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ThatOtherGuy_CA t1_jdd36n4 wrote

His entire political career has been on gaslighting Canadians, literally from Day 1.

Like he spent his entire campaign rallying against Harpers TPP agreement, and then immediately signed it after the election.

Or when he closed the finances for Treaty reserves, because it turned out that the narrative of Canadians being behind the poor conditions in reserves falls apart when you look at the funding and see 95% of the money they get goes directly to the band leadership and stays there.

Basically every thing he does it to dodge accountability, and he will straight up say one thing while doing the opposite.

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Rufus_Reddit t1_jdd1qyq wrote

Analogously, millions of people in the US have guns and don't commit (or want to commit) school shootings either. Even so, gun control proposals are a popular response.

It's obviously true that media coverage of school shootings isn't sufficient to make people commit them, but that doesn't mean that it isn't a factor in people's decisions. (From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_shooting_contagion)

> ... A study conducted in 2015 suggest that the Columbine shooters inspired a minimum of 21 mimicked shooting and 53 attempted plans to commit such an act in the U.S. over a 15-year period. ... (https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0002764218763476 )

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DrFrocktopus t1_jdd1phd wrote

I used to work in investment consulting, specifically related to university endowments, so Im aware of the distinction between restricted and unrestricted funds. The general idea is a total cap on AUM would make universities reassess their fundraising targets. They'll have to decide between that juicy large dollar restricted donation or comparatively smaller donations that can go into their unrestricted fund. You'll probably see unrestricted funds grow as total % of AUM.

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