I fully expect another Covid era style emergency to counter Trump’s actions. Lots of money spent, lots of empathy about workers caught in the crossfire, and lots of justification to ban social media platforms and further narrowing the range of opinions for Canadians to save our democracy. Or we could actually get an election so that would be nice.
We have systems in place for recession. That is what EI is for. In fact no financial aid should be given. Most people won’t lose their jobs. The economy will come back. We’ve had recessions before and we will again - irresponsible government spending isn’t the way out of a recession. Especially when it’s something that could be fairly easily countered by opening up interprovincial trade.
This isn’t the degree of emergency that Singh wants people to believe it is. It’s a political mess - but businesses would be ok at the end.
I think the OP means an "unprescedented emergency", but not necessarily a health-related one.
Waaay back in January Jagmeet Singh (remember him?) began beaking right away about supporting the government in any aid packages for Canadians affected by a trade war. On Friday the libs earmarked another $6B from or magical money tree and easing of EI criteria. They're already planning the usual vote-buying they always do.
One day Canadians may finally figure out that all thisn "free money" all gets paid back, one way or another.
Covid era emergency? Unlikely. There’s a measles outbreak but most young people are vaccinated and we old timers had it as children. So it’s not going to be like Covid.
I question even responding here because the analogy seems obvious; I’m not taking about a pathogen but the ability to declare an emergency to protect our national interests. An economic catastrophe is exactly the kind of national event that would compel a government to take extraordinary measures. Measures to curtail civil liberties in the guise of protecting Canada’s economy. Measles outbreaks have been occurring for years now by the way.
Measles is on the rise because of mindless vaccine contrarianism. A missed cycle of in-school vaccinations during the covid lockdown may be a factor, too. And measles *can be* fatal. Measles kills around 100,000 children globally every year.
Canada has already seen more confirmed cases in the first two months on 2025 than in all of 2024.
My comment wasn’t meant as a value judgement about measles vaccination. The poster misunderstood the context with which I thought the government could push through emergency measures. In this case a full scale assault of the Canadian economy.
With Jag doing his usual waffle I was thinking no election but I’m watching the Brier and seeing national ad buy by the Liberals which tells me we are going, why would they be running those ludicrous ads now if they plan no election?
It’s clear from their ad that they don’t want to discuss their own record.
thy're riding a wave of Carney's novelty. Every day from now on their numbers will adjust back to the level when JT promised to slither out of the building. Their best bet of forming a governent is an election sooner than later.
Another Liberal invoked EA is definitely on my worry list. Look at the shit they’ve pulled since Trudeau prorogued Parliament. Liberals have zero interest in democracy. They all much prefer dictatorships.
If Trump can keep his burger-hole shut for a month we might be able to get this sorted out. Before he opened his yap we were on course for a landslide conservative majority. Now it's going to be a battle.
The CBC still has the likelihood of a liberal majority government at 4% (yes, 4%, not a typo) and the cons at 51% for one, but anything other than a conservative majority means more months or even years with a parliament which is essentially stalled.
Trump is so unpredicatble. All the indicators suggest he'd prefer a Tory neighbour, but maybe he thinks The US will be better off with another soft liberal government. Who even knows with that guy?!
A “Conservative minority” means a Liberal minority because whatever is left of the NDP will never support the Conservatives in the House and the Liberals will probably therefore be able to form a government, even if the Conservatives win more seats but short of a majority. I can’t see a Conservative Government that relies on the Bloc Québécois having any credibility or legitimacy.
So if you want to get rid of the Liberals at least for four years, you have to deliver a majority to the Conservatives.
Agreed, although Carney is an anglophone and by most accounts performed poorly in the French language debate. I don't speak French so I can't assess his performance myself. The Bloc could support the Cons on an issue-by-issue basis if enough carrots are dangled in front of them. I think the days of a liberal slam-dunk in Quebec are over, at least for a while.
