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We could give up oil and cease to exist.

Unless you are one of ones who have no serious medical problems yet and don't need a health care system YET, then you might say the system is fine. That is not the case for millions of Canadians. "A large and increasing number of people across Canada do not have a regular family doctor, creating a significant gap in primary care. Having a consistent primary care provider is crucial because they are the main person who helps manage your overall health, offers preventative advice, and refers you to specialists when necessary. Without this important connection, many people must rely on crowded walk-in clinics or even hospital emergency rooms for basic care, which is not the right place for non-urgent issues. This overuse of emergency rooms adds more stress and longer waits for people who actually need urgent, life-saving help. Provinces are trying new programs to connect people with a provider, but the demand still far outweighs the number of professionals available. This ongoing shortage is breaking down the foundation of preventative and continuous health management in our communities. The growing crisis of long waiting periods Canadians are facing unacceptably long waits for many necessary medical procedures and consultations, which is a major problem in the system. When a person needs a knee replacement or a specialist’s opinion on a serious condition, waiting many months, or even over a year, has become a regular occurrence. These significant delays can cause people’s health issues to get worse while they wait, turning manageable problems into much more serious conditions, and sometimes requiring a hospital visit for something that could have been dealt with sooner. Furthermore, the long waiting periods are not just for non-emergency surgeries; they are also affecting the time it takes to get essential diagnostic scans like MRIs and CTs, which are critical for finding illnesses early. The wait times are a clear sign that the system is struggling to deliver timely care, which is the very essence of quality healthcare. Overcrowded emergency departments becoming the default Emergency departments (ERs) in hospitals across the country are often dangerously overcrowded, leading to extremely long wait times for treatment. Because so many people lack a family doctor, or cannot get a timely appointment, the ER becomes their only option for care, even for minor illnesses or prescription refills. This situation creates a severe strain on hospital staff and resources, as the ERs are forced to handle cases that should be managed elsewhere in the community. When a person with a broken leg or a heart condition has to wait hours in the hallway to be seen, it shows the system is failing its most vulnerable patients. Nurse and doctor burnout and workforce fatigue Healthcare professionals, especially nurses and doctors, are reporting very high levels of burnout and exhaustion due to the non-stop pressure of the system. The ongoing staffing shortages mean that those who remain must work longer hours and handle heavier workloads, which makes it hard to maintain a healthy work-life balance. Many experienced nurses are choosing to retire early or are leaving public hospitals to work for private agencies, which often pay better and offer more flexible schedules. This drain of skilled workers puts even more stress on the staff who stay behind, creating a harmful cycle of overworked professionals and reduced quality of care. The well-being of the healthcare workforce is directly linked to the well-being of the patients they serve, and right now, the staff are struggling significantly. Challenges in keeping and attracting rural healthcare workers It is becoming incredibly difficult to recruit and keep doctors, nurses, and other health professionals in Canada’s rural and remote communities. Healthcare workers often prefer to practice in large cities where there are more resources, better access to specialized equipment, and greater opportunities for their family. This leaves small towns and northern areas with a critical lack of service, forcing residents to travel long distances, sometimes in poor weather conditions, to get even basic medical care. In some small towns, the local ER might close down temporarily because no one is available to staff it, making a bad situation worse. New programs are needed to encourage more professionals to move to and stay in these underserved regions by offering better support and incentives. Fragmented care between provinces and territories The fact that healthcare is managed by each province and territory means the system is not a seamless one, which creates problems for patients moving across the country. A person who moves from Alberta to Ontario, for example, might find it hard to transfer their health records or quickly find a new family doctor because of differing provincial systems. This lack of a unified national approach to licensing also sometimes makes it harder for doctors and nurses to work across provincial borders, even when one region desperately needs staff. While the fundamental principle of universal access is national, the delivery of care is quite scattered, and this fragmentation prevents the system from being as efficient and coordinated as it could be for all Canadians. The need for better mental health services integration Access to proper mental health and addiction services is often