Are you sure you aren’t proxying something else for size? Plenty of local politics in America, for example, is plenty despotic.
In armed conflict, having a large polity can pay off — big time — while having a small one can be fatal. To name just a few examples: Belgium 1914 and 1940; (the Scandanavian) Norway and Denmark 1940; Tibet 1950; Kuwait 1990; and Chechnya 1999-2000.
Find and charge criminals -> Immediately release them on bail (even if a prolific repeat offender)
Then
a) Have the charges dropped in 18 or 30 months via the SCC ruling putting strict limits on the time it can take from charges to trial, which often can’t be met because the courts are backlogged
Or
b) Have the judge accept your lawyers argument of even the most spurious explanation of systemic XYZ being the reason it wasn’t your fault and letting you go
https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/article/liberals-introduce-s...
According to an inflation calculator, $10,000 at the time that threshold was set is worth $82,679.12 today.
Canadians have got to be the dumbest electorate... Carney was a globalist banker who literally wrote about how Canada needed to be more authoritarian to push through globalist policies.
Trump said something stupid, spurred on by something Trudeau said that's equally stupid. Carney somehow portrays himself as Canada's protector and nationalist (!?). Gets elected. Almost immediately reverts to his globalist authoritarian self.
Canadians are somehow confused...
Larger groups are more consistent, they all have “bureaucratic” problems. One of these problems is too much happening and not enough (moral and competent) oversight*. Hence text sneaked into government bills, funds embezzled from big companies, etc.
* Ironically as other commenters point out, this text isn’t avoiding discovery, because the bill is public and there are enough concerned citizens to provide the necessary oversight. A better example is government contracts, if they were published and voted on like bills I suspect contractors would be way better (except they’d be more political unless we solve that…)
I'd guess the opposite. As evidence I present CEO pay, which went up with more transparency.
I like the idea of making public contracts searchable. But absent controls it will just lead to the partisan poisoning and context-free excerpting that characterises our low-brow political discourse.
Huh. A reporting requirement on $100,000 cash transactions sounds way more reasonable.