Yes, I suppose so. Devolution of more independent authority to Quebec wouldn’t annoy nearly as many people today as it did before 1995. Shrug. The only question is how much it would cost the rest of us. They’d want money and veto power, even more than they have now. They might want so much carrot to allow Energy East that it wouldn’t be worth building, which perhaps it isn’t anyway, unless Europe’s rearmament needs them to buy a *lot* of diesel. Can’t run a tank (or really much else except a coffee pot) off windmills. Still, I’m reluctant to stake our economic future on Western Europe. Poland, maybe. I’m realizing I have a lot of Polish friends. Who knew?
Ah the irony of that "recruitment poster". A defiant Canadian posing with a lib-prohib "assault-style weapon" and wearing body armour (illegal for civilians in most provinces), inviting us to join our local gun range (with what, pointed sticks?).
At least he has a red beret. I do too, earned the hard way. Now if only I had that jaw-line!
Yes, indeed. Come up with a viable plan, one not limited to Ottawa blindly cranking out the cheques to another class of recipients in the hope that they can somehow bridge this growing gap (after the waste of that approach during Covid, what could possibly go wrong this time?), one that has our long-term strategic interests in its sights.
The Americans may one day stir from their navel gazing isolationism, but the lesson for Canadians going forward has to be that we can never again allow ourselves to be so tightly tied to their economy. And if there are those in Ottawa on either side of the aisle who think we can simply 'splain our way out of this with members of the Trump Administration, they need to get out of the way.
Carney has benefited from an extraordinary set of circumstances. Between the much anticipated departure of Justin Trudeau, the arrival on the scene of Donald Trump and his manic, erratic approach to “ world diplomacy” the apathy of Canadian voters not to mention their love of everything shiny and empty, Carney will rise to the top, undeservedly and as usual, conservatives will be left in the dust because the liberal propaganda machine is just that strong. Canadians don’t take politics seriously and it shows. Nothing gets done and Canadians have only themselves to blame.
I figure the SITETF will react to any Trump/Musk election chicanery about the same way they reacted to ChiCom chicanery in the last several elections. Not to say the United Front won’t be busily interfering in the next one, too, assuming we ever have one.
Most Canadians don’t understand so why would we expect Americans to? You your self comment the PMs going to be unelected but we don’t elect PMs in this country (sure they’re typically MP but have been senators in the past I think 🤷🏻♀️). I know you know this but many Canadians don’t. Even PP seems to have confused himself with how our government functions. After calling for Trudeau to resign for so long it seems he never got around to thinking about what would happen when he did. PP would have been an MP when Harper prorogued to avoid a vote of no confidence so he really should have seen it coming.
More to the point, as soon as an election is called ever party has to limit its ad spending. The cons have way more in their war chest so it makes sense for the libs to put a plug in that.
1) Should you not already have a PAL, the average is 12 months
2) Shooting is a skill. Tactical shooting and functioning as a unit even more so. Heading down to Canadian Tire and getting a 12 gauge to fight. You are more a threat to yourself and those around you. No training, no good.
3) The LPC has since 1995 spend time and treasure disarming Canadians. Telling us that they and only they had the right to use force. Would the Trudeau family please head to the front .
4) It s sadly ironic that Canadians are up in arms (pun intended) over the President Trump’s tariff war. Yet over the past 20 year have reacted little to none as our own federal government eroded our rights and freedoms. A war against it own citizens in a post nation state with no identity.
Terry are you serious?? You mean we have to worry about Trump in addition to the CCP meddling in our elections? Thank god for paper ballots. I want to volunteer to be a scrutineer or whatever they are called. NO MORE MAIL IN BALLOTS! They are too hard to keep track of. Am I being a tin foil hatted RWNJ? I take elections very seriously. Meddling lost me my long time Conservative MP Alice Wong in Richmond centre. I just read that Mr Carney was elected with a turnout of just 38% There were many complaints on Twitter about people frustrated that they couldnt vote for some reason. Weird.
