The "first amendment" in Canadian law doesn't exist. Canada has no fundamental guarantee to speech, it can be restricted by the first. The 1st section of the charter of rights and freedoms state: "guarantees the rights and freedoms set out in it subject only to such reasonable limits prescribed by law as can be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society."
The 2nd section "Everyone has the following fundamental freedoms: (a) freedom of conscience and religion; (b) freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of the press and other media of communication; (c) freedom of peaceful assembly; and (d) freedom of association."
Since the list is being enforced by the CRTC, that means it would require a case before the court first against the CRTC. The CRTC is a "hands off" crown corporation meaning the feds don't deal with it unless there's serious issues. Second it would require a second case against the government. The previous government(conservative) had already put into place "commercial infringement" laws which required a notice-notice system without financial threats, looks more like the current Liberals have decided to simply roll over for corps and media. I'm already with a TPIA(Teksavvy) and they're preparing to fight this, so are several other TPIA's like Ebox, and Execulink.
Most grid scale storage is actually pumped water storage, not batteries. Though compressed air is also present at the utility scale in the US...
So what is it now? 80? 100? "environmental impact studies" another 40-50 lawsuits to stop dams being built in the mountains of BC for exactly what you're talking about. Roughly the same in Alberta, and Manitoba. Gee, it's the same with all of those others and those simple solutions being blocked.
The simple solutions are the ones already in use. Maybe you can get the evironuts to stop cockblocking everything while you're at it.
Right, so you agree with me. Being a "dumb pipe" doesn't absolve the pipe owner of all responsibility.
It does and it doesn't. I'm not agreeing with you, rather you're partially correct. You also conflate speech with illegal images which makes no sense, especially in the US which has broad speech protections, unlike the UK where you're actively restricting speech.
Incredible how this simple statement that we both actually agree on triggered one of your snowflake buddies to mod my comment as "troll".
Snowflake buddies? You might want to think on that. Maybe you've just managed to piss so many people off with regressive stances that people believe that your views are terrible. And believe it: Compared to people in north america, your views especially on speech are regressive. This is reflected in UK law itself, where what's permissible is clearly stated. Doesn't work like that here, which is whatever isn't stated is permissible.
Fracking isn't to pull NG out of the ground in most places. It's to pull oil(shale/tight oil/coal gas/etc) out of the ground which occur in smaller deposits or has very low flow(low viscosity), NG "flows" to the top during the fracking process and can be captured, or burnt off. Fracking to pull NG only happens in regions where there are small deposits or where it's more expensive to import NG, then to pull it out of the ground by fracking itself.
The US fracking is mainly shale oil. In Canada? Mostly heavy oil. Both countries have huge supplies of natural gas in the ground that can be easily tapped however. Why do you think Canada and the US are pushing trade agreements to Europe to sell them natural gas? One: It's to break the high amount of control that they can exert against european countries by threatening NG supplies. Two: It's because we have so much of it that we need more markets. Hell back in the 2008 crash, we were pulling so much NG out of the ground that it crashed the world natural gas market. There's thousands of wells sitting unused in every province in Canada, there's nearly 6000 NG wells alone in Alberta sitting idle.
What part of the world allows that? My understanding is that even in the US, once alerted to abuse a "common carrier" has to shut it down. So for example if someone reports to Cloudflare that a site they cache contains illegal images (as defined by US law) they have to take action or become liable.
The US allows this, so does Canada, so do nearly all western countries. The UK does not, but then you don't actually have protections on speech. The host is treated as a dumb pipe, but is required to remove illegal images and report them to various authorities. It's no different then a person who rents a news press and uses it to publish child porn. The device is neutral, the action is illegal, along with the production/distribution is also illegal. In both cases the "owner" is given a reasonable period of time to report it.
What happened to: "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."?
Stepford students. Children being taught that they need to have a safe space and be protected. Institutions of higher learning pushing only one view point, instead of challenging multiple viewpoints. Professors pushing and punishing students for having the "wrong view point" and so on as to not offend people. The big push for political correctness and not hurting feelings, microagressions and all the other associated bullshit. That disagreement is harassment. That facts are racist. Take your pick.
