gonzo-rand19

Stop trying to make connections and just listen.

I'm trying to understand the things you are telling me because they don't make sense and contradict. In the end, I was correct and you're just weird and have trouble communicating and reading.

So then why did you reply to my comment as though you were correcting me if the answer to my question was "yes, probationary workers can be fired without cause for any reason"? You've just confirmed that neither federal employment law nor a union contract will protect these probationary workers.

So the current union contract specifically gives probationary workers the right not to be fired without cause? Honestly, that's a lot better than I was expecting.

But there still has to be a reason.

Canadian here. Under US employment law, can't the reason be as arbitrary as "I don't like the colour of your shirt" (i.e., you can be fired without cause for any reason)? Barring a union contract that says otherwise and explicitly mentions probationary workers, it seems like they can make up any reason they want; that's probably the easiest part.

FediOnFire was a simple, public-facing project designed to showcase a firehose of public statuses across the network.

For... showing public comments on a live feed? How nefarious. /s

What actions, specifically, did we take that you would consider "caving"? Fentanyl trafficked across the Canadian border accounts for 0.2% of US border seizures of fentanyl and, like others have said, we already have a minister who is responsible for monitoring illicit drugs at the border so we would simply be renaming the position.

Additionally, Canadian politicians have been calling for more of a presence at the border for years, so even this would not really be much of a cave considering there's both a federal election and an Ontario election imminent. If we do decide to have CBSA under military command, it would actually help us meet the NATO requirement to spend 2.5% GDP on our military.

No matter what we end up doing, none of it actually involves much work from us that we wouldn't otherwise be doing anyway due to other commitments. So what are we caving on?