Army Guy

I would not underestimate what the Canadian military could or could not do...the last time you guys did that we burnt the white house down...Not saying you would not take all your objectives...but there is going to be a cost to all of that....a huge waste of life on both sides...to accomplish what exactly....you don't any of Canada for strategic reasons unless it is for the resources....and most of our resources go to you right now....just wait and you can buy it for penneys on the dollar....with no loss of life... You would not of needed strategic reasons had the US kept up with its manufacturing sectors, like steel, aluminum, cooper....even trump as said that....not sure i understand any of trumps ideas or what his objectives are in regards to the 51 st state, or tariffs... unless he is trying to make enemies....I will give him credit for pushing us and others into building up our security apparatus, strengthen NATO, made Canada look at all it's warts, and take notes....but he seems to be driving away key allieds which is not good unless the states is going back to be isolationist...like before WW 1...

With more and more people being picked up by ICE, Canadians have taken a vote and decided there are a few red lines we draw in the snow....here is a few of them.... Under no circumstances are the states allow to return justin bieber, celine dion or nickelback back to Canada.....you touch them you bought them, no takesy backsy

Look i got family that are US citizens, but you post are nothing more than the usual "america f*ck ya" We don't need US naval permission to sell anything, we do it on a daily basis... We as a nation are working to diverse our exports to many other countries...and if the talks with border states are an indication of anything they are feeling the pinch of trumps actions... You need all those exports because America is weak in those fields, you don't produce enough to keep America supply chains moving.....So until you do improve those industry Canada will continue to supply those materials and oils to the US....while looking for new countries that can be a reliable trading partners... And just a point in order..."those tariffs are paid for by US consumers" and will continue to pay them until the US gets it's act together and builds up those industries...those tariffs jack up the price which is then paid by us consumers...Now if US consumers stop buying Canadian materials then again the prices will be jacked up due to lack of supply either way you guys end up paying...ever wonder why Canada has not placed any new tariffs on US products....thats why... The US will always be our biggest customer, for everything , as the we are the US largest customer....but thats due to we share a border,and it is easier to move good back and forth, but don't think it is not possible to move good else where... Sure annex Canada if thats your goal...but don't think your getting some kind of deal...your democrats are much farther right when in comparison to our conservatives....our nation is almost broke, we as a people are as divided as you can get, it would cost the US trillions to fix everything....and then there is the cold...Not to mention if you did annex us, most Canadians will flee to southern states leaving most of the north empty...imagine no more snow birds....you think mexicans are your problem wait when 40 plus million Canadians flee south...Ya i can hardly wait...having a dollar that is worth a dollar, a military that can defend the continent, no more gun control, having the ability to defend my home and family with a firearm, way less taxes..

Just a while we talked about Canadian patriotism and how canadians showed their patriotism in a quiet manner...and when asked about serving their nation in a conflict here is what they said...and only if they agreed for the reason for the conflict... "which screams patriotic", i get visions of flags in front of every house, people proud to be Canadian, if they agree with everything if not not so much....I guess that is why they have conscription...for those that are not so much into patriotism....it is one thing to say yes i'm a proud Canadian, and then when asked would you defend the nation...aaahhh only if i agreed with the the reason for the conflict... It is hard to get excited about Canada as a whole when less than half are even willing to defend it...Yes they love everything that Canada can give to them...but once asked more than half will turn their backs on the nation... Half of Canadians willing to fight for Canada if they agree with reasons for combat: Survey These numbers explain a lot of things...it shows where patriotism really lies in this country....

Think about that for a minute...why in the blue balls would you want a,majority of liberal voters added to you long list of American problems, and to top it all of we are almost broke, you have to invest trillions just to break even....trust me give it 10 years and canada will sell you the entire kit and kaboodle for cents on the dollar.... we force your hand...WTF you gladly gave us the keys to the vault and said help yourselves....you buy most of our oil at some of the lowest prices on the globe...., a large chunk of our electrical grid, most of our minerals , and other resources...you guys did that instead of investing into your own country....you let us walk in and told us to have as much as we could carry....thats on you guys....no one forced you to buy our sh!t....Now if you had said Canadians were to lazy and depending on only one trading partner i would agree....but don't blame any of this on Canadians, this was an American decision to allow American industry to leave the country...and like us here in Canada we are all paying the price for allowing our industry to leave becasue stuff is cheaper in china.......

think taxes are high for just living here try and leave and see what Canada strips from you....

