I agree that having the government do it would be ideal, though a government could fumble it just as bad or worse than any private company. I’ll take a flawed domestic starlink/rocket launches over none at all. Especially if the alternative means relying on America/Musk even more.

I don’t know about the toxins from launches, but I think it must be a drop in the bucket compared to air travel, cars, and dirty electricty generation. If that is what it takes to get us space infrastructure, I’d call that the cost of doing business. I also have faith that there can be reasonable way to mitigate the damage such as choice of where they are launched and further developing the technology. Much of the tech has gone largely unchanged from the moon landing era, afaik.

You are really good at taking the good and the bad, but throwing away the good so you only have the bad.

These guys have given us no reason to believe that they will be anything like Musk. There are hundreds and thousands of private companies that operate within the law and/or ethically in general. Other people have already given you many reasons why being able to do our own domestic (albeit private) rocket launches is extremely beneficial. Such as doing our own starlink instead of using Musks’.

I’m pretty anti-capitalist and a Musk-hater as they come too, but I feel you are just speaking from a place of anger, not reason. Even if it were the government doing this, space infrastructure development is just as important for Canadian citizens as more dental coverage and overhauling public transit.

“If everything goes right, his company, NordSpace, will make history by orchestrating Canada’s first commercial rocket launch.”

This is a private entity, not the government. Unless you mean you want a private company to somehow do more dental coverage and a private company to make private transit public.

You could have at least read the blurb I put in the body text of the post.

Last I heard, Mark Carney has been making moves toward weaning us off of American trade/economic co-dependency. I think zero will be impossible (and unwise, imo), but we can definitely do better.

Same as the other commenter. I did a little looksie at the wiki for the slogan, and I understand that it doesn’t mean death to the American people, but I really think that the slogan is far too easily misconstrued to imply death to Americans.

It really sounds like a call to violence, which is generally frowned upon in online communities and this one as well. I would recommend saying something else, personally.

Stuff like that makes me a little worrisome about my ambitions to one day move to Quebec/Montreal. I despise fearmongering and blind hatred, but you find that everywhere nowadays.

To quote a bit of Gandalf, I hope to be a person who gifts many small acts of kindness and love to keep the darkness at bay. Wherever I find myself. It is one of my biggest motivators to work on my French, so I can connect better with more people of Canada. The jump in pay and jobs exclusive for bilingual folks helps too though!

I’ve got mixed feelings about this. On one hand I mostly like the idea of the Quebec social contract, the whole “democracy, the French language, gender equality, and secularism” bit.

But how would this be fairly enforced? What would make a person gender equality-y enough? Or pro-democratic enough? I think the secularism is the most egregious. I’m secular myself, but I don’t think its morally right to try to take that away from other people, so long as their beliefs don’t hurt others.

It really does read as targeting a particular religous/cultural ethnic group :(

The owner of those two communities deleted his account. They passed moderation of maplemusic to me and one other person, but givergaming got deleted with their account.

I’ve created !canadiangaming@lemmy.ca to refill the void. Out of the two, a canadian gaming community was the one I was hoping to take off the most since I’m more of a gamer person than a music person. I’ve got some plans for fostering a community on there. I’ll post about it in !communitypromo once I’ve got it set up a bit nicer, it is sorta barebones at the moment.

Strange how I didn’t want to mod any communities on here but ended up moderating 3!

There are two communities I would really like to see some traffic driven to:

!maplemusic@lemmy.ca - Celebrating Canadian music

!givergaming@lemmy.ca - Celebrating Canadian games, gamedevs and studios

I think these would be an easy add to the Canadian Social / Culture section.