Liberal Minority Government 2025 - ???

[Jarnhamar]

I wonder if the Carney government will clean this place up.

‘Nothing was ready’: Inside Canada’s Vaccine Injury Support Program

However, a five-month-long Global News investigation, involving more than 30 interviews with current and former Oxaro employees, injured claimants and their attorneys, has uncovered allegations that the company was unequipped to deliver fully on the program’s mission, questions about why the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) chose this company over others, and internal documents that suggest poor planning from the start.

Global News also heard descriptions of a workplace that lacked the gravitas of a program meant to assist the seriously injured and chronically ill: drinking in the office, ping pong, slushies and Netflix streaming at desks.

Us pro vaccine people were pretty harsh on people hesitant or refusing the vaccine. I recall comments about unvaccinated people getting turned away at hospitals or left the die. The government did their fair of shaming too. In the government's case the least they have done is not fuck up the injury support program.

I'm guessing the vetting process was done by the same crew that vetted GC Campus.

Many employees were straight out of high school or college, or had previous jobs in retail, bartending and data entry

Nice.

Maybe our new Muad'Dib will fix what his party messed up.

 

[PPCLI Guy]

Maybe our new Muad'Dib will fix what his party messed up.

He is no Kwisatz Haderach, nor a Stilgar. More like Jamis.....

 

[dapaterson]

He is no Kwisatz Haderach, nor a Stilgar. More like Jamis.....

Darmok: Jean Luc Picard with a pug, on Arrakis.

 

[Quirky]

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.

What happens after the vehicle is sold. Who is going to repair them? Very few Journeyman Automotive Technicians know how to repair high voltage systems. And almost no one wants to learn. We have no rules, regulations, or enforcement in the repair industry. The government cannot mandate technicians into EV. Not very many know how to repair them, so the repairs are not profitable. Good luck getting a business to incentivize its workers into non-profitable work. I’ll stay with my Iron block V8 and easy to repair ICE platform. Cities can mandate all the EVs they want, it’s not going to happen here in the prairies. I’m already seeing charging stations being removed due to not being profitable.

 

[MilEME09]

Well we now know where Kurek is going. Though some want to suggest this was lined up as a reward for him stepping aside, I dont buy that without some kind of evidence

After stepping down for Poilievre to run, MP Damien Kurek lands role at government relations, lobbying firm

Alberta MP Damien Kurek, who stepped down to allow Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre to run in his riding, has a new job.

calgaryherald.com

 

[dapaterson]

Well we now know where Kurek is going. Though some want to suggest this was lined up as a reward for him stepping aside, I dont buy that without some kind of evidence

After stepping down for Poilievre to run, MP Damien Kurek lands role at government relations, lobbying firm

Alberta MP Damien Kurek, who stepped down to allow Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre to run in his riding, has a new job.

calgaryherald.com

Upstream's founder worked for both Ford brothers.

That's interesting, given the friction between the federal and Ontario provincial conservatives in the last election; is this a fig leaf between factions?

 

[Halifax Tar]

Well we now know where Kurek is going. Though some want to suggest this was lined up as a reward for him stepping aside, I dont buy that without some kind of evidence

After stepping down for Poilievre to run, MP Damien Kurek lands role at government relations, lobbying firm

Alberta MP Damien Kurek, who stepped down to allow Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre to run in his riding, has a new job.

calgaryherald.com

Am I supposed to be upset at this ?

I understand you have a bias but if you don't think politicians from all sides do this you're massively naive.

Hell the whole senate is made up of useless politically appointed panderers.

 

[Navy_Pete]

What happens after the vehicle is sold. Who is going to repair them? Very few Journeyman Automotive Technicians know how to repair high voltage systems. And almost no one wants to learn. We have no rules, regulations, or enforcement in the repair industry. The government cannot mandate technicians into EV. Not very many know how to repair them, so the repairs are not profitable. Good luck getting a business to incentivize its workers into non-profitable work. I’ll stay with my Iron block V8 and easy to repair ICE platform. Cities can mandate all the EVs they want, it’s not going to happen here in the prairies. I’m already seeing charging stations being removed due to not being profitable.

