If they were doing this monthly, that assumes they were selling thousands of cars each month. That seems unlikely.
GreyEyedGhost
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When is the last time you heard complaints from the Clovis people?
This isn't the first time this kind of thing has happened, provincially or federally, and it tends to be resolved pretty quickly. The same thing happened when Trudeau took leadership, for reference. Now, certainly this happens a lot less often when a party leader loses in a riding he previously held, but the mechanics are the same. Get a new leader, have a leader who can't vote or perhaps speak in Parliament, or have a by-election in a safe riding.
If by strawman, you mean fundamental laws of physics, then yes, you're correct. If we find ways to break basic laws of thermodynamics, then I won't be worrying about ways to sterilize water, I'll be worrying about how to make faster-than-light starship.
The part you're studiously ignoring is plenty of people saying yes, you could do this, but that it's wildly inefficient. You could also power a bike by getting the biggest rock you could throw, tying a rope to it, applying the brakes on your bike, throwing the rock, releasing the brakes, and then pulling on the rope until you've collected your rock, and repeating until you've reached your destination. This will always work. But as long as your bike is in earthlike conditions, there will always be easier ways to do it. This is also the case for your idea.
Distillation doesn't have to be of water. Not all impurities are solid. And the evaporated water does go back into the water pool, just with steps we aren't directly involved in.
This is simple math. We would need to increase our energy production by 1000 times to just treat water, maybe only 250 times if we used more efficient systems than simply heating it and letting the heat dissipate. If we doubled our energy production every year, it would still take a decade to do it (8 years if we were aiming at 250 times). That isn't a realistic amount for a civilization at our tech level.
Not that I advocate it, but another way of writing what you just said is, "This whole treaty thing wouldn't be a problem if we had just gone with full genocide."
If I, my software, or my data last this long, I will have nearly 8000 years to resolve it. Which is to say, the year 9998 is going to get busy.
First, the bad guys will never be defeated once and for all. This isn't a game or a story, it's real life with new bad guys trying to gain power in different ways all the time. Second, there is little that voting is going to do in a FPTP country that isn't supported by one of the two key players, and Canada doesn't have a method in place for citizens to propose a referendum that isn't also supported by the party in power. Further to that, the only real options for electoral reform is for the whole country to become aware enough that the parties in power feel they have no choice or to be leaders towards progress and push for it themselves, knowing it will reduce their maximum power pretty much forever after.
This battle is for a whole different war, and only tangentially may have an impact on electoral reform.
I just have to say that image is a work of journalistic art.