49 Replies to “Oh, Shiny Prime Minister!”

  1. I love this guy: “We are the size of California, and we’re not all that smart.”
    Canada is three cities, stretched across 4000 miles, with a ribbon of farmland 200 miles wide connecting them. Something over 85% of land in Canada is vacant, 50% of it is spruce swamp.
    If somebody dropped a nuclear weapon anywhere in Canada that was more than 400 miles from the border, not only would it not kill anyone, we wouldn’t even know about it.
    It will be the irony of all ironies if Donald Trump is the guy who finally eliminates the tariffs between Canadian provinces. I will laugh my @$$ off if that happens.

  2. I LOVE CANADA!!! He is definitely talking about the elitist bastards, not the average Canuck who is very clever. Please remember, Americans suffered 8 long years under Obama who was dumber than Justin.

  3. Obviously this guy hasn’t heard about Justines magic socks and he probably hasn’t heard that “budgets balance themselves” and he probably isn’t aware that Justine is “re-thinking time and space”… also Justine has his shirt sleeves rolled up just like that half white guy down south, Oshitforbrains, so I’m pretty sure everything will be just fine… I mean if this guy is right then that would mean that electing a substitute drama teacher/prancing narcissistic half-wit was a bad idea… hmmmpf. Kanaduh smart.

  5. “It will be the irony of all ironies if Donald Trump is the guy who finally eliminates the tariffs between Canadian provinces. I will laugh my @$$ off if that happens.”
    Me too.
    Remember the Little Liar from Shawinigan promising to kill the Canada–United States Free Trade Agreement? Yeah, no. Instead the Shawinigan Strangler expanded it to NAFTA.
    It’s kind of dumb to let it slip away altogether over the need to bribe Quebec, which is a fickle province vote wise.
    Quebec turned on Harper for cutting a mere $200 million in art grants.
    To be sure, Zoolander is between a rock and a hard place.
    He will be blamed for the loss of NAFTA or he will be blamed as the guy who stopped bribing Quebec.
    The CBC will spin like a whirling Dervish to protect him, but soundbites don’t pay the mortgage or put food on the table.

  6. What if…
    The US negotiating team brings to the table the necessity of Canada to start meeting its NATO spending obligation of 2% of GDP?
    and I don’t mean, meeting the 2% in about 2034, I mean now and for almost the past 30 years of underspending by half as well.
    Then what?
    We’re hooped.

  7. Yup, little Norway is looking at 2% on military, and they’re the size of Alberta,

  8. Think the comparison is warrantless?
    Here’s what Canada’s expert team of negotiators brought to the table to discuss initially:
    1 Labor standards.
    2 Environmental standards
    3 Gender rights
    4 Indigenous rights
    5 Changes to the investor – state dispute settlement process
    6 Expand procurement rules
    7 Free movement of professionals
    8 Protection of supply management system for poultry and dairy
    9 Protect cultural exemptions
    10 Maintain anti-dumping rules
    1/2 of these negotiating stances have nothing to do with free trade.
    http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/nafta-canada-demands-list-1.4246498 … caution, CBC link, many of the other google hits link back to this original Canadian gov’t paid content at the CBC.
    2% GDP for NATO. and ask yourself, why should the USA spend capital to defend those that have only a 1/2 interest (1% of GDP) in defending themselves?

  9. Trudeau might know just enough math to figure out that he can meet the target by lowering the GDP

  11. “2% GDP for NATO. and ask yourself, why should the USA spend capital to defend those that have only a 1/2 interest (1% of GDP) in defending themselves?”
    The money the U.S. spends on defence does not take into account the money that other nations spend. They are going to spend what they are going to spend, period. They don’t spend money to defend other nations, they spend money in their own interests.
    Trump wants to scrap NATO? Go ahead, do it. Scrap NORAD while you’re at it.
    Think the U.S. is a dependable Ally? They didn’t get into WWI until it was 3/4 finished. They didn’t get into WWII until it was 1/2 over.
    The current trouble we all have with the NorKs is because the U.S. quit WWII without finishing the job and settling the Communist problem.
    The U.S. quit fighting the NorKs in the ’50s without finishing the job.
    Wanna talk about dominoes? Russia/China/North Korea/Vietnam/Cambodia/Cuba all the money and trouble for 70 years because the U.S. didn’t finish the job in ’45.
    Ask Chiang Kai Shek and his Kuomintang what kind of Ally the U.S. is. Ask South Vietnam what kind of Ally the U.S. is. Ask Iraq what kind of Ally the U.S. is. Ask the Ukrainians what kind of Ally the U.S. is.
    The U.S. is fickle and undependable as an Ally.
    They will support or abandon any other nation if they think it is in their immediate domestic political interest.

