Canada next, eh?

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The left will NEVER allow the producers to leave. They will kill every single one of them before they let someone out of their system.
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Would that mean that the Edmonton Eskim Elks would join the NFL?
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This should be good enough

nortex97
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I think their referendum (which is not anything final) is October 16th.
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That guy really is an idiot.
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It depends. Maybe they are going to start sending 80 cents of every dollar.
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Canadians are autistic Americans. They look just like us, but there's just something off.
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nortex97 said:



That guy really is an idiot.


I get that he'd love nothing more than open Canada up to fellow communists like China but is he truly stupid enough to think we'd allow that?
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Oh no. They've got us now, my fellow Americans.
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nortex97 said:

Oh no. They've got us now, my fellow Americans.



I am surprised that Canada isn't announcing that they are relying on Chinese space launching capabilities rather than the United States.
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Like they have the money....
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Who?mikejones! said:

Like they have the money....

They don't and this video goes through the reasons why Canada has issues:

“If you think you can do it better, go ahead. We will step aside.” Secretary of State Marco Rubio
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A bit of a side show here, they paid into the F-35 program to participate (a few bits are made in Canada as a result), but have been dithering about whether to actually buy any, or to go for a Saab offer to license build older-generation Gripens in Canada instead.

Remember, Gov. Carney said last week that their relationship with the US is a 'strategic weakness' and vowed that no longer will they spend 70 percent of their defense procurement on US weapons systems.
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Where are they going to get the extra $100m for the hoop and half-court painting? Also, Canucks suck at basketball
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Even funnier that Canada owns that land, and then pays a corrupt outfit (including a Ukrainian American) all that money somehow anyway.


Even by Canadian standards that's pretty pathetic. Long post above. Oh but, 150 days a year of good weather for rocket launches they say!
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Wow, just wow. That's all I've got.
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will25u said:







That map makes me think of Richard Kiel in Happy Gilmore.
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Not every day a global leader's family link to Cloward-Piven is discovered.
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We just watched this episode of Still Standing on Prime. The show gives you a look Canada's small towns which also shows how Fd Canada truly is. But this episode was talking about a launch site.
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Canso is situated at the north end of mainland Nova Scotia and where the causeway link goes to Cape Breton Island. The residents of Canso are optimistic about their town's future as it has been selected as the country's first commercial satellite launch site.



https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9054990/
“If you think you can do it better, go ahead. We will step aside.” Secretary of State Marco Rubio
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Canada approaches FAFO, USTR plans to notify Congress June 1st to dissolve USMCA, CTH. 'Not a grown up in Canada in charge there...just political malpractice.'

Longish piece (as usual for CTH) but the video is great, imho.
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As the rhetoric continues increasing, the possibility of a full block against the import of Canadian goodsincreases.

It is worth remembering, the recent Supreme Court decision that overturned the IEEPA tariffs also reinforced the unilateral power of the U.S. President to regulate any/all trade with any foreign country including a full block of trade if designated. Canada is positioned to be the first nation to discover the expressed power of the U.S. President as affirmed by the United States Supreme Court.

One of the reasons why Canadians are oblivious to the potential collapse of their economy is because U.S. media reports are blocked from Canadian social media sites. One of the infringements within the USMCA is the Canadian Law Bill [C-18, the Online News Act] that blocks information to Canadian citizens that is not supported by the Canadian government.

The people of Canada are stuck inside an Orwellian government constructed echo-chamber unable to hear opposing viewpoints. They simply have no idea what is heading in their direction. Which is incredibly ironic considering how much Mark Carney rails against Russian President Vladimir Putin, yet Canada has more restrictions on information than Russia. Think about it. The need for control is a reaction to fear.

This information control dynamic helps to explain why Canadians, in the aggregate, simply do not realize the nature of the trade conflict that has been created by their own government. Perhaps a full 30-day blockade would help their eyes to open; perhaps not. However, something needs to happen in order for the Canadian people to have time to prepare for the economic collapse soon to fall upon them.

On June 1st Jamieson Greer anticipates telling congress that the U.S. intends withdrawal from the USMCA (CUSMA), pending unilateral negotiations with both Canada and Mexico to resolve conflict. Greer described two different protocols within any negotiation to deal with the structural differences between both Canada and Mexico.

Those differences include a completely different import/export profile with each country, different sectors of goods, difference in the wage rates within each country and a structural difference in the way each country is establishing their own, independent free trade agreements with other third-party countries. These baselines form the reason to tell congress of the dissolution, and on July 1st inform both Canada and Mexico about it.

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He's out there talking, again.
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This is being sold as Canada's first sovereign wealth fund.

The mockery writes itself:

"Sovereign wealth fund" branding. Norway's fund comes from oil surplus royalties (actual government money from resources). Alberta's Heritage Fund was supposed to be that but we keep having to send our surplus to Quebec. This? It's literally "Hey folks, send us your RRSP cash and we'll invest it in government-favored projects alongside the private sector."

