Canada moves to 2% GDP end of FY25/26 - PMMC

[Colin Parkinson]

The majority of volunteering I see is by older retired folk. Partly as they have time and are still healthy enough to be functional and useful. Once the teenager hits adulthood, generally they are full time in building career, getting into a relationship, finding a place to live and have minimal time to volunteer. The middle age/middle class used to have time to volunteer and used to make up a significant amount of volunteering. Coaching, church, clubs, scouts, cadets, etc. Now they are both working and struggling to keep their heads above the fiscal water and may only volunteer for short while as their kids is involved, dropping out as their kid ages out.

Unions are part of the issue, along with management lack of risk taking when it comes to improving dual use of municipal property. It's less of an issue in small communities as everyone has a vested interest in making it work. In larger communities, it's less so and to be fair they might have dedicated community centres offering services fulltime, lessening the need.

 

[Kirkhill]

We can't. We have to play the hand we're dealt. And that means accepting today's (vastly more resource constrained) reality, instead of constantly fantasizing about a past that is not coming back.

Actually, constitutionally, we can. That is the effect of parliamentary supremacy and the convention that no parliament can bind another. A treaty or contract with a parliamentary government is only valid for the life of the parliament. If nobody complains then the treaty or contract carries over from one parliament to the next. But by convention any parliament is free to withdraw from, or renegotiate, any treaty or contract. That doesn't mean they will be excused any contractually associated penalties from breaking the contract.