  12. Brent Wilson is absolutely right, Canadians are stupid. Mulroney had to force feed ‘free trade’ down our throats as the Liebels cried. Now. as the deals inevitable sunset arrives the whimpering will be soul rendering.
    Canada has allowed a cabal of special interest groups to dictate the economic and social direction of this country. Absolutely laughable that ‘progressives’ speculate about Trump colluding with Russia when Canada allowed foreign money to influence the direction of the last federal election. No investigation, all is good.
    Wilson pulled back from ‘stupid’ to ‘naive’. No matter the description you have a country that cannot debate national issues. The primary issue being national security. The idea that Canada has vested interests in the USA, OPEC and Russia who benefit from a ‘directionless’ weak country that controls massive resources in a strategic geographic area.
    For many reasons I suspect Canada will not survive a prolonged economic dislocation. Such an event will bring into focus the massive stripping of wealth out of the West to the benefit of eastern Canada. Finger pointing is one thing but a federal government incapable of further bribery will lose confidence.
    I no longer invest in Canada. All in the USA.

  13. As an American who is observing this tooth gnashing I will say a couple of things:
    There will be some severe belt tightening in Canadian businesses. The owners and managers who realize this early and act in their own interest will have powerful advantages over those who are unable to act. I have seen it and lived through it in Alaska.
    The man in this clip sees the problem. The woman is in denial. That is plain when she chooses to call the Trump administration a ‘Regime’. That is hate talk and it serves no useful purpose. Canadian businesses are in for a correction. Those who act may survive.
    I voted for Mr. Trump – not because I agreed with everything he proposed. I thought – and still do – that he is wrong-headed about tariffs. They never accomplish their stated goals. No, I voted for him because he was not Hillary Clinton who promised to be the white, female Barack Obama. She would have done far more damage to my country than Trump has.
    I see Canadians, Mexicans, and Chinese hating on Trump’s actions. Resentment is not an effective self-defense tactic. What is? The best defense is finding a way to first survive and then succeed. The rules are indeed being changed. Learn them and make use of them.

  14. yet you’re able to sit here and comment in english as a result of the united states entering those wars. you forget that canada is a geographical neighbor and not on another continent an ocean away. leftists in the u s rail against endless wars, yet you’re bitching about us not getting into them. make up your progressive mind

  15. Exactly! What does all of this trade, high paying industrial and resource industry jobs, GDP, and a better standard of living mean when you can have staged townhalls packed with millennials and with the media stroking the drama teacher’s jewels.
    The woman is just the typical liberal media brainwashed airhead. She reminds me of the woman on the street asked by a SunTV reporter if she was happy that Trudeau was the new leader of the Liberals and if she would vote for him. Her reply was, “Oh yes, he has such pretty hair”.

  16. Well said. This was a bad time for Canadians to elect an airhead for prime minister and a bunch of juveniles for cabinet.
    We will just have to pay the price. And, seeing the poll numbers and the media reaction to the so-called townhalls, we will be holding the short end of the stick for quite some time.

  17. “yet you’re able to sit here and comment in english as a result of the united states entering those wars”
    What was Germany supposed to capture Canada with? U-Boats? You’re an idiot.
    Oh, and by the end of WWII, little Canada had the world’s 4th largest Air Force and the world’s 4th largest Navy.

