Canadians culturally are just not productive details people. There are things we are world class at, emergency response isn't one of them. It's not our wheelhouse. It stems right from our 2nd rate elite and rolls down from there.
Why? It's what we value and don't value and situations like this just manifest themselves
Journalists mainly criticize government ministers and ADMs because they aren't competent to criticize us deep-staters that mostly ignore them and do the jobs we've always done (retired; I was in Calgary Waterworks, which merged with Sewer and Drainage about ten years before the 2013 Flood).
The high-level steering decisions are the thinnest pondscum on the surface of the government waters. I see criticism of the one thing really up to politicians - the foreign-relations nightmare of border control - but the overall pandemic "flop" still involves a lower deaths-per-capita than anywhere in Europe except Denmark, Norway, and Finland. We're more vaccinated than most, as well, despite the anti-vax poison spewed into our televisions by American cable news, which of course has three times our death rate. Are 500,000 Americans dead because they don't have Canada's government, or are 50,000 Canadians alive because we didn't have Americas? Same question, two viewpoints.
The government has done pretty well, and is doing pretty well. Also with the Flood. Claiming that a few hundred military are "bailing out" the thousands of muncipal-level and provincial-level BC workers that are doing the enormous lion's share is...well, it's typical journalism, come to think of it. Why not throw in an editorial cartoon of us leaning on our shovels?
Yes. Not because I needed to be told — I didn't, we'd prepared for a period of isolation and I'd stayed in touch with the news while away, so knew what was required. The failure was the feds assuming that everyone was as connected and prepared as I was, and further, not realizing that for all their frantic pulling of levers in Ottawa, nothing was happening on the ground. If the federal plan counted on everyone being as plugged into the news as a journalist, the federal plan sucked.
Pathetic BS. 20 months on and you have this summary of events and "insights"? I'm tempted to cancel the crummy $5 paid for this channel yet I'd miss my periodic amusement of the line dot ca elbow on the pulse of comments of events.
Well, Joe, I'm really, really sorry that you need to be reminded about the lack of competence of your federal government.
As for the column being repetitious, well, I'm truly dismayed about the necessity of reminding everyone about the idiots who run this country and who keep displaying their lack of competence. We have an ongoing, continuing gong show of idiocy from our "betters" - actually, they really are our "worsers" - who simply cannot do the job for which they were elected.
So, if you are bored by the (repetitious) recitation then vote the idiots out next time.
Dude, It's not about being wrong, or right. I'm paying for this channel and I don't need a Captain Obvious, recitation of stuff that went on last week or on March 12, 2020. For various reasons, I would have thought Matt might have something to more than mediocre comment of the laughably incompetent government apparatus from every level of government and agency from sea to sea not learning a damn thing. It is the symptom not the problem. Maybe tap the brake on the rage clicking and ask for something funny or compelling on the fact that in a national emergency, the US border being open is more important for westerners. IMO. he concerned trolled his subscribers.
At this rate, Canada's borders will look more like they did in 1866 than what we currently believe them to be. The US, China and Russia will carve up Canada with the permission of the UN and we will be unable to stop it from happening...
Canadians culturally are just not productive details people. There are things we are world class at, emergency response isn't one of them. It's not our wheelhouse. It stems right from our 2nd rate elite and rolls down from there.
Why? It's what we value and don't value and situations like this just manifest themselves
Journalists mainly criticize government ministers and ADMs because they aren't competent to criticize us deep-staters that mostly ignore them and do the jobs we've always done (retired; I was in Calgary Waterworks, which merged with Sewer and Drainage about ten years before the 2013 Flood).
The high-level steering decisions are the thinnest pondscum on the surface of the government waters. I see criticism of the one thing really up to politicians - the foreign-relations nightmare of border control - but the overall pandemic "flop" still involves a lower deaths-per-capita than anywhere in Europe except Denmark, Norway, and Finland. We're more vaccinated than most, as well, despite the anti-vax poison spewed into our televisions by American cable news, which of course has three times our death rate. Are 500,000 Americans dead because they don't have Canada's government, or are 50,000 Canadians alive because we didn't have Americas? Same question, two viewpoints.
The government has done pretty well, and is doing pretty well. Also with the Flood. Claiming that a few hundred military are "bailing out" the thousands of muncipal-level and provincial-level BC workers that are doing the enormous lion's share is...well, it's typical journalism, come to think of it. Why not throw in an editorial cartoon of us leaning on our shovels?
You took your family out of the country in March 2020 & you are blaming the federal gov't for not telling you what to do?
Yes. Not because I needed to be told — I didn't, we'd prepared for a period of isolation and I'd stayed in touch with the news while away, so knew what was required. The failure was the feds assuming that everyone was as connected and prepared as I was, and further, not realizing that for all their frantic pulling of levers in Ottawa, nothing was happening on the ground. If the federal plan counted on everyone being as plugged into the news as a journalist, the federal plan sucked.
Pathetic BS. 20 months on and you have this summary of events and "insights"? I'm tempted to cancel the crummy $5 paid for this channel yet I'd miss my periodic amusement of the line dot ca elbow on the pulse of comments of events.
Well, Joe, I'm really, really sorry that you need to be reminded about the lack of competence of your federal government.
As for the column being repetitious, well, I'm truly dismayed about the necessity of reminding everyone about the idiots who run this country and who keep displaying their lack of competence. We have an ongoing, continuing gong show of idiocy from our "betters" - actually, they really are our "worsers" - who simply cannot do the job for which they were elected.
So, if you are bored by the (repetitious) recitation then vote the idiots out next time.
Dude, It's not about being wrong, or right. I'm paying for this channel and I don't need a Captain Obvious, recitation of stuff that went on last week or on March 12, 2020. For various reasons, I would have thought Matt might have something to more than mediocre comment of the laughably incompetent government apparatus from every level of government and agency from sea to sea not learning a damn thing. It is the symptom not the problem. Maybe tap the brake on the rage clicking and ask for something funny or compelling on the fact that in a national emergency, the US border being open is more important for westerners. IMO. he concerned trolled his subscribers.
What on Earth did you and Rob find wrong with this column? It hit the nail on the head from start to finish.
Yeah!
Oh it in the reference to Joes complaint - seemed a bit over the top to Complain about one column you disn’t enjoy
Well you can't expect a home run with each column - most a good, a few fantastic and the odd bummer.
Pathetic. 20 months on and you have this summary of events? Try harder.
At this rate, Canada's borders will look more like they did in 1866 than what we currently believe them to be. The US, China and Russia will carve up Canada with the permission of the UN and we will be unable to stop it from happening...