This person and the organization she represents, are knowingly trying to misinform Canadians. Student jobs disappeared because of COVID. This was a way for the government to get money to students who need it for books and tuition.
The program was not intended as a wage-for-service program, so it was not paying students less than minimum wage. It was meant to acknowledge students for doing volunteer work by helping them access money they need to go to school in the fall.
With the current conservatives in opposition, the government is in a "damned if they do, damned if they don't" situation. I don't recall ever a Canadian political party so opposed to public money being used to help the public as these hard-right CPC/UCP/PC people.
"CERB will make Canadians too lazy to work", "We need to open the schools and get the economy moving", or Jason Kenney's pronouncement about how it's ok if old people die because they have already lived to the average age of death...
The conservative attitude shows a marked lack of respect for Canadians, for human life, for the health of the population, and for the public good. Public monies should be spent on the public good, including students. We need a well-educated society to move forward.
Public money should be used for the public good. Not the corporate good. Taxes are collected to ensure the public has access to a decent quality of life. Taxing people to give the money to the already wealthy is feudalism. I don't believe that is the system we want here.
Extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures. The taxpayer's federation & all the other conservative think-tanks, don't want Canadians to understand that government debt is not like household debt. Or that most economists think the Canadian gov't has acted appropriately.
Under normal circumstances people don't need a government program to volunteer, but 2020 is not "normal circumstances". Like most conservative mouthpieces, the taxpayer's federation is pretending everything is fine, and our only concern is the economy. #cdnpoli
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If you die, they can't come for your organs all willy-nilly, even if your organs are desperately needed so a newborn baby can live. They just can't. Not unless you sign a donor card. As a corpse, you cannot be forced to sustain the life of another. #cdnpoli
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Your next of kin can sign off on donating your organs, but you must be dead for that to happen. You cannot be made to save the life of anyone. Full stop. The government cannot decide you are going to donate a kidney to save someone. You have bodily autonomy. That means, you
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get to decide when and if you make a significant personal sacrifice to save or continue the life of anyone else. You cannot be compelled to even give blood, even if you have the most sought-after blood type ever. That is bodily autonomy. It is a human right that all
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Should there be legislation laying out conditions when a surgeon can remove an appendix? Should there be laws about whether or not a broken bone can be set, a virus treated, or a cancerous tumour excised? Abortion is a medical procedure. We don't have laws about other 1/
medical procedures. We don't even have laws about whether or not vasectomies or lubal ligations are ok. Although I imagine some conservatives would like to legislate that next. On the one hand they say, "It's settled law", on the other hand, they say, "Canada is one of
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only 2 countries in the world having zero laws protecting the pre-born." Which is it? Settled law? No law?
Hint: it's no law, because abortion is a medical procedure and we don't need laws to criminalise medical procedures. Healthcare is between a patient and
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Now, I understand why rich folks, the ones with big houses, and second houses they can go to for a vacation, and big boats, and motorhomes, and multiple cars, and who jet off on nice vactions to places other than their cottages, don't like what they think 1/ #cdnpoli
socialism is. Deep down, they are terrified that someone is going to try to take some of their stuff. They have visions of some large dirty family showing up on their doorstep and announcing that the government has sent them to live there. Or someone is going to come along
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and expropriate part of their big yard to build high-density housing. They are terrified of having to make do with less. And they feel that a "socialist" government would take their stuff and call it wealth redistribution.
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Let's assume you are not a pilot, have never taken flying lessons. Do you believe you could fly a 747? Let's assume you are not a doctor, have never been to medical school. Do you believe you could successfully operate on a patient? So why do people who have never ...
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been in graduate school, never done scientific research beyond grade 12 chemistry, think they know what the real researchers should be researching? Is Danielle Smith next going to be suggesting she should drive around the province telling ranchers and farmers
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how to do their jobs? Does anyone think the premier should be on job-sites giving welders tips? Should she be popping up in dentists' offices explaining why, if they only did things this other way, it would be better in her opinion?
So, why the hell does she think she and
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I think we need to have a serious talk about predatory capitalism. This is going to be a rather long rant, so get comfy. 1/ #cdnpoli #UBI #NeverVoteConservative #PredatoryCapitalism
What this obscenely wealthy property developer is saying is monstrous. He says the quiet part out loud here. The uber wealthy want billions of people in poverty so they can grow their riches faster, and so workers will once again feel 2/
grateful for their jobs and willing to work harder for less. This guy (Tim Gurner) and others like him see themselves and their financial goals as infinitely more important than the lives of most of the world's population.
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The first, simplest, and most obvious reason is that some journalists actually strongly support the right side of the political spectrum. So much so that they cannot contain their enthusiasm for Poilievre, etc, and they allow it to override any journalistic ethics
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they might have been taught.
Another possible reason, which seems plausible, is that main stream media is languishing, desperate for something exciting and lascivious to report. Peace order and good governance are lovely for living in but don't draw a lot
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