  18. “leftists in the u s rail against endless wars, yet you’re bitching about us not getting into them.”
    Not at all. I’m just pointing out 3 things:
    a) the U.S. spends what it spends on defence for it’s own reasons(it’s a myth that the U.S. considers otherwise)
    b) the U.S. is not a dependable Ally
    c) the U.S. honours it’s treaties(eg. Treaty of Versailles which it signed and was a guarantor of)
    The U.S. is a Great Nation.
    It shouldn’t need to ‘gild the lily’ with so much myth and falsehood about itself and it’s motives.

  19. “…The woman is just the typical liberal media brainwashed airhead. …”
    Yes, but she’s very pretty. Just look at her.
    I mean that literally: Just look at her. That’s what she was hired for. (You can mute the volume and seek real information from other sources.)

  20. The current trouble we all have with the NorKs is because the U.S. quit WWII without finishing the job and settling the Communist problem…
    Wanna talk about dominoes? Russia/China/North Korea/Vietnam/Cambodia/Cuba all the money and trouble for 70 years because the U.S. didn’t finish the job in ’45.

    I see. The US didn’t finish the jobs.
    OK, I suppose you have a glib answer as to why the other allies didn’t finish the various jobs, particularly Korea as that was an alleged UN action ? I suppose it has nothing to do with “allies” being reliant on US forces, materiel, and logistics.

    Oh, and by the end of WWII, little Canada had the world’s 4th largest Air Force and the world’s 4th largest Navy.

    Technically the fifth, the fourth only because the US Navy eliminated number three in the Pacific. Of course, even granting fourth by default is hardly an accomplishment when you are beating out allies like France in exile, Ethiopia, and Mexico.
    We’ll ignore that the Canadian Navy now skates by with a whopping 12 each frigates (which, with the exception of the Bofors 57mm gun, have all US made armament, lousy allies that we are) and patrol boats, and four used British subs, because the US Navy has taken over everything except your coastal duties.

  21. Best not to make too many comparisons between Canada and California …
    https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-10/california-s-brown-raises-prospect-of-pension-cuts-in-downturn
    Jerry Brown has been squandering CA’s current largesse on ILLEGAL Alien services, and Global Warming bureaucracy (as in expanding it) … and ignoring the State pension liabilities. Therefore … he is WARNING of pension CUTS when the current economic boom slows …
    Certain pensions … such as those for University of California, Highway Patrol, and Prison Guards have been inflated beyond all reason by their public service UNIONS. THOSE 6-figure pensions awarded at age 52 … have GOT to be STOPPED. However, rest assured that it will be the average State workers (and Teachers) modest pensions will be the ones that are cut.
    My daughter is getting married (to her Canadian beau) in Vancouver this year and all I can say is THANK YOU PM selfie-socks !! For crashing the Canadian dollar. $ .80 on my $ 1.00 is like hitting the wedding expense Lotto!! Woo hoo !!! We are gonna live it up in Hongcouver !!!

  22. Is 1% of GDP (actually it’s 0.99% at the moment) enough for Canada to defend itself? If we were just to defend ourself for our own reasons? No more NATO?
    Is 1% what a dependable ally spends on defence? Can Canada’s submarines make the entire trip between Halifax and Vancouver under the North West Passage route? is Canada at all concerned that the Russians seem to have their eye on drilling for resources at/near the North Pole? home of Canada’s Santa Claus? How many Canadian icebreakers can make the journey? Canada’s air defence fighters are on their last legs, is that a concern? Military men permanently disabled are left at the moment still, with non permanent benefits. Why would anyone sign up to defend Canada?
    I seem to have struck a nerve by invoking the US military. Perhaps we can just go the way of Iceland and Costa Rica, no military, because after all, we’re too big to fail / conquer. And our resources aren’t worth stealing.

  23. Totally Love it…!! (the guy). The Blonde…not so much
    “We are not very smart or delusional…or both.” Yea I would take both as far as the Whole stinking Liberal Caucus is concerned and anything connected to it.
    They are nothing less than the Jenny McArthy’s / Gwyneth Paltrows of Canadian Politics. Completely F’n crazy…and beyond immature. Particularly that traitorous Muslim Brotherhood mole, sock boy himself.
    But watch as they come out to tell us all that a $ 0.60 Dollar will be good for Canadians and our anemic economy.

