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Seems we are revisiting the F-35 purchase. Looks like Portugal is not going to buy it citing US unpredictability. They will be going with a European aircraft. https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/f35-blair-trump-1.7484477 https://theaviationist.com/2025/03/13/portugal-f-35-plans/ Typhoon might be the best option but it also has the highest flyaway cost, although operating costs might be lower. We could buy 4 Gripen for the price of 3 F-35's and operating costs would be quite a bit lower. There must be some interesting conversations going on between the airforce and politicians. I believe we have already paid for the first 16 F-35's plus spares and tooling for most of the fleet so I imagine we will wind up with at least some of them.

Trump sure hid it well. He campaigned on the border and economy but turns out he is a wannabe Napoleon. Trump and Co are fascists, the jury is still out on your country.

The Democrats have to figure out who they are and be more focused. They are always trying to be everything to everyone whereas the Republicans have always been focused on winning. And here we are.

And the Republican party is doing nothing to stop them What's the old Jewish saying. If there are ten people at a table and one of them is a Nazi. If none of the others says anything there are ten Nazis at the table. Something like that.

https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/tariffs/2025/03/14/trump-tariffs-hurt-us-stocks-more-than-other-markets/

I think these things should be done on a national level but with our present political situation in limbo until we have an election or the parties can present a united front against the US, that will be difficult or impossible.

She's either an !diot or a bald faced liar, or both. You never know which with this mob. Trump believes the tariffs will give him revenues for a tax cut but if they stop imports there will be no tariffs to collect.

Hope so.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-brace-yourselves-whatever-crazy-awful-things-trump-may-have-done-to/?utm_source=offsite&utm_medium=cossette&utm_campaign=EVERGREEN7&utm_term=ccdr&utm_content=Braceyourself&utm_id=120222636104560348&fbclid=IwY2xjawJAFEJleHRuA2FlbQEwAGFkaWQBqx4nBcbEHAEds8UQlMpL2BSHMi8MPiqkgrYzldhFcg7Ogm5lh1R1jMao2Tw6QEktWLwK_aem_az2H3gEKl_jmb6HFXwQ8ag

Aside from energy, the US actually has about a 50 billon trade surplus with Canada in goods and services.

Must admit, if you are going to pose with a beer, that was an odd choice.

It's so bloody complicated, Anheuser Busch is owed by InBev so it isn't even American anymore. Drink Sleemans, the Japanese own them.

The world is turning away from the US. https://www.reuters.com/%2Fmarkets%2Fglobal-markets-investors-analysis-2025-03-05%2F?utm_medium=paid&utm_source=meta&utm_campaign=traffic_channel%3Ameta_obj%3Apageviews&utm_term=subs_creative%3Aimage_name%3Amarkets&utm_id=120214912132090545&utm_content=120217993911380545&fbclid=IwY2xjawI_2aNleHRuA2FlbQEwAGFkaWQBqxmg6Nla0QEdoeKaRP1OHVeJ2lnw6auFSBrv9nBHyd6P8wrPrC73v1jiaXIArQWa8s25_aem_5E5QHDm2GsYalve_WmIvBw

And American carriers don’t want foreign carriers flying their domestic routes. Except within the EU, no country allows foreign carriers to fly their domestic routes. A big reason Western Canada has a cruise industry is because of cabotage. Almost all cruise ships are not registered in the US so aren’t allowed to go directly between US ports and have to originate or stop in Canada on their way to Alaska.

Where?

Negotiate what? US carriers don't want foreign airlines flying their domestic routes.

You can't fly Air Canada from JFK to MIA either. It's called cabotage. American cheese is shit. Their extra sharp cheddar barely qualifies as medium in Canada.

Yes it would have cost money. Customers wouldn't have known or cared, 90% of them knew nothing about cockpit doors and 75% probably still don't.

Really? It's their job to identify terrorist threats. What happened to the CIA and FBI? Airlines operated for 60 years without the need for hardened doors. Hindsight makes everyone a genius.

The federal government is responsible for security screening in the US. If you want to make airlines responsible you better be prepared to go through screening twice, once for the government and again for the airline. Back in the day we sometimes had cockpit open houses when passengers were free to come up a couple at a time on long day flights. Flight attendants hated it but it was interesting for us and informative for passengers. Aviation has had to adapt as new threats came along (hijacking, bombs etc). 9/11 was another one. I don't know how you could hold an airline responsible for not anticipating something that had never happened before nor can you be critical of passengers who would have had no idea the plan was to crash the aircraft into buildings.

It's not revenue neutral in BC. The NDP's first order of business when they gained power was to remove the requirement to be revenue neutral. Now it is just another wealth redistribution tax. Revenue neutral means an increase in one tax will be offset by decreases in other taxes.

A job worthy of his talents.