Prime Minister Justin Trudeau only 36 hours after pledging to lead a Team Canada fight against American tariffs yesterday offered numerous concessions in exchange for a 30-day reprieve from U.S. President Donald Trump. No legal text of an agreement was detailed: “We work together.”
Justin Trudeau got a last-minute reprieve from Donald Trump on the 25% tariffs that were set to take effect, but only after a lot of drama, a drop in the stock market and the Canadian dollar dropping briefly into 67-cent territory.
Yes, we should all be happy that Trudeau got this delay in tariffs for 30 days, but why did it take so long for Trudeau to agree to do things that not only make the American president happy but are also good for our country?
Shortly after Trudeau’s 3 p.m. phone call with Trump ended on Monday, the PM took to social media to reiterate the $1.3-billion border plan. He said we would have “new choppers, technology and personnel, enhanced coordination with our American partners” and boasted about 10,000 new and existing personnel on the border.
Alright.
We don't have any of those things.
Even if Justin wanted to co-operate for the good of not China or Quebec, we don't have the manpower or vehicles, save, perhaps, a few crappy Chinese drones.
Once again, Justin lied.
No one does puffed-up self-importance and hypocrisy the way Canadians do:
If there’s a silver lining to be found in the recent threat of an all-out trade war between the United States and Canada, it would seem to be a resurgence of pride among Canadians. That has manifested itself in positive ways, including buy-Canadian initiatives, as well as negative acts, such as the booing of the U.S. national anthem at sporting events.
What silver lining could this be?
When Justin proudly declared that he admired the "basic dictatorship" of China, how many were willing to put him into office?
Imagine if he has said that he admired the "basic democracy of the United States".
When Justin called Canada a "post-national state" with "no core values", who booed him?
When he threatened to sue a veteran and his fake leg for "asking for too much", who showed up to protest the next day?
Who was disgusted by his fawning over Quebec? Anyone?
What was "American" or "Russian" about Canadian citizens (ones who Justin ran from) who had to go all the way to Ottawa to get their voices heard?
Who objected to China replacing the US as Canada's major trading partner? Who is vehemently against slave labour, or using North Korean slave labour in a major Canadian clothing outlet?
No one.
That's who.
This bluster is against Trump, the embodiment of America, that country Canada has decided not parallel in terms of success or prestige.
It's easier to impotently display boorishness and pretend that the few Canadian goods in the market (save Canadian oil) are worth buying.
Canadians will be back to the lazy consumerism by next week because principles take effort.
A Parks Canada manager yesterday had no comment after issuing an internal email confirming a “new purchasing program” with Amazon Business. Tamara McNulty, senior director of procurement, announced the initiative 48 hours after the Prime Minister urged the public to buy Canadian: ‘When did Jeff Bezos take out Canadian citizenship?’
All it took to fake concern for Canadian industries was a threat by Trump:
Canada is too dependent on U.S. pipelines and power grids, Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson said yesterday. Wilkinson said Canadians were left shaken by a threatened 10 percent U.S. tariff on oil, natural gas and hydroelectricity exports: “Perhaps in some areas we are too dependent on infrastructure in particular that flows only through the United States.”
(Sidebar: this Jonathan Wilkinson.)
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During that brief time, we’ve also been given a crystal clear warning about what we need to do to help protect our economic sovereignty and assure our energy independence.
It runs contrary to the utter nonsense we’ve been told for a decade by the Trudeau government that oil and natural gas are dying forms of energy and that it’s better for Canada if the lion’s share of our vast reserves of both are left in the ground.
In the real world, fossil fuels are going to remain the dominant source of energy globally for a long time.
The idea that Canada, the world’s fourth-largest producer of crude oil and fifth-largest producer of natural gas, should voluntarily remove itself from global markets in favour of handing it over to some of the world’s most corrupt dictatorships is irresponsible and economic madness.
As the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers noted in the National Post, oil, natural gas and petroleum products account for one-quarter of all Canadian exports — with the vast majority of it, valued at $150 billion a year, exported to the United States.
Because we lack pipeline capacity to get these valuable resources to tidewater — meaning the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans — from their landlocked territory primarily in Western Canada, we have to sell them at a huge discount to the Americans because they are our only major customer.
Well, almost everything. Except approving the Energy East pipeline to take Alberta crude oil to tidewater in Saint John, New Brunswick. Although he isn’t personally opposed to the idea, Legault told reporters there’s no way it could pass through La Belle on the way to markets in Europe and beyond.
“There's no social acceptability for this kind of project right now in Quebec,” Legault said, speaking in English.
There is no social acceptability for Quebec.
Cut it off.
Dr. Mona Nemer, cabinet’s $393,000-a year science advisor, spent tens of thousands on questionnaires asking Canadians if they’d ever seen a UFO. Records indicate Nemer, a biochemist, expressed a personal interest in the subject though her survey showed most Canadians considered it pointless: “Unidentified aerial phenomenon is not an issue of high concern.”
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Chief Science Advisor Dr. Mona Nemer spent more than $300,000, three quarters of her annual salary, on travel from Tokyo to Oslo, according to records obtained by Blacklock’s Reporter.
“Science can be everywhere,” Nemer, a University of Ottawa biochemist, earlier told MPs.
“I am a science advisor.”
“I appreciate that science can be everywhere.”
Nemer is paid $393,000 a year. Since her appointment in 2017 Nemer billed $316,224 for travel. The only periods in which Nemer did not incur travel expenses were during pandemic lockdowns.
Parliament must deploy the Army and Customs agents to intercept U.S. gun runners at the border, Opposition Leader Pierre Poilievre said yesterday. “Let’s stop the gangsters and gun smugglers,” he told reporters. “I want to protect Canadians from criminals.”
In October, Canadian police busted a fentanyl “superlab” in British Columbia and seized hundreds of pounds of fentanyl and methamphetamine. The lab had enough chemicals to operate for weeks and produce 95 million lethal fentanyl doses, police said.
Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre is vowing fentanyl drug “kingpins” will receive life imprisonment if he becomes prime minister.Canada needs legislative changes to deter criminals from participating in the trade, Poilievre said. His comments come as Ottawa ramps up the fight against the deadly synthetic opioid in the face of U.S. tariff threats.“Making and selling fentanyl is mass murder. Selling 40 mg of this poison is enough to kill 20 people,” Poilievre said in a Feb. 5 statement. “I will lock up fentanyl kingpins and throw away the key.”The Tory leader compared selling fentanyl to shooting in a crowd with a firearm, saying “even if you don’t aim, you kill people.”
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