Remember 2 years back with that professor who told students to grow up over Halloween costumes? Then was yelled at on the quad by an insane student who screeched that "university wasn't about an intellectual space, but about 'building a home.'" Or the professor that screeched "she needs some muscle over here" to get rid of that nosy student reporter and on and on and on and on... Yeah. There's an entire generation out there who've been taught this. There's that same generation that will go out of their way to hound, harass, you and your family if you dare to step out of line. They're today's young budding fascists who believe that the state should determine what's right, and they'll use the power of the state or their group to make sure it happens.
Why would you ever give them access to your main account? This should be a miniscule account with the sole purpose of funding your paypal purchases.
Because in Canada, quite a few businesses allow you to pay with paypal directly from your business account similar to the way CoD chequeing used to work. Especially since you can set your account to escrow shipments/payments like that. Some people are quite happy to have their accounts setup that way because it's easier then running multiple accounts. Especially with the huge banking fees up here, you know like having $5k in a personal account is the requirement for 0 service fees? It's $40k in a business account at the big 5 in Canada(TD, BMO, CIBC, Bank of Nova Scotia, Royal bank).
Someone wants to post content on the internet. Someone else doesn't want to host said content because they find it repugnant. There is no solution that doesn't involve disappointing someone.
That's where you're wrong. There doesn't require a balance, rather all that's required is the host to be "treated as a dumb pipe." See how easy that is?
There are people who are quite happy to host that content, until someone with an axe to grind decides that they're going to dox, harass, and threaten that person and their family for allowing them to host it. Just remember that there are plenty of groups out there that are more then happy to try and shut you up for having the wrong view point, plenty more that are willing to lie to try and ruin you. The fact that currently this is the standard go-to tactic of the progressive left, feminists, and so on should be telling you just how much of a chilling effect their actions are having on society. Of course those same people are now getting a taste of the same rules and actions they pushed in the first place, and are being silenced. So suddenly it's a very "real problem" for them.
And before you try the "but the left/feminism/etc really isn't doing that..." yeah you can stop with the bullshit, because they are. Whether it's feminists pulling fire alarms at a MRA meeting, doxing people to get funds pulled from a male domestic abuse shelter, what's happening in the dark and dirty underside of "feminist" culture in tech(like with google, ada initiative, and so on), or what happened at Wilfred Laurier, the left has a very big pro-censorship problem. And a very big problem with identity politics if someone dares to walk off their plantation.
There is no simple, consistent solution. It depends on the nature of the content, and the context in which it exists (the Daily Stormer stuff was immediately after a literal Nazi used his car to murder and injure people in broad daylight, apparently convinced that the war had started).
Well the guy wasn't a literal nazi, he was an ethno-natioanlist which isn't the same thing(remember it's okay to be white). Reminder that the case still hasn't gone to court either. And that whole "free speech" thing still applies to them, unless it falls directly into "fighting words" aka actionable threat. Which wasn't the case. But if you want to roll that way, it would mean that you're a literal fascist, with your statist goose-stepping to stifle speech you don't like.
You don't know what you're talking about. There's enough natural gas sitting in a small area(just outside of sour gas alley) of Alberta to supply the current US demand for 300 years. The amount of easy-to-tap natural gas without fracking is stupidly easy to get at, hell we still burn around 70% of it off when we're straight up pulling oil out of the ground.
But here's the thing, your idea of storage is built around batteries for the most part. It takes more energy and creates more waste to build them, then it does to build a natural gas power plant of comparable size and run it for 30 years.
Problem with saying "60k people losing their jobs" is the few areas in the US that enacted ordinances and legislation for that same end goal have not had a net reduction in employment.
This is Canada, specifically Ontario. Those few areas in the US that have enacted those ordinances have seen jobs flee and businesses shutdown. If 60k people lose their jobs at the very best, the province will be strained to have enough money for UI and welfare payments.
I'll be surprised if the US is still intact in 15 years, let alone honoring an environmental treaty.
