MyBrainHurts

Clearly, you are doing your part!

Ha, I quite like that!

I think there's a reasonable balance between the nihilism of DOGE "FIRE EVERYONE" and this position where we can't possibly imagine hiring more people for lifetime job from which it is almost impossible to get fired, might not be the best use of limited resources.

(I couldn't help but laugh when during an interview Davies asked "will people want to wait half a year to hear back from the CRA? Take a year for their passport?" And then Kapelos adroitly pointed out that wasn't the case back in 2021...)

Personally, I think it's pretty silly when the Right screams "communism!" at anything that helps people.

Same principle here. It's pretty silly that we can't admit that maybe there are inefficiencies in the hundreds of thousands of public servants.

Wild!

Seems pretty unlikely then that he'd be voting on the budget right? In which case, unless the drugs have finally destroyed my cognitive reasoning, the Liberals only need 1 more abstention/'yea' vote to pass the budget...

I don't play many games etc but just wanted to say congrats on finishing it!

Also, cool subjects material!

Phew, I was thinking the same. I have no idea what you are trying to say.

Cheers.

I like how much of it is "save on office space." In other words, let's embrace cost savings inherent in remote work and let the office space get used by a company or for housing or anything that's not sitting and taking zoom meetings.

Pretty easy win, despite Ford's complaints.

It's not like we'd have rail experts on the public payroll just sitting around.

And one of the mandates is to reduce consultancies (in large part because there's been a lucrative pipeline of folks going through the public service, retiring, and then acting as consultants at a much inflated wage.)

Are all consultancies unnecessary? Absolutely not! But have all of them been necessary? Again, ask anyone who has worked in any sort of governmental agency and they'll laugh as they regale you. (I still don't know wether to laugh or cry at the guy who earned hundreds of thousands with the recommendation of "you should use this basic microsoft product.")

Maybe re-read what you reaponded to?

It's pretty nonsensical to claim that because you're providing a public good you can't do so more effectively.

No, that's not at all how that works.

At all.

Not at all surprised to hear that! (The book is sitting on my shelf, unread and judging me.)

Dollars are not scarce items; the government can issue currency essentially at will.

Edit: You CAN drink a small amount of bleach. Just like you CAN print money during a generational event.

A small amount of bleach will burn a bit. A small amount of printing money caused inflation that we also haven't seen in decades. It hurts families now but that's the price we paid to help during covid.