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Nothing dishonest about it and what you stated is irrelevant. The only legitimate grievance a country can raise about another country’s domestic tax policy is if the tax poses an unfair trade advantage by selectively taxing or not taxing companies from certain countries. Canadian digital companies are also subject to the same tax so US companies are not at any competitive disadvantage. They’ve also known about this tax since the legislation was introduced in 2019 so surely have been accruing this cost, which is a rounding error compared to how much money they make. Last year alone Amazon had $638 Billion. USD in revenue. Google had $350 billion. Add in Netflix, Apple and all the other tech cos, I’m sure they were able to collectively scrape together a measly $2Bn over the past several years.

No sovereign government can allow a foreign president to dictate our domestic tax policy according to his own ideology. Trump’s claims are ridiculous the digital services tax applies to Canadian and non-Canadian businesses alike so this not about trade fairness and not “an attack on USA” as the orange id1ot declared The MAGAs simply want to impose their ideology and remake us in their image and Trump wants to serve his tech bro clients And this is yet another nail in the coffin for the claim that Trump prefers Liberals because it’s easier to get his way with them. As he has said many times in the past, he again complained that the Liberals are “very difficult” negotiators. What do you think PP would have done? TBH this is better than some kind of settlement where we have to at least symbolically bend the knee to the mad king and everyone gets accustomed to being a US vassal state just with terms slightly worse than before. Let’s keep diversifying away from USA and get building the stronger better Canada of the future

Only after Trump killed JCPOA did they enrich uranium to higher levels and supply cruise and ballistic 1) A decade later and they still haven’t produced a shred of evidence to support their original claims 2) USA and the rest of the JCPOA have their own advanced intelligence resources and it’s unlikely that they would find the complete opposite result of what Netamyahu claimed 3) Israel would normally be sharing intelligence of such critical importance with USA if not others as well and this would be included in USA’s own intelligence assessment so the fact that USA amd others came to a different conclusion either means Netanyahu’s claims were non-existent or not credible This is simply an unproven claim from a heavily biased source that is contrary to all publicly known facts, period. It’s a statement of facts which you clearly can’t even challenge or rebut. It’s a fact that under Trump Iranian uranium enrichment capability went from 3.25% purity capped and verified by the Trump admin itself under JCPOA to 20% after Trump killed the program and now it was up to 60% before the recent bombardment (90% is required for weapons grade).

Sorry unlike you I have a full and rewarding life outside of internet chat forums: friends, family, career….something you don’t seem to know much about.. I am not going to spend all day every day going line by line with know-nothing ideologues who are barely incapable of understanding let alone accepting facts that conflict with their ideology. I don’t post lies or half-truths, you MAGAs just impulsively impky that to any inconvenient facts that you would rather not believe. As for your ridiculous list of left wing violence it’s pathetic how far back in history you had to go. There’s no left wing equivalent to the Oklahoma City bombing or Jan 6 and the Weather Underground never assassinated people the way anti-abortionists assassinated abortion providers. There’s no left wing militia movement shooting it out with federal agents. There have been multiple recent instances of nutjob republicans attempting to assassinate Democrat politicians, only 1 instance of a Democrat doing anything similar.

We are talking about how things lead to this point with westcan trying to claim Biden somehow started this Iran is a bad actor that’s not in dispute. However the US and Israel are like crooked cops who frame the neighborhood criminal for crimes they didn’t when it serves their own interests to do so, arguing “whose side are you on?” After all, the neighborhood criminal is still a criminal and is not an “innocent” person, even if they didn’t happen to commit the particular crime they’ve been framed with By all accounts (except Netanyahu’s which still remain unproven a decade later) Iran had stopped its nuclear program in 2015 and then Trump unilaterally scuttled the deal for political reasons and imposed crippling sanctions so naturally Iran abandoned its pledge as well, why wouldn’t it? I don’t think they got “plane loads of (cash?)” and the JCPOA was working I am not excusing Iran of anything Im just giving you a recap of how the cheas game played out over the last decade and that the chain of directly contributing events goes back to the cancellation of JCPOA without any clear alternative plan. As I mentioned thanks to Trump, Iran’s nuclear program has been unmonitored and unhindered for almost a decade now and they made major technological gains during that time

Once again your post is just “nuh-uh” without offering a shred of what you think is incorrect, what you think the truth activist is, or any evidence whatsoever. This is a pathetic new tactic of yours, you’re not winning the argument.

