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What’s really behind Donald Trump’s tariff threats and ’51st state’ posts about Canada

Donald Trump’s threat of whopping tariffs on Canadian exports and his trolling of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau are key tactics in a negotiating strategy to extract the best trade terms for the U.S., according to people who have worked with or closely observed him over the years.

Trump is promising to slap a 25 per cent tariff on all goods entering the U.S. from Canada and Mexico on Jan. 20, his first day in office, unless the countries curb the flow of drugs and migrants across their borders.

The president-elect has since followed up that threat by taunting Trudeau by calling him “governor” and referring to Canada as the “51st state” in a succession of social media posts.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

John Robson: Canadian Military’s Plan to Boost Ranks Is Woefully Inadequate

The latest pseudo-news from Ottawa, increasingly fantasy island, isn’t Chrystia Freeland “resigning” immediately after being fired. It’s the Canadian military going to recruit in Neverland and defeat the pirates by make-believe.

Or, in bubble-speak, “The Canadian military has an ambitious plan to increase its regular force ranks to 86,000, according to a briefing for senior leaders.” Care to clutch at that straw? Ha ha. Not there.

The video starts at the 25:44 mark at which point Victor Davis Hanson speaks to the current recruitment failure of the US Military to attract white males. I suspect it applies to our own military as well.

It’s a good chat period.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces", Canada

A Wish List for a Safe and Secure Canada in 2025

At the end of one year and the beginning of another it is customary to look back at what happened and speculate on what is to come. With that in mind, here is an overview of national security as we enter 2025, a year in which we may (very?) likely have a new government. If the polls are to be believed (although if U.S. polls tell us anything, it is to treat these numbers very carefully), odds are that the Trudeau Liberals will be replaced by the Conservatives under Pierre Poilievre.

There’s a good number of security risks that the new government will inherit and will have to tackle…

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

WAGNER: Pierre Trudeau rules Canada from the grave

How do you fundamentally transform a nation? If you don’t like your country as it is, how can you reshape it into something more to your liking?

Perhaps the simplest way to change a country peacefully is to change its constitution. The constitution is the foundational document that essentially establishes a country by formulating the structure of its government and listing the rights and responsibilities of its citizens.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

NDP MP Charlie Angus A Real Asshole & Proud Of It!

NDP MP says he won’t play Poilievre’s ‘procedural games’ to bring down Trudeau

OTTAWA — At least one NDP MP is reluctant to bring down Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government and force a federal election if it means putting Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre in power.

“I have a long and consistent record of opposing Mr. Poilievre’s tactics. I do not believe he is fit for leadership and will not support his procedural games,” said NDP MP Charlie Angus, in an email to National Post, in a reference to a Conservative ploy to use the public accounts committee to quickly bring down the government in January.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, WTF?

Norad paying ‘full attention’ to Chinese-Russian air co-operation

The head of the North American Aerospace Defence Command says Chinese and Russian air co-operation in the Arctic has Norad’s “full attention.”

Those two countries for the first time staged a joint patrol in the Arctic near the coast of Alaska last July.

U.S. Gen. Gregory Guillot told The Canadian Press in a year interview that it potentially takes decades for two nations’ militaries to reach “full integration” at a level like the U.S. and Canada.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Norad, Russia, USA

Canada’s backlog of asylum claims could climb higher when Trump returns to White House, experts say

A backlog of 267,000 cases at the tribunal that hears asylum claims in Canada risks rising even further if a predicted influx of asylum claimants crosses the border from the U.S. after president-elect Donald Trump returns to the White House, immigration experts say.

The Immigration and Refugee Board (IRB) has a backlog four times higher than it was two years ago as a flood of claims has left it unable to keep up.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Immigration - Follow the money", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Governor General Intervention in Current Deadlock Would Set Non-Democratic Precedent

While polls are indicating a significant majority of Canadians feel it’s time for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to move on, citizens are discovering it’s quite difficult to remove an unwilling prime minister from office.

The Bloc Quebecois, the Conservative Party of Canada, and the NDP have now all committed to bringing down the minority Liberal government if given the opportunity to. While not eager for an election, many Liberal MPs are openly calling for Trudeau’s resignation. Despite a collapse of support from all directions, Trudeau has so far not announced a decision, and could conceivably remain there until October 2025.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

PARKER: What’s next for Canada’s Christians, as church and state collide?

It’s the end of the Christmas season, and at first glance something wonderful seems to have taken place. Canadians have rediscovered their nation’s Christian roots.

Or have they?

Cheerful evidence that they have can be found in the 40 or so cities and provinces, including Toronto, Saskatoon, Calgary, and Saskatchewan, that for the first time have officially declared December to be Christian Heritage Month.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Christian Persecution, Christianity, Christianity and the left

‘Hot mess’: Trudeau’s turmoil draws Trump’s taunts

TORONTO — Canada’s government is melting down at the worst possible moment.

The country is girding for the return of Donald Trump, who many here see as an existential threat to Canada’s security. He has threatened to slap 25 percent tariffs on Canadian goods, levies that could crush the economy of a country that sends nearly 80 percent of its exports to its southern neighbor.

And he has taken to mocking embattled Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as the “governor” of the “great state of Canada” in middle-of-the-night social media posts that officials here have sought to cast as lighthearted ribbing but others view as not-so-neighborly and not-so-funny. On Christmas, he said he’d pitched hockey great Wayne Gretzky on becoming Canada’s next prime minister.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Kevin O’Leary is on a mission to revive Canada and he’s starting in Alberta

Mr. Wonderful — as he likes to call himself — gets a lot of air-time, cast as the heartless a–hole on “Shark Tank.” But it’s Kevin O’Leary, the clear-eyed dealmaker who I need to meet, to explain why he’s backing a $70-billion AI data centre industrial park near Grande Prairie in northwest Alberta.

“This is the largest data centre project on earth,” the 70-year-old entrepreneur enthuses on our Zoom call. With permits already approved, the land regulatory hoops jumped through, the investment adds up to “the lowest cost of energy with the most educated workforce.” On brand, Kevin has dubbed the project site in Alberta, “Wonder Valley.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

Food banks across Ontario expecting higher usage in final year of Trudeau’s criminal misrule

Food banks across Ontario expecting higher usage in 2025

As millions of Canadians struggle with food insecurity, food banks across Ontario continue to see record volumes of visits.

In Toronto, the Daily Bread Food Bank says the need has hit levels not seen in its 41-year history, recording 3.75 million visits this past year.

In 2020, the organization only saw roughly 600,000 clients a year.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government