  24. “Technically the fifth” blah blah blah
    Irrelevant to how Germany supposedly invades Canada with a U-Boat navy and makes us all speak German, including the Quebecois.
    “OK, I suppose you have a glib answer as to why the other allies didn’t finish the various jobs”
    Nothing I have written so far is “glib”.
    Perhaps you didn’t understand the part about the U.S. being a guarantor of the Treaty of Versailles and how Korea wouldn’t have been necessary if Russia had been defeated?
    The Korean War being a UN action wouldn’t have been possible if the ‘Soviets'(Russia), being a permanent UN Security Council member with a VETO, hadn’t been absent for the vote.
    What was the compelling American interest in the Korea again?
    No really, the Korean War was a U.S. War and Canada was part of the coalition.
    Canada might be absent in the future and the U.S. having to take sole responsibility for it’s own foreign policy should President Trump dump NATO and the UN.
    That might be a good thing Canada not being dragged into U.S. wars any more. I don’t see Canada’s national interest in fighting in the Balkans or Kuwait or Libya or Afghanistan.
    “which, with the exception of the Bofors 57mm gun, have all US made armament, lousy allies that we are”
    The U.S. dosen’t sell their armaments to Allies only. Never have. That’s a myth. Look at the arms deal that President Trump recently made with KSA. Are the Saudis an Ally? Really?
    No. the U.S. makes money and jobs by selling their armaments abroad. In fact it is the leading U.S. export and has been for decades.
    How many “Allies” did the U.S. sell the F-22 to? If they’d sold the F-22 abroad the scale of production would have made the plane cheaper for everyone, including the U.S.
    Is India an Ally? I guess as an Ally the U.S. has enjoyed inspecting the Russian made SU-30s and T-90s that Russia sold it, yes? Nevertheless, the U.S. has enjoyed India purchasing the largest amount of American arms exports.
    You Americans are so bound up in your myths you don’t know what is going on the rest of the world.

  25. Oz, you’re full of shit. European countries started WWI and WWII. Why should the US have been involved from the start? France created the Vietnam war by running away. The UN let the US down in Korea. Why should the US be the only country responsible for stopping the spread of communism everywhere? The only reason the USSR didn’t swallow all of Europe is because the US kept spending on military. And because the US was spending so much on military, countries like Britain, France, and Canada dropped their own responsibilities.

  26. Perhaps you didn’t understand the part about the U.S. being a guarantor of the Treaty of Versailles and how Korea wouldn’t have been necessary if Russia had been defeated?
    Regarding the Treaty of Versailles, the US was no more a “guarantor” than any other signatory, in fact, Wilson opposed the treatment of Germany that Britain (which under the banner of empire included Canada at the time) and France pushed for, and helped set the conditions for WWII.
    Of course, that gets us to why you yet again glibly fail to answer why defeating Russia, then an ally, was only a “US job”, and if it was so important, why the rest of the allies didn’t take on Russia.
    That might be a good thing Canada not being dragged into U.S. wars any more.
    However it was swell when the US got dragged into recurrent European internecine bickering, so swell you wanted us alone to take out what was an ally at the end of WWII. If you want, I’ll give you a lesson on the entry of the US into WWII beginning with the Neutrality Act of 1937.
    Are the Saudis an Ally? Really?…Is India an Ally?
    Yes to both if you bother to look at the geopolitical realities of the regions.
    How many “Allies” did the U.S. sell the F-22 to?
    That would be “none”, the F-35, OTOH, ten so far, do you have a point ?
    Canada might be absent in the future…You Americans are so bound up in your myths…
    Having served in Europe, and more lately Afghanistan, along side your fine Canadian forces (and enjoyed some Tim Horton’s in Kandahar), it is interesting that none that I knew shared either your inferiority complex, or your odd perspective of the world.

  27. I hope somebody asks the Sock monkey at one of his stops on his “love me!!!!” tour if he knows what will happen if NAFTA is scrapped. I also hope when they ask they have the “temerity” to restrict his response as yes or no with a follow up question.
    Does he know what will happen?
    If he does then he gets the opportunity to say so or try to hide his limited knowledge of economics.