Wrong. The benefit formula was significantly increased and was phased in between 2019 and 2025 for all Canadians. A young person earning their entire CPP under the new formula will receive 50% more than the original formula. https://www.canada.ca/en/services/benefits/publicpensions/cpp/cpp-enhancement.html Lol what are you talking about ? 4 million Canadians enrolled, half of whom have received care, 26,000 participating dental care providers (75% of all providers in the country) and they are still rolling it out and haven’t even fully opened up enrolment to all planned eligible groups yet. Another falsehood. Provincial coverage was patchy or non-existent from province to province . Federal program reimburses provinces who provide universal first dollar coverage for these items. Don’t knock it til you try it 😉 148 long term advisories have been lifted since 2015, 37 remain. There are 45 short-term advisories currently in effect which may or may not be from the same place as a previous long term. 175 short-term water advisories have been prevented from becoming long-term ( ie were resolved in less than 1 year) https://www.sac-isc.gc.ca/eng/1614386700861/1614386717841 The stuff that came from CAF inventory was all old gear. The military has been starving for decades including under conservatives. 1) The definition wasn’t changed, the measure changed in 2018 2) Statistics Canada not “the Liberals” changed the measure 3)The pre-2018 measures (called LICO and LIM) were not by themselves official poverty measures and they were inaccurate as didn’t take the cost of necessities into consideration in each region even though costs can vary significantly across the country. LIM only counts people who earn less than 50% of national median income. LICO only counts people who spend 20% more of their income on food, shelter and clothing than the national average (e.g. if the average Canadian spends 43% of their income on necessities you’re only poor if you spend 63% or more). As such the pre-2018 measure only captured the poorest of the poor. The new measure called MBM was actually developed by statistics Canada in 2000-2002 and updated in 2018 when it became the official measure. It actually prices a comprehensive basket of actual necessities including utilities, transportation, etc in over 50 Canadian regions. If your net after tax income is less than the basket in your town then you’re in poverty it’s that simple.

Iran has be spiralling out of control ever since Trump unilaterally and without provocation cancelled the JCPOA aka “the Iran Nuclear deal” in 2018 and imposed crippling economic sanctions on Iran, all at the behest of his best bribe paying buddies Netanyahu and Saudi Arabia. Since I know you don’t know, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) was a 2015 agreement between Iran US, UK, France, Germany, China, Russia and the EU to limit its nuclear program in exchange for sanctions relief. It was Monitored by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and Iran’s compliance was certified by the US on multiple occasions including by the early Trump administration Then Netanyahu and Saudi make these still unproven claims about Iran secretly cheating As a result of Trump sabotaging the deal and imposing crippling sanctions Iran resumed its nuclear program, now completely unmonitored Before Trump, Iran was only able to enrich uranium to 3.65% purity By the time he left office Iran was able to enrich it to 20% Biden continued Trump’s sanctions with only minor attempts to soften them and by the time Biden left office Iran was at 60% The Trump sanctions have massively damaged the Iranian economy and further destabilized the region

Expanded CPP Dental care Public coverage for insulin and birth control MAID Ended 130 long term boil water advisories Strong Support for Ukraine and opposition to Russia More than 650,000 children and more than 1 million Canadians overall lifted out of poverty due to CCB

Go ahead please start listing. You still haven’t told us what YOU think a socialist or shown us any definition to back it up. I never said no socialists have ever been dictators, the opposite in fact. Yet, once again you’re making shit up

LMAO there’s not ONE actual attempt at a rebuttal in all those words you typed, what a waste of time. . In fact in this whole thread you’ve not even attempted to post one link or or shred of evidence because even your eight wing propaganda sites have your specific creative invented gibberish. What you’ve claimed isn’t just patently false, it’s gibberish, which shows you don’t even understand the topic you’re trying to bend to a conservative narrative. You’re not just wrong, you’re hilariously out of your depth and making it up as you go. Your whole M.O. is just to spout your gibberish then respond to whatever I say with “nuh-uh I am right and you are wrong “. You’ve done this on a number of topics. It’s really pathetic.

Communism is a hypothetical economic model proposed by Marx where the nation state and its government no longer exist and everyone lives is communes like the Amish do where everything is collectively owned and managed by the local inhabitants. There has never been a true “communist” country. “Socialism” is what USSR was and what China still is: a model where most property and means of production are owned or directly controlled by the state.

