Today, the Carney government joined the Conservatives and the Bloc to defeat Jenny Kwan’s No More Loopholes Bill — legislation that would have stopped Canadian weapons sent to the U.S. from being used to fuel the genocide in Gaza.
It’s a deeply shameful vote that suggests they would rather appease Trump than protect vulnerable civilians.
But this moment also shows why voices like Jenny Kwan and her colleagues in the NDP caucus matter so much. They continue to champion human rights, peace, and international justice with courage and persistence, even when few others in Parliament will.
Millions of Canadians share that vision. They want Canada to be a force for peace, not a junior arms dealer.
This is exactly why our country needs the NDP.
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It is genuinely incredible to watch someone confidently type out the exact literal definition of the sunk cost fallacy while screaming that I don’t know what the sunk cost fallacy is. You literally just argued that if a company buys a specialized machine and the demand for its product disappears they still have to keep using it just to see a return on that investment. My guy that is chapter one page one of behavioral economics. A sunk cost is simply money that has already been spent and cannot be recovered. The fallacy is choosing to bankrupt yourself by continuing to run a doomed product line just because you feel bad about the loan instead of liquidating the asset or retooling. If nobody is buying your widgets anymore the bank does not care how much your bespoke widget stamper cost so you eat the loss and move on instead of throwing good money after bad.
You also keep harping on about how manufacturing equipment is magically locked into one single task forever. I have to ask if you have actually been on a modern factory floor recently. A five axis CNC mill or an automated welding line does not magically explode if you feed it a CAD file for a commercial tractor part instead of an artillery shell. Yes the specific molds and custom jigs are sunk costs but the actual heavy capital expenditure is in the facility the power infrastructure the automation systems and the trained workforce. The idea that foundational industrial capacity is completely untransferable is absolute nonsense. When major geopolitical shifts happen the industrial base pivots from building weapons to building commercial infrastructure all the time and they do it without just sitting down and crying about their tooling loans.
Then you try to salvage your EV analogy by building an absolutely massive strawman. Literally nobody is saying an automotive plant or a defense contractor needs to pivot to running a hospital or framing residential houses. The argument is that a heavy industry conglomerate with billions in capital equipment and engineers can pivot to building civilian infrastructure or commercial aerospace components. The government forces these industrial shifts constantly through procurement changes and tax incentives. If the defense department cancels a massive weapons program tomorrow the prime contractors do not just fold up and die. They reallocate their capital they bid on different contracts and they adjust their production lines because they are rational actors who actually understand how to write off a depreciating asset. You are desperately trying to invent a fantasy scenario where industrial machinery is entirely rigid just to excuse a complete lack of basic corporate adaptability.
I just can’t wait to see what sort of clown shit you’ll come up with next.
It is genuinely incredible to watch someone confidently type out the exact literal definition of the sunk cost fallacy while screaming that I don’t know what the sunk cost fallacy is. You literally just argued that if a company buys a specialized machine and the demand for its product disappears they still have to keep using it just to see a return on that investment. My guy that is chapter one page one of behavioral economics. A sunk cost is simply money that has already been spent and cannot be recovered. The fallacy is choosing to bankrupt yourself by continuing to run a doomed product line just because you feel bad about the loan instead of liquidating the asset or retooling. If nobody is buying your widgets anymore the bank does not care how much your bespoke widget stamper cost so you eat the loss and move on instead of throwing good money after bad.
You also keep harping on about how manufacturing equipment is magically locked into one single task forever. I have to ask if you have actually been on a modern factory floor recently. A five axis CNC mill or an automated welding line does not magically explode if you feed it a CAD file for a commercial tractor part instead of an artillery shell. Yes the specific molds and custom jigs are sunk costs but the actual heavy capital expenditure is in the facility the power infrastructure the automation systems and the trained workforce. The idea that foundational industrial capacity is completely untransferable is absolute nonsense. When major geopolitical shifts happen the industrial base pivots from building weapons to building commercial infrastructure all the time and they do it without just sitting down and crying about their tooling loans.
Then you try to salvage your EV analogy by building an absolutely massive strawman. Literally nobody is saying an automotive plant or a defense contractor needs to pivot to running a hospital or framing residential houses. The argument is that a heavy industry conglomerate with billions in capital equipment and engineers can pivot to building civilian infrastructure or commercial aerospace components. The government forces these industrial shifts constantly through procurement changes and tax incentives. If the defense department cancels a massive weapons program tomorrow the prime contractors do not just fold up and die. They reallocate their capital they bid on different contracts and they adjust their production lines because they are rational actors who actually understand how to write off a depreciating asset. You are desperately trying to invent a fantasy scenario where industrial machinery is entirely rigid just to excuse a complete lack of basic corporate adaptability.
I just can’t wait to see what sort of clown shit you’ll come up with next.