Michael Hardner
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2 hours ago, eyeball said:
You're right. I surrender. Feel better now?
Sometimes I give my toddler chocolate for breakfast, just so we can move on.
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31 minutes ago, blackbird said:
So far he is doing a good job. He has a lot of responsibility.
How is he doing a good job? His job is to convince people he'd be a better PM than Trudeau. Don't you think Trudeau is carrying most of the load on that project?
His responsibility is minor as opposition leader. It will be higher soon.
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1 hour ago, Nefarious Banana said:
Freeland, Freeland, Freeland . . . . perfect man for the job!
Low level of comment...
You're on the same level as people who liked Trudeau for his hair.
Really, You should stop posting here.
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1 hour ago, I am Groot said:
1. Probably very little
2. Canada has 138 generals and admirals and... whatever the air force calls theirs, for about 50k people.
The US Marines have 60 for 180k people.
The IDF has 24 for 620k
1. And -> we DON'T KNOW
2. Why? Why? Why?
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Clinton's worse but there are other cases for both.
And the current case is about campaign finance rules.
And... who cares...
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1 hour ago, I am Groot said:
It starts at the top.
Chrystia Freeland has 46. Marc Miller has 25. Mark Holland has 25. Bill Blair has 21. Eisenhower, at the height of the Second World War, had 24.
Personal staff.
Why would Defence Minister Bill Blair, overseeing our tiny military during peacetime, need almost as many staff as Dwight D. Eisenhower, supreme commander of the Allies in Europe in 1944? And this is in addition to the staff support Blair receives from his departmental and military officials.
Johnson: Canada's federal ministers have far too many personal staff | Ottawa Citizen
Good question but more importantly, what are they doing?
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1 hour ago, Perspektiv said:
1. Impossible when you have parties fanning the flames of it, from either end.
2. Grizzly bear claw implants will be trending in 25 years. Book it.
1. Well, you can be pessimistic if you like but these wars will end at some point, and I would rather look back positively at what I did.
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Just now, blackbird said:
1. No, I did not change the question. You just introduced a new subject, restructuring. I am simply replying that I don't see how that will make a difference.
2. The subject is will a mixture of public and private health care make a difference, not, will restructuring make a difference.
3. Restructuring is just tinkering with a failed system.
4. Yes, thank you for your time.
5. Surely you understand private systems, without the powerful unions ruling the workplace, would run much more efficiently. Private systems can hire professionals and should be able to fire people who are not doing the job adequately. Do you think people should be fired who are not really up to the job?
Public systems are bureaucratic and protect the workers first, not the people they are supposed to be serving.
1. Question from 3 hours ago:
"Do you seriously think just restructuring a failing health care system would fix the problems?"
Question from 11 minutes ago:
"The government and health authorities have had years to re-structure the system and don't appear to have done so. So why would they change now?"
Can you not see how these are different questions ? Are you the kind of person who hates being questioned and/or corrected ?
2. You can ask that directly. I think that we would do well with two-tier if we had a public more akin to France's with respect to inspecting/monitoring services.
3. There's restructuring and then there's RESTRUCTURING.
4. And thanks for yours too. Believe it or not, I think we're more close than apart on these things.
5. Yes, I think people should be fired for not doing their jobs. I also think culture makes workplaces terrible and that's the hardest thing to fix. A manager who has only worked in a bad environment can't be expected to fix things on their own. Working productively and challenging yourself can be fun - whether there are unions there or not. I could run a team with union members, and have revived the careers of more than one so-called useless employee.
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Religious rant:
Despite what the unions say, people want to work. And if you provide a good environment you will get good results. Money actually adds fog to the issue as you end up getting people who hate their jobs but can't quit. The best thing that happened to my general happiness was when my field (IT) got globalized and I went from making 6 figures as a young man to not being able to find clients. This happened years before the web became a thing...
Eventually "the market" found me again and I work to better myself and make the environment challenging and productive. If it turns bad, I can quit and get a new job right away.
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1 minute ago, blackbird said:
1. The government and health authorities have had years to re-structure the system and don't appear to have done so. So why would they change now? The failing system will continue to fail.
2. You have not answered the point I made that unions and associations have too much power.
3.You like to answer with number and often a curt, meaningless reply.
1. You have changed the question to "will restructuring happen" ? That's not what you asked before.
2. They have these things in all health jurisdictions that I have seen. How can that be the root cause of the problems then 3. Not true. Sometimes I don't reply at all. If I think it's a waste of time then I won't. Until then, be thankful for my time. -
6 minutes ago, cannuck said:
Yes, there is very much a new world order where Putin and Xi are at the top of the heap stitched together by Khamenei and Kim. India's pretend democracy is stuck in the middle with no choice but to follow where their oil comes from. Sadly this list includes over half the population of Earth essentially against NATO. The UN has become an ineffective bad joke.
You're not wrong... but who would you rather be in this scenario:
Russia, China, India or a NATO member ?
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Just now, French Patriot said:
1. Christians will not like hearing that.
1. My guinea pig is a liberal Jew.
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On 4/5/2024 at 12:44 PM, Deluge said:
New York is a shit hole because democrats are DESTROYING it.
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1 minute ago, French Patriot said:
Do you believe in a real talking serpent and donkey?
Only a fool would believe such a thing
At least, that's what my talking guinea pig told me.
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I'll bet Israel itself knew exactly what was going to happen.
