Mike Was Right 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇲🇽

Why did Mark Carney fly to Boston, Massachusetts today? Nothing on his schedule saying he would leave Canada and enter the USA.

Does Canada have real icebreakers? No. Is this a problem? Yes. A real icebreaker, in the strict professional sense used by experienced merchant marine captains, is a modern heavy polar icebreaker rated Polar Class 1 or 2 (PC1 or PC2) under international classification rules. These ships are built with extreme hull strength, massive propulsion power, and reinforced designs that allow them to operate independently year-round in thick multi-year Arctic ice, including breaking through moderate to heavy ice conditions without seasonal limits or escorts. They differ from lighter or older vessels that mainly handle first-year ice during summer months or in less demanding areas like the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River. Canada urgently needs many such real heavy polar icebreakers to assert sovereignty over its vast Arctic waters and the Northwest Passage, support northern communities with reliable resupply, conduct scientific research, perform search-and-rescue, and manage growing international shipping as sea ice declines. With Russia operating dozens of powerful (often nuclear) icebreakers and other nations increasing Arctic activity, Canada risks losing effective control if it cannot maintain a consistent year-round presence. Without strong icebreaking capability, foreign vessels could transit Canadian waters with little oversight, weakening claims to internal waters and exposing critical infrastructure and resources to external influence. Yet Canada currently has none. Its flagship, the aging CCGS Louis S. St-Laurent was launched in 1966 and is now over 60 years old. It is rated only Arctic Class 4 (not a modern Polar Class rating) and is limited in independent high-Arctic winter operations. The rest of the Canadian Coast Guard fleet consists of capable medium and light icebreakers suited for seasonal or coastal duties, but they fall short of the strict heavy polar standard. This gap leaves Canada dependent on weather windows and vulnerable in a rapidly changing Arctic. Two new Polar Class 2 icebreakers are under construction with deliveries expected around 2030, but until then the absence of real heavy polar capability is a serious weakness for national security and Arctic leadership.

No Canadian I know would touch American dairy with a ten-foot pole. 🤷🏻‍♂️🐄

🚨 HOLY CRAP. President Trump just said America no longer has to be there for NATO "We WOULD have always been there for them, but now, based on their actions? I guess we don't have to be, do we?!" "I think a tremendous mistake was when NATO just wasn't there. They just weren't there. It's going to make a lot of money for the United States, because we spent hundreds of billions of dollars a year on NATO, hundreds, protecting them." Trump NEVER FORGETS.

When I cross the border, I intentionally signal to border guards that I'm not an "elbows up" retard. I put an American flag next to my Alberta flag (same height), and usually make the joke about how I'm coming down to ride my Harley and get away from the communists for the day. Never have issues with the Americans- only get treated like a criminal by the "canadians" on my way home.