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I wish more people thought like you. 90k individual retirement income as the threshold to start clawing back welfare is irresponsible and indefensible fiscal policy. The issue with means testing in retirement is that it just changes the math for the tax/retirement strategists. One thing I've...

Even with a ramp down/ scaled claw back there is massive amounts of money to be saved with more appropriate means testing thresholds. The proportion of the population actually impacted by such a reform would be quite small relatively. If they were willing to get into the weeds to explain that...

Nah. It's a TV killed the radio star situation, which the union has petulantly decided to ignore and handcuff the corp and gov's ability to react to. I fully believe that some sort of National scope, accessible, low cost mail delivery is an essential service, and as such is worthy of some...

Self important morons. Businesses send a lot more mail than individuals do. The 2024 strike reduced our amount of outbound letter mail (accounts payable) by 60% as vendors shifted to preferring/ accepting electronic payment methods. Inbound mail receipts (AR) by about 30%. 2024 came with at...

CREA numbers for August are in- by both index and benchmark price a large part of urban Ontario is down to ~Q1 2021 close pricing, the Ontario composite sitting in line with Feb 2021. About 2/3's of the price appreciation between Feb 2020 and Feb 2022 (peak) has been wiped out.

And the good one come back up!

Your words were "and it will boost Carney's holdings significantly!" Show your work

Because a 5B speck as part of a 900B conglomerate that doesn't operate in our country does the same thing? Or because a small Ontario company (Royal Homes) is now being lead by former Brookfield Employee, in a bank (not Brookfield) funded acquisition?

Sean Speer is almost always a good read, and the headline is hard to disagree with- but I think he's missing the big picture. No, Build Canada Homes won't solve the housing crisis in aggregate. Correct -"If your policy won’t move the big levers—zoning, approvals, and fees—you shouldn’t expect...

Is there any information on the operating cost of the EX relative to the 35? Because that would be the only one. A smaller number of Best in Breed front line fighters to provide overmatch in contested air space and a cheaper to operate long range high speed missile truck for sovereignty...

Interesting to see Rempel-Garner brought back into the fold. Wonder if that's back room fence/tent mending by PP or ring kissing by her

One doesn't have to own a business to correct obvious conceptual mistakes, and owning a business doesn't make you right about it. You're the one that tries to use your "business ownership" to simultaneously gatekeep the conversation and lend credibility to your points. That's you putting your...

Meh, CRA has their definitions, then there's reality. Hobby farm, side hustle, tax management plan, mortgage subsidy scheme, labour of love, lifestyle,- if it's not covering its debt servicing obligations and properly compensating for its input labour and has no prospect of doing so in a...

Owning a (by your public admission) struggling hobby farm doesn't make you Warren Buffet. UNLEASH IT (But dont invest in the infrastructure to do so, or the military to secure it and our partnerships that secure markets)

Yes taxpayer pays. No. They're fundamentally different things. You don't get to brazen your way out of objectively ignorant statements. Debt for long lived infrastructure is not the same thing as debt to make up for operational shortfall. Investment in capital projects that increase future...

"I know the difference" and "it doesn't matter still debt" are kiiiiinda contradictory statements, even from a basic personal finance standpoint, let alone business or public finance

Just as certain SoCon elements are the albatross around the neck of a pragmatic CPC, it would seem there are similar SoLib elements around the necks of an LPC that's at least showing signs of trying to be pragmatic. Such is life in FPTP driven big tent politics.

@Navy_Pete Posted prematurely, continuing here. So if we assume a 2035 combatant fleet of 3RCD + 3 CPS + x CPF That there is a distinctly non zero potential for x = 0, and a good chance for x <4 My questions (with uninformed civvy answers) A. Is this a viable/acceptable combatant fleet for a...

If the interpretation is to take delivery of the first CDC in 10 years, is that more accurately 6 AOPS, 2 JSS, hopefully 3 maybe 4 RCD's, hopefully 2-4 subs, while still relying the rusted out hulks of whatever CPF's are still seaworthy?

Is that as far as the ratio scales? On the defensive side of the fight is there room to go all the way and flip the ratio to a cavalry division with one combined arms bde for local counter punching?