The difference between a democracy and an authoritarian nationalist state is the commitment to truth. The pretext that the descendants should be shielded is actually very very toxic. It is precisely what Germany has very honourably refused to do. People should know the truth about their ancestors. This applies to descendants of victims and to descendants of criminals equally.

If there is an actual reason to not do this right now, the government should give a different but short timeline. They could say that they will keep the records secret for 2 more years for example. We can then argue about the timeline, but the underlying principle holds: in a democracy the truth should come out.

That said, I am not convinced a shallow propaganda victory like this even matters. There is nothing new the putinist state would actually be able to say that it hasn’t already.

Edit: and in fact, by keeping the records secret, the putinist propaganda machine wins even more, because they can (a) say whatever they want about the content of the secret files (b) can say whatever they want about the extent of the files, and © can claim that the Canadian government is complicit in covering up for Nazis. Keeping the records secret gives control of the narrative to Putin hands down.

This double staircase thing in Canada has always baffled me. A single staircase is the rule in Athens and afaik people are definitely not dying left and right.

Increasing trade interdependency is a good way to avoid hot conflicts. It’s the principle behind the EU, it’s the principle behind the detente strategy during the Cold War, and it’s the narrative of globalization that has been pushed from the WTO down, ever since we started protesting neoliberal globalization in the 1990ies.

Nah man, we are Canada, that’s not us. Plus, you’re our cousins, we love you guys. We just need to make sure you comply with our language laws.

We are worried about what we would have to do if you guys starts shooting at each other. Like where would we put the refugees.

This is a just and righteous cause.

If the government can enact back to work legislation to force the workers, they should also be able to end the lockout legislation to force the employers. Notwithstanding clause and all.

5.7M? Bro, that’s like the market price for a couple basic townhouses in Vancouver.

I know. The phrase is what I wish journalists asked point blank at any spokesperson answering questions about it.

Why do they hate tenants?

Fuck cars so much.

We need to redesign Canadian cities to be walkable and transit oriented. Half of all Canadians live on the Quebec - Windsor corridor, which has the density and the geography to be able to be turned into a Western European like rail-and-bike heaven.

We need a cordon sanitaire to stop the cons.

Only we are really slow at recognizing foreign credentials.

Bitcoin Trump-lite said what?

It’s not true that Canada is not attracting high skilled immigrants. The international student boom is that or at least it can be, if Canadian universities are doing their job. Source: I was one.

The problem is that we are shit at putting foreign trained highly skilled people to work. We have an archaic system for recognizing credentials in all sorts of vocations. Indian doctors and Syrian engineers driving Ubers and all that.

Natural gas cannot be a sound long term investment for Canada, given the climate crisis. We have vast renewable resources, we should be becoming the renewable technologies capital of the world.

Any framing of the story by the fucking Toronto Sun is going to be trash.

But it is true that the Canadian system has been overwhelmed. A lot of services and amenities have not expanded as massively as would be needed to accomodate the massive expansion of the population. We have 10 million more people than 20 years ago but the way we operate is the same.

Small example: we are not training as many more doctors and we are not recognizing as much faster foreign doctor credentials. So we have fewer doctors per person.

We are building mostly sprawling suburbia, and we’re expanding mostly highways. We’re still debating high speed rail. Our economy is still basically oligopolistic and extractive and our capital is mostly locked in real estate.

You can see all this and decide that foreigners are to blame, which is what the conservatives want you to think.

Or you can say, hey, we need to change and update the institutions, economy and structure of this country.

Because, this plot of land is actually prime real estate for the next century of climate change, and people are going to keep coming here.

Without socialist economics, libertarianism is extremely regressive, as it just means turning the economic power of the ruling class into the only power that exists. North American libertarianism is far right as fuck.

(If you want to see what libertarianism plus socialism looks like, google Errico Malatesta.)

And you’re swinging from the Greens to the far right PPC? Bruh.

Greens.

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