We have laws out the ass for every stupid thing. Bureaucracy so heavy that it prevents many people from even attempting to compete. AI is the first realistic means of bypassing it, its going to be a renaissance of innovation and productivity from the bottom up. You worry about Disney movies being displaced and intellectual property being breached, but we won't need corporations like Disney when this matures.
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I Jamaican dry rubbed off to swimsuit flyers when I was a kid, so at least my mind is safe.
The federal government loosened LMIA requirements, increased immigration, created a surf class the UN described as modern slavery. That all directly affects housing for Canadians who fight for finite land and jobs, as we fail to invest in modern infrastructure like high speed rail to make it sustainable.
One year we brought in 1.4 million people, the US brings in 1/4 that per year and has 10x the density , so 2.5% on a per capita basis.
My latest was a 2 month old Hoover vacuum that died on me. I had to go to Hoover who wanted me to pay to ship and repair it. I bought from Costco after that.
More "affordable housing", which means dense government rentals, reserved for the uber poor and homeless. Its also a drop in the bucket in numbers versus the number private developers build, which is still far below the 420k immigration cap Carney announced.
Its no surprise, Trudeau also said prices need to remain elevated, as peoples nest egg. They just ran on affordable housing and people assumed it meant holistically lower prices, not government housing, its semantics.
Best we can do is buying half of all mortgage bonds to allow them to take on millions in full recourse loans to buy a home.
Our new housing minister doesn't want housing to fall either, neither does Carney, so clearly Canadians don't want affordability either. That's probably why he keeps winning.
Warranty your products properly as well. I don't buy anything from Canadian tire that isn't disposable since they won't take back a 2 month old vacuum or car jack that stopped working.
"Canadian corporations that receive dividends from U.S. subsidiaries are currently subject to a 5-per-cent withholding rate under the tax treaty between the U.S. and Canada, much lower than the statutory rate of 30 per cent.
But under section 899, Canadian companies would see their tax rate increase by five percentage points each year until it reaches 20 percentage points above the statutory rate, or 50 per cent. It would remain in place until the “unfair tax” is removed.
Similarly, Canadian individuals who own U.S. securities directly are subject to a 15-per-cent withholding tax rate under the current treaty, reduced from the statutory rate of 30 per cent. Under section 899, the withholding rate could ultimately rise to 50 per cent"
He's strong arming our government to drop trade barriers, going after pensions and investors who can't switch their investments without a capital gain tax. It would screw me over dramatically.
Its either this or people in India. Once one company does it the price of that good falls and the CPI prints more money entrenching the shrinkflation.
DOGE is definitely feeding all that collected data to Palantir. I'd assume that was the ultimate goal of DOGE to begin with.