  28. “European countries started WWI and WWII. Why should the US have been involved from the start?”
    Have you ever read the Treaty of Versailles? That is why the U.S. should have been involved from the start of WWII. Because the U.S. was one of the Great Powers that signed it and it burdened them with the responsibility to fight.
    “France created the Vietnam war by running away.”
    No. The Vietnamese liberated themselves from the Japanese during WWII and then the U.S. disarmed them and handed Vietnam back to the French as a colony. So the only way that Vietnamese nationalists thought they could get free of the French and rule their own nation was with communist help because it was the Americans who had disarmed Vietnam and handed them over to the tender loving mercies of the French.
    “The only reason the USSR didn’t swallow all of Europe is because the US kept spending on military.”
    The only reason the Wehrmacht didn’t defeat the USSR is because the U.S. propped the USSR up.
    That sure showed those commie bastids, eh? Ever since the U.S. making the world safe from communism seems to be a little too difficult to swallow. Who made the U.S. do that, eh? Prop up Stalin.(in case you weren’t following)
    “And because the US was spending so much on military, countries like Britain, France, and Canada dropped their own responsibilities.”
    I suppose that is why President Eisenhower warned the American people in his farewell address about the Military Industrial complex? Because Britain, France, and Canada dropped their own responsibilities, eh? Is it just possible that the U.S. was going to spend all of that money on the military anyway? I think it was possible.
    You do know that the Gulf of Tonkin incident which formed the casus belli of the Vietnam War was ginned up, right?
    Same with the Iraqi army tossing babies out of incubators in Kuwait and carting them back to Iraq. Never happened.
    What was the compelling national interest that America was protecting there? Did you think that Saddam was going to stop selling his oil to us? Really? How was Canada’s national interest served by interfering with Iraq?
    Did you ever picture the middle east today being in such a shit fix? I gotta tell you though, that I never thought is was because Britain, France, and Canada didn’t spend enough of their GDP on their militaries. Nope, never crossed my mind.

  30. Really don’t get the comments about the interviewer. The full interview is on BNN and it’s well worth a listen. She hits all the right notes with Wilson and she’s dead on with her point that the Trump administration is imposing a new trade regime on its trading partners and that is going to have big affects on Canada.
    Wilson is bang on, especially when he talks about the ‘right ask’. It’s becoming increasingly clear that the Liberals are clueless on trade and foreign affairs, which normally wouldn’t matter all that much cause we’re Canada but the risks right now are too big to ignore.

  31. Yes, Oz is full of shit.
    You claim that the US doesn’t know what’s going on in the rest of the world. Apparently you don’t know what’s going on in the U.S. You write as though the U.S. were a monolithic entity, like a totalitarian regime like Cuba or something. The U.S. has two political parties and much more factions, and its policies differ wildly depending on who is in power.
    The First World War from start to finish was when Wilson was President. He pushed through the League of Nations but the treaty was not rectified by Congress. Adolph Hitler ruled Germany from 1933 (Chancellor) to 1945, almost completely coincidental with the reign of FDR. Yes, I said reign, as FDR was the closest to a dictator the U.S. ever had. Soviet documents after its fall reveal that indeed, the FDR administration was totally infiltrated with Communists who worked to the best interest of Russia, not the U.S. Between FDR and Truman, they made sure of the hegemony of Russia in Eastern Europe and the rise of the Communists in China. Yes, you can lay the Cold War at their feet, but I take no share of the blame. I dislike the two of them much more than you, or even that you can imagine.
    In the interest of brevity I deleted long paragraphs on the Korean War and the Vietnam War. Suffice to say they also both were started under Democratic presidents. The Korean War was conducted under U.N. auspices. The media made the Vietnam War so unpopular that there was no alternative but withdrawal.
    FDR and Truman laid the ground works for the Cold War. It was up to Reagan to end it. Americans think Carter was the worst president, but most do not realize how bad. He turned the Canal over to Panama, who then turned it over to Communist China, which now controls shipping between the Pacific and the Caribbean. But actively aiding the overthrow of a Persian regime friendly to the West in general, and the U.S. in particular, was much worse. That installed the mullahs in Iran and is the root cause of all our current troubles in the Middle East, turning a regional conflict into a global crisis. Maybe Reagan redux can match the feat of Reagan in this current crisis.
    As to your own writing, you are so all over the place in your criticism, often attacking both sides of an issue, that only one conclusion can be made. You are just virulently anti-U.S., and whatever the U.S. did was wrong.

