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Have you noticed how the children like those red arrow thingies. It must stem from the time mummy told them to follow the arrows in the supermarket isles so as not to catch one of those nasty righty wingy thingy's.

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It's just winning back the uncertainty created when this whole drama started in December. 

But yeah, a change in government is required to win back confidence in Canada. 

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3 minutes ago, Boges said:

It's just winning back the uncertainty created when this whole drama started in December. 

But yeah, a change in government is required to win back confidence in Canada. 

Agreed, it's not much of a change yet but it is a very positive sign. At the very least maybe we can hope that it'll stop the slide and our dollar will hold here until we can have a chance to finish the election

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1 hour ago, Legato said:

Have you noticed how the children like those red arrow thingies. It must stem from the time mummy told them to follow the arrows in the supermarket isles so as not to catch one of those nasty righty wingy thingy's.

The rating on MSN is left of centre but considered high for factual reporting by "Media Bias /  Fact Check."

I'm inclined to think that Liberals and Democrats are far too reluctant to set the crazies among their own ranks adrift in separate life rafts. If you're the type who down votes left of centre news reports I predict loneliness at the polling station in your future.  

 

  • Overall, we rate MSN News strongly Left-Center biased, with most stories coming from Left-Center sources. We also rate them High for factual reporting because the majority of sources used are credible media outlets.
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15 hours ago, CdnFox said:

Canadian dollar jumps on Trudeau and tariff reports

The mere thought of Trudeau leaving boosts our dollar. That's how bad the liberals are

What if we have an economic union like the European Union where we can come and go in both countries(no border)and share a common dollar, American that is. We can keep our sovereignity as well. I think that would work well for both countries. Works for me. 😇

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26 minutes ago, taxme said:

What if we have an economic union like the European Union where we can come and go in both countries(no border)and share a common dollar, American that is. We can keep our sovereignity as well. I think that would work well for both countries. Works for me. 😇

Sharing the dollar might be challenging but as a general principle it's not a bad idea. And to be honest in the seventies and 80's that's kind of what it was like. You just drove across the border and sort of waved at the guy and declared anything you needed to declare, but you didn't need documentation or a passport or anything like that, and lots of people worked just on the other side of the border from where they lived

But yes it would be economically beneficial, although it would mean we'd have to harmonize our import and tarrif laws and such. 

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There would be more than a few obstacles to overcome. But if the EU could do it with the number of members it has, why couldn't Canada and the U.S.? It's worth looking into. Of course under the terms of any agreement some sovereignty would have to be given up.

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51 minutes ago, suds said:

There would be more than a few obstacles to overcome. But if the EU could do it with the number of members it has, why couldn't Canada and the U.S.? It's worth looking into. Of course under the terms of any agreement some sovereignty would have to be given up.

Sure, there's immigration issues and importation issues and such that would have to mesh. 

I doubt the us would ever go for it though, and there's a lot of canadian companies that would be pretty upset (dairy and poultry for example, the so called milk mafia).  But perhaps some day

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On 1/8/2025 at 2:46 PM, CdnFox said:

Sharing the dollar might be challenging but as a general principle it's not a bad idea. And to be honest in the seventies and 80's that's kind of what it was like. You just drove across the border and sort of waved at the guy and declared anything you needed to declare, but you didn't need documentation or a passport or anything like that, and lots of people worked just on the other side of the border from where they lived

But yes it would be economically beneficial, although it would mean we'd have to harmonize our import and tarrif laws and such. 

Works for me! 

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On 1/8/2025 at 4:28 PM, CdnFox said:

Sure, there's immigration issues and importation issues and such that would have to mesh. 

I doubt the us would ever go for it though, and there's a lot of canadian companies that would be pretty upset (dairy and poultry for example, the so called milk mafia).  But perhaps some day

Ah yes, the marketing boards and their quotas that causes Canadians to have to pay more for their dairy and egg products. Imagine throwing away milk and butter and eggs because some farmer had produced too much past his quota. It sure looks like a bit communistic to me. Canada survived getting rid of the wheat board, now let's do the same with those boards mentioned above and help bring down the prices of those food products. Works for me. 

Massive immigration will always be a problem until we implement a moratorium on immigration. Canada took in over 5 million new immigrants, legal and illegal, and look what that has done to our infrastructure and medical and social services. I still cannot find a doctor and all thanks to the massive numbers of unneeded and unwanted, by the millions, of new people into Canada.

Just wait until Trump starts to remove all of the illegals in America. They are not going to head back home. They are going to head for Canada where things will get massively worse. It has to happen but the government will try and keep it all hush-hush like everything else they do behind our backs. If you think things are bad now, just wait until after Jan. 20th. 

I am pretty sure that my prediction will happen, big time. 😒

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4 hours ago, taxme said:

Ah yes, the marketing boards and their quotas that causes Canadians to have to pay more for their dairy and egg products. Imagine throwing away milk and butter and eggs because some farmer had produced too much past his quota. It sure looks like a bit communistic to me.

It is, sort of. Well, socialistic to be more precise. It is believed, probably correctly, that Canadian producers would not be able to match and compete with American Producers for those specific Industries and we would lose the ability to produce our own food in those Industries. So even though everyone knew it was going to cost more to do it this way it was determined that we should have supply management in order to manage the supply and make sure that we always have the ability to produce our own poultry and dairy and would never be beholden to another country for such things.

Or at least that was the theory going into it. That it would be worth paying the penalty and prices to secure our own food to make sure we were beholden to no other country in the event that there was a food shortage or some sort of supply interruption by accident or intent. Now it's just sort of become the dairy Mafia, but that's why we have it

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14 minutes ago, CdnFox said:

It is, sort of. Well, socialistic to be more precise. It is believed, probably correctly, that Canadian producers would not be able to match and compete with American Producers for those specific Industries and we would lose the ability to produce our own food in those Industries. So even though everyone knew it was going to cost more to do it this way it was determined that we should have supply management in order to manage the supply and make sure that we always have the ability to produce our own poultry and dairy and would never be beholden to another country for such things.

Or at least that was the theory going into it. That it would be worth paying the penalty and prices to secure our own food to make sure we were beholden to no other country in the event that there was a food shortage or some sort of supply interruption by accident or intent. Now it's just sort of become the dairy Mafia, but that's why we have it

Well. we never did have any meat or vegetable or fruit marketing boards as examples, and they did okay. It's all about someone making lots of money somewhere at our expense, as usual. The government should never be in the business of doing anything except to be there to enforce laws, protect our borders, and keep Canadians safe, something that they have not been doing very well these days. Get government out of running anything and mind their own bloody business and all should work out well. Government will always be the problem, and never the solution. Just saying. 

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6 minutes ago, taxme said:

Well. we never did have any meat or vegetable or fruit marketing boards as examples, and they did okay.

It was determined that we could compete in those areas and we did. We can compete with wheat as well but the idea of the marketing board was to allow the government to use wheat as a international political bargaining chip and control the flow, there was never a fear that we wouldn't produce it.

There were a variety of reasons but eggs and chicken and milk products were not seen as being something that we could compete at without using methodologies that we weren't comfortable with. Right or wrong that was the thinking

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It's all about someone making lots of money somewhere at our expense, as usual. The government should never be in the business of doing anything except to be there to enforce laws, protect our borders, and keep Canadians safe, something that they have not been doing very well these days. Get government out of running anything and mind their own bloody business and all should work out well. Government will always be the problem, and never the solution. Just saying. 

You're not the only one saying ;) 

There are many who feel that the government has gotten too bog down into areas that are not as corresponsibilities and as a result the core responsibilities have suffered

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