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Canadians are playing defensive. They really need to go on the offensive.

  • Get all Government departments and Crown Corporations to cancel Microsoft Office. Use LibreOffice.

  • Get all Government departments and Crown Corporations to cancel Microsoft Windows. Use Linux.

  • Ban all foreign linked consulting firms (McKinsey, Bain) from obtaining any government contract.

  • Announce a $100 million Canadian fund to support opensource software like Krita, Gimp, Kdenlive, Inkscape. Time to take down Adobe.

  • Cancel the F-35. Buy old F-16s instead. It's better to have 5 planes that fly than one expensive plane that doesn't work.

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[–] bookmeat@lemmynsfw.com 14 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

"Canada condemns the fact that the Israeli government has allowed a catastrophe to unfold in Gaza"

Right, like Canada condemns the fact that the German government has allowed a catastrophe to unfold in concentration camps.

Okay.

[–] zonnewin@feddit.nl 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

And then they sent troops to help liberate Europe from the nazis.

I'd say they have a pretty good track record.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

The point of this talkie talkie from the Canadian PM now is exactly to delay effective actions like that until it's too late, by which point he'll pivot to "it's too late to do anything now".

One thing is the Canadian people, a totally different thing are Canadian politicians in this era: this kind of talkie-talkie delaying technique is exactly because the government doesn't want to do what the people want, so they do "promises of near meaningless action in the future" instead to look like they're "doing something" whilst avoiding like the Plague actual effective action (which in this case means immediate Sanctions on Israel).

I'm intimatelly familiar with this kind of shit because I lived in Britain and this delaying technique was frequently used there (though doing it to allow a nation to keep on mass starving children to death is a new low, even for British politicians).

(Unsurprisingly, if you read the articles about it, you'll see that this latest political move was started by the British PM).

[–] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 weeks ago

What will we say about what happens in American concentration camps?