Mid-Week Post

Your mid-way point to the week-end ...




If the Canadian electorate does not note the cavalier attitude with which Justin is willing to walk away from the NAFTA negotiations, then it's not going to like an economic depression because that is where the country is heading:

Trudeau started the day by branding Trump a rule breaker to argue in favour of keeping a mechanism to resolve trade disputes, while Trump hours later said Canada had more to lose than the United States if the two countries can't make a deal to preserve the three country NAFTA.

"That's going to be fine for our country," Trump said. "It won't be fine for Canada."

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So what if an agreement is not reached? Would Trudeau head to Washington for a one-on-one, high-level meeting with Trump to save the decades-old trade agreement?

Robert Bothwell, a professor of history and international affairs at the University of Toronto, believes it would be political suicide for Trudeau and the Liberal party.

“The meeting would come with a price, and the price would Trudeau surrendering,” he said. “If Trudeau is a fool, he will go.”

Nelson Wiseman, a political science professor at the University of Toronto, agreed with Bothwell, saying the “stakes are too high” for Trudeau to go down and it would never happen.

It will be political suicide for the country if Justin insists on protections for his plutocracies and not the economic engines of the country, the auto industry and the oil industry, the one Justin is desperately trying to tank.


Also:

A motion by the Conservatives to have federal ministers answer questions before a House of Commons committee on the Trans Mountain pipeline debacle has been rejected.

(Sidebar: that's the most "transparent" government in the country's history for you.)

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When Saskatchewan announced that they wouldn’t impose the hated Trudeau carbon tax, the Liberals cut Saskatchewan off from the $2 Billion ‘low carbon fund.’

It was a punishment for ‘daring’ to oppose Trudeau on a ‘federal government priority.’

So what has he done since the B.C. NDP government illegally opposed the Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion?

He’s stuck to the same standard he imposed on B.C., showing consistency and fairness by also denying B.C. funding for opposing a ‘federal priority.’

But Justin admires China:

But to get out from underneath the absurd restraints that have dictated our relationship with Taiwan ever since Canada opened diplomatic relations with the Chinese Communist Party regime in 1970, we’re all going to have to confront some of the prettiest lies we have been telling ourselves about Canada’s place on “the world stage” and about how we got there. This is where Eric Lerhe, the former director of NATO policy at the National Defence Headquarters in Ottawa, enters the conversation.

In an extensive paper to be released this week by the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, Lerhe proposes a series of modest contributions Canada might make to Taiwan’s security — particularly in collaboration with Japan, France, Germany, the United States, New Zealand and Australia — and also to more securely guarantee Taiwan’s place as a key trading partner in the Pacific region. “But first, Ottawa needs to be prepared to challenge some of the sacred shibboleths in how it has approached China and Taiwan,” Lerhe writes.

Not so much Japan:

On August 29th, during a Q&A at a french-speaking secondary school in Kapuskasing, Ontario, Justin Trudeau claimed that Japan’s immigration policy was “inward looking” and “not intolerant”.

Justin, くたばれ!


(Paws up)




Why didn't he says this when he was the prime minister?:

“Today’s threats against Europe’s Jewish populations are both different and more diverse than those in the past. Far-right extremism is still with us, but now represents only one slice of the problem. Radical, jihadist Islam is now the much larger threat. However, the far-left has also become a substantial source of antisemitism.”

I believe there was a tax credit for this sort of thing:

Whether it’s hockey, soccer, dance class or music lessons, a majority of Canadian parents say extracurricular activities will put a strain on family finances this year, according to a survey conducted by Ipsos for Global News.

The poll, which quizzed around 1,000 parents across the country, finds that 55 per cent of families feel stretched thin because of after-school programs. Almost a third (32 per cent) are now using debt to fund those costs, up a whopping five percentage points since Ipsos and Global News ran a similar survey last year.

People are @$$holes:

A moose drowned in Lake Champlain after people crowded around the animal to take its picture, Vermont wildlife officials said.

Fish and Wildlife Officer Robert Currier told WCAX that the moose swam across the lake from New York to South Hero, Vermont, on Saturday. He said it made it onto land but was forced back into the water, likely feeling threatened by onlookers. The moose succumbed to exhaustion and drowned.