To be fair, in his 20 YEARS in parliament, his name has been attached to seven bills, one of which have passed, but that was one of Harper’s omnibus bills that crammed a million different things into one, guaranteeing that he did not write it.

https://www.parl.ca/legisinfo/en/bills?parlsession=all&sponsor=25524&advancedview=true

His earliest ones were during Paul Martin’s tenure, and his latest were during Trudeau’s. A single one of his earliest bills seems halfway reasonable, but it’s also hard to analyze without the context of what else was being introduced at the time. Otherwise, his bills have basically been what I would describe as jerk off motion partisan troll bullshit that had no actual hope of actually passing or influencing anyone.

He’s not a person who’s actually serious about improving the country in a meaningful way, he’s a dipshit high school debate kid who got a job in government and has then spent 20 years doing nothing but whine about government.

Actively sticking a stick in your own spokes feels like more effort and agency than PP’s ever experienced in his life.

I cannot fathom voting for someone who has been in government his LITERAL entire career, and has never once passed legislation. He is the epitome of an empty soundbite in vaguely human shaped form.

I think it might depend what you’re into, I don’t know much, I’ve flown my Mavic mini a few times, and have been watching the Ukraine war at a distance.

But if you’re into photography and videography you might get more enjoyment out of something like a 249g Mavic that has a solid camera and is an overall very solid drone.

If you’re more into sports and piloting, you might have more sustained interest in an FPV drone where you use goggles to see through the stone’s eyes as it flies. In that case I’ve heard good things about the DarwinFPV drones as they’re a pretty dirt cheap entry point and you’re likely to crash them.

In terms of usefulness for civil defense, I’m guessing that the most useful skillsets are probably FPV flying and drone building and repair, but I’m not sure. In Ukraine it seems like they use some off the shelf quadcopters like mavic minis for basic reconnaissance and observation, and then use FPV drones for carrying munitions and striking targets, and those are a mix of quadcopter style and more plane style.

Another option for civil defense preparedness is to do first aid training.

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He still shouldnt call himself an Engineer when he’s not a licensed Engineer, but to be slightly fair, with his experience, in say Alberta, he would likely be a Professional Technician and would be allowed to stamp engineering drawings.

In Ontario there is no path to stamping drawings from being technologist, and again, he still shouldnt call himself an engineer, but i also don’t necessarily agree that it inherently means he doesn’t actually know engineering. Lots of PEngs I worked with were garbage engineers and lots of Techs I worked with were great at engineering.

In Ontario, basically the professional engineering organization complains about people using the term Software Engineer, and occasionally goes after a big company because of it, meanwhile on a day to day basis everyone uses the term anyways.

If you’re applying for jobs from companies that are not based in this province, and refuse to call yourself a software engineer, you’ll be passed over for someone equally qualified from one state over who will.

When you’re on a team and you’re the only one in Ontario, you’re not going to insist that you don’t refer to your team as the engineering team.

If you’re applying to an Ontario company, that’s usually when you’ll start seeing them respect the distinction more, but even then, jobs will almost always just be posted for developers because most places don’t actually care about the distinction and want both to apply.

My work generally does the same thing, but for the record if PEO starts to pay attention to software engineers then adding the ----ing will absolutely not be distinct enough.

They made EITs switch to calling themselves EITs rather than Engineer In Training.

No it’s not.

It can be problematic behaviour, you can make it illegal if you want, but at a fundamental level, making a copy of something is not the same thing as stealing something.

Piracy is not theft.

I honestly cannot fathom how CN is such a pile of garbage. Does anyone understand why they can’t do the basic things that rail owners do, every single day, all over the world?