disconnected from the rest of the physical healthcare system, making it hard for people to get the comprehensive help they need. While the need for mental health support is greater than ever, getting timely appointments with psychologists, psychiatrists, or counselors through the public system can involve very long waits. Many people must pay for these services privately because the public coverage is limited, creating an unfair barrier for those with lower incomes. True health means caring for both the mind and the body, and the current system needs to do a much better job of bringing these two aspects of care together seamlessly in local clinics and hospitals. Delays in adopting new medical technology Canada’s healthcare system can be slow to bring in and widely use modern digital tools and technology that could make care more efficient. While other countries are quickly moving to advanced electronic health records that easily share information, Canada still struggles with outdated systems where patient files are often paper-based or stuck in local hospital databases. This slow adoption of technology means doctors waste valuable time searching for information, referrals get delayed, and there are sometimes medical errors because a professional doesn’t have a patient’s full history. Investing in and standardizing modern digital tools across all provinces would be a huge step toward improving efficiency and patient safety. Increasing burden of an aging population Canada’s population is getting older, which is placing an ever-growing demand on healthcare services and resources, particularly in areas like long-term care and home care. As people live longer, they tend to have more chronic, long-term conditions like diabetes, heart disease, or Alzheimer’s, which require frequent monitoring and complex care. The number of hospital beds and specialized staff needed to support this aging population is not keeping up with the increase in demand. This pressure is felt in hospitals, which struggle to move elderly patients out of acute care beds and into appropriate long-term care homes or home-care programs, causing bottlenecks that ripple through the entire system. Inadequate infrastructure and capital spending Many hospitals and medical facilities across the country are operating with aging buildings and outdated equipment that need urgent modernization and repair. Delays in spending money on new infrastructure mean that some medical buildings are less efficient, harder to keep clean, and struggle to manage the flow of current patient volumes. For example, some hospitals might have fewer isolation rooms than necessary, or their operating rooms are not equipped with the most up-to-date technology for complex surgeries. Governments need to make significant, long-term financial commitments to update this physical infrastructure to ensure that healthcare professionals can work in safe, modern environments and deliver care effectively. Gaps in pharmacare and drug coverage While most hospital and doctor services are publicly covered, the cost of prescription medications is often not fully included in the public system, leaving many Canadians to pay out-of-pocket. This gap in drug coverage means that people without a private insurance plan, or those on fixed incomes, may struggle to afford the necessary medicine to treat their conditions. When people cannot afford their prescriptions, they often skip doses or do not fill them at all, which leads to their health getting worse and sometimes results in more expensive hospital visits down the road. The truth about “free healthcare”: Canadian taxes vs. U.S. bills Image credit: Hush Naidoo Jade Photography / Unsplash The truth about “free healthcare”: Canadian taxes vs. U.S. bills This article appeared first on Mastermind Quotes." Canadian healthcare is no longer the envy of the world Some lefties and liberals like to point a finger at those who question the Canadian system and make a false claim that we want the American system. That is nothing but a big lefty lie. We should be looking at the various European systems such as Germany's. They appear to be functioning much better. They may be more of a combination of public and private in a way that guarantees everyone good service. But Canada is in a difficult position to get out of because of our federal system with provinces having the basic jurisdiction over health care. And there are so many different conflicting voices and no coherent way to find a path to change. I am not sure Canada will be able to overcome the problems under the existing political system. That is tragic for millions of Canadians who now suffer and die in the faulty system. I think it would take strong leadership from the top to lead Canada to a way to change. I don't see that happening now. Another thing is the person at the top of the health care system in a province is the Minister of Health. That person is a politician and operates according to the politics of his or her party. Yet the minister is the one who is under tremendous pressure to do certain things or solve various problems within the system. This in itself is a problem. The minister is always caught between a rock and a hard place. As a result of this system, it is almost impossible to be proactive. Most decisions seem to be a reaction to another crisis here or there across the province. That means the system is seriously failing and the minister spends his/her time trying to put out fires here and there.

