the reserve tank of gas works. The spec book says that the tank size is 10.5 gallons or 40 liters in size but I've NEVER been able to put more than 33.5 liters of gas in the car - and for that 1 specific time I drove the car down to it saying that I could only drive another 12km before the tank would be empty. The size of the reserve tank seems to be around 7.5 liters or 2 gallons, which I find to be HUGE because I could drive easily another 75-80km on 1 of those 2 reserve gallons before needing to gas up again.

 

[Brad Sallows]

Not happening. There isn’t enough public infrastructure to keep up with such a law, not to mention the power grids. It’s impossible to give everyone at home a charger. More unrealistic woke policies from the Trudeau era about to get cut.

Low-level infrastructure (eg. points of charging) isn't the worry.

Whether or not fuel supply can meet demand is the problem. It's a simple arithmetic problem, based on coarse estimates and assumptions. Project the demand for generated electricity, compare to supply; if supply is short, calculate whether more supply can be added in time given the observed time it takes to build.

 

[RangerRay]

Well someone's lying, shall be interesting to see who

 

[Czech_pivo]

Not happening. There isn’t enough public infrastructure to keep up with such a law, not to mention the power grids. It’s impossible to give everyone at home a charger. More unrealistic woke policies from the Trudeau era about to get cut.

Federal government says electric vehicle mandate must 'reflect' current times, after auto CEOs meet Carney​

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[Navy_Pete]

Not happening. There isn’t enough public infrastructure to keep up with such a law, not to mention the power grids. It’s impossible to give everyone at home a charger. More unrealistic woke policies from the Trudeau era about to get cut.

Read the updated Canadian Electrical Code; once it's adopted the newer style EV chargers that monitor panel draws will be fully code compliant. The 2025 version is published, and starting to get adopted by provinces as they go through normal regulation adoption cycle.

Effectively means people can add them to old 100A panels, as they will automatically de-rate and slow down charge rate when you have larger loads on the panel, but bump up to full draw at low demand (ie nighttime) where you may only have 15 or 20 Amps intermittently being drawn on the panel.

That's a realistic solution to the grid, but for the power companies means that they may no longer have surge/down times when that becomes widespread, and may need to have a higher steady state production capacity.

 

[PrairieFella]

Read the updated Canadian Electrical Code; once it's adopted the newer style EV chargers that monitor panel draws will be fully code compliant. The 2025 version is published, and starting to get adopted by provinces as they go through normal regulation adoption cycle.

Effectively means people can add them to old 100A panels, as they will automatically de-rate and slow down charge rate when you have larger loads on the panel, but bump up to full draw at low demand (ie nighttime) where you may only have 15 or 20 Amps intermittently being drawn on the panel.

That's a realistic solution to the grid, but for the power companies means that they may no longer have surge/down times when that becomes widespread, and may need to have a higher steady state production capacity.

Consistent, clean baseload? Bruce Power or Manitoba Hydro may be able to help advise the country on how to achieve that.

 

[YZT580]

Consistent, clean baseload? Bruce Power or Manitoba Hydro may be able to help advise the country on how to achieve that.

Spain and Portugal are the experts

 

[PrairieFella]

Spain and Portugal are the experts

Hardly. We have provinces in this country with 99% renewable energy moving power over thousands of kilometers. We are global experts in this game and have been for decades.

 

[YZT580]

Hardly. We have provinces in this country with 99% renewable energy moving power over thousands of kilometers. We are global experts in this game and have been for decades.

ah but our most reliable renewables are hydro and we haven't achieved the wind capacity that Spain has so we needn't fear blackouts yet. But you yourself mentioned Manitoba and the Bruce. systems that provide consistent power which is what all those vehicles are going to need and we ain't got it yet even with the new codes. With everyone's car plugged in there will never be low periods so we will pay the premium rate 25/7. Add in the AI requirements and we are in deep dodo

 

[Navy_Pete]

Consistent, clean baseload? Bruce Power or Manitoba Hydro may be able to help advise the country on how to achieve that.

On the plus side it means things like nuclear make a lot more sense, although a healthy mix of different power sources and extra capacity is always good anyway, as there will always be normal things like maintenance downtime, as well as emergency things like breaks in the grid.

 

[lenaitch]

Read the updated Canadian Electrical Code; once it's adopted the newer style EV chargers that monitor panel draws will be fully code compliant. The 2025 version is published, and starting to get adopted by provinces as they go through normal regulation adoption cycle.

Effectively means people can add them to old 100A panels, as they will automatically de-rate and slow down charge rate when you have larger loads on the panel, but bump up to full draw at low demand (ie nighttime) where you may only have 15 or 20 Amps intermittently being drawn on the panel.

That's a realistic solution to the grid, but for the power companies means that they may no longer have surge/down times when that becomes widespread, and may need to have a higher steady state production capacity.

Do you have a link for that? Normally, electrical codes don't cover attached devices; that's the purview of product certification authorities (UL, CSA, etc.). Adaptive EVSAs (that's the thing on the wall - the actual charger is in the vehicle) have been around for a while.

So-called 'off-peak' demand may impact energy exchange contracts and billing rates but I doubt it will have much impact on demand.

Throttling charge rates can be really effective with Level 3 (fast DC) charging. Slowing down Level 1 (120v) charging would effectively add meters per hour to your range,

 

[Navy_Pete]

@lenaitch it's discussed a bit here, but lot more details in the actual code; it's about how the load is calculated on the panel for sizing, and they way they did it means that adding a 50 A breaker with a load monitoring system for the panel doesn't necessarily mean you need to upgrade to a 200 A panel. They also added in some regulations for home energy storage and a few other things, as well as cleaned up some tables to make them more usable.

Top 10 Changes You Need to Know About the 2024 Canadian Electrical Code

On the code weenie side CEC causes issues, as they make changes that impact fire and building code without coordinating with NRCC, and not a fan that you are supposed to buy it from CSA (where building and fire code are publically avaialble), but CSA is generally a bit shit as well to get answers from on what they were thinking, so not really a fan generally.