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Well, then there are a couple of solutions. Foreign corporations, which are motivated by a desire to improve life for Canadians and will be climbing over each other to make things better for Canadians at whatever cost to their bottom lines. Governments, who will provide the service levels...

ARPU isn't net profit, and isn't even net anything. What you wrote has nothing to do with my point. Here are some measures by which Canada seems to do a little better. Speedtest tries to measure best performance. Opensignal tries to measure typical performance. People who want to compare...

Sure. See the part about reinvestment in new tech. I couldn't easily find anything about the original projected cost of the fibreoptic rollout when it started in 2013 or so. My recollection is an amount that was roughly half of the company's annual gross revenue at the time, for just the...

What is it that is going to be achieved? I suppose foreign competitors could buy the wires, or entire legacy corporations. Data security becomes harder to achieve, though, irrespective of whether the nuts-and-bolts storage facilities are still entirely in Canada. (Ownership has access...

People who generally support something - an agency, a political party, an academic institution, etc - don't have to support absolutely every single thing it does. Not everything in life is binary.

The correct weasel word for a legal finding is "so-called". Example: "the so-called indictment".

For railway, the entirety of a small property might have to be bought. It isn't always necessary; a road easement often only takes the necessary chunk of land. With respect to "plan", anyone who has done a proper estimate knows what a "plan" should look like. If all the tasks have been...

With X in particular, it's best to wait a while before latching onto something. If you post an X "gotcha" before the "Community Notes" have had time to pass through the gate, you risk looking like a fool.

[Social media post] linked with triumphant claim, followed by triumphant remarks, followed by "well, actually it might not be entirely or even partly true"... Maybe instead of just replicating the comment threads we could find at places like DailyKos, people could do some digging first.

What is the foundation of the rumour? Does it have approximately the same epistemic status as musing that the next change in US military force protection is going to lead to scurvy? What is the point of worrying about the movies in some peoples' heads, or bringing them here?

Once again I forgot to include explicit "sarcasm" tags. My comment was to highlight the absurdity.

So what? All of politics is founded on ideological differences. In the US, conservatives will tend to change things in ways that favour individual liberty at the cost of some safety/security and progressives will tend to change things in ways that sacrifice individual liberty for some gains in...

"I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of accountants suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced."

So there was a good policy. It was better than some others' policies. Then it was changed to a less good - but still pretty good - policy essentially the same as others' policies. Cue the targeted criticism, then cue the ridiculous exaggerations which follow. Ad infinitum.

No, I actually believed that if the PM ordered the RCMP to do something about civil disobedience or disorder, it would get done. I didn't, however, believe that any other government on whose behalf the RCMP policed had that authority.

Didn't know they had a say.

There are no deals that can't be ripped up, but as with everything else we could or might do, waiting out Trump is the best CoA.

Compared to our policy of mandatory flu vaccinations for the CAF, it does seem like an oversight.

If it's a currency swap, it's not a gift. The US even made money on the one with Argentina.

An examination of casualty rates of the various positions in an infantry company should make obvious why a stream of the junior-most officers is needed in wartime, and from there it is a short step to conclude why they're going to be young, expeditiously trained, and inexperienced.