So I feel the need to ask - what is the elbows up thing? Trudeau said it tonight in his speech and I’m seeing it multiple places and it’s starting to feel like “we’re all in this together” (no, we weren’t. The office class and those who were essential workers had very different lives and risks and the idea of everyone being in it together was always wrong but was said to make people feel good.) I find myself concerned that this elbows up thing is just like that. So please prove me wrong as hearing Trudeau say it tonight just rubbed me badly. Maybe I just don’t understand it. (I don’t put my elbows up when I’m working hard - not at a computer and not with manual labor, so I’m really missing something here)
“Elbows up” is a hockey phrase and, of course, with the Canadian victory over the Yanks a couple of weeks ago the politicians are using it in their tough talk about The Donald.
It goes back to Gordie Howe who always went into the corners with his “elbows up”. Mike Myers brought it up on SNL while wearing a Canada is not for sale T shirt he mouthed “elbows up”.
I am really curious about the "join your local gun range" image. Are you suggesting that Canadians should get firearm training and/or acquire firearms? This isn't a gotcha question or anything, I'm genuinely curious.
Can you just go out and purchase a gun - say a .22 or 30-30 rifle, or a 12 gauge shotgun and head off to a range; or is some gun safety course and police background check required?
I think you need a license which is as it should be. Like owning a car or any other type of machine that can do damage. I was a Dominion Marksman at uni about 6 decades ago and it was fun to learn how to shoot at a rifle range. I am not a fan of having a gun in the house for no reason. But if I want to buy one I think I should be free to as long as I'm a citizen in good standing and not mentally ill.
Respectfully Terry, that image is a load of crockshit and represents the decade of decay of the Trudeau government.
No civilian can own that firearm (AR-15 or scary assault rifle) I can't find any gun ranges to join in the GTA. Best chance I have to "arm myself" and get profiecient is my crappy, pump shotgun when I go to my friend's farm 2 hours away. Magazines are only pinned to 5 rounds. No more IPSC matches, nothing.
I hate this imagery of WHAT Canada is vs what it is. Its as disgusting as when Prime Minister Carney went on the daily show to spot nonsense on what Canada is vs what it truly has become.
Either way this wasn't written out of spite. As always appreciate your work. Proud supporter and even prouder when I disagree with your views.
Some of these are for pistol shooters, so I expect they're closed. Others are of course going to struggle with so many owners' gear being locked up until next year... or an election outcome.
I fully expect another Covid era style emergency to counter Trump’s actions. Lots of money spent, lots of empathy about workers caught in the crossfire, and lots of justification to ban social media platforms and further narrowing the range of opinions for Canadians to save our democracy. Or we could actually get an election so that would be nice.
We have systems in place for recession. That is what EI is for. In fact no financial aid should be given. Most people won’t lose their jobs. The economy will come back. We’ve had recessions before and we will again - irresponsible government spending isn’t the way out of a recession. Especially when it’s something that could be fairly easily countered by opening up interprovincial trade.
This isn’t the degree of emergency that Singh wants people to believe it is. It’s a political mess - but businesses would be ok at the end.
To collect tariffs then turn that back to industries and workers affected is fine. New spending above and beyond collected tariffs absolute no-no.
We can always just print more!
Trudeau used up all the bank note paper.
I think the OP means an "unprescedented emergency", but not necessarily a health-related one.
Waaay back in January Jagmeet Singh (remember him?) began beaking right away about supporting the government in any aid packages for Canadians affected by a trade war. On Friday the libs earmarked another $6B from or magical money tree and easing of EI criteria. They're already planning the usual vote-buying they always do.
One day Canadians may finally figure out that all thisn "free money" all gets paid back, one way or another.
apologies for the spelling mistakes. Been a long day.
Covid era emergency? Unlikely. There’s a measles outbreak but most young people are vaccinated and we old timers had it as children. So it’s not going to be like Covid.
