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Rubio in Canada This is a clear, in your face offense against all norms of decency, civility and very basic politeness to the host that go back millennia in human history. They simply don't get it. So far beyond it. Uncivilized, crass, crude. Dumb too. This is the only way the miserable bunch can be seen now, by Canada and the world

Rather than allowing mass layoffs and shutdowns to take place due to tariff-related reduced U.S. demand for our steel, aluminum, and other products, Canada should seize the opportunity to modernize its infrastructure, including (but not limited to) the following: high speed rail along the Quebec-Windsor corridor increased military production (perhaps including replacing the F-35's, apart from the 16 already purchased, with made-in-Canada options) Canada East and other pipelines that are not U.S.-bound refineries to produce gasoline using Alberta heavy crude incentivize Canadian companies to upgrade facilities (helping improve productivity) This is a much better long and short-term strategy for transitioning from dependence on the U.S. than simply paying people to stay home as they are thrown out of jobs and production is slashed.

Well I think you're on the right track. They can't tariff steal that's being used in Canada that's for sure And building out our infrastructure makes us more attractive for future investment and improves provincial revenues

Melanie Jolie is no "badass". It's no "badass", nothing about "badass" but entirely normal and common to expect from your guest civilized respectful behavior or get the f- out of my house. Uncivilized neanderthals need to be reminded of it, if needed repeatedly in case they are too primitive or plain dumb to remember and act accordingly.

If they were terribly smart they wouldn't be NDP in the first place

An Alberta cowgirl has more shoulder than that 'never worked' dude . . . she'd probably give him a sh!t-k!ck!ng too!

A real leader, a real man would have met with them, listened to their concerns, and tried to resolve this issue. Instead, Trudeau got yet another case of 'convenient covid' . . . hid out, and sniped with his ignorant distastful comments. Then enacted the Emergency Act, and all the bully tactics of a truly weak little man. ExFlyer and his ilk are what's so wrong with Canada . . . stand for nothing, never true to themselves.

Does it matter who is the spouse? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diana_Fox_Carney BTW, a PPE from Oxford is also known - if you have one - as a "P*ss Poor Education".

So you're more like an actual liberal, social credit type person that thinks that if it's best for the country, it doesn't matter what the ideological label attached is? Sounds too much like common sense! Like. not opposed to when the American owned ferry company, the private health insurers, the small private telcos and hydro outfits, railroads, etc. can't or won't provide the levels of service needed, you'd take them over too? WAC Bennett's 'free enterprise' party ring a bell? Not a true MAGA type that would rather reject a cure for your cancer because Communist China invented it?

It would be interesting to know the ratio of jews killed by Arabs to those killed by "zionist terrorists".

Here's what Rubio said .... "The President has made his argument as to why he thinks Canada would be better off joining the U.S. for economic reasons." As far as I know, Trump did say something like that and Rubio does represent the executive branch. So how is reiterating Trump's beliefs insulting when Trump might even be right? Why does it make Rubio an Ahole? Or uncivilized for that matter? It might be nice to know what Rubio actually thinks but that's not his job. I wonder how many times Melanie Joly had to stand before a mic as Minister and say things she didn't agree with? Rubio is a pretty level headed guy and possibly the next President. It might be wise to try and get along with him. You people have gone batshit crazy.

The Typhoon is also a twin engine fighter which Canada has always required for northern patrol. The Gripen is more than capable for defence, which is the role both are supposed to play. We could get more fighters for the same price, from trustworthy suppliers, and maybe the handful of F35s we have to to meet contracts.

So Mr. Conservative wants to use public funds so business doesn't have to? What a Marxist, communist, socialist, liberal, leftist idea? Why not pay for my office space too so I can profit more too?

Oh start the battle cry! Carbon Tax Carney made you wait two weeks!

And your outright lying that the govt tells professional associations what their rules of conduct shall be.

It's worth the 125% to let them keep her.

It is a bit hypocritical isn't it? First they're telling us we don't have a culture anymore, but now it's time to rally round the flag? Did anyone tell the Quebecois to stop being French? I've never bought into any of this post national shit. Personally, I think we should cut that dual citizenship crap out.