  32. Don’t rely on BNN for much of any financial advice from their employed talking heads, EVER.
    There are a handful of guests that are truly good, Bergman being one of them.
    For the most part, BNN promotes the typical CTV Liberal fanboy agenda, and is to be disregarded.

  33. “in fact, Wilson opposed the treatment of Germany that Britain” yadda yadda
    And yet Wilson signed the Treaty of Versailles. Lame and facile argument.
    “Of course, that gets us to why you yet again glibly fail to answer why defeating Russia, then an ally, was only a “US job”, and if it was so important, why the rest of the allies didn’t take on Russia.”
    I never said it was only a U.S. job. You’re pulling that one out of your dumb ass.
    The rest of the Allies, excepting Canada, were devastated by the war, which I might remind you, they had been fighting since 1939. They needed the U.S.
    Did you ever hear of the Marshal Plan? Look it up if you haven’t, you might learn a thing or two. Take note that helping Russia was not part of the Marshal Plan. Imagine treating not just an Ally like that, but the nation that actually won WWII, eh?
    “Neutrality Act of 1937”
    Of course! Passing an act of congress just sweeps international treaties away and then those treaty obligations become as if the U.S. never signed a treaty in the first place.
    I think I may have mentioned that the U.S. is not a dependable Ally.
    If I didn’t let me say it again…the U.S. is not a dependable Ally. Such treaties are what alliances are made of.
    “Yes to both if you bother to look at the geopolitical realities of the regions.”
    Would that be like what happened on 9/11 being a Saudi operation or are you referring to the time the U.S. sold F-14s to Iran just before the revolution? Just so I understand it, whomever the U.S. sells arms to at any given moment is automatically an Ally. Sure. Good enough definition.(for an American)
    “and enjoyed some Tim Horton’s in Kandahar”
    Good for you. On August 26, 2014, Burger King agreed to purchase Tim Hortons for US$11.4 billion; the chain became a subsidiary of the Oakville-based holding company Restaurant Brands International on December 15, 2014, which is majority-owned by Brazilian investment firm 3G Capital. And your point is?
    My point about the F-22 is that the F-35, since it cannot do it’s job as well as the old F-16 which consistently beats it in dogfights, is an inferior aircraft. It’s a swindle perpetrated on American taxpayers which the U.S. has attempted to spread to it’s Ally’s taxpayers while denying them a superior aircraft.
    It seems odd that the U.S. would demand that NATO countries up their defence spending while attempting to sell them inferior weapons, but since Americans regard any nation they sell weapons to at any given moment as ‘Allies’ …maybe it’s not as strange as it first seems.

  34. I agree as I watched the full interview and actually, Catherine Murray is one of BNN’s relatively better interviewers. The interviewee was bang on and unfortunately, as far as our trade negotiating strategy is concerned, I’m not sure the Conservatives under Scheer are any better. Mad Max could have used the opportunity to kill supply management but Scheer appears to be in the pockets of that Lobby leaving him aligned with the Spawn’s virtue-signaling junior high-level negotiators. Free trade really doesn’t need much of a negotiation but neither side don’t seem to be interested in that.

  35. Don’t rely on BNN for much of any financial advice from their employed talking heads, EVER.
    I watched it in my apartment’s gym for a few weeks until the management changed cable TV companies.
    Aside from the headlines and breaking news items, I didn’t have a lot of use for BNN as I thought the advice offered by their guests subject to question. They reminded me of what one wag once suggested, namely that a chimp throwing darts at a target would have been just as good an advisor as the so-called professionals.

