Only 99 days

[Topper]

Site C has hit 50% generating capacity.

[Topper]

I whole heartedly agree with this idea from the BC Conservatives.

https://x.com/BCConservCaucus/status/18 ... 7101022643

[Meds]

Yeah, that's spot on.

[5thhorseman]

What's the idea though? Do we ban foreign funding of NGOs? Are there any unintended consequences of that approach?

[Topper]

What's the idea though? Do we ban foreign funding of NGOs? Are there any unintended consequences of that approach?

We do ban foreign money from political parties. Make the NGO's disclose where their money come from. Make it part of the nominal owner disclosure we keep hearing about when it comes to money laundering.

No doubt some work arounds, like David Suzuki resigning from the David Suzuki Foundation so he can do the political work the Foundation is banned from.

[Topper]

+ $9B deficit in 2024 and a 2025 budget for a + $10B deficit

[Per]

+ $9B deficit in 2024 and a 2025 budget for a + $10B deficit

Say what?!

How can they allow that?

Here the government has to balance its budget by law.
Either cut spending or raise taxes till there's a balance.

[Topper]

+ $9B deficit in 2024 and a 2025 budget for a + $10B deficit

Say what?!

How can they allow that?

Here the government has to balance its budget by law.
Either cut spending or raise taxes till there's a balance.

It's worse, when Eby became Premier he inherited a $5B surplus that by law either had to be spent or on March 31, at the end of the fiscal year, would be automatically applied to the outstanding debt. He promptly spent the $5B and even added more debt that year with favour social program spending.

[Meds]

+ $9B deficit in 2024 and a 2025 budget for a + $10B deficit

Say what?!

How can they allow that?

Here the government has to balance its budget by law.
Either cut spending or raise taxes till there's a balance.

European democratic systems are better than ours insomuch as they have rules for governments to abide by. As much as Canada has tried to replicate multi-party systems, we are essentially the same as the US with a 2 party choice with some fringe wannabe's that only mean a damned thing when we have a minority government. Once in, there are few regulations and fewer judges who will enforce them when it goes to court.

Canada, by and large, has a very pacifist population, far too trusting of our governments and far to lazy to do much abut it.

[Topper]

Federally, one of the Conservatives' campaign promises is that any new spending has to have an equal value of cut to other spending to keep the budget from ballooning

[5thhorseman]

Federally, one of the Conservatives' campaign promises is that any new spending has to have an equal value of cut to other spending to keep the budget from ballooning

What's the baseline? The previous budget?

Or is this a commitment to a balanced budget?

[Meds]

I wonder what our budget would look like if we had not given Ukraine $20B over the last 3 years. Canada has given the most of any G7 nation on a per capita basis.

Budget priorities should be healthcare and real primary/secondary education, military, and infrastructure.

There should also be an increased degree of privatization in various sectors, including all of the above except for military.

[5thhorseman]

I wonder what our budget would look like if we had not given Ukraine $20B over the last 3 years.

We'd have about $20B more right now.

[Meds]

I wonder what our budget would look like if we had not given Ukraine $20B over the last 3 years.

We'd have about $20B more right now.

Or they would have spent it somewhere else.

[Topper]

Eby is asking Parliament to give his cabinet carte blanche powered to deal with the threat of US tariffs.

This was Trudeau initial proposal to deal with COVID.

Unchecked government.