Partially because the groups funding the movement consider it a business decision - give some bigoted idiots some cash, get a possible multiple times return on investment through national subsidies, and being able to force more externalized costs onto the public.

Yes, I do expect Trump will get more desparate and make more attempts at escalating, but I still think it is the best way forward. Time is our leverage, we can enact what happened with his China spat, without needing to levy ridiculous % of countertariffs. He will either back down, or even the more tariff-friendly Democrats and moderate Republicans will notice how messed up the state of trade policy is and be more inclined to fix it in Congress.

Torstar opinions and various other pieces seem to constantly be ringing the bell of “Carney’s going to fold to these tariffs any minute now!!” Or “He’s gonna have to cave eventually!” I’m optimistic about the midterms, but of course nothing is guaranteed. I think patience is needed in either case. IMO, Team Canada should try to drag out the negotiations to November, use Team Trump’s stall tactics against them. If they work out a deal, don’t implement it immediately, make sure it the terms can survive a week of potential 3am Tantrump-posting first.

Trump is taxing Americans on products coming from Canada. And he’s calling Canada the nasty one?

The government should ensure that the technology being pushed is on an open, interoperable standard, so that Canadian farmers can still be self-sufficient to troubleshoot many problems themselves even if more advanced tech is involved.

If IPA is your kind of taste like me but you want stronger ABV unlike me, then look around for DIPA (double IPA), those tend to be 8.5 to 12% in my experience. Strong IPAs tend to be only 7 to 10%.

Very bad case of broken telephone. But really on the whole, the most concerning thing is that there was no real world evidence linking Brandon to the crime yet he was tried, convicted and jailed for 18 months.

It’s true I can’t convert a given amount of money into a fixed percentage of reduced traffic, I can only give estimates for each project in a particular region.

You also correctly mention the point I’m trying to drive home (pun intended), that funding alternatives to driving benefits drivers too. Whereas wider highways only create more traffic on existing unwidened roads and incur higher road maintenance costs for benefits that quickly disappear after opening.

We should reframe the question as, how much would you want to pay in taxes to have 10%, 20%, 50% fewer drivers on the road between you and the place in the city you want to be?

My list was a mix of lies and misrepresentations, statements too early, vague statements, poorly articulated plans, self-contradictions, that could have varying degrees of intent but all fall under the “communications failures” umbrella, in my view.

Did you find a Canadian edition of Project 202x? Fascists tend to put their thoughts into manifestos like that, no matter how contradictory their mantras are. I think we would have seen something like that, from Carney we saw the opposite (Values).

Didn’t we all more or less know we were settling for a Chrétien/Martin-esque late 90s early 00s Red Tory government, that would partner with Con Lib and NDP Premiers to help each achieve their goals, when choosing LPC over CPC, NDP or any other party? Yes I’m not totally happy with everything Carney has done, but I’m not sure what kind of unseen nefarious agenda he is pursuing, for whom and for what purpose. He has done things I like and ones I dislike, it’s about as much as I expected anyhow, most of the like is when he appeases progressive voters and most of the dislike is his occasional appeasement of Premier Smith and DJT, that seems pretty clear to me over any other kind of undercurrent.

I’m calling them comms failures because in 2025 he was able to formulate a policy, verify most of the details beforehand and articulate it clearly broken down into several parts. This year we’re getting a more reactionary Carney, flying a bit more by the seat of his pants. I’d need something more than speculation to tie this change to malice. My list was also a mix of lies and misrepresentations, statements too early, vague statements, poorly articulated plans, self-contradictions, that could have varying degrees of intent but all fall under the “communications failures” umbrella, in my view.

The Carney government has suffered from a series of communications failures, on the pipeline, the BC housing plan, glazing up Trump every time he attacks Iran, this, and a number of other things.

Personally, I think the idea of sending a mass notification to all phones in the province to find an abducted or missing child, that’s fine.

It doesn’t have to be accompanied with a loud alarm tone, though. Anyone awake can still keep watch with a silent notif, and anyone asleep will not start looking for the people or car in question just because of the tone.

The loud alarm should only be for earthquakes, fire or tsunami evacuation, mass murderer at large or war situation. Since I’d immediately dismissed the alert, if it was serious, I could be dead if I didn’t go back to pull up message to know to take cover or evacuate.

I wonder if “net revenue” is gross less Canada’s debt payments at a fixed amount?

As someone who got a 12am Emergency Alert last night over what appeared to be a custody issue several hours away, it would be nice if the levels of alert below “Take Cover, You’re Going to Die” could be utilized for Amber Alerts and missing children, so that we can keep an eye out for them. These days I instinctively dismiss the alert before even reading what it says, then I open it when it’s not blaring because I totally missed the contents.

Carney can say “The Digital Service Tax will come back, on the day after your 50% tariffs show up 😉”, and watch the Silicon Valley bros come running to DC to tug on Trump’s suit. Then we can be fully ready for TACO time.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/19/1338

Essentially Trump is pulling the exact same farce, just with a different law this time.

We can transform our own housing bureaucracies—the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) and Build Canada Homes (BCH)—from passive financing tools into active housing institutions. And we can wrest control of planning and building back from the financial interests that have turned our homes into sites of profit extraction.

See, when Carney was campaigning on making Build Canada Homes, releasing the design guidelines and all, I really did believe that he would appoint contractors to make new federally managed housing units for people. The most cost-efficient contractors with good quality workmanship could be brought on as part of the crown corp itself. When it became more like a stripped down CMHC, I cooled on it.

Avi Lewis should really publicize these many cases where left-wing governments are capable of getting things done, in Mexico, Europe and elsewhere, to point out it’s not just a coffee shop fantasy to achieve big things for people, rather than the elite class’ benefit.

Thanks for the kind words, but I’ll be frank. Wanna help? Stop making everything about yourself (individually and as a nation), go fix your country’s broken-ass system, and come visit us and buy our stuff if you like in the meantime. If you want our trust back, figure out how the worst living caricature of America achieved the highest political office a second time, and how will you collectively prevent that from happening again? Personally, I’ll come celebrate when it happens, but that will only be the start of a generation’s worth of work to rebuild what was lost.

Yours truly,

Canadian fed up with the constant BS from the states.

We’re going to build a border weed patch, and America’s going to pay for it!

How’s that for a campaign slogan?