The Broadcasting Act thing is weird. What is being measured? How is it going to be measured? What are the penalties for violations? This isn't simply like playing Tragically Hip on the radio for the zillionth time, and submitting the logs to CRTC or whatever.
E.g. does Peterson get CanCon credit if he's interviewing an American? Does an American get credit for doing an interview with Peterson? Does Peterson get double credit for interviewing another Canadian? Does someone review it, or does one just put a CanCon hashtag when uploading the video?
Currently the algorithm seems to skew for previously searched content, so is that taken into account? Or is the metric going to be testing with clean accounts with 0 history?
I have never voted NDP in my life, but this is exactly how I see the Canada Day Kerfuffle:
Days like Canada Day, for me, are an opportunity to think of some of the victories, some of the positive things, but also a time to recommit to fixing the problems and building the Canada that we want to see, where there is justice for the first peoples of this land, where we tackle systemic racism. I take the position that celebration doesn't mean ignoring the problems. It means acknowledging things that are victories, the things that are positive, and then also acknowledging the problems and fixing them.
Good interview! Just wanted to comment on this point:
"What we would do is go after all those wealthy corporations in Canada that took public money but then paid out dividends to their shareholders — if you pay your dividends, you're claiming that you're making profits. If you're making profits, why did they need public help? Claw back that money."
I thought the standard advice was to restrict dividends, share buybacks, and executive bonuses only for companies requiring a specific rescue plan (like Air Canada), not for generally available wage subsidies like CEWS. The Economist, April 2020:
"The dividend debate can be solved by sorting companies into three buckets. In the first are systemically important firms where cuts should be required by governments. Any firm that receives a bespoke or disproportionately large taxpayer bail-out should automatically fall into this category: airlines, for example. Taxpayers should be repaid before investors are entitled to a reward. This does not mean, however, that companies that have taken advantage of stimulus measures available to all firms—such as furlough schemes or central-bank liquidity—should be made to cut payouts. There is no need to disrupt the economy more than is already the case."
The Broadcasting Act thing is weird. What is being measured? How is it going to be measured? What are the penalties for violations? This isn't simply like playing Tragically Hip on the radio for the zillionth time, and submitting the logs to CRTC or whatever.
E.g. does Peterson get CanCon credit if he's interviewing an American? Does an American get credit for doing an interview with Peterson? Does Peterson get double credit for interviewing another Canadian? Does someone review it, or does one just put a CanCon hashtag when uploading the video?
Currently the algorithm seems to skew for previously searched content, so is that taken into account? Or is the metric going to be testing with clean accounts with 0 history?
Is any other country making similar demands?
I have never voted NDP in my life, but this is exactly how I see the Canada Day Kerfuffle:
Days like Canada Day, for me, are an opportunity to think of some of the victories, some of the positive things, but also a time to recommit to fixing the problems and building the Canada that we want to see, where there is justice for the first peoples of this land, where we tackle systemic racism. I take the position that celebration doesn't mean ignoring the problems. It means acknowledging things that are victories, the things that are positive, and then also acknowledging the problems and fixing them.
Good interview! Just wanted to comment on this point:
"What we would do is go after all those wealthy corporations in Canada that took public money but then paid out dividends to their shareholders — if you pay your dividends, you're claiming that you're making profits. If you're making profits, why did they need public help? Claw back that money."
I thought the standard advice was to restrict dividends, share buybacks, and executive bonuses only for companies requiring a specific rescue plan (like Air Canada), not for generally available wage subsidies like CEWS. The Economist, April 2020:
"The dividend debate can be solved by sorting companies into three buckets. In the first are systemically important firms where cuts should be required by governments. Any firm that receives a bespoke or disproportionately large taxpayer bail-out should automatically fall into this category: airlines, for example. Taxpayers should be repaid before investors are entitled to a reward. This does not mean, however, that companies that have taken advantage of stimulus measures available to all firms—such as furlough schemes or central-bank liquidity—should be made to cut payouts. There is no need to disrupt the economy more than is already the case."