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You aren't at risk anyways, they've clearly demonstrated their lack of intelligence to begin with.

Yeah, it's truly fantastic that they're aggressively rolling this out to whom it's most needed, first.

I hear lying on AM Radio is a prerequisite for any Conservative party leadership these days

I hardly think the billionaires who own 90%+ of Canadian news media via PostMedia and TorStar are going to be bad-mouthing the same party that helps them stand on the necks of ordinary Canadians anytime soon.

But yeah, they should be.

Wow, this is truly pathetic. These assholes sure are massively successful in one regard: Absolutely NOBODY can present themselves as so worthlessly stupid with almost no effort like the UCP MLAs can.

Logic never shares the stage with Danielle Smith.

The UCP government removed a cap on private insurance premium increases during their last term, saying that the Alberta NDP's cap on insurance premiums would harm the province's competition for pricing for insurance.

Since the time the UCP removed that premium cap that the Alberta NDP had put in place, most people have seen their car insurance premiums jump to 150% - 200% of what it had previously been, and home insurance premiums have been rising more sharply as well.

Sure am glad the UCP protected those corporate profits instead of their constituents.

ABNDP: "If you're going to waste all of our time and money on a pension referendum, then we propose the Alberta Government, whoever is in power, should agree to respect the decision of the people."

UCP: "Fuck you! You're slandering us! We can be trusted! We just need another 20 bucks to spend for...provincial good things! Don't touch my purse! I don't know you!"

ABNDP: "Oooooohkay....we've identified these six places as problematic loopholes to the security of a proposed Alberta pension plan, and would propose closing these identified loopholes to make it more well-defined so Albertans feel safer about their money. One of those loopholes is that it doesn't actually say you need to invest all of the CPP pension money that might be transferring to the province, into the province's pension. That's a big one and a pretty major no-brainer for all of us."

UCP: *UCP Finance Minister Nate Horner just shits right into his own hand and throws it across the room before smearing the rest across his chest and screaming as loud as he can at Shannon Phillips until he collapsed."

Another strong UCP victory!

Well, consider that prior to this, Google was paying $0 to support the journalists who were driving web traffic to Google News / Search (besides paying them in exposure, of course), thereby not generating ad revenue for the actual news outlets directly. Meanwhile, Canadian tax dollars were subsidizing journalists' salaries.

Now, Google is supporting newsrooms by being forced through C-18 to pay for the news they're disseminating (and profiting from) to the tune of $100MM next year. That's $100MM in the Canadian Federal Budget that's freed up for other use (or savings).

So, not all bad. It's imperfect legislation, but it appears that the desired outcome of this aspect of C-18 has at least partially come to fruition.

Yeah, but this $100MM from Google is directly linked to C-18, which links the payments to full-time journalists employed.

So, while I don't love that it'll help a company like Bell's bottom line because it offsets journalist salaries at CTV, and I definitely dislike that the PostMedia and TorStar billionaire owners will undoubtedly just pass through all their journalist subsidies to personal profit, I do like that it will help pay for journalists at the CBC and other editorially or financially independent news sources.

So, not all sunshine in this whole C18 / Google story, but what does all that actually have to do with telcos not building infrastructure?

Google?

I think the implication is that it's not enough evidence to cut rates, and so they will continue to plan to hold rates where they are.