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So the Liberals got rid of their China-friendly candidate and then replaced him with... another China-friendly candidate. A DEI cop who has made little secret of his loyalty for China and his membership on the board of a subsidiary of China's United Front. But wait, what's this in buried in the story? During the Liberal leadership race, Mr. Carney met with the executives of the JCCC, according to its website, which described the former central banker’s entry into politics as “an important turning point in the upgrading of China-Canada relations.” Ahhh sooo. Carney met with this Chinese influence group while still in the leadership race. He didn't need any help to win that. So why? In order to gain their favour, of course, to help him out in the election he planned to hold afterward. I wonder what promises were exchanged between candidate Carney and the representatives of the Chinese government to gain their help in the upcoming election. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-liberal-candidate-peter-yuen-chosen-to-replace-paul-chiang-linked-to/#comments

Don't worry. Chiang is no longer a Liberal Party candidate. He's been replaced by a guy who is on the board of a Chinese Canadian organization that has been cited as being involved in foreign interference in Canada on behalf of China...

Hell, up until last month patriotism was a dirty word to the media and the Left. It suggested (gasp!) nationalism. And that might as well be ADOLPH HITLER! AHHHHG! AAAGHHh! Now we see all these brainless lefties and liberals frantically waving maple leafs as if they weren't so recently calling it 'so-called Canada' the illegitimate, genocidal, racist state on stolen land with 'no core identity'. Now the same people who sneered at gun owners and wanted to ban all guns are bravely declaring they would fight to the last man to keep Canada independent. Yeah. Okay.

Why is everything you write so... dumb? A May 2020 poll by Northwest Research for the Western Standard found that 41% of respondents would support independence in a referendum, 50% would be opposed, and 9% weren't sure.

Drivel That's not happening. But that you'd find this shocking just so drearily exemplifies the rigid, hierarchical dictatorship of parties that has become largely the custom in Canada - and almost nowhere else. The party leader is the absolute dictator and how dare anyone disagree in even the slightest way. If they do it's a scandal! Shocking! It's like you can't imagine the give and take of ideas and this even wandering into the public sphere the way it does in other countries. Like the UK, for example, where MPs will give interviews or even write newspaper columns critical of their leader and party policy. And they don't get expelled! Shocking! Scandalous! Otherwise known as state-owned, state-funded, state-controlled media. You... do understand that Smith is not a member of the Conservative party, don't you? You do get that, right? You get that it's not a national party but a provincial party concerned with the well-being of Alberta? Nobody seems to be surprised when the Quebec Liberal party disagrees with the federal Liberals but somehow they pounce eagerly on any deviation between Alberta's United Alternative and the federal Conservatives. Yes, but it's the right direction. And the United Alternative is not the same party as the Conservative Party of Canada. I really don't get how you people don't understand this.

Having a trade imbalance is not exactly a terrible thing. And raising the costs to consumers is never a good thing. You can't make cell phones nearly as cheaply as they do in China? Oh, okay, so you want to double the costs of buying a cell phone. And that helps America in what way, exactly? How does Americans not being able to afford the basic personal electronics everyone else in the world uses make America 'win'? Many of them don't even have tariffs on US goods. The US still slapped tariffs on them.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/wall-streets-biggest-tech-bull-warns-of-3500-iphones-as-economic-armageddon-looms-from-trump-tariffs-122638699.html

In 15 years half the population will be foreign born. Not sure how much of a 'shared history' Canadians have anymore. And Canada works for Ontario. I can't rightly recall anytime in my life when Canada or anyone else had Alberta's back.

Sure are. And this is just brainless. As a guy explained on BNN this evening, under Trump's tariffs an Iphone is going to cost over $2000. And when asked what it would cost if made in the US he said about $3500. The work done by Apple subcontractors in China like Foxconn is not exactly great. Their workers throw themselves off the building! You won't get Americans to work those kinds of hours, and even for an 8hr shift you'll have to pay them $25hr - at least and spend billions on the factory and parts makers. What are you invested in, cocaine? When the market goes down 2000 points everyone's investments suffer. Unless they have none.

The US unemployment rate is just over 4%. If you want a job in the US you have one. The people who don't have jobs are those who live in the inner cities and never even looked for one because that's not their way of life. Besides, they dropped out of their crappy, violent schools before graduating.