You don't read the correct sources. There is lots of false information out there. Why do you ignore facts? You don't seem to believe the oil industry contributes billions of dollars to the Canadian economy. What kind of alt reality do you live in? Your postings don't make sense at all. I reply, not because you will listen. I know you won't. I reply so others reading your nonsense don't accidentally believe you. The oil industry in Alberta creates thousands of jobs and brings in billions of dollars in royalties and taxes. How do you think Alberta has been so rich and provides billions of dollars to Quebec in equalization payments? Where do you think that money comes from? The oil industry.

That makes sense. One would think governments would want to do the right thing without the victim having to hire lawyers and fight for it. "1 A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight." Proverbs 11:1 KJV

Welcome back! Think last time I saw you on here was 2022. Hope you are doing well. Cheers. Yes, he is being rewarded now for his wrongful conviction and 43 years in prison with deportation to India, which is totally foreign to him. He should receive ten million dollars compensation. He is 63 yrs old and spent two-thirds of his life in prison for a wrongful conviction. He should at least be given citizenship and released with some compensation to live on. One would think the authorities would want to be just and try to do something for the wrong done to him. Apparently not.

This guy who was wrongly convicted and spent 43 years in prison for it is more deserving of citizenship than some of the merciless posters on here. Shame on them.

The oil industry does receive significant financial support from the government, primarily in the form of tax breaks and deductions rather than direct subsidies. In Canada, the oil and gas industry received approximately $29.6 billion in direct subsidies and financing in 2024, which includes tax breaks and other financial incentives. In the U.S., estimates suggest that the fossil fuel industry benefits from an estimated $760 billion annually through subsidies, tax breaks, and unpriced externalities. These financial contributions allow oil companies to recover costs related to production and infrastructure, contributing billions in taxes annualy" They receive some subsidies but most of it is in the form of tax breaks on the costs of producing oil or gas. The reason is to help the industry succeed and compete with other oil producing nations in the world. If there was no assistance or tax breaks for oil companies, they would simply go somewhere else in the world to invest and Canada would lose billions of dollars and thousands of jobs. That's simply how the world works. Investors go where they can make money. In return Canadians receive thousands of high paying jobs and billions of dollars in royalties and taxes paid to the governments. All that money goes toward paying for all the services such as health care, public education for children, etc. that Canadians receive.

"A man who spent 43 years in prison before his conviction was overturned now faces deportation PHILADELPHIA (AP) — After waiting more than four decades to clear his name in a friend’s 1980 killing, Subramanyam Vedam was set to walk free from a Pennsylvania prison this month. Vedam and Thomas Kinser were the 19-year-old children of Penn State University faculty. Vedam was the last person seen with Kinser and was twice convicted of killing him, despite a lack of witnesses or motive. In August, a judge threw out the conviction after Vedam's lawyers found new ballistics evidence that prosecutors had never disclosed. As his sister prepared to bring him home on Oct. 3, the thin, white-haired Vedam was instead taken into federal custody over a 1999 deportation order. The 64-year-old, who legally came to the U.S. from India when he was 9 months old, now faces another daunting legal fight. Amid the Trump Administration's focus on mass deportation, Vedam's lawyers must persuade an immigration court that a 1980s drug conviction should be outweighed by the years he wrongly spent in prison. For a time, immigration law allowed people who had reformed their lives to seek such waivers. Vedam never pursued it then because of the murder conviction. " A man who spent 43 years in prison before his conviction was overturned now faces deportation Here is a guy who legally came to the U.S. when he was 9 months old, was wrongly convicted and spent his life 43 years in prison. And now the administration arrested him and locked him up again and is deporting him. They have absolutely no sense of justice, compassion or understanding. He should be given 20 million dollars in compensation and treated with the utmost dignity and respect after all the injustice done against him. I understand there are some brainless MAGA people on here who will support the admin no matter what the case is, but they are not human and have no humanity.

The BC NDP has been working for years to enable FNs to acquire control and title over private property in BC. Nobody should feel safe in their homes now because some FN might just lay claim to the land it is on and the courts might just rule in their favour because of NDP laws and policies in a number of issues. The BC NDP adopted UNDRIP, the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People, which laid the groundwork for what is happening now. The BC NDP just the other day voted against a motion to stop all the land acknowledgments being made in the province. These land acknowledgments will carry weight in court rulings giving further credence to FNs claims over the private property of homeowners and other lands. The NDP signed a major agreement with FNs giving them the whole of Haida Gwaii (formerly the Queen Charlotte Islands) recently. This set a precedent as well for the FNs taking over private land. All these NDP acts give more legal support to FNs claiming private land in BC. The Cowichan Band is claiming their aim is not to takeover private homes and land, but this is just a cover. Such a claim means nothing. When the time is right, they will have the power to claim rent, compensation, or evict people from properties. For more information on how the NDP has sold out 95% of the population of BC to FNs see this article: Caroline Elliott: B.C. government laid groundwork for turning private property into Aboriginal land And why does the BC NDP want to give FNs ownership of people's private property, even though all of a sudden they claim they are concerned about the court ruling? Well I think the answer is Commie ideology. That means they don't really believe in private property ownership. As there is nothing in the Charter of Rights to protect private property ownership, this is something they can really exploit for their leftist ideology. By giving FNs control of private property, it could be some kind of stepping stone to government seizing more control of private property. So what is the next step? Well, we will have to wait and see what exactly the courts and the NDP do, but it could open the whole matter of private property ownership to some kind of government control over private property in B.C. Perhaps that is what their end goal is. They could bring in some kind of law that takes control of private property away from FNs land claims but gives control to the government. So in the end the NDP gains more control over private property. They could end up looking like they are saving property owners from FNs takeover, but actually giving the government more control. Control is Communist/Socialist ideology. Private ownership of property goes against that ideology.

