This is the sort of thing that should be blasted on every Ontarian news channel. This is the guy that rural Ontarians voted for and said was doing a "good enough job".
People should know what the person they voted for is doing and how he's spending their tax money, because this entire trip was also paid for on our dime.
From a spineless coward to a traitor huh?
Not really a surprise, but still quite disappointing. We should be strengthening our stance, not folding like a wet towel. The fact that he's adding fabric softener and ironing in the meantime is is just plain pathetic.
Agree completely on the federalization, but disagree on actually joining the EU.
Frankly, we're not ready for it. Our industries and regulations have far more in common with the US than the EU, and we'll need a serious transition period to match their standards. While I do think in the long term such standards are a good thing, it would be economically damaging in the severe in the short term.
That said, I think the best would be to slowly match their regulations with the hope of joining the EU, without actually committing to it in the short term, but to close our relations with them in the meantime and leave the option open if it becomes more advantageous later on. Matching regulations with a fair and reliable trading partner always helps, not to mention that their regulations are far healthier and environmentally friendly.
I mean, if you listen to any of his speeches, he does nothing but blatantly lie constantly. The carbon tax, Carney's "hidden funds", his secret hidden tax plan, and countless attacks that are obviously lies if you actually looked into them for even a second. His entire scheme is to outdo the FSB's disinformation campaigns to the point that it feels like he's actually a recipient of Russia's #1 propogandist award.
It's real unfortunate, but bad actors like this will be dime-a-dozen for most of this year, especially when it comes to using Carney as the subject. And I fear no amount of warnings and corrections will make a serious dent on fixing it.
What should be done instead is flooding the internet with fake pictures of PP that are technically impossible, but so real that people can't distinguish them as being fake without examination. For example, having him shake hands with Hitler, or bumping shoulders with Bush Jr under the Mission Accomplished banner on the Enterprise.
Force people to become acutely aware that any picture, no matter how perfect and realistic, can be fake. Make them doubt their senses and think that there are so many fake pictures, it's actually less likely to find real pictures than fake ones on disinformation platforms like X.
China produces 300% of the existing market of EVs as it stands, and the government is trying to further increase production. The manufacturers have been found to dump finished EVs into fields by the hundreds to claim the government benefits.
Their actions are dumping in the literal sense, and is illegal when it comes to international trade, so there is no reason to withdraw such tariffs until they stop overproducing at the minimum.
Not to mention that Chinese EVs spontaneously combust for the most bizarre reasons and have caused countless problems, like the e-bike that spontaneously combusted in Toronto's subway due to it "not rated for cold weather," or the container ship that caught fire because of a Chinese EV started a runaway reaction inside of a container, or the countless videos of Chinese EVs catching fire while parked in China itself.
It's insane that major political figures are allowed to blatantly and knowingly lie without any repercussions.
Especially with modern technology, politicians should be corrected in real time whenever they regurgitate BS.
Frankly, I'm fine that he's thinking this way. Things are too far gone and everybody has lost trust in the US at this point. Whether that was his intention from the beginning or if it's the idea he got after realizing that the backlash to his antics were magnitudes greater than what he expected no longer matters.
It will be years, if not decades, of hard work and consistancy before any major country trusts the US again for anything more than high-fructose corn syrup.
Trump can try to "put them back together" however he wants, but he'll be doing that without the rest of the world.
I agree with the lack of logic, as Trump yesterday announced wartime powers, using the pretense of being at war with gangs to justify the order.
That said, I don't see any invasion being based upon any real need, even from an economic level. In fact, such an act will be extremely counterproductive and will harm not only their general economy, but the bottom line of many of their top businesses. Not to mention that any project to extract Canadian resources that aren't already abundant in the US will take at least a half decade to even start producing, with profits only emerging two decades after any annexation at best.
And that presumes that any extraction is done quickly and smoothly. Frankly speaking, the issue is that to extract most things at scale, everything needs to be built up from the ground level, including roads.
That doesn't even start with the liklihood of constant protests and vandalism, including some crazies that try to shoot out tires and critical equipment.
I took a quick glance at previous numbers, and really it feels like the anti-vaxxers are the reason this is happening. Measles were completely under control even ten years ago, with only the occasional bad outbreak, yet we're getting half of the worst national yearly numbers all at once in a single province this year.
And to make it worse, this isn't a single isolated outbreak, but is happening every year. We've got a proven vaccine that's worked for generations and saved countless lives, yet anti-vaxxers are burdening our already overstretched healthcare system by being ideological idiots.
He's also threatened those same extra tariffs to Canada's overall response as well, but the federal government didn't budge and in the end it was Trump that didn't put his money where his mouth is.
Honestly, it doesn't matter if it's possible or not. The very fact that key replacement parts of the jet can only be built in the US means that the very moment they chose not to sell those parts to Canada, the F35 is on a strict time limit before becoming the world's most expensive paperweight.
And that time limit isn't even very long. Maybe two years of normal use outside of a war, as little as a month or two during a war or any sort of foreign deployment.
We're kinda locked in for the first few planes, but despite cancellation fees, we need to replace our aging fleet with something from someone that won't throw a tantrum and erase a key component of our national defense with the swipe of a pen.