David Clement 🌐
@davidclement
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North American Affairs Manager @consumerchoicec, former Research Assistant to Canada Research Chair in Human Rights. Clear Eyes, Full Hearts, Can't Lose
Burlington ON/Washington DC
Joined August 2011
🇨🇦 Big win for consumers in Canada and CCC! PM Mark Carney and Premier Doug Ford announced support to help municipalities cut development charges by up to 50% — a major step toward housing affordability. Exactly what @DavidClement and @SabineBenoit_ argued for in @TheHubCanada:
thehub.ca
It takes decades of saving to afford a home in Canada's largest cities
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So @davidclement and I have been advocating for the elimination of development charges for a very long time. This is good news, and might actually help with the housing crisis. If you want to know more about what they are and how this helps, read this:
thehub.ca
It takes decades of saving to afford a home in Canada's largest cities
#Breaking: Mark Carney, Doug Ford to cut development charges by up to 50 per cent to boost housing construction
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Please, for the love of god, don't outsource parenting to the government (federal of provincial).
A new poll says 75 per cent of Canadians would like to see a full ban on social media for children under 16. Australia has moved in this direction. Canada should be considering options to limit social media use by minors. In the coming weeks, our government will be asking
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Tweeting this again as a suggestion for @MarkJCarney. Want a decent win with the electorate in the lead up to 3 by-elections? Zero the alcohol escalator tax, frame it as giving consumers a break (they need it), pose with a beer, and let the media cycle run. Easy peasy
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We are a deeply unserious country
Air Canada Board of Directors announces the retirement of President and Chief Executive Officer: https://t.co/VV4AfVmeUG // Le Conseil d'administration d'Air Canada annonce le départ à la retraite du président et chef de la direction : https://t.co/m7WbxGRChj
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Nobody is skeptical of autonomous elevators because nobody alive today was even around to see a human elevator operator in real life before the last one got laid off. Automation is far safer.
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Rent control is the perfect government policy. Does massive damage while sounding virtuous to idiots.
Spain froze rents and capped increases at 2%, but rent control is already cutting supply by up to 50% and not improving conditions for renters. Spain should follow Argentina, which ended rent control in 2023 and has seen housing supply rise 180%, reports Cato’s @hiperfalcon.
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Mon retour dans la presse québécoise... sur les plafonds à la revente de billets. Ce qu'ils appellent « protection du consommateur » : moins de concurrence, plus de risques, billets plus chers. Mauvaise politique publique ! lisez-le : @la_lesaffaires
https://t.co/3HxjW25ZH6
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LES IDÉES DES AFFAIRES. Le gouvernement devrait envisager d’abroger ce régime en totalité.
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I’d like to be wrong, but not only do I think that the NDP under Avi Lewis fails to ever hit Mulcair numbers, I think they’ll fail to surpass Singh numbers. The ceiling for seats will be less than 20
Literally no one cares about Tom Mulcair’s opinion except for the tv hosts & producers booking him on shows. Can we please stop seeing this historic loser’s face.
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I demand a vote to censure Michael Ma for not posting this apology in French.
Today, during an exchange with a witness at the Standing Committee on Industry and Technology, I asked questions that inadvertently came across as dismissive of the serious issue of forced labour. To be clear, my line of questioning referred to auto manufacturing in Shenzhen,
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Are we really prepared to tell struggling young people that state-sanctioned death is a medical solution?
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This statement is WILD. I want to meet the person who took a look at this and thought: yep, this will clear the whole thing up.
This is quite the damage control statement from Michael Ma’s office. Even the CBC broadcaster couldn’t read it with a straight face.
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Sharing so that @MPMichaelMa can’t claim he hasn’t “seen” the camps https://t.co/exW2RYkYkq
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“Do you believe man has walked on the moon?” “I believe men have walked many places.” “But on the moon?” “As I say, men have done a lot of walking.” “So you do think man has walked on the moon?” “I have to go.”
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Depressing state affairs when the language scandal with the CEO of Air Canada trumps this
WATCH: Margaret McCuaig-Johnston alleges that Michael Ma told her after the committee meeting that he "doesn't believe in reports" about Chinese forced labour in Xinjiang. "He said to me, 'I don't believe in reports. I don't believe in anything I can't see for myself.'" He then
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Has the family of the French pilot expressed this outrage? At best this is a ton of outrage on behalf of a family who may not be outraged. At worst it’s a Canadian version of a weird culture war fight that doesn’t need to happen
It's about offering condolences in the language of the bereaved. What a collection of ghouls
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This is because the market forces of globalization have changed things, which is exactly what would happen in Quebec if it were to separate
Yesterday on the Tram in Nice France, all announcements were in English and French. We passed many Stop (not arret) signs , parking (not stationment) garages and a couple of KFCs (not PFK). France is surrounded by countries that don't speak French, but they don't seem to have
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Government's demanding the resignation of the CEO's of private companies is not a normal thing to have happen.
Quebec demands Air Canada’s CEO resignation in 92 to 0 vote https://t.co/sRxmvP7d2G
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I am Adam's editor. He is in Israel *right now* even if he's normally based in Canada. Why is the concept of an airplane so confusing to some people ...
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