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The cuts themselves were completely necessary, the problem wasn't the cuts. The problem was cutting them without cutting out the insane level of bureaucracy attached to them first. In order to successfully make cuts in any public or private enterprise, you must first identify correctly the processes that can be eliminated in order to create efficiencies so that dead weight can be lopped off. You can't simply cut the workforce without taking those steps because, and especially in public service, painstaking layers of bureaucracy accompany dead weight positions. You have to remove that first. Don't do that and you are forcing civil servants into the untenable position of maintaining a mostly useless work load for the sake of propping up the artificially created need for a bloated civil service. The PCs lopped off the numbers in the civil service first before identifying and implementing efficiencies to ensure that work load would be manageable at reduced numbers. That was the mistake, not the cuts. My wife has worked in the civil service at the executive level in Family Services for many years before leaving to the private sector. Her biggest frustration was that in order to get a light bulb changed (metaphorically) you had to email someone and go through a daisy chain of emails as this request went through 6 other people for approval and arguments about which department should pay for said light bulb, until finally like most civil servants will tell you it became just easier to do it yourself with a light bulb from home. or learn to work in the dark. Nothing got done, and not because good ideas weren't advanced, but because of the dizzying amount of people who actually had to have their input, debate, and then finally sign off on anything. By the time things are approved and implemented the damage is already done. This was the legacy of a bloated NDP civil service. I used the light bulb metaphor because her favorite joke of her and other higher management friends used was 'How many civil servants does it take to change a light bulb? "Answer: I'm not sure, I'll let you know in a few weeks when all the emails stop coming in."

People who want change tend to vote for change.....and that is precisely what the poll is saying. 81% would favor change. Bottom line....Liberal support is soft as hell. That may not lead to direct support for Poilievre, but it doesn't have to. Voter apathy, protest votes, votes for the NDP from the Liberals will work just as well. As Trudeau has clearly demonstrated a minority of motivated voters, and the CPC voters are highly motivated, can swing an election when the oppositions support is soft.

Bureaucracy is what PREVENTS the government from running smoothly. For every 4 useful federal civil servants I'll find you one simply employed out of bloat. I'm sorry if that hurts your sensibilities but Trudeau is papering the place. The PCs had it right in Manitoba, then took it way too far and way too fast.

Yes, as I stated earlier, the way the cuts and to whom the cuts are made are of paramount importance and the PCs epically bungled that. I'll just leave this here: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/cost-to-run-federal-government-increase-151b-a-year-1.6797486 Not talking about privatization, I'm talking about optimization. I can accept growth of the public service in line with population growth. That is not what happened.

Epically incorrect. The Nobel prize was awarded to the man who thoroughly destroyed the concepts of Keynesian economics. Also, if you turn back the clock a hundred years you will also find that all of your fears you have listed are not valid due to technology doing this stuff for us. If you think big government keeps economic disparity lower you are incorrect, The bigger the government, the easier it is to corrupt. Also, an involved government does not have to automatically translate to big government. Trudeau's government is the biggest in the past 40 years and is absolutely, factually the most corrupt....without question....not even debatable. Anyone can see that, it seems many here prefer not to do so and that saddens me. What does brighten my day is that in the latest poll by Abacus, 81% of Canadians would like to see a change in federal government. Seems Liberals are jumping ship. Thank god.

In fairness, the Hamilton job was never open for him to take even though he was the most impressive in TC. Like Bigg Jay illustrated Williams was a monster the year before and that position was not going to be anyone else's. We scooped him as soon as we got the chance because he was just flat out good in Hammy's camp.

That party smells like Butts.

I have not noticed any difference at all in the speed at which my passport is ready from pre-Trudeau.....and to be honest...that's some pretty low hanging fruit to be bragging about. Whoopedy doo. That's worth 150 billion. Baloney. What it leads to is socialism, higher taxes, worse economy.

It's common sense, and it's in short supply in the Liberal Party of Canada. I know Trudeau assured us not to worry that the budget would balance itself and not to worry about small details like the economy, but I think after paying 35 bucks for a steak this weekend that most Canadians have seen through that crock.

Talking about number of employees not wages. When unnecessary and redundant labor is added to the pool of employees, mostly in middle management positions, it increases the union take big time. Since forming government.

I've had good pizzas from them, and some abominations as well. Their problem is consistency of product. Anyone looking for great pizza....come to Thompson.