The US treats it's soldiers far better than Canadians do...I can tell you that...And i am lucky i did 3 tours there and lived through all of them, it cost me my hearing, my knees, and PTSD, when so many of my comrades' in arms came home in an flag draped aluminum casket, or would later commit suicide...So yes i was lucky. I think we all know someone that has served that has paid a much greater price than i did.... Joining the service was the best thing i could have done, i meet so many of the bravest people on the planet, including US service members...Those were the people i served for, that i dedicated my life to , the men and women on the left and the right of me........i would go to war with any of them any day.... No need to thank me for my service, i didn't do it for , Canada or Canadians, i did it for the men and women in uniform and those that had served in the past.

Not forced, i signed the dotted line to serve my nation many years before we went to Afghanistan, as did my father and his father before him....my government decided to send troops to afghanistan to hunt down and kill terrorist, I did not have a choice where i served....I grew up in a trailer park on the other side of the tracks in NB, i had just completed high school, and my parents could not afford college or university, So ya i had lots of choices .I choose the military, and i'm not ashamed of that fact, it gave me everything i have today... Personally we all have opinions, none of them count for much, 24 Canadians died on 9/11, and almost 3000 Americans, Canada Stood up and answered the US call to arms, it might not have been a huge contribution but we went. nobody asked us if it was worth it, Nobody cared, our brothers and sister south of the border called we answered, that's all that mattered... I think it was very unfortunate that you did not stand with your fellow Americans. You must have had your reasons or maybe you think soldiering is beneath you...

They are NOT saying we are going to end up like greece,but we are headed in that direction....the fact our credit rating has been downgraded to AA, we are in debt well past the trillion dollar mark, our economy is stalled...our dollar is worth less than most, even a 10 year old knows if you have 10 dollars in hand you can't spend 15.... And if we went by your assumption one would have to ask why are we struggling in so many areas, if we have great piles of money to burn....just print more right...

It has been decades upon decades since we last hit 2 % of GDP, and lets be frank some creative accounting, sliding in more departments expenditures into Military budgets, and with the latest news,the Military is expected to cut back 7.5 % this year and 10 % next year and 15 % in 2028, ..that 9.3 bil in new investment is looking smaller and smaller every day...So for the military to get ahead it's budget needs to grow by more than 10 % each of those years...Thats alot of new investment... I've already said that i think Carney is on the right track with spending not only with the military, but the entire security apparatus....but there is a long way to go...SO Carney is doing a fair job so far, while not my hero, he is on the right track in regards to our security apparatus... It looks like the Liberals are trying to find the funding for these increases in military spending...not sure where they are going to cut, but i do remember Carney using those scare tactics in his campaign saying PP will cut, cut, cut social programs , civil service etc...and yet here we are today, looking at cuts....and to be honest i agree with these cuts...and if it happens to be invested in the military then great...but i don't think the left voters are going to like it to much... Defence expected to find operational savings even as its budget balloons

So we are good to go with printing even more money according to you, why are so many experts in this area saying our debt is way to high can you explain that....and if we can print money why is the feds being so cheap with the transfer payments to the provinces and fix health care, why not build all those pipelines we need ? i got so many questions... our debt load is well over 1 trillion dollars,just curious how much more can we go before we get to greece.?

there are more i took the first bunch off goggle....you should be able to do your own research on something that is known across the country... https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/cbc-news-canadian-broadcasting/ https://aml.ca/the-bias-in-media-bias-charts/ https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/lilley-lets-talk-about-cbc-and-their-very-obvious-bias https://theinterim.com/issues/society-culture/cbc-and-left-wing-bias/

There are plenty of things Carney and his staff could work on that does not have a need for new funding, like you mentioned... Yes Justin did submit a budget ....but within that budget there is NO funding for any of Carneys additions.....meaning yes we can pay some bills that are recurring, but thats it.......but it does not address any new Carney spending or campaign promises...which even Carney staff suggest a 90 bil deficit, no plan or parliamentary approval for any of that spending... example where is that 9 bil dollars that carney gave the military coming from....i doubt it was in Justins original budget for the year...lets also remember that there was 10 months left and carney has a whole new plan...what everyone wants to know is for him to be transparent...his finance guys are keeping track of every cent spent and going forward, it is not like they have to find a cure for cancer to give an update....not sure what the problem is...

