I'll believe it when I see it.
First part is already done - federal income tax cut in lowest two income ranges, and GST cut. The overarching problem is that provinces prefer Ottawa to tax and then transfer the money so that they can spend.I still think it wouldn't hurt to look at transferring tax points to the provinces and holding the feds accountable for their clear areas of responsibility.
too true and with less than admirable results. Transport Canada delegated ATC supervision to NavCan. There are now very few experts in Transport that can judge whether a change in policy is safe or not. As a result they lean on the advise of the organization that they are supposed to police, resulting in a less safe system. The same is true of flight checks and pilot safety. Airlines now do their own policing.RCAF retains airworthiness responsibilities. But operational and technical authorities can now be held by non-RCAF organizations. Even airworthiness and flight safety responsibilities can be delegated with appropriate training and procedural compliance.
Very rarely do buildings move from one province to another.We're also a country with 10 different building codes
Very rarely do buildings move from one province to another.
And, at least nominally, building codes are designed around local environmental conditions. The bare minimum for, say, insulation in a house in Victoria would be inadequate inSt. John's or WinnipegVictoria.
There really needs to be a modernization of the federation and reform of the duties and responsibilities. The construct of 1867 is nowhere near the what is required today.But when you say the feds should stay in their jurisdiction, that would be the logical end result. Take healthcare for example. How exactly do you suggest the feds reduce their role from the present set up? The only logical place left is to annull the Canada Health Act and let the provinces offer whatever services they want, ending the universality that the CHA provides. However you want to pitch it, that's the desired end-state. And it's one I doubt most Canadians would want.
If you think I am misrepresenting your views, I am open to some details on how you envision this working.
Also, this goes the other way too. Canada is the only G7 (possibly OECD) country without a national securities regulator, because somehow trading securities was roped into provincial regulation of commerce. We're also a country with 10 different building codes, 10 different education standards, etc. All that bureaucracy for a country with about the same population as Poland. Hardly a recipe for competitiveness.
I’ve been yelling that from the rooftops for years.I’m convinced the vast majority of our MPs would be better suited to being on a local council to provincial legislature than the federal parliament. I just wish the would figure that out instead of wasting everyone’s bandwidth in Ottawa.
I suppose that gets us closer to the clouds.I’ve been yelling that from the rooftops for years.
I suppose that gets us closer to the clouds.
Thereby avoiding accountability for the taxing part, which is my point. The GST cut was a huge missed opportunity by the provinces to add to their revenues without actually increasing taxes on anyone by simply keeping the HST at 15%.First part is already done - federal income tax cut in lowest two income ranges, and GST cut. The overarching problem is that provinces prefer Ottawa to tax and then transfer the money so that they can spend.
I only don't want to pay the collar cost for living in a nanny society, governed by people who have something new every year that they want to be publicly funded.Nobody wants to pay the dollar cost for living in a society.
You've just defined the problem of ALL written constitutions: they are situated in time and space. That applies equally to the most famous of all, the one belonging to the great republic which is our Southern neighbour and to our own Constitution Act of 1982.There really needs to be a modernization of the federation and reform of the duties and responsibilities. The construct of 1867 is nowhere near the what is required today.
I just don’t think we have mature officials at any level to carry out this reform.
It is already not. SOFCOM operated CE145s and CH146s, and other elements operate a multitude of UAS.
Having 10 different players trying different things is exactly the recipe for competition, from which competitiveness ultimately derives.
Very rarely do buildings move from one province to another.
And, at least nominally, building codes are designed around local environmental conditions. The bare minimum for, say, insulation in a house in Victoria would be inadequate in St. John's or Winnipeg.
Not wrong, but show me country where that is not the case. I suspect that it is built into human nature.This is another one of those Canadianisms that is just ignorant of global reality. You can write a national building code that simply designs for all kinds of climates and then apply the section relevant to your local climate at time of construction. But of course, in Canada, for some reason, we have to pretend that rain works differently in every province.
And while buildings don't move, there is absolutely a cost to this kind of stuff. Every single design any large builder makes, has to then be certified against a different building code in every province, as opposed to say certification against a master code and just an annex for each local climate.
And you can repeat this little anecdote across so many industries in Canada. Will never understand why Canadians love bureaucracy so much. All you have to do is tell them the bureaucracy is local and artisanal and people will jump up and down to defend it, in this country.
Not wrong, but show me country where that is not the case. I suspect that it is built into human nature.
As Charles Dickens put it: Humbug. There are very few, in fact I would say there are no jurisdictions with a single building code encompassing a land mass with the varied climate, topography moisture levels that Canada does. BC has to build for earthquakes, Ontario doesn't. For one size to fit all would either make it so cumbersome that no one would be able to master it or be so generic as to be no earthly good. Most of the pages in this website include at least one allusion to bureaucracy and you want to add yet another layer? It takes 10 years to approve a transit line in most cities mostly because of red tape. With a federal set of rules some poor dad would get his newborn child's playset built and approved around about the same time as he/she graduated from high schoolThis is another one of those Canadianisms that is just ignorant of global reality. You can write a national building code that simply designs for all kinds of climates and then apply the section relevant to your local climate at time of construction. But of course, in Canada, for some reason, we have to pretend that rain and cement work differently in every province.
And while buildings don't move, there is absolutely a cost to this kind of stuff. Every single design any large builder makes, has to then be certified against a different building code in every province, as opposed to say certification against a master code and just an annex for each local climate.
And you can repeat this little anecdote across so many industries in Canada. Will never understand why Canadians love bureaucracy so much. All you have to do is tell them the bureaucracy is local and artisanal and people will jump up and down to defend it, in this country.
With a federal set of rules some poor dad would get his newborn child's playset built and approved around about the same time as he/she graduated from high school
But when you say the feds should stay in their jurisdiction, that would be the logical end result. Take healthcare for example. How exactly do you suggest the feds reduce their role from the present set up? The only logical place left is to annull the Canada Health Act and let the provinces offer whatever services they want, ending the universality that the CHA provides. However you want to pitch it, that's the desired end-state. And it's one I doubt most Canadians would want.
If you think I am misrepresenting your views, I am open to some details on how you envision this working.
Also, this goes the other way too. Canada is the only G7 (possibly OECD) country without a national securities regulator, because somehow trading securities was roped into provincial regulation of commerce. We're also a country with 10 different building codes, 10 different education standards, etc. All that bureaucracy for a country with about the same population as Poland. Hardly a recipe for competitiveness.
Alberta Building Codes and Standards.
Codes in force
The following codes in the building discipline are currently in force:
- National Building Code – 2023 Alberta Edition (declared in force May 1, 2024)
- National Energy Code of Canada for Buildings 2020 (declared in force May 1, 2024)
there's really no reason to have different insulation codes, thats just adherence to old ideas that were wrong over 50 yrs ago. One of our problems is continuing to use systems that dont work. We could build everything with insulated panels so much easier and better, right through the whole supply chain from forest to house. Even snow loads I wonder about, when we used to play around with pre-engineered steel buildings very rarely we you see a structural difference even though the code requirements might be tripleAs Charles Dickens put it: Humbug. There are very few, in fact I would say there are no jurisdictions with a single building code encompassing a land mass with the varied climate, topography moisture levels that Canada does. BC has to build for earthquakes, Ontario doesn't. For one size to fit all would either make it so cumbersome that no one would be able to master it or be so generic as to be no earthly good. Most of the pages in this website include at least one allusion to bureaucracy and you want to add yet another layer? It takes 10 years to approve a transit line in most cities mostly because of red tape. With a federal set of rules some poor dad would get his newborn child's playset built and approved around about the same time as he/she graduated from high school