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This is about the EV charger that is wired into the house, so no idea what you are talking about. Drive whatever you want, I don't care. My only point was the CEC had some updates to allow EV chargers to be wired in without updating the panel, and a bunch of stuff to wire in battery backup storage systems for your house.

Neither building or fire code account for either of those things so not a fan of the changes.

 

[MilEME09]

Am I supposed to be upset at this ?

I understand you have a bias but if you don't think politicians from all sides do this you're massively naive.

Hell the whole senate is made up of useless politically appointed panderers.

Upset? no, I am just sharing information, if you are suggesting that I have some kind of negative angle for this, ill stop you right now, there is none. I got nothing against Kurek

 

[lenaitch]

@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.

Thanks. I don't know all the details but from what I have read we have been quite a bit more conservative in our Code rule surrounding EVSEs that many other jurisdictions.

 

[MilEME09]

people complain our environmental laws are to strict in AB, then you get the AER doing this. Five thousand dollar fine for destroying a bird habitat, what a joke of a fine for a threatened species. Alberta and Ontario also want changes to the species at risk act, a headline like this doesn't exactly make a strong case for that.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/suncor-bank-swallows-fine-1.7576307

 

[MilEME09]

This should save us millions

Feds tighten grip on consultant contracts with new procurement rules, $20M cap on time-based work

New procurement rules include a $20-million limit on time- and task-based contracts, stricter oversight, and mandatory value-for-money reviews.

www.hilltimes.com

 

[daftandbarmy]

This should save us millions

Feds tighten grip on consultant contracts with new procurement rules, $20M cap on time-based work

New procurement rules include a $20-million limit on time- and task-based contracts, stricter oversight, and mandatory value-for-money reviews.

www.hilltimes.com

This won't do much to reduce the reliance on external consultants though, especially in the IT realm. 'Big government' needs big spends on services to manage the spending they're shoveling out ...

Canada’s reliance on IT specialists has led to a ‘shadow bureaucracy’ of private consultants in the federal government​

This week’s Auditor General’s report on McKinsey & Company is just the latest example of the federal government’s substantial and growing spending on private consultants to deliver public services.

Auditor General Karen Hogan called out the government for spending $200 million on professional services from the multinational consulting firm, between 2011 and 2023.

“We found frequent disregard for procurement policies and guidance and that contracting practices often did not demonstrate value for money,” noted her report.

In 2022, federal spending on all contracts outsourced to the private sector (categorised as “professional and special services” by the Public Accounts of Canada) saw its greatest annual increase since 2006: a 23.6 percent rise from $11.8 billion to $14.6 billion in 2022. In 2023, professional and special services spending again rose to a record-breaking $15.6 billion.

“A busier government needs more work done than a less active government. That actually is the variable that you’ll find underneath the (private contracting) data,” said Michael Wernick, the former clerk of the Privy Council and secretary to cabinet (2016-2019), explaining the reasons behind this growth.

Canada’s reliance on IT specialists has led to a ‘shadow bureaucracy’ of private consultants in the federal government

thehub.ca

 

[Czech_pivo]

Reading some report that a Norwegian company is pitching a new LNG terminal facility in Bay Comeau, QC.
Early stages but that is what I’ve read.

 

[dapaterson]

Reading some report that a Norwegian company is pitching a new LNG terminal facility in Bay Comeau, QC.
Early stages but that is what I’ve read.

Already an aluminum smelter up there (so obviously lots of electric power), not sure if the paper mill is still around or not...

 

[daftandbarmy]

Reading some report that a Norwegian company is pitching a new LNG terminal facility in Bay Comeau, QC.
Early stages but that is what I’ve read.

Rejected in 2021, but back on the table now because 'elbows up' I guess

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/norwegian-lng-quebec-1.7577588