I actually talked to my GF about fucking off from Canada in the next 5 years... Not because we can't afford it, but because I'm close to retirement, and I'm sick of working for a living.
AnotherDirtyAnglo
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Yeah, the only people I know who have permanently left Canada had some tax-related issues they didn't want to deal with, so moved to Central America. The only other Canadians I know who moved to Europe were people who came from Europe, had their kids here, then went back.
And let's not forget their famous ignorance of world geography, and their inability to find the USA on an unlabelled map. "Who wants to do a road trip to Europe?" "Which country is Africa again?"
I don't think these management types understand what a protest is. It's meant to be uncomfortable. It sure as shit isn't a luxury vacation for those doing the protesting in the tents, especially with the near-0c temperatures and rain.
If you don't like people in tents, consider what it's like to be living in Gaza right now.
Go check out the 5 year chart before listening to any of the bullshit from this asshole:
They said that when the Avro Arrow was scrapped. There's been at least 6 more fighter jets built since then!
Time to put voiceovers of Pierre chanting 'axe the tax' on video of homes burning to the ground, orange air, and terrified people driving down a road with forest fires raging on both sides.
Alternately, greedy and short-sighted.
There's a metric fuckload of money to be made before the shit really hits the fan. What these shitheads don't realize is that money won't save them once you can't breathe the air, drink the water, or grow the food.
meeting NATO commitments for 30 years would have no discernible effect compared to that
I think that if all NATO members had met or exceeded their obligations, there would have been an obscene amount of weapons to supply Ukraine with, within weeks of the start of Russia's invasion, and it likely would have been over immediately. As it stands right now, nobody has a meaningful stockpile. Of that stockpile, there's no capacity to replace it. In terms of building new capacity, it would take years -- because the process and equipment are so specialized that it can't be hammered together in a weekend, a month, or probably even a year.
When I was a kid, we had a cottage in the forest. My uncle owned about a 1km stretch of river-front property that he got for nearly nothing. The idea was to go there to get away from everyone in the city and just be a family. If you wanted to be social, you went into town or the local park.
Duh. I'm very much in the top 5% of annual wage earners in the country, and there's no way I could afford a decent cottage (i.e., where I can't see or hear my neighbours).
Heh. After Dad died, my Mom shacked up with a guy we met while Dad was in the hospital. He went to the same high school as me, the same year I did. He's lazy, broke, bipolar and unmedicated by choice - and a rabid far-right conspiracy theorist... So technically, she's supporting an adult child.
I'm doing just fine, thanks. :D