  36. “As to your own writing, you are so all over the place in your criticism, often attacking both sides of an issue, that only one conclusion can be made. You are just virulently anti-U.S., and whatever the U.S. did was wrong.”
    I like President Trump. Not that that probably matters. I dislike American myths about themselves and their part in international history. I do hate the apparent American national psychosis regarding race that began in the U.S. and seems to be affecting the politics of all the western democracies.
    I do know that America is not a monolith, but I also know that regardless of whether a Repub or Dem regime runs America, that it’s just a fiction because a shadow government really runs it. Maybe President Trump will succeed in reforming the republic and exposing the shadow government to prosecution. That would be good. They shot President Kennedy for trying.
    It matters not what regime is in power in the U.S., they always attack our softwood lumber. The WTO always comes down on Canada’s side but the Americans try again and again regardless of the political party. Seems somehow monolithic to keep attacking Canada softwood.
    However, I don’t care what America does in it’s domestic policy where the relatively larger partisan distinctions seem to matter to others. It doesn’t matter to me.
    I would like to see President Trump kill NAFTA. Then all the things Canada has sacrificed, like using real sugar in food/beer which made Canadian food superior instead of having to kowtow to the U.S. Corn Lobby and it’s high-fructose corn syrup (which I despise the taste of), can be reclaimed.
    I’d love to see the centralized supply management economy in Canada end. I’d love to see PM Zoolander have Quebec turn on him in the next election because of the cost of losing NAFTA while trying to explain it’s gone because of trying to keep the current inequity between the provinces intact.
    Anon, you take on 3-4 other commenters at the same time and we’ll see how unified your written responses are.

  37. Kenji, it is not actually a bad comparison. California however does have a way to go before they are as completely socialist as Canada is.

  38. I never said it was only a U.S. job.

    current trouble we all have with the NorKs is because the U.S. quit WWII without finishing the job and settling the Communist problem.
    The U.S. quit fighting the NorKs in the ’50s without finishing the job.

    Odd, you don’t have the words, “US and allied forces”, or words to that effect anywhere.
    Did you ever hear of the Marshal [sic] Plan?…Take note that helping Russia was not part of the Marshal [sic] Plan.
    Aside from learning how to spell Marshall Plan, you might want to read about it to learn that the Soviets chose not to participate, though they were offered participation.
    “Neutrality Act of 1937”
    Of course! Passing an act of congress just sweeps international treaties…
    Actually, yes, just as an act of any sovereign nation’s parliament, Duma, Diet, or whatever the governing body is called can do.
    Would that be like what happened on 9/11 being a Saudi operation or are you referring to the time the U.S. sold F-14s to Iran just before the revolution?
    A) Adjust your tinfoil hat, Saudi nationals committing an act does not equal the Saudi government either sponsoring, or committing the act. B) Are you that dull that you do not know that at the time the F-14s were sold to Iran, Iran was indeed a regional ally ?
    And your point is?
    No particular point, I thought it was nice that the Tim’s there was staffed by Canadians and not TCNs or locals like most of the concessions. I also liked the hockey rink, which I didn’t exactly expect to see.
    I think I may have mentioned that the U.S. is not a dependable Ally.
    You did, but you are evidently a WLU graduate, given your level of misinformation. Due to the Neutrality Act of 1937, the US was prohibited from selling arms to belligerents. The role of the Army and Navy was strictly defense of possessions and CONUS. Despite an authorized strength of 280,000, the Army was funded for slightly over half that, and couldn’t have projected force anywhere if it had to.
    WWII began September 1939, and the Neutrality Act was immediately amended to allow shipping munitions to Great Britain and France, and in 1940 the Lend-Lease program began, while the US Navy, despite “neutrality” was involved in keeping sea lanes in the Atlantic open. In early 1941 the first British/US strategy conferences took place given that it was likely that the US would be involved in the war. Also in 1941, well before entry into the war and still technically neutral, being lousy allies we are, the US established several training bases in CONUS for allied pilots and other personnel.
    On the US entry into the war, despite Japan being a bigger threat, the US, being lousy allies, agreed that Germany would be the priority effort. Again, because the US policy had been continental defense, the Army did not have but one fully deployable division until 1942, however, in the air war, the RAF launched their air offensive in May 1942, the USAAF two months later. Meanwhile on the other side of the world, at about the same time, the US Navy had already seriously degraded the Japanese carrier fleet at Midway, and was about to begin the island hopping campaign.
    So basically, despite your ululation, with the exception of a few months in 1939, the US had a part in WWII in one way or the other till the end, and despite your pouting, without the massive input of materiel alone (e.g. one Liberty ship launched every two days), let alone the men, the outcome would have been vastly different.
    Finally, though you evidently haven’t read much history, treaties and allies come and go (it may surprise you to know that Japan and Italy were both allies of both the US and Canada (via Britain) in WWI), and being an ally doesn’t mean being besties forever, or that the US has to provide a permanent umbrella for any country unwilling to defend itself (though we probably will).
    You may hie yourself to a library to study now.

