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RCMP won’t release China policing pact despite Conservative, NDP pressure - National | Globalnews.ca The RCMP says it won’t release the full agreement it signed with China’s Ministry of Public Security without Beijing agreeing to do so, despite demands from the federal Conservatives and NDP for answers on what it contains. Robin Percival said the memorandum of understanding signed in January “outlines specific forms of mutual collaboration” on policing, the exchange of information and investigative assistance, but did not give further details. “The RCMP will not unilaterally make public or share the contents of an MOU with a third party without the concurrence of the other party,” Percival said. “As such, the RCMP is not releasing the contents of the MOU at this time.” So the RCMP signed a deal to cooperate with china's secret Police Service who we know has been interfering in Canada and we're not allowed to know the details. Carney is selling us out. This country is in serious trouble

The galling hypocrisy is that while the US states countries like Canada seeking data sovereignty is a “trade irritant” they would never agree that a foreign government is entitled to unfettered access to data on Americans that is stored in America by an American company simply because the global parent of that company is headquartered in the foreign country. This is what the Empire is claiming its entitled to under the Cloud Act. Canada and Europe helped build the American empire by agreeing to play by its rules for the past 80 years While we prospered by doing so we America prospered even more and we became ever more dependent upon their companies, their currency, their financial systems and data networks. I don’t know if any western countries can even fully escape the dense web of dependencies that we have built for ourselves over the decades but now that they have been weaponized against us we have to start working at it.

Edit to User, I see you already corrected the Beave's feverish nonsense.

Senate Intelligence Committee – March 2026 “Iran did not rebuild its uranium enrichment capability following joint US – Israel strikes against Iran’s nuclear program last year. “ / Gabbard, Senate Intelligence Committee “As a result of Operation Midnight Hammer, Iran’s nuclear enrichment program was obliterated. There have been no efforts since then to try to rebuild their enrichment capability. The entrances to the underground facilities that were bombed have been buried and shuttered with cement” / Gabbard, Senate Intel Committee “if we didn’t hit within two weeks, they would’ve had a nuclear weapon” / Trump, March 4th 2026 “When crazy people have nuclear weapons, bad things happen.” / Trump March 4th 2026 “no evidence of Iran building a nuclear weapon” / Rafael Grossi, International Energy Agency Director, March 3rd, 2026 WELL PLAYED BIBI.

It is hilarious watching you leftists on here bemoan behavior as you give a shit when you and others have very little morals on this forum for yourselves.

Yes, and? What is the zinger you imagine you've landed on here? 🙄 I just did, and predictably you couldn't respond to any of it. 🤡👌

Sweetie...news flash. My giggles express more intellect than your longest, most thought out crap.

Meanwhile: "I do not get up first thing in the morning thinking about the United States... I think about Canadians." -Mark Carney

No no, trump definitely created Ebola. And syphilis. And hairy spiders. Every democrat knows that, it's the first thing the voices teach them.

Now do banking...

We don't have time. We saw how fast the military could move when the PM was behind it and ordering things for Afghanistan. Sole source orders were out in weeks for the quick delivery of helicopters, planes, and armored vehicles. Clearly, the current government feels no particular urgency.

You've died on ^this hill. Russia can STILL launch an invaison of Estonia, Latvia OR Lithuania, because they all share borders WITH RUSSIA.

Typical dishonest response. I figured you would play your usual cowardly game. I give you examples and sources to prove you are ignorant, and you ignore that and criticize the source because it was in France? Then pretend the discussion was not about you ignorantly criticizing my "underground storage" point? Which, by the way, I gave TWO sources. I can give you more... The argument was never an absolute one about ALL natural gas plants. I never said they had to be built literally on top of them either... but we do have these things called pipes, you ignorant clown. Guess what, not just in France does this occur either, since you are such an ignorant person: Underground natural gas storage facilities in Canada are located in five provincesFootnote 1: Alberta, British Columbia (B.C.), Ontario, Quebec, and Saskatchewan. The combined capacity of all underground storage facilities in Canada is 949 Bcf. The majority of this capacity (548 Bcf) is located in Alberta, followed by Ontario with 248 Bcf. While Alberta’s storage facilities are spread out across the province, Ontario’s storage capacity is located near Dawn, Ontario. B.C. has the largest facility, the FortisBC Aitken Creek facility in Fort St. John, with 95 Bcf. A natural gas storage facility is currently in the early phase of construction near Alton, Nova Scotia. https://www.cer-rec.gc.ca/en/data-analysis/energy-markets/market-snapshots/2018/market-snapshot-where-does-canada-store-natural-gas.html LOL, no, you are just a cowardly, pathetic liar.

