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🇨🇦 Been accused of having opinions; Left of Centre; Teacher; Equality for all; 🏒 - Go Sens/Charge Go; #ElbowsUP🇨🇦

"In a world that has decided that it's going to lose its mind,
Be more kind, my friends, try to be more kind"
- Frank Turner, songwriter
This will likely be shot down as unconstitutional. Cash bail is not equity - rich people can afford to pay it (if they even get arrested), poor people are kept in jail, not bc they are more dangerous, but because they can't afford it.

Of course, Dougie will just use Notwithstanding clause.
November 25, 2025 at 11:16 AM
I love this response by Carney.

Trump preys on weakness and cowers to strength. Carney is taking away Trump's power and Trump doesn't know what to do when people dont just cave.

He made his billions by exploiting people with less riches - he thinks he can do the same as president. Dont let him.
November 24, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Did he forget that Putin already took Crimea?

Russia wasnt going go stop no matter who was in power

But he thinks Russia is afraid of him. But Taco trump never comes down hard on Putin and is now trying to force a Russian written plan onto Ukraine.
November 23, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Actually it's attempted extortion.

So if we buy the F35s, does the US threaten to use the kill switch every time we don't do as they please? Cause that's how extortion works - the stakes get higher and higher
November 23, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Trump can't deal with people who have any strength. He exploits the weak and claims success. But the slightest pushback and he crumbles like a house of cards.

That is why he can't deal with Canada bc Carney hasn't caved.
November 22, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Hoekstra just needs to go away. Why would any countrynwant to integrate more with the US in its current state of corruption, misogyny and racism?
November 20, 2025 at 2:50 AM
No he couldn't, at least not in Canada
November 14, 2025 at 1:26 AM
While on paper Britain needed to approve constitutional changes until 1982, in practice and law they wouldn't have refused. Your understanding of Canadian history is not entirely accurate. Confederation was not local self government.
November 13, 2025 at 7:18 PM
The King has no power in Canada. He cannot dissolve Parliament. The Governor General does all the duties the King use too. King's relationship to Canada is purely symbolic.
November 13, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Repatriating the constitution in 1982 isn't when Canada became independent. Confederation was in 1867. Most connections with Britain beyond that point were symbolic.

Just like the King remains head of state in Canada but has zero power over anything.
November 13, 2025 at 12:08 PM
No idea where you got 1987.
November 13, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Canada became an independent country in 1867. Britain was no longer involved in day to day affairs- King had no power. While true that in WWI canada was brought into war by British declaration, the 1926 Balfour Report and 1931 Statute of Westminster gave Canada full control over foreign affairs.
November 13, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Wrong. Canada was a sovereign nation in 1867.
November 12, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Im so tired of this American view that they won the World Wars

In WWI they sat on the sidelines for 3.5 years. Cdns had won Vimy before any US troops arrived in Europe.

In WWII, they profitted on the sidelines for more than 2 years, then entered.

The victory was collective. UK played bigger role
November 12, 2025 at 11:49 AM
It wasnt just the Brits and the French fighting in the war. Many countries, esp commonwealth countries, sent troops. Countries like Canada punched way above their weight, the entire 4 years. Canadians had pushed the Germans back from Vimy Ridge, a major stronghold, before the US arrived in Europe
November 12, 2025 at 11:45 AM
The US could not have won either war on its own. In WWI, the allies fought for 3+ yrs before the US arrived, developing strategies and intel the US benefitted from. Similar in WWII. US was not more important than UK in either war.

US contributions certainly important, but US did not win the wars.
November 12, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Hasn't he been bragging about the billions and billions $ tariffs have brought in. Aren't these his numbers? But then this is why he is a 34x convicted felon - he inflated values when it advantaged him and then claimed poverty when he had to pay taxes on those inflated assets

Same thing, diff day
November 11, 2025 at 9:48 PM
US was not an MVP in either war. MVPs show up for the entire conflict. They don't sit on the sidelines and watch their allies suffer for literally years.

Maybe if US entered in 1914, like everyone else, the war may have ended earlier. But Germany already losing when US actually started fighting.
November 11, 2025 at 9:40 PM
He wont resign - that would take class and grace.

This is the man that lost the election and his own seat and instead of resigning, he forced an MP to resign so Cdns could spend $2M on an unnecessary bi-election while he refused to move out of a mansion he wasnt entitled to live in.
November 11, 2025 at 5:44 PM
The US didnt win WWI - they joined in mid 1917 when the tide was already turning. Everyone else had been fighting since 1914

The US didnt win WWII - they joined in late 1941 (troops arriving much later) when the rest of the world had been involved since 1939

This re-writing history needs to stop
November 11, 2025 at 5:21 PM
If 40M on snap, just for them it'd be $80B.
November 11, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Maybe you shouldn't usurp powers you don't have, impose tariffs that are illegal, if you can't pay the fine.

How is this different from someone whining because they got caught stealing a car and now have to go to pay a fine or go to jail.
November 11, 2025 at 11:52 AM
And just months after an election...

Who needs enemies when you have friends like PP & co.?
November 7, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Who would want to be in a party with a leader who threatens to ruin you if you don't follow along.

As they say, who needs enemies if you have friends like that!
November 7, 2025 at 11:34 AM
And a man that wants top job and still hasn't gotten his security clearance.

We must conclude he cannot get it otherwise, given that it was an election issue, and will continue to be one, one would have thought he would just get it. Seems security clearance should be basic requirement to be PM.
November 4, 2025 at 11:52 AM