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They already have your name, phone number, age, gender and face... and are also tracking your every click and interest, every pause on scrolling, hover of your mouse, your relationships, where you were yesterday, the day before, what you buy....

Throwing money... infrastructure is absolutely an area government should be involved in. Improving distribution through more wholesale markets is a great idea IMO.

We need more Canadian processing, hopefully geared to mid tier, its currently bifurcated - trash food on one side and sixteen dollar jams on the other. We need more options, and options that are available to more than just the largest players through an anemic supply chain.

Greenhouses, we don't like those? Ontario is a global leader, let's keep it going I would love more Canadian produce in the heart of winter.

Isn't land use provincial?

They want Canadian businesses to be competitive/productive in a global market.

Don't they often take crypto currency though?

How else are they going to ban prediction markets if people can pretend they aren't in Minnesota?

Very true, we are all flawed humans.

It would do us good to examine why democratically elected positions don't often attract the right people, I suspect some mix the right people are often too busy, don't want to deal with the harassment, can't afford it. And that last point is critical, greed as a character flaw skews to the wealthy.

Then there is marketing/charisma angle, even if you objectively have the best person in hand... they still need to be elected, which is tougher to solve

"Using workers from poorer countries as their workforce" Yikes. Doesn't sound too great.

I should clarify, im not trying to let China off the hook.

But production based CO2 per capita is not the only metric. Europe (for example) has outsourced dirty production to China, so they look clean, but it's people in Europe consuming the products China is producing, so it should be on their ledger.

If you look at CO2 from a consumption basis China falls down the list below Europe.

Now... I suppose consumption based metrics better align with peoples behaviors (ie Europeans are more damaging to the environment than Chinese on average).

On the other hand, production metrics point to European countries having stricter environmental policies than China. which to be fair is what you are highlighting. I'm trying to say, yes, but China is manufacturing way more for other countries.

Stricter policies is part of what pushed manufacturing out (and labour costs). Easier to do when you are a service economy.

China manufactures the most goods though... by a lot, and that's going to be pollution intensive. They are a pretty populated country as well.

US, oil producing countries, Europe are generally a lot worse than China on a per capita consumption basis.