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Admiral Beez said:
IMO, Ottawa had no business here. Yes, operational announcements to passengers must be bilingual, but there's no law that press releases like this must be. Air Canada is a private corporation, so it's up to the firm's board, stockholders and customers to decide if they're dissatisfied or otherwise with their CEO.

And now as they shop for a new CEO, Air Canada is restricted, with exceptions, essentially to a smaller pool of francophone executives, since that's who's going to be sufficiently bilingual. That's great for the optics, but may not be in the best interests of shareholders.
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The fact that one of the two pilots that were lost was French Canadian might be a pretty good reason why responding to the press only in English was problematic.
 
Admiral Beez said:
The PM is happy. The NDP will swing far left so to drive any Layton-type moderates to the Liberals. Same as the Cons far right swing drove Harper-type moderates also to the Liberals.
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Actually, the Cons' populist swing drove a lot of those so-called "Layton-type moderates" (particularly the blue-collar/union base) to the *Cons*, because the Libs were still deemed too "elite". It's why Essex/Windsor is now 100% represented by the Conservatives...
 
adma said:
Actually, the Cons' populist swing drove a lot of those so-called "Layton-type moderates" (particularly the blue-collar/union base) to the *Cons*, because the Libs were still deemed too "elite". It's why Essex/Windsor is now 100% represented by the Conservatives...
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Obviously the blue collars go Conservative. I think what is being referred to here is that ANY remaining (and probably not many!) centre left voters still hanging around the NDP are now about to sprint over to the Libs, 100%.
 
thettctransitfanatic said:
Obviously the blue collars go Conservative. I think what is being referred to here is that ANY remaining (and probably not many!) centre left voters still hanging around the NDP are now about to sprint over to the Libs, 100%.
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I actually doubt it's that 100% clear-cut. Above all, remember that '25 was really a Trump-induced "existential battle" which wound up excessively Duvergering the race--though yes, Jagmeet's ineptitude in addressing the new condition didn't help matters; but it's relatively safe to say that the remaining pool of "centre left NDP voters" *already* sprinted over to the Libs last year. Indeed, a good number of polls have shown the party floating back into a natural gravity of double digits, even if it's still more in the tentative 10% toe-in-the-water range--and one can surmise that it's simply last year's "parked Liberal vote" bouncing back. (Sort of like going from an Audrey state of affairs to an Alexa state of affairs, if one wants to be retro-90s about it.).

And on top of that, I think that even the "Layton-type moderate" euphemism is misplaced; because even though he cast a pragmatic big tent, he was always "progressive-identified", far more so than Mulcair. Indeed, I suspect that if Jack were around today, he'd be more in the Avi camp than in the Heather camp--not least because Jack himself was the Avi to Bill Blaikie's Heather a generation ago. (Though speaking of Heather, if there's any place where your logic *might* make sense, it's in Alberta & Saskatchewan, where there genuinely is the most "tension" over the choice of Avi. But Canada's more than just Alberta & Saskatchewan; and the completeness of such a shift will only be clear if Heather goes all-out and joins the Carney caucus.)
 
Admiral Beez said:
IMO, Ottawa had no business here. Yes, operational announcements to passengers must be bilingual, but there's no law that press releases like this must be. Air Canada is a private corporation, so it's up to the firm's board, stockholders and customers to decide if they're dissatisfied or otherwise with their CEO.

And now as they shop for a new CEO, Air Canada is restricted, with exceptions, essentially to a smaller pool of francophone executives, since that's who's going to be sufficiently bilingual. That's great for the optics, but may not be in the best interests of shareholders.
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Its the board that pushed him out., not government. AC is a corporation based in Montreal, and his lack of French was long a source of controversy. This was just the last straw.
The bad publicity and optics were harming their bottom line.
 
guavadelic said:
Its the board that pushed him out., not government. AC is a corporation based in Montreal, and his lack of French was long a source of controversy. This was just the last straw.
The bad publicity and optics were harming their bottom line.
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I think the government should have declined to comment on personnel decisions of private companies.
 
guavadelic said:
Its the board that pushed him out., not government. AC is a corporation based in Montreal, and his lack of French was long a source of controversy. This was just the last straw.
The bad publicity and optics were harming their bottom line.
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As a federally regulated industry, they have to obey their ultimate masters.
Life could become quite hard if they didn't do this.
 
Carney defends Canada's approach to forced labour amid fallout from floor-crossing MP's comments

"Prime Minister Mark Carney defended Canada's efforts to keep products made with forced labour out of the supply chain as one of his newest MPs continues to face backlash for appearing to cast doubt on the practice in China"

Why is Mark Carney promoting the ridiculous notion that China uses "forced labor"? Why is Carney parroting American Sinophobic talking points like an obedient lapdog?

Does anyone really believe that China uses "forced labor"? China has what are known as "dark factories". They are called dark because the lights are turned off since all the work is done by robots not humans. In China they mass produce the most advanced robot in the world that sell for about $13K USD. Why would the most technically advanced country in the world need to use forced labor?

It is an insult to our intelligence when Carney talks like this (I thought he was a smart guy) and it does nothing to improve relations with China that were severely damaged by Trump during his first term when he ordered Canada to arrest the CFO of Huawei at the Vancouver airport and Trudeau stupidly complied with. One of the biggest blunders by a Canadian PM and where did that get us with Trump?

 
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Admiral Beez said:
Why is it ridiculous? There seems to be a lot of smoke on the topic. Has it been disproven?
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A lot of "smoke" from where? Did you watch the video of the "dark factories" in China that I linked above? If China can build factories that have so few human workers that they can operate with the lights off most of the time, why would you believe that China uses "forced labor"? THINK!
 
EBT said:
A lot of "smoke" from where? Did you watch the video of the "dark factories" in China that I linked above? If China can build factories that have so few human workers that they can operate with the lights off most of the time, why would you believe that China uses "forced labor"? THINK!
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This is rather handwavy. Not every application is suitable to factory automation. Humanoid robots are still largely demonstrators and novelties, and can do very little useful work.
 
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