That's not a sovereign wealth fund. That's a government-sponsored mutual fund with patriotic marketing. Call it the "Maple Leaf Growth Fund" and be honest. Who's ready to invest.

This isn't surplus government money magically compounding for citizens. It's not even redirecting CPP (which would be and even worse idea). It's retail investors being asked to fund the vision. "Buy Canadian" with your own retirement savings.

It's giving strong "War Bonds but make it ESG" energy.

P.S. Solid production value though. That Brock soldier on the desk? I'll be watching the prospectus like a hawk for the fine print on "nation-building" risk factors.


Keep digging, man.
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Man, Carney is just a dumbass. What relationships does he think he can garner that are remotely equal to the most powerful country on the planet that they share a border with? They have two oceans separating them from the rest of the world. They literally have one neighbor they touch....and it's us.

Europe is busy trying not to collapse so they aren't going to be of much help. The Commonwealth is a joke. Canada's own King is headed here today to kiss Trump's ass and try to salvage that relationship. The UK has 25M more people than Canada and are real-time collapsing so they can't help Canada.

His only option is China which he is already exploring and if he thinks we are going to allow China to get a foothold on our border then I think he's even more of a dumbass.
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YouBet said:

The Commonwealth is a joke.

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SgtBarbarossa said:

YouBet said:

The Commonwealth is a joke.




Awesome. Playing Fallout 76 right now. Makes you think.
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I think the response to Carney is to let Alberta and Seskatichwan know that there are incredibly beneficial and lucrative deals for them if they're outside the Canadian system. While Ontario does have some critical minerals like nickel and uranium and so mining the majority of what the US needs from Canada is in the form of oil and potash which nominally comes from those two provinces respectively. Secure those, give them proven, profitable markets and work with them on infrastructure projects to get their resources to market and Ottowa will be crying uncle.

No east-west transport links outside air. There are no highways, passanger or cargo rail links that are north of Alberta for instance. A cratering in their wealth transfer payments. A chance for those provinces to get their property ownership under control and out from under the crazy first nation crap that is infecting BC and could potentially spread. I'm not sure how long Quebec stays in a weakened Canada either. It's messy, but Carney and his ilk cannot be trusted.
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Dude keeps writing checks with his mouth that his country will pay the price for.

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lol. Kind of like all of Europe not respecting the NATO deal requirements until Trump dragged them across the line.

Also kind of like Canada is doing to us right now with trade.
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Canada. So virtuous.

Tell me about lumber subsidies
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Canada is not a friendly country. They have gone so far left, they need to be considered a threat to western values and our way of life.

Id start with imposing a 1000% tax on the profits of Canadian based professional sports teams. Id follow that with a tax on lumber imports double the amount of subsidies they give to lumber suppliers.

Id also consider giving political asylum to conservative Canadians disillusioned with their govt.
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Who?mikejones! said:

Canada is not a friendly country. They have gone so far left, they need to be considered a threat to western values and our way of life.

Id start with imposing a 1000% tax on the profits of Canadian based professional sports teams. Id follow that with a tax on lumber imports double the amount of subsidies they give to lumber suppliers.

Id also consider giving political asylum to conservative Canadians disillusioned with their govt.

Eh missing the objective here. Canada has a lot of resources we want. The only resources we need from them are oil/gas and potash. If Alberta and SK (I'm not spelling that) break off, the rest of Canada is really f'd. Ontario will literally beg to provide us anything because their gravy train will be completely cut. Frankly, Canada is basically a parasite outside of it's prairie provinces (AB, SK & MB).

That is the foreign policy objective with a really hostile Canada. And they will 100% attempt to collapse the potash and O&G exports to the US in a trade dispute which will come this summer. If I was in farming and I had the capital I'd have already locked in as much of my fertilizer as possible. Gonna be a bumpy summer for our northern border relations.
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Am I wrong in remembering that launching a space mission becomes more difficult the further you move away from the equator?

Just something else, if true, for Canada to overcome with a small population, limited economy, crumbling overpriced cities and not much of a technology or aerospace sector as compared to other nations.
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As many issues as our republic form of government has from time to time, it is still superior to the Parliamentary form of government, in my view. Canadians didn't vote for Carney directly, they voted for the party that he represented, and those members made him PM. So his accountability is never to the Canadian people, it is to that small subset of the rich members of Parliament that keep him in power.

Trudeau showed that time and time again. He did not give a crap about anything other than what was happening in Ottawa. So when the Canadian truckers were being harmed by his covid policies, they went to Ottawa en masse to protest. THAT got his attention but not in a good way as he cracked down on them even harder, freezing their bank accounts, etc.
 
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