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And this YouTube video by this GM engineer is a hoot... Clueless Engineer

Exactly. The pro EV group never worked in a lab and are nothing but artsie-fartsies.

As a friend once put it, "it is easy to spend money aka blowing it when it is not yours". But the city officials will still get a nice hefty overpaid pension one day, so why should they worry. And as my mom once told me, "what a rich country but so totally mismanaged".

Likely run by overpaid and underqualified city government officials. The Gold Coast LRT runs flawlessly, but then the train and LRT are made by Bombardier and not some company out of France.

It is because I have to waste my time filling in a VUT declaration and if I am late by a day, I get fined. I never voted the VUT in and no home owner ever did. So much for living in a democracy. LOL As for the CROWN, eff them.

Probably exactly why governments are run so poorly. It is unfortunate that they do not work for the people but just throw out some doggie biscuts to the people to make them think they are actually doing something for us.

Oh please, stop with the whining. Shut them down as they are useless and puppets to the US. After more than 20 years there, I saw the waste of tax dollars. And by the way, as a past flight instructor, the last guy I would want flying is someone with a degree or worse yet, a PhD. My best commercial student had high school and is happlily flying a B787-9 for AC. Yet the CF would turn him and others down. And another thing, if you want a degree, go to McGill or Waterloo because one from RMC is sub standard.

Why would you need more, when you do not need more. And who made you the pope. I can see you have no life since you are on here 24/365. You must have been your typical useless public servant now or in the past. And by the way, having worked for a Brit, eff the Westminster system. They seem to have this thing about them where they think their own shit does not stink.

We are already taxed to death in Canada. The minute you start with a small tax, guess what...it gets bigger. Cut government offices. The military for example uses up a large portion of the taxes.

If you like the monarch and the queen or king, move back to the UK. This is Canada. What a waste of money. They should all get a real job and stop leaching off the people. You might want to read War of the Windsors. Talk about a totally dysfunctional family. Inbreds!

So if anyone uses private health care, how is a rebate determined to the tax payer for those not needing government funded health care.

And yet when you talk about other countries, you average dumb Canadian will boast that our health care system is FREE, as if doctors work for free. The issue is it is run by the government and anyone that is intelligent will know how terribly inefficient the government runs things.

You are totally missing the point. CBC is funded by tax payers aka me and countless others. All media should only be supported due to advertizing or member payment. What is their viewership? Less than 5%. And you seem to get very defensive about the the government and the military. Lets talk about those make-work useless subs we bought. You know the ones the Brits mothballed and finally found a sucker to buy them. I've been to Halifax and Esquimalt. The last thing you want to do is buy anything engineered by Brits. Calling me narrow minded? It seems you cannot see past your nose.

Well there is your problem, the Westminster system. If that has anything to do with the Brits, then we really are talking inefficiencies to the extreme. This is Canada, not some inbred Brit nation.

What do you call this or are you blind... Canada: 338 MPs, 105 Senators, 40M people to fund 443 government officials and their offices. Australia: 151 MPs, 76 Senators, 27M people to fund 227 government officials and their offices. USA: 100 Senators, 435 House of Representatives, 335M people to fund 535 government officials and their offices. Yeah Canada is grossly over-staffed on your tax dollar. Compared to Australia, we should be at 299 government officials. The other 144 should be fired. Compared to the USA, we should be at 64 government officials. The other 379 should be fired. You are exactly one of the reasons why this country is in the shape it is in. Your middle name must be "inefficient" LOL Fact is, the Public Service is pure BS. I saw it first hand.

They are hardly in their office. I call or email their office and their staff get back to me after a few days. So in a year, how often have you met with them to discuss issues?

I guess you never read the original post. The numbers are there and if others can do it, why can't we.

And this is my problem how exactly. This is DH Justin Trudeau's problem. But him being brain dead I can understand why he has a housing crisis.

Actually the tax payer is the employer. And it is not sitting unused as long as I pay my property tax and all other utilities.

Show me your calculations to justify that. LOL

Sorry bud, as a Military member and a Public Servant, you are delusional. But I can understand you protecting the system that served you. The government is nothing but a make-work system. I've been there and left early with a hit on my pension. I just could not handle the BS anymore. And do we vote in these offices? Maybe, but then it is run by the Feds to protect the Feds. Ethics office, LOL. You would have to hand out 15,000 fines at the maximum of $500 to break even based on their operating costs. Who runs things to break even? Nobody! So shut them down. As for the CBC, lets viewers that want it, pay for it, like Netflix. But to pi$$ away billions and then give them another $41M for bonuses...really? Let them be self sufficient. Sorry I am a Canadian.

One would have to be brain dead to think it was a good idea. Likely money aka money laundering going to who? Good buddies. What a corrupt country we live in.

The problem with many people is they think this all started on October 7th, 2023. It actually started in the late 40s and if you go further back, the late 10s. And what Israel is doing is worse than what the Nazis did. In fact Amnesty International calls for Israel to put an end to apartheid. Strange how people forget about the definition of apartheid. You'll never find a fair criminal tribunal when it is run by those that commit crimes. Hell, Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld would have been good candidates.

Exactly, we vote for our MP and therefore PM based on "promises" and worse yet, they break them and then run the country not in a way we would like them to. Let me vote on everything via the internet. That is called a dictatorship! Accountability? You must be joking. As if you do. Have you ever worked for the government?

Reading some of the responses, it looks like we have a few bleeding hearts (so typically Canadian 🙄) and people that look for value in how our taxes are spent. I wonder how many on this forum worked for the government be it Federal down to the City level, because they all seem to feel "entitled" to a higher salary with benefits that your average working person aka "tax payer" does not get. Plus they do not have to produce anything. But lets not stop there. Lets look at a few of the countless and useless departments we have, the Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commsission, the CRTC, CBC and the list goes on. I am starting to think why we have so many government offices...to make out unemployment rate loook low. What about the CBC? No viewership and yet they get $1.4 Billion a year and then they get another $40 million to give themselves a nice raise and bonuses. In the real world they should be self sufficient like any other media outlet. Want to start on the other two offices. Trust me, it would get funnier than going to Yuk Yuks.