Robert Glasgow
@thetradelawguy.bsky.social
Canadian trade lawyer. He/him.
I mean the answer here is simple - the feds should claw back all HAF money because Toronto broke the deal.
Otherwise the HAF will never work as municipalities will know that it's entirely free money and they don't have to build.
Otherwise the HAF will never work as municipalities will know that it's entirely free money and they don't have to build.
June 27, 2025 at 8:46 PM
I mean the answer here is simple - the feds should claw back all HAF money because Toronto broke the deal.
Otherwise the HAF will never work as municipalities will know that it's entirely free money and they don't have to build.
Otherwise the HAF will never work as municipalities will know that it's entirely free money and they don't have to build.
One example - I remember years ago I was researching wine and came across a paper showing that it was more carbon emissions to ship a Napa Valley wine to NYC than one from Melbourne.
January 6, 2025 at 2:09 PM
One example - I remember years ago I was researching wine and came across a paper showing that it was more carbon emissions to ship a Napa Valley wine to NYC than one from Melbourne.
Seriously, there's almost certainly a February/March election coming. You should be in full out sprint mode here. Her and her entire staff. You wake up, work, clock out and sleep, to wake up to work again. There's time to rest when you're dead (or elected). 14/14
December 3, 2024 at 7:16 PM
Seriously, there's almost certainly a February/March election coming. You should be in full out sprint mode here. Her and her entire staff. You wake up, work, clock out and sleep, to wake up to work again. There's time to rest when you're dead (or elected). 14/14
So why isn't she? Why is there a single set of tweets, one speech, and then a pat on the back, "job's done". No! Get to work! I don't even care as much about what the policy is so long as you're relentlessly, constantly, without tiring, doing it at least 18 hours a day. /13
December 3, 2024 at 7:16 PM
So why isn't she? Why is there a single set of tweets, one speech, and then a pat on the back, "job's done". No! Get to work! I don't even care as much about what the policy is so long as you're relentlessly, constantly, without tiring, doing it at least 18 hours a day. /13
Bonnie Crombie has literally *no other job than this*. She should be out there giving talks constantly on location. She should be blasting out constant media hits and social media. She should be trying to go viral to get earned media. She has *NO OTHER JOB*. /12
December 3, 2024 at 7:16 PM
Bonnie Crombie has literally *no other job than this*. She should be out there giving talks constantly on location. She should be blasting out constant media hits and social media. She should be trying to go viral to get earned media. She has *NO OTHER JOB*. /12
There's a simple idea here - just steal the idea!
Fund our Hospitals.
Teach our Kids
Feed our Kids
Build the Roads/Rail
Save our Nature
Fight Doug's Corruption (or Fight Ford's Filth)
Help the Workers
Like this is just me spitballing here over a couple minutes. /11
Fund our Hospitals.
Teach our Kids
Feed our Kids
Build the Roads/Rail
Save our Nature
Fight Doug's Corruption (or Fight Ford's Filth)
Help the Workers
Like this is just me spitballing here over a couple minutes. /11
December 3, 2024 at 7:16 PM
There's a simple idea here - just steal the idea!
Fund our Hospitals.
Teach our Kids
Feed our Kids
Build the Roads/Rail
Save our Nature
Fight Doug's Corruption (or Fight Ford's Filth)
Help the Workers
Like this is just me spitballing here over a couple minutes. /11
Fund our Hospitals.
Teach our Kids
Feed our Kids
Build the Roads/Rail
Save our Nature
Fight Doug's Corruption (or Fight Ford's Filth)
Help the Workers
Like this is just me spitballing here over a couple minutes. /11
"Axe the tax". "Build the Homes". "Verb the Noun". They're not policies. Hell they're barely ideas. But they immediately shortcut in your head what you *think* that policy is and it resonates throughout the online space. People talk about it. They put it on mugs and shirts. /10
December 3, 2024 at 7:16 PM
"Axe the tax". "Build the Homes". "Verb the Noun". They're not policies. Hell they're barely ideas. But they immediately shortcut in your head what you *think* that policy is and it resonates throughout the online space. People talk about it. They put it on mugs and shirts. /10
Want to know what's the greatest political slogan of the past century? "I like Ike". It's simple. It's short. It's catch. It can be chanted super easily.
You know who understood that? The CPC. Dear god as much as I think it's drivel their slogans are *everywhere*. /9
You know who understood that? The CPC. Dear god as much as I think it's drivel their slogans are *everywhere*. /9
December 3, 2024 at 7:16 PM
Want to know what's the greatest political slogan of the past century? "I like Ike". It's simple. It's short. It's catch. It can be chanted super easily.
You know who understood that? The CPC. Dear god as much as I think it's drivel their slogans are *everywhere*. /9
You know who understood that? The CPC. Dear god as much as I think it's drivel their slogans are *everywhere*. /9
Bonnie also sent out *TWO TWEETS* (and retweeted the OLP one). That's a grand total of three unique tweets between the leader and the party of what could be a foundational cornerstone of a campaign. And even the tweets are so, incredibly, *bad at this*. /8
December 3, 2024 at 7:16 PM
Bonnie also sent out *TWO TWEETS* (and retweeted the OLP one). That's a grand total of three unique tweets between the leader and the party of what could be a foundational cornerstone of a campaign. And even the tweets are so, incredibly, *bad at this*. /8
A garbage fire actually does what it's supposed to. Where the hell is the messaging on this? The OLP twitter sent out *one tweet* in each language about the hospital funding. ONE TWEET. Other than that it's just been rote messaging announcing "introducing candidate X". /7
December 3, 2024 at 7:16 PM
A garbage fire actually does what it's supposed to. Where the hell is the messaging on this? The OLP twitter sent out *one tweet* in each language about the hospital funding. ONE TWEET. Other than that it's just been rote messaging announcing "introducing candidate X". /7
3) Policies. As Evan notes this is an area where we've seen some good ideas. More money for hospitals good! More money for transit good! More housing initiatives good! The problem is the fourth area...
