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noahbody

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  1. This is why I gave you the Petro Canada example, which you avoided. Should Petro Canada gas jockeys been highly paid because they were part of a crown corporation responsible to the taxpayer? Yes or no? Maybe compare the compensation of RCM employees with that of their American counterpart. The American dollar is far more important to the world economy, so I guess they have greater responsibility and should be paid more (in your mind), right? So you're saying government union members are entitled to their entitlements, just because. That would be a good reply to someone who just says "because." That's actually you though... "because they're a crown corporation," "because the union has been around a while." So what?
  2. Crime severity doesn't mean severe crime. It just means the number of reported crime occurrences. http://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/426653
  3. So gas jockeys at Petro Canada chould've been making $50K a year when they were making $6/hr across the street at Esso? Crown Corporations should be responsible to the taxpayer. How is that relevant? Their mandate is limited to letters... not parcels or direct mail. They also don't have to deliver into the community.
  4. What's your claim, that it enshrined in the constitution that Canada post workers are the highest paid in the mail delivery business? So you're saying the mail carried by private courier companies is different? The union is trying to say it's the same mail isn't it?
  5. Yes really. How about this... we pay them what they'd get paid in a private union and make them a registered charity so people like you who feel they deserve more can give them some of your salary.
  6. Because in this case it shows the pay/compensation for Postal Workers is way out of whack.
  7. Government unions don't set the bar, they exceed it. For example, the courier DHL is unionized and their couriers aren't paid anything near what Canada Post currently pays their letter carriers. Perhaps we should bring Canada Post workers in line with what private unions believe is "fair wage" for the same type of work.
  8. Average hourly rate: Retail Sales / Sales Clerk $11 Data Entry Clerk $15 Bookkeeper $16 Accounting Clerk $17 Truck Driver $19 Plumber $22 Carpenter $22 Executive Assistant $22 Electrician $25 Architect $27 Social Worker $28 Registered Nurse $32 Computer Engineer (not software) $33 Physiotherapist $34 Lawyer $36 Computer and Info Systems Manager $37 Engineering Manager $45 Dentist $60 http://www.livingin-canada.com/work-salaries-wages-canada.html
  9. If castration was the penalty for speeding, would you speed? Saying the death penalty isn't a deterrent is ridiculous. It might not deter everyone, but so what? People are different and are motivated in different ways.
  10. The issue in Canada isn't really being "tough on crime" it's "not being lax on crime." Big difference. If the article you read said "nothing to do with tough on crime" then it was obviously full of bias. Of course it contributed. There were other factors like the ones you mentioned and some you didn't such as the abortion law of 1970 which meant less unwanted children and an aging demographic.
  11. One of the problems is that judges' sentences aren't respected in the first place. No one serves the time the judge felt was justified/required. Let's start there. Build the infrastructure to ensure sentences can be respected.
  12. I think it would be great for the union to buy a majority share in Air Canada.
  13. What's wrong is that he wasn't deterred from kicking an unconscious man in the face until his face collapsed. There's no indication the man needs psychiatric care.
  14. Harper is far to busy eating kittens to concern himself with a Party fundraising letter. I would doubt that John Walsh even wrote it, but since his name on it you can direct your ire towards him. It was likely written by someone from their marketing communications dept or agency, possibly with help from a sandwich-loving focus group of party faithful.
  15. According to the mission reports and passenger manifests, how many of those were for personal reasons?
  16. Perhaps you could show where it says Harper is calling on supporters.
  17. From McLean's: The difference is cabinet ministers and their cronies can take commercial airlines. Big difference.
  18. He paid the amount any other Canadian would have to pay. I guess the story behind the story is that the media doesn't have a lot to talk about.
  19. That's the way a 3 (or more) party system works. That's the system the people of Canada have voted for again and again. It's absolutely democratic. It's Canadian.
  20. I didn't realize Harper could destroy the climate. That's impressive. Green jobs? Does she think if Jack was PM there would be an economy of green jobs? What social programs has Harper said he was going to cut? I'm sure she's against spending billions on fighter jets. At the same time, I would bet she fully supported Kyoto and sending billions out of the country while not helping the environment one iota.
  21. Translation: The Liberal Party tried to scare Canadians about a majority Harper government, but now that a majority government is reality, the reason it isn't scary as promised is that it's apparent the Conservatives want to be re-elected.
  22. Global warming is real. Global cooling is real. Climate change has always happened. Human activity is an unknown variable. I would like to think that when Earth enters a cooling phase that we will be able to make it warmer by driving Hummers, but that's not going to happen. In 2007, Nasa admitted its data was flawed. In 2009, there was Climategate. Data aside there is no evidence that man can model and predict climate accurately. If it makes you feel better, The Washington Post ran an article about Arctic ice disappearing in 1922. An ice age was looming in the 70s.
  23. Citation? I would agree with that thought as worded, but the job was to provide security to world leaders at a one-time event. The level of security was due to the threat of a terrorist attack. Using the military should've been a no-brainer. They likely didn't do it because the Liberals would've said, "See, soldiers on the street." Still a waste of money. Why they don't just use the UN headquarters, I don't know. They could still have a host country that could bring sandwiches.
  24. In fairness, there's no way they could've implemented their book word for word in a minority government.
  25. The Conservative Party can say that because they are a different party. The PC party no longer exists.
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