Dougie93

Okay, then why hasn't he cancelled the contract already?

Scheer's chances get exponentially better if Trudeau goes and cancels that GDLS-C contract, because it's not just going to be Londoners who will be enraged, that's the kind of thing that could very well swing Ontario and thus the election Mind you, I have the way out for Trudeaupe; just come out and say that the current LAV 6 the Canadian Army is using is no longer survivable against emerging threats, which is true, so Canada will be cancelling the Saudi contract, but fear not, to replace that contract Canada will be purchasing the latest GDLS Piranha 5 mounted close combat vehicles to replace them over the next decade, with Lance modular turrets and AMAP-ADS active protection systems to be added at Rheinmetall Canada in St.Jean Quebec, contract for Ontario and contract for Quebec, win-win.

Nobody outside of Canada cares, there's no black eye, the only downside is that the point of the Saudis spreading these contracts around is to buy influence, thing is tho, MBS went and blew that up when they went on a tirade against Canada and told us to go fuck ourselves. Now they have no influence, and yet they still want the vehicles, I'm not going to vote to throw 1800 people out of a decade of work just to appease virtues signalers, all of them in Canada.

The Americans produce about ten million of those barrels a day from the shale reserve, roughly 3.7 billion per year, 3.7 trillion is 1000 times that, thus, at current production rates; 1000 years worth of shale in the US reserve.

And frankly, I should be thanking the Trudeaupes, because the thing that will put it over the top next time, the thing they didn't have last time, will be immigration. The Pequistes will rise again and win, to wall themselves off from the brown hordes and mooslambs at their gates, vive le Quebec, vibe le Quebec libre!

I don't need Canadians, all I need is the Pequistes in Quebec, they will rise again, it's just a matter of time, they go on a cycle in Quebec and wheel will come round again, came damn close last time, next time will be the trick, once the core is ripped out of the East, it will all come apart at the seams and there will be no putting humpty dumpty back together again. Mind you, after the nations in Confederation find out that Ottawa was the thing which was the source of their rage and retrograde economy, they wont want to put it back together again.

Again, everybody should loathe democracy, except for the non violent peaceful transfer of power, the rest of it is a clown show, democracy is not the best option, its just the least worst option.

Also, if the "Climate Scientists!" are correct, Canada wont be around in a hundred years; wiped out by Malthusian Climate Change, remember?

And as far as your century of oil assertion goes, again, most of that is shale, which is not going to be profitable to take out of the ground anymore, more likely Canada goes looking for lighter fare in the arctic when bitumen is effectively worthless.

3.7 trillion barrels at current production rates is 1000 years of US shale production, so "temporary supply" if you're talking a millennium timescale and/or are assuming the Americans will increase production by orders of magnitude on your aforementioned century timescale. I would submit, seems more likely that oil will cease to be the fuel of choice long before the Americans run out of shale.

I wont, instead I will de-Confederate Canada and allow each province to have its own gun laws.

3.7 trillion barrels in the American shale reserve is not short lived, unless by short lived you mean decades talking on a century timescale.

Moreover, Canada's bitumen oil is not viable long term, not just because the Climate Barbies are making it politically radioactive, but because it's so expensive to produce while yielding very little return in relation to the effort, in order for bitumen to be profitable, the oil price has to be at unsustainable levels, if Alberta had more light sweet crude to drill, they wouldn't be in the oil sands in the first place, Alberta's strategic reserve is a mirage, because it's mostly bitumen, the golden age of the oil sands is over, and it ain't coming back.

Not gonna happen, none of these fantasies are politically realistic, the Climate Barbies are not going to allow Alberta to have the pipelines, nor the refineries, and with the American shale oil on line now, dirty old Western Canadian Select is going to be worth considerably less, forever, the Americans are going to eat our lunch with their West Texas Intermediate and shale.

Donald Trump was exactly right, with a flick of the Americans wrist, they could tariff car parts from Canada and it would be the ruination of the nation, which is why he forced the Trudeaupians to cave and give him everything he wanted, which was really quite modest, the problem for Canada tho, is that Trump is just the beginning of what will be a long term divergence, the Americans no longer have any use for us, because we are useless to their hegemony, we have no military to speak of, and they don't need our oil anymore, so as they re-centralize their economy back to the CONUS, and with the onset of automation, the things which have been propping the Ottawa clown show up for so many decades, are about to go away. I welcome it though, because the reason Canada has become such a lazy entitled and silly place, is because the Americans are subsidizing us. It is going to be a crisis in Canada, but again, with crisis comes opportunity.

