Isn’t the issue here that she can’t re-enter Canada, and IRCC seems to refuse helping her?

Thanks for the link. I’ve updated the post

Thanks for the notice. I thought it’d be nicer if I posted an Indivious link but I guess it’s not that simple :/ I’ll change it to a YT link

So you think someone should somehow just get citizenship just because they’ve stayed there for long enough? Many countries do not approve of dual citizenship, and so most people would have to give up on their original citizenship to become a Canadian citizen. That’s not something to be taken lightly of. People have relationships in their home country, and they might lose easy access to their home country by forfeiting their citizenship and getting a Canadian one. How they get taxed in their original country also changes, and might also be detrimental to their finances depending on how much business and investment they’re conducting. What about having to take care of family?

And even if they don’t have any of those, you may live in a foreign country for 25 years, but you might not have thought of the new country as home, and that could be the case for various reasons, some of which may be bad ones, but there are good reasons as well.

So, like the other comment said, you’re showing a great lack of empathy, but tbf, you might not be aware of these considerations someone has to think about while deciding whether getting that citizenship is worth it.

It might not be manipulation, but from the “buy now” messaging that they said, it effectively is.

Seriously, every time I hear arguments similar to your coworkers, I say the same damn thing, “WTF are you doing here?”

I’ve also heard things like, “Canadians are just not competitive, too laid back, and/or lazy,” and it makes me roll my eyes, like they don’t understand the culture here and just think the US is more “healthily” competitive, people are somehow “more motivated” to work, etc.

“Like seriously, WTF are you still here?”

I grew up in another part of the world and I know what “not competitive” looks like; people literally do not want to care about competition, and their only response when actual competition comes around (inevitably when there’s a similar business in town) would be to lower prices and hammer them ads when a better player comes around. They’re so lazy that they would set up a business, treat their employees badly, have literally no proper vision and path for their business, and expect their business to auto-pilot to success, and for some, their businesses will somehow survive. Workers are also lazy; pushing responsibilities around is basically the national work culture, and those with any sense of responsibility ends up getting burdened by all the work people push around. You can certainly survive and actually thrive here if you know how to protect your time and energy, and continually skill-up (most people don’t do that), but work will feel like a slog a lot of the times just cause of all the above reasons.

If I didn’t see the domain name I would’ve thought this was a parody website.

These people are whackos.

More like “Make every confession an accusation!”

Makes me think that the government should be consulting trustable people who speak Chinese before jumping to these conclusions. This just feels like they’re frantic and possibly extreme in their view of China. We can dislike the Chinese government and be wary of its many machinations, but we should also judge fairly, lest we undermine our own credibility and essentially give the CCP ammo to label the Canadian government as an extremist and xenophobic.

Also, I would say that Chinese, American, and Russian-controlled media all need to be taken with caution. I understand that the US is a more immediate threat, but the other two have long known to be in the game, and especially the Chinese cause they have large diasporas here, and has a large social media arm worldwide.

I can read Chinese so I can verify that the few articles that were linked are linked certainly don’t seem to mention anything negative about Carney. That translation you’ve shared there is accurate.

I was being rather cautious about the source while reading, cause the official source mentions that this is the channel where mis/disinfo was spread about that Lib MP who had to be removed due to election interferences (sorry, can’t recall his name at the moment). But so far, nothing stands out to me here. The article does seem like a base where they could build their own narrative though, since they don’t cite anything (eg when quoting Carney), making it hard to verify whether a statement was truly said or not, and mixing truths and lies is exactly how they like creating false narratives, to make it incredibly tedious to disentangle truths from lies.

As for the other article, nothing stands out too. It’s written quite a lot more sensationally (eg. something like “Trump’s strategy is as such: ‘You (you being Canada here) either kneel down and be our (American) son, or get roasted (by me) on Twitter till you become a shut-in’”). It’s clear that this isn’t a credible news source, but the Chinese (in Asia, not just China, as there are large Chinese diasporas who aren’t Chinese citizens, e.g. Singaporeans and Malaysians) are used to consuming news from these sorts of non-credible channels.

That said, yeah, I’m confused about how and why the gov seems to have selectively linked these articles to say that false narratives have started. There’s potential for it, but these don’t seem to be it

I like the idea of putting a 🖕or 💩 over the logo, so I’m gonna steal it for if and when a US-made laptop flies to my doorstep.

I’ve had an ASUS convertible at one point a long time ago (probably 6 years ago now) that I wanted to put Linux on, but it was pretty terrible, but you’re right, I could give these a try again after a bit of research. I generally don’t mind a bit of degradation and am quite comfortable with tinkering with the system to get what I want, but was just burned enough to not try for a while and wait it out. But thank you for mentioning CatchyOS, which I’ve not heard of. I might give that a try. I would’ve just tried slapping plain Arch on it myself otherwise.

And yeah, I get that MFL just doesn’t have the market share to get the benefits of economies of scale. It’s disappointing, but a reality nonetheless.

Thank you for the suggestion! Though I’ve selectively ignored the Surfaces cause Microsoft. I’m not in a rush to get one, and I’d rather support other vendors if I could, and wouldn’t even get a Surface off someone else just so that I don’t advertise for Microsoft. All the more reason to do so given the current political climate (I’m not from the US).

I’ve been thinking about a Linux tablet and a convertible would be perfect.

But man it’s gonna be pricey af isn’t it

But I know, there’s the Pinetab (or Pine Tablet?)

Very funny

Or better, help people transition away from American products. 50% tongue-in-cheek (it’s hard to help people make that change for a variety of reasons, but hey!)

Are they meant to “go somewhere”?

It’s not that simple though. Sure, they can buy new properties, but they can only buy so much. We’re talking 500k new homes per year.

You could aggressively tax people who own multiple homes, but it doesn’t address the fact that there’s a clear lack of housing for the population. Property investors are just one part of the equation.

And if the rich does snag up a lot of these units, we can then talk about taxing these people, or perhaps limiting purchases of affordable houses only to first-time buyers or low-to-medium income households, creating a sort of loose air gap between the two markets (luxury and affordable). In any case, your worries are without solutions, but those houses need to be built regardless.

From a slightly deeper page in the index tree

Retirees themselves are stepping up to support this plan (as in, rich retirees take less so that money can be redistributed to poorer retirees and younger people in need). They are personally prepared to take a bit less from OAS. If you’d like to join them, let us know.

<3

So there we have another solution (or at least a part-solution) to our budgetary problems, thanks to some of the retirees (and that number might grow?).

Tbf, this is a hard convo to have, but politicians should be making these convos at the possible risk of getting disliked.

Instead of just proposing solutions without consultation, just ask! Be reasonable of course, but ask! “You’re getting this much money every month, and we’d like to know if you’d be fine if we give you a bit less, because X, Y, and Z.”

Not everyone’s gonna respond positively, and there people who refuse to be reasoned with, but that’s politics!

But ik, a two-party race forces them to basically try to win on every turn, and we have only FPTP to blame.

Ah FPTP 🫠

We’re in a trade war.

But let’s reduce income taxes so that the government gets less money to run long-underfunded public services, maintain long-ignored public infrastructure, and fight the war. Oh, did we forget about the promise of some amount of financial support to people affected by the trade war.

Yeah, that makes sense.

/s