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“This (law) is the most significant rollback of refugee rights in Canada in over a decade,” said Adam Sadinsky of the Canadian Association of Refugee Lawyers. “It’s disappointing that Canada has joined other countries in a race to the bottom in terms of protection of rights for migrants and vulnerable people.”
At the risk of sounding like a tech bro…
I work for one of the largest banks in the world. The organizational inefficiency… incompetence… is staggering. That’s a for profit hyper-capitalist enterprise. I used to wonder why banks keep needing bailouts. I don’t wonder any more.
I don’t want the government run like a business for 2 reasons:
governments are to provide services, not to make profit
BUISINESSES aren’t even run well.
The operational waste, I can only imagine is staggering. I’d love it if actually smart people actually made improvements. Not just fucking McKinsey saying “fire 10% of people and necessity will breed efficiency”
It’s my understanding that government run operations tend to be more efficient. Sure, you constantly hear about the waste, but who are you hearing it from? It’s from capitalists who want to own it, because then they can profit from it, and them profiting from it implies that that money is being taken from the revenue of the operation.
What banks in Canada received bailouts, exactly? Even during the 2008 collapse, no bailouts, no small FIs (credit unions) went under.
I think you’re thinking of America.
And in this case, my comment wasn’t about op ex or efficiencies specifically. It’s just a blunt statement that the canadian government can’t handle all the immigration, nor can canadian systems or infrastructure. It’s all crumbling as a result of stupid levels of immigration – which accounts for practically 100% of our population gains for the past however many years. Housing prices fluctuate based on immigration levels – housing costs have been going down since 2024 (before trump and the recent nonsense), the same time that they put harder caps on immigration. If you look at a comparison between the real housing price index and our immigration levels over the past two decades, the spikes and dips match up pretty well.
People unquestionably in favour of immigration don’t look at what it does to the sustainability and stability of existing infrastructure/ecosystems. Introduce an influx of hundreds of thousands of wolves to a pasture, and it doesn’t matter how efficient the 2000 worker sheep may be, they’re all fucked. You can’t instantly create hundreds of thousands of sheep to meet the new demand for sheep from the hundreds of thousand of wolves. Our government can’t manage to do basic checks on even the reported abuses, so it really isn’t any surprise that we have shit like international gang extortion rings in BC these days.
I work for a US Bank. I’m 83% sure I’m thinking of exactly what I think I’m thinking of.
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Bro, I’m fairly certain this dude lives in Calgary. You can work for a US company in Canada, chill the fuck out
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I genuinely don’t think I’ve ever gotten such an unhinged angry response after I’ve criticized capitalism and spoken support for strengthening public services.
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I’m amazed that you could read a post that specifically says “we should NOT run the government like a business”, and then lists SEVERAL reasons WHY we should NOT run the government like a business, and then conclude that, in fact, I’m advocating running the government like a business.
You’re so blind with rage that you’ve:
apparently forgotten how to read
don’t even realize that I’m not arguing with you and that we’re actually on the same side of this issue
I’m saying this with love to you as my brother:
Your anger is making you extremely stupid, and you need to step back and cool down. Do some self reflection. Your brain is of no use to anyone, including you, when you’re this high on blind rage.