casually joked about absorbing Canada

Fuck off with this bullshit. It wasn’t a joke. I’m so sick of the media normalizing Trump’s crap.

The system is rotten to the core. An election can’t fix it.

It’s better that justice works some of the time than that it never works at all.

You want to stop them doing one good thing because they didn’t do a different good thing too? That doesn’t make any sense. Doing something is better than doing nothing just because it’s “fair”.

That profit level is actually so low that it’s almost losing money for investors once you account for inflation. Any lower and there wouldn’t be any investors

Good! Why are we allowing investors to leech a profit off of a basic necessity of life? No one should be milking extra profit out of the poor people trying to survive. A system that allows this deserves to collapse.

Some countries waited years after that to join in.

And the Canadian government STILL hasn’t put out a travel warning to the US.

It WAS the attitude until it started invading its neighbours.

Typical abuser behaviour. What do they have left when the victim decides to break the cycle and leave the relationship? They double down on what they’ve been doing so far. More abuse.

Either the victim caves and goes back, or it reminds them of all the reasons they left in the first place and guarantees they never return. We’re choosing the second one.

This is amazing but the protests need to be sustained until things change. Nothing will change if you set a date for when the protests end.

Sure I could get Canadian currency at par but I could end up in an El Salvador death camp. I guess it adds an extra layer of gambling on top of the blackjack table!

but is a step in the direction of freedom from those corporations.

The Liberal party introduced Bill C-15 which literally allows any corporation to be exempted from any law.

https://lemmy.ca/post/59019030

They know who they want to rule us.

Turns out checks and balances don’t mean shit if no one actually defends them.

Here’s the relevant part of the bill copied below, and the link to the bill on parl.ca. Scroll down a little bit to section 208. There are some things I trimmed out for brevity. This is not the whole thing, just the parts I considered most relevant.

208 Section 11 of the Act and the heading before it are replaced by the following:

#Exemptions to Encourage Innovation, Competitiveness or Economic Growth

Order
12 (1) Subject to subsections (3) and (7), a minister may, by order, for a specified validity period of not more than three years and on any terms that the minister considers appropriate, exempt an entity from the application of

• (a) a provision of an Act of Parliament, except the Criminal Code, if the minister is responsible for the Act;
• (b) a provision of an instrument made under an Act of Parliament, except an instrument made under the Criminal Code, if
• • (i) the minister is responsible for the Act, or
• • (ii) the body that made the instrument is accountable, through the minister, to Parliament for the conduct of its affairs; or
• (c) a provision of an Act of Parliament, except the Criminal Code, or a provision of an instrument made under an Act of Parliament, except an instrument made under the Criminal Code, if the minister administers or enforces the provision.

Conditions
(3) A minister may make an order under subsection (1) only if the minister is of the opinion that

• (a) the exemption is in the public interest;
• (b) the exemption would enable the testing of, among other things, a product, service, process, procedure or regulatory measure with the aim of facilitating the design, modification or administration of a regulatory regime to encourage innovation, competitiveness or economic growth;
• (c) the benefits associated with the exemption outweigh the risks;
• (d) sufficient resources exist, and appropriate measures will be taken, to maintain oversight of the testing, manage any risks associated with the exemption and protect public health and safety and the environment; and
• (e) a feasible implementation plan has been developed.

#Transparency and Parliamentary Oversight

Accessibility
14 (1) Subject to subsections (2) and (3), a minister must, as soon as feasible after making an order under section 12, make the order and the following information publicly accessible:

• (a) a description of the decision-making process and a summary of the reasons for the order; and
• (b) a description of the process for providing comments or information to, or requesting information from, the minister in relation to the order.

Exception

• (2) The minister may exclude information that, in the minister’s opinion, would be inappropriate to make publicly accessible for reasons that include safety or security considerations or the protection of confidential or personal information.