Canada is not a great success, America is a great success, Canada is the parasite which dines out on the Americans success, none the less, there is a divergence coming, the Americans will be pulling away from us, it has already started, and Ottawa can't even tie its own shoe laces, the provinces deliver all the services, the federal government simply collects the taxes and comes up with things like the Pheonix Pay System and buying rickety old fighter jets from Australia for $500 million. $500 million? LOL! Jeebus the Aussies fleeced them.

The industrial manufacturing jobs are all about to go away anyways, clinging to your archaic 19th c. industrial paradigm is a fool's errand, you are in the throws of an 21st information revolution right now, which is in progress of rendering mass human manufacturing into buggy whips, and its happening fast and its picking up speed as it goes. If socialists try to go against the grain they will render themselves politically irrelevant, which is fine by me, but I think they will actually be forced to get with the program at some point, by default, AI 3D printing is not a person, so it doesn't feel sorry for you nor your buggy whips neither.. Don't shoot the messenger, I didn't invent the computer, that was Alan Turing.

Planned Parenthood is small beer, who cares? What is important, is the first and second amendment and preventing the Democrat party from Canadianizing them.

Bear in mind, I'm not seeking to bring down the de facto nations within Confederation, I'm simply trying to free them, there will still be a Nova Scotia and an Alberta, but rather than being pseudo colonies as they are now, they would be their own Dominions like a mini Australia and a giant New Zealand. It's no different than what the Scottish National Party is seeking in the UK, they're not saying that they want to get rid of the Queen, they just want to rid themselves of England. Canadians would be much happier and more prosperous living in their own decentralized Dominions rather than as de facto colonies of Ontario, because they would be much easier to effectively govern to their local needs and desires without having to shoehorn them into this failed Confederation.

I don't have a hate on for Confederation, I'm not hot about it, I'm ice cold about it, rational calculation, it no longer serves any purpose because it has utterly failed to serve the purpose for which it was created. I'm not a rage guy, I'm more of a close with and destroy and otherwise patiently lying in wait for my opportunity in the meantime guy.

There's nothing wrong with loathing democracy, I loathe democracy with a passion, democracy is simply a peaceful transfer of power in order to stave off a violent revolution, but other than that, it's repugnant.

Most of the fodder for knee jerk Canadian America bashers is coming from your own domestic self hating America bashers, the Hollywood Liberal Panty Waists et al, the Canadian Liberal media is just the farm team for the American liberal media, they're all looking to get a job down there, every Canadian media hack aspires to be the next Peter Jennings It's like, I've spent hours on American dominated web forums defending America against ceaseless and vicious rhetorical assaults from American lefties, exact same sort of sneering contempt you see round here, and far worse, because the America bashers on this forum are pretty pedestrian and totally unoriginal, the American lefties are much more aggressive in their trolling of other Americans, and they're constantly updating their material. Blue State liberals have essentially been Canadianized, they want America to be Giant Canada, and they lash out at it for not being so.

Again, you're viewing Canada as if it was a republic, but it's not, Canada is a confederation, there is no central patriotic narrative because there is no central nation, a confederation is a collection of nations, so for example Mohawks are plenty patriotic about being Mohawks and Nova Scotians are plenty patriotic about being Nova Scotians and of course Quebecers are fiercely patriotic about being the Quebecois. Canada is not a unitary nation, it's a product of two shotgun marriages, the first was 13 September 1759 when the British Crown seized Nouvelle France as a war prize at Quebec, the second was when the Fenians frightened the colonies into Confederation on 1 July 1867. Then there's the West, which was settled after, mostly by flood of ex-pats from Britain at the turn of the 20th century.

It already goes to the coast by train, and a "higher price" is not really that significant, the Rachel Notleyist Socialist Workers Paradise cannot be funded by anything short of $100 a barrel Brent, which ain't coming back soon, she's got the same problem Vladimir Putin has and the Soviets before him, although really it's Jason Kenney's problem naow.

The hilariously ironic part of the Liberal Party of Canada Flag and the Liberal Party of Canada Song, is that it's straight out of the playbook of the National Socialists, the Maple Leaf our Swastika, O' Canada our Horst Wessel, although squishy liberals wouldn't notice, because they don't know Canadian history never mind German, hee-hee-hee.