Again, this presupposes that all trade deficits are the result of cheating somehow. So let's look at Canada. Its trade surpluses with the US are, as everyone knows, because we sell them a lot of oil. And we actually sell it at below world prices! Somehow, this is cheating. But if Canada says "Okay, we'll build another couple of pipelines to the coast and ship all our oil to someone else so we no longer have any trade surpluses with you" the US would then go "No way! I'm putting even higher tariffs on you for refusing to sell us your oil!" Explain to me the logic, never mind fairness in that?

Canada's moronic dairy supply management system was part of the last trade negotiations with the US and the US agreed to ignore it in exchange for Canada giving way on other trade items.

No, it's not. This is taking from the working class and giving to the rich. The idea, as I understand it, is to have more taxes paid by those who import stuff thus lowering income taxes. Income taxes are disproportionately paid by the rich. Any cut to income taxes thus disproportionately benefit the rich. Now the rich do import goods, but the cost is largely a big 'meh' to them. And the great mass of imports is cheap stuff made in China, Indonesia, Vietnam, India, Mexico, etc. Cheap toys, tools, cars, appliances, etc. The tariffs are going to hit all of that and will be no 'meh' to the working class or even the middle class. If you slap a 50% tax on something that's not, as Liesman said on CNBC going to discourage purchase, it's basically shutting down that trade. That will mean more products are made in the US, but they will cost more. Not just because it costs more to make things in the US but because American companies will be able to largely ignore foreign competition. Historically, see how crappy US cars were until Japanese and then German cars began to export to the US. People were amazed at how they actually worked and didn't need constant repairs and lasted so long. So Americans will have to pay more for their toys, their cars, their dishes, their appliances, computers, cell phones, clothing, hell, even their plastic trash cans. The rich won't care. The drop in their taxes will more than make up for it. Not so for the working classes.

Sooo, none of the above is remotely true. I watched Steve Liesman on CNBC this morning trying to figure out where the Trumpsties came up with these numbers. Apparently, what they did was to take any country with a trade surplus with the US, deduct US exports to that country, and the resulting figure becomes their 'tariff rate against the US. For example, if US exports to X are 100b but it only imports 50b then they say X has a 50% tariff on America, and so slap a 25% tariff back on that country. It simply assumes that all surpluses others have are the result of cheating in some way, and so must be punished. BUT... it ignores US trade surpluses in services. The US often has very large trade surpluses in services due to its megacap tech companies. The Trumpsties complete ignore that. Also, if the US actually already has a trade surplus or no deficit with a country then it slaps a flat 10% tariff on them.

Winning!

Well, I was a kid when I was watching Beachcombers. And in those days it passed for decent TV as far as I was concerned. But I can't for the life of me think of anything else I've watched on that network since then aside from the occasional hockey game. And they don't even have that anymore. What in the hell are we paying a billion and a half dollars a year for?

These are kids shows. Except Peaky Blinders and Monty Python, which are British.

Dude, you're views aren't relevant to ordinary people at all. And given you and your ilk have been doing nothing but spewing hatred of Canada for years you're hardly one to call anyone a traitor.

It was a good show. And the last episode aired thirty-four years ago. How sad is it that this was the last program you (or I) liked?

No. There's a huge difference between conservatives having some small doubts in something like gay marriage, say, and third-world people thinking gays themselves should be criminalized. I remember seeing a poll taken of Muslims in the UK not that long ago and 100% felt that homosexuality was morally inexcusable. A third wanted it criminalized. You get the difference?

The CBC is the urban university crowd's view of Canada. Which is why nobody watches it. Hell, not even they watch it. Australia has about the same population as English Canada and they have had many fine programs there that sell internationally. Honestly, I literally couldn't imagine the CBC trying to do something like Sea Patrol. Have they ever even done an actual modern cop show on the CBC?

Your excitement is premature. Nothing has been cleared with regulators. And there is absolutely no sign a Carney government has any intention of easing regulations. The real polarization is between the Left-wing extremists who hate Canada and the rest of the people.

Remind me of how much extra Ontario contributes to the federal fisc than it receives - as compared to Alberta. If Alberta were to separate, equalization payments to Quebec would pretty much stop. What happens to separatist sentiments in Quebec then? They're only here for the money, after all.