Is that tinfoil hat comfortable?

That’s an uninformed statement.

You get to pick your provider. So pick one that you trust.

It’s FAR better than without as your ISP is probably selling your traffic to third parties or at least monitoring it. Some VPNs don’t.

Tor over VPN

Use a VPN. Problem solved.

Ben, elle a essayé d’aller à l’inauguration de Donald Trump. Elle est super fan. Et elle était en beau tabarnak quand le Canada a annoncé qu’il y aurait de tarifs sur l’énergie, dont le pétrole, en réponse aux tarifs de Trump.

Moi je crois qu’on devrait imposer 50% de tarifs sur l’énergie pétrolière et électrique. Leur montrer qu’on est capable nous autres aussi.

Ouais, faudrait pas faire de la pepeine à la fan #1 canadienne de Trump, et potentielle traitre nationale, Danielle Smith.

There’s a bit of a problem here though.

Say we put tariffs on services from Amazon for example. What should they apply to? Amazon the online store and Prime Video? Or should we also apply them on cloud services? Because a LOT of Canadian companies are using their cloud services.

Even if they switched to Google, wouldn’t we want to tariff them as well for supporting Trump also? Or even Microsoft? They all spent a million $ for his inauguration. And I’d bet they would bend to his demands if push comes to shove.

We always knew that we depended too much on these companies and it’s never been so obvious than now. When we’re suddenly at the mercy of a psychopath fascists dictator president at the controls of our biggest economic partner.

Sérieux je ne le sais pas. À entendre parler tout le monde, autant ceux qui font affaire avec ces gens là que ceux qui sont dans le domaine, j’ai l’impression qu’il n’y en n’a pas un pour remplacer un autre. C’est toujours en train de faire des crosses pis voler du matériel. Pis ça charge un bras pis une jambe pour du travail qui n’est presque jamais aux normes.

Mais s’ils sont dans ta parenté, compte toi chanceux. Ils vont se faire un plaisir de faire un bonne job pour un cousin, un neveu, etc.

Ouin mais c’est le syndicat de construction. Ils sont connus pour être des goons backés par la mafia. C’est vrai que ça donne pas une bonne image.

Those are some very good points. I really appreciate you taking the time to write all this.

I don’t know if they would act the same way you mentioned with the zombie jobs in the coming economic context. I’m sure they’d be about to weigh what’s good vs what isn’t. And regarding unions, I don’t think we’ll need unions more than we will in the coming years. Busynesses are going to panic and try to suck every penny from everyone and everything and exploit their workers to the max and pay less to maximize profits. But that’s just my guess.

However, I do agree with you that having them as a minority government with the Liberals to keep them in check at first might be a good idea.

Yeah. If he didn’t have that cancer…

It’s unfair.

Et l’augmentation de l’indice d’augmentation de base d’un loyer de 5,9%. Du jamais vu.

Et selon la ministre, la seule solution qu’elle propose c’est de déménager. C’est une osti de conne. Mais ses amis investisseurs vont être très contents.

That’s a shame. I think the NDP is that we’ve needed for a long time. Since Harper left. But if even Jack Layton couldn’t get the NDP elected, I don’t know what will.

This is dystopian level privacy nightmare.

Yeah but so was Trudeau.

Honestly I feel like Trudeau was honestly a good guy with good values and good ideas but he somehow got pushed into the Liberal party mold and was forced to toe the party line even if he was the leader. Like there are outside forces that made him change his plans.

That might just be a hunch though.

Maybe I’m judging him a little too quickly. I sure hope you’re right. I don’t want any more austerity measures for economy’s sake. I want to start taxing the richest Canadians who have been using their near monopoly status to exploit working class Canadians to increase their fortune without any opposition.

I’m just tired of not having accessible public medical care anymore and underfunded schools where teachers are quitting because it’s become too difficult due to lack of resources and cuts. Y’know?

Plus there’s the whole real estate business that’s basically keeping the Canadian economy afloat and causing property prices and rent to surge beyond what the average person can afford even with a good paying job.

Those are my concerns and I don’t feel the Liberal party has addressed any of those and applied pressure or enabled provincial governments to address these things for the past decade.

Anyway. I really hope he’s how you say he is.

Yeah I saw an interview of him with Jon Stewart and he seems pretty sensible.

But it still sounds like austerity measures aren’t off the table. I’ve been living in austerity measures all of my adult life since 2008 it seems and I feel like I can’t take it anymore.

I’d genuinely like to know what you think would happen if the NDP were elected in the current political economic context.

Yeah. Can’t argue with you there…

Donc ce que tu dis est qu’il faut prendre les armes? ;)