We Are Now Being Extorted

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I cannot express enough how much this works for the Liberals. Trump continuing to rattle his sabre at us through the Liberal leadership campaign and inevitable general election is basically a gift to Trudeau, his successor, and his party.
If Trump wants to keep bloviating until PP's electoral chances are dead and gone, I don't think JT's going to do anything to get in his way.
- Don't we all wish this makes things easier for Liberal? In reality, it probably won't change much.
  The fact remains that conservative voters seem to have an obsession with voting against their best interests, as long as it hurts someone else.
- Can't y'all get a thrid party?
  Why da FAQ every regime got turned into the clown ass two party system even in countries that don't have use american clown system
  
  We have one. Actually, we have more than one if you want to get technical. What we need is a viable third party that knows what they're doing and won't capitulate at the first sign of inconvenience while continuing to lie to constituents about their real goals and the current political situation. Also, the so-called progressive NDP needs to stop kicking people out for taking a stance against the Israeli genocide of Palestinians (yes, that happened; look up Sarah Jama's unceremonious ousting, among others).
  Nothing will change without electoral reform that does away with first-past-the-post (FPTP). I personally like single transferable vote (STV) or mixed member proportional (MMPR) voting systems, but even a ranked ballot would be better than what we have now.
  
  We have a third party, the NDP, but the best election result they've gotten is being the official opposition. The Liberals are supposed to be the "center" party, but somehow when we're pissed at them the country almost always goes right rather than left.
  
  There are other parties with seats in parliment but, due to our first past the post voting system, it's rare they win enough seats to effect law changes.
  If an area votes 40% Conservative, 35% Liberal, and 25% NDP then the seat goes to the Conservatives despite most of the people voting for left wing parties. People end up voting against the party they don't like by voting for the party most likely to beat them. The NDP supporters will vote Liberal to ensure the Conservatives don't win, causing the NDP to lose votes even though people prefer them over the other two.
  
  We do have a third party, it's the NDP led by Jagmeet Singh. Problem is is that he has too vague of a platform, says nice platitudes about how he could do better. His party is not differentiating himself from the Liberals enough, and Singh is not leaving enough room in the spotlight to elevate other party members.
  And the reason why Conservatives were in a far and away lead was that many left-leaning districts were split 40%, 30%, 25%.

