So it isn’t just a terminal, it’s running a VM that includes a display server and exposes ports, that you can use a terminal in.

Canadian governments have been able to pass significant legislation since repatriation. We’re fine.

Centralizing power with the PMO just means the prime minister can make more partisan changes by fiat. We usually go to the polls every four years, so that’s a long time to wait for accountability.

And of course, there’s the problem that the PMO is responsible for so many appointments that they don’t appoint judges in a timely manner:

“It is imperative for the Prime Minister’s Office to give this issue the importance it deserves and for appointments to be made in a timely manner …The government’s inertia regarding vacancies and the absence of satisfactory explanations for these delays are disconcerting.”

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“In some cases it may be that all relevant vacancies must be filled, as where serious crimes are not prosecuted in a timely way such that victims, the public and accused are denied justice,” Brown said.

The prime minister has been acquiring more power for decades. Canada doesn’t function better now than it did, it just functions differently.

In doing so, the rest of Parliament and the government is weakened. It becomes harder to limit what the prime minister can do.

Eventually, in 1955, one province — Manitoba — decided to experiment, and handed over the redistricting process to an independent commission. Its members were the province’s chief justice, its chief electoral officer, and the University of Manitoba president. The new policy became popular, and within a decade, it was backed by both major national parties, and signed into law.

The trick is to appoint nonpartisan commissioners…

That’s a long list of astroturfing orgs.

Such a weird refusal.

I initially thought there was something weird he didn’t want to tell the RCMP, but he held top secret clearance as a minister, so I guess he’s just being obstinant.

Garmins do.

Damn murderhobos.

Attack dog is an unofficial role in political parties:

An “attack dog” in politics is a person, usually a politician or a political operative, who is designated to aggressively challenge and criticize the opposition.

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They are often tasked with the responsibility of delivering negative messages or criticisms that a candidate or party leader may not want to deliver personally, in order to maintain a more positive public image.

He has done this in the past and been effective at it. His successful (unjustified) criticism of the Liberals carbon tax implementation is a great example of that: he managed to frame public perception of the rebate, despite heaps of evidence to the contrary.

Shitting on Poilievre is fine and fun, but it ignores the reality that his party has successfully framed a number of debates in the past. Assuming Carney wins the Liberal leadership, it’s a significant obstacle to him winning the next federal election.

What about the dick pics?

His actions are the stuff we need to examine and prosecute.

Any family and personal connections to Nazism has become inarguably relevant.

Sure. They’re worth talking about. But the bit that matters are his words and deeds. Like you said, he did sieg heil, and he has been doing weird shit with Twitter’s algorithm. He probably has more creepy stuff going on that I’m not aware of.

The official opposition is a part of the government.

From the House of Commons website:

• The leader of the party having the support of the majority of the Members of the House of Commons is asked by the Governor General to form a government and becomes the Prime Minister;
• The party, or parties, opposed to the government is called the opposition (the largest of these parties is referred to as the “official” opposition);

Yeah. Sorry. I know it’s nitpicky, but there’s a lot of almost true stuff bouncing around Reddit right now. I want Lemmy to be better than that. So I’m being picky.

TIL

First of all, figure out your threat model. What data are you trying to keep secret from Facebook? What will happen to you if Facebook gets that data? What lengths are reasonable to prevent that outcome?

Then figure out how to consistently prevent that data from leaking.

I don’t want Facebook knowing my address, name, age, and face - basically I don’t want to be doxxed. I’m not willing to go through the effort of hiding my IP, so I’m willing to give up on that, but the others are easy enough to lie about.

When referring to MPs, “in government” refers to being part of the governing party. He is a career politician, landlord, and attack dog, but the Canadian electorate has only chosen his party to lead three times. He has spent a majority of his career yelling from the sidelines.

He spent about half his career in government. Much of it has been spent in opposition.

Almost. She tried, but failed. That isn’t any better, but let’s keep the record straight.