This more of your made up gibberish. Communism by definition is a planned economy and communists believe you must first have socialism to get to communism. LMAO absolutely NOT by definition! YOU don’t know what socialism means. Your self-taught, self-invented gibberish is amusing though. So please provide us with a definition. But don’t make one up, go online and provide a link. Someplace credible like an actual encyclopedia or something not conservapedia. LMAO no, too many to name! Most dictatorships are not socialists, pick any. Here is a non-exhaustive list: Putin is a right wing dictator. Viktor Orban is a pro-Putin darling of republicans and has turned his formerly democratic country into a right wing authoritarian state Trump’s right wing dictator buddy Bukele in El Salvador Edogan in Turkey Modi in India Lukashenko in Belarus Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Libya, Pakistan, all conservative dictatorships, none are socialist Many of the juntas and dictators of Africa, especially Uganda and the pro-Russian juntas of the Sahel. . The right wing junta that ruled Greece in the 60s and 70s The bloody right wing dictators and generalisimos of central and South America that the US backed during the cold war like Augusto Pinochet and Fulgencio Batista amongst others. Francisco Franco of Spain I’ve studied it in university and read about it most of my adult life while you have invented your own gibberish nonsense that defies established facts and logic, based on nothing but a desire to slap that label on anything you want to associate with people you don’t like. Rather than actually learn history you’ve tried to reverse engineer an understanding of it by extrapolating from the diet of constant right wing propaganda you obviously consume regularly and you think it sounds credible but just comes out as nonsense. Hitler’s Mussolini’s, Franco and Pinochet all practiced different dorms of fascism. But they are all forms of fascism and none were socialist But they were all socially conservative, economically right wing, and all supported by the wealthy right wing members of their country, including republicans in the USA.

Stop with the lying. I refuted the false claims, stated the facts and cited a widely acclaimed expert. LMAO. You re hilarious. Just because your uneducated ass can’t name a single expert on the subject (or any subject) doesn’t mean he’s a no name hack. What exactly are you disputing, that he’s a Yale professor? That he’s written 5 books on the subject? That he was invited to Big Think? You don’t know a thing about him or his motives, all you know is he said something you don’t like so once again you start completely inventing claims with no supporting evidence…all to falsely accuse someone else of making claims with no evidence while defending an anonymously written conservapedia post that could have been written by literally be anyone, even a child, on a website whose stated purpose is to provide conservative-biased information. Do you know how absolutely ridiculous that makes you sound? The only pathetic arguments here are yours I refuted every point. Id you say the capital of Russia is Paris and I say “wrong, its Moscow” that’s refuted. Especially if I then post a video by one Americas foremost geography experts who says the same thing. And keep in mind buddy you don’t even attempt to post a single shred of evidence to back up any of your nonsense because it’s all made up by you. As the expression goes “that which is asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence” but I still gave you a video. We’ve had this argument before, I’ve given you the links, which you don’t click and complain that it’s too much reading. If I find a video of sock puppets I’ll send it your way. But I haven’t even said anything that’s controversial, it’s widely accepted common knowledge that everyone learns in high school. Are you serious? It was a cult of personality which by definition means it was a dictatorship since he was also the leader of the country. Are you trying to argue that these are mutually exclusive things? Like literally the national culture was for the citizens to praise his name while they passed each other in the street. He wasn’t just some dude who happened to leading the party at the moment He created Nazis and it died when he died. No, you just don’t know what the word socialist means, you apply the label to anything or anyone you don’t like. But you don’t understand the subject. And they all hated each other but were all socialist. Don’t lecture me on topics you know nothing about. Technically speaking communism and socialism are both Marxist ideas but they separate. Marx believed state-run socialism is a logical temporary stage between a capitalist state and his ideal stateless utopia of communism where there are no countries or governments or nation states. Nazis were fervently opposed to all of this and were not socialist, period. The Nazis were authoritarian so controlled most things to their will but that’s not what socialism means. They had no desire to redistribute wealth from the rich to the poor or live in some egalitarian commune. To the contrary they were the party of the rich and powerful and enforced that strict social order, which is why so many Republican anti-communists in the USA like Charles Lindbergh and Henry Ford and conservatives around the world including members of the British royal family celebrated and admired them early on. As you have been told repeatedly the name doesn’t mean anything: North Korea’s official name is the “Democratic Republic of Korea”. Do you think that means they’re a democratic republic?

