@hutchings_ruth@Aranuir2@YoungStreete Absolute numbers. I'm not arguing that this is what he meant, just that his statement did not explicitly indicate "per capita".
@aleksprisms@Aranuir2@YoungStreete@grok Grow up. Carney misspoke, or - at the very least - used imprecise language. This left room for missinterpretation and misrepresentation from the opposition.
I'm not arguing he meant absolute terms, but his statement could mean either.
@aleksprisms@Aranuir2@YoungStreete@grok I don't have premium, so I can't prompt Grok directly in this thread, but AI is inherently biased to the prompter. See the attached.
@aleksprisms@Aranuir2@YoungStreete That is unequivocally false. Rate means "how much", and per capita is a quantifier that literally translates to "per person". In other words, if the statement were quantified by person, it would need to be "twice the rate per capita".
@cremieuxrecueil Right - But the opposite is also possible. Just because a study isn't definitive proof that a substance is harmful, doesn't mean that the substance in question is definitely harmless.
@CanadaTaxGuy@LibreInTheSouth Every moron that defends the Canadian tax system has the same set of talking points. The CPP is a state-managed mandatory monetary redistribution system - the tax having a defined purpose doesn't make it any less of a tax.
@Averyflash@AaronGunn@ProudlyBornInBC You're right. I'm sure the developers are jumping at the opportunity to sell the condos they've been sitting on at a loss.
@nationalpost The honest truth is that Canadian gov't has hinged the entire economy on the housing market and can't afford to let it collapse. So they'll bail out investors at every turn until the bubble inevitable bursts.
@guyfelicella Liberal figure heads being disingenuous, what a surprise.
The problem isn't the purported goal of this policy (it rarely is). It's that this is a thinly-veiled bail-out for the predatory investors that have been benefitting from the housing crisis.
@restapai@GavMcCracken Ask yourself what the purpose of a bill that results in zero arrests is. It was a divisive bill that cost taxpayers money and wasted many elected officials' time. The fact that it resulted in zero arrests is a strike against it, not a defense of it and similar bills.
@JakeLandauTO Convincing a populace that the government is somehow owed 50% of each individual's capital gains is a level of brainwashing I wouldn't believe possible if I didn't witness it happening in real time.
@AloyEjimakor@RobertoAvventu2 You sir, are a racist. Maybe look inward before you declare yourself a champion for human rights.
No white person today participated in the racism you feel they rightfully deserve to experience firsthand.
@amyklobuchar Iran's assets are potentially being unfrozen and private Gulf State investors may contribute to rebuild Iran's economy, no one's "sending" taxpayer cash - unlike the $180B sent to Ukraine under Biden.