Canada will do a lot about that problem if enough citizens and residents decide to do something enough to make pocketbooks of lawmakers and of lawmaker auction buyers notice liabilities reach their balance sheets, just like about most problems.
That situation has devolved to where some (a concerning proportion of) cars have literally injuriously sight damagingly blinding light output on other road users, and thus in many cases against themselves. Their manufacturers should be fined. Regulations should enforce maximum angle and lumens output (per surface or per volume) concentration limits. Until then, more spontaneous reparations of the offensive devices will continue to have a higher likelihood and frequency of occurence (not to mention risks of injury and death by car collisions) than with basic human-health-integrity-respecting regulations as described in this here paragraph.
who "we" ? You probably meant their own monopolist media lies about them. Those are servile servants of a few genocidal feudalist monopolists with real names, addresses, and private property on grounds nearby and bank accounts hidden behind a few layers of fraudulent abstraction accounts in places of the like of Panama and Luxembourg. With a wave of privatization of collective-use property (a.k.a. rich elite robbing low and middle revenue classes) from the 1970's 'neo-liberal' doctrine monsters (e.g. Milton Friedman, Friedrich Hayek, Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, etc.), in the 2020's now almost every industry market has an infection of 3-4 corporations owning more than half of the market share, in some cases up to 90%. This problem is known to have happened 3 times so far in recorded history of income and wealth distribution, and every iteration yielded an approximately very similar result: (1) the French Revolution of 1789 from a society where approximately 3% of the population (mostly aristocrats and clergy) owned most of the wealth of France, (2) World War I, from a society where, in most European countries, up to 90% wealth was under gunpoint-based ownership of as few as 10% of the population, and (3) World War II from a society with a distribution of income and wealth similar as that of the development of WWI, where in many European countries, the richest 10% owned up to approximately 90% of national income and wealth. Every iteration where income and wealth distribution became so inequitable and unequal, inequality came back down to normal levels by war. For example, in French society of the early 1900s, a lawyer or a doctor fresh out of studies would earn approximately 12x LESS THAN AN INHERITOR of one of the top 10% wealth family estates doing VACATIONING ALL YEAR LONG, collecting interest on capital ownership, i.e. from having a name on a paper. ALTERNATIVELY, societies and countries with more livable and defendable REGULATION of excesses of capitalist feudalism, i.e. social democracy societies and countries, have had much smoother, respectable, defendable, and remarkable trajectories. (Reference: Thomas Piketty, 2013, “Le Capital au 21e siecle” (“Capital in the 21st Century))
With some of the worst education systems of all, they probably don't think much at all. Recently (a few days or weeks ago), Florida made teaching university sociology a crime. They promised them big easy pay and 'thanked' them 'for their 'service'', then turned around and cut veterans' pay (and benefits) like Milton Friedman cut school budgets into his personal pockets. Not surprisingly, their economy has a (opioid-style of) dependency of burying itself in campaigns of more debt of unsolicited military aggression, expropriative extraction of land, minerals, gunpoint-based cheap labor, and snake oil artificial 'intelligence' (i.e. statistical inference software), like a cancerous body turning on itself. However, like Milton Friedman's accomplices Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher refused to acknowledge, There are many alternatives! (like putting words on internet forums in the name of a pseudonym for high-quality free paid education work (because studying is work, and work is to be paid in a society that respects itself, some 'more normal' countries actually pay their students to study (e.g. Denmark, etc.))
a budget indebted of chinese, arab, russian, etc. holders of U.S. dollars and assets? have you tried to wake up a little?
who "we"? the chicago-school-'economics'-colonial-genocidal-necropolist-cannibalist-armed-robbery-capital-extraction-irraelist propaganda machine? not me
That problem has a track record from even deeper than the 3-firm collusive oligopoly of distribution. In fact, in the 1970s the Government of Quebec unilaterally decreed criminal charges beyond arbitrary and Pareto-inefficient quota limits of production and sale by a centralist system of ‘licenses’, a result of colluding of the 1922-born Union des Cultivateurs Catholiques (UCC) of Quebec and the Government of Quebec. Under the guise of “management of supply”, those terrorists have made production and sale of agricultural products under Quebec law a criminal offence, and skyrocketed prices of daily basic human needs of food. Example, still in 2025, the Government of Quebec has threatened criminal charges, i.e. penalties, incarceration, and ultimately use of lethal force, on any production and sale of chicken beyond the 22 chicken production licenses total, 12 eggs production licenses total, $24 000 + per cow production licenses, and 3 slaughterhouses total, on the vast expanse of land more vast than Europe under military rule of the fascist racist capitalist selling-the-country(including-their-own-mother)-to-rich-foreigners ‘government’ of Quebec.
Ahh, the smell of food riots in the morning of the 2020’s. Does not seem to have changed much since the 19th century.
