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I believe that if you associate yourself with people breaking the law, then you're liable to be caught up in it. I won't be losing sleep that someone who may have been protesting peacefully was unjustly detained for a day. Not like they were doing anything productive with their time anyway. Everything's a human rights violation these days... "What a parking ticket?!?! I'm calling the UN!!!" If I followed bank robbers around watching them rob banks and cheering them on, I wouldn't be surprised if I was detained by police for questioning.

That's weird, I was never swept up... maybe because I was working rather than hanging out with hooligans.

Not like those tough guys smashing those big burly windows giving you the corporate stink eye and then peeing yourselves, crying, and screaming human rights violation when you're arrested the next day.

I never though of it like that. Damn those riot inciting police!!! Look at them, sitting on their horses and in their cop cars frightened and confused! They're just asking us to riot and loot!

Why do you think it's better to live in a country where the government doesn't just print us all a million billion dollars?

Managers don't get overtime pay in either sector. The problem has never been the managers. The problem is that the managers themselves can do most of the job, but they hire 20 people to sit around and play office for 50k/yr so that they can meet their budget allocation and not face any cutbacks.

"A couple of punks" also smashed every window in the downtown core and looted a bunch of shit and shut down businesses for the entire duration of the meeting. "A couple of punks" cost private businesses millions.

Anything to keep that gravy train flowing! Maybe the answer is to give everyone in the public and private sector 50 sick days a year, 5 months vacation, and 150% of their salaries as pension!!

The public sector is the big leagues now? When do I get my call-up? Hate to break it to you, but clerks don't make a hell of a lot in any private organization. The "big private sector organization clerk" isn't driving around in a Ferrari spitting on you. Some people don't want to work 2 hours a day and surf the internet / talk about their kids / take extended breaks / go to the gym for six hours a day for 35 years. And they don't want other people to get paid from their tax dollars for doing so either. Do you really think you possess such a unique skillset that people in the private sector couldn't fill it? I'd love to hear it.

Lol.. Only in Canada is the tax collection authority labelled the good guy. "Mutual Insurance"... You sure sound like you know what your talking about. There's just so many mutual insurance companies in Canada!

Believe me, I know this all too well. I worked three summer student positions in three different large departments with the federal government and it was enough for me to know that I definitely didn't want a career in the public sector. I couldn't stand the thought of spending all that money on an education just to, as you so aptly put it, play office for 30-40yrs. The funny thing is that I had also worked quite a few menial minimum wage jobs in the private sector during high school and they were actually much more challenging (and less boring) than the government jobs.

I'm sorry is this really what you were going on about? People were detained in an effort to stop the rioting and terrorism, and then subsequently released without being charged? Wow it's like the holocaust all over again!!

No actually I contribute the maximum allowable 18% of my salary to my RRSP for the tax deduction. I don't need a nanny state to do it for me. This way the government can only tax 82% of my salary to pay for bloated public sector salaries and benefits. FYI, the OTPP matches all contributions and the contributions are tax deductible: http://www.otpp.com/wps/wcm/connect/otpp_en/home/member+info/Contributions/ So your poor friend is contributing 6000 of her own money and 6000 of mine. According to the contribution rates, she is making about 60k. Wow as a 2nd year teacher, she only makes 60k/yr with an employer matching pension plan and 3 months vacation and dental and other benefits, plus a refund if she overpays into her plan?!?! Awwww I really feel her, it's really "tough to see".

lol "pays" 6000/yr into hers. I don't think you have any idea what a defined contribution pension plan is. All that means is that 6000 more taxpayer dollars per year go to funding her pension plan. Defined contribution just means that the return on that 6000 isn't guaranteed unlike your sweet pension plan in which your future benefits are guaranteed by other people"s money no matter how the plan's assets perform. Your poor friend has to make do with whatever the accumulated return of 6000/yr of taxpayer dollars can afford when she retires

"Silence conservative scum!!! Get back to work, my pension won't fund itself!!!"

Hmmm so the rich have been getting richer and the public sector has guaranteed wage increases and ever expanding pension liabilities, I wonder who must be driving down average compensation? Oh I know, the non-unionized private sector workers who get an increasingly smaller slice of the pie that they were mostly responsible for baking. Continuing with that analogy: The cooks get less and less for the product of their labour, the restaurant owners and managers profit as compensation for managerial skill and their capital outlays, and the health inspector and other regulatory bodies profit because... Well I haven't figured that one out yet.

Another who has become entitled to his entitlements. Lol "conservative scum". Lol yes if it wasn't for the conservatives, everyone would be making 25/hr... What kind of fairy tail world do you live in? Can't make this stuff up.

Also they were high-fiving and crushing beer cans on their heads. I had people watching with me I swear!!

I've read plenty of sensationalism, but nothing that ever led me to believe the police had done anything wrong. I guess I'll have to remain ignorant of the vicious crimes against humanity perpetrated by our police force since you can't seem to find any links, only a vague assurance that the truth is out there.

And then we have post office cashiers.... excuse me, clerks making $24/hr for doing the same type of work as the associates. I wonder why we'd think they're overpaid.

Read what? Media matters?

No one is jealous. They just don't want to pay for your lifelong workcation. Lol 14 sick days... give me a break. So every two years you can take a month and a half off for "migraines". What a joke.

Middleclasscentrist and Scotty: "We're entitled to our entitlements!!!"

What makes you think any of the gdp generated in the arts, entertainment, and recreation sector is related to subsidies? I would think a majority of that gdp comes from professional sports and corporate movie theatres and other forms of entertainment provided by the private sector. And to answer your first question, there are two reasons: Food is perishable and is a basic necessity of life. What if the world suddenly decided to impose trade embargoes on Canada or if they were unwilling to supply Canada with food because there was a global shortage? Or what if two or three countries became the only food producers due to comparative advantage and then formed a cartel to manipulate pricing on food? There are strong arguments for subsidizing certain strategic industries such as food or defense.

No they weren't. There was a civil war over slavery, not a bunch of hippies smashing windows and looting. There has always been crazies with conspiracy theories and they've always been crazy.