  39. Might as well just cut to the chase. On our side we have an affirmative action (woman) lightweight appointee named Chrystia Freeland, whose only claim to fame prior to her cabinet position was being a journalist. And her boss is Justin “I’m a feminist” Trudeau, a man who has the intellectual capacity of a stone.
    On the US side, you have Robert Lighthizer, who worked for 30 years as a lawyer in international trade law, and who was deputy US Trade Representative under Reagan. Prior to that he was Chief of Staff of the United States Senate Committee on Finance. And his boss is Donald Trump.
    The interviewee in this video is being polite. It is worse not just being smart, we are fools, and it starts at the top.
    If the Americans kick us to the curb on NAFTA we deserve it, and I for one will not blame them.

  40. My last comment was carefully crafted and lingers in moderator limbo. I won’t waste my time on another.

  41. I do hope that someone on the US side points out to the imbeciles that Canada has sent to negotiate the NAFTA, that NATO is an agreement as well. And agreeing to spend 2% is not the same as spending 0.99% and then stating that “we try extra hard”
    Where will +20 years of underspending on NATO come from? that’s $20 billion per year for +20 years. Do the math.
    Can we sell Quebec?

  42. The California National Guard could invade, destroy and occupy Canada in a long weekend and be back at work on Tuesday morning.

  43. ah jeez kenji, you spilled the beans on how pm flake is going to ‘balance’ the budget thru the exchange rate. after all, OUR exports (whats left of them) will be cheaper to american customers !! hey pm wyynedsock, why not peg the canuckistan dollar to 5 cents (the penny no longer exists) and voila!! huge exports, what could ever go ‘worng’ with that?

  44. ha ha !!
    “honours its treaties”. ppfffttt . . . . like those western senatorhhs who kept tacking on ‘stuff’ to various bills (the american way!!) the effect of which was state based exemptions from the INTERNATIONAL Canuckistan-Us trade deal called (wait for it) NAFTA !!!
    feel free to google ‘softwood lumber dispute’.
    fwiw, at the time, I sent letters to various embassies for central american and certain south american countries warning them (Brazil I think it was) that the americans could NOT be trusted to uphold ANY trade deals. Trump’s kiboshing of NAFTA so early on shows this assessment to be accurate.

  46. You assume that the relevant US presidents had a perfect crystal ball. In fact, Roosevelt’s Yalta agreement was the product of progressive naïveté and wishful thinking towards the USSR. And to be truthful, Truman was faced with a very high cost for eradicating the nork regime. Remember that the entire joint chiefs of staff were highly skeptical of Inchon. Undoubtedly the were a major force in Trumans decision not to continue in North Korea. Poor decision, not I think, a Machiavellian one.

  47. To be fair the us tariff on softwoods cut on private ( not Crown, i.e. Below market stumpage cost) land is pretty small – I remember 4%? Not ideal, but perhaps small enough for wood cut from private land to be profitably exported? That being said , your typical Senator these days is a swamp swine.
    And no action on NAFTA has been taken yet. I think he was trying to waken the Laurentian swamp dwellers.

  48. fort drum in upstate NY near watertown has more firepower than Canada and i think more active combat troops.

  49. I promise to load up on Canadian goods during my short stay. Any recommendations for local Canadian craft brews and/or Bourbons/Ryes ?

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