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This government is so shoddily ran (leaving individual party politics aside) - Canadians aren't holding their government accountable. They're too busy trying to survive inflation and the knock-on effects it continues to cause, while distracting themselves with media that tells them "it's okay" and "it's not that bad"

Other boondoggled IT projects brought to you by the Canadian government include the Phoenix federal government paysystem - which coming up on a decade now, some federal employees _still_ aren't getting paid correctly, and the ArriveCan app - which is their hastily created, bug-filled app for pre-entry customs processing checklists that had accessibility problems for the disabled which have likely still been ignored, among other issues.

Between this and the very dodgy reactions from government officials (or lack thereof) to the recent news of foreign influence in our politics and elections processes from China, I would say this country has had its core emptied out and replaced with a nougat center of tasty corporate corruption and money laundering goodness.

The attitude seems to be "Not enough money to create and maintain a system that respects the privacy of our citizens, but we'll just legalese our responsibility away because we can and we're the government so _there_! We're like a silicon valley company, just try to sue us!"

At least we know that tax companies in the states are lobbying to make it harder to file taxes with the US government - the Canadian government just makes it more difficult by themselves!

I for one would like our government to be as responsible as possible when it comes to handling our data - ideally having as little of it as possible, only the required amounts to interact with me as minimally as possible - instead of having it all available in a portal that can be easily compromised and hacked judging from previous leaks/breaches in the linked article.

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you should consider donating to the Canadian constitution foundation (https://www.youtube.com/@theCCF) then or something like them because our constitution actually does have a decent protections for separation of power between provinces and the federal government and getting that back to what is actually in the constitutional documents (as opposed to what has been twisted by decades of bad decisions to favor the federal government) would go a long way in creating the kind of competitive multi-polar environment that keeps America strong vs the uni-polar corrupted junk that Canada has increasingly become.

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I would argue that a lot of our constitutional separation of powers between provincial and federal governments is antiquated and causes more harm than good today (this is particularly true in education and healthcare).

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I would argue that the unipolar nature of Canada driven by the federal government's usurpation of provincial powers is causing us far more harm than any harm caused by provinces exercising their constitutional rights. What we have now is a weird system where almost all the power resides in Ontario and Quebec, with an extremely weird Faustian bargain of payoffs and bribes to Quebec (primarily financed by the other provinces) to keep them engaged in keeping the power center out east, concentrating a majority of the extractive parts of business (banking, head offices) and government there, which is causing major stagnation and loss of productivity in Canada. We need to get to a more multipolar setup so that when the east decides to do something insane it does much less damage over the time period they are pulling their heads out of their arses (this is basically what keeps America so strong but because they are already multipolar you can replace "the east" with New Yorkers, Californians, Illinoisians, Floridians, etc) and our constitution should have set us up for being exactly this. What happened instead is the federal government manufactured a bunch of rights they don't have and made us all worse off.

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Thanks, I'll definitely take a look!