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The USA literally declared economic warfare on Canada, and made multiple threats to Canadian sovereignty.
How is that anything but a war-level action?
Canada is acting out of survival. Like an abused wife, we are doing everything we can to get out the door, while keeping a smile on to placate to this egomaniac in the Whitehouse.
It is wartime, anyone not aware of this is dangerous.
To be fair, it is wartime.
Unfortunately, he keeps siding with the US and against the Canadian working class.
His stances are confusing. He seems to be opposed and pissing Trump off at times but kissing his ass the next. Carney is a hard right banker and still has the sign up that he says we must acknowledge was always a lie.
His support for the Iran war could be that he genuinely believes it, as Iran is opposed to western hegemony and thus is a threat to western banks (that he has devoted his life to), but just so much other shit like the privacy and civil rights erosion bills that also work hand in hand with US corporations and authorities make me wonder if his opposition to annexation is sincere or he is just hoping it is a purely Trump thing and when the old orange bastard finally dies his successors will want business as usual (all bowing to the false sign idol he condemned at Davos) and they can continue dismantling everything for the top 0.1%, with a bone tossed to the remaining middle class that will no longer be more than 10% and keep the rest a permanent underclass.
People declaring "it is wartime" are ignoring he is using this to destroy the planet faster and throw indigenous rights in the trash.
And he is also trying to force legislation through that are utterly destroying civil rights and privacy rights in Canada and increasing data sharing on Canadians with US firms like palantir and others. If his intention was to make it harder for the US to invade and quash resistance then he is doing a terrible job of it.
It is wartime.
This is scratch kick and bite time.
Not a fan of him but imo his best quality is being reasonable on an international stage.
Still think Trudeau was better
If he was governing like it's wartime, where's the explosion of social and affordable housing?
That was all post war policies to address the shortages from people migrating to urban centers.
It kind of is.
If I’m Pierre Poilievre, I stop running against the mobilization. Attacking a wartime footing the public demanded is a losing argument. I start positioning as the owner of the peace: the person with a plan for what comes after, for the pay stub and the mortgage renewal. Attlee, not the anti-Churchill.
So is this article supposed to be fantasy, science fiction, or comedy?
PP tried to not be negative... for about a week. He cannot go longer than that without saying something negative. He's a debate club kid, whatever the topic is he is compelled to debate the other side. He is incapable of doing anything else.
I’m getting increasingly uncomfortable with François-Philippe Champagne’s record... There may not be proof of personal corruption, but there are enough conflict-of-interest and oversight concerns that people should be paying closer attention: the Alto situation involving his partner, federal funding received by his father’s company while a conflict screen was supposedly in place, and the massive SDTC governance failure under his department.
Now the government is eliminating the Underused Housing Tax and the luxury tax on private aircraft and expensive vessels.
Who benefits from that? Foreign owners of underused Canadian homes, wealthy buyers of private planes and yachts, and the industries selling those assets. Ordinary Canadians receive little or no direct benefit, while the government gives up hundreds of millions in revenue.
Joly is pretty bad too. When Amazon workers successfully unionized in Quebec, it’s her brothers company that’s stepped in and been the scabs.