What a surprise, another self-proclaimed "libertarian" that coincidentally doesn't believe in personal sovereignty.
OliveBrittle
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Again, I reiterate.
Who is irrationally increasing the cost of living across the globe, specifically with gas prices?
Who else is committing human rights violations, domestically and abroad, and is actively backing those abuses in other countries?
Also that's specifically for pea starch, whole peas and other pea products are still good to go, that's far from going back completely on their word, which a certain other country has done countless times.
Pea sales to China strong despite new starch tariff
If I'm taking anybody's word, it's the president of Pulse Canada.
"Yeah, the person I'm married to threatens me, punishes me, insults me, and doesn't value my consent, but it's better than what the other person could be"
Literal battered woman syndrome. Look, I don't like China or want more trade with them either, but can we please stop pretending doing business with them will be worse than doing business with the U.S.? One keeps their issues much more domestic than the other? I don't see China raising world oil prices by bombing Iran, raising my cost of living with absurd tariffs, or going back on their word.
We struck a deal with them, and they removed duties for our canola, crab, peas, and lobster for us letting in their EVs, which opens us up for job creation should they bring manufacturing operations here. In turn, we were made exempt from visa requirements to travel to China. I can see the benefits of that deal because they up the income of our farmers and fishers, open up job potential, and make travelling across the world easier for us.
That is how you strike a deal. They are reliable, the U.S. is not, plain and simple. If this guy's opinion is that China wants less democracy in the world, then I'd like to point to the amount of dictators America backs and has instated. Let's stop pretending that only one pulls that crap when they both do.
Leave it to an American to come here, express sorrow to us, and then expect grace from us when all they do is type a sentence in a community that isn't targeted for them.
I'm sick of Americans coming into other communities, getting on their soap box, and then saying the bare minimum to expect praise. People have stereotypes about us saying sorry all the time, but online all it ever seems to be is self-deprecating Americans coming into communities of other countries saying "sorry we're like this..." and "I'm sorry for being American"
If you truly cared you wouldn't be here begging for internet points in a performative confessional, get out and do something, showcase it, and then maybe you get a pass because ten years of this crap in varying degrees has gotten extremely tiring.
Cool, instead of wasting money on American weaponry, we instead waste money on European weaponry.
All while our social safety nets are being cut, all while Carney and the Liberals do nothing to defend public healthcare with the Canada Health Act, and all in the midst of both an opioid and affordability crisis.
Glad to know we have our priorities straight...
Chapman's I beg of you.
Please separate your lactose-free products from your No Sugar Added products. I want to support your company, but what's the point of having your lactose free ice cream if I'm going to have the Haribo gummy bear experience if I eat it anyway?
Your company is great, let me support youuuuu
SLIPPERY SLOPE!!! If I can't call people slurs in public, next they'll be after my ability to say Hop (2011) was the best film ever made!
It should be federally mandated that wages for jobs are fixed to inflation.
You can't really do anything diplomatic when the other side continually showcases they lack any respect for diplomacy whatsoever.
The moment the man in charge literally called himself an idiot when asking who'd ever sign a deal like CUSMA, it was an admission that they don't care. We got hit with tariffs for reasons that weren't based on facts. We got rid of the digital services tax as a concession already. We already had the CRTC roll back a decision to triple financial contributions to Canadian content from online streaming services. Then came the Gordie Howe Bridge dispute where we made concessions for tolls on a bridge we paid for. We were going to concede even more with the removal of alcohol bans.
Yet, it's just now that Carney and the Liberals realise that this isn't worth it? Any progressive in this country could have told you this from the get go.
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Wow, Putin invading Canada.
Totally real threat that will totally happen in the real world.
People are going to find it hard to care about defending the country if you don't provide them with the basics to live, just saying.