I question even responding here because the analogy seems obvious; I’m not taking about a pathogen but the ability to declare an emergency to protect our national interests. An economic catastrophe is exactly the kind of national event that would compel a government to take extraordinary measures. Measures to curtail civil liberties in the guise of protecting Canada’s economy. Measles outbreaks have been occurring for years now by the way.
Measles is on the rise because of mindless vaccine contrarianism. A missed cycle of in-school vaccinations during the covid lockdown may be a factor, too. And measles *can be* fatal. Measles kills around 100,000 children globally every year.
Canada has already seen more confirmed cases in the first two months on 2025 than in all of 2024.
My comment wasn’t meant as a value judgement about measles vaccination. The poster misunderstood the context with which I thought the government could push through emergency measures. In this case a full scale assault of the Canadian economy.
With Jag doing his usual waffle I was thinking no election but I’m watching the Brier and seeing national ad buy by the Liberals which tells me we are going, why would they be running those ludicrous ads now if they plan no election?
It’s clear from their ad that they don’t want to discuss their own record.
thy're riding a wave of Carney's novelty. Every day from now on their numbers will adjust back to the level when JT promised to slither out of the building. Their best bet of forming a governent is an election sooner than later.
It’s not on my worry list.
Another Liberal invoked EA is definitely on my worry list. Look at the shit they’ve pulled since Trudeau prorogued Parliament. Liberals have zero interest in democracy. They all much prefer dictatorships.
Worried about Trump? how about the CCP and the liberals?
How about neither.
If Trump can keep his burger-hole shut for a month we might be able to get this sorted out. Before he opened his yap we were on course for a landslide conservative majority. Now it's going to be a battle.
The CBC still has the likelihood of a liberal majority government at 4% (yes, 4%, not a typo) and the cons at 51% for one, but anything other than a conservative majority means more months or even years with a parliament which is essentially stalled.
Trump is so unpredicatble. All the indicators suggest he'd prefer a Tory neighbour, but maybe he thinks The US will be better off with another soft liberal government. Who even knows with that guy?!
A “Conservative minority” means a Liberal minority because whatever is left of the NDP will never support the Conservatives in the House and the Liberals will probably therefore be able to form a government, even if the Conservatives win more seats but short of a majority. I can’t see a Conservative Government that relies on the Bloc Québécois having any credibility or legitimacy.
So if you want to get rid of the Liberals at least for four years, you have to deliver a majority to the Conservatives.
Agreed, although Carney is an anglophone and by most accounts performed poorly in the French language debate. I don't speak French so I can't assess his performance myself. The Bloc could support the Cons on an issue-by-issue basis if enough carrots are dangled in front of them. I think the days of a liberal slam-dunk in Quebec are over, at least for a while.
Yes, I suppose so. Devolution of more independent authority to Quebec wouldn’t annoy nearly as many people today as it did before 1995. Shrug. The only question is how much it would cost the rest of us. They’d want money and veto power, even more than they have now. They might want so much carrot to allow Energy East that it wouldn’t be worth building, which perhaps it isn’t anyway, unless Europe’s rearmament needs them to buy a *lot* of diesel. Can’t run a tank (or really much else except a coffee pot) off windmills. Still, I’m reluctant to stake our economic future on Western Europe. Poland, maybe. I’m realizing I have a lot of Polish friends. Who knew?
We’ll find out soon, in any case.
Ah the irony of that "recruitment poster". A defiant Canadian posing with a lib-prohib "assault-style weapon" and wearing body armour (illegal for civilians in most provinces), inviting us to join our local gun range (with what, pointed sticks?).
At least he has a red beret. I do too, earned the hard way. Now if only I had that jaw-line!
Red or maroon?
red, baby! Like a slab of raw steak on my head.
I didn’t know that. I salute you. Godspeed.