STEPS CANADA CAN TAKE TODAY:
Getting foreign auto companies specifically to make long term commitments to Canada, if only just voicing resistance to building new plants in US as tariffs go on, and are presumed temporary. Overall, the high level of auto sector job subsidies Canada pays, would make UBI with Chinese EV purchases a policy that makes Canadians better off. US insurance industry needs to announce 10%-20% auto insurance hikes today for potential halt in NA auto production impact on "replacement value" pricing.
Our retailers should not be restocking US products, with PR announcements over uncertainty. Discontinuing US products until long term threats to Canada are removed. Alternatives, including Chinese ones, should be explored.
Canadian military spending must immediately stop all F35 purchases, or at very least insist on the Israel version (even USAF not allowed to use) which gives manuals and right to repair. F35 is a broken product, and likely has US kill switch for regular model. All Canadian military spending should be on dual use systems that can defend from US. More shipyards is opportunity for export (US included), and can counter main threat to Canadian coast from US fishing or the absurd notion that Russia will build oil and gas rigs in Canadian waters.
An energy export agency that prices US oil exports at same rate as WTI price, with profits shared between Fed and Provincial level, is a path to turn upside down "captured Canadian oil" into captured US refineries designed to process heavy crude. Such pricing avoids any incentive to build new refineries for those markets. Similarly Canadian electricity (ON/PQ dominated) would be intermediated to price into wholesale US markets instead of "flooding US markets to undercut them". Profits divided similarly. These actions lower Canadian energy prices by selling less to US, while also enhancing total national profit.
Diplomatic visits should be daily news. China specifically buying this years agricultural harvests instead of US ones is a huge win. Oil for solar panels trade. Cooperation with Mexico to get them to substitute Canada and China for agricultural exports. A national emergency on eggs, with export tariffs to US.
As a broader international picture, the choice of making USA's enemies our own enemies is the only reason the US can say it "subsidizes our defense". Senate (because Parliament suspended) inquiries into whether Canada's defense is enhanced through a more neutral stance on the world, joining the global south in neutrality/cooperation with China and Russia, Whether US voter suppression, abuse of provisional ballots, should delegitimize its democracy status. Oppression of CDC vital to WHO and international health, is a corruption that also weakens any response to fentanyl. Foreign interference that includes/focuses on US/CIA and Israel in its scope is a point of inqury. That genocide supporting Bill Ackman's role in US election corruption might require nationalizing his stake in Tim Hortons parent company, is a point of inquiry.
North Korea and China friendliness are issues that also affect ROK and JPN. Retaining those countries access to our markets as balance to their US subservience, is an important win, that starts with diplomatic ties/overtures with North Korea. Inquiries on whether NATO aggression and disinformation may pervert the reality of Russia's claims of self defense in its Ukraine operations can very well end up with a sham decision that "the US empire rules based world order prevails", but that inquiry requires NATO allies and US to strongly support Canada in order to maintain the sham. The point is to start the inquiry today. Any pretense that Trump is a Putin puppet, either appeases Trump, but as Trump just got Ukraine to give it all rights to its rare earth minerals in exchange for a trickle of additional aid, the US is the sole beneficiary of our allied commitment to extorting Ukraine to the last Ukrainian for only US pillaging, and Trump bluster, is in fact US empire extortion gains, when world cowers in fear of him.
OP is correct. National emergency BS is a false pretext for war through extortion on Canada. Averting tariffs/extortion 30 days from now starts now. If our allies won't help, then we need new friends. When we are not enemies with US enemies, then Canada protects the US from Russian ICBMs through NORAD. US needs to pay very high "rent" for NORAD cooperation if US congress does not install protections for President to launch extortion/war campaigns against Canada. "National emergencies justified for extortion against Canada" need congressional review as to whether they are true or false.
- neutrality/cooperation with China and Russia,
  the reality of Russia’s claims of self defense
  ...WTF? There are way too many Canadians with ties to Ukraine, myself included, that would be offended at the very idea of anything but utter condemnation of Russia's inhumanly brutal invasion. How can an invasion ever be "self defense", that's absurd.
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_crimes_in_the_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine
  How can abducting children, laying siege to residential areas, rape, torture, etc. be self defense? It's not. It's abhorrent. Russia is worse than Trump.
  
  For your downvoting pleasure, since neutral reply, still provoked it,
  Choosing support of Ukrainian nazi demonism and disinformation over Canada's sovereignty and survival is treason. Surely Ukraine needs more meat for the grinder, and your citizenship can be revoked, if you love US extortion too much. Deportation by catapult is too nice to nazi supporting filth.
  
  I'm only asking for Canada to do an inquriry into the truth, instead of immediately siding againt the Ukrainian diaspora that wants war to the last Ukrainian from their couch as somehow being patriotic.
  How can abducting children, laying siege to residential areas, rape, torture, etc. be self defense? It’s not. It’s abhorrent. Russia is worse than Trump.
  All war propaganda. An inquiry into weather evacuating Crimean orphenages that might include a single ethnic Ukrainian to the safety of Russia is an overly political abuse of the genocide designation should be part of the inquiry. Bucha theatrical propaganda operation exposure, a point of inquiry. The self defense claim is based on US puppetry and "democratic manipulation" to ensure nationalist hatred against Russia, and "forcing" Ukraine to provoke the war, and to refuse peace it agreed with. Obviously, Canada has lost US as a friend, and its choice is to have Ukraine or Russia help in its defense against US aggression. That losing the electoral support of Ukrainian nationalist diaspora to ensure the complete destruction of Ukraine is a political calculation. One I will always oppose for the demonic evil that is objectively sickening and shameful.
  The point of inquiries, independently undertaken by Senate, is to have CIA/Trump beg to stop the inquiries.

Isn’t czar a Russian term? Can immediately see why that appealed to the dump government.
And this is all a distraction while trump and elon dismantle democracy in the us while everyone is distracted by what the other hand is doing.

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