Its gotta be, the devs of the game would want you to trust the advisor so they’d make them charismatic and friendly.

Canada heavily investing in electrified public transit would do a lot more for the economy and the environment than any EV deal with any country. It also has a side effect of supporting denser housing which could help us get out of our housing crisis.

Canada will still need EVs for people who would rather drive or live rurally but our focus should be reducing the reliance on cars. EVs are massively energy and resource ineffcient compared to transit and transit can be made accesible to more people.

Carney has on several occasions said that canada should become a green energy super power. Carney canceled consumer carbon pricing, but he kept the industry pricing, where the tax can be more impactful in developing change. He also worked with the bank of england during a big change for net zero initiatives than many of the public pushed against. I think he will do more for the environment in Canada than previous liberal leaders. We as the population also have a role by writing to our MPs on what changes we want to see and protesting policies that harm our planet.

We aren’t going to get off of oil tomorrow and alberta is throwing a temper tantrum about leaving Canada. We need time to invest in green energy, public transit, denser housing, and electric vehicles extensively before we can significantly cut our oil demand. Even getting off oil as a fuel source, we will still depend on it for plastics and lubricants until we can develop new solutions there.

I hope if carney is going forward with a pipeline it will at least need extensive environmental assessments and monitoring.

Carney praises carbon pricing in his book Values, but had to strategically cancel it as he saw consumer carbon pricing dividing more canadians (still in effect for industry, where the tax can spur the most impactful changes). Its easier to get people to change by building an economy that less carbon dependent than it is to tax consumers into making the right choice. For example, building quality, reliable high speed rail would get people to switch their prefered transportation method just for their personal convenience, with a side effect of being more energy effecient and less carbon intensive than driving.

Carney also praises green energy as part of a sustainable future. All of this gives me more hope than if Pierre was PM, whom has pretty much rejected anything concerning the environment in his political career

I’m so glad Canada elected someone who is well versed in both climate change and economics, he might actually be able to build a more climate friendly economy in Canada.

Our other option wants to deny climate change as an issue and reject just about anything that hurts profits for the benefit of the climate, fresh water, ecosystems, or animals.

They are woke because they have potential to improve lives regardless of class, race, or gender. Obviously they should have to “earn” those improvements by buying a car instead.

I hope other first nations and communities send her more letters like this. If you want to be american so badly just move there and leave the rest of us out of it.

I may be wrong but isnt the city planning to use a lot of the money made from congestion pricing to improve public transit? So sure some rich dude can afford to pay to drive in less congestion, but those fees would directly go to supporting transit that thousands of people rely on daily and may be getting more use since congestion pricing began.

A big part of the problem is in North America, they won’t build that type of development anymore. New developments are almost exclusively either residential SFH or commercial strip malls. Prevously a building was flexible enough to go from a grocer with apartments above it then to a financial office then to full residential with relatively minor renovations in between. Now walmart has rules saying another big box store cant buy their abandoned big box store to prevent competition.

Ive heard of an upcoming popeye horror spoof where popeye is haunting an abandoned spinach canning factory or something.

Instead they lock you in the body bag after the chevy suburban “bumped” you after drifting out of its lane cause it’s driver was using the 12" infotainment console.

This reform is especially important because kids can’t vote. They can’t vote for a local politician to provide bike lanes for them. Kids of course can’t drive either so many have almost no freedom of movement outside of their suburban street. Public transit and safe bike lanes can massively increase the access to mobility kids and teenagers have.

This access to mobility can help them build confidence, independence, and navigation skills. It can help them get to school, work, or recreational activities. Forcing kids to rely on their parents for movement is not fair.

This Source clears up that the majority of gun crime is commited with hand guns, which have now been banned. About half the hand guns were originally obtained legally, but very very rarely used by their legal owner. I claimed that legal gun owners rarely commit the crime, i made no claims on the origins of those guns.

Legal rifles, like the one used in this incident, are very rarely used by either their owners or others to commit crime. Banning rifles is unlikely to significantly reduce gun crime. The guns being used are already banned. A legal firearm in the hands of someone without a lisence becomes an illegal firearm. Just like a restricted weapon is illegal for a PAL holder but not for RPAL holders. The focus needs to be on illegal firearms and the flow of firearms from legal sources to illegal sources (theft and black market sales).

There is also the point that if the police don’t have guns, who can safely respond to gun crime? The majority of gun crime in Canada is committed with illegal handguns.

They should have left 2 years ago when they first felt unsafe. I get wanting to stay together for the kids, but if they are a threat to you, they are a threat to the kids as well. Getting the kids away from the abuser and getting restraining orders would have been a good course of action at that point.

We need more resources available for people in her position, so they don’t feel forced to stay with an abuser for the sake of the kids. Those resources need to keep the victims safe, help care for the victims, provide a safe place for victims, and maybe even provide safe ways to get the victims away from abusers.

People drink and drive killing innocent people as well. We haven’t banned all cars and alcohol. It is impossible to stop all deaths but villifying the gun as the worst part of this is disingenuous. This victim was scared for years but never left or searched for help. We need more resources to protect the victims and make help available to them. We can ban guns all we want, it wont stop abusers from being violent. More resources for victims will save more lives and prevent more abuse than just banning guns.

Legal gun owner violence is incredibly rare in Canada. I’d rather focus more resources on illegal firearms.

In a case like this with domestic abuse, the abuser would have been able to assault them just as easily with a kitchen knife. The gun isn’t the problem here, the abuser is the problem.

Driving laws are broken by humam drivers every day. The speed limit is secretly +15, rolling stops on stop signs is standard, many treat a right turn on red as a yield instead. Its so common and normalized that actually enforcing all the driving laws now would take a massive increase in the amount of police doing traffic control on the road assissted with cameras throughout the city to help with speeding and running red lights.

The truth is, North America has no interest in making their roads safer, you can see that in the way they design them. Vehicle speed and throughput above all else. North America has had increasing pedestrian deaths over the last several years, the rest of the developed world has decreasing pedestrian deaths.

But the tax payers will have to pay to fix the burnt stuff so why should some oligarch care? They have money to make today if they clear cut the forest and drain the wetlands. The future generations can deal with the consequences.

Carbon tax to incentivise using less gasoline yet Ontario just made bike lanes illegal.

The carbon tax is almost useless without viable alternatives to carbon based fuels. Just build the electrified transit and make it possible for people to exist without a car. We’ve had solutions for decades, we need to stop profits from interfering with these solutions.

Transit is also good for density, something that could help alleviate the housing crisis nearly every city is facing.