You should be saying that about EU countries. As it stands now, Canada has repeatedly arrested commercial fishers from norway, sweden, denmark and iceland for illegally fishing, illegally fishing in Canadian territorial waters, and illegally using banned netting. US commercial fishers at least have adhered to the rules for the last 50 years(or are clever enough not to be caught). China is another flagrant abuser of international maritime laws relating to fishing.
Keep in mind that with this treaty it doesn't apply to "natives" in Canada. Meaning they can still pull as much as they want out of the water and are subject to no treaty requirements.
Yeah, it's too bad that Ontario decided to go all in on expensive and inflexible nuclear power. Now you're stuck with these problems.
You mean the part where nuclear carries the base load and is still only 0.085kWh with refurbishment included for the reactors? Unlike today where it's: Overcast, with no wind. Yeah those solar cells and windmills are sure working great!
Yeah now just think how far that $42k/year goes when you're paying $8/lbs for beef when it's not on sale for instance. There's going to be a massive market correction without a doubt coming, I saw my first ad for a 1900sqft house in town for $490k. Keep in mind that median wage too, that's an impossible sum for people making that much money to get 20% down on with the way things are.
They will just "buy" a win, as they have for the last several years.. What is the current plan? Remortgage electric prices for a 25% reduction to get the election win, and in return we pay $25 billion in interest.
They tried that three times already, they're also trying with the "$15 minimum wage" which is at the very best going to lead to 60k people losing their jobs. What's the current plan going to have to be? Break all FiT contracts, and stop telling companies not to produce electricity - which would drive the costs down for the end consumer.
Look at the polling though, since early this year the ontario liberals haven't polled above 18% they've been as low as 11% support. Wynne's popularity is 5-7% and hasn't increased at all. The very best case going by how things are right now is they'll scrape out with 11-13 seats in the GTA. And lose to a conservative majority.
If nobody ordered that pizza in america, they wouldn't be profitable now would they. Try thinking a little bit. Just because you eat $40 artisan pizza's doesn't mean everyone else does.
Thing is, the US is following the "great education experiment" that the Ontario Liberals just pulled up here in Canada. The results? Well it was female-centric methods of teaching, so here's what happened. Boys doing much worse in every area. Less then half of boys pass the standardized math and reading tests in G.6 and again in G.9. Girls on the other hand 70% passed. Dropouts are increasing. They pushed all of the "ebooks, new text books, chromebooks, etc, etc, etc." Dumped learning by rote and so on and it's been a gigantic clusterfuck.
On the other hand, homeschooling is skyrocketing along with private schooling. I don't live in a rich town, the median income is around $42k/year(median ontario wage is $52k, though closer to $39k if you take Toronto out of the picture), but around half of my neighbors in this area have pulled kids out of school because they'd rather spend time making sure they get an education vs not being taught anything useful at all. Those home schooled kids are passing those standardized tests and coming out in the top 10% though.
To be fair, you love the food you grow up with. The same reasons why there's a pile of JP and Chinese(not american style) restaurants around the university I went to. Around 70% of the student body is either 1st generation kids from those regions, or kids who are from Japan, Hong Kong, or China studying there. Having grown up on three different "ethnic" food types as a kid, it's interesting to try it when you're back in your parents home country. Canadian food is well...a mishmash of everything from english, dutch, and french to local areas that were strongly ethnic german to the occasional weird stuff.
You're not going to be finding seal flipper pie in southern ontario, but if you head out to new brunswick or newfoundland you will. They'll also ask you if you want mayo with your fries, which is what nearly everyone uses instead of ketchup. The reason is, tomato's were too expensive in the early 1900's outside of Ontario. And ketchup was too expensive to buy for most people, but mayo? Everyone could make it or buy it cheaply. It's kinda like how do you tell who the poor kids are if you live there, or along the lakes in Ontario? They're the ones either eating lobster or fish for lunch. Because their family is in the business.
What world do you live in where wealthy white collar criminals are held accountable? That is not the US I know.
