Liberal Minority Government 2025 - ???

[daftandbarmy]

This wont play out well, for a company that posted an 8.5B profit last year to cut 900 people in two years and essentially pull out of calgary. This is a major blow

‘Deeply disappointed’: Ottawa reacts to Imperial Oil plan to cut 20% of Calgary workforce by end of 2027

Imperial Oil is planning to slash about 20 per cent of its workforce by the end of 2027 as part of a restructuring plan.

www.ctvnews.ca

And probably just the start of a trend ...

ExxonMobil to cut 2,000 jobs worldwide amid restructuring plans​

Faced with a slump in global crude oil prices as the OPEC+ group of oil producers has increased output, energy companies have announced thousands of job cuts this year to rein in costs while they contend with lower profits.

ExxonMobil to cut 2,000 jobs worldwide amid restructuring plans | Globalnews.ca

A day after Calgary-based Imperial Oil announced plans to slash its workforce by 20 per cent, its parent company, ExxonMobil, also announced deep job cuts.

globalnews.ca

 

[Eaglelord17]

OAS = To confirm Old Age Security benefit? If it is, this affects my father but not my mother and step father. I only know a little about it (Who is and at what age is entitled)

It effects a lot of old people, many of whom shouldn’t be receiving it in the first place.

That was a good read, thanks for posting it.

Helps to understand the impact of policy changes (even minor ones) - but like you said, nobody will touch this issue because nobody wants to be the 'bad guy' for reducing senior's benefits. (Even if it just means reducing them to what they were a year ago)

We subsidize our elderly (who are the wealthiest part of our population) with the income of our youth (who can barely afford to live). We really need to start calling it welfare as that is what it is. Put some stigma in taking it.

This wont play out well, for a company that posted an 8.5B profit last year to cut 900 people in two years and essentially pull out of calgary. This is a major blow

‘Deeply disappointed’: Ottawa reacts to Imperial Oil plan to cut 20% of Calgary workforce by end of 2027

Imperial Oil is planning to slash about 20 per cent of its workforce by the end of 2027 as part of a restructuring plan.

www.ctvnews.ca

My company is hoping to be able to lay off 800-1500 employees in the next 2-5 months. Originally this was going to happen over the course of another few years and hopefully retirees would balance out most the leaving.

Basically their main product line was geared to the US and it takes way to long to make a new product line. So essentially their choice is to reduce costs as they can’t make more profit in the short term.

Thank Trump and his tariffs.

 

[MilEME09]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/gm-production-fort-wayne-1.7642742?__vfz=medium%3Dsharebar

GM to move production from Oshawa, I heavily suspect the gov might step in here, potentially even sole source LUV phase 1 for the milcot 2.0 to GM to keep Oshawa going, but thats just my opinion

 

[GR66]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/gm-production-fort-wayne-1.7642742?__vfz=medium%3Dsharebar

GM to move production from Oshawa, I heavily suspect the gov might step in here, potentially even sole source LUV phase 1 for the milcot 2.0 to GM to keep Oshawa going, but thats just my opinion

Maybe it's time to tell China that if they want to sell their EV's in Canada then BYD should open a manufacturing plant here.

 

[dapaterson]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/gm-production-fort-wayne-1.7642742?__vfz=medium%3Dsharebar

GM to move production from Oshawa, I heavily suspect the gov might step in here, potentially even sole source LUV phase 1 for the milcot 2.0 to GM to keep Oshawa going, but thats just my opinion

If the Army bought 2000 vehicles it would not sway the math. That's at best a few weeks of production.

 

[PPCLI Guy]

Maybe it's time to tell China that if they want to sell their EV's in Canada then BYD should open a manufacturing plant here.

or tell them that, much like we didn't buy German vehicles in early 39, we won't buy any of their stuff now

 

[Czech_pivo]

If the Army bought 2000 vehicles it would not sway the math. That's at best a few weeks of production.

More like about 9/10 days

 

[Jarnhamar]

Time to trim the fat.