Hearing some of them tell us how they built America and invented everything thetheyy could go back and easily create Wakanda

He has run away again. He is posting in other threads, but won't come back to own up to his ignorance here. Yep. He ran away from this discussion months ago, then dragged it up here just to run away again.

True enough. In day and age Legacy Media is on it's last legs overall with the advent of the Net and Streaming. Not to mention, Paramount is already under water.

Business is a funny business. Just as the guys who own land around airports can see a better return than those building the actual airplanes, late night comedy shows seem to be making easier money for YouTube than their own investors these days. The model has to change.

Sgt Pepper Lol.

Normally no but when his competition is the epitome of incompetence and a complete failure of running a city might as well, he couldn't be much worse.

The left: "WE NEED RACIST DEI POLICIES BECAUSE WE BELIEVE ONLY RACISM CAN FIGHT RACISM" "WHITE MALES ARE TOXIC" "SETTLERS ARE EVIL" "WHITE PRIVLIDGE MEANS WHITE PEOPLE DON"T HAVE TO WORK HARD" Also the left: "the right is racist"

The RCMP generally follows the guidance of the prime minister's office. Right sgt pepper? This was a deal negotiated by the prime minister's office and signed while the Prime Minister was over negotiating with the Chinese. If you're going to try and pretend that this has absolutely nothing to do with the government and you're going to embarrass yourself to a degree that's surprising even for you. Like who. I assume that the prime minister is stupid. No, but I definitely know more than you. Your defense of the indefensible is pathetic. China has been found by our security organizations to be directly interfering with Canadian politics and our police force just signed a deal with their police force and we don't know anything about it. If you needed explain to you why that is wrong then you're nothing more than a liberal doormat

But you'd vote for him to run America's second largest city?

Bottom line for @BeaverFever is what everyone is CORRECTLY saying is you can point to all the announcements you like but nothing substantial is actually happening. Our guys don't even have enough clothes and gear. We have none of what it takes for a modern army to fight effectively. And despite a year of promising to move faster than ever before and CLAIMING to have spent 2 percent of gdp on "Military" improvements, nothing is better. And we still won't be properly equipped next year. Or the next year. And i'm not talkig abou the big ticket stuff like subs. The spending so far is largely for show. And we're paying millions to carneys buddies because they're supposed to make procurement faster than ever before in history 🙄🙄

Then they ask for (and get) a fourth... It's hyperbolic for me to say limitless pleasure but it sure is a CRUSH of pleasure compared to the distractions available to the very poor 100 years ago. The west is soft and the world tends to settle imbalances, like a country that can withstand bombings versus a country that cringes at a 50% hike in gasoline prices. Just some thoughts here... 1. Yes, because the former describes activity in life and the latter is kind of impossible. 2. Even want and pain are subjective.

Natural gas is stored underground to balance the steady supply from pipelines with the rapid, volatile demands of power stations. When electricity needs peak, plants quickly draw gas from these massive geological reserves. The three main storage types are depleted gas reservoirs, salt caverns, and aquifers. Underground storage facilities act as giant, pressurized "warehouses" for the energy grid. Their role in supplying natural gas to power stations includes.

