Nah. American individuals are fine.

That being said, regardless of what any government bodies decide, I will never be one.

Depends on what the goal ends up being. If they try to create (and actuallyenforce) some regulations around AI, I could see that being an endeavor that would occupy a full time position.

Where’s the Rhinoceros Party when you need them? There’s no chance in hell that riding flips for the Liberals, and likely not for the NDP, but an independent running on a platform of “hear me out, this will be hilarious” just might stand a chance.

It sounds like he’s going to get parachuted into some safe riding. We might not be free of him yet.

He for sure ends up spending the rest of his days in some shitty conservative think tank. Or Alberta provincial politics.

I am curious what they are going to do for a leader. Are they going to double down on the right-wing populist bullishit, or are they going to find someone reasonable.

Also, poor PP is going to have to find himself a real job now.

It was a strategy that made a half-assed amount of sense during the years where the Liberals were struggling. Canadians (particularly Ontario) seems to like their politics roughly center. So if you want to supplant the Liberals as the main party representing the Left, you can’t be too far left. Same thing happens to the Conservatives. Every time they drift too far right to appease the Alberta crowd, they start losing the Ontario suburbs.

Plus, “socialism” is still a bad word for most of the older population. You can get rid of the word, change none of the policies, and that will be enough to keep the “socialism bad” crowd happy.

It will be hard due to internal Conservative party politics, but there’s nothing saying that the party leader has to have a seat in parliament. That’s how Carney was prime minister without having a seat.

Lucky, most of us weren’t dumb enough to be using our real names.

To be fair, our absurdist brain rot generally centered around silly flash animations and one time viral moments. Modern brain rot is centered around influencers and “real” interactions. That and a lot of older millennials went through childhood at a time when being terminally online wasn’t usually an option.

Best way to stay hidden is convince people that you never existed in the first place.

Don’t know, don’t care. Canada and Brazil are in two very different places economically.

Health Canada, not FDA. And I’m not 100% sure if it’s Health Canada that deals with those inspections or provincial authorities.

If wikipedia is to be believed, we might not be as far off as you’d think. One third of our pharmaceutical consumption is already domestically supplied, and the amount we export amounts to about 40% of our consumption. Put the two together, and suddenly there’s 70% of our needs already met. Imports from non-us suppliers should be able to fill the gap while domestic production is ramped up.

Now obviously reality is going to be far more complex than this napkin math, but I’m just pointing out that our domestic production is not starting from zero, and is already at the scale where supplying our own relatively small market is not out of the question.

Big pharma wants to play? Fine. Let’s just invalidate all their patents, spin up a crown corp to manufacturer generic versions, and export globally at actually fair prices.

Canadians seem to be in a very “fuck your threats and fuck you” mood politically, due to Trump’s bullshit. This has made Manning’s petulant threats fall even more flat than they normally would.

Exactly. The real take away here should be to quit buying things off drop shippers and Amazon in general.

Remember kids, it’s not a war crime the first time. Gonna have to go back to being creative.

That’s one of the biggest things. The first time they voted for Trump, we could forgive them, since it was hard to predict that he would be quite that awful. But this time? They knew. They knew what he was, what he stood for, and what he would do. They knew, and they chose him anyway.

On that front, they pretty much already were doing that. The big battery plant in Windsor should be ready to start ramping up production later this year. There was a lot more, but most of it has been paused since Ford decided to delay EV production at Oakville.