Category: Operation Empty Chair

China Is Asshole

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Real Agriculture- China announces new 76 per cent “anti-dumping” tariff on Canadian canola

The Chinese government is imposing a new 75.8 per cent tariff on Canadian canola seed to begin August 14 — the latest development in the trade dispute that escalated a year ago when Canada announced tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles and steel. The new tariff on canola seed, announced today (August 12,) is the preliminary result of the anti-dumping investigation that the Chinese Ministry of Commerce launched in September 2024.

Our master negotiator was unavailable for comment.

Quoi?

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Sun- Despite saying he would, Carney won’t take part in TVA debate

Liberal Leader Mark Carney, who despite suggesting on Monday that he’d take part in TVA’s French-language leaders debate, his campaign is reportedly saying he won’t.

“Liberal Leader Mark Carney will not participate in the TVA ‘Face à Face‘ debate, as per his campaign,” wrote Global Parliament Hill reporter Mackenzie Gray.

“No reason was provided by the party as to why he won’t participate.”

National Post- Mark Carney says ‘non merci’ to a French-language debate

OTTAWA — Liberal Leader Mark Carney lost the first French-language debate before it even started.

Melanie Joly, “I expect the leader of the Liberal Party of Canada to be fully bilingual.”

Sam Cooper’s A Busy Guy

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Sam Cooper- Ottawa Warned On PRC Blueprint Targeting MPs and Senators Decade Before NSICOP ’24 Revelations

A leaked 2014 intelligence document from Canadian Security Intelligence Service warned that China was orchestrating a broad strategy to cultivate Canadian politicians at every level ahead of various elections, relying on community leaders as intermediaries. The classified CSIS report—marked “SECRET/CanadianEyesOnly”—details how Chinese Embassy officials in Ottawa tasked diaspora figures to target specific Canadian politicians, including a sitting Senator and a Member of Parliament, inviting them to a high-profile Chinese New Year banquet in 2015.

Incoming

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National Post- Trump says he will announce 25% steel and aluminum tariffs Monday — and more import duties are coming

National Post- Canadian Steel Producers Association ‘deeply concerned’ about latest tariff threat

Francisco- Looks like “Team Canada” is having a good time in France.
Prime Minister’s itinerary for Monday, February 10, 2025

Update:

Quick Dick McDick- The Trump & Trudeau Tariff Trials & Tribulations Toonie

CPAC- PM Trudeau Speaks at AI Summit in Paris – February 10, 2025

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau delivers a keynote address at the AI Action Summit in Paris, France. The prime minister is discussing sustainable artificial intelligence and energy.

Steve Saretsky- So Trump is going to tariff our steel and Carney is going to put a carbon tax on it?

You’re Welcome Anytime

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CBC- U.S. border patrol reports record number of encounters with migrants at the Canadian border

CBP reported encountering 19,498 migrants between border posts on the northern border between October 2023 and July 2024 — 15,612 of them in the Swanton Sector, which runs along the Quebec’s border with New York and Vermont.

While the numbers still pale in comparison with the U.S southern border, that’s more than twice as many as the 7,630 encountered between border posts during the same time period the previous year.

Freeze Their Bank Accounts

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National Post- Industry awaits labour board decision in railway dispute

Teamsters- Member Update – Lockout/Strike Position

As of this writing, at CPKC the TCRC members’ lockout/strike position has not changed and the picket lines remain.

The Food Professor- AAFC projected a Canada-wide crop of 94.4 MMT, with approximately 71 MMT coming from Western Canada to help feed the world. This shutdown is a matter of global food security.

Typically, around 25,000 railcars cross the U.S. border daily. Nothings is moving…

Hostage Situation

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Harry Siemens- #railstrike

The Canadian rail strike has escalated to a full shutdown of both of Canada’s major freight railways, Canadian National Railway Co. (CN) and Canadian Pacific Kansas City Ltd. (CPKC), following a failure to reach a new contract agreement with the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference before the midnight deadline on August 22, 2024. Here’s what’s happening:

Blacklock’s- Calls Rail Shutdown Sabotage

“It is totally unacceptable for us as a country to sabotage ourselves right now,” said Freeland. “We have been through a lot. We have made so much progress with our economy. Canadians from coast to coast to coast are depending on the employers, are depending on the union to get a deal done and to get it done with alacrity.”

“What kind of contingency plans does the government have?” asked a reporter. “Our plan is for the parties to listen to Canadians,” replied Freeland.

The Fog of Media

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Matt Walsh- This is the early days of covid all over again. People are hysterical. Media feeding the panic. Lots of blatantly false information being spread around. You are expected to believe everything you hear. People who question the narrative are shouted down and shamed.

James Lindsay- I don’t know what’s going on in Ukraine right now, but I do know the news won’t help me understand it correctly.

UnHerd- Konstantin Kisin: Has the media got Ukraine wrong?

Audio only version of UnHerd

Francisco- The UnHerd interview with Konstanin Kisin is excellent. He admits he’s part of the alternative media which also by and large doesn’t have a good handle on what’s going on yet. But then goes on to give his own account of what he understands the situation to be, both on a micro and a macro level.  He’s a recent Russian immigrant and his wife is Ukrainian. “It’s not really about the Ukraine, it’s about you”.

Russian Road Trip

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Aris Rousinos over at UnHerd had a good essay at the end of January on what we’re seeing unfold today in the Ukraine.

UnHerd- Putin’s next move, a shock and awe campaign could overwhelm Ukraine

And in case you missed it earlier this morning O.J. had a good piece from Victor Davis Hansen as well.

Putin’s Predictabilities- It is easy to predict what the Russian president will do in any given situation. Biden is making it easier for Putin to act with aggression.

Truinnerashuvaduprezure

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Now 22 minutes late for his 5pm live broadcast.

Well, that was brutal.

It’s a shit show : U.S. officials in Kabul gave the Taliban a list of names of American citizens, green card holders and Afghan allies to grant entry into the militant-controlled outer perimeter of the city’s airport, a choice that’s prompted outrage behind the scenes from lawmakers and military officials. […] “Basically, they just put all those Afghans on a kill list,” said one defense official

Screwing Up the Retreat

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Kevin Newman: The people we left behind at the gas station

Despite claims of “miraculous” progress, we are still failing to evacuate our people from Afghanistan

Each family included an average of 10 people — so make it a hundred — told it was time to leave for Canada. Others followed, and pretty soon there were 500 Afghans at the gas station hoping for rescue. Some in the huge crowd were told to wear red to identify themselves on a list Immigration, Refugee and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) had compiled. One even wore a Roots Canada jacket a soldier had sent over to him years ago. But it didn’t matter. No one from Canada was there to meet them.

For at least another 40 hours they sat at that gas station, trapped in the middle, unable to leave, with no further word from Canada on whether they should attempt to return to hiding, or keep praying for a miracle.

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