To reserve the right in determining our own destiny. But instead of getting into a big snit over it, I'd tell the Americans we appreciate the offer. Thanks, but no thanks.

Bullshit. You hate Musk so you're taking it out on his vehicles which have nothing to do with anything other than helping the environment which you scumbags claim to care about. You're a dizzy f*ck aren't ya. lol

Yeah. The woke love to talk about trauma but are okay with instilling trauma into 5 year olds if the child's father is an outspoken conservative. Vile, scum of the earth type people

America has the power to destroy Canada, without using any military force at all, doesn't matter how butt hurt Canadians are about that fact, Canada's only hope is to find a way to appease the Americans, otherwise, it's like being Poland in the Second World War ; there's no way to fight and win

even if Canada had the political will and industrial capacity to pull that off, which it doesn't, that would be insignificant in comparison to exporting into the $27 trillion American economy,

Seems we are revisiting the F-35 purchase. Looks like Portugal is not going to buy it citing US unpredictability. They will be going with a European aircraft. https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/f35-blair-trump-1.7484477 https://theaviationist.com/2025/03/13/portugal-f-35-plans/ Typhoon might be the best option but it also has the highest flyaway cost, although operating costs might be lower. We could buy 4 Gripen for the price of 3 F-35's and operating costs would be quite a bit lower. There must be some interesting conversations going on between the airforce and politicians. I believe we have already paid for the first 16 F-35's plus spares and tooling for most of the fleet so I imagine we will wind up with at least some of them.

Schedule F would also make woke operatives vulnerable which is the whole point of Schedule F. Of course Joe Biden rescinded that because he too, is a woke operative. Looks like the Nazis and the Bolsheviks had similar reasoning, they just called their targets different names such as "non-Aryans" or "counter-revolutionaries" instead of "woke operatives".

Look, that figure does not mean what you think it does. Consider the trade balance with Canada for example. The US buys more from Canada than Canada buys from the US. The reason for that is the US buys tons and tons of energy. If you take away the energy we actually buy more things from America than America buys from us. That's right we are a bigger customer to you than you are of ours what's energy is removed. Are you saying you want us to stop selling you energy? Are you saying that us selling you the energy you need to keep your lights on and your car is driving is somehow a bad thing? Oh and by the way we sell you the oil at a severe discount versus world prices, you actually get about 20% off the going rate for oil when you buy from Canada Trump is being completely stupid about this particular issue. Don't be fooled by the stupidity just because he doesn't understand. If you go to the grocery store and buy a week's worth of groceries you have a trade deficit with the grocery store. You have bought more from them than they have bought from you. But you have groceries to feed your family. You make money elsewhere at your job. Would you attack the grocery store because you have a trade deficit with them as a result? For god's sake use your brain. There is nothing wrong with a trade deficit with another country or even in general as long as you are getting what you want and what you need to make your life better and that is exactly what is happening. The US buys a lot of raw materials and energy and uses it to power and provide for their economy. If the us did not run trade deficits they would be broke.

The right time to point out where we may be headed is before we get there. After is no help at all.

I was told vampires and the undead couldn't enter without your permission..... Their mistake was not burning a Canadian flag and saying death to Canada while claiming to be Muslim

They are now sending pizza (assuming it has to do with pizzagate) to intimidate Bill Clinton's alleged r@pe victim. Sad

No nice try. They are rolling back 31 different air and water pollution laws some of which date back to the 1970s. China and India are polluted toxic shitholes where life is cheap and humans are treated as a disposable resource, are you actually advocating that we sink to their standards ?

Republicans are all for it, always have been. Every single republican regime rolls back pollution laws when in power and opposes pollution laws when not in power.

I think eyeball is a hardened anti-Semite. He has been on this crusade against the Jews for some time on here. I doubt you can find any agreement with him. He doesn't accept that Islam is an historic opponent of the Jews and the west. Anti-Semitism is at least 1500 to 1800 years old in the world. Not sure where he is coming from.

