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Don’t forget the other issue with TFWs is how exploitable they are. Lots of employers like them because they can work them harder in worse conditions often in violation of the law and the TFW is very unlikely to do anything about it due to their shaky status. There is so much wrong with the...

Don’t the Danes not have weapons techs either? Does that mean for their small arms they just use them until something their troop can’t fix then hand them a new rifle?

The Bloc I wouldn’t consider the 3rd largest party by membership or vote. They have more seats but that is due to first past the post structuring more than general voting intentions. The NDP consistently have a higher voting percentage though less effective voting. Remember the NDP were the...

My main concern about this is we have essentially the 3rd largest political party in Canada actively discriminating based off sex, sexuality, and race in their leadership race. It isn't so much that I expect them to do particularly well, rather the fact that it is socially acceptable enough for...

What it really comes down to is the government is trying to save costs by sacrificing our safety. Like most things Canadian, we half ass it and are shocked when it fails to work.

Historically it was inhabited by your average joes, not anymore. Either generational wealth (which generally means older people owning it), or your wealthy, not the general public. Approximately 22% of the population is a first generation Canadian (myself included). Approximately 16% of the...

Don’t forget with the firearms act creation they also banned less lethal alternatives such as pepper spray and tasers from the public. They really don’t want people to be able to present any sort of defence for themselves. It is interesting the logic behind it all. For example we need smoke...

I see it mainly as nimbyism. The logic in restricting short term rentals of cottages is mainly the neighbours not liking having to share access to those areas. I can understand the neighbours gripes, they mainly are going to be older and/or wealthy people. Your average young Canadian can’t...

I am not opposed to cottages being rented out regularly, if anything it increases access to the general public to these areas. Otherwise it’s just a rich mans club which keeps the plebs like me out and is only occupied a fraction of the time.

Could have avoided a lot of the problems by just denying the permits to build these unlivable condos. Minimum standards as to size and living conditions should be set higher to begin with.

Like the private sector screwing up the housing market due to them producing way too small condos for actual usage and just treating it as a investment tool? Governments can screw things up, but a well thought out and implemented plan can be successful as well. The problem usually is the...

The law is only that the firearm is unloaded, not cleared. You could argue having a dummy round is unloaded as it is not ammunition and it cannot be fired.

Safe storage laws aren’t about ‘cooling off periods’ or any such nonsense. The argument made for them is based mainly off unintended usage (say a child getting access). Remember ignorance of the law isn’t a defence as a civilian but it is the go to defence of the police.

There is already a boom for the skilled trades. The issue is we don’t have the people trained in those jobs and it takes years to do so. As a society we failed to run apprenticeships for decades relying on the boomers to mostly take up that work load. Now with the last of them retiring it is a...

It’s not even youth under 18 not wanting to work, it is lack of jobs. 25% unemployment rate for 16-25 year olds means that 25% of those wanting to work can’t find a job. The unemployment rate doesn’t track who could work a job, only those seeking a job. The people not wanting to work are already...

I consider the whole 'only people of X culture' can wear something to be racist. Either we are all the same species and there is no difference, or we aren't. Xenophobic sentiment shouldn’t be given a platform in the modern era. It does make sense it is though when the whole native concept is a...

No one in Canada has guaranteed clean drinking water. That is paid for generally by your municipality by your taxes. If your rural you pay less taxes but are providing your own water through wells, etc. Many of the native groups have been provided clean drinking water, they then fail to...

Sounds a lot like the USSR in general.

The other side as well as even if it is a Nazi salute is it because they are joking/mocking white supremists or is it because they espouse those beliefs? Two very different things.

He then proceeded to betray his allies in that fight (the Kurds) and later on almost allowed many of the captured ISIS fighters escape prison by suddenly cutting funding for the guards keeping them locked up.