20 Replies to “Oh, Shiny Prime Minister”

  2. The circus just phoned and they want their clown back. But I really shouldn’t say that as it is insulting to circus clowns.

  5. http://www.nationalpost.com/m/wp/news/blog.html?b=news.nationalpost.com/news/matthew-fisher-trump-didnt-scold-trudeau-by-name-but-his-point-was-clear
    Ok, probably best technical beat down of PM Trudeau by anyone in Canadian mainstream media. Ever.
    Matthew Fisher
    Without a doubt, Canada was one of the defence-spending laggards to which Trump referred. According to a recent table published by The Economist, by the measure of defence spending as a percentage of GDP Canada swims almost at the bottom of the alliance’s pool with such minnows as Luxembourg.
    Many NATO countries, most notably Germany, have increased defence spending this year. Canada is until now the sole outlier, having deferred billions of dollars of defence spending in this year’s federal budget.
    On Thursday in Brussels Trudeau dodged questions when asked about demands by Trump and NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg to honour the pledge, reaffirmed three years ago by every member of the military alliance, to gradually increase each country’s defence spending to at least 2 per cent of GDP.
    Depending on which figures are to be believed, Canada now spends between .88 per cent and .98 of GDP per year on defence. But Trudeau and Defence minister Harjit Sajjan repeated vague promises that the long-awaited Defence Policy Review will call for some additional spending when it is finally published on June 7.
    There’s more, lots more. How about this gem…
    The Liberal government has tried recently to change the discussion on defence spending by highlighting what the government believes is the quality of its contributions to NATO missions. The prime minister has often boasted about what Canada did in Afghanistan although Canada was one of the first countries to bring its combat troops home from there and that was now six years ago.
    Or….
    In another move Thursday that will be unlikely to curry favour in Washington, Trudeau rejected an urgent request from Trump and Stoltenberg to provide more military trainers and surveillance aircraft for the war on terror in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan.
    In fact, the prime minister confirmed Thursday that Canada has quietly shrunk its already small part in the war against the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant. It recently cut in half its aerial-reconnaissance capability in Iraq by bringing home one of the two Kuwait-based CP-140 Aurora spy planes that the U.S.-led coalition had been using to target ISIL. This followed last year’s withdrawal of CF-18 fighter jets from bombing missions against ISIL in Iraq and Syria.
    Well played Matthew Fisher, excellent analysis.
    PS: Our PM is a douce bag trying to cash in our Canadian treasures lost and sacrificed in Afghanistan as an excuse to wiggle out of its NATO spending commitments.

  7. Most leaders concerned with running the business of a country would have advisers, economists, and so on as part of their staff. Our PM has his personal photographer. It shows what matters to him and his followers. He is trying to run the country the way he ran the election – on image alone. (I know…. he did not really run anything, but that is for another thread.)
    I cannot say how much this leader disgusts me – almost as much as those in the media and public who still fawn on him. Such shallow values…

  8. What’s the point of NATO when most of the count ries do not defend themselves from a deliberate Islamic invasion?

  11. Sorry, just noticed Ken Deplorable White Trash (Kulak) posted this link yesterday.

  15. So both the media and Trudeau lied about this.
    I suppose we would have to explain to the media what a lie is.

  16. Nothing new to this. Think of that staged photo of Jr paddling along the Bow just before the election. It is an almost exact pattern of a portrait of PET doing the same thing. And Jr’s personal photographer just happened to be there to capture it and the media absolutely went for it, even placing the 2 shots side by side just as intended.

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