I don't think Carney has achieved anything yet with Trump. I am not sure Ford did the wrong thing with his ads quoting Regan. It might influence some Republicans. Trump sure seems to think they were a big deal. BC Premier Eby says tomorrow BC will start running ads in the U.S. B.C. is getting hammered by tariffs on the lumber. This will really hit the lumber industry hard if nothing is changed. It is a major industry in B.C. Not sure the federal government is doing anything about the tariffs on lumber.

The 17-1/2 year old was no child when he pulled a gun in the back seat of a taxi and shot the driver several times killing him, for nothing. "6 Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man." Genesis 9:6 KJV Doesn't say anything about a guy that is 17 should be allowed to get away with it. He was no child. In fact it doesn't give any age limit for punishing murderers. What is a not Christianity is letting murderers get away with murder. I'll go with the Bible before any liberal ideology.

No it's not spamming. The one topic is about gender ideology and the other topic I started is about parents freedom of speech in BC public schools being denied by the school gender police. Two topics that are related and but two different subject headings. It is perfectly reasonable for me to put a link on this thread as well. Why are you just making up phony complaints? Haven't you got better things to do?

I posted it as a new OP, but put it here because it is related to the topic of gender ideology. The other OP is about the gender police in BC public schools, so it is a different subject. Stop telling to stop spamming please. This is not spamming. It is on two different main topics, gender ideology and the other of about the gender police in schools. You should be able to see the difference.

According to the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF), Dixon filed a freedom of information request in Dec. 2024 to obtain district emails discussing her expulsion from the homestay program. She previously hosted a student in the 2023 school year. “The results revealed internal emails in which District officials referenced her political activities as the reason for rejecting her participation,” read an Oct. 20 news release by the JCCF. The group has taken on her case. It is at the discretion of the ( severely backlogged ) BCHRT to accept the complaint or not. The battle is not Dixon’s first run-in with the Nanaimo-Ladysmith Public Schools — and it is part of a wider pattern wherein B.C. schools are used by administrators to wage ideological warfare against the public or their employees. The typical targets are persons who refuse — whether politely or not — to unquestioningly swallow far-left progressive politics. It is taboo for any parent or educator to ask questions about, or poke holes in, gender ideology, critical race theory or the province’s undying mass graves narrative. Dixon learned that lesson thoroughly when she received a one-year ban from her child’s school grounds , under threat of police involvement, this September. Her “transgression” was a post she made to social media that included a blurry photo of a teacher, on the job, wearing a Progress Pride flag T-shirt. She linked the political symbol to a Minneapolis school shooting , committed by a transgender-identified male, over the summer. The school district demanded she remove the post, told her she was inciting violence and ultimately banned her from school grounds. All under the guise of enforcing Section 177 of the province’s School Act , which is meant to prevent “disruption of schools and school functions.” Dixon pulled her child from school. After obtaining assistance from the Free Speech Union of Canada, the district dropped its exclusion order. If Nanaimo-Ladysmith Public Schools sounds particularly or exceptionally repressive, it is not. Districts around the province are functioning — if you can call it that — with a similar jackbooted zeal. For instance, New Westminster Schools marked the beginning of the school year with a letter to parents explaining the district’s code of conduct . Parents are described as “members of the district learning community,” which reads as cute until you realize that it is ostensibly a power grab by the district to police both students’ and parents’ social media posts." For the rest of the article: Amy Hamm: Not even parents can escape the speech police at B.C. schools This repressive agenda originates from the BC NDP government which is in charge of the public education system. Just another reason why some are choosing to home school their children, a wise choice.