… Redundant. The right tends to be the party of political violence: Gabby Giffords shooter, countless abortion clinic bombers and shooter, the Atlanta Olympics bomber, Timothy McVeigh, and so on. He had a ling list of targets that included Democrat, planned parenthood and people linked to women’s reproductive rights. So sounds like another republican anti-abortion terrorist

Lol conservativapdia is a joke It is literally created to provide conservative-biased information, aka disinformation, it’s right there in the name. And what they said is just false and made up. Contrary to your claim, I explained exactly what is not correct and then posted a video from a top expert. Secondly the video is not some “no name useless twat” obviously you didn’t watch the video. He is one of America’s foremost experts on the subject, a professor at Yale university (now at U of Toronto) who has written and has written 5 prominent books on the subject. So to be clear, the “no name twat on the internet” is whoever wrote that conservapedia article. This is that opposite-of-reality thing you do like when you tried to claim that an article titled “Debunked 2000 mules video contains no evidence” was actually trying to tell readers 2000 mules video offered compelling evidence, and when you tried to claim a snopes article title “Yea the Trump shooter was Republican” was try to argue that he was a democrat. That is a ridiculous thing to say I literally laughed out loud when I read that and Im sure anyone else would if you said that to them. Do I really need to explain about Hitler and Mussolini? The official formal greeting of the German military and much of society at large was doe people to literally to say “Heil Hitler” to each other. Sorry that is gibberish you’ve made up and is simply not true. Nazis viewed Marx, Marxism, socialism, communism, etc as a cancer eating away at society that must be cut out, not something that is good in principle to improve and perfect. Nazis celebrated and promoted a class system and social hierarchy, which is what Marxism specifically sought to eliminate. These were central core beliefs of the Nazis that they proclaimed loudly and often. 1) Hitler Putin and Mussolini are not socialists 2)Non-socialist models also susceptible: every non-socialist dictatorship in the world for example: most of Africa and the middle east, southeast asia, much of Latin America past and present. 3)The Scandinavian countries are successful “socialist” democracies but I am half inclined to argue that they’re not really “socialist” countries as most people understand the term, they’re simply capitalist countries with higher levels of taxation, public services and regulation than most. I don’t know what this means. Hitler and Mussolini literally wrote the book on fascism although they had many differences between each other ams they wee literally at the opposite end of the political spectrum from communism, socialism etc. Any regime left or right can be authoritarian that’s not unique to communism/socialism etc.

Conservapedia is propaganda nonsense. It was literally created to publish “ alternative facts” by conservatives who can’t accept reality Fascism is right wing. It is violently and specifically anti-Marxist, anti-socialist and anti-left in all forms. Neither the Nazis nor Mussolini were socialists, they killed and jailed socialists by the thousands while publicly denouncing everything socialism stands for.

@WestCanManhas called every conflict that started during Biden’s term “Biden’s wars” and held him personally responsible so I can’t wait to hear his excuse for why he won’t do the same for Trump

There’s $9 billion of new money in this announcement, but mostly for mundane, easy to spend things that don’t have to go through procurement like salaries, ammunition, spare parts, etc. I believe the government has been including coast guard costs towards the NATO target for a few years now. They also count certain expenses by Global Affairs and Veterans Affairs other departments. It’s possible that moving CCG into DND increases the proportion of CCG expenses they can claim towards NATO, I don’t see that level of detail being spelled out. .

This is just the low hanging fruit, mostly stuff they can spend on right away like pay raises etc as you mention. The big ticket purchase announcements and the money to pay for them are expected to be announced separately. I think Canada has been included coast guard budget in their NATO spending for a whole nsow, since NATO allows it. Other vaguely related stuff like veterans pensions is included in that figure too. I don’t think they’re transferring the CG budget to the military, just including it in their calculation.

Your posts never have any substance, just cheap generic insults. I think that shows you’re the one full of shit.

That’s the excuse, we both know that if itwas a different day it wouldn’t be so grand. Trump tried to have a grand military parade in his honour during his first term if you’ll recall. And if it really wasn’t about Trump he wouldn’t be making himself the centrepiece, he’d keep his distance. The nation’s most expensive military parade for a draft-dodger and his fake bone sours.

He didn’t “save” them. They agreed to join the year-long mission that was already underway when their rocket failed, so as not waste resources on an unplanned launch. He doesn’t have the faintest ide how to make America great and he couldn’t give a shit about world peace That’s not a real thing.

He’s only saying that now, after things started going to shit. He was elected on a promise that things would immediately improve, not get worse. They were already improving under Biden and Trump’s reversed that. Secondly there’s zero evidence anything he’s done will help anything improve, All the evidence suggests his tariffs and protectionism will just make things worse. But hey, the “dictator on day one” is going to spend tens of millions to throw himself the most expensive military parade in history for his birthday, while millions of Americans are suffering from his cuts, that’s something!

Really bad people who were accomplices before one of them whacked the other Lol nope!! You don’t pay attention, do you?