ragepaw

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[–] ragepaw@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 months ago

Canada has higher standards, but not as high as they should be. To be clear, the food we sell locally will not necessarily meet EU standards (but most probably would anyway), but the food we sell to you must meet EU standards.

Also, we love visitors to Canada. Toutes mes excuses, le français Québécois est très différent du français parlé en Europe.

I hope you do visit.

[–] ragepaw@lemmy.ca 5 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Do you know the food standards laws, or are you assuming? We are not the US, our laws are much stricter. As an example, I saw someone in the EU say Canada would never want your dairy laws because we would have to pasteurize our milk which would increase the price. Thing is... we do pasteurize our milk. That's already a rule.

But that's irrelevant anyway. Freetrade means free of duty or tariff, not free of regulations. Any Canadian goods (including food) sold in the EU, must meet EU standards.

So if your objection is legal criteria, there is no substance to your objection.

[–] ragepaw@lemmy.ca 10 points 5 months ago (6 children)

We already have a good deal. CETA just need to be taken advantage of

[–] ragepaw@lemmy.ca 41 points 5 months ago

It says elected. He has no intention of having another election.

[–] ragepaw@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 months ago

CBC should be entirely hands off. It is a corp, not a government department. Publicly funded or not.

[–] ragepaw@lemmy.ca 17 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Like a publicly funded crown corp?

[–] ragepaw@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

3 months is fuck all.

The Crown asked for 10 years.

[–] ragepaw@lemmy.ca 28 points 5 months ago

The headline undersells it. He just declared that him and the attorney General have sole ability to interpret laws for the executive branch. That branch includes the law enforcement agencies that would arrest him for committing crimes. That means the FBI couldn't arrest him even if SCOTUS declared him to have done something illegal because him and the AG now interpret legal meaning for the FBI, not SCOTUS.

[–] ragepaw@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 months ago (3 children)

That's it....

WTF

[–] ragepaw@lemmy.ca 14 points 5 months ago

Yes please.

[–] ragepaw@lemmy.ca 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (9 children)

I keep seeing this talking point. Is it true?

Consider that Australia has a similar population, similar geographic issues and they have domestic auto production.

South Korea is only slightly larger than us in terms of population and has 3 domestic companies building cars. We could certainly do like Korea and export vehicles.

The only thing stopping us from having a Canadian domestic auto industry is the pervasive and false belief that we can't because we need to sell to the US.

We don't. We can sell to anyone willing to buy.

Edit: To add. My first new car was built by an independent plant that manufactured for multiple car companies.

[–] ragepaw@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 months ago

Mine uses my hot water as a heat source to heat the house. I need to replace the pipe. It's too small and frosts over.

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