4) Messaging: An utter and complete garbage fire. No, that's wrong./6
4) Messaging: An utter and complete garbage fire. No, that's wrong./6
December 3, 2024 at 7:16 PM
3) Policies. As Evan notes this is an area where we've seen some good ideas. More money for hospitals good! More money for transit good! More housing initiatives good! The problem is the fourth area...
4) Messaging: An utter and complete garbage fire. No, that's wrong./6
4) Messaging: An utter and complete garbage fire. No, that's wrong./6
And you just *know* that if she fails to win, but scrapes by into official party status, she'll call that a win - with sycophants around her likely toadying it up as one too. It'd be sad if it wasn't so devastating to the province generally and me personally (as a cyclist). /5
December 3, 2024 at 7:16 PM
And you just *know* that if she fails to win, but scrapes by into official party status, she'll call that a win - with sycophants around her likely toadying it up as one too. It'd be sad if it wasn't so devastating to the province generally and me personally (as a cyclist). /5
Because, as my dad said, all the great policy in the world doesn't matter if you can't win elections. Well, nice to see that electability is working out so incredibly well that by current polling we'll be going from... third place to third place. /4
December 3, 2024 at 7:16 PM
Because, as my dad said, all the great policy in the world doesn't matter if you can't win elections. Well, nice to see that electability is working out so incredibly well that by current polling we'll be going from... third place to third place. /4
Jeez, that's just devastating enough. But then you get to the more substantive issues.
2) Electability: this was the entire reason people voted for her. It's why I'm 99% sure that despite my efforts my parents both had her at the top of their ranked ballots. /3
2) Electability: this was the entire reason people voted for her. It's why I'm 99% sure that despite my efforts my parents both had her at the top of their ranked ballots. /3
December 3, 2024 at 7:16 PM
Jeez, that's just devastating enough. But then you get to the more substantive issues.
2) Electability: this was the entire reason people voted for her. It's why I'm 99% sure that despite my efforts my parents both had her at the top of their ranked ballots. /3
2) Electability: this was the entire reason people voted for her. It's why I'm 99% sure that despite my efforts my parents both had her at the top of their ranked ballots. /3
That you were out of your depth? That you did *zero* due diligence when signing up? That you have the *audacity* to go from two years as an elected representative in a legislature to... leading a major party and expect a cakewalk? /2
December 3, 2024 at 7:16 PM
That you were out of your depth? That you did *zero* due diligence when signing up? That you have the *audacity* to go from two years as an elected representative in a legislature to... leading a major party and expect a cakewalk? /2
All this does is transfer wealth from people who take transit to people with enough money to buy and regularly use cars by giving them free storage space.
November 18, 2024 at 2:13 PM
All this does is transfer wealth from people who take transit to people with enough money to buy and regularly use cars by giving them free storage space.
That’s also what caught my eye. It was a bit of bait and switch. The premise is legal limits to doing this plan, but the most likely source isn’t really legally limited, it’s limited by norms of good governance.
Of the party appoint Gaetz as AG and Gabbard as DNI…
Of the party appoint Gaetz as AG and Gabbard as DNI…
November 18, 2024 at 2:12 PM
That’s also what caught my eye. It was a bit of bait and switch. The premise is legal limits to doing this plan, but the most likely source isn’t really legally limited, it’s limited by norms of good governance.
Of the party appoint Gaetz as AG and Gabbard as DNI…
Of the party appoint Gaetz as AG and Gabbard as DNI…
Of course, ignore s. 33... which allows the legislatures to just override many rights (including freedom of expression/religion/life, liberty, and security of the person/equality with certain limitations (like a 5-year sunset of such laws). That shouldn't exist. 3/3
November 13, 2024 at 6:45 PM
Of course, ignore s. 33... which allows the legislatures to just override many rights (including freedom of expression/religion/life, liberty, and security of the person/equality with certain limitations (like a 5-year sunset of such laws). That shouldn't exist. 3/3
hands of the judiciary when determining if the limits passed by the legislature (or actions by the executive) are within those bounds. As such no one branch can expressly limit rights on their own, it takes multiple independent actors that otherwise check each other. /2
November 13, 2024 at 6:45 PM
hands of the judiciary when determining if the limits passed by the legislature (or actions by the executive) are within those bounds. As such no one branch can expressly limit rights on their own, it takes multiple independent actors that otherwise check each other. /2
Honestly I think one of the better handbrakes is s. 1 of the Canadian Charter. Rights are limited as can be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society. It recognizes that there will be situations where a liberal democracy may wish to limit rights, while keeping that power in the... /1
November 13, 2024 at 6:45 PM
Honestly I think one of the better handbrakes is s. 1 of the Canadian Charter. Rights are limited as can be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society. It recognizes that there will be situations where a liberal democracy may wish to limit rights, while keeping that power in the... /1