Trudeau Popularity - or not (various polling, etc.)

[RangerRay]

Just like the PMO should have a farmer from Manitoba in the room to ‘red team’ ideas and decisions. If he’s ok with the idea, then it’s probably not a terrible idea.

 

[dapaterson]

Just like the PMO should have a farmer from Manitoba in the room to ‘red team’ ideas and decisions. If he’s ok with the idea, then it’s probably not a terrible idea.

The PMO has more than enough folks for Red teaming already. They need some blue team...

 

[Haggis]

Just like the PMO should have a farmer from Manitoba in the room to ‘red team’ ideas and decisions. If he’s ok with the idea, then it’s probably not a terrible idea.

Your first flawed assumption is that the PMO even knows that Manitoba exists.

 

[RangerRay]

The PMO has more than enough folks for Red teaming already. They need some blue team...

That was meant for any generic PMO, not this particular one.

 

[Kirkhill]

Why don't people like experts?

Rayner to ‘end nimby chokehold on house building’​

Deputy Prime Minister says local development ‘blockers’ will ‘no longer have the upper hand’ with new planning rules

Angela Rayner has declared that nimbys will “no longer have the upper hand” as she unveiled plans to end their “chokehold” on housebuilding.

The Deputy Prime Minister will streamline planning rules to tackle the “chronic uncertainty and unacceptable delays” holding up development.

Writing for The Telegraph, she said the status quo “can’t go on” and told opponents of building they would no longer have the advantage in efforts to halt developments in local communities.

Ms Rayner, who is also the Housing Secretary, has drawn up proposals which would allow builders to sidestep council planning committees.

Rayner to ‘end nimby chokehold on house building’

Deputy Prime Minister says local development ‘blockers’ will ‘no longer have the upper hand’ with new planning rules

www.telegraph.co.uk

This is Britain.

Central planning will tell you how many all about your neighbourhood. The number of neighbours. Parking spots. Water you can use. Electrical pylons to be built in your playgrounds.....

Your local council, your local mayor, mean nothing.

But I saw this same thing just recently in Canada

Rezoning of cities. Decisions on windfarms. Population density.

...

Trumpism, Brexit, Gilet Jaunes, Dutch Farmers all spring from the same well. People fed up with people far far away telling them how to live their lives.

Southern Alberta used to be known for the glorious scenery where the Mountains meet the Prairies. Now the whole area looks like Pickering but with windmills - a forest of pylons and overhead lines all constantly humming and buzzing.

NIMBY.

 

[The Bread Guy]

... Trumpism, Brexit, Gilet Jaunes, Dutch Farmers all spring from the same well. People fed up with people far far away telling them how to live their lives ...

True enough, but in the UK, the feds have a direct hand in municipal business, unlike here in Canada, where provinces are king in the municipal realm (except where Club Fed decides to butt in for its own convenience/benefit).

To solve the problem, you have to bang on the right levers to give the heads of the proper central controllers a shake.

 

[ArmyRick]

Your first flawed assumption is that the PMO even knows that Manitoba exists.

Damn, thats a good one. I bow to you today, Mr H.

 

[FSTO]

Your first flawed assumption is that the PMO even knows that Manitoba exists.

The fly over province that even fly over provinces fly over.

 

[dapaterson]

Manitoba is the buffer between the Greater Albertan Co-Prosperity Sphere and Eastern Canada, right?

 

[RangerRay]

Yep. From Winnipeg, a full day’s drive west gets you to Regina. A full days drive east gets you to Thunder Bay. A full day’s drive south gets you to Minneapolis. And a full day’s drive north gets you to The Pas. There’s not a whole lot in between save for Brandon, Kenora, Grand Forks and Fargo.

 

[dapaterson]

Yep. From Winnipeg, a full day’s drive west gets you to Regina. A full days drive east gets you to Thunder Bay. A full day’s drive south gets you to Minneapolis. And a full day’s drive north gets you to The Pas. There’s not a whole lot in between save for Brandon, Kenora, Grand Forks and Fargo.

