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I think this just about sums it up. Everything after that is just symptomatic of TDS.

TBH, the US will protect us, even if it's just because they don't want someone else's army on the 49th. We just shouldn't take advantage of them like that though. It's like they're our daddy and we refuse to grow up.

Concessions on both sides are typical of negotiations, and generally not referred to as folding. 'another all "p**ss & wind" semi-politician' - uninformed and bias comment knowing we have no idea of the discussion details or what the final deal will look like.

What do you think the best strategy would have been, knowing the guy across the table has a better hand and knowing thousands of Canadian jobs need resolution to a trade deal to move forward?

Standard height door...

White liberals hate themselves. They're filled with guilt. They compare themselves to perfection rather than every other civilization ever. They want nothing short of the destruction of Western civilization. White liberals mean well, but are among the least-wise humans to ever exist. They're hopelessly self-destruction. They can't stomach the tough and sometimes brutal decisions it takes to survive in the natural world we live in. Their ideas are utopian and idealistic, they don't live in the realm of reality. And they certainly don't bother to think about the longterm consequences of the idea they implement. The path to evil is paved with good intentions.

You seem to have a problem with farmers earning enough to make a living without government subsidies or using undocumented labour.

You must be talking about Poilievre whose whole election pitch was "Canada is broken, the apocalypse is nigh!" He made Chicken Little look lie a cockeyed optimist.

Does anyone fail to see the irony of celebrating the founding of a nation that our 'elites' disparage on a daily basis? A nation founded by people our academics curse and sneer at, and peopled by those our schools utterly ignore in favour of genuflecting toward natives? Take pride in Canada! Why? Isn't Canada an illegitimate, genocidal, colonial, racist, oppressive, so-called country on stolen land? How many of the Canada Day celebrations will start out with a groveling mea culpa that it's being held on the land that rightly belongs to someone else? This isn't how ordinary Canadians ever felt, but to the elites, its mandatory, and they're doing their best to teach our young the same absurd ideological beliefs they suffer under. Canada's tradition of sweeping its British roots under the rug | National Post

This will probably end fairly well. This won't stoke the fires of racism at all I would say 🙄🙄🙄 I'm aware that the left is this stupid, but how???

Results of the popular vote tell a different story . . .

STFU comrade Stalin. 🤮

Of course his staff would call it that LOL Trump and his hangars on have to have a "victory". Fortunately...like so much of their celebrating is often debunked a week or 2 later... like the obliterated Iranian nuclear sites I guess what upsets me the most is our side not debunking Trumps 1diotic claims. Then again, I can see us being quiet lest we pi$$ him off too often LOL

Of course, you are more upset that she is under investigation than for her comments....

Better question is what the hell does EV's have to do with - Liberal Housing Minister hid $11M real estate portfolio from ethics commissioner (which is the topic) You are seriously annoying.... I've told you what I think about ICE vehicles and EV's, and there has been nothing hidden by Robertson. Next....

You'd have to assume that of course it's part of the negotiation, and for all we know that or a similar demand could have been the talking point to dropping the DST. Fact is we don't know what the discussions and the give and take are but Carney was elected for exactly what he's doing right now....negotiating with Trump. How that looks when finalized....we'll see.

Not a great one. Should have been done as part of the negotiations. Would've been nice to say so the whole world saw "We'll drop the DST if you drop Softwood Lumber Duties" and at least parried their threats.

Like you missed this last comment here: And here: Instead, you want to spend the next couple of days making inane comments on how angry you think posters are...

Ya sure...you mean like Iran try to hide theirs.... Look Canadians have shown for decades they don't take their own security serious "read that again"save all the military people the time and effort they put into daily routine...don't act like your given up something when you really don't care Sure nuke them all....you should read more about nuclear weapons find out their effects, climate change will be the least of your worries... You don't know what threats our country faces on a daily basis...but thats because like most Canadians you have your head in a hole...

Tax them even more!!!!

We do. Well... the first part anyway. The second part isn't working out the way the left was hoping

Yes, very, very disappointing. Let's hope Carney just paused the tax till the time we acquire a few of those B5 stealth bombers.

'uninformed and bias comment knowing we have no idea of the discussion details or what the final deal will look like'.

So you are still running from your ignorant comments on guns...

Appease the bully and get it done after the trade negotiations are sealed. Too easy and makes sense. A business decision.

Dude, we have a fascist gov't. Once the Libs get their desired level of control of social media, 1-party rule officially begins.

The DST was a terrible policy anyways. It was a tax that would have been ultimately paid by Canadians, as companies like Netflix were just going to raise its Canadian subscription fees.

He had to fold, the was no other choice. The Carney is turning out to be just another all "p**ss & wind" semi-politician.

Yeah. They love it, and they love singing the anthem. They're elementary school age.

