Compared to?

I think somebody on his team told him it would be good strategy to appear cozy with Carney in election season in order to make our Conservative candidate more appealing. Thankfully it is not working.

Yep. Being a contrarian in the face of a resource economy changeover doesn’t make you distinct. It just makes you stubborn.

I didn’t except to see a Mastodon icon. Honestly I kind of hope our little social corner remains low key for as long as possible.

I’d play the delay card as much as I could, too. Every week we hold off even bigger tariffs is another week to get more trading partners on board.

Let’s see how Carney recounts it before celebrating.

“I don’t know why everybody thinks I’m a cow” says the person standing in a field with cows and loudly chewing grass.

Getting security clearance should not be a partisan issue. Intelligence agencies have reported credible foreign interference going back years and all but one party leader has the ability to act on that knowledge.

To say a sitting MP is not a member of government is semantics at best. If you can vote in Parliament on government policy you are exerting your opinion on government policy, even if your interpretation differentiates between Parliament and Goverment.

The Liberal Party isn’t the one supplying him with secret information. On issues of concern CSIS (and assuming others) supply it to all parties and individuals with clearance regardless of who’s in power. And in election time this is even more important so a party leader can know which of his ranks are being propped up by foreign governments in exchange for influence.

The hypothetical excuse of being muzzled from sharing secret information is flimsy. Let’s hear all about the earth-shattering privileged information PP has managed to dig up on his own that he’s shared with the public in the interest of democracy. Pffft.

That’s collaboration.

I hear your worry but I really don’t think he has the stones. For all the bluster he has only enabled other countries to do the dirty work. It’s a lot less risky for him to pick on Ukraine or Greenland by threatening to take away money than it is to put US boots on the ground somewhere.

He’s loud and offensive but also very fragile and cowardly. He spins it but he’s backed down every single time.

I wouldn’t mind some tit for tat. Carney could respond with Felon, Rapist, Laughingstock and they’d cut deep because they’re true.

A) Canada isn’t a viable country because they depend on us

B) Hey no stop you have to depend on us still…

Steve Boots said it well today.

Quebec: “Nobody gets to destroy Canada but us!”

Ah, that makes me feel a bit better lever-wise when you consider the logistics.

If dumbass stuck to a plan this time it would be the first. He’ll get pissy on Truth Social and blow it up to 25% between here and April 2. Then because he’s a chicken shit he’ll send a lower-level cronie to negotiate with a minister in Washington. Then after posturing we’ll be pausing for another month.

He has no new ideas. This is all he will ever try.

So tariffs until April 5 reversal. You can only play this card so many times, Donald.

Isn’t Facebook mostly for retirees playing freemium games nowadays?

As much as I’d love it I don’t think this is an option in 2025. The process is long and fraught with Hungary vetoes. And if the threat of an armed conflict turns into actual conflict we’d be exactly as Ukraine is now, blocked from proceeding because nobody in the EU wants to volunteer to inherit a war.

It’s a shame from a tariff response. Threatening to embargo fertilizer exports was a lever I thought we’d be able to pull before next planting season.

Next best thing is to export to other countries so we’re not competing with Russia in a rigged market.

Moe is a dick but he’s also correct that the US paying Russia for fertilizer will hurt Ukrainians.

I’m not Albertan but I believe the tradition is to vote for whomever gets the furthest out of the way of unfettered oil exports. I don’t think there’s much Smith couldn’t do as long as she keeps to that promise.