ArmyRick
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If it is just an idea, nothing can happen until the fall anyways.
Liberal (Minority/Majority) Government 2025 - ???
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ArmyRick
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NOT concrete evidence by a long shot. This is where I first heard the rumour. I will keep snooping until I find someone from the LPC actually saying it.
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Hmm.
As this references a memo dated 31 Mar 26 It would have been useful to also read the slides from other sources, including the official policy issued 6 weeks ago on 21 May:
Countering Disinformation: A Guidebook for Public Servants - Democratic Institutions - Canada.ca
The Countering Disinformation: A Guidebook for Public Servants gives federal public servants a basic understanding of the threat of disinformation to Canada’s democracy and offers guidance on how to identify, build public resilience to, and counter disinformation.
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Nowadays it seems like headlines are often designed to generate outrage but often when you look more deeply into a story you'll find there is more to it than just the rage-bait.
Yes, Canada is now eligible to take part in the Euro-Vision contest. However, we didn't "spend $150 million so we could enter this euro-vision music thing". We paid $150 million for the CBC to become a full member of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU).
And yes, as a member of the EBU Canada can now also choose to take part in the Euro-Vision contest if we choose.
Feel free to argue whether the benefits of being a member of the EBU is worth the investment or not, but it's false to say that we're just paying to take part in a song contest.
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Considering I want the CBC fully defunded and all other media subsidies, damn right. We need to get our priorities straight, this ain't one of them. At all.
Buying Submarines? Good
Funding new projects such as mining, oil and other resources? Good
Fixing infrastructure? Good.
Becoming a full member of the "European Broadcasting Union"? Nope. Not cool.
No hungry person ever woke up and said "Man, if we only we part of the European Broadcasting Union, would that help us out" or a homeless person saying "Its ok I can't even think of buying or renting a home, at least we are part of the European Broadcasting Union"
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But not a $150 million thing. Pick your battles. There is a Canadian culture and no, the CBC doesn't define it. I am a non-American and proud of it but I sure as fuck ain't European either.
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Maybe if you are a starving Canadian artist you see this as the Gov't listening to your needs. We don't often give creative minds enough credit for their contributions to society overall.
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Some would say that artists don’t put food on the table.
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Carney to appoint senior Liberal strategist to the Senate
Tom Pitfield has been serving as principal secretary to the PM and also played a central role in the government’s AI strategy
www.theglobeandmail.com
Hey, the senate filled with partisan hacks is back.
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Was it really ever gone?Carney to appoint senior Liberal strategist to the Senate
Tom Pitfield has been serving as principal secretary to the PM and also played a central role in the government’s AI strategy
Hey, the senate filled with partisan hacks is back.
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They were ‘non-partisan’ in name only. At least now they aren’t pretending anymore.Carney to appoint senior Liberal strategist to the Senate
Tom Pitfield has been serving as principal secretary to the PM and also played a central role in the government’s AI strategy
Hey, the senate filled with partisan hacks is back.
Here’s a fun update: PM Carney will also appoint current sitting Conservative MP Richard Martel to the Senate. Martel has been the CPC MP for Chicoutimi-Le Fjord since 2018.
That riding is uncommonly competitive; in the last election it was a three way near-tie with CPC at 34.14%, BQ at 31.19%, LPC at 31.12%.
Very real possibility this costs the CPC a seat even after the by-election, to the benefit of either the Bloc or the Liberals. A rather deft
political move- name a Quebec Conservative to the Senate, cost them a seat in the house at least short term, and maybe pick up a seat for LPC for showing that respect to the riding. And it also gives PM Carney a seat’s worth of breathing room come the fall sitting.
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Non partisan selection process is apparently dead, back to open patronage.
This sets back Senate reform significantly.
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So, like, we couldn't have said 'thanks' and put it in the bank until later?
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Well, my experience with sovereign wealth funds (limited to KSA) and governmental level investments (Canada, Korea, Taiwan, Japan, France) is that they aren't just giving us money.
Why would they.?
They are committed to investing up to that amount into projects, equity stakes etc. So if projects are not yet ready, there is nothing to invest in......
Also, six months is not a significant amount of time in the world of 9-10 figure investments. Raising private capital can often take a lot longer than that.
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