About that, a few recommended readings:
“The Conquest of Bread” - Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin “The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time” - Karl Polanyi “The Hidden Repression of the IMF” - Alex Gladstein “La Ferme Impossible” - Dominic Lamontagne “Mutual Aid: a Factor of Evolution” - Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin
In parallel, astute observers of economics and politics of Quebec and Canada have likely noted a similar problem about a similar unilateral decree of ‘licenses’ of production and sales. In opposition of the Canadian parliamentary federation unilateral decree law of 2017, by which cultivation of cannabis has legal standing up to 4 plants per household, the aforementioned government of Quebec has produced a racket of collusive monopoly, breaking entering and gunpoint robbing self-medication peasants, farmers, students, professors, moms, dads, aunties, uncles, etc. with one hand, and selling ‘licenses’ of prodcution and sales in highest-bidder-auction-even-if-you-sang-self-incrimination-about-’187’ing-cops-of-partner-nations-on-multi-million-sales-music-records with another hand.
“Oh, well just apply for a license!” => minimum investment required, a large production facility (e.g. warehouse), i.e. approx. $100k pre-application, then bribe a lottery type attribution system to actually get the Government of Quebec approval to grow therapeutic food plants, sell them, and if you produce more in contravention of the limits the Government approved of you (e.g. CannTrust), you just get a minor $ penalty, in comparison with the productive people producing outside of that dump of officepaperwork waste of natural resources.
In another parallel, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), from the comforts of offices in gomorrah Washington D.C., has an extensive record of lending active genociders trillions of US$ on conditions of ecocidal and inefficient mono-cultures very similar of the gunpoint-slave-labor plantations of the style of Charles Tait of the 1700s.
The bad parts of capitalism and centralist state communism, with scarce democracy in sight beyond words under attack from stacks of dirty paper and gold in shell-corporation hideouts of the style of Panama, Luxembourg, and Fort Knox, Texas.
Welcome to Canada Ey! Bonjour, Hi, and Bye!
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Anarchism yesterday, today, as long as needed. Of, for, by local people.
Replacing pigs in sties and maggots in rot.
Since the needs arose, until the needs subside and fade away.
For human rights, for health.
Peace.
Happy Farming :)
Sincerely,
One of numerous mountain bears.
Canadian management of supply of agriculutral products, a.k.a monopolization of production permits, oligopoly, subsidization of already rich inherited fortunes of mostly colonial 'white' (beige, pale brown) men, harassment and incarceration of personal producers and of surplus resale to neighbors. Only 3 legal slaughterhouses of pigs for the entire province of Quebec, tens of hours of drive to get back a chicken and pig that may turn out being the product of another farmer... Something like 12 legal producers of eggs for the entire province of Quebec. Dependence on Mexican slave-like labor import for harvesting fruits and vegetables. $10/750ml of yogourt in 2025 CAD$ is far from affordable, that's an incitation to food riot! Thank supply management for the increase of risks of riots for food!
Utter bullshit methodology. Reference: Benjamin Case, "Street Rebellions" (2022). Goes through the entire dataset of Chenoweth tangle of garbage. Case shows that every case of 'civil resistance' involved 'non-violence' of the order of UNARMED riots with punches, rocks, and fires were involved. So indeed, civil resistance with non-violent marches, barricades, punches, rocks, and fires have contributed social progress change of decomposing mass-murder militarists governments. Slinging such desctructive false claims is likely to be effective at de-mobilizing people confused about acceptability of burning down unoccupied parts of a genocide and pollution funding bank and military station (cop station), for example, and to have very serious consequences against authors of that sort of garbage. Another problem about Chenoweth's methodology: they pretend intention of protesters of replacing a military hierarchist, heritage-based, fiction-book-based, racist pigs regime (asristocratic, 'demo'-oligarchic, duopolist) with another regime of the same type of garbage with another shuffle of names and addresses. Even a cursory review of literature and interviews with real protesters has shown a lot of demand for flat local networks run by local competent persons, usually referred to under contested name space of words like anarchism, direct democracy, co-operative societies, etc.
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Who "we"? Not me. You seem to have tried to critique a fascist ('government') group of armed robbers, extorters, homiciders and genociders. Your critique would probably have more effect if you stopped supporting legitimacy of use of force of theirs by counting your name as part of that ('government' ) organization with the first person plural "we". THEY are fascists. THEY barely have managed scrounging a flimsy 19% of votes of the 330 000 000 residents of the so-callled U.S.A lands they have been occupying with surveillance, guns and bombs. THEY have addresses in the so-called U.S.A., on stolen indigenous tribal lands etc. THEY have been comitting genocide and have not stopped yet. THEY have real bank accounts with real addresses with specific amounts owing to tens of millions of victims per year so far.