Depends. Remember ENRON? They got busted, the case was also basically tossed because the prosecuting attorney turned it into a gigantic shitshow and lied. Those white collar criminals are held to account, occasionally but it has to have actual "human impact" in most cases i.e. someone has to directly die because of their action or in-action. There are rarer cases, like in Iceland where they threw bankers into prison over the mortgage crash, the same happened in Canada with realtors and bankers being tossed into prison last year for house price fixing.
In most western countries it's "direct crimes against a person" that lead to jail time. That's assault, battery, rape, murder, violent B&E/entry into a boarding house(home) w/people inside(Canada) and so on. This'll change as society moves more to more electronic means, digital currencies and so on. Title fraud is the new hot-shit right now, and governments are looking to move that to prison time from fines/forfeiture. If you don't know what title fraud is, it's where someone steals your property out from under you and borrows money against it and walks away with said money. Generally the amounts are over $250k which makes them a felony or indictable offence.
Just imagine the sticker shock when theyre ACTUALLY taxed.
There Auditor General's office did up last year or the year before, before the government decided to start building all these battery chargers. But in general, if people were paying the actual cost and taxes at them they'd be paying around $2.80-$3.60kWh
Those government numbers. The US midwest has more sunny days and more windy days then southern ontario where the majority of these things are. Just a FYI.
You don't know what you're talking about. The generation cost varies depending on the source, Ontario has no debt retirement charge now. It was ended in 2016, if you're paying it you'd best contact your utility because they screwed up somewhere. "A bunch of other things" include the various fees for the "green energy act" you mean. It's not 35%, but it's pretty bad. On top of that you know exactly what the numbers are, transmission costs are fixed, taxes are fixed, the rate you pay is fixed depending on the time-of-day. The only thing you might not know is how much electricity you're using at a particular time of the day.
FYI the tax rate on gasoline and diesel is 57% and it covers a huge amount of the health and local environmental impact.
Think of it as another way to subsidize new technology that may improve our future lives. Currently, there's not enough drivers using the free charging stations to create a taxing imbalance. When tax revenue is ultimately an issue for highway maintenance, one thing you can count on your local, state, and federal governors to do is figure out a way to tax electric vehicle usage.
Nope. Because this has already been subsidized, this is people getting a free ride because of environmental feelgoodism. The same way that same policy drove electrical prices through the roof in Ontario from 0.08kWh@peak to 0.185kWh@peak in less then a decade. The money from building those charging stations(between $20m-80m at current estimates) could mean dozens of new MRI machines, massive improvements in healthcare, shorter wait-times for healthcare, cheaper forms of power like more hydroelectric or natural gas, and on and on and on. Or short term more programs for people in dire need to pay for heating in the winter. The tax imbalance is already here. The costs for the consumer are already breaking people. It's so bad here that Ontario had to ban electrical disconnection in the winter this year because so many customers are facing disconnection. AKA they're afraid people are going to freeze to death. It gets damn cold here. -35C(-31F) is common for weeks on end as far south as London, Ontario.
Tax revenue is already an issue in Canada. Very much so in Ontario, where the province "offloaded" roads directly to towns and cities which caused a large bump in property taxes. On top of this, in north america we have no real "national grid" the countries are too large. Rather they're split into specific regional grids.
As it stands now, it takes more energy and more waste to throw up windmills and solar panels, then it does to flood km's of land and build a hydroelectric dam in north america. On top of that, in Ontario ~60% of our electricity is generated by nuclear, around 10% by wind/solar but that 10% is the primary driver of the "consumer cost." Green energy has been a gigantic mess. So much so that it will likely take 2 generations to fix it. Unlike other parts of the world, Ontario has zero reason to dive into expensive technologies like wind and solar. If anything, the policies and actions of the governments in Canada, especially at the provincial level have put people against green energy, electric vehicles and so on.
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The "first amendment" in Canadian law doesn't exist. Canada has no fundamental guarantee to speech, it can be restricted by the first. The 1st section of the charter of rights and freedoms state: "guarantees the rights and freedoms set out in it subject only to such reasonable limits prescribed by law as can be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society."
The 2nd section "Everyone has the following fundamental freedoms: (a) freedom of conscience and religion; (b) freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of the press and other media of communication; (c) freedom of peaceful assembly; and (d) freedom of association."
