Why not?

Canada should join with most European initiatives.

Why is it easier to integrate to the US than to Europe?

They do not need anybody else. They have said it many times.

So be it. Honestly, the entire world needs to completely pivot away. Completely.

Why would we try to stop this. Leave it closed.

They already gave them the “inadvertent” out

Especially since these devices are useless on their own. The cost to the rightful owner is high. The benefit to the thief is low.

True asshole crime. Basically vandalism.

Assuming in bad faith is indeed a character flaw.

Concluding after sober analysis of significant clear evidence is not. In fact, ignoring clear evidence in order to signal your neutrality is the character flaw.

Do not apologize.

Well, Trump and Bessant are courting pretty much the same group that attended this meeting. They want them to succeed from Canada.

So, you are not wrong.

As they say in the US: “rules for thee but not for me”

All these laws are meant to apply to “other people”

Ya. I hate the headlines that say “mentioned” since there are hundreds of uninteresting people “mentioned” because they were brought up in a mundane email about unrelated stuff. Podcasters have been “mentioned” because someone listened to their podcast.

This dilutes the impact of hearing a name that truly is implicated. It almost feels on purpose that they want to numb us to these headlines.

This guy is so glaringly unintelligent that he makes Trump seem smarter.

Many of us Canadians still have some Scottish blood. And I bet it works as well as it ever did.

I wish I saw your comment earlier. I agree.

Let’s be honest, the US would beat us on both quantity and tech.

However, spending less per unit would go a long way to closing the gap. And the operating costs are even more dramatic. Canada could have pilots training around the clock flying Gripens for the cost of occasionally relocating the F-35. The cost difference is nuts.

And I really do not think the Gripen is that far behind the F-35 in the real world.

But the US military budget is just stupid. They could have an F-35 fly around the world for a month being constantly refueled in flight and it might not get its own line item in the expense report.

I am ok giving him a shot (to run) post Trump.

Of that happens, we cannot be forced into an election. Which means Carney can largely ignore PP for a couple of years.

Full on invasion is not the only risk. What if we wanted to support allies in protecting Greenland? What if we wanted to conduct an operation elsewhere in the world that the US disagrees with?

It is not impossible to believe the US oppose NATO from defending a county against Russia. That is the enemy the Gripens were specifically designed to fight.

Breaking Canadian dependence on US trade is our largest national security issue.

Taking on smaller risks to mitigate larger ones is a simple optimization problem.

Even on this one issue, the US is the bigger problem. Teslas spy on Canadians and send data to the US. Many of them are manufactured in China. So they may share data with both of them.

And we send tens of billions of dollars every year buying US cars. The US wants to kill the Canadian auto industry.

China is likely to invest in Canadian production to support North American sales.

Chinese EVs are an improvement.

Works for me

Sorry to nitpick. I am sure you know what you are talking about but people are easily misinformed and so definitions matter.

Chromium is Open Source. Waterfox is no more Open Source than Chromium.

Chromium is primarily developed by Google. So, you should be vary of their intentions and also aware of the potential fragility of a project dominated by one large player.

That said, Waterfox has exactly the same problems. As a fork of Firefox, it is dependent on Mozilla.

For Operating Systems, both OpenBSD and GhostBSD are Canadian.

https://www.openbsd.org/

https://www.ghostbsd.org/

Ya. That would mean 2020 Teslas, using far worse tech than what ships today, would all need new batteries.

My local listings are hurting with Teslas as old as 2015 with original batteries. There are listings for 2013 that do say the batteries were replaced.