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All I really care about is how he will punish companies that operate in the US/people that travel there.
Hard to punish people leaving but entering or people in the country should face treason charges.
Just sent this to my MP:
Dear Patrick Weiler
I am writing to you today to stress my significant frustration regarding Bill C-15.
As an able-bodied Canadian, I find it deeply troubling that this legislation is effectively stripping Canadian organizations and individuals of the ability to send and receive essential materials, such as books, letters, used by people who are blind, without incurring postage costs.
We are judged by how we treat the worst off, not the best, and the impossibly minor savings this will grant are not worth how it will impact the differently abled. I’ve never used, know anyone who has used, or expect to use this saving, but to people that need it its a lifeline.
The long-standing policy of allowing these items to be mailed postage-free is crucial for accessibility and participation in society for the blind community. I urge you to reconsider the implications of Bill C-15 and support policies that maintain or enhance this vital service.
Thank you for considering my concerns regarding this important issue.
It seems unlikely that keeping this service would make a significant dent in their bottom line, so why?
So if I’m reading the article right it would save like 500k? That’s it? Fuck over all the blind people in your nation to save half a million? What’s that as a percentage of taxes like .00001%
This is shit I would have expected from conservatives. Not liberals…
The party switch happened when Harper let the Reform Party take over the PC.
Your historic Liberal Party is the NDP. Carney was elected because he was a Conservative.
When I became a naturalized Canadian citizen I voted for the first time in my life in any election, and it was NDP, because they were the closest thing to what I want.
I honestly want this shit to stop. I want affordable housing again, I want rent control, and I want lease transfers (when they ended that people said it would absolutely show a spike in homelessness, which it did). For one thing that would make me sound conservative is that I want the current bullshit on firearms bans to be stop and be repealed. The Canadian licensing scheme for firearms has been very successful in preventing bad guys from getting guns, showing in that very few criminal guns in Canada are sourced from legal Canadian sources. The worst shooting in Canadian history that happened in Nova Scotia in 2022 was done with smuggled AR-15s from the United States. The shooter had one gun sourced from Canada, but how he got it is a monumental failure of the RCMP… the shooter was the executor of someone’s estate, and that person legally owned a pistol when he was alive. The RCMP could have swept in and took it, as the shooter not only did not have an RPAL, but also had a criminal record and a history of alcoholism (both of which would bar anyone from getting an RPAL or PAL approved).
Basically the current state of the liberals with the failed gun bans is both very expensive (and they haven’t collected a single damn rifle yet) and highly ineffectively and driven entirely by simple hatred of firearms and sport shooting… and the money continues to be diverted from more essential services like healthcare and housing, in addition to trying to pass the equivalent of the Patriot Act without any justification whatsoever and warrantless digital spying on Canadians and online IDs… it is giving me a headache just to think about it.
I agree with you but I wanted to thank you for sharing.
If I was better networked I would push for change.
Yup. Punching down on people with disabilities for petty savings
I swear I read the headline and figured this was in the US. Come on, Canada don’t be like us.
Came to say the US would never offer free postage to begin with, but was surprised to find out I was wrong! https://about.usps.com/publications/pub347/pub347_v03_revision_102015.htm
I give it a week before someone from the current administration takes note and tries to follow suit.
Disgusting…
Your trump is coming. Don’t think it’s not.
Man things like this are just the worse. Is providing free postage beuracratically hard. I mean it should not be. Just need a status or such in a portal so they can order free postage. Are there so many blind people this makes some sort of dent in the budget. Highly suspect. Then the way they seemed to be hiding the dirty deed because they know it is shameful.
Doing this but not addressing real savings like door to door service or daily service seems pointless. Saving pennies but losing dollars.
My God I fucking hate the liberals so fucking bad. All of their shit. The conservatives are bad… but would they be this fucking bad?
Worse