BC schools have declared war against any parents who question their gender ideology taught in schools. Amy Hamm: Not even parents can escape the speech police at B.C. schools

This could be just another reason why many will see Canada as a hopeless country and might choose separatism. The Supreme Court is out of touch with reality and is inflicting their bizarre rulings on all Canadians, much like the Liberal Party. Of course most of the judges are probably liberals appointed by liberals.

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Get your head examined! Read how a 17 year old, with a criminal record, murdered a taxi driver and got 4 years for it. He deserves capital punishment.

I posted an article above about a cold-blooded 17 year old with a criminal record shot to death an older taxi driver for no reason. The 17 year was given a sentence of 4 years to be followed by several years of house arrest. This is a shocking miscarriage of justice. The guy should have got capital punishment. Who will he kill next? Write to MPs.

The light sentence given to a 17 year old for the murder of a taxi driver is enough to make anyone sick. This happened because of Liberal justice system and the liberal-appointed supreme court judges. quote Christopher Jung, a 73-year-old Toronto taxi driver originally from Poland, was “the happiest he’d been in a long time” in October 2021 — the COVID lockdowns had eased, and could finally return to work. He wouldn’t live to see November. On an evening shift Oct. 24, a teen he had driven to Scarborough would reach under the plexiglass divider with his handgun and fire a fatal seven shots into his body. That teen, known only as I.T., was convicted of second-degree murder by a jury earlier this year, which would normally mean a life sentence and no parole for at least 10 years. But last week, he was handed a youth sentence of four years in jail by Justice Shaun Nakatsuru, to be followed by another three on house arrest. Why? Because only a few months ago, the Supreme Court of Canada decided to make it next to impossible to sentence even the worst youth offenders as adults — especially when race is raised as an issue. It would be hard to find a better candidate for an adult sentence than I.T. He was 17 years and five months old when he murdered Jung, and was under three separate weapons prohibitions at that time from prior crimes . He’d been convicted in February 2020 for property crimes, court order breaches, impaired driving, assaulting police and possessing a gun. In August 2020, he was convicted for possessing and transporting a gun. And in September 2021, he was convicted of breaching a court order, possession of stolen property and robbery. unquote For the full article go to: Jamie Sarkonak: Cold-blooded murderer, 17, sentenced like a child thanks to Supreme Court

Why doesn't Carney send the minister of foreign affairs or a trade minister or representative so he can look after more important major issues here in Canada? Why are we paying all these cabinet ministers big bucks? They have big staffs and the expertise to deal with foreign trade meetings. Carney is no expert on everything anyway. No reason why Carney has to be at these meeting in foreign countries. His job is to govern Canadian matters first.

Corporation do the trading, not the government. Who do you think produces all the goods to sell to other countries. Do we really need to be paying for Trudeau and Carney to be jetting around the world all the time? I don't think so. Companies can sell their goods to the rest of the world themselves.

What are you talking about? Carney is not even on scene doing his job. He is busy jetting around the world just like Trudeau did. While Rome burns, the Emperor is playing his fiddle. quote There is some reason to hope that Carney has some ideas about uplifting Canadians. But if he clings to his public record of economic self-strangulation through the green psychosis, and a nagging authoritarian state slapping down personal material ambitions as insufficiently altruistic, his government and the country will disintegrate with startling speed. " Conrad Black: For the sake of the country, Carney must drop his green obsessions

Sure, you want a nanny state where the state takes care of your every need and wish. That's not possible because somebody has to pay for it. People are not going to work to pay to give everything to people that don't think they need to work. People are not going to work to give all the entitled people everything they wish.

