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Incorrect. I did exactly that in late August, 2014.

I reject your sexist agenda designed to foment hatred between genders. I rest my case.

The first sentence on Page 1 of every Canadian passport say" this passport is the property of the Government of Canada". It is not 'my passport' or 'your passport'. Getting or keeping it is not a right of citizenship.

Nope. If you wish to peddle the misogyny and sexism meme, do it somewhere else. It has no place in this particualr discussion. Take your outrage elsewhere. The issue I am raising regarding pay scale is between public and private sectors, for the same work. The gulf is significant, and it is not because the private sector is underpaid. The gulf is not consistent across all job types either, in some areas civil servants are paid equal to or less than comparable private sector jobs. But not in the the vast number of clerical staff.

That one has been dead for a while, glad to see the coffin lid being nailed shut. The sanctioned demise of this initiative was rumoured about a month ago, before the Prentice ascendancy. In reality, it was DOA from inception. A lesser cause was pushback from parents and some education pros, but the main reason was that teachers just refused to get behind it. Many continued to teach to the student and not adopt the 'one size fits all' mandated program. Of course, better teachers have always done this. These fads happen all the time in primary education, though less often now in Alberta. Klein put limits on the % of funding that could be spent outside schools. This severely limited the endless bouts of 'curriculum development' at school boards. Although school boards (and individual schools) in AB have considerable autonomy, there are far less HQ buildings choked with far fewer deputy superintendents looking for something, anything to do.

Mikkelsen is terrific in The Hunt. Groupthink gone mad... I'll look for Adams Apple. Another decent Scandi movie is The Headhunter, a good adaptation of a Jo Nesbo book.

So what, these are common in the private sector. What you did not include in that comment was telling. Where are the layoffs, industry wide closures, wage reductions found in the private sector when the economy founders? But the biggest lie of all is the pay scale itself. A CR-4(very common clerical level in federal govt)position could lose roughly 40% of the starting salary for that level to get paid a private sector equivalent salary for the same work. Instead, there is blubbering about a 1% raise to a seriously overpaid position. Boo hoo.

Yet those very same staff with the same companies manage to clean private sector buildings to an adequate standard. Like I said, a lot govt outsourcing is designed to fail. PSAC members in PWCGSC supervising and designing the outsource, failure is guaranteed. It's a perfect feedback loop. The govt outsourcing of real estate management is another example. Cluster f**k from start to finish, while the private sector ventures save plenty o' dough for clients with the same contractors by shedding tasks outside their core competencies. Everybody involved knows the score.

Which is exactly the same stance that Harper, Mulcair, and May have on abortion. More empty, fatuous, meaningless bullshit from The Hair That Walks Like a Man

Denis Coderre looks a lot like Rob Ford. They should just pump the oil to the Quebec border, then ship it by train into Montreal.

Obama? No, we've done it to ourselves.

He was probably teased a lot at school.

I can see that your colleagues, the civil servants, the ones who are responsible for ensuring that contract cleaners or outsourcing firms complete their contract- are failing miserably. Yet another outsourcing opportunity, thanks for bringing it to my attention.

How many times do you need to be told the same thing before it penerates? There is plenty of oil and gas for sale globally. We have serious compettion, that are not paralyzed in building infrastructure, who lock up customers long term. Anything that goes through the US is vulnerable to their whims. Have ypou ever heard of an enterprise called Keystone? Oil does not magically get out of the ground, levitate to Asia and into our bank accounts. How exactly will China get Canadian oil in any volume by 2019 in the abscence of any effective delivery mechanism?

Excellent post.

its a thread about thread drift.

The Scots definitely won't have their own, they'll adopt the pound or the Euro. The htreat to the financial sector business is things like nationaization, seizure of assets, punitive tax regimes, limits on movement of currencies and so on in a host of unknown factors. Way too risky. Capital does not like risk, oh no. Rule of law and security are reasons why London is a world financial center for centuries. If you do an international deal there, it is much less risky than it would be in Glasgow tomorrow.

Luxury. I can get you into a nice manufactured home for 1/3 the price. You'll have to supply your own used appliances for the front yard.

You have to throw him a bone......... Let him think whatever he needs to lessen the sting, the waste of months unpaid. It's like puppy love.... it seems frivolous to others but it is still important to the puppy.

In the 1980s the federal government eliminated tens of thousands of cleaning staff across Canada, all of which was done internally until then. They were paid about 40% higher than the exact same work done in the private sector, and of course their benefits and defined benefit pension liabilites took it to another level. The work still needed to done, and all of it was contracted out with zero consequence to the quality of work despite prolonged howling from PSAC. It was much the same with many trades people, they just ired contractors because it was cheaper It's no different for many other aspects of government work. Procurement, IT, clerical, real esate operations and many more . I can promise you that the main reason for failure of outsourcing for many functions is because the projects are set up to fail, by the very people most affected by the outsource. Of course there are, CR-3 and CR-4(clerical support) are two of the largest groups in government and are found in every department in droves. True dat.

It's not the currency that frightens the finanical sector, it is the unknown. In London they can find a certainty in regulation and tax structure, they know their position within the UK. They have no such certainty in a Republic of Scotland. Buh bye money and jobs- both items that will be desperately needed in the new land.

Expensive to build anything, the product is discounted by factors including lack of pipelines, external factors like Obama +Keystone, and so on. Canada is rapidly earning a reputation internationally for being unable or unwilling to build infrastructure. Instead, we put oil on trains, ffs!

Thanks for helping me out and confirming that nations make trade agreements followed by fat investments when they have security under law. Without FIPA, every medium to large deal China invests in here has a long and dragged out process for approval. What wheels are those regarding the movement of hydrocarbons from Canada to China btw? Gateway looks dead, Kinder Morgan close to it and BC had missed the boat with LNG.

The only time I gave my kids a smack on the ass was when I absolutely had to get their undivided attention. Keep in mind one thing: be careful how you treat your kids, you may need a kidney some day.

You are dead wrong there. Two examples: TOTAL pulled out of a massive investment in the oil sands this year, 2014, because their capital earned more investing in oil elsewhere. That cost Canada and Canadians a lot of jobs, very well paid jobs. There is no shortage of oil on the planet waiting for somebody to spend a few billion extracting it.. Longer term, the industrial Heartland area of Alberta had seven upgraders planned as recently as 2007. Now there is exactly one being built, mostly with investment from the AB govt and feedstock coming from the payment-in-kind program. Without that govt involvement (oh don't worry it does not involve CDN taxpayer $) there would be none. Reason for going elsewhere? return on investment. Capital is transient. You have to provide a secure investment environment or companies won't risk anything. A case in point is Venezuela, which has massive heavy oil deposits and nobody willing to spend a nickel on them, far too risky.