I skimmed this but am I reading correctly, participants were given 20 minutes to write an essay and asked to do their best and then given (or not given) access to a tool to help? There's zero incentive here not to optimize for shortcuts and task completion.

This is very different from, say, writing an essay I'm gonna publish on my blog under my own name. I would be MUCH more interested in an experiment that isolates people working on highly cognitively demanding work that MATTERS to them, and seeing what impact LLMs do (or don't) have on cognitive function. Otherwise, this seems like a study designed to confirm a narrative.

What am I missing

Not anymore. Conservatives in Western Canada are just as anti-Trump as Liberals now.

thank you SO much for all your hard work, we sincerely appreciate it

Services are much less likely to be impacted

I'm by no means leftist but Trump has literally been saying over and over again that he wants to use "economic force" to make Canada the 51st state.

maybe he's joking, maybe it's a negotiation strategy. but he's also unpredictable, and Canadians need to take the threats seriously.

good example. worth noting that there may well be strong appetite to rapidly diversify and lock in other trade agreements in Canada to offset this battle with America.

America will not be able to do the same right now (due to Trump's rabid isolationism, and declining trust on the part of other countries).

sentiment differences are powerful though -- some Americans might rally behind Trump, but if cost of living goes up significantly they won't be patient about it, especially given it's clear that Trump started this whole thing.

meanwhile -- excepting those who CAN'T, for whom there may well be govt assistance -- Canadians are angry and will endure (relatively more) pain to prove a point.

not saying I want this outcome, but I think the willingness to endure pain to harm the opposing party is different in each country.

Totally agree, 'dude with a newsletter and an email address' is very underrated.

In practice the entire government has been propped up by a leftist coalition between the Liberals and NDPs, in recent years, so functionally I think they have done just fine.

In fact, in a first-past-the-post system with a minority government you often end up giving disproportionate power to the third place party, in terms of the popular vote (in this case the NDP) because they hold up the government and can make significant demands in doing so. This has been absolutely borne out in Canada.

I appreciate that this is a popular sentiment in certain media/online circles (i.e. Bluesky) but I don't believe it is at all an accurate statement from a policy standpoint, nor a rhetorical one.