This shows where Carney's priorities are. Instead of staying in Canada and trying to stop the Trump tariffs, Carney is jetting around the world to various meetings with other globalist elite. Meanwhile hundreds of Canadians are losing their jobs and thousands more jobs are threatened. Where are Carney's priorities. Doesn't seem like with Canadians. Even now, with Trump just cutting off negotiations completely, Carney is still going to southeast Asia for more meetings. Increasing trade takes years and the immediate problem is the Trump tariffs which need a resolution to save Canadians jobs and their livelihoods for their families. quote Prime Minister Mark Carney and U.S. President Donald Trump in Alberta for a G7 meeting, June 16, 2025. The past two weeks have revealed the disastrous consequences of Mark Carney’s failure to negotiate some sort of relief from Donald Trump’s punishing tariffs on Canadian exports. And Canadian workers have paid the price. Two weeks ago, automaker Stellantis announced plans to move Jeep Compass production from a Brampton, Ontario, plant to Illinois. 3,000 jobs will be lost. In Ingersoll, Ontario, GM halted production of electric vehicles, laying off hundreds of workers. Truck manufacturer Paccar Inc. then announced that 300 workers would be laid off at its plant in Sainte-Thérèse, Quebec. This is just the beginning. Oshawa’s GM assembly plant will scale back production starting this fall, with 700 to 1,000 layoffs hitting Canadian workers. This wreckage is a direct result of Trump’s 25% tariffs on Canadian automobiles exported to the U.S., as well as his new 25% tariff on heavy-duty trucks. Corporations with the ability to do so are shifting production to the U.S., leaving Canadian workers in the dust. This raises the question: What has Prime Minister Mark Carney been doing for the past six months while the tariffs have been in place? It seems clear that getting some relief from these tariffs took a back seat to Carney’s decision to jet around the world, putting in appearances at U.N. meetings and summits. The prime minister should have been laser-focused on resolving the tariff threat. But he wasn’t. In fact: Carney was warned that any delays in securing a new deal with Trump would have disastrous consequences for Canadians, especially the vulnerable automaker sector. But those warnings appear to have been ignored by the government. Carney seems to have thought that generous government funding would be enough to keep production in Canada and out of the U.S. Many of the multinational corporations now leaving Canadian workers high and dry have been the recipients of major moolah from the governments of Canada and Ontario. These funding packages were designed to convince those companies to keep jobs here rather than moving them to Illinois or Alabama or wherever. Stellantis, for example, has cashed in on the Liberal government’s naivety. The federal government gave Stellantis $105 million to retool two Ontario plants, only to see the company take the money and run. That’s in addition to another $529 million the feds forked over to Stellantis in 2022 to help the corporation modernize its plants so they could produce more electric vehicles — for which demand has plummeted. Now, it’s clear the Liberals made a bad bet and have lost the farm. In response, Quebec ministers Mélanie Joly and François-Philippe Champagne have promised they will be re-examining the deals they inked to see if they can sue Stellantis’ pants off to recover some of the hundreds of millions of taxpayers’ dollars they’ve lost. It’s doubtful they can recover a nickel. But even if they can: so what? The jobs that those dollars were meant to protect are gone and unlikely to ever return. Carney and his team look downright incompetent in seeming to think that their financial incentives would keep production in Canada in the face of Trump’s massive tariffs. Didn’t we elect Carney precisely because he was seen as an expert in these matters? As if things weren’t bad enough, they weren’t helped by Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s big mouth. On Thursday, Trump announced he was suspending trade talks with Canada altogether after Ontario unveiled a provocative and misleading advertising campaign that Trump took umbrage with. But Ford’s screw-up mattered less than many might think. Beforehand, Carney admitted that a trade deal with Trump was “no longer within reach,” and that any relief on Trump’s tariffs would be pushed off until at least next year. We’re already seeing the disastrous consequences of those 25% tariffs. Carney needed to get relief. Even a reduction would have made a difference. But instead, he’s waving the white flag and promising to check in again in 2026. Indeed, with Carney at the helm, those 25% tariffs may become permanent. Entire sections of the Canadian manufacturing economy will come to an end in that situation — beginning with automakers. Facing this potential future wasteland in manufacturing, surely the federal government must be doing everything possible to boost the economy in other sectors? Well, not really. In a much-ballyhooed primetime speech this week, Carney promised to double non-U.S. exports by 2035. That’s an easy promise to make. But the things that must be done to achieve it are much harder. For example: Does Carney support a new pipeline from Alberta to the B.C. coast to get Canadian energy products to tidewater? He won’t say, despite such a pipeline being crucial to boosting exports to non-U.S. countries. Carney was elected because he promised he was the best man to deal with Trump’s tariffs. That has been an unmitigated disaster. Now, after his failure to get a deal, he’s promising to transform the Canadian export economy — just without committing to doing anything that’s politically unpopular to get there. At some point, Canadians will hopefully begin to see through the promises. Trump ends trade talks with Canada over “fake” Reagan ad — Royce Koop is a professor of political studies at the University of Manitoba, and a guest writer for the Winnipeg Sun." KOOP: With failure to get a tariff deal, Carney’s blunders are adding up