Canadian version of Project 2025 just dropped
We help Canadian entrepreneurs share their ideas for a bolder, richer, freer country
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/25221878
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/25218430
Quick vid summarizing it all for those who do not have time to read through
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I skimmed through a few memos. Changes proposed loosely or directly benefit the author of the memo. E.g. Bird guy wants Canada to deregulate transportation not to build more public transit but allow robots (and probably more scooters) and such on the streets.
Several Shopify names on there, Wealthsimple, Questrade, etc.
I’m so disappointed in Wealthsimple.
I'm not, I've hated them since they bought out SimpleTax and made filing my taxes less fucking simple. Still mad about it years later. Anyway, they're an investment company with all of the baggage that comes with, so it doesn't surprise or disappoint me at all that they're lobbying for deregulation.
tbf, they could be worse than a typical investment company since they also have the techbro change-the-world fantasy baggage in the mix.
Even that's not really unique in the retail investment space, just look at Robinhood's marketing from before /r/SuperStonk happened and they pissed people off by limiting trades on GME. A lot of it is like, "even you can hoard wealth like your favourite billionaire"!
I think I have a dormant account with them and I should probably get rid of it.
