mentalfloss
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They are independent inasmuch as we would characterize the auditor general or parliamentary budget officer as independent. Those entities are government (taxpayer) funded and are also considered bi-partisan and independent.
killing research committees based upon not liking their findings is very bad governance.
As per Harper, no less.
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Without amendment or correction, John Baird’s warning that a carbon tax would kill your family is now preserved for eternity in Hansard.
Mr. Speaker, what we are doing is making government more accountable, living within our means and focusing on the priorities which is what Canadians elected us to do. We are keeping taxes low. We are increasing funds to hospitals, health care and education. These are the priorities that Canadians have identified. Why should taxpayers have to pay for more than 10 reports promoting a carbon tax, something which the people of Canada have repeatedly rejected? That is a message the Liberal Party just will not accept. It should agree with Canadians. It should agree with the government to no discussion of a carbon tax that would kill and hurt Canadian families.
Families in Quebec, Alberta, British Columbia, Colorado, California, Maryland, South Africa, India, Australia, Denmark, Finland, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway and Switzerland perhaps receive this warning too late.
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That is a pathetic dodge.
Try again.
It's pathetic that he's independent? Or that he disagrees with the government?
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If the science body was independent, how could the govt kill it?
Ask Kevin Page. He's going to be gone soon as well for revealing the $10 Billion F-35 bungle.
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The idea that we can sustainably develop the oilsands and maintain environmental stewardship is not something this government believes. They may say they care about a good balance, but measures like these are clear evidence that this is not the case.
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“Why should taxpayers have to pay for more than 10 reports promoting a carbon tax, something that the people of Canada have repeatedly rejected?” Baird said Monday in response to the Liberal Leader Bob Rae during question period. “It should agree with Canadians. It should agree with the government."
Baird admits Tories cut funding to NRTEE scientists to silence opinions
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Greece is the new WMD.
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I'm pretty certain you don't understand what you're talking about.
(it's because he's bilingual)
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It was no secret the Government has been doing a program review, as we would expect from responsible keepers of the public purse.
Job cuts are the result.
Neither the review or the result are assumptions.
Do you have a link to review?
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So you want to know if every single one of those 20,000 jobs was necessary or unnecessary?
Considering we're all shareholders, yes.
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Really? None? Every government job is completely necessary?
Not at all.
That's why we need more information on which jobs were cut, the reasons for it, the cost-savings from cutting and the repercussions to levels of service coming from those layoffs.
I thought these criteria should be obvious by now in order for us to determine the appropriate jobs to cut.
Just look at what's happening in Newfoundland, where people who need medical advise are routed to Italians who can't speak English. All because we decided to cut jobs without a proper assessment of occupational requirements prior to the layoff.
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Then you agree there must be a reason to eliminate those jobs, thus someone decided we get the same or better level of service from less people.
No, that would be an assumption.
It could be that they were cut simply to save money, but there is no evidence to show that there is any redundancy or unnecessary level of service before those jobs were cut.
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Well I am making an assumption. I am assuming that someone decided the jobs were non essential to the governments ability to provide services and it was not someone who picked jobs to be eliminated out of a hat.
I don't think those jobs were picked randomly either.
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Nice article by Macleans comparing Ford to London's new mayor, Boris Johnson.
Like BoJo, RoFo has a colourful way with words, though his are more to the point. “Every single person said I should have just cooked the guy,” he said of Dale.Boris Johnson of London vs. Toronto’s Rob Ford: One bumbles, one fumbles
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How do you know its just an arbitrary number? Im assuming someone somewhere sat down and determined which jobs are required and which are not.You are assuming they are required and thats in arbitrary number.
No, I said there was no evidence to show either way. Which is why one cannot assume whether or not the loss of jobs would be good news.
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Where does it say they were required in the first place? The federal governments job is to provide services in the most efficient way possible.
Right. So how does an arbitrary number of jobs lost prove that?
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Where was it shown they were?
Without any evidence to show whether or not these jobs were reasonable and necessary, I wouldn't make any assumption about whether or not this is good news.
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Public sector is not welfare, if the jobs are not required then they should be removed.
Sorry, maybe I haven't made myself clear.
Just because jobs are lost, doesn't mean they weren't required. Where is it shown that these jobs are not required?
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As a Conservative I'd say so.
I think the public sector is bloated and a major strain in the economy. With the huge federal deficit some austerity is needed.
Yea, but it depends on what jobs and who got laid off.
I wouldn't just pronounce that as some sort of victory.
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It's a thread called "Jobs"
More talking about rumours of interest rates going up.
Anyway theses jobs numbers are really good.
Especially considering more private sector jobs were created and the overall numbers were less because 20,000 public sector jobs were lost.
Losing public sector jobs is good?
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I don't see it.. is it in another subforum?
Edit: Ah - economiez forum.
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Canadian employers have churned out more than 140,000 jobs in the past two months, a welcome change after half a year of little job creation. The key question is whether the hiring burst will last.
April's 58,200 jobs gain show demand is picking up on the goods side of the economy as the construction, manufacturing, natural resources and agriculture industries add to headcount.
The big employment increases are not even. Once again, the resource-rich areas of the country are showing sturdy gains while Ontario in particular is struggling. Public administration positions declined, reflecting reduced spending in the sector.
More people looking for work sent the country's jobless rate up a notch to 7.3 per cent from 7.2 per cent a month earlier, Statistics Canada said Friday.
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Taking over government is becoming a walk in the palk for the NDP.
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A piece of land.
Will the Collapse of Greece affect Canada?
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They haven't done it because it's nowhere near a critical problem yet.