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Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney on Tuesday announced a radar purchase from Australia and an expansion of military operations in the Arctic while visiting Canada’s far north in an effort to assert sovereignty over the increasingly contested region.

The prime minister’s office said the Canadian $6 billion ($4.2 billion) Over-the-Horizon Radar system will provide early warning radar coverage from the Canada-United States border into the Arctic.

Carney announced the purchase at a military base in the capital of the Inuit-governed territory of Nunavut on his last stop after visiting Paris and London for meetings with leaders there.

The Australian radar system will consist of a series of pillars almost a mile (1.6 kilometers) in length. Officials said that the system would have a smaller footprint than what the similar American system would take up.

https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/trump-fentanyl-weapon-of-mass-destruction-executive-order-draft-scoop

Well this is absolutely frightening in so much that Trump is going to force his way into Canada via military operations by claiming fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction.

Anyone remember the Bush Administration and WMDs they said were there but never were?

Elbows up Canuck’s. The time to prepare is most likely closer than we think.

No recent precedent for a major party barring reporters from accompanying campaign

The Conservative national campaign director told media outlets Tuesday their journalists won't be allowed to travel with leader Pierre Poilievre on his campaign plane and bus during the upcoming election, ending a decades-old tradition of reporters embedding with a prospective candidate to lead the country.

There is no recent precedent for a major federal party barring reporters, producers, camera operators and broadcast technicians from travelling with a leader during a national election campaign.

In the most recent federal campaigns in 2019 and 2021, for example, major broadcasters, including CBC/Radio-Canada, CTV and Global, a number of print outlets and the wire service, The Canadian Press, had journalists with past Conservative leaders Andrew Scheer and Erin O'Toole throughout the campaign.

Will Arnett’s animated comedy Super Team Canada is set to bow May 16 on Canadian streamer Crave, just in time to ride a surge in Canadian nationalism amid an escalating cross-border tariffs war with the United States.

The series about six Canadian superheroes saving the world from giant evil robots has an all-Canadian cast that includes Cobie Smulders voicing the role of Niagara Falls, Kevin McDonald as the Canadian prime minister and Charles Demers as Poutine, a French Canadian crime fighter.

Arnett voices the role of Breakaway, a former minor league hockey player who uses his skates, stick and special pucks to fight crime as the unofficial leader of Super Team Canada. The ensemble voice cast also has Brian Drummond, Ceara Morgana, Veena Sood and guest star Jay Baruchel.

Currently the PM doesn't have a seat in the house. If he visited the house, he'd have to go to the visitor's gallery.

It's an interesting situation. The PM is the leader of the federal liberal party, but he's not a member of parliament. But, does he need to be? Is the PM sitting in the house of commons just a tradition that nobody has challenged yet? Could the PM delegate things inside the house of commons to their deputy-PM and then do things like give speeches, attend diplomatic functions, etc.?

The US has a very different system where the president isn't part of the legislative branch at all. But, typically presidents don't twiddle their thumbs waiting for something to do. Being the head of state keeps most presidents busy. It makes me wonder if technically Carney could choose not to run for office, and just spend his time doing head-of-state things rather than legislative things.

What do all these products have in common ?

Sugar and products with more than 65% sugar content, Tobaccco, Peanuts and peanut butter, powdered milk, baby formula, Cotton, Beef, Animal feed, Anchovies.

These products have all been subject to huge quota tariffs imposed by the US, even before Trump started the tariff wars. These products and crops are subject to over 160% and higher tariffs if a certain quota threshold is met in the US. The US does this to protect their farmers and producers from having a market flooded with foreign alternatives and driving the local costs in order to compete down and possible push local producers out of the market. This is a form of protectionism that the US is doing.

So what exactly does this have to do with the infamous dairy tariffs that Trump keeps talking about ? Canada in turn, imposes a dairy quota tariff on dairy products up to 230% to do exactly the same thing as the US quota tariffs. Interestingly enough, the US have never come close to the quota, so the dairy products have aways fallen into the free trade agreement and NOT SUBJECT TO THE TARIFF.

So my question is why the lies and why the hypocrisy ?

If you follow Trump's logic, it was all about fentanyl, but when it was proven that a fraction of 1% has historically flowed from Canada, that argument was shelved.

Then came the arguments about illegal aliens, but when it was proven that there is no illegal alien movement from Canada of any significance at all, that argument was also shelved.

So that leaves us with the only playing card that Trump has that is difficult to dispute. A 230% tariff on dairy that was negotiated as part of the international rules and regulations concerning trade and tariffs. AS I stated this tariff has never been enacted because the quota was never met.

His other argument was the 200 billion dollar surplus in trade, however, anyone that has studies 2nd grade math will note that the surplus is only around 90 billion dollars, and if you exclude the HIGHLY DISCOUNTED crude Oil that the US buys from Canada, the surplus on Canada is only around 40 billion. If you factor in the travel south and US commerce that number shrinks even further.

So that brings me to my original point and question. Why does the mainstream media continue to buy into the lies and hypocrisies Trump continues to spew regarding trade with Canada ? Some will say that they aren't promoting the lies, just reporting on it. However, if they do not correct the lie, then they are contributing to the lie by omission.

This is a long note, but there needs to be some truth injected into the whole trade wars with the US. specifically for our US friends who are seeking to understand the truth.

With that I leave this to be discussed ?

In January, Canadian pollsters and political pundits struggled to find fresh ways to describe the bleak prospects of Justin Trudeau’s Liberal party, musing whether it would be a wipeout of existential proportions, or merely a catastrophic blowout.

But fresh polling released by three companies this week shows a stunning reversal of fortunes for the party: newly minted prime minister Mark Carney’s Liberals are projected to secure a majority government.

The outcome has little precedent in Canadian history, reflecting the outsized role played by an unpredictable US president, and it underscores the incentives for Carney to call a snap election in the coming days.

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In his first major move as Canada’s prime minister, Mark Carney eliminated roughly a third of all cabinet positions, including the crucially important Minister of Women and Gender Equality. This decision marks a major setback for women’s rights in Canada at a time when these rights are under threat around the world.

Carney, sworn in as prime minister on Friday, has justified the trimmed-down cabinet as a “smaller, experienced cabinet” positioned to move fast and secure Canada’s economy in the face of US President Donald Trump’s trade war with Canada and other threats.

But deprioritizing gender equality does not help Canada’s economy, and risks entrenching serious gendered harms. The gender wage gap and gendered poverty and inequality persist in Canada. Women and gender diverse workers also face disproportionately high levels of harassment and violence at work. Much work also remains for Canada to ensure and support sexual and reproductive health rights at home and abroad.