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That happens all the time. Why is the gumint forcing me to wear a seatbelt and keep under a certain speed!?!?!?!

I take that as a compliment. I'll go one step further. The people that took part in the convoy were domestic terrorists.

I think people in public health during a global pandemic should have gotten the vaccine. If not simply to protect themselves from getting sick. Again, none of that is why the Convoy happened. There was a reason truckers were behind it. It wasn't until October 2022 that Canada stopped need Proof of Vaccine for people entering the country. Why should truckers have been exempt?

No one was forced to get a the vaccine. The issue at hand with the trucker convoy is that people crossing the border need the vaccine. The US had this policy too. In fact all developed nations except, I guess Sweden, had vax policies for international travelers. So I'm not sure what your issue with Canada specifically here is? Now Canada, and Ontario in particular, had pretty drastic restrictions for unvaxed people. But that's not what this was about. And those issues weren't the responsibility of the federal government. Also, anyone who was paying attention would have figured out that by January 2022, the pandemic was winding down, precisely because there were high vax numbers.

It doesn't mean she'll get 7 years. And she'll be eligible for parole far earlier than her sentence anyway. People have revisionist memories of what the Convoy was all about. It was most certainly a criminal act.

I would Nazi that coming. I must say, the GOP is much better at deceitful propaganda.

What? Maybe 2 weeks? That's Trump's go to when promising things he'll never deliver on. And Trump is a convicted felon.

Still waiting on that. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

LOCK HER UP! LOCK HER UP!!! I'm still waiting for all the fraud charges stemming from DOGE.

Hey look over there!!! While we're at it, change the football team name back to Redskins.

Oh really? So why all the hate for homosexuals? The truth is that Trump doesn't admit to any sins. He's egotistical and hateful. Read any of his social media posts, they're all just hateful screeds of perceived slights.

Yes because Trump responds to facts.

As Trump scandals go, this one is tame. But he can't get the Epstein stink of him. Trump doth protests too much. https://apnews.com/article/trump-epstein-special-counsel-white-house-a70a8c8d4bfe0b625b893a7de1cc72f0 It's really difficult for any Christian to believe that Trump is a man of Christ. Trump's support by the Christian-Right is evidence that it's all about control and nationalism and not love and compassion. Germany was very Christian country in the early 20th century as well.

They're assuming that the power of the US market will force companies trying to import to the US to reduce their margin to cover the tariffs. If the foreign company eats the cost of the tariffs, then the US consumer doesn't see a price increase and the US treasury reaps the benefits. I'm sure some of this is happening. But at 30% - 50% tariffs which we'll start seeing in August if Trump doesn't TACO again it'll just mean that imported products either become more expensive or they just don't come. This has got to be the reality for imported steel. It seems like Trump will throw the baby out with the bathwater by saving domestic steel while making domestic industries that use Steel less competitive.

Hey ChatCPT can you write a 200 word screed on why Pierre Poilievre is a great politician and why Mark Carney sucks. Try to use as much lame rhetoric as possible.

Yeah but the initial salvo came as 25% tariffs on all imports and 10% on energy. Then a one month TACO the day before the tariffs were set to be implemented. A month later the 25% tariffs were implemented. Another TACO after two days. Then came the silly Liberation Day tariffs on every country. Where Canada and Mexico were left out due to the USMCA. A 90-day TACO followed that. Now we're in a scenario where these 35% tariffs are only on non-USMCA goods. I'm not even sure what makes something non-USMCA compliant. In a year they'll have to review the deal HE SIGNED!!!! But a lot can change in a year. Especially when the reality of all these tariffs hit the US consumer. And the fact that mid-terms will be imminent. The other issue are these industry specific tariffs where Canada isn't specifically targeted but are effected nonetheless. I think Canada would do well to do more to protect our industries by ensuring we source our steel, aluminum and lumber locally. Which is what Carney was getting at yesterday. As for the Auto Industry, that's a separate discussion altogether.

Buying fresh water? Canada and the US already have an alliance for Northern Defense. And invasion of Canada would be nothing more than old fashioned imperialism. Something the US flatly rejected, at the period of time when they were "Great".

To the OP. If the Big Three are brow-beaten into moving all automotive production to the US, destroying the Canadian and Mexican industries, that will give China path to dominate the Canadian market. China are creating EVs that are cheap, can charge fast and have the features North Americans want. Right now it's only tariffs that are keeping them from getting a foothold in Canada.

Is this how you see the world? In the instances of post WW2 re-construction, Germany and Japan were the imperial powers trying to take over the world and they were fought back and only because the decision was made to treat civilians in those countries like enemy combatants. The US retains military presence in both countries to this day. In instances where the US have failed to rebuild a nation, they were the imperial power trying to change the institutions within that country. History will dictate that the US was ultimately the bad guy in all those conflicts. As it will, if the US invaded Canada. Because it would only be doing it to pillage Canada's resources, not to free us from oppression.

I'd like to know what PP supporters think he'd have done differently to avoid these tariff threats. I think Trump and team are begging for rates to be cut ASAP because he knows price increases are imminent. So at least he can point to something he's done to lower prices.

I'm not American so it doesn't really matter how public funding is spent. But yeah spending hundreds of millions making a makeshift prison, regardless of quality, is pretty alarming behaviour for a government that spent its first few months in office trying to cut waste from departments. They're going to places they know immigrants are and asking for papers. That's harassment. Especially when you're masked in tactical military gear. They're telling people to show up only to deport them. That's cruel. There are examples of people here legally that have been detained.

I think the issue at hand is that there's a quota system. So you don't have ICE raiding places infested with criminals, you have them harassing people in public, work or going to their immigration hearing trying to stay in the country legally. The idea that they'd need a concentration camp built in 2-weeks speaks to the idea that they're indiscriminately detaining people. And the fact that Stephen Miller wants to suspend habeas corpus shows that they aren't particularly concerned if the immigrant is here legally or not.

Yeah, make-shift concentration camps to mass deport people isn't something the Nazis did or anything.

Well even the Nazi's had standard right?

Even if that was true. Which I doubt it is. Biden didn't do a defacto ribbon cutting and start selling merch. Cruelty is the point.