A forwarned attack that was practically 100% defended.
It was fireworks 🎇
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1 hour ago, blackbird said:
1. Do you seriously think just restructuring a failing health care system would fix the problems?
2. I see unions and associations as a serious threat to health care in public systems if they call the shots for everything and cannot be controlled.
1. Yes.
2. The examples that people bring up include mostly socialized medical systems. Some are two-tier.
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17 minutes ago, Perspektiv said:
1. Now with the level of affirmative care that is required, many non trans people are slipping through the cracks, and getting permanently changed, only to regret and want to reverse course later in life, as now sterile people or women with deeper voices, unable to reverse the damage, not the treatment that was don to their bodies.
2. When this movement moves closer to actual treatment and doing what is best for people, vs posturing politically and playing politics to advance ideology, will this be a movement where dialogue will be possible.
3. Better to vote such ideas out, and let them be.
1. Yes this is exactly the problem.
2. Yes, this report will hopefully move the dialogue forward.
3. From my POV, you have to vote old ideas back IN: professionalism, dedication to care, resistance to ideology.
For our part as a public, we must kill the culture wars on this and focus on giving caregivers space for figuring things out.
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Uh... 🤔
NATO was founded with 12 countries, now includes 32 I think?
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16 minutes ago, I am Groot said:16 minutes ago, I am Groot said:
We need a guy with something like a hard-assed Mike Harris mentality that will go in and start laying people off and freezing promotions and hiring. Not to mention eliminating all those high-priced consultants.
Well. Yes and no. We need someone with a large business background to restructure. All Harris did was hold things back until later.
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1 hour ago, Moonbox said:
1. I don't see how it can have much of anything to do with management. If you agree that the unionized public sector is not incentivized to either perform or listen to management, and the managers (at any level) are not empowered to do anything about it, how is this a management culture problem?
2. Canadian taxpayers have been bullied and pushed around by public sector labor monopolies and the Liberals cynically giving them sweetheart deals for too long. It's (unfortunately) come to the point where a harsh reversal is required.
1. Management, from the lowest supervisor to the Deputy Minister is charged with solving problems. There are plenty of unionized places that don't have these problems. Maybe some of this is informed by me dealing with said management, and knowing some people on the inside. It seems like a horrible environment for all involved.
2. Well Poilievre would be the guy to change things but ... war with the union isn't very creative and probably won't change things much in the long term. I do appreciate that leadership of management and union sometimes take a war footing. But the cost to both workers and management of perpetual stasis is great IMO. -
7 minutes ago, robosmith said:
Too bad ALL those polls are within the MARGIN OF ERROR. Do you even know what that means?
Aside from the FACT that early polls are never definitive nor predictive.
I thought they were talking about Margie Novera ?
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1 hour ago, Moonbox said:
1. I think it's worth considering what it would be like to work in management for a militant public sector unionized workforce. You get your marching orders from the Ministry or whoever, and then you deliver them to a workforce that has little/no reason to take you seriously and has no incentive to do anything but the bare minimum the job requires. This is a toxic dynamic that reinforces poor outcomes, and that's unlikely to attract our best and brightest.
2. I'm saying that the issue and the culture has little to do specifically with management.
3. This is a poisonous relationship, and one that Canadians need to recognize and reject. Having 1/4 of our workforce employed and grossly overpaid in the Public Service is one of the primary reasons why not only is our productivity stagnating and falling behind, but also why we have a gaping and growing hole in our public finances.1. Yes, All of this is part of the culture.
2. Well, it you are thinking I'm blaming individuals then I agree with you. But it's all management culture.
3. Good points. I think there's an opportunity to change all that, for leadership with imagination. -
2 hours ago, Moonbox said:
1. The lack of customer focus is unquestionable, but blaming it on middle managers, or their managers, is silly.
2. Almost 1/4 working Canadians now works for the public service. That's absurd, and it's pretty much become a political class of its own in Canada. The Federal (and at least in Ontario) Provincial Liberals have feasted on this demographic during elections, and they've enjoyed a feedback loop that's symbiotic between them, but parasitic for the overall population.
We have a bloated, ineffective and overpaid public sector that views the perpetuation of this arrangement as its primary goal, rather than the delivery of services to Canadians. Blame the middle managers if you want, but that's very Putinesque. Responsibility flows up, not down. Standing at the top are the Liberal governments, buying and paying for the votes that keep them in government.
1. I don't know that I did that. I did blame the culture though.
2. Really not too much controversy in what you posted there. What did you mean? Responsibility flows up? You mean that the deputy ministers... People who have never generally worked in a real organization, who have massive amounts of power and are unknown to the public May be an issue?
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Just now, QuebecOverCanada said:
1. I already showed pictures of crowds gathering around hangings in multiple posts. Do you want me to post again?
2. The study said the participants of the polls were using a certain VPN, read the pdf you posted please.
1. Picture doesn't prove anything.
2. What's the issue with that VPN?
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5 hours ago, Moonbox said:
Who do you figure the bosses are? That seems like a pretty facile explanation for why our Public Service is so bloated, yet still ineffective. It's just upper management's fault?
I should have said middle management. I meant that there's a lack of customer focus. And it's the overall culture that has to be changed....
Jordan Peterson: Our rotten, rotting universities
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There's a performance aspect to being Opposition Leader. He's doing well also capitalizing on world events.
Many disagree.