• DarylInCanada@lemmy.ca
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    Law of Unintended Consequences - More federal PC members are going over to the Liberals because they can n ot tolerate what is happening in their own party. Soon Carney will have his majority.

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      I was just thinking the same thing. Maybe PP can chase enough of his members away that we won’t have to have an election in the spring. Not a big fan of floor crossings either way, without a mandate from their constituents.

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        I really good suggestion that was made was that they have to serve their term out as an independent until the next election.

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        Well maybe Canadians shouldn’t be so stupid about politics. We vote for the person not the party but no. Everyone votes party or more specifically for the party leader. Its why proportional representation makes sense now. Everyone is voting for the party anyway and doesn’t care about who the MP is.

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    Canada is harming its relationship with the US?

    Are we talking about the Americans electing a criminal felon as President, who appears to be facing allegations of decades long pedophilia, and seems to be part of a global scale honey pot and blackmail operation that targeted people around the world? Did that damage trust and credibility? And did we mention the Americans who seem involved in the debauchery, death, trauma, and abuse from trafficking vulnerable underaged girls around the world for this operation for decades are also not facing any justice? Instead, they all appear to be closing ranks and maintaining an iron curtain of silence?

    Oh, and world leaders and dignitaries have to grapple with the knowledge that these same Americans remain in positions of power and gatekeeping positions throughout the US government system?

    Plus this same US President is extracting wealth for his billionaire friends? Wealth that the Western powers created a rules based order together to generate?

    By the time the Americans manage to uncollapse their justice system, and maybe codify some laws to avoid the total collapse of their society in their legislative branch, it will be decades.

    Canada is not throwing a hissy fit, we’re literally working around a gasping goon where an ally should be, and we’re trying to keep the lights and the heat on for the rest of us until this blows over.

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    If the world hadn’t thrown a big hissy fit about the Nazis I’m sure they could have been talked down. After all, they just had different opinions.

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      The relationship isn’t dead, it’s just going through a tough time right now. Half of Americans never voted for Trump and are appalled by all that’s happened. They’re poised to take their country back from all the MAGA insanity, starting with the midterms and over the next few years to follow.

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        Maybe not “dead” but it is permanently broken.

        Also, get the numbers right. Two thirds of Americans did nothing to keep Trump out of office.

        The midterms have not happened yet. We will see.

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        I hope they can take their country back but the way I see it it’s going to be long and bloody before they do. What has begun now cannot be fixed with elections (especially when they can be rigged).

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        Ah the ol’ domestic abuser mindset.

        We’ve changed! plzzzz come back and consoooom! we looooove you guys.

        Nah we’re good up here without you all.

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          Except the US is not one person. It’s a bunch of people, some of whom you can call abusers, others would better be called friends and family.

          If someone in your family is in a relationship with an abuser do you abandon your family member to their fate with the abuser?

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      What were the orange baboons demands, wasnt it simply that we end supply side management, and food inflation stops being the fastest in the G7?

      Who are these cartel benefiting, and how do I carve out my own government granted monopoly?

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        The idea that Trump would stop at what he “simply demands” today once he gets satisfaction is so naive that it’s almost cute.

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        Those “cartels” are Canadian dairy farmers. If you want in on the action, you just need to own a dairy farm.

        But, I guess you’d rather they all go bankrupt trying to compete with US factory mega-farms? Wouldn’t it be great if Canadian markets got flooded with US grade-b eggs and raw milk? smh.

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          So were gonna do the opposite and let all our other industries get tariffed, because we want to protect a special group and prevent people from choosing with their wallet. Canada loves cartels and we love price fixing, we love paying high prices.

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            Food sovereignty isn’t that complicated.

            Here’s a clue: an unregulated market will undermine your food security and sovereignty, and prices are cheap until the market consolidates around the winners.

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            I’m going to assume you aren’t Canadian, with this shit? Because it’s pretty bizarre that a Canadian would be advocating for Canadian farmers to be put out of business by US corporations.

            Especially given the fact that our system not only protects those farmers, it keeps prices under control and guarantees a reliable supply of products for Canadian consumers.

            Meanwhile, the US can’t even manage their own supply chains well enough to keep the price of eggs from skyrocketing. But sure, “Let’s hand the whole thing over to the Americans, because well-managed supply chains = cartels!! Hurr-durr!!”

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              Its not just our inflated dairy costs, it’s telecoms, grocery store’s, banks; now they’re even buying up residential real estate. Everything in Canada is an oligopoly. Canadians seemingly love it as well, as long as they can say its a Canadian oligopoly.

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            First off, do you have evidence that negotiating with terrorists is a historically successful strategy? Because otherwise, I am not sure why you are suggesting that Canadian capitulation has any influence over US tariff policy.

            Second, who has had famously higher egg and dairy prices over the past year? The US or Canada? If the goal is lower prices, which administration should we be cheerleading?

            I will am pretty free enterprise but I will take “price fixing” over submission to an abusive and unreliable narcissist every day of the week.

            The idea that the biggest threat to Canada right now is internal economic policy is laughably disconnected from reality.

            How about some of us choose with our heads. That sounds like an idea.

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    Oh, I’m sorry.

    The country that says they want to annex us, declared economic warfare, is trying to force shared industries to leave, and have thrown unlawful tariffs at us over fake emergencies is perfectly fine.

    We’re all just over-reacting! Maybe if we all just get on our knees and they’ll be nice to us again!

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        The bridge was already half owned. Built by Canada and offered with 50/50 shared ownership. Trumps tantrum was smoke and mirrors.

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        We already gave them half the bridge so it would get built.

        Their corrupt billionaire class is blocking it because they won’t get the tolls from this one.

        The US is blatantly corrupt and they’re losing out on economic value of it doesn’t line the right pockets. That’s how empires die.

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    As an American, no it fucking ain’t. Keep boycotting American shit please. Keep being a problem. I beg you.

    This situation is dumb, and the only way certain compatriots will get that through their inch thick steel skulls is pressure from all sides.

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      With Trump no matter how much you give him he’ll ask for more, so no, there’s no reasonable bargaining position. As soon as you capitulate or give they’ll demand more and call you weak.

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        And the more you blue ball him and deny him what he wants, the weaker his domestic position gets and the less he’s able to lash out.

        So don’t fucking bargain with him, don’t make deals, tell him to suck wind. The more people doing this the more he is diminished as a threat to everyone involved.

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    Jivani is a US conspirator and traitor.

    He only got a Yale degree because of EDI, and he supports a government that would deport his whole family.

    He interned with Cory Booker, Democrat, and was a Liberal party member until 2020. That got him what he needed, then…

    Uncle Thomas here moved into the big house with his buddy JD Vance and suddenly got bleached. He was funded via the US Atlas Foundation as one of the right-wing “think tanks” employed him in Canada.

    He thinks Jordan Peterson is a positive inspiration for young males to counter extremism. He has praised Kanye West and Danielle Smith. He believes in critical race theory. On October 3, 2025, Jivani announced the launch of a Restore the North Campus Tour which are modelled after the Turning Point USA campus tours .

    He ran a charity with Vance in Ohio. Our Ohio Renewal, which turned out to be a complete scam with the opiod industry.

    He should be in jail for Our Ohio Renewal, but idiot Oshawa voted for him because he had a blue lawn sign.

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    That remark was so outrageous that it only took two days of polling data for Poilievre to find out that he disagrees with it.

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    Just lie down and take it, ssh, sssssshhhh. It’ll all be over quick if you don’t fight it.