Michael is not showing me anything , i agree with what he said....are you having a stroke...blink twice if yes..I think everyone in canada would say the CBC is left leaning....like the national post leans right...if you need proof of that then sorry bark up some elses tree...

100 % true...not sure what your trying to say here, that it can't happen here, or the roads in Canada are paved in gold..

Thats not what i said...i said the news should be from the center as Michael suggested...not slanted left or right....

Much better than we had it in Afghanistan, and i did not break any laws .....my first tour we slept along side of the LAV in the Poo dirt..., covered in sand fleas...and crotch rot...Sounds like they have it really good....

And while i first thought "bon voyage", the world is going to be a better place with unicorns and rainbows all the way around... But i asked myself this question, where are these NDP voters going to park their votes...the green party, well sane people don't vote green there are extreme left...yes they more than likely be reinforcing the Liberal party and thats not really a good position for Conservatives we need more left sided party's to split the vote... Was all this the consequences of voting liberal for strategic reasons, because the left can't stand PP ? Maybe they should divide all the costs to all those MP candidates that ran ,maybe old sing will have give back some of that pension....

If it is funded by tax payer dollars then it should represent all of us,left and right.... No we want them to present the news from an unbiased position...which as Michael suggested from the center point of view

Perhaps i did not explain it well enough,a budget is the costed plan that lets everyone know what it is the government is going to do and how they are going to pay for it, it requires approval of majority of parliament to pass...which could lead to another election...The short cut would be not to table a budget, and forego getting parliament approval, not risking another election, and not being transparent with canadians on what your going to spend money on...or like a blank check, becasue nobody knows the plan or what it costs... Carney had like any party a long list of promises ,how was he going to pay for them as he wanted to get going ASAP...it is not being butt hurt but rather being transparent with the entire country, not just conservatives... i do agree with you this country has a large pool of crazy, and it has collided where both sides can rarely talk to each other...

You should ask that question to Greece who had their finances taken over by the EU for years becasue they had over spent. You can't as a nation just print money as long as you want, or our streets would be paved in gold...i know this is a hard concept for the left to see....but there is consequences of doing so...

It is not that i don't like those programs ,but if we are running deficits to pay for them then it is time we look at what is nice to have and what we need...I mean i would like the government to give each one of us a million dollars, i don't know how you run your finances but if you constantly spend more than you make someone is going to come for you...

Because you agree with current content and how one sided it is ? ...

No, i'm not,this is the message your sending in my opinion....Most of what any government does is shaped by public opinion, because they want to extend their time in office, this is basic politics 101, and for decades our military has not even been in the top 10 concerns for the public let alone the governments... So yes the public owns a good share of the blame here for past government actions. and then there is the lack of any action from the public, about the current status of the military, or it's treatment of the vets...i find it hilarious that the public can find time to support Palestinian terrorists, or regimes like Iran, with protests, stand ins, but can't find the time to support any of our security apparatus which does more for this nation than any other group in Canada for what seems like an ungrateful people... Not sure what you think can be done by the military public has participation in any unauthorized political event or any protest can end up with career ending results and military charges with a monetary value. as for Vets or retired military personal, they do have a voice and have used it for decades you just have not heard it perhaps due to your lack of interest. The fact that the media has saturated the news market with our militaries condition and still people are not concerned or don't care.

Your under the opinion that this is the military fault they did this to themselves....an organization that is subservient to the federal government. It has no choice to obey the government wishes and commands, that's how this democracy works...not doing so would mean a military overthrow of the government , thats not happening... I have no more power or position than you do, making change here in Canada requires millions...and while millions of Canadians do want a properly funded military they lack the will to take action...But i will tell you this, if carney even goes through with just small portion of his plan, people are watching , vets are watching, members are watching thats a shit ton of voters....that will change their vote to see more attention spent on our nation...