 

[ArmyRick]

The fly over province that even fly over provinces fly over.

"Prime Minister, sir, Manitoba is the place you fly over after leaving Toronto and heading to BC, where you see all those farms after the really tree areas...Yes sir, they have been part of confederation since 1870"

 

[ArmyRick]

You haven't had a rocking good time until you go to Starbuck or Winkler, Manitoba

 

[Navy_Pete]

As I remembered from a course, “remember - you’re writing for the Saskatchewan pig farmer who got elected”.

Not that SK pig farmers are necessarily dumb, but they may have very little background info for that portfolio and essentially going in blind.

Makes perfect sense to me to simplify engineering things for a non-engineer (which is essentially our trade training), navy-things for non-navy (i.e. brief to CJOC when you are a deployed ship) etc. I just thought that an MP who had been on a defence committee for years, which included a massive recapitalization of the Navy under the NSS, which was the topic of weeks of discussions up to that point, and was specifically pre briefed on the program, the witnesses etc would have at least had a clue that Canada had a Navy by that point.

That's not a Saskatchewan pig farmer learning the ropes, that's just someone thick as pig shit that got elected.

 

[Kirkhill]

You haven't had a rocking good time until you go to Starbuck or Winkler, Manitoba

Two thumbs up for New Bothwell...

 

[dapaterson]

That's not a Saskatchewan pig farmer learning the ropes, that's just someone thick as pig shit that got elected.

An unfortunate truth in Canadian politics is that there are a non-zero number of seats where party affiliation determines who will be elected, regardless of the competence / ability of the candidates. For example, I grew up in the Notre Dame de Grace neighbourhood in Montreal which, since 1949, had a Progressive Conservative MP for nine years, an NDP MP for four years, and other than those brief interregnums has been a solid, reliable Liberal stronghold. (The last remotely competitive Blue candidate, forty years ago, was a well-know boulevardier / journalist today best known as the father of a one-time bass player for Hole, because Montreal).

 

[FSTO]

From Winnipeg, a full day’s drive west gets you to Regina.

What are you driving a Red River Cart? Six hours from Winnipeg to the town that rhymes with fun.

 

[FSTO]

Makes perfect sense to me to simplify engineering things for a non-engineer (which is essentially our trade training), navy-things for non-navy (i.e. brief to CJOC when you are a deployed ship) etc. I just thought that an MP who had been on a defence committee for years, which included a massive recapitalization of the Navy under the NSS, which was the topic of weeks of discussions up to that point, and was specifically pre briefed on the program, the witnesses etc would have at least had a clue that Canada had a Navy by that point.

That's not a Saskatchewan pig farmer learning the ropes, that's just someone thick as pig shit that got elected.

Can you name the MP? I may have some insight.

 

[FSTO]

An unfortunate truth in Canadian politics is that there are a non-zero number of seats where party affiliation determines who will be elected, regardless of the competence / ability of the candidates. For example, I grew up in the Notre Dame de Grace neighbourhood in Montreal which, since 1949, had a Progressive Conservative MP for nine years, an NDP MP for four years, and other than those brief interregnums has been a solid, reliable Liberal stronghold. (The last remotely competitive Blue candidate, forty years ago, was a well-know boulevardier / journalist today best known as the father of a one-time bass player for Hole, because Montreal).

Brandon-Souris; except for the days of the PC-Reform split has been conservative for all my life.

 

[Navy_Pete]

Can you name the MP? I may have some insight.

Cheryll Gallant; she's part of the Standing Committee on National Defence, and the specific questions in Hansard were to someone high up at Davie (Spencer Fraser?). She's also part of the NATO committee and some others.

I think it's just she's dumb AF, and Marines would give her the blue crayons to eat..
edit: I don't think it was the Hansard, it was a transcript from the committee itself, in either 2017 or 2018. I can't remember how to search for them.