Rosemary Barton is gonna come crashing through your door:

look its robosmith

From April 1 of 2024: Gasoline: Going from $65 per tonne to $80, means the carbon price on a litre of gasoline will now be 17.6 cents per litre, up 3.3 cents per litre from before. That means filling a 50 litre tank from empty will cost about $8.80 in carbon price, about $1.65 more than before. https://financialpost.com/commodities/energy/oil-gas/carbon-tax-increases-april-1-2024 On the example cited above, it would be nice to save that much on a fill up. I check the GasBuddy app every time I go out so it will be interesting to see how much the price drops, if any.

It's true, but it comes back to the same thing. Politicians, not businessmen know how to negotiate this kind of a situation and how to develop alliances to deal with it. Politicians, not businessman, our focused on the country and not their own personal profit or gain by and large. Trump is a businessman. How's that working out as a leader? The tariffs doing their job are they? Reducing costs, raising profitability and GDP? Justin was the school teacher. How did that work out for us? Harper was a career politician. He was widely hailed as having the absolute best response to you and recovery from the great recession and he turned over a balanced budget despite the fact that he never cut health care or any of the core services. We have to get serious and stop screwing around. The liberals always look for some white night leader who will swoop in on popularity and grab power and then things go to hell. We cannot afford to do this again. We need a strong conservative government led by a career politician who knows the job, understands the country, has one loyalty and not three, and isn't looking forward to being the director of a bunch of Charities that he funnels money into from the Canadian government when he retires. If you love the country, there's really only one answer at the moment.

bingo. the leftists would of course be outraged if the power of the Crown was employed against them in this fashion, but they are perfectly happy to employ any means available to them to silence their critics, this is what happens if you don't have a First Amendment to the threshold of Brandenburg v. Ohio

What "system"? The one they have in the States does very little of that, factually as opposed to all the great talking and writing. And Canada, essentially nobody is immune, but the binary setting of a political system in these times of instant influence is a huge vulnerability. These systems were designed in the 18-19 centuries and for those times. They have not even few, virtually no defenses against an aspiring tyrant propped by an authoritarian cult moving at a lightning speed.

What we should be talking about is the fanaticism of climate deniers and their current move to 'prove it' by adding to emissions as the only solution for the economy

And Carney was chastised for speaking out against Brexit, but history proved him right. Some politicians know populism is an easy route to power, often harnessing what Trump calls his beloved under-educated, but greater wealth is achieved through Free, properly regulated trade.

Kind of proves it ain't about the climate. It is about the heard think.

Notice her typical Republican tactic of lying and then going on the attack: After the reporter challenges her obvious nonsensical statement about tariffs she claims to be insulted and threatens to not call on that reporter again. Another example of Trump administration sinking to new lows. Not to mention they plant fake news propagandists from right wing “alternative media” in the audience to ask loaded softball questions

I have no problem with the American people, and I believe I speak for many Canadians. The problem is Trumpism, and how it is changing the US from a nation that cares to a threatening bully that has a grip on the consciousness of many American people, gained by false and harmful stories. The mass delusion currently gripping the US is a grave matter of concern not only for the US but for the entire world.

Her scolding the reporter for insulting her knowledge of economics certainly clinched it. I bet you $10 she's also an expert in viral immunology and vaccinology.

Actually that's pretty much been substantiated by a judge. It was a legitimate protest. I noticed you can't refute the article or any of its points so you're attacking the source. How very leftist of you But none of them were charged with illegal protesting or anything that would suggest the protest itself wasn't legitimate. All across Canada when protests are considered to be unlawful and injunction is received from the courts ordering the protesters to stop. Can you show where that happened in this case? No? A protest so bad that it required the use of the emergency act and nobody actually got an injunction to stop it or declare it unlawful? Hmmmmmm

As much as I dislike Musk and love to see him losing money, this is something I can't support. If I knew who did it, I would turn them in. This kind of shit can go both ways.

I like this guy https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/business/economics/2025/03/06/burn-down-their-house-bay-street-veteran-weighs-in-on-tariff-response/