Some opinions from Republican senators: Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY): "So the nation's top law enforcement official is asking for a slush fund to pay people who assault cops? Utterly stupid, morally wrong – Take your pick." Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC): Described the fund as "stupid on stilts." He added: "It will invariably put us in a position where your taxpayer dollars and my taxpayer dollars could potentially compensate someone who assaulted a police officer... That's absurd." He also referred to the proposal as "tyranny." Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA): Called it a slush fund with "no legal precedent," noting: "People are concerned about paying their mortgage or rent, affording groceries and paying for gas, not about putting together a $1.8 billion fund for the president and his allies." Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME): Stated she did not support the fund "as it has been described," adding, "I do not believe individuals that were convicted of violence against police officers on Jan. 6 should be entitled to reimbursement of their legal fees." Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI): Expressed deep skepticism about the optics and timing of the proposal, calling its unveiling "a giant mistake" and "a galactic blunder."

Cute. Meanwhile, guerrillas are now fighting the government with drones in the Congo. Countries like Azerbaijan, Turkey, and Iran are building hundreds of armed drones. The Russians and Ukrainians throw thousands back and forth. The Chinese are building tens of thousands. I don't even want to think about what the North Koreans are doing. Right now, Canada has no ability to survive against a modern opponent, or even a well-armed 3rd world opponent. Imagine even sending them in as peacekeepers somewhere, and being slaughtered by drones thrown at them by 3rd world guerrillas who can't even read or write. But hey, the coast guard now has a couple of drones for fishing surveillance.

This is not about numbers. Numbers are supposed to be just an indication of effort made. Canada hasn't made an effort in generations. Spending a billion dollars each for what is basically an unarmed coastal fishing patrol boat (which the Norwegians or Koreans could build for a tenth that) does not impress anyone. We still have a military with antiquated planes, no armed helicopters, no drones, no modern warships, no tanks to speak of, a deep shortage of armored vehicles, artillery from WW2 era with no ammunition, not enough trucks, not enough radios, no ability to deter or even spot drones, no antiaircraft missiles, no antiarmor missiles (except that group in Latvia, if the systems are finally arrived and working) and vastly more fat assed bureacrats than trigger pullers. The Toronto Police Service has more people with weapons than the military. And just last week they put out an urgent call for bureaucrats to hand in their rucksacks and flak vests because there aren't enough for the few actual soldiers we have. Guys like you are popping your buttons with pride that we spent 2% on defense but most people can see it's all for show. "Hey, let's spend a billion dollars paving a road to nowhere and call it 'defense'. We can overcharge by 70% and split the profits with our friends!"

“The machinery of government should never be weaponized against any American, and it is this Department’s intention to make right the wrongs that were previously done while ensuring this never happens again,” Blanche Unless you're Trump, of course. What is this, 1984? James Comey, John kelly, and Letitia James should get about $300,000,000 of that fund. Yet one more reason Trump's administration IS the most crooked in history.

Well, I'm new here but what I stated is undeniably true. That's not opinion.

That Obama-era matter was a settlement in a real court case. By contrast, in the current matter, the question as to whether the basis for a genuine case here ever existed is very much in doubt as the judge pointed out. What’s stopping Trump and Co. repeatedly suing the state and ordering minions in the Justice department to settle? This number of 1.776 billion is no accident either. The MAGA movement believes it’s involved in a revolutionary transformation of America. If it gets away with stealing like this it will indeed change the country - but not for the better of course.

No, i said the nazis were socialists. I don't think hitler was right OR left wing, i think he was a narcissist bent on power and controlling people. You mean falsely pretend that Einstein agrees with my world view when he clearly doesn't? I would never! I'd be afraid you'd sue me for copyright But hamas is severe left wing and so are it's supporters. THat's objectively true kid Sorry for your bad luck

You lied about the reason she resigned. Sad

What makes you believe native Americans were "poor and primitive" ? Because they had to buy their firearms from Europeans?

Is this first-hand experience?

Aren't you the one that said blacks don't know how to use computers or smart phones? Yes ... Yes you are. Are you racist?