Since the list is being enforced by the CRTC, that means it would require a case before the court first against the CRTC. The CRTC is a "hands off" crown corporation meaning the feds don't deal with it unless there's serious issues. Second it would require a second case against the government. The previous government(conservative) had already put into place "commercial infringement" laws which required a notice-notice system without financial threats, looks more like the current Liberals have decided to simply roll over for corps and media. I'm already with a TPIA(Teksavvy) and they're preparing to fight this, so are several other TPIA's like Ebox, and Execulink.
Most grid scale storage is actually pumped water storage, not batteries.
Though compressed air is also present at the utility scale in the US...
So what is it now? 80? 100? "environmental impact studies" another 40-50 lawsuits to stop dams being built in the mountains of BC for exactly what you're talking about. Roughly the same in Alberta, and Manitoba. Gee, it's the same with all of those others and those simple solutions being blocked.
The simple solutions are the ones already in use. Maybe you can get the evironuts to stop cockblocking everything while you're at it.
Right, so you agree with me. Being a "dumb pipe" doesn't absolve the pipe owner of all responsibility.
It does and it doesn't. I'm not agreeing with you, rather you're partially correct. You also conflate speech with illegal images which makes no sense, especially in the US which has broad speech protections, unlike the UK where you're actively restricting speech.
Incredible how this simple statement that we both actually agree on triggered one of your snowflake buddies to mod my comment as "troll".
Snowflake buddies? You might want to think on that. Maybe you've just managed to piss so many people off with regressive stances that people believe that your views are terrible. And believe it: Compared to people in north america, your views especially on speech are regressive. This is reflected in UK law itself, where what's permissible is clearly stated. Doesn't work like that here, which is whatever isn't stated is permissible.
Fracking isn't to pull NG out of the ground in most places. It's to pull oil(shale/tight oil/coal gas/etc) out of the ground which occur in smaller deposits or has very low flow(low viscosity), NG "flows" to the top during the fracking process and can be captured, or burnt off. Fracking to pull NG only happens in regions where there are small deposits or where it's more expensive to import NG, then to pull it out of the ground by fracking itself.
The US fracking is mainly shale oil. In Canada? Mostly heavy oil. Both countries have huge supplies of natural gas in the ground that can be easily tapped however. Why do you think Canada and the US are pushing trade agreements to Europe to sell them natural gas? One: It's to break the high amount of control that they can exert against european countries by threatening NG supplies. Two: It's because we have so much of it that we need more markets. Hell back in the 2008 crash, we were pulling so much NG out of the ground that it crashed the world natural gas market. There's thousands of wells sitting unused in every province in Canada, there's nearly 6000 NG wells alone in Alberta sitting idle.
What part of the world allows that? My understanding is that even in the US, once alerted to abuse a "common carrier" has to shut it down. So for example if someone reports to Cloudflare that a site they cache contains illegal images (as defined by US law) they have to take action or become liable.
The US allows this, so does Canada, so do nearly all western countries. The UK does not, but then you don't actually have protections on speech. The host is treated as a dumb pipe, but is required to remove illegal images and report them to various authorities. It's no different then a person who rents a news press and uses it to publish child porn. The device is neutral, the action is illegal, along with the production/distribution is also illegal. In both cases the "owner" is given a reasonable period of time to report it.
What happened to: "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."?
Stepford students. Children being taught that they need to have a safe space and be protected. Institutions of higher learning pushing only one view point, instead of challenging multiple viewpoints. Professors pushing and punishing students for having the "wrong view point" and so on as to not offend people. The big push for political correctness and not hurting feelings, microagressions and all the other associated bullshit. That disagreement is harassment. That facts are racist. Take your pick.
Remember 2 years back with that professor who told students to grow up over Halloween costumes? Then was yelled at on the quad by an insane student who screeched that "university wasn't about an intellectual space, but about 'building a home.'" Or the professor that screeched "she needs some muscle over here" to get rid of that nosy student reporter and on and on and on and on... Yeah. There's an entire generation out there who've been taught this. There's that same generation that will go out of their way to hound, harass, you and your family if you dare to step out of line. They're today's young budding fascists who believe that the state should determine what's right, and they'll use the power of the state or their group to make sure it happens.
