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.
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.