Right. The definition of what is considered happiness will change with time. Expectations.

no, PP wasn't buddy buddy with castro But even if he was at least castro wasn't trying to directly interfere with or coopt our democracy or sign secret deals with his version of the gestapo. There's always been trade and interaction with china. Harper was a little more harsh with them, when they stepped out of line he invited the Dalai lama to visit and basically told them it gets worse from here if you continue. But since Justin we've been more and more and more pushed into the corner and forced to do whatever they want and now we're signing secret deals with their secret police? what the hell! Well they have to be concerned about it. There's absolutely no reason to believe that every single secret candidate knows isn't being funneled to the Chinese at this point. And it becomes a trade irritant as well. But what really pisses me off is we signed to deal over this but we didn't even get anything in writing about not having those terrorists put back that they took off temporarily. So we didn't even get it written deal on tariffs but the RCMP has been forced to sign a deal to give them Intel and cooperation

I'll put you down for undecided.

Another unqualified Trump Admin hack walks the plank after failing to earn and keep the naked emperor’s fickle favour To be clear she’s a right winger nut job kook but she’s more the Tucker Carlson flavour, the kind that likes Putin or is Putin-curious and opposes Republicans’ traditional taste for unnecessary US foreign wars That made her an outsider in Trump admin The Atlantic has a good summary: Her Resignation “It’s a measure of Donald Trump’s low regard for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, as well as its soon-to-be former occupant, that while the commander in chief was making final preparations to invade Venezuela and kidnap its president, Tulsi Gabbard was posting photos of herself from a beach in Hawaii. Gabbard, who informed Trump of her resignation today, spent 15 months as the director of national intelligence—on paper, at least. By law, the DNI is supposed to serve as the president’s chief intelligence adviser. Gabbard never was, and many of her stances were at odds with administration actions. Trump was contemptuous of even her modest efforts to speak truth to power. In the spring of 2025, when Gabbard testified to the intelligence community’s consensus view that Iran “is not building a nuclear weapon,” Trump replied, “I don’t care what she said.” Gabbard has long opposed U.S. military intervention in Iran and did not publicly come out in support of Trump’s decision to go to war. One of her top lieutenants quit in protest of the war. In her resignation letter, Gabbard told Trump that she would step down on June 30, having recently learned that her husband, Abraham Williams, has a rare type of bone cancer. “Abraham has been my rock throughout our eleven years of marriage,” Gabbard wrote. People who know the couple have told me that they are exceptionally close; Williams, a video producer and cinematographer, has filmed Gabbard throughout her time in public service, including when she took a trip to Syria to meet the dictator Bashar al-Assad while serving as a Democratic member of Congress. Contrary to the Washington cliché, there’s every reason to think that Gabbard really does want to spend more time with her family. But the Iran war likely made leaving an easier choice. It’s surprising that Gabbard lasted this long in her job. CIA Director John Ratcliffe, who served as DNI in Trump’s first term, has assumed the unofficial—and unenviable—role of chief intelligence adviser to a man who operates on gut instinct. Because the president was not interested in Gabbard’s views on intelligence, she tried to get his attention in other ways. Gabbard accused former U.S. officials of mounting a “yearslong coup” against Trump. She railed against the so-called Russia Hoax and attempted to undermine the conclusion, by a bipartisan Senate committee, that Russia had indeed interfered in the 2016 presidential election. And she took revenge on Trump’s perceived political enemies by revoking the security clearances of current and former intelligence officials. None of this won the president’s public admiration, and it did lasting damage to the intelligence community. Gabbard’s decision to place politics ahead of objectivity has deterred intelligence analysts from making assertions that might run counter to the administration’s preferred storylines, current and former officials have told me. To bolster her baseless claims, Gabbard declassified U.S. intelligence material—sometimes over the objections of the CIA—and publicly misrepresented what those documents actually said. Gabbard’s claim to have “uncovered weaponization” in the intelligence community gave Trump another dubious talking point in his unrelenting campaign of political revenge. Gabbard fired two senior intelligence analysts after they wrote an assessment that contradicted Trump’s efforts to link Venezuela’s president to a criminal gang. Trump’s tortured claims played a role in justifying his attack on Venezuela—a supreme irony for the supposedly anti-interventionist DNI. By law, it was Gabbard’s responsibility to advise policy makers on life-and-death decisions and help them make sense of the torrent of intelligence that streams into U.S. spy agencies every day. Instead, she made her position a platform for promoting distortions and undermining public confidence in the very institutions she’d sworn an oath to lead. The ODNI has long been a weak agency. It never really fulfilled the mandate that was set out for it two decades ago, when Congress tried to correct the failures that had led to the 9/11attacks by creating another layer of bureaucracy on top of the already-unwieldy intelligence community. “Gabbard’s tenure has demonstrated just how easily an organization like ODNI that lacks clear mission and impact can become overly politicized and move away from the kind of objectivity and truth-seeking required for good intelligence work and U.S. national security,” William Walldorf, a professor of politics and international affairs at Wake Forest University and a senior fellow at the think tank Defense Priorities, told me. Toward the end of her tenure, the most salient question to ask about Gabbard was: Why does she stay? She had suffered the humiliation of being shut out of the big meetings and dismissed by the president, only to see the United States bogged down in a new war. When I’ve posed the question to people who have worked with Gabbard in the legislative and executive branch, they tend to offer a simple explanation: She wants power (and they don’t mean that as a compliment). Former congressional staff described her to me as the most ambitious person they’d ever met in Washington. American and foreign intelligence officers told me that she is unfailingly charming and warm in person; in less flattering language, they called her calculating, cautious, and keenly aware of the importance of cultivating her image. In every sense, then, a natural politician. Gabbard ran for president once, as a Democrat. If she decides to give it another shot, she has an opening among Trump supporters. The president’s decision to attack Iran is polling poorly among voters. Gabbard remains admired among formerly MAGA-friendly media influencers who have lost patience with the president and feel that he has betrayed his pledge to not lead the nation into wars of choice. The podcaster Joe Rogan, who called Trump’s war on Iran “nuts,” is a friend of Gabbard’s, and he recently praised her as “amazing” and “the same person on air, off air”; he concluded succinctly, “She’s cool as f-ck.” Because Gabbard wasn’t involved in some of the president’s most unpopular decisions, she can’t easily be blamed for them. That gives her a strange credibility in an administration that prizes loyalty over candor. Being an outsider in the Trump administration may turn out to be the best thing that ever happened to Gabbard’s career.”

