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I'm not even sure he's as right leaning as Martin. I've seen the changes inside government. They are extremely focused on delivery. Ideology is largely gone. It's an urgency I've never seen in my entire career. If a program or policy can't show that it has delivered first and foremost...

He is doing what he was elected to do. Besides which, it was never clear how a "feminist foreign policy" benefits the average Canadian, which is, kinda the point of foreign policy. Seemed like an excuse to just send money to certain NGOs more than anything else. Also, good luck trying to...

Ultimately only they can decide how much they want to keep fighting, given that Western aid is drying up. Europeans like Germany are ever ready to basically surrender Eastern Europe to Russia. US aid has all but ended. And even Canada talks a big game but hadn't done all that we could.

Particularly nuts to complain about imposing carbon neutrality on data centres in Canada, you know the country with one of the lowest emitting grids in the world. Not to mention that data centres benefit from colder climates. If there's universal carbon taxes on data centres, northern Quebec...

Will add that it's a funny idea to whine about the US, and then complain about policies that align us with the EU as well. But I've never seen any complaints about Russia or China. Funny that.

Yep. Like a lot of places, their religious are hypocrites. Push the country into wars and then refuse to do their part. Ukraine doesn't have that problem. Their debate is over how much they should accept the Russian boot.

About that source: Disclose.tv - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disclose.tv Boomer brains really get cooked on social media. Zero media literacy apparently.

Maybe when our current stagnation leads to cuts in social programs they'll get it. Even Europeans are starting to get it. See the Draghi report. There's definitely a sour grapes element to the idea that GDP isn't important. If our per capita GDP was higher than the US, you wouldn't hear the...

First of y'all, Ukraine is doing a lot more than most of the West would. Look at what a sham "elbows up" turned out to be in Canada. How many interprovincial trade barriers came down? The French are willing to risk create a debt crisis and full on Eurozone crisis over changing the retirement...

Not just weapons. Imagine getting American carrier groups to protect your country and American bombers to deliver bunker busters to literal millimetre precision.

The question asked was when has China ever retaliated. The question was answered. And really interesting that y'all are in a Toronto centric forum and don't understand the importance of the auto sector to the Canadian economy.

Not quite. The GDP figure itself may not impact a person directly. But that maybe difference absolutely does translate into a lower quality of life. It's a huge part of why we have less disposable income. Or why we have lower quality of employment and a less diverse economy. It's why we...

The discussion on fighters has taken on a life of its own to the point of utter absurdity and full of misinformation and conspiracist nonsense that's really hard to combat. I now understand what epidemiologists must have felt dealing with COVID deniers. People are suddenly experts on fighter...

https://www.dentons.com/en/insights/newsletters/2025/march/21/trump-2-0-navigating-change-in-canada/china-announces-tariffs-targeting-canadian-agriculture-and-food-products

Not quite. The Chinese J-20 is close. Among many reasons the US is trying to move onto Sixth Gen aircraft.

It's not just Trump. The Administration is full of Russian apologists. You have guys like Colby who have convinced themselves that Ukraine needs to be sacrificed to fight China. I don't get the logic. But then I don't have degrees from Yale and Harvard.....

Who says the Europeans haven't been sharing? One of the guys featured here was a seat mate on my senior Captain's course: And you can see European and NATO assets doing surveillance runs on flight trackers. There are capabilities nobody else has. Particularly with satellite surveillance...

Very much this. And this is the downside of Europe relying so much on the US. They should have been ramping up production massively since day one of the Full Scale Invasion. Sufficiently so that they could replace the US. The threat of Trump returning was not taken seriously.

Just a reminder on the Gripen being independence from the US.

I very much disagree with this assessment. The major European powers have the intelligence and surveillance assets to replace American capabilities. We are trying to develop some of this capability ourselves now. What they don't have is a willingness to give Ukraine the aid it needs to win...