I am mulling over putting a big rant about the current political situation, but we'll see how things go in the near term. Suffice it to say that I think it's a lot of grandstanding and posturing by the opposition and that if they seriously try to pull off this stunt, they're basically handing the Conservatives a majority government.
Oh, and here's something else that has been bugging me. Long story short, I think that the government should let the Big 3 automakers sort out their own mess and go through the necessary painful adjustments that any industry has to deal with over a long period of time. The fact that they've been bailed out repeatedly has just worsened the situation. It's not like they'll just shut down every plant and stop making cars. They'll go through the usual bankruptcy dance that most corporations have to deal with and come out as something different after all is said and done, but that's what they should have been doing in the first place instead of trundling down the same path and over the cliff like they have been.
And before anyone starts whining about how this will kill towns like Oshawa and Windsor, I don't recall the government handing out billions in aid when the mining, forestry and even chemical refinery industries started going down the toilet. The danger of one industry towns is always that the one industry may eventually disappear and then it's the job of the community to either weather the storm and evolve into something different or wither and die.
Hmm... Maybe I don't have to make that post. It looks like I already did.
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