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Cake day: June 6th, 2023

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  • This will require strengthening domestic manufacturing, […] develop[ing] workforce resilience, domestic capacity and innovation right here at home. […] The solution lies in strengthening Canadians’ right to repair the products and devices we rely upon.

    I found this overly strong at first, but it holds water. If there’s a market for it that means a domestic capacity for it and related technical, manufacturing-adjacent things.

    DIY repair has saved me a lot of money and headache, and saved a lot of stuff from landfill. It should be an easy sell, but with everything going towards a subscription model - overtly or covertly - we aren’t supposed to own things anymore. I would expect the balance of lobby money to be on the other side of this issue every time.