Yes, indeed. Come up with a viable plan, one not limited to Ottawa blindly cranking out the cheques to another class of recipients in the hope that they can somehow bridge this growing gap (after the waste of that approach during Covid, what could possibly go wrong this time?), one that has our long-term strategic interests in its sights.
The Americans may one day stir from their navel gazing isolationism, but the lesson for Canadians going forward has to be that we can never again allow ourselves to be so tightly tied to their economy. And if there are those in Ottawa on either side of the aisle who think we can simply 'splain our way out of this with members of the Trump Administration, they need to get out of the way.
Never again. Hunker down and get us that plan...
Carney has benefited from an extraordinary set of circumstances. Between the much anticipated departure of Justin Trudeau, the arrival on the scene of Donald Trump and his manic, erratic approach to “ world diplomacy” the apathy of Canadian voters not to mention their love of everything shiny and empty, Carney will rise to the top, undeservedly and as usual, conservatives will be left in the dust because the liberal propaganda machine is just that strong. Canadians don’t take politics seriously and it shows. Nothing gets done and Canadians have only themselves to blame.
A liberal assault on canadian freedoms and rights slowly disappeared. Chinada should be our new name.
Anyone with any involvement or support for the original bill 63 should be removed from public life and maybe from western civilization.
Put them in a cannon and shoot them into space, they do not deserve to move with us.
Wht did space ever do to you?!
I figure the SITETF will react to any Trump/Musk election chicanery about the same way they reacted to ChiCom chicanery in the last several elections. Not to say the United Front won’t be busily interfering in the next one, too, assuming we ever have one.
They have already been interfering to get carney over Freeland.
True enough. The LPC is pretty much a wholly owned subsidiary of the ChiComs at this point.
I'm not sure I buy into that theory. What makes anyone think Freeland isn't bought and paid for by the CCP?
I give no exemptions to Chrystia Freeland on any of the corrupt Liberal bullspit, including the CCP UFWD stuff.
China, WEF, McKinsey, Blackrock, whoever. They’re supposed to be working for Canadians, not against us,
Most Canadians don’t understand so why would we expect Americans to? You your self comment the PMs going to be unelected but we don’t elect PMs in this country (sure they’re typically MP but have been senators in the past I think 🤷🏻♀️). I know you know this but many Canadians don’t. Even PP seems to have confused himself with how our government functions. After calling for Trudeau to resign for so long it seems he never got around to thinking about what would happen when he did. PP would have been an MP when Harper prorogued to avoid a vote of no confidence so he really should have seen it coming.
Oh ye Liberals man the lifeboats because well after that snooze fest ( except for Chretien)
As the Liberals are spending $$ on national attack ads I assume carney wants election now which is fine with me.
Why would they spend now if they weren’t planning to go.
More to the point, as soon as an election is called ever party has to limit its ad spending. The cons have way more in their war chest so it makes sense for the libs to put a plug in that.
Pretty sure that gun he is holding would have been confiscated by the liberals.
On the firearms part, few critical details:
1) Should you not already have a PAL, the average is 12 months
2) Shooting is a skill. Tactical shooting and functioning as a unit even more so. Heading down to Canadian Tire and getting a 12 gauge to fight. You are more a threat to yourself and those around you. No training, no good.
3) The LPC has since 1995 spend time and treasure disarming Canadians. Telling us that they and only they had the right to use force. Would the Trudeau family please head to the front .
4) It s sadly ironic that Canadians are up in arms (pun intended) over the President Trump’s tariff war. Yet over the past 20 year have reacted little to none as our own federal government eroded our rights and freedoms. A war against it own citizens in a post nation state with no identity.
Funny how nationalism is back in vogue…
Terry are you serious?? You mean we have to worry about Trump in addition to the CCP meddling in our elections? Thank god for paper ballots. I want to volunteer to be a scrutineer or whatever they are called. NO MORE MAIL IN BALLOTS! They are too hard to keep track of. Am I being a tin foil hatted RWNJ? I take elections very seriously. Meddling lost me my long time Conservative MP Alice Wong in Richmond centre. I just read that Mr Carney was elected with a turnout of just 38% There were many complaints on Twitter about people frustrated that they couldnt vote for some reason. Weird.
