Mark Carney is Business Partners with Elon & Trump?

[shtferbrains]

I spent a little time trying to figure out why Canada rates so low on all economic indicators.
Even Australia is signifisignificantly higher than us with poor access to any markets but Asia.
China is their largest trading partner and routinely jerks them around like everyone else.

Living right beside the USA is an advantage no one else has but it is probably one reason we are declining in productivity.
As we move to the left they suck up a large share of the investment capital.
We also undoubtedly send a lot of our brightest and most productive people there.
More all the time.

Australia doesn't have that problem with China as a trading partner.

Carney knows we can't have a socialist society and compete with our neighbors.
So we will adopt the EU and put up tariff walls to match them?

But the tariffs won't stop the brain drain or the capital flight.

JMHO.

[chuckChuck]

Nobody subsidized us when we were raising our kids , paying ONLY $10/day daycare is nuts. This country and society is so f-n dysfunctional it's not even funny. So people can't afford to have kids? Economics and lifestyle dictate so? Enter immigration! Implosion!

Day care and early childhood learning are dysfunctional? You are wrong on that farmaholic.

Affordable daycare allows parents to work to earn income and pay for houses and food. It's good economic policy that has many economic and social educational benefits.

Families will have more children if they have affordable daycare.

But if you are stuck in the thinking from the 1950s and the wife just stays home go for it. More spaces for those who need and want them!

[AlbertaFarmer5]

What does the data say , Chuck?
Are children better off in institutionalized daycare, or with their parent?

You like to demand peer reviewed proof, what does the peer reviewed literature say about this?

[blackpowder]

I think we're all outdated.
Roughly 1 in 5 kids have one parent.
If subsidized daycare is the only argument. Not expensive milk or fuel. We're all chicken shits.

[blackpowder]

And speaking of hippo crits.
The largest one here supports refusal of affordable evs to support high cost union built cars.
45% of families have 1 child.
If you're Albertan, you still have subsidized farm gasoline.
Spending more on the gun confiscation.
Daycare might be the only decent meal or social contact for that day.
I dunno....

[blackpowder]

Day care and early childhood learning are dysfunctional? You are wrong on that farmaholic.

Affordable daycare allows parents to work to earn income and pay for houses and food. It's good economic policy that has many economic and social educational benefits.

Families will have more children if they have affordable daycare.

But if you are stuck in the thinking from the 1950s and the wife just stays home go for it. More spaces for those who need and want them!

You always have to be half wrong.
Children per family driven by much more.

[foragefarmer]

Nobody subsidized us when we were raising our kids , paying ONLY $10/day daycare is nuts. This country and society is so f-n dysfunctional it's not even funny. So people can't afford to have kids? Economics and lifestyle dictate so? Enter immigration! Implosion!

We raised our children ( namely my wife) without daycare because we could afford to, so I know where you're coming from, But.

Now a days two hard working caring parents are doing their best to make a better life for their children and finding it difficult. Many I know would love to stay home and raise their children, but just can't.

I will galdly have my tax dollars spent on daycare subsidies. There at least I can see the results of my tax dollars being put to good use.

As for the immigration problem, keeping one of those parents I mention above home, sure isn't going to reduce the need we have for immigration.

Just saying.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Those of us who raised kids on farms are completely out of touch with the financial and time realities the typical family is facing.

I don't know what the solution is. But I certainly recognize the depth of the problem.

I can support my tax dollars being used to help make family life affordable.

The demographic crisis is real.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

The fact that a large portion of the population feels that they can't afford to have children ( we can argue over the definition of that), looks like a fundamental failure of society to fulfill our most basic responsibility.

[shtferbrains]

I will galdly have my tax dollars spent on daycare subsidies. There at least I can see the results of my tax dollars being put to good use.

Thank you for your contribution.



CBC - $600M

* Affordable Atlantic transportation - $385M
* Canada's sovereignty North- $98.4M
* Rural Transit Solution Fund - $250M
* Disaster mitigation & Adaptation Fund - $500M
* Enabling accessibility fund - $100M
* Indigenous Participation Capacity - $74.4M
* supporting Canadian artists and creators - $280M
* Canada Strong Pass - $70M
* Make it east to buy Canadian - $80M
* Suppor for veterans - $206.8M
* Strengthen Canada's food security - $80M
* Protecting farmers from losses - $375M
* Domestic Food Processing Fund - $200M
* Boost AgricMarketing Program - $30M
* Help farmers and ranchers buy equipment - $30M
* Expand Canadian Agricultural Loans Act - $200M
* Buy Canadian in the school food program - $80M
* Small craft harbours - $250M
* Support fisheries fund - $75M
* Ghost gear clean up - $75M
* CanExport - $80M
* Track down guns used in crimes - $20M
* New RCMP capital investments - $272M
* Secure our borders - $490M
* Fentanyl enforcement - $40M
* Support for first responders' health - $40M
* Canadian Centre for Child Protection - $7.2M
* Building safer comm fund - $100M
* Expand FinDev' lending capacity - $150M
* LGBQTI+ International Assistance Program - $8M
* Practice fund for family doctors - $300M
* Expand UTIP for nurses, PSW and teacher Unions - $75M
* Emergency Treatment Fund - $500M
* Reduce administrative burden on doctors - $400M
* Protect our freshwater - $115M
* Canadian Nature Protection Fund - $250M
* Expand the Indigenous Guardians Program - $40M
* Recovery response for Jasper Wildfires - $50.3M
* Parks Canada disaster response capabilities - $200M
* Proactively rehabilitate sensitive ecosystem - $500M
* Youth Employment Skill Strategy - $198.6B
* Canada Summer Jobs - $311.7M
* Youth Climate Corps pilot - $56M
* Court Challenges Program - $20M
* Make 2SLGBTQI+ Community Capacity Fund permanent - $8M
* IVF Program - $412M
* Pospartum maternal health - $20M
* Women's health data collection - $20M
* Women's Economic and Leadership Opportunities Fund - $100M
* Indigenous Pathways to Prosperity Fund - $100M
* Indigenous post secondary education - $108M
* Food security in the north - $240M
* Indigenous Climate Readiness and Adaptation Fund - $250M
* Facilitate affordable housing conversion - $138M
* Stand Up Canada high risk flood insurance program - $450M
* New digital services for immigration- $33M
* Strengthen security screening and visa integrity - $20M
* Accelerate exploration and extraction - $350M
* Broaden Critical Mineral Exploration Tax Credit - $178M
* Expand Canadian exploration expense - $136M
* Modify clean tech manufacturing tax credit - $16M
* Expand EV charging infrastructure - $76M
* Drive investment in R&D - $172M
* Top Up VC Catalyst Initiative - $160M
* Canada Patent Box - $193M
* AI adoption tax credit for SME - $400M
* Attract leading researchers to Canadian Institutions - $100M
* Modernize science and research - $40M
* Double UTIP for skilled workers - $75M
* Capital funding for colleges for apprenticeships - $60M
* Expand labour mobility tax deduction - $7M
* Mid career training and upskilling - $450M

If you got to this point, then by now you should realize that the government will bloat more and that the Liberal budget is made up of mostly BS that will be hard to track.?

Proves your point re; at least you can see?