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.
Had this been done when there was no Holocaust by Starvation in Gaza and those politicians were not under public pressure to do something about it, then yeah, it would have been a positive action for Palestine as whole since it would open the door for eventual improvements there, but right now, by delaying effective action as wished by the public, that tiny positive potential impact in the future is more than offset by the continued deaths that mean there will be no such Future for tens of thousands or even millions in Gaza, and this “action” does nothing to address that.
The greatest impact this has is to reduce pressure on those politicians to address the problem, so de facto this is a step backwards compared to “doing nothing” as it wields the same result to Gazans whilst by reducing the pressure on politicians makes it less likely that they’re forces to take an effective action.
The only way to confuse this with a step forward if you completelly ignore the broader context of how most of the people who might derive a tiny benefit from this will be dead or have lost far more than they will gain from said tiny benefit when that benefit delivers anything, and the political managing of public opinion component of this.
Okay bud, enjoy the grandstanding all you want. 👍
You’re the one dying on the hill of defending that grand proclamations of how they’re going to help Palestine from the very politicians currently shipping weapons to Israel should be taken unquestionably at face value, and hence that they’re really taking a step forward.