Sure there is good and evil in all of us, but the point of living in a global society is to integrate the feedback received from others and hopefully become less evil in whatever we have done bad in.

Ignoring the feedback is at the very least behaving like the villain - if we want to shy away from ascribing such potentially reductive labels.

Would you describe India as a social democracy under Modi? I am hesitant to. There are robust welfare schemes no doubt but the leanings are overwhelmingly capitalist especially in areas of the country controlled by the BJP.

Location matters though. It wouldn’t make sense for a house to cost as much as it does to make. Though obviously prices have become completely detached from reality.

I wonder if they included the cost of armed forces, border and customs agencies, foreign embassies, aviation and environmental regulatory agencies, national pension systems, and federal service staffing in their calculations? Or are they assuming the two behemoths landlocking them would just… let them be…? Both Canada and the US could decimate Alberta economically and I can see the current US administrarion doing it purposefully with the intention of annexing them.

Sometimes I wonder if separatists really just want Alberta to be a part of the US since we all know that’s how this would play out in the end.

Are we talking about people or governments here because many countries have to hold USD in order to buy oil.

What makes you think any or even all of those modalities would meet their energy needs before people start dying?

Energy independence is key to ensuring this never happens again. Maximizing utilization of renewables is key to that on a long ye horizon. But in the short term, they need oil.

I support this. Of course the ideal circumstance is to regulate tech companies but when Canada tried to institute a digital services tax Trump immediately ended tariff negotiations so I don’t think America is interested in having their tech companies regulated.

The harm to people, especially adolescents, is too great in my opinion so this is the next best option.

I’m also not on social media so this doesn’t really affect me. I encourage everyone else do the same. If Lemmy ever asked for anything like that I’d stop using it.

He was detained by the CBSA during what he thought was a routine check-in.

He was then informed that his asylum claim was rejected.

His wife was required to post a $4000 immigration bond so that he did not remain in detention until deportation.

He has no criminal record. CBC is using the term “bail” loosely here.

Why accept one refugee claim and turn away the rest of the family then? Does it make sense to seperate a child from his mother? They should have just rejected the whole family according to your logic.

I’m not sure why you’re looking at Canada in isolation when the tariffs introduced by Trump have been the biggest shock to the Canadian economy in the past year. It seems that you really want to attrubute this to immigration / inviting temporary foreign workers (beyond Canada’s capacity) and, while that is a factor, I think Canada having its bestie (who gobbled up 70% of its exports) stab it in the back is a more logical explanation as to why unemployment has rise recently.

Immigration is going to be crucial to Canada’s growth story especially based on current local population trends. Canadian universities like UofT, McGill, UBC have already signed agreements in countries like India to create centers of excellence/innovation campuses in emerging markets with more favorable demographic skews (ie. more young participants in the workforce vs retirees) and it would be ill thought out of Canada to not offer those that attend these transnational education institutions preferable conditions to immigrate to Canada.

This doesn’t seem like a logical argument for today.

Unemployment is either a too many workers or too few jobs issue.

Of course both can happen at the same time and that is to a degree what’s happening here.

The most significant shock to the Canadian economy in the past year is the trade war with the United States. This would be the primary reason in 2025 and 2026.

The immigration from years ago exacerbates the issue but Carney’s government has scaled back significantly in the past year.

Youth unemployment is up to 14.1% because cost of living has caused people to delay retirement and automation tends to snap up entry level jobs first.

I would look at this information and blame US trade policy primarily. Then maybe Trudeau for poor planning though doubt he could have anticipated the Canada US relationship turning sour.

Without immigration, Canada’s population is in a state of involution which is considered fairly incompatible with the idea of a growing economy. Canada and many Western countries are extra fucked because of the population skewing towards elderly.

Carney is slowing immigration likely because he’s anticipating Canada’s economy to stagnate or shrink in the short term. He’s not a miracle worker, the best he can likely do is limit the pain from the US’ betrayal but it’s going to be fairly improbable to create a win from the situation.

Housing is a factor. It’s a bit asinine to invite people over when your housing market is a hot mess but Trudeau did it anyways.

Canada is going to need to bolster its housing situation, healthcare system and other social institutions for the betterment of its people but also to be an attractive destination for immigration or risk losing its standing as a middle power (especially with the US no longer in its corner).

Shouldn’t the process be to have the houses built and then have people move into them? Not to have people create demand and only then play catch up and build a place for them to live?

Very boomer coded housing as a commodity mindset.

The Western world has always approached international law this way. It’s why the rest of the world usually rolls its eyes when they start to get preachy about it. The contrast between Carneys speech in Davos and now is just more blatant than usual. The rules for thee but not for me doublethink has always been there.

Always has been. Not just the rich folk either. Ask some Canadians about indigineous people and youll feel like youve time travelled back a century.

Hockey is globally perceived as the winter white privilege sport. Tennis is the summer counterpart though I’d argue tennis is less homogenous.

This is called a bribe. Bridge owner bribed US president Donald Trump with $1 million dollars in exchange for blasting competitor.

Getting caught with “you can fuck off” on a hit mic doesn’t help either. Last thing anyone wants is for Canada to gain a reputation of cheating, especially after the drone scandal with the Canadian womens soccer team at the Paris Olympics in '24.

Ahead of the tournament, on 22 July, New Zealand players noticed a drone flying over their training session and reported this to local police.[2] Drone operating laws in France ban drones from being flown above people and ban recordings made by drones to be shared without the subjects’ consent. French police were already wary of drones in terms of security around the 2024 Summer Olympics.[1][3] Saint-Étienne police followed the drone and found and detained its operator, a member of the staff of the Canadian team. The New Zealand Olympic Committee (NZOC) then reported the incident to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) integrity unit, before making a public announcement the next day together with New Zealand Football, expressing their disappointment towards the Canadian team. The Canadian Olympic Committee (COC) then apologized to the NZOC and said they would review next steps with Canada Soccer and all the relevant governing bodies.[2][4]

The drone operator, analyst Joseph Lombardi, admitted after his arrest that he had also filmed another New Zealand training session on 19 July,[5] a fact later made public by the COC.[1][3] Though Lombardi immediately said that the spying was “a personal initiative”, the police found a text message exchange on his phone with assistant coach Jasmine Mander that indicated Mander knew of the spying.[6]

If you’re resorting to espionage please just accept that you suck and don’t do things that drag your nations reputation in the process.

This will never happen since the Americans would see it as intentionally antagonizing. They’ve made it clear they see the Western hemisphere as theirs.

In fact, in response they may take more deliberate action to capture control of Canada coercively. Being part of the EU would provide no meaningful protection against that. It would unnecessarily invite a more aggressive American posture towards Canada.

If Carney did this it would be one of the biggest blunders in modern political history. Thankfully he’s a pretty smart guy. There’s very little value in joining the EU for Canada.

There may be overlap in values but Europe is not what it used to be. Much of the worlds economic growth will be driven by the global south for the next thirty years so Carney is wise to prioritize carefully calculated deals with those countries.

He will be travelling to India next, let’s see what he can secure as far as a trade deal goes. The EU and India are celebrating their recently signed free trade agreement, perhaps Carney will follow suit.

Having nationalistic tendencencies seems on par with many European countries today.

There is truth in what you’re saying but I’m having trouble relating it to the topic at hand.