Canadians are playing defensive. They really need to go on the offensive.
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Get all Government departments and Crown Corporations to cancel Microsoft Office. Use LibreOffice.
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Get all Government departments and Crown Corporations to cancel Microsoft Windows. Use Linux.
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Ban all foreign linked consulting firms (McKinsey, Bain) from obtaining any government contract.
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Announce a $100 million Canadian fund to support opensource software like Krita, Gimp, Kdenlive, Inkscape. Time to take down Adobe.
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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.
They’ll pivot to “It’s too late now”, which is always how political delaying tactics like this one work.
Carney learned his politics working for the Tories (who are basically posh Fascists) in Britain as head of the Bank Of England and this tactic of promising something near meaningless in the future to avoid doing now the actual things required to address the problem that the public opinion demands (such as sanctions on Israel) is very common over there.
This shit is pure hypocrisy, which is why the British Government (who, right now, are arresting people for merelly planning to demonstrate against the Genocide) came up with the idea.