They focus on the pipeline

The US powers that be don’t want Canada to build another pipeline to tidewater b/c they want to make money selling our oil

That’s what these anti pipeline protesters don’t get - that the oil still gets sold around the world via the US at a profit

Quebec does

Canadians are passionate about this topic

Canadians like to be seen as peacekeeper not war mongers - we were happy to let the US be the war monger that deterred everyone from attacking us

Trump has been good for Canada b/c he changed our tolerance for military spending and prioritized our economic development

We are vulnerable

Vance is already getting himself ready to take over

There are reasons why classified is classified!!!

PM Carney isn’t running around the world realigning our trade partners and allies for shites & giggles

EU is conscripting reservists to build their call up numbers - France is even paying their reservists - they aren’t doing it for no reason

I read that the Gripen has customization capabilities- which enable us to build updates etc

But I don’t know for certain

The big thing - we need weapons for Canada’s needs

Carney has the secret info to know who our friends are and who are enemies are and he’s buying time to get our ducks in a row in case something sparks

There is lots going on that we don’t know about - I trust Carney to position Canada

Their weapons manufacturers needed orders and by us buying from the US they control our ability to arm

Good luck on that - BC is the most expensive province and voters want more housing and are tired of entitled people getting in the way of affordable housing options

From the bits I hear from MPs, the threat is serious - more than we Joe Q Public understand

Helping Russia is probably behind his desire to break up EU

We aren’t powerful enough to drive change in this arena

If we don’t believe the US will have our back, we don’t have a good enough hand in this poker game

Canada never played international influence poker, it would be dangerous for us to start now

This is nutbar nothing that will go nowhere. It’s just political theatre to appeal to his supporters and to show he’s pretending to do something

This type of headline is ignored by most people

I wish more people thought like you …

This decision will be a hot potato considering the high interest in in this decision in Canada - It won’t go under the radar and he’ll be criticized no matter the choice he makes

Addressing the concerns in his announcement matters & his coms strategy is 🤷‍♀️

Is it a military threat? Or just an economic and cultural fight?

Yes Canada didn’t want to be a military force and we could make that decision aftwr WW1 b/c we had Britain and after WW2 b/c of the US

There is evidence that the US did not want Canada to have a strong military to threaten it and limited our ability to build a military manufacturing industry

The EU needs to get onboard but they seem afraid of upsetting Trump