Why would you ever give them access to your main account? This should be a miniscule account with the sole purpose of funding your paypal purchases.
Because in Canada, quite a few businesses allow you to pay with paypal directly from your business account similar to the way CoD chequeing used to work. Especially since you can set your account to escrow shipments/payments like that. Some people are quite happy to have their accounts setup that way because it's easier then running multiple accounts. Especially with the huge banking fees up here, you know like having $5k in a personal account is the requirement for 0 service fees? It's $40k in a business account at the big 5 in Canada(TD, BMO, CIBC, Bank of Nova Scotia, Royal bank).
Someone wants to post content on the internet. Someone else doesn't want to host said content because they find it repugnant. There is no solution that doesn't involve disappointing someone.
That's where you're wrong. There doesn't require a balance, rather all that's required is the host to be "treated as a dumb pipe." See how easy that is?
There are people who are quite happy to host that content, until someone with an axe to grind decides that they're going to dox, harass, and threaten that person and their family for allowing them to host it. Just remember that there are plenty of groups out there that are more then happy to try and shut you up for having the wrong view point, plenty more that are willing to lie to try and ruin you. The fact that currently this is the standard go-to tactic of the progressive left, feminists, and so on should be telling you just how much of a chilling effect their actions are having on society. Of course those same people are now getting a taste of the same rules and actions they pushed in the first place, and are being silenced. So suddenly it's a very "real problem" for them.
And before you try the "but the left/feminism/etc really isn't doing that..." yeah you can stop with the bullshit, because they are. Whether it's feminists pulling fire alarms at a MRA meeting, doxing people to get funds pulled from a male domestic abuse shelter, what's happening in the dark and dirty underside of "feminist" culture in tech(like with google, ada initiative, and so on), or what happened at Wilfred Laurier, the left has a very big pro-censorship problem. And a very big problem with identity politics if someone dares to walk off their plantation.
There is no simple, consistent solution. It depends on the nature of the content, and the context in which it exists (the Daily Stormer stuff was immediately after a literal Nazi used his car to murder and injure people in broad daylight, apparently convinced that the war had started).
Well the guy wasn't a literal nazi, he was an ethno-natioanlist which isn't the same thing(remember it's okay to be white). Reminder that the case still hasn't gone to court either. And that whole "free speech" thing still applies to them, unless it falls directly into "fighting words" aka actionable threat. Which wasn't the case. But if you want to roll that way, it would mean that you're a literal fascist, with your statist goose-stepping to stifle speech you don't like.
You don't know what you're talking about. There's enough natural gas sitting in a small area(just outside of sour gas alley) of Alberta to supply the current US demand for 300 years. The amount of easy-to-tap natural gas without fracking is stupidly easy to get at, hell we still burn around 70% of it off when we're straight up pulling oil out of the ground.
But here's the thing, your idea of storage is built around batteries for the most part. It takes more energy and creates more waste to build them, then it does to build a natural gas power plant of comparable size and run it for 30 years.
Problem with saying "60k people losing their jobs" is the few areas in the US that enacted ordinances and legislation for that same end goal have not had a net reduction in employment.
This is Canada, specifically Ontario. Those few areas in the US that have enacted those ordinances have seen jobs flee and businesses shutdown. If 60k people lose their jobs at the very best, the province will be strained to have enough money for UI and welfare payments.
The author is a very well known anti-nuke nut FYI. So much so that he makes Japanese anti-nuke nuts seem reasonable.
I'll be surprised if the US is still intact in 15 years, let alone honoring an environmental treaty.
You should be saying that about EU countries. As it stands now, Canada has repeatedly arrested commercial fishers from norway, sweden, denmark and iceland for illegally fishing, illegally fishing in Canadian territorial waters, and illegally using banned netting. US commercial fishers at least have adhered to the rules for the last 50 years(or are clever enough not to be caught). China is another flagrant abuser of international maritime laws relating to fishing.
