I’ll offer up one, with the caveat that I don’t actually know much about it, and I’d love to be proven wrong. It’s even in the aviation industry.

In 1996, air navigation services were privatized, and Nav Canada was created. They’re a private non-profit (that bit is probably very important).

As near as I can tell, it was a success by most measures. Employee salaries went up, and airline ticket prices went marginally down. I think there were layoffs as they cut layers of bureaucratic bloat, though.

And again, I’m very open to being proven wrong on this.

Global News has a non-paywalled article on this.

When asked if the government was considering privatizing airports and if so, how many, MacKinnon told reporters that the government was talking with airport authorities.

“We’re in the early stages of a process with airport authorities and other partners to determine the best way forward. The ultimate goal, of course, is to improve the passenger experience, to improve the efficiency of our air transport system,” MacKinnon said.

“Indeed, they are a public good and I don’t think that spirit or that philosophy will change,” he said.

Best to remember that it wouldn’t really be a house - it would be a high-security government facility that the PM happens to live in.

These are the projects that have been officially acknowledged so far, per the CBC:

The Sisson Mine, for critical minerals, in New Brunswick.

The Crawford Nickel project in Ontario.

The Ksi Lisims liquefied natural gas project in British Columbia.

An Iqaluit hydro project.

The Nouveau Monde Graphite Phase 2 project in Quebec.

The Northwest Critical Conservation Corridor in northwest B.C. and Yukon., which could include critical minerals and clean power transmission developments in the area.

The North Coast Transmission Line in northwest B.C.

Certainly all industrial infrastructure, but not necessarily for fossil fuels.

“Zed” now and forever.

His framing isn’t quite what the headline may imply - he’s just saying the US should probably stop waging trade wars.

To be clear, this is about making proactive concessions before the actual negotiations begin, not a cash payment (which would not have surprised me, and I expected based on the headline).

As much as I hope that the series goes beyond “propaganda,” I agree on pretty much all counts.

And some seem to think that we should sever all ties to the US, which is not something he campaigned on, and is also not possible.

Agreed - and TBH, considering the COVID factor in Trudeau’s downfall, I wouldn’t be surprised if trying this sort of video series got some pushback internally.

Than directly addressing citizens about what his government is doing? I’d argue that politicians should be spending much more time doing things like that.

If (and it’s a big “if”) he keeps a regular cadence with these, and if (and it’s an even bigger “if”) he actually addresses tough topics and doesn’t make it a one-sided PR fest…this series could show promise?

To be clear, it’s been in place for three years.

I don’t really get his position on this issue.

“This notion that somehow we’ve got these large U.S. companies that don’t contribute has just never been factual. The reality is these companies have spent hundreds of millions of dollars on film and television production in Canada,” Geist said.

Geist said he’s comfortable with regulations around discoverability, ensuring platforms better promote Canadian content, but ultimately he’d like to see the free market operate like a free market.

I think that woefully underestimates the effects of American dominance in the entertainment landscape, and would only serve to ensure that Canada becomes even more of a place for Hollywood to outsource their own productions, while stifling home-grown content.

According to the Canada Media Fund’s website, an applicant (generally the producer) must be Canadian “and have full creative and financial control over all aspects of the project, from development through production and exploitation.”

That’d be a provincial survey, not a federal one.

But we need a lot of time and much deeper ties before we’d jump into eu membership.

Yeah, it’s very easy to be “open” to the idea. I’m interested myself, but I know next to nothing about what the effects of that sort of integration would be.

From her publicity blitz for the episode, I don’t think she’s too excited to go through the prosthetics process again.

Hell, LaGuardia has ASDE-X installed. The fire truck in question did not have a transponder, rending a significant portion of the system pretty useless in this case.

It’s unclear whether any of the ground vehicles at LaGuardia are equipped with the transponders, or at least it was unclear the last I heard.

I’d like to see a little more scrutiny of the way the media reports on and frames these things, too.

There are far too many stories that basically start and end at “this government project will cost X millions/billions/whatever,” without putting any effort into exploring whether that’s a lot of money in context. It’s always going to sound like a lot without proper analysis.

If I remember correctly, the Sussex property itself is inadequate for modern security needs, so I agree completely, with the caveat that they should find another location.