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I am not a fan of increasing taxes. The only reason I would support it is to make Canadians act like adults and make hard decisions instead of just racking up debt with the mentality that someone else will deal with it. To start if I had to I would likely target the capital gains exemption on...

I don’t think Chretien is willing/able to run anymore.

Unlikely to change unless someone makes the first move. Your old guard are actively going to fight it every step of the way. It does go both ways though, when prices go down so do the rates.

Sometimes being in power means doing unpopular but necessary things.

I am of the opinion we shouldn’t run deficits except in times of extreme emergencies (i.e. WWII, etc.). We can afford to have no deficit, our greed prevents us and punishes the future. Raising taxes makes people care about overspending and demands accountability because people don’t like to...

I would rather see it set up so any profits made above inflation on a property are subject to capital gains. That will cool the market and provide a ton of tax money. Your jurisdiction just needs to change its property tax rules to automatically reassess every 5 years like many do now. It isn’t...

We can’t afford to cut taxes. If anything we should be starting to heavily cut expenses and/or increase taxes. Just cutting taxes right now would be a childish reaction. There is still bills to pay and we aren’t even remotely close to breaking even.

The Trump administration should hopefully soon realize why they were bankrolling everything, but I am not sure they have that level of introspection. That reason is it was in Americas interest. It gave them final say. It allowed them to project their power globally without complaints. It meant...

Not exactly the most corrupt but certainly up there. They fit in well with the corrupt MAGA group though, birds of a feather and all that. I like Vances comment, to paraphrase ‘I am not going to tell you how to vote, you should do it without interference, but vote Orban’.

They could completely do away with Question Period and it would change absolutely nothing. There is no accountability involved in anyway as accountability requires consequences and there is none. I know I beat a dead horse on this, but a Swiss style democracy would have consequences involved...

I wonder if it is just the ‘red tories’ who have finally found a better alternative than the CPC with the Liberals moving back to the center. If the LPC held a election put a bunch of CPC members in and kicked some of the more left leaning Liberals out that could be a hell of a party.

Legal doesn’t make right. Equal rights, equal fights.

Interesting that the law isn’t applied evenly across sex in Germany.

Particularly cemented in once the requirement for bilingualism became mandatory. 18% of the country gets to control all the upper jobs and many of the lower level government jobs.

The real question is what is the CFAT (and other ‘aptitude’ tests) actually based off of? Seems to me like someone just decided arbitrarily where the line in the sand should be drawn even though I have met people who can do those jobs without said ‘aptitude’. Clearly it isn’t a be all to end...

My issue with CFAT is I have met someone who did a trade for a decade successfully (pre CFAT), but got out and when they went to go back in couldn’t get in the same trade because their CFAT score was too low. It could be leading to good potential troops being kept out of the military. Same...

You are all missing the best benefit of train travel, you can have a bar car on your commute. If you have a effective train network you don’t exactly need a personal vehicle, just rent one as needed. Just the savings in that alone are huge. Most people have car payments which are in the 500$+...

You can win the battles but still lose the war. Afghanistan, Vietnam, etc. Both wars which they kicked the enemies ass but still lost the war. Right now the fiscal and diplomatic consequences are likely going to be greater for the US than the desire to carry on this war.

I went through this the other day at work where even your most practically considering hunter who only views them as tools for hunting needs about 3 firearms minimum to be able to effectively hunt all types of game. A .22 for partridge, rabbits, etc. A 12 gauge for birds/maybe larger game if...

100% agree, C9 drill all the way!