Only disabled women, ‘gender equity-seeking persons’ welcome to apply for Canadian AI research job

A January report by the Aristotle Foundation for Public Policy examined 489 Canadian academic job postings and determined that 98% contained some condition that “directly or indirectly discriminated against candidates,” the National Post reported.

Dalhousie, however, was among the users that heavily used identity quotas in their hirings, explicitly barring candidates based of their race, gender or sexual identity.

 

[Altair]

or tell them that, much like we didn't buy German vehicles in early 39, we won't buy any of their stuff now

The issue is cost.

If there was a comparable western automaker that could make a full sized EV sedan at a 10-20k price point, sure.

But western made EVs are just so damn pricey. 30-40k. If we want EVs to be more than a luxury item they need to be at a price point where the average person can actually afford to buy them.

 

[PPCLI Guy]

The issue is cost.

If there was a comparable western automaker that could make a full sized EV sedan at a 10-20k price point, sure.

But western made EVs are just so damn pricey. 30-40k. If we want EVs to be more than a luxury item they need to be at a price point where the average person can actually afford to buy them.

Perfectly good reason to enrich our enemies.....

 

[dapaterson]

Time to trim the fat.

Only disabled women, ‘gender equity-seeking persons’ welcome to apply for Canadian AI research job

CAF selects future GOFOs disproportionately from "operational" occupations, discriminating against support occs. Which has as a secondary impact creating implicit discrimination against women.

I agree, that needs to be fixed, so there are more logistics, health services, maintenance and other support GOFOs, and fewer infantry, armour, naval warfare and pilot GOFOs.

 

[MilEME09]

If the Army bought 2000 vehicles it would not sway the math. That's at best a few weeks of production.

I think we need more than 2000 given the 2040 plan growth but I do see your point

 

[PuckChaser]

Maybe it's time to tell China that if they want to sell their EV's in Canada then BYD should open a manufacturing plant here.

Theres no slave labour for 10 CAD a day rates here though.

 

[Altair]

Perfectly good reason to enrich our enemies.....

I mean, we do that with the USA every day...

All jokes aside, we buy a lot of Chinese products every day. Second biggest import partner after the USA, ahead of CUSMA partner Mexico. I don't like enriching them if they are undercutting a local product here, but where is the affordable EV here that they are undercutting? It would be filling a need that exists in the market, and as a bonus, they would probably buy our canola again.

 

[Czech_pivo]

I mean, we do that with the USA every day...

All jokes aside, we buy a lot of Chinese products every day. Second biggest import partner after the USA, ahead of CUSMA partner Mexico. I don't like enriching them if they are undercutting a local product here, but where is the affordable EV here that they are undercutting? It would be filling a need that exists in the market, and as a bonus, they would probably buy our canola again.

I would have major concerns of these Chinese EV’s gathering data about our streets/traffic patterns and sending it all back to China for them to hold

 

[MilEME09]

Alberta is spending $14 million on an advisory panel to try and drum up a pipeline proposal, sounds par for the course, Smith and co. love their advisory panels. No promises this will even lead to a pipeline proposal from industry

 

[Altair]

I would have major concerns of these Chinese EV’s gathering data about our streets/traffic patterns and sending it all back to China for them to hold

I gave up on any reasonable expectation of privacy when I decided to have a computer in my pocket constantly collecting my data and selling it to the highest bidder for advertisements, let alone having to trust the companies that have my data not being hacked by bad actors like the Chinese or North Koreans.

I'm alright cutting out the middle man for a cheap EV.

 

[RangerRay]

As much as I would love to see cheap EVs flood the market to wipe the grin off Musk’s face, I agree with @PPCLI Guy that the national security and economic risks outweigh my dislike of Musk and luxury-priced EVs.

 

[SeaKingTacco]

I am deeply concerned about what happens when you start to connect 1000s of BYD cars to our electrical grid. Or their camera systems systematically surveilling everywhere they go. I am certain that there is no possibility of them being rigged in any way to cause mayhem, in the event of conflict with China….

 

[brihard]

As much as I would love to see cheap EVs flood the market to woo the grin off Musk’s face, I agree with @PPCLI Guy that the national security and economic risks outweigh my dislike of Musk and luxury-priced EVs.

Concur.