So I feel the need to ask - what is the elbows up thing? Trudeau said it tonight in his speech and I’m seeing it multiple places and it’s starting to feel like “we’re all in this together” (no, we weren’t. The office class and those who were essential workers had very different lives and risks and the idea of everyone being in it together was always wrong but was said to make people feel good.) I find myself concerned that this elbows up thing is just like that. So please prove me wrong as hearing Trudeau say it tonight just rubbed me badly. Maybe I just don’t understand it. (I don’t put my elbows up when I’m working hard - not at a computer and not with manual labor, so I’m really missing something here)
“Elbows up” is a hockey phrase and, of course, with the Canadian victory over the Yanks a couple of weeks ago the politicians are using it in their tough talk about The Donald.
If you’re a fighter and you keep your ‘elbows up’ you’re going to get your ribs busted… Everyone has to stop using that stupid saying…
Thank you! Guess everyone knows I’m not a hockey fan now. Lol
It goes back to Gordie Howe who always went into the corners with his “elbows up”. Mike Myers brought it up on SNL while wearing a Canada is not for sale T shirt he mouthed “elbows up”.
I am really curious about the "join your local gun range" image. Are you suggesting that Canadians should get firearm training and/or acquire firearms? This isn't a gotcha question or anything, I'm genuinely curious.
A lot of people I know legally did this during lockdowns. They no longer trusted the government and decided to take safety into their own hands.
Can you just go out and purchase a gun - say a .22 or 30-30 rifle, or a 12 gauge shotgun and head off to a range; or is some gun safety course and police background check required?
Thanks,Ken. I’m a lot of years removed from my gopher hunting days as a kid under my Dad’s guidance. He was a stickler on gun safety.
No. Get your PAL.
Every adult should; it's like knowing how to drive or use power tools.
If you have a criminal record, a history of violence, mental illness, drug offenses, or an unhappy ex this probably won't be an option.
I think you need a license which is as it should be. Like owning a car or any other type of machine that can do damage. I was a Dominion Marksman at uni about 6 decades ago and it was fun to learn how to shoot at a rifle range. I am not a fan of having a gun in the house for no reason. But if I want to buy one I think I should be free to as long as I'm a citizen in good standing and not mentally ill.
That's really interesting. What were they afraid of?
Yes, in a nutshell, the government. (Or government dictates anyways.)
The government.
There are still some firearms that are legal to purchase.
Even if you don't want to own one, it's not a bad idea to get your PAL.
https://www.sfc-ftc.ca/en/getting-your-pal
Respectfully Terry, that image is a load of crockshit and represents the decade of decay of the Trudeau government.
No civilian can own that firearm (AR-15 or scary assault rifle) I can't find any gun ranges to join in the GTA. Best chance I have to "arm myself" and get profiecient is my crappy, pump shotgun when I go to my friend's farm 2 hours away. Magazines are only pinned to 5 rounds. No more IPSC matches, nothing.
I hate this imagery of WHAT Canada is vs what it is. Its as disgusting as when Prime Minister Carney went on the daily show to spot nonsense on what Canada is vs what it truly has become.
Either way this wasn't written out of spite. As always appreciate your work. Proud supporter and even prouder when I disagree with your views.
You failed to identify any of my "views" that you disagree with. You didn't catch the irony of that poster, and that's on you too.
I got the irony but reading some comments I wondered if I misunderstood something. Whew! Glad I sorted that out.
Some of these are for pistol shooters, so I expect they're closed. Others are of course going to struggle with so many owners' gear being locked up until next year... or an election outcome.
Best of luck.
SFC affiliated clubs:
https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=17LXpW1bERON4UUWfL5YXL6SiszxwIE29&usp=sharing