@EScrimshaw Everybody's love of country is conditional. Your PM Trudeau said he would support Quebec separatism if Alberta got its way.
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Staring@theAbyss
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If you only love your country when the rest of the country gives you exactly what you want with no pushback, you don’t love your country
The 14 MPs are, in my mind, wrong, but the only coward is the person giving in to separatists instead of standing for Canada
Scott Robertson@sarobertson_
Danielle Smith lashes out at “the 14 cowards who signed a letter to the PM trying to derail our MOU,” along with NDP leader Avi Lewis and BC Premier David Eby, accusing them of “creating the environment we find ourselves in” when pressed if she is to blame for the state of national unity.
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@BenMulroney Actually, a Canadian PM's primary job is national unity. When they forget that, the country starts to look very fragile.
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A 🧵: My dad used to say that a Prime Minister’s most important job is maintaining the support of his caucus. Today we learned that there is descent within the government caucus. It is the responsibility of the Prime Minister to deal with these issues….
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@stphnmaher Why would there not be a Canada. Are you saying that Canada would legally dissolve itself? Maybe rename itself West Laurentia?
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“Canada allows dual citizenship, the option is yours.”
But there would be no Canada if Alberta or Quebec separates.
The separatist arguments are childlike.
John Tomkinson@johnwtomkinson
Naheed Nenshi and the @NDPAlberta operate the 4Alberta4Canada website. They have posted direction to their followers to share and "Explain to others how leaving Canada means giving up your Canadian passport" Yet another lie. Canada allows dual citizenship, the option is yours.
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@cselley British PMs fly commercial for their vacations. Imagine Trudeau doing that.
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Not sure I've ever seen it claimed the PM is *legally required* to fly on a government jet.
That's very obviously not true.
Ben Smith@atBenSmith
Can my side of the aisle get over the fact the Prime Minister flies on a government plane? It’s such an amateur and childish argument. The PM is legally required to fly this way. Harper did the same. It’s a good thing. We want our PM to be safe & secure. Grow up and move on.
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@_scubadrew @GasPriceWizard It will be our rust belt and will take a generation to fix. Unless we start now.
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@GasPriceWizard 2040? Oshawa, Oakville, Windsor are skeletons of their former self today.
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Well done Liberal voters.
You chose to arrogantly decimate the economic engines that once sustained a strong and confident Canada for the next generations
Toronto Sun@TheTorontoSun
Canada’s auto industry could disappear by 2040, RBC warns torontosun.com/news/national/…
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@glen_mcgregor Except it is wildly distorting when majority governments are determined on 1-4 seats.
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But take P.E.I. and the territories out of the mix, and we have pretty well-balanced representation right across the country, thanks to a largely non-partisan redistricting system based on census data. Unlike the gerrymandering warfare in the US.
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The numbers in this graphic are misleading. The east-west averages are skewed by P.E.I. The four Western provinces average one federal riding for every 108,687 people (based on 2021 census). That's better than Ontario (116k per seat) and almost bang on Quebec (109k).
Peter Menzies@Pagmenzies
So, I read a lot of commentary from people who live east of Mississauga about Alberta separatism. Most focus on a pipeline. But, if I might, the root causes are systemic and no one east of the escarpment wants to talk about them or acknowledge them. One in 3 Canadians lives in the territory in blue
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@RobynUrback A post-mortem would have reveal incompetence at PHAC, and meddling by the Federal Government in basic health policy, who were more concerned about polling than health. Throw in the usual fed-prov turf wars too. They agreed it is better for citizens to not know.
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Kind of wild that Canada didn't even attempt a postmortem after Covid, especially since we know that compliance with restrictions will be a lot lower the next time around. I guess our strategy is to hope this doesn't get out of control. Wheee!
CP24@CP24
#BREAKING: Third Ontario resident in isolation due to hantavirus is Peel Region resident cp24.com/local/peel/202…
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@CBystender @MikePMoffatt If not taxing is a carrot, it implies everything should be taxed.
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@MikePMoffatt Carrot and stick. I think we gave them enough carrots like no capital gains on primary residence and frayed property taxes. Now let’s constrain OAS and no more delaying property taxes for anyone with NW above $1.5 mil including the house.
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New piece at the Globe: If Canadian governments expect seniors to downsize, and capital gains taxes on primary residences are off-limits, Canada will need to adopt Australia-like tax-advantaged savings plans for seniors who sell their homes.
Read here: theglobeandmail.com/investing/pers…
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@ethrelkeld @ForeignAffairs Strange, to avoid this all Pakistan has to do is stop supporting and encouraging massacres in India. However, that is too hard for experts to suggest.
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On the one-year anniversary of the May 2025 India-Pakistan crisis, I write for @ForeignAffairs about why the next crisis is likely to be more dangerous than the last, and why Washington may struggle to contain it. A🧵... (1): foreignaffairs.com/india/why-next…
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@jengerson There can never be a partnership when the discrepancy of power is so huge as between Canada and the US. Previous US governments were just kind enough to not be blunt about it.
