It’s a running joke, but our government employees are paid less and do just as much work as government employees of other developed countries. The main reason we have such a large government workforce is because our country insists on spending so much money on defense.

Haven’t you heard? Russia is good now, Putin is a real cool dude and Canadian milk is public enemy #1.

Abolish taxes and institute user fees for all services, because that’s the only way you’ll get through to people who get pissed off over paying for things that don’t directly benefit them.

They created a bunch of unproductive jobs at the behest of people who wanted to cut taxes and then free up money by reducing “fraud and abuse.” That’s the irony. The same right-wing people who want government to be more efficient tend to be the ones who pass laws requiring reams of new paperwork.

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Maybe that used to be the case. Nowadays corruption is all about funneling money to the top. Look at the Trump administration. Do you think many federal employees are getting raises from them right now?

To be fair, most people who want lower taxes have absolutely no idea how anything at all works beyond their ability to complain about lower taxes. If you showed them a state, township, or even federal government spending chart their eyes would immediately glaze over and they’d be thinking about season 48 of America’s…

I would imagine so....especially if

As someone who works in government records management, my heart goes out to the poor staffers whose job it is to tape his papers back together.

Yep, they really need to keep bashing Canada. No one, no one in the world except Russia hates Canadians. No one sees this as some power move from Canada, or that we “backstabbed” the USA. All they see, and social media proves it, is an unhinged Trump ranting like the madman he is. There’s no end game, the world will…

“POTUS is not gonna let a Canadian prime minister push him around. Push him, POTUS, around,”

Apparently Putin has now agreed to accept The Thing’s unsolicited invitation to re-join the G-7.

I think in the interests of “National Security”, the Canadian government should enact a foreign leaders emolument clause declaring that no foreign leader can own or be party to private/for profit ventures on Canadian Soil for as long as they are in office.

Merkel last year said that the European Union couldn’t rely on the US (and the UK as well) anymore, the US became an unreliable ally. You can’t restore that trust, the damage Trump did to its alliances is permanent.

Canadian here.

I don’t care that he was selling hash, I care that he was running a criminal enterprise. That speaks to his character, as do his associates, in the same way Trump’s gang of clowns speak to his.

Interestingly, someone I know who went to high school with the Fords told me that Rob was the “smart one”. Does not bode well

The comparison I got was to mayor humdinger, the stupid and evil villian from paw patrol.

I hate Doug Ford with a fiery passion, but I honestly think too much is made of him selling hash back in the day.

Also Rob was never just ignorant, he was a piece of shit just like his brother.