Keep in mind that with this treaty it doesn't apply to "natives" in Canada. Meaning they can still pull as much as they want out of the water and are subject to no treaty requirements.
Yeah, it's too bad that Ontario decided to go all in on expensive and inflexible nuclear power. Now you're stuck with these problems.
You mean the part where nuclear carries the base load and is still only 0.085kWh with refurbishment included for the reactors? Unlike today where it's: Overcast, with no wind. Yeah those solar cells and windmills are sure working great!
Yeah now just think how far that $42k/year goes when you're paying $8/lbs for beef when it's not on sale for instance. There's going to be a massive market correction without a doubt coming, I saw my first ad for a 1900sqft house in town for $490k. Keep in mind that median wage too, that's an impossible sum for people making that much money to get 20% down on with the way things are.
They will just "buy" a win, as they have for the last several years.. What is the current plan? Remortgage electric prices for a 25% reduction to get the election win, and in return we pay $25 billion in interest.
They tried that three times already, they're also trying with the "$15 minimum wage" which is at the very best going to lead to 60k people losing their jobs. What's the current plan going to have to be? Break all FiT contracts, and stop telling companies not to produce electricity - which would drive the costs down for the end consumer.
Look at the polling though, since early this year the ontario liberals haven't polled above 18% they've been as low as 11% support. Wynne's popularity is 5-7% and hasn't increased at all. The very best case going by how things are right now is they'll scrape out with 11-13 seats in the GTA. And lose to a conservative majority.
If nobody ordered that pizza in america, they wouldn't be profitable now would they. Try thinking a little bit. Just because you eat $40 artisan pizza's doesn't mean everyone else does.
You sound like the scam artists that pushed the same crap back a decade ago here in Ontario. It *did* push the cost of electricity though the roof here. The situation here is now so dire that they've mandated by law that they can't cut off power in the winter, for fear of people freezing to death. This, along with what happened in Ontario is gigantic clusterfuck. Nothing more, nothing less and in both cases one would have led to higher energy prices much higher, and in the other case did lead to much higher energy prices. So much so that the government is backtracking because by june of next year it will likely cease to be an actual political party.
Thing is, the US is following the "great education experiment" that the Ontario Liberals just pulled up here in Canada. The results? Well it was female-centric methods of teaching, so here's what happened. Boys doing much worse in every area. Less then half of boys pass the standardized math and reading tests in G.6 and again in G.9. Girls on the other hand 70% passed. Dropouts are increasing. They pushed all of the "ebooks, new text books, chromebooks, etc, etc, etc." Dumped learning by rote and so on and it's been a gigantic clusterfuck.
On the other hand, homeschooling is skyrocketing along with private schooling. I don't live in a rich town, the median income is around $42k/year(median ontario wage is $52k, though closer to $39k if you take Toronto out of the picture), but around half of my neighbors in this area have pulled kids out of school because they'd rather spend time making sure they get an education vs not being taught anything useful at all. Those home schooled kids are passing those standardized tests and coming out in the top 10% though.
To be fair, you love the food you grow up with. The same reasons why there's a pile of JP and Chinese(not american style) restaurants around the university I went to. Around 70% of the student body is either 1st generation kids from those regions, or kids who are from Japan, Hong Kong, or China studying there. Having grown up on three different "ethnic" food types as a kid, it's interesting to try it when you're back in your parents home country. Canadian food is well...a mishmash of everything from english, dutch, and french to local areas that were strongly ethnic german to the occasional weird stuff.
You're not going to be finding seal flipper pie in southern ontario, but if you head out to new brunswick or newfoundland you will. They'll also ask you if you want mayo with your fries, which is what nearly everyone uses instead of ketchup. The reason is, tomato's were too expensive in the early 1900's outside of Ontario. And ketchup was too expensive to buy for most people, but mayo? Everyone could make it or buy it cheaply. It's kinda like how do you tell who the poor kids are if you live there, or along the lakes in Ontario? They're the ones either eating lobster or fish for lunch. Because their family is in the business.
What world do you live in where wealthy white collar criminals are held accountable? That is not the US I know.
