thisorthatorwhatever

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Electric golf carts should be legalized in most major cities like Toronto. It's good enough for the city, to commute and get groceries.

For rural areas in Canada people need very fuel efficient transport. Encourage people to use motorcycles in good weather. Allow Kei trucks.
Also for rural kids: Sweden: agricultural vehicles allows kids 15 and older to drive cars without a proper driver's licence, as long as the vehicle has been altered to have a maximum speed of 30 kilometres per hour. France: sans permis cars are not allowed to go faster than 45 km/h, but can be driven by anyone with a license.

The vast majority of car trips are about 10km. A bicycle would work for most of them. I personally think that electric golf carts in major cities should be legalized. They'll be the ideal grocery getter, and short commuter vehicle. Speed is limited to 40km/h on them.

The car industry spends billions of dollars a year convincing people that cars are freedom. That you can drive anywhere and do anything in a car. Sadly the reality is that most of the time people are stuck in traffic or looking for a parking space, in cities. Once you start thinking out the car mentality, you realize you can hop on a train for a vacation, do most of your shopping close by if you live in a city.

Harder to shot down a sub? Almost all countries can now make missiles that travel at Mach7+, 3x faster than fighter jets can fly. Like a Porshe vs. a Beetle, the Beetle doesn't stand a chance.

Carney should trade RRSPs for underwater condos owned by ma and pa's.

[–] thisorthatorwhatever@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Defunding the police and using that money legalize all drugs...is an idealist plan that won't end well. Police reform sure, legalized drugs sure. But some explanation between the two positions needs to be thought through.

About 10% of society is made up of people that are evil, like to pull wings of flies, kick dogs, laugh at handicapped people. The left has no way of dealing with them.

[–] thisorthatorwhatever@lemmy.world -1 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Progressives are 100% on board with changing the way law enforcement is done

The left can't communicate what it wants law enforcement to be.

[–] thisorthatorwhatever@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

unmanageable levels

We went from 47 to 25. Toronto has a population of 3.3 million. That's 132,000 per councilor, currently. Previously it was 70,000 people per city councilor. Nothing is being done in this city because there are too few councilors! Currently a handful of very rich developers get to decide most things.
Even the few things that this city council managed to decide, those decisions were still overturned by Doug Ford.

Collingwood Ontario has 9 city councilors and has a population of 30,000. That's like 1 representative for every 3,000 people!!!

[–] thisorthatorwhatever@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (3 children)

The wages of the extra politicians would be completely insignificant. People can't really seem to comprehend the money governments spend, and on what.

[–] thisorthatorwhatever@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

...neo-liberalism goes away when ridings get smaller. People focus on solving local issues. Currently with such big ridings, anything local and of importance doesn't even get mentioned or solved politically.

[–] thisorthatorwhatever@lemmy.world -2 points 1 month ago (6 children)

The police forces are controlled by very right wing people, they don't put any energy into causes that they don't like, like loud and reckless driving cars.
It would be good to make the police forces more responsive to the communities they serve, but the left has no interest. Legalize drugs, make they only available through license sellers...and go after the unauthorized seller very very very hard, because those people don't care about you, or making Canada better.

It's also that the riding are too bid at 100,000 people, and should be 30,000 at most. Combine the large riding with FPTP and people in both rural/urban areas don't get the representation that they are looking for and become dissatisfied. We'd have more than 3 parties with smaller ridings, and we'd have to address more local issues.

[–] thisorthatorwhatever@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Riding are too big, imagine if we had riding of 30,000 instead of 100,000. You'd get very local candidates making their way to Parliament, with very local issues to deal with. It would be less polarizing, and help solve local problems.

 

Since the 1960s America has taxed light trucks being imported. Because America didn't have to build light trucks to compete internationally they lost the international market on light trucks. Now nobody wants to buy American cars and trucks because they are not as good as what others countries build. So now America has put up high tariffs to make itself even more isolationist, since they can't compete.

 

N. American cars are garbage. Our garbage car economy is garbage.

What about all the other industries?

 

Ridings in Ontario were historically about 5000 people, with very large ridings hitting 8,000, and nothing in the double digits. Today ridings are 100,000 people.

Look at the difference between 1908 and 2022 Ontario general election, in Toronto.

1908 Ontario general election Toronto South - Conservative win with 5,202 votes of 6,965 cast (75% of the vote). 74.69

2022 Ontario general election Toronto Centre - NDP won with 15,285 votes of 34,921 cast (43.77% of the vote).

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