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Ross Laurie's avatar

The three key area cited by Pres Trump are :

1) Defence Spending (the lack of)

2) Agricultural Marketing Boards (Bonjour Quebec)

3) Border Security

These were also issues for the Biden administration, previous Trump administration and Pres Obama. How long do we expect our neighbors and the rest of the 5 eyes(who no longer trust us, nei hao ma Beijing )to put up with our juvenile behaviour? Yes, President Trump is over the top. Canada is the 40 year old in dad’s attic. Pays no bills, risks a house fire by leaving the door open and can’t be trusted with the car. That it took economic nuclear war to wake up folks in Ottawa says enough. As for premier Smith doing what she can for her constituency, bravo. She endured enough inanity from Ottawa choking off O&G not trusting them is an adult reaction.

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Michelle Stirling's avatar

Hey! Remember that time Justin Trudeau went behind Trump's back and made a climate deal with France? https://youtu.be/zVWEGR_2ubc Canada is a threat to the USA as long as we have not taken care of finding out who the foreign supported politicians are - and people like Freeland bragging that they will 'fight' the USA just make us look stupid. We are a mouse against an elephant, we cannot defend our northern border where China is happily opening the Polar Silk Road, Russia has many large military bases right across the Arctic Ocean from where we have NONE. We have not kept up our part of the NATO bargain. We are deeply in debt and our own government is standing in the way of getting valuable resources to market. We are 'trapped' with our resources precisely b/c of Liberal climate policies. Premier Smith is taking the path of diplomacy while these other clowns make fools of themselves on the world stage. Freeland is claiming that Trump doesn't like her because she stood up to him - no, because she was publicly very rude to him just prior to having to negotiate. Just in the past few weeks and number of recent immigrant Canadian truckers have been found in the US with huge loads of drugs on board. So don't blame Trump for coming to obvious conclusions that we are a loose cannon pointing at his deck, and our deck is on rough seas. We are the problem. Our prorogued leaders are just too dumb to look at themselves in the mirror. Que sera sera. Ppl should read "The End of the World is Just the Beginning" by Peter Zeihan. I don't agree with everything, but he clearly has fingers on the pulse of global demographics and geopolitics. The world as we knew it is over. We can either help make a new world or face serious consequences.

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