Canada seems to be making all the wrong decisions, all of the time.
If you are hesitant about the concept of subsidizing local press or media companies in general, it's absolutely nothing new: Sweden has been doing this for more than 50 years, and (in my opinion) it's largely been extremely beneficial to the media environment.
I just wish the conservatives would show some interest in protecting the environment.
Like in curious which media sources you're watching that are informing you about the state of Canada?
Keeping medical school residencies small - zero growth! - while in a crisis of lack of primary care physicians?
In the midst of record inflation, choosing $40b deficit spending that any economist will tell you is inflationary?
In the midst of record low - and dropping! - productivity, increasing taxes on capital to disincentivize investment in this country?
I'm asking that user where they get their news about Canada from.
I'm assuming that they're not Canadian and I'm interested to know where non Canadians read news about Canada.
I'm a Canadian, I read these sources and am well aware of the issues you want to soapbox about.
I'm not interested in hearing about them from you. If I did I would go to /r/canada to hear the exact same stuff.
What I'm far more interested in is seeing where non-Canadians get their news about Canada.
FTFY. And I am saying this as a lifelong Liberal.
This new tax complements our CanCon rules [1] which help protect Canadian artists.
maybe the wrong composition of immigration, but too much? Not if you want to retire some day and need some help from the next generations. Our natural birth rate is not going to do it...
This fact is clearly inconvenient for progressives, who want nothing more than to go on playing Santa Claus. But the only solution you all have to offer (mass immigration) has the teensy-weensy downside of inevitably leading to the cultural obliteration of the West. It's a ghoulish and unserious option, which is why increasingly vocal majorities oppose it throughout the western world. The more you all push for this insanity against the will of the people, the greater will be the damage and the harsher the inevitable backlash.
On your other topic, let me point you to a certain western country which has always had a torrent of immigration from all around the globe and has not had the cultural downfall and obliteration in fire and flames that you vaticinate: a certain United States.
Nit-picking words is the lowest form of rhetoric. They're unaffordable, as you well know.
> The social security welfare state predates the baby boom you speak of and also exists in countries which never had it.
True and entirely irrelevant.
> Below replacement rates are a problem, yes, but that can be solved if you work towards not making "having children" be a luxury not affordable for the proles.
You people "working towards" your goals is what got us here in the first place. If you all had any way to raise birth rates, it would have happened somewhere by now. But you don't. Getting rid of your "work" is likely the best thing we could possibly do to raise birth rates. Vastly reducing the benefits of Social Security, for example, would make having children much more attractive. If you rely on your kids to take care of you in old age, suddenly you can't afford not to have kids. This is how it worked for all of human history, by the way, until you all started farting with the incentives.
> On your other topic, let me point you to a certain western country which has always had a torrent of immigration from all around the globe and has not had the cultural downfall and obliteration in fire and flames that you vaticinate: a certain United States.
This is an old argument which made sense historically, but has taken a serious beating over the last 20 years. For more than two hundred years, America boasted a unique political culture, born of the frontier, which was proudly individualistic, decentralized, and enterprising. But that culture is being obliterated as a direct result of mass immigration. Polling data show that heritage Americans continue to support the old ways (free markets, limited federal power, low taxes, free speech, gun rights, etc), while recent immigrants and their children are far more likely to eschew the frontier spirit and embrace the nanny state (in other words, they support their old ways, not ours).
I'm as Trudeau-fatigued and concerned about productivity as the next person... but I think high immigration is something most folks in Canada see as good, and couldn't guess what the connection between housing and CanCon / streaming regulation is.
I'm really curious to understand if the folks commenting so stridently are Canadian and hold some passionate views, or are maybe getting a particular info stream about Canada.
That's what many Canadians will express in public, just to keep their lives easier by avoiding false accusations of "racism"/"bigotry"/"xenophobia", by avoiding potential job loss or employment-related sanctions, by avoiding other forms of harassment, and so forth.
In private, and especially with people they trust not to attack them, the sentiment is often very different. They're well aware of the various negative impacts that immigration is causing, and has long been causing, to Canada and Canadians.
In my country there is high (and rising) anti-immigration sentiment, despite the fact that immigrants don't commit more crime than natives, and are net contributors to social security.
Not seeking to put you on the spot. I imagine there's a lot of variation in how people see things everywhere. But I'd certainly disagree with you. I appreciate the economic and cultural benefits of living in a growing, multicultural country. And I suspect given the number of people flocking to this city I'm not alone.
I think this was absolutely the case right up until every last city/town in Canada started experiencing skyrocketing housing costs in the last few years, and now many cities have absurdly low vacancy rates. Broad consensus (to me) seems to be that we need to at least pause or dramatically lower our targets while we catch up in building.
That's the best joke I have heard here on HN.
Our green transition? What exactly do you think is going to happen here?