...Canada is running out of shit and it's the US governments fault? that's quite a leap...i'm sure they've contributed, but so has half the world.
It’s indirect. “Pro-business” as practiced by GOP policymakers effectively freed corporations from the constraints of decency. Current oil profits illustrate. Since the Fortune 500 are multinational entities, our national policies affect the Canadian economy through the transmission effect of the corporations.
yeah, but so do the policies of china, russia, the EU....
Complicit implies criminality. That is a whole nother can of worms.
"Just in time" supply management may appear to be cost-efficient, but it most certainly is not when talking about essential items to keep society functioning, pay more now or pay way more later. After these past few years and to have industry and government claim they couldn't have seen this coming is gross negligence at best. They 100% knew this was coming.
we're on that kind of storage/transport model because it works to the stores advantage. they don't have to build stores with stock rooms, they don't have money tied up in stock...but one extra busy day results in shortages, a few busy days in a row and they have bare shelves, a busy week and it takes them two weeks to restock from it...the entire model is for the benefit of the retailer, not the consumer...remember just a couple of decades ago, when stored valued their customers, and tried to keep their shelves stocked? when they weren't so fucking greedy that they had some money invested in stock, so they could keep the shelves full after a few busy days?
I did say WE need better policy as the first thing, the things you suggested would be among them. However, the economic center of the world, not just north Ameria is the US. Corruption in America leads to drastically high drug prices, 5X or 10X higher in America, where policy allows us to buy for bulk prices, this was made illegal in America for Medicare by the republicans. Lots of Americans order prescriptions from Canada. Likewise with our healthcare workers, they are paid high and burn out fast in America and lots of doctors and nurses go south for those gringo dollars. America's lack of adequate healthcare and corruption puts a stain on our system too. But does the government need to micromanage the private sector for things like this? Apparently, it does, so much for small government.
We bear our shame silently!
America's biggest issue is it locked in a form of government from the 16th century with a constitution, adapted it and did not evolve it. In the UK the government evolved from the time of the American revolution and the Lords and King lost much of their power. America was set up as an imitation of this British system at the time, the President replaced the King, the parliament with the house and the house of Lords with the senate. All the lawyers were British trained, and it was not meant to represent all, the people, just those who mattered. In America the people did not revolt, their elected legislatures did, and they were an English creation. In the UK the political system evolved along with the society, pressured by revolution in America and in Europe. Eventually the British parliamentary system in one form or another was adopted by most of the world's liberal democracies. Other things are essential to a liberal democracy and its proper functioning too, independent courts, a free press, civil society, and an education system.
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We believe in open dialogue when we are making decisions for billons of people, they have a right to know WTF is going on Xi, this isn't imperial China, and you are not Emperor. Go fuck yourself!Trudeau getting scolded by Xi. He took it like a champ.
Xi confronts Trudeau over media leaks in hot mic moment
But Xi, trying to mask his anger with a pointed smile, was filmed by Canadian journalists telling an increasingly awkward-looking Trudeau: 'Everything that we discussed yesterday has been leaked to the papers and that's not appropriate.'
A stunned Trudeau, almost at a loss for words, just nodded as Xi continued his rant through a translator. The Chinese President looked pointedly at Trudeau and added: 'And that's not the way the conversation was conducted.'
Trudeau, knowing that details of his meeting with Xi had been leaked by his Canadian government sources, did not address the Chinese President's concerns and instead gave a hapless response.
Xi humiliates Trudeau on camera as he tears strips off Canadian PM
The two leaders were caught on camera having a heated discussion on the sidelines of the global summit in Bali today, with Xi tearing into the Canadian Prime Minister.www.dailymail.co.uk