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If the Americans are offering us vassalage -- one in which we must perpetually "know our place," be quiet, and never advocate for our own interests -- let's be straight about it. That's the offer on the table.
It sure as hell isn't "free trade."
☦️ John G 📿@JohnGild88
@jengerson I think the asymmetry exists because partnership is the euphemism for the reality, which is that we are an American vassal. But vassals is something from another era, so we avoid it and call it something else. But vassals we are.
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@cselley Even if the idea was sound, the execution would be awful. Imagine as layers of bureaucrats start doing, DEI, gender, environment, first nation, etc. analysis on products, store fronts, suppliers, etc. It would at least serve as a make work project for bureaucrats.
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@NateForOntario On average 12 Canadians worked all year to pay the federal taxes to support this initiative? Do they think it was worth the money?
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Only $95k to promote Canadian storytelling and win an Oscar…how dare they.
Andrew Lawton@AndrewLawton
The taxpayer-funded National Film Board spent over $95,000 advertising in the United States to persuade the Academy to nominate a Canadian short film for an Oscar. (It did end up winning).
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And Iran is expected to knuckle under? They fought Iraq for eight years, took hundreds of thousands of casualties.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar
Caine: "Let me be clear -- this blockade applies to all ships, regardless of nationality, heading into or from Iranian ports. Enforcement will occur inside Iran's territorial seas and in international waters."
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@Arturmaks @cselley How many as a liberal staffer who parlayed that into a job in Government?
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@bowmacwood @yuanyi_z @cbcwatcher This is what the entire Canadian immigration system used to be built on. We shamelessly stole the best and brightest from elsewhere. Brain drain sucks when you are finally the victim.
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@yuanyi_z @cbcwatcher Fine. Agreed. Now present your business case for taxpayers funding Universities that train people for the economic benefit of a different country.
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Canada's boomercrats are openly talking about stopping the best and brightest from leaving for places with better opportunities instead of fixing the damn country. Going to become a thing in Europe too I think.
melody@melkuo
YOU HEARD IT FROM MELKUO FIRST
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@Arturmaks @Ostrov_A I am sure you are just ignoring all that US assistance, which is pretty much most of NATO.
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@Ostrov_A She stood up to the Argentinian invasion of the Falklands without assistance from NATO.
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"You never compromise with violence. You never compromise with intimidation. You never compromise with those who want to use it to extinguish freedom and democracy."
~ The Iron Lady, Margaret Thatcher, who passed away OTD 2013.
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@duncankinney Lets do that for the beef industry, lobster, grain, etc. Why should we pay world prices?
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i agree. it's time to nationalize our oil and gas industry so that the benefits of resource ownership can flow to the people and not to wealthy foreign shareholders.
Made In Canada@MadelnCanada
Canada is the 4th largest oil reserves on the planet but it’s $2.02 per litre at the pumps. 🛢️⛽️
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@gcosteloe Especially since the Court likes to refer to maintaining public confidence in eye-popping decisions with no reference to how they determined what was public confidence. Now they don't want public criticisms.
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As a member of the CBA, this is an embarrassing statement and deserves the scorn being heaped upon it.
Public writings about the judiciary that reflect a growing feeling withing the general population are always legitimate discourse. Many positive changes to legislation and court have come about because of previous, similar criticisms (e.g. the bench is too white and male). Imagine the CBA taking a position to silence those critiques.
The CBA should not be shaming journalists like @sarkonakj out of using their freedom of speech. How weak, elitist, and out of touch do you think that makes lawyers look?
Canadian Bar Assoc.@CBA_News
CBA President Bianca Kratt, K.C., warns that recent media commentary questioning the impartiality of a sitting judge of the Ontario Superior Court risks undermining public confidence in the judiciary. 🔗 Read the full statement: bit.ly/4sQV4Pi
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@thomasjuneau Sort of like when the Europeans went into Libya and needed the US to bail them out?
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So Trump launches a bone-headed war, with no coherent plan, consistently bungles the improvisation, insults allies, angers regional partners, and risks serious damage to the American and global economy, and somehow NATO allies are to blame? You clowns are sabotaging US power.
Ari Fleischer@AriFleischer
When this is over, the western part of NATO will never be the same. Spain, England, France and Italy have sold us out, as they too often have a history of doing. Eastern European nations are the heart of NATO. They spend money on defense, know how to fight and love the US. France particularly deserves fault and blame. From supporting China and Russia at the UN to denying Americans overflight rights, they’re doing what they’ve always done - showing weakness, while cutting deals with terrorists. (The reason the US has a Marine Corps and Navy is unlike France, we refused to pay a ransom to the Barbary Pirates. France is always happy to cut a deal.) Wars have unintended consequences as nations show their true colors. NATO will never be the same, and Western European weakness and acquiescence is the cause.
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@CharlesLammam The Canadian Boomers of downtown Ottawa, Montreal and Toronto are getting exactly the country they keep voting for.
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Canada's startup exodus is accelerating. Nearly one of every two Canadian founders who raised over $1 million in 2024 are now based in the U.S. That's up from about one in five just a short time ago.
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