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And the thing is, the NDP gets a lot more support at the provincial level. I wonder why that is. Lol, proving your point is your homework, not mine

Something doesn't add up. Normally, these funds are capitalized using budget surpluses (they are common in non-Western, oil-rich countries) but the US has an enormous federal deficit. On the campaign trail, Trump said he would build the fund using revenue from his planned tariffs and “other intelligent things.” Another scheme

It begins with crooked pharmacies and housing staff. It says some pharmacies are alleged to be "offering incentives to clients," with more than 60 pharmacies identified, and that some "community housing staff" require tenants to go to certain pharmacies for their prescriptions. Other participants in the alleged schemes, according to the document, include doctors, assisted living residences, and organized criminals. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-investigates-opioid-diversion-1.7451733 No, crime does.

Trump and Musk have both demonstrated a pattern of smearing those they want to take down. Ethics and honesty play no part in their strategy, only self-interest. The harm they cause is devastating to many, many people. And in a lot of cases like the misinformation presented in the OP, the source can be traced back to Russia. A video recently posted on X, falsely bearing the E! News watermark, claims that USAID paid Angelina Jolie $20 million, Sean Penn $5 million, Jean-Claude Van Damme (misspelled in the footage) $1.5 million, Orlando Bloom $8 million, and Ben Stiller $4 million to complete their respective visits to Ukraine. It has been retweeted by Elon Musk, Donald Trump Jr., and Sidney Powell, and has millions of views. It is fake and totally false and the original source of the claim comes from a Russian propaganda channel. “These are lies coming from Russian media,” Stiller posted on X (formerly Twitter). “I completely self-funded my humanitarian trip to Ukraine. There was no funding from USAID and certainly no payment of any kind.”

I agree this can really work against him and the Conservatives, especially with the groundswell of Canadian nationalism we've seen in the wake of Trump's threats. Interesting. They have a website: https://canadafirstm.ca/ They list as their leaders Trudeau, Poilievre, and Danielle Smith, so they must be out of Alberta Apparently they are a relaunch of a movement started in 1868 in the wake of the Red River Rebellion and the execution of Thomas Scott https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_First But, yeah, I think the next federal leader needs to distance us from the US, not copy them

I don't know if it is "primarily" - but yes support for the federal NDP has steadily decreased over the last year, not just in the last month. Maybe it had something to do with Singh pulling the plug on NDP support for the Liberals I'm not sure about this. Can you point us to where it says this? Under the fixed-date provisions of the Canada Elections Act, the election would be held on October 20, 2025 It could be earlier, but not later. I've read 9% https://www.orilliamatters.com/local-news/poll-federal-ndp-green-readers-shifting-to-liberals-10162957

The Indigenous community is feeling hurt and betrayed. I wonder if Sainte-Marie's motivations matter? Did she do it only for her career? Or did she feel an affiliation with the Indigenous community? But in the end, no-one likes to be lied to, especially on this scale.

And who told you about this fraud, waste and abuse? Lemme guess. Trump and Musk. And you didn't answer my question.

I don't pay any attention to conspiracy theories. Fine. Believe Trump and Musk over everyone else. See how far it gets you.

In the last month, the Liberal Party has enjoyed an 8-point gain, while the Conservative Party has seen a 5-point drop. https://www.ipsos.com/en-ca/liberals-narrow-gap-conservatives The prospect of a new leader has no doubt turned some back to the Liberals. The Conservatives still lead, and remain well-positioned for a win if the election were held tomorrow. But what does the future hold? Which party do Canadians think will better handle Trump and his threats? Some might think Poilievre is too philosophically aligned with Trumpism to launch a proper fight. It’s to the Liberals’ advantage to make the threat of Trump more real. I think that’s why we have Trudeau saying Trumps’ threat to annex Canada “is a real thing.”

The Black Lives Matter movement grew out of a series of high-profile killings of Black people by police. I'm not sure what this has to do with the Irish? That the US valued Black lives less than White lives is just a matter of the historical record. Thousands of Black Americans have been lynched. How many White people do you figure? This is just ridiculous.

It's always been understood that White lives matter. That has never been brought into question. Black lives, not so much. So, to say "Black lives matter" is to correct a misapprehension that led to the killing, of, say, Emmett Till.

Was this before or after USAID provided food in countries where people are starving, operated the world’s gold-standard famine detection system, used data analysis to predict where food shortages are emerging, bolstered health programmes, such as offering polio vaccines in countries where the disease circulates (thereby deterring a global pandemic), provided medicine and installed clean water supplies to the world’s poorest countries, provided prosthetic limbs to soldiers injured in Ukraine, cleaned landmines, and contained the spread of Ebola in Africa? What’s this got to do with the US, you ask? Okay, you want to make it about you. Fine. Why should we care about dropping maternal, infant and child mortality rates in foreign countries? Does the US want to be a global leader or not? Do they want to retreat from the world stage and isolate themselves? Do they want to give up their influence?

It would be comical if it wasn't so sad. Do you really believe that any money saved by Trump and Musk destroying American government will be used to help out the average guy? You are deluded if you believe so. It will only be used to strengthen the power and increase the wealth of the rich.

