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Not even close. Sure, because we give them the opportunity. We set the terms we allow our resources will be utilized including the royalties and taxes. Do you have any idea who actually owns Canada's resources?

No it's about the weird way you think about things, in this case rules. Going back to nature where it's everyone for themselves appears to be the state you'd like to live in.

Nope. Nope, you just can't help but be a dingbat about things is all.

Does it make you seeth to be stopped at a red light when there's no cross traffic in sight?

I've certainly got no use for the stupid thing. Meanwhile it's entirely accurate to point out how often you people have admired China's HSR for the same basic reason Trudeau admired China's ability to get things done. You're jealous.

I realize it's the best you can come up with but this... ...is not an accurate answer to... Is the monstrous amount of money in your estimation even bigger than the bonanza windfall profits oil and gas companies are realizing as a result of the war in Iran?

China's high speed rail system isn't either. Imagine how hard you'd be whining if it was. That said as Chinese commuters make more use of HSR their conventional system is able to move more freight which is profitable. We should hire China to run our rail systems. Like we should've gotten Norway to manage our oil and gas and Cuba to run our healthcare system. We suck at doing stuff.

Everyone's happy then.

Trump is a symptom - Bush and Cheney were just stepping stones along a path towards inevitability America has always been on. You've said yourself repeatedly Trump is just another president giving America what it's always voted for.

"I can outlast her," Carney said, laughing briefly along with Ford and Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow. What a bunch of douchbags... Two First Nations chiefs are calling on Prime Minister Mark Carney to apologize for saying he could "outlast" a First Nations woman who was protesting over mercury poisoning in her community. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/first-nations-protesters-demand-apology-from-pm-9.7150237

Isn't it to address a right wing grievance that we still don't have one and China does?

So you have no idea.

No, but probably the stupidest. Dubya certainly isn't looking so bad in hindsight.

Good, I don't want it.

That's not our fault - Americans themselves can't even seem to figure it out.

I wonder what Carl von Clausewitz would have to say to people who attach a gargantuan moral framework to the war between Israel and Hamas? It just is what it is?

By choice mostly though - only punctuated by real necessity in isolated cases. There was never any rational need for everyone to treat everything so existentially. That they did was more a result of someone else losing their shit over something usually neither here nor there in the scheme of things. But the waterhole is shrinking now - especially in the face of a desperate misguided need to grow as opposed to simply sustain. Sharing agreements in nature are pretty rare and in our case it'll probably have to come down to choice.

Is the monstrous amount of money in your estimation even bigger than the bonanza windfall profits oil and gas companies are realizing as a result of the war in Iran?

Sure, and given the growing dependency and indebtedness of Russia to China it may need to join NATO and the West in facing down China. In any case I think a lot more will come down to whatever the oligarchies over there weigh in with. Economics trumps everything there too.

It's catastrophism on a scale not seen since the days of climate alarmism.

Ok, have it your way. CBC designed this drivel so it would add next to nothing to food costs. Multiple economists have concurred they're correct. Who told you that?

And you are clearly a loon if that's what you really think.

It'll probably be an issue at the other end.

What NATO expansion? It's a ludicrous notion that's been as convenient to America as an excuse for all the drama as it has Putin. Putin's vision only encompass' his and his cronies interests, like Trump's.

It doesn't have to because the industrial carbon tax isn't applied to every step in the food chain. Only the largest emitters pay, the the cost is not passed on because the tax is output based. If it does effect farmers on the ground exemptions apply so there's likewise next to nothing for farmers to pass on. The tax is deliberately designed to have as small an impact as possible on food prices to end consumers, not create the Ponzi-like multiplier effect you're claiming it will have. The tax will add approximately 0.1% to the cost of food this year and 0.08% by 2030. But it'll be multiples more than the cost the Bottleneck of Hormuz is adding to everything to hear you people put it.