100% agree. Constituents should be able to recall their MPs.

That said, we also need way way more MPs. There is no reason a modern representative democracy should only have as many MPs as can fit a physical room. Given a fixed selectorate, the larger the number of keys a ruler needs to satisfy, the better the quality of our democracy.

Who cares that it’s designed this way, we don’t have founding daddy issues in this country. If we want we can redesign it.

Tiocfaidh ár lá motherfuckers.

OK, look buddy, I’m really not a fan of genocidal anti-democratic autocracies, but with your silly arguments you’re making me argue for them. Yes, it’s good for the average Chinese person. The average Chinese person gets a fucking national heavy industry, with millions of jobs in manufacturing, R&D, services etc. Are we really going to pretend here that does not benefit Chinese workers?

And are we really going to be shedding crocodile tears that it’s somehow unfair to us in the West when we have been glazing billionnaire’s dicks for the last 40 years of the neoliberal era? We have built an economy on neoliberal fantasies of trickle down economics, we empowered money hoarders to do financial speculation and all it got us is the 2008 meltdown when even fucking Ayn-Rand-fuckboy Alan Greenspan admitted he had the model wrong.

And since 2008, we have concentrated insane wealth in fucking insane billionnaire hoards while our societies suffer under austerity, with no investments in actually meaningful education, in industry, in research beyond bullshit bubble schemes like AI. And now we cry for “colonialism”? Give me a break. Give me a fucking break. We cut our own dicks with fifteen years of austerity and under-investment. And now that the Chinese learned our game and are beating us in our own fucking game, we cry “colonialism”? Colonialism doesn’t get anywhere near to what they’re doing. Colonialism is what we’ve been fucking doing for 200 years to the entire Western Hemisphere and Africa. Now we cry “colonialism” when we don’t have the fucking balls to build an economy that’s not predicated on sucking capitalist dick? Give me a break.

Well maybe neoliberalism was a bullshit economic theory all along and state intervention is actually superior.

You mean China has a comparative advantage? Maybe the West should make more port instead.

That is just not true. France caps non-EU ownership at 20%. Cyprus at 50%. Korea caps foreign ownership at 30%. Australian law gives the government the power to regulate the entire media sector as a “proscribed sensitive sector” when it comes to foreign ownership. Japan has a very similar system, but more restrictive. The UK restricts foreign ownership when foreign state interests are at play.

So, no, it’s not how it is globally. There is nothing that says Canada could not adopt a more restrictive system. And given the American threats, I think it absolutely should.

University of Toronto?

If it were an AM station its ownership structure would have been more scrutinized by the CRTC. But a newspaper conglomerate? Meh.

The American far right making sure America’s little settler outpost in the middle east can continue to do genocide unimpeded by domestic opposition.

WTF are you talking about. What “magats” and what “sedition”?

For now, apparently.

Mr Speaker, will the defence minister disclose what other neo-nazi owned companies does Canada do deals with?

Reminder that we live in a multiparty parliamentary system that often produces minority governments. A Liberal minority with a strong NDP is not the same thing as a Liberal majority with a weak NDP.

Only we don’t live in the US. We have a multiparty parliamentary system that can operate under minority governments. So the American style blackmail doesn’t have the same totality to it.

The idea that a family is not treated as a unit when it comes to asylum seeking is frankly beyond me. Especially when it comes to kids. When it comes to divorce litigation, the interest of the children is put first. The same principle should apply here. This is basic shit folks.

There is only one guarantee for Israeli security and that’s peace, deradicalization/dezionization (in the Matzpen sense, not in the ridiculous Yemelyanov sense), reparations, truth and reconciliation.

So free software is actually about freedom, huh.

I could potentially imagine a world in which the document is a good faith attempt at having an extremely nuanced discussion about the ways that antisemitic tropes might seep into otherwise legitimate pro-palestinian discourse. And that would have been a very useful document indeed. I could bring myself to imagine such a world if the BfV had a similar document that does an equally thorough job at uncovering all the ways anti-Palestinian racism, islamophobia and jewish-supremacist and genocidal language enters the pro-Zionist discourse. But instead, what this document does do, is to always put Palestinian resistance in scare quotes, to always frame pro-Palestinian advocacy as suspect and illegitimate. There is no context in which Palestinian grievances are taken seriously, at face value. Instead we get this document, a monument of BfV’s actually extremist anti-Palestinian frame-setting.

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