Depends. Remember ENRON? They got busted, the case was also basically tossed because the prosecuting attorney turned it into a gigantic shitshow and lied. Those white collar criminals are held to account, occasionally but it has to have actual "human impact" in most cases i.e. someone has to directly die because of their action or in-action. There are rarer cases, like in Iceland where they threw bankers into prison over the mortgage crash, the same happened in Canada with realtors and bankers being tossed into prison last year for house price fixing.
In most western countries it's "direct crimes against a person" that lead to jail time. That's assault, battery, rape, murder, violent B&E/entry into a boarding house(home) w/people inside(Canada) and so on. This'll change as society moves more to more electronic means, digital currencies and so on. Title fraud is the new hot-shit right now, and governments are looking to move that to prison time from fines/forfeiture. If you don't know what title fraud is, it's where someone steals your property out from under you and borrows money against it and walks away with said money. Generally the amounts are over $250k which makes them a felony or indictable offence.
Just imagine the sticker shock when theyre ACTUALLY taxed.
There Auditor General's office did up last year or the year before, before the government decided to start building all these battery chargers. But in general, if people were paying the actual cost and taxes at them they'd be paying around $2.80-$3.60kWh
Those government numbers. The US midwest has more sunny days and more windy days then southern ontario where the majority of these things are. Just a FYI.
You don't know what you're talking about. The generation cost varies depending on the source, Ontario has no debt retirement charge now. It was ended in 2016, if you're paying it you'd best contact your utility because they screwed up somewhere. "A bunch of other things" include the various fees for the "green energy act" you mean. It's not 35%, but it's pretty bad. On top of that you know exactly what the numbers are, transmission costs are fixed, taxes are fixed, the rate you pay is fixed depending on the time-of-day. The only thing you might not know is how much electricity you're using at a particular time of the day.
FYI the tax rate on gasoline and diesel is 57% and it covers a huge amount of the health and local environmental impact.
Think of it as another way to subsidize new technology that may improve our future lives. Currently, there's not enough drivers using the free charging stations to create a taxing imbalance. When tax revenue is ultimately an issue for highway maintenance, one thing you can count on your local, state, and federal governors to do is figure out a way to tax electric vehicle usage.
Nope. Because this has already been subsidized, this is people getting a free ride because of environmental feelgoodism. The same way that same policy drove electrical prices through the roof in Ontario from 0.08kWh@peak to 0.185kWh@peak in less then a decade. The money from building those charging stations(between $20m-80m at current estimates) could mean dozens of new MRI machines, massive improvements in healthcare, shorter wait-times for healthcare, cheaper forms of power like more hydroelectric or natural gas, and on and on and on. Or short term more programs for people in dire need to pay for heating in the winter. The tax imbalance is already here. The costs for the consumer are already breaking people. It's so bad here that Ontario had to ban electrical disconnection in the winter this year because so many customers are facing disconnection. AKA they're afraid people are going to freeze to death. It gets damn cold here. -35C(-31F) is common for weeks on end as far south as London, Ontario.
Tax revenue is already an issue in Canada. Very much so in Ontario, where the province "offloaded" roads directly to towns and cities which caused a large bump in property taxes. On top of this, in north america we have no real "national grid" the countries are too large. Rather they're split into specific regional grids.
As it stands now, it takes more energy and more waste to throw up windmills and solar panels, then it does to flood km's of land and build a hydroelectric dam in north america. On top of that, in Ontario ~60% of our electricity is generated by nuclear, around 10% by wind/solar but that 10% is the primary driver of the "consumer cost." Green energy has been a gigantic mess. So much so that it will likely take 2 generations to fix it. Unlike other parts of the world, Ontario has zero reason to dive into expensive technologies like wind and solar. If anything, the policies and actions of the governments in Canada, especially at the provincial level have put people against green energy, electric vehicles and so on.
How? Wind and solar are dirt cheap nowadays, but you have to have some sort of peaking or storage with them, which ups the price.
It's not cheap in Canada. The break-even cost for wind and solar are between $0.28kWh to $0.93kWh according to the governments own numbers.