Yes, when the pendulum swings too far in either direction it can hurt for sure. No argument from me there. Free spend may not be evil but it equally lacks the understanding of how governing a society actually works. Bigger public service does not equate to better public service....nor does smaller public service automatically equate to poorer public service. The devil is in the details like all things. It's a rather rudimentary level of understanding to think throwing money at something and making it bigger fixes it, just as it is moronic to slash without finding efficiencies first that allow for it. That is what our provincial PCs did, it was stupid, and that is why they need to go. If they had done it correctly the idea of cutting the big fat bloat of the NDP and it's union overlords was long overdue and necessary. They just ran in with scissors though and cut without removing the gross level of bureaucracy therefore leaving the same amount of work for less people. That never works, but efficiency leads to productivity even with a smaller work force. Hiring Deloitte to do an efficiency review was non-sensical. Talk to your staff instead. Had they done that, the 18% drop in the civil service would not even have made a noticeable difference except to the quality of the union lunches.

Authentic BBQ would be great too. Man I miss Lovey's.

Good food there. Wish we had more like it. No. Nothing is worse than Dominoes. One of my chief complaints is when restaurants purposely turn down the spice level of a dish that is meant to be spicy to appeal to the masses. I mean, I get it....but I don't like it.

Please show me a platform where increasing the number of Canadian government workers by 31% led to any noticeable improvement....unless, of course, you are one of the crooks masquerading as a union official. Your junkets got a whole lot better under Trudeau. Gimme a break. Show me how a diverse population is best served by big government. Just leads to bureaucracy and red tape so that people who really have no point having a job can try to justify the job they have.

Not even close in comparison. Harper is honest Abe compared to the pack of thieves, liars, and charlatans led by Trudeau. Keep banging that drum. Boogeyman politics at it's best and to be frank, some of our public services would be vastly improved if privatized because they are horribly inefficient money sucking sink holes. The socialists and unionists who like to suckle at the government teet won't like that opinion, but it is 100% fact. Public service efficiency is non existent due to the overpopulating of middle and higher management that just create bureaucratic sink holes of inefficiency that impede, NOT HELP, the employees on the front line tasked with delivering these services. So despite raising public service employment by 31% in the last 7 years, service has not improved one iota. That is just wasteful spending, creating gate keepers that stifle the economy. But at least that was the one thing Trudeau was honest about. I mean he told us straight up that he has better things to do than to think about the economy....I mean somewhere out there someone used the word mankind.

The Libs and NDP will paint everyone who doesn't vote for them as right wing zealots and claim they fully occupy the middle of spectrum exclusively. Anything to the right are baby killing racists. It is part of their game plan for the last several years and it's a crock. There is absolutely nothing wrong with being a voter who wants small government, fiscal restraint, and lower taxation and a move away from Keynesian economics. Don't let the never ending attempts to label us get to you, it's just garbage. The vast majority of CPC voters and members surf very close to the middle of the political spectrum and lean slightly right. The PPC are wingnuts, and so too are some members of the CPC.....but that doesn't mean that the Liberals and NDP don't have their fair share of the same....but we're not supposed to talk about that.

I put in protest votes the last 2 elections. I am not a die hard CPC. I just won't waste my vote this year and will vote for the only option available to get rid of this current government. The NDP is just another vote for Trudeau right now. I'm not going to lose a second of sleep voting CPC if it means getting rid of this horrid government we have right now and force the Liberals to regroup and rethink things. I can't think of any government in my lifetime that has shown so little regard for the truth, and the citizens of Canada than this Liberal government. They need to be turfed.

The police were investigating this right up until January for possible obstruction charges. They did not file charges but no investigation goes on for two years unless something stunk to high heaven nor did they say he was innocent. The fact that you guys are bragging that Trudeau got away with breaking the law is laughable.

I believe that even in their current state the CPC is better for Canada then a Trudeau led Liberal party and its band of liars and criminals. I hope when PP is PM he gives Trudeau the Trump treatment so he can live in shame for his corruption.

Yea i noticed that after because Riders have some guys out too. However, in the case of Hammy I think it's their turf. They've had this issue every year since TH opened.

Hamilton seems to have this problem every year on their OL. Maybe the turf? He is available because he was an absolute pylon and not even worthy of a PR spot.

Man....I remember a long time ago when my wife and I were dating and it was date night during a Bomber game and I got so sick that afternoon that I had to reschedule the date night. What a fortuitous illness I thought.😁 In the future, may I recommend finding something she really would love to do on a different night that week and recommend you change date night that week so that you can do the ultra-fun thing she likes with her. She will think you are thoughtful. Nascar and no Bombers would have been a deal breaker for me. She must have really been a tiger to hold you for that long.

If he was Fred Reid every game I would be thrilled. He can be Fast Freddie occasionally, but at times disappears as well.

Auggie is an excellent NAT change of pace backup. It is my opinion that is his best implementation, and he would not be able to carry the mail on a FT basis. I will stand by that and it has always been my opinion. I am not a fan of slash style runners, they are too boom or bust to sustain drives.