Do you know how to read? The "domains ... occupied by 1.8 million Palestinians" are not in Gaza. “Being in its presence just has not been good and it should not go through a process of rebuilding and occupation by the same people that have really stood there and fought for it and lived there and died there and lived a miserable existence there. Instead, we should go to other countries of interest with humanitarian hearts, and there are many of them that want to do this and build various domains that will ultimately be occupied by the 1.8 million Palestinians living in Gaza, ending the death and destruction and frankly bad luck. And by "people of the area" he does not mean Palestinians. He means people who will invest in his "Riviera." He clearly wants to move the Palestinians to a another place. President Donald Trump on Tuesday proposed that the United States take a “long-term ownership position” over Gaza, moving its residents to a “good, fresh, beautiful piece of land” in another country and developing the war-torn territory under U.S. control, offering a vision of mass displacement likely to inflame sentiments in the Arab world.... “I don’t think people should be going back to Gaza. I think that Gaza has been very unlucky for them,” Trump said. “They’ve lived like hell. They lived like you’re living in hell. Gaza is not a place for people to be living, and the only reason they want to go back, and I believe this strongly, is because they have no alternative.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/04/trump-netanyahu-meeting/

Well, following the tariff fiasco, I wondered what would be Trump's next big great ridiculous distraction to keep his base mesmerized. Now, with this plan for Gaza, we have our answer. With this forced relocation, Trump can have his own "Trail of Tears"

I wonder what will be the next performance he fascinates his base with.

What do you know about it? Really, tell us. What do you know about it besides what you have been told?

I don’t know why I am still surprised to find Trump acting in such bad faith. Maybe I am not so surprised. Maybe I am more surprised that anyone puts any faith in him at all. I had a chance to read Trump’s Whitehouse “Fact Sheet” today. I put “Fact Sheet” in quotes because the facts are crooked. The official government release makes out like Mexico and Canada are equally at fault for the fentanyl crossing the borders into the US. Notice the “our borders.” No differentiation is made. Oh, well, the sane person asks - How much of that is coming from Canada? 43 pounds. Compared to 21,000. Why did they hide this fact?

He couldn’t legally impose the tariffs on Canada without first declaring an emergency so he made up a story about fentanyl pouring in from Canada to the US. You most certainly did imply that there are rational economic reasons behind Trump’s tariff strategy and I call bullshit on that. His reasons are not economic at all. He has been warned by businesses, economists and diplomats alike that the fallout could be huge, that tariffs are wholly counterproductive. He is trying to wreck our economy so he can more easily exploit us. This is the ‘economic force’ he referred to when talking about making Canada the 51st state. He knows tariffs will hurt American workers and families, too, but to him that is just collateral damage in his quest for power. This includes funding his tax cuts for the rich with external sources of revenue. He thinks it is money for nothing. Trump is a stupid and dangerous man. What he doesn’t understand: And the whole idea of making all the stuff in American factories would mean a much more inefficient manufacturing system than the

You argue as if not everyone is against open borders, drug addiction and crime. No-one supports these things. Uncalled for Your knee-jerk reaction doesn't address my point

Here’s a little lesson in economics, beginning with these two facts: 1. The no. 1 brand of beer in the US is the Mexican beer Modelo. (It overtook Bud Light for 1st place in 2023). 2. The top US export market for barley is Mexico. 75% of the barley exports from the US go there. The 25% tariff on Modelo will now increase the cost of this imported good in the US. American brewers will see that they can increase their price, too, by less of course, and still increase their market share. The increased price of beer causes its demand to go down. Less beer overall is sold. The demand for barley goes down, decreasing its price, as well as profits and wages in that sector. It’s not good for anyone. The Price America Will Pay for Trump’s Tariffs Alienating allies and partners that the U.S. desperately needs means that “America First” will be “America Alone.”

Trump's purge is targeting career prosecutors, not political appointees, so I don't know how he can get away with it. It's not safe to do your job anymore in the US.

For the U.S. economy, tariffs will be escalating costs on roughly 40% of imported goods across three major economic regions, amounting to roughly 5% of GDP. Six months of tariffs at this level could see the economy grind to a halt. To put some figures behind this, during Trump's first term that skewed tariffs more heavily to China, the impact hit about $360 billion in imports. Today that figure is crossing $1.3 trillion. For Canada's economy, the situation is worse. Our calculations show if these tariffs are sustained for 5 to 6 months, it would officially tip the domestic economy into recession, albeit a relatively shallow one at that point. Further duration would naturally deepen the contraction. Likewise, the unemployment rate would cross the 7% threshold within that six-month period, instead of our baseline scenario from mid-December that saw it fall to 6.4%. https://economics.td.com/ca-trump-tariffs-2025

Then why has Trump's main justification for the tariffs been to stop the flow of illegal fentanyl? And it is to this "national emergency" he says he is reacting. This of course has caused more lies from him - On Inauguration Day, Trump said foreign drug cartels are "killing 250,000 [or] 300,000 American people per year." On Friday, White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt said tariffs are warranted because fentanyl has "killed tens of millions of Americans." The actual number is much, much lower. And there is nothing more than a trickle of fentanyl coming from Canada (estimated at less than 1% of the total fentanyl that reaches the US). Canada plays virtually no role in the fentanyl crisis in the US. The economics of Trump's trade war will harm all concerned. He's already loudly proclaimed he wants to make us the 51st state, and would use economic force to do it. This is another power ploy from him. I find your excusing and justifying his lies so he can bully Canada reprehensible. People in the know know that what Trump is doing makes no economic sense. From the Wall Street Journal: The Dumbest Trade War in History Trump will impose 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico for no good reason.