For a Tuesday

A lot happening ...




Justin let Trump dictate the terms of the USMCA because details are, like, hard, you know?:

An agreement has been reached on a North American free trade deal, with all three countries set to sign the agreement today. 

The US benefits more from the USMCA agreement than Canada does because the Americans have a leader who is unmovable.

Read the text. The American worker gets quite a bit out of this deal and the isolationist trade policies Canada was so proud of and would never have reformed or removed had Trump not insisted on it will open the world to a market that could be good but has never really had to try.




Perhaps everyone forgets:

Why would Justin anger his bosses?:

The Conservatives have succeeded in a demand for a special committee to examine Canada’s contentious relationship with China, as two Canadians marked the one-year anniversary of their arrest and moved closer to a possible trial on accusations they stole state secrets.

The House of Commons late Tuesday voted 171-148 to set up the committee over Liberal objections, as the Bloc Québécois and NDP stood with the Tories in the minority parliament.

The committee could require the prime minister, the minister of foreign affairs and Canada’s ambassador to China to appear as witnesses.

If that @$$hole could obstruct justice before the election, why would he co-operate now?

Canadians and their vermiform politicians have made it abundantly clear that they will let him get away with any behaviour, no matter how embarrassing, criminal or idiotic.

How long have two Canadian businessmen sat in cells and waited to be tried without legal representation (as one in the West might know it)?

When are unelected judges expected to release Meng Wanzhou?

Did cheap labour only become an issue when Uighyurs might be involved?

While our oil stays in the ground, China is filling our lucrative void.

Canada will never change course on China ever.




Why would the government respect the privacy rights of Canadians? What are they going to do? Fight back?:

A report from Canada’s privacy commissioner is calling for an overhaul of the country’s privacy laws following several data privacy investigations, including two on projects from Statistics Canada to collect financial and credit information from millions of Canadians.

Privacy commissioner Daniel Therrien is urging lawmakers to adopt rights-based privacy laws to better protect Canadians amid an increase in data-driven technologies that pose serious privacy risks.

Not going to happen.




Oh, Jason ... :

It’s interesting that after this divisive election it is Kenney who is so quickly taking the initiative on the Alberta/national unity file (for they are one), both in major speeches in his home province and in these expeditions to the nation’s capital. The reflex explanation would be — well, it’s Alberta that has all the problems, what with oil prices and pipelines and lost jobs, and it’s natural for Kenney to be the one on the move. So obviously it is Alberta’s premier who’s out front and first in line.

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Alberta Premier Jason Kenney left a meeting with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Tuesday with no firm commitments on the five demands he put on the table but with an air of accomplishment nonetheless, saying he felt their long-awaited face-to-face meeting was frank and realistic.

You can't be stupid enough to be played by the village idiot, Jason. That was Andy's mistake.


Also:

A new Nanos survey shows the majority of Canadians don’t trust Justin Trudeau to deal with the rise of Western separatism.

I don't trust him to handle a plastic baby spoon.




Anything for the trustifarian who has everything:

Government officials are considering speeding up plans to replace the aircraft the prime minister uses to fly around the world, after a week in which several problems hit the more than 30-year-old jets.

Did it depict her trodding on an autistic child? Because that's the kind of thing she did:

Kathleen Wynne’s official portrait, which was unveiled in the lobby at Queen’s Park Monday evening, is rich in very deliberate symbolism. The books on her desk, which she is pictured standing in front of, include a biography of Pierre Trudeau. “It was his vision of a just society that helped me to first articulate my political beliefs,” Wynne told an audience including many current and former cabinet ministers, as well as former premier Mike Harris. Also on the desk: a school bell given to her during her days as a Toronto District School Board trustee.

(Sidebar: Ben Levin.)




Didn't we destroy Greta Thunberg's childhood?:

Much of Canada will be feeling a deep freeze as a cold front passes through this week, bringing temperatures as low as 15 degrees below normal.

"As if often the case, the Canadian Prairies are dealing with the brunt of the cold this week," Global News' chief meteorologist Anthony Farnell said Tuesday, Dec. 10.

Temperatures could hit the low -20s C, which combined with wind, creates a wind chill approaching -40 C.

Speaking of whom:

Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro on Tuesday called young Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg a “brat” after she expressed concern about the slayings of indigenous Brazilians in the Amazon.

Rather, this know-nothing, who is being used by her parents, has been given a platform to spout total pig crap.


And:

Ontario’s Environment Minister has cancelled a $200-million wind farm south of Ottawa — one almost fully constructed — because the giant turbines pose a threat to nearby bat populations.

Some people are special:

Peters, 32, a Secwepemc woman who is a daughter and granddaughter of residential school survivors, started an online petition asking the university to stop charging Secwepemc students for parking. 

In it she writes, "If the university acknowledges and honours the Secwepemc and ancestral peoples who have lived here for thousands of years — upon whose traditional and unceded land Thompson Rivers University is located why would they charge the children of these ancestors to pay to park?"

F--- you.

All filed under - "a crying shame" - DC Fontana, Caroll Spinney, Rene Auberjonois, Robert Walker Jr., Marie Fredriksson.