I think it was the wise thing to do. The petulant child across the table has a better hand and more money in his pocket. Whether he was bluffing or not Canada needs resolution to a deal quicker than the US does. Give the child a win to build him up. Dollars were minimal in the grand scheme of things, but agree this will resurface at some point. Until then, need to get this behind us for clarity in the industries that affect a lot of Canadian workers.

Well he hasn’t dropped the original tariffs and he has announced new quotas and tariffs on that will affe US steel. What else has Trump gotten from him other than this one thing? It’s Trump that’s been doing all the walk-backs up until now.

Yes, patronage by royalty and lords. You don’t get it. First the point is not for government to only support specific works of art that it has assessed as being commercial successful. Its purpose is to support the arts generally to create a thriving arts scene, from which successful artists will emerge. Your argument is like saying government should not fund youth sports it should only fund specific kids who are definitely going to become pro athletes. But that’s not how you get pro athletes. You get pro athletes by funding sports generally, knowing that 99% of the kids will never go pro but a small minority will. Second even artists who aren’t commercially successful on their own without government subsidies contribute to the arts, for example they might inspire other more successful artists.

Just a correction: the “quota money” doesn’t go to the government. Farmers buy quotas from other farmers. And the provincial dairy boards are not “government” they’re dairy farmers elected by fellow dairy farmers, basically a self-regulating body. I don’t think there’s a difference in how milk tastes, just know that US milk can have artificial hormones in it. The only reason it costs less in USA is because the federal and state governments heavily subsidize farmers. The government gives them “price guarantees” so if the price goes below a certain amount the government pays them the difference. A variety of government departments from defence to education and more also have mandates to buy up and stockpile surplus dairy products. So America doesn’t do it better. Also American farmers dump milk far more often than in Canada, precisely because supply is not centrally managed and subsidies encourage overproduction. In Canada dumping is a last resort and usually due to some temporary disruption like a processing facility being unexpectedly offline. In the Canadian system everything is coordinated from producer to processor to retailer to minimize mismatches One other difference with USA is their dairy tends to come from very massive megafarms doing huge business exporting dairy products all around the world whereas Canada still tends to be primarily family farms All countries have some sort of protection or regulation for things like dairy and eggs.m because of their nature. While most other industries can shut down a factory when consumer demand or prices drop, cows are basically milk factories that can’t be shut down. The milk is coming out of that cow one way or another whether you want to sell it or not. And milk spoils quickly so can’t really be stored if sales are slow this week. Cows are milked 2-3 times a day and the milk has to be on the grocery store shelf a couple days after that. It seems that anywhere that doesn’t use supply management uses government subsidies instead, with the exception of New Zealand, which exports 95% of the milk it produces….that doesn’t seem any better.

My kids are in the system and they're more patriotic than we ever were.

Not really everything goes over it.

Canadians need to wake up! Russia has proven in the Ukraine it is a terrorist state. Over 200 prisoners taken by Russia have died from torture or neglect. The world is a dangerous place. We need to do our share to protect the west from the terrorist states. Freedom is not free and it will cost more than tokenism.

I’ve never been good at indulging spoiled children and their tantrums.

No profit and interest is how investors get their payback. You keep forgetting you have this contrarian streak that insists you disagree with every single thing a lefty says.

How much do you wish to pay for your freedom and a free country?

Yeah, except you were not making some passing comment as if it could also be Dems... you were outright making this some Trump / MAGA issue. This was you: "The MAGAs simply want to impose their ideology and remake us in their image and Trump wants to serve his tech bro clients " It was not a comment open to simply adding on, well OK, Dems too. You were just outright wrong. No, I am just used to your silly games, no point in going past that first comment. You don't get to talk about all I can focus on when you ran away from your other dishonest position about right-wing vs left-wing violence.

Just ignore him. That isn’t negotiation, it’s just a bully trying to intimidate. Don’t play his game.

Maybe Groot does, no one else. Hard core negativist Can'tservative.

No, greenhouse gas emissions are and that is not even remotely the same as "pollution". Carbon emissions often accompany pollution but they are not pollution. Well, I guess that's the sound of your credibility on the subject swirling around the toilet bowl. Seriously, read a book. Climate change and pollution are two separate issues.

Actually a plug in hybrid... In your twisted logic and view of the world, does that make me an independent?

The royal patronage is the equivalent of government subsidies today amd happens in every culture. The thing about supporting the arts is that government is not meant to pick and choose specific pieces or styles of art, they’re meant fund “the arts” broadly and generally with rhe goal of creating a vibrant arts scene, nothing more. Vibrant art scenes almost by definition are going to result in some controversial or unconventional art.

Liberal Housing Minister hid $11M real estate portfolio from ethics commissioner Isn't this a crime? I guess we'll see the evidence when charges are laid and the Minister is in court. Any idea when that'll be?