Oh, well, sorry I didn't understand what your intent was, cause I couldn't see what the connection was. I thought what you said there was a given, but you're right to mention it cause there are those who still clinging to the idea that we can go back even when they say they aren't.
IMO, there's a possibility that things can get better in the US, but regardless of whether that happens or not, Canada needs to understand how its over-reliance on the States has led itself to our predicament today.
And then what? Sit around and just say "Oh we deserve this", or "We had it coming"? The younger generation know of these transgressions, and they are ashamed of it. They don't deserve to fully shoulder the sins of the past, not while we're alive.
An arguable but irrelevant comparison. They're both bad. Being better doesn't mean anything when both don't care about our plight and will actively fan the flames if it suits their purpose.
Not only is China more erratic, we're talking about a government that has and is still actively meddling with Canadian affairs, and is already clearly exploiting our weakness to pressure the Canadian government into doing things their way.
In all frankness, I sometimes think that, to the CCP, Canada is nothing to them but a land that shares a large border with their largest superpower rival, and if we were to bend, they would be able to use us against the US.
I've got a friend who's a dual citizen of the US and Canada, white, had his brown, Canadian girlfriend with him, drove down to NYC with a Canadian license plate, and on their way back, some truck driver on country roads was giving him a hard time and flipping him fingers. Not sure if the truck driver saw the brown girlfriend, but I'd say it's beyond racist at this point; just dumb nationalists.
This is such a bad title, almost like it's very purposely clipped by the National Observer to induce outrage against Carney. His full statement makes it clear that the gov's stance is such that the actions that the US took isn't condoned, but there are potential benefits for Venezuela.
We can argue about whether harsher words should've been said, but at a time when the US administration is emboldened to do extreme things and blatantly ignore the law or common sense, you can't deny that safer to be picking our words lest we be next, at a time when we wouldn't be able to resist easily.
It's sad that this is basically everywhere these days, and employers will weigh your performance review based on whether you're using AI and how well you're using it. It's terrible.