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The US, UK and Australia announced a new military and defensive pact which will include sharing of both military technology and intelligence information thought to sensitive for the other two members of what used to be called the "Five Eyes". That would be Canada and New Zealand, now considered far too close to the Chinese government and neither interested in doing anything whatsoever to resist Chinese influence. Besides no one considers Canada's pretend military to be of any value in a military alliance, and the Liberals have made it clear they have no intention of expanding or modernizing it. The Aukus alliance is probably the most significant security arrangement between the three nations since World War Two, analysts say. The pact will focus on military capability, separating it from the Five Eyes intelligence-sharing alliance which also includes New Zealand and Canada. While Australia's submarines is the big-ticket item, Aukus will also involve the sharing of cyber capabilities and other undersea technologies. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-58564837

Never heard of the Cold War it would seem. The US and Soviet Union fought many proxy wars without resorting to nuclear weapons.

When 75% of your ICU beds have Covid patients in them, they are a problem. I don't understand why so many of you think other ICU patients just disappeared when Covid hit. They are still there.

Agreed and I think that Trudeau’s naïveté and Canadians’ complaisance is making us too susceptible to threats to the quality of life we enjoy, including living standards and freedom. We struggle to maintain liberal-democracy without a strong conservative pushback against the new managed economy global reset mindset that is the consensus of the dominant Canadian parties. We can’t expect a seat at the big boy table for geopolitical influence with a diminished military and leaders who are seen as all talk. How do you make Canadians wake up to the fact that in order have policies that serve national interests in the long term, you can’t be totally beholden to foreign powers for defence and business? I get the progressive argument that money is better spent on lifting people out of poverty than buying military hardware, but military heft protects the business interests and trade policies that boost tax revenues. Also, by farming out manufacturing to China for the short-term affordability of goods we are losing our capacity to build a wide range of products. Without that capacity it’s much harder to close the drawbridge in times of crisis. If those jobs are going automated we should be producing the machines and collecting the profits. The progressives forget this, just as they don’t understand that shutting down resource development and oil production just shifts the supply to countries like Saudi Arabia and Russia. Biden has shown his hypocrisy on shutting down pipelines and fighting greenhouse gas emissions. He is committing the US to trucking in oil supply shipped in from less democratic countries, and Trudeau assents with a smile.

no why would Liberals and Conservatives vote to overturn the system that helps them? that's never going to happen

lots of people are idiots including many experts they are some of the biggest idiots of all accreditation scams abound and merit is often eschewed by those accreditors who accredit cronies who preach the dogma over the competent who question the dogma popery by any other name would smell as shitty tickets to heaven sold was a bad idea then and it's a bad idea now

I still urge Canadians to go out and vote! It's too close to call. PPC supporters can still do a last-minute strategic vote! I also heard the disabled people are voting for Singh because they've been left out by Trudeau during the CERB. Many young people are also going for Singh. It ain't over til the fat lady sings!

Health care is a service and it amounts to medical insurance. And medical insurance is a minefield. It defies discussion because people are discussing life, an existential question. ===== To understand my viewpoint, imagine that a pill/procedure/surgical table existed that would cure any ailment/cancer/heart problem - except that the pill/procedure cost $200,000 each year. Who would get the pill? Procedure? Surgery? In Canada, some people live in a Tommy Douglas fantasyland where everyone can have health care - while our GDP per capita is $60,000.

Argus, Let me fix that headline: Biden, the UK and Australia announced a new military and defensive pact...

If the shortage of microchips has demonstrated anything it's that you can't build anything today rapidly. Scaling up militarily would need a plethora of parts, each of which is extremely complex and needs special software and a lot of other parts, like computer chips. Then you'd need a skilled work force and the tools to put it all together. It's taken us a year just to get industry to make face masks and gloves for Gods sakes. You think we could build the boots, uniforms, rifles, ammunition, trucks, tanks, armored personnel carriers, missiles, aircraft, ships etc. quickly???

I have downloaded a Kindle book from Amazon called "HIDDEN HAND: Exposing How the Chinese Communist Party is Reshaping the World". I will start reading it as soon as I finish the book I am on now. But I read another book called "Claws of the Panda" which is similar in nature but more focused on what China has been doing in Canada. Canada has been selling out to China for decades. I believe Liberal politicians are strongly under the influence of China now. That would explain why Canada is the only country in the Five Eyes which has not stopped Huawei from being involved in the telecommunications network in Canada. Also some very wealthy Chinese have made large contributions to the Pierre Elliot Trudeau Foundation. In 2002 the Liberal government under PM Chretien donated 125 million dollars of taxpayer money to this organization. That should be investigated in a national public enquiry. The media says very little or nothing about this organization and what it does and what it's links are to the Liberal Party. This link shows 10 prominent media figures involved with the Trudeau Foundation. One of them is Chantal Hebert who is a key political commentator on CBC politics broadcasts. I think I have seen Susan Delacourt on CTV politics programs as well.

I would disagree with the "He" part. We did it, with our laziness and complacency. No country can run on autopilot for two centuries and still make sense.

In Alberta, unvaccinated 30 year olds are being hospitalized at the same rate as fully vaccinated over 80 year olds. Charts showing how much unvaccinated Albertans are being hospitalized and dying from Covid

Thanks for the insult, moron. What? You didn't think your claim on its own would hold up so you had to decorate it with slurs? You're right. The claims in your post are useless bafflegab and have next to nothing to do with anything I ever said. Although, I do like this bit: Nobody was talking about the total death rate. That wasn't the point. The point was daily deaths have been plummeting precipitously since Governor DeSantis made the therapeutic, monoclonal antibodies available to Floridians. Even your own source admits daily covid deaths have been at least "declining". The correct term would "plummeting" to describe how much, how fast but with fake news you take whatever bits of fact you can get. The plummeting death rates are only present in Florida. It's not happening in any of the other 3 big American states. It might have started to happen in Texas who were starting to to open up to MCAs but the Biden regime scooped up all the available stock when they saw the results in Florida and it's yet to be determined who gets what. Also Texas has that problem with the Biden regime opening up the border to infected aliens who have been traveling in groups. 20% come infected, I hear. But go ahead, talk about something I never mentioned and tell me that makes me a liar. It only makes you look desperate. But it makes smile when I knock you down after you attack.

facts Doug Ford is the ultimate Fake Conservative fronted like he was Canadian Donald Trump then governs like he's Kathleen Wynne

That pact was for countries in the north Atlantic to deter Russian aggression. This pact is for the primary Anglosphere countries to deter Chinese aggression. Clearly Canada has no interest in deterring Chinese aggression. It prefers to grovel and feels of it does this long enough perhaps it will get a pat on the head and be rewarded with a nice bone. Plus China is working, using its influence to keep Trudeau in power. It likes having a weakling in charge here. Most Chinese language media in Canada are controlled by China and they're all working to get Trudeau elected.

The subs are just a result of them signing the pact. They're not a requirement. They can now get the technology for them, though, and want it. On the other hand, we're spending more than 3.5 billion per frigate - assuming they ever get built.