Should we revise the Constitution to require the Prime Minister to hold an economics

Should we revise the Constitution to require the Prime Minister to hold an economics

  • Yes.

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • No.

    Votes: 8 66.7%
  • Other answer.

    Votes: 4 33.3%

  • Total voters
    12

JLM

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I guess that means you were taught how to read by someone who can't read.

I find it amazing that people who I thought had at least average intelligence are so dumb when it comes to basic logic. The statement "people who can't, teach", DOES NOT preclude people who CAN from teaching. :) :) I kind of thought Bones would have had enough brains to figure that out. :) :) :)
 

Corduroy

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I find it amazing that people who I thought had at least average intelligence are so dumb when it comes to basic logic. The statement "people who can't, teach", DOES NOT preclude people who CAN from teaching. :) :) I kind of thought Bones would have had enough brains to figure that out. :) :) :)

Sure, you can parse the logic of the statement to the point of making it a pointless thing to say. It also doesn't mean people who can't do something end up teaching it. It means all kinds of things. I can say "I didn't do nothing" and you can point to the double negative implying I did do something, but everyone knows the sentiment is that I did nothing. Insisting the double negative is just being obtuse.

"Those who can do and those who can't teach" is a sentiment that is anti-teacher. There's no need to be obtuse about it and pretend that technically it " DOES NOT preclude people who CAN from teaching."
 

JLM

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Sure, you can parse the logic of the statement to the point of making it a pointless thing to say. It also doesn't mean people who can't do something end up teaching it. It means all kinds of things. I can say "I didn't do nothing" and you can point to the double negative implying I did do something, but everyone knows the sentiment is that I did nothing. Insisting the double negative is just being obtuse.

"Those who can do and those who can't teach" is a sentiment that is anti-teacher. There's no need to be obtuse about it and pretend that technically it " DOES NOT preclude people who CAN from teaching."

No more obtuse than implying that I can't read or my teacher couldn't! :) :)
 

Danbones

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EXPOSED: Canadian Banks CAUGHT Rigging Rates! - What You Need To Know

Several Canadian banks have been accused of rigging rates to boost profit. According a class action suit by a Colorado based pension fund, for seven years, 6 Canadian banks and three foreign lenders "conspired to manipulate a Canadian interest rate benchmark to boost “illegitimate profits” on derivatives trades for several years until 2014."

According to the suit, the banks attempted to boost earnings from derivatives trading by manipulating the Canadian Dealer Offered Rate (CDOR) which is a benchmark lending rate.

The banks include, Toronto-Dominion Bank, Royal Bank of Canada, Bank of Nova Scotia, Bank of Montreal, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce and National Bank of Canada, as well as HSBC Holdings Plc, Bank of America Corp. and of course the one and only Deutsche Bank.

The banks held on average more than US$1 trillion in CDOR-based swap contracts with U.S. counterparties at the time.

One could ask why banks using people's loaned money are doing derivative trades, but more importantly, why are people using banks to a greater extent than necessary?

Deutsche Bank has been tied up in everything alongside HSBC and of course RBC and Scotia Bank are always up to no good. This looks a lot like what we saw with the Libor rigging some years ago.

These banks get away with what most would be thrown in jail for. The banks, hand in hand with government, benefit off of debt, subservience and ignorance which is why one needs to solve that problem individually by being financially responsible, rule and educate themselves.

These problems will continue to perpetuate until people learn. Responsibility is the hallmark of freedom and liberty after all.

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Curious Cdn

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EXPOSED: Canadian Banks CAUGHT Rigging Rates! - What You Need To Know

Several Canadian banks have been accused of rigging rates to boost profit. According a class action suit by a Colorado based pension fund, for seven years, 6 Canadian banks and three foreign lenders "conspired to manipulate a Canadian interest rate benchmark to boost “illegitimate profits” on derivatives trades for several years until 2014."

According to the suit, the banks attempted to boost earnings from derivatives trading by manipulating the Canadian Dealer Offered Rate (CDOR) which is a benchmark lending rate.

The banks include, Toronto-Dominion Bank, Royal Bank of Canada, Bank of Nova Scotia, Bank of Montreal, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce and National Bank of Canada, as well as HSBC Holdings Plc, Bank of America Corp. and of course the one and only Deutsche Bank.

The banks held on average more than US$1 trillion in CDOR-based swap contracts with U.S. counterparties at the time.

One could ask why banks using people's loaned money are doing derivative trades, but more importantly, why are people using banks to a greater extent than necessary?

Deutsche Bank has been tied up in everything alongside HSBC and of course RBC and Scotia Bank are always up to no good. This looks a lot like what we saw with the Libor rigging some years ago.

These banks get away with what most would be thrown in jail for. The banks, hand in hand with government, benefit off of debt, subservience and ignorance which is why one needs to solve that problem individually by being financially responsible, rule and educate themselves.

These problems will continue to perpetuate until people learn. Responsibility is the hallmark of freedom and liberty after all.

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Stay tuned as we continue to cover these issues.

BANKS?

COLLUDING?

I suppose you're going to tell us that the oil companies are doing it, too.
 

coldstream

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The Economic Departments of modern academic institutions are as corrupted by ideological and political agendas as are the other sciences, humanities and the arts. All are subservient to multicultural, libertarian, feminist, cosmological, post structural maxims. The overriding principle is a negation of Christian morality and the integrity of the nation state. We'd end up with a clueless, effeminate little twit like Justin with or without requirements for credentials. Its simply the level to which Canada has fallen. We get the leaders we deserve.
 

Jinentonix

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Should we revise the Constitution to require the Prime Minister to hold an economics degree?

Let's include premiers in this too.
That's what Cabinet ministers are for. Or at least they're supposed to be anyway. Of course when you start appointing people because of who/what they are instead of what they know and can bring to the position, then the whole thing becomes a pointless exercise.

As an aside, there is currently a bill before Senate that will force private enterprise to come up with detailed plans for more diversity in the mid and upper echelons of said businesses. If they don't have a plan, they must explain themselves to the Fed as to why they don't under what has been dubbed, "diversify or explain".

What do you think of the Federal govt imposing its ideology on private enterprise? And do you think the Fed will have overstepped its bounds if this bill goes through?