My heart goes out to (almost) any family ambushed by cancer. As bad as Gabbard was though, I suspect we'll miss her. There is no bottom to Trump's barrel of craven scut monkeys willing to do anything he asks to lie, cheat and steal from the American people. He'll have no trouble finding someone worse.

GTFO of my country. When this referendum fails I hope you apply for US citizenship immediately.

It has nothing to do with compensation for IRS leaks. They can dole out cash to anyone who wants to claim a Democrat was mean to them, including people who claim their tweets and social media were “censored” due to government pressure (COVID kook misinformation for example) . They wouldn’t even rule out giving money to Jan 6 insurrectionists who were convicted of assaulting police officers. This is a fund created by Trump cronies for Trump cronies and administered by Trump cronies all at the direction of Trump himself. Yet another one of his many scams.

I like it, but someone needs to grow a pair and go to work on the Somalis.

Nope. More proof Trump is most crooked in history. Trump awards himself a $1.8Bn slush fund to dole out to his minions and useful idi@t insurrectionists as he pleases while granting himself immunity for his tax crimes. MOST. CORRUPT. PRESIDENT. EVER.

It's sad when you realize that Pallywood is almost as legit as the CBC.

Trump sued the Trump administration for $10B --and then agreed with himself to settle the suit with a $1.7B slush fund to dole out to his cronies and allies. No congressional approval. No judicial vetting. Just unregulated self dealing with taxpayer money. His biggest grift yet. And you cheer it on. Gross.

China and the democrat party are very dear friends. This isn't a surprise.