Love the idea, but rent a systems don't work for Canada for long term sovreignty; if you need to keep every thing in Canadian terms.
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Canadians could be sued by Liberal gov’t for posting ‘misinformation’ on social media: report
A Canadian federal minister has devised plans and a strategy to monitor the public’s social media use while at the same time coming up with possible actions that can be taken against people for posting “misleading information” online.
The plan comes from Industry Minister Mélanie Joly, whose departmental strategy has alarmed Conservative MPs.
Internal memo with the title Misinformation and Disinformation Strategy was made public via an Access to Information request. The memo shows plans to not only identify but track and go after those whose online content is deemed “misinformation.”
https://www.todayville.com/canadian...osting-misinformation-on-social-media-report/
Just how many times do online posters err in quoting bonified newsources, madam minister? And whose to say what offshore news services constitute "misinformation" just for being offshore. Middle East Eye, Russia Times? Or do you prefer the Jerusalem Times supporting starvation genocide in Gaza and resettlement in West Bank after Canadian government recognises Palistine?
A Canadian federal minister has devised plans and a strategy to monitor the public’s social media use while at the same time coming up with possible actions that can be taken against people for posting “misleading information” online.
The plan comes from Industry Minister Mélanie Joly, whose departmental strategy has alarmed Conservative MPs.
Internal memo with the title Misinformation and Disinformation Strategy was made public via an Access to Information request. The memo shows plans to not only identify but track and go after those whose online content is deemed “misinformation.”
https://www.todayville.com/canadian...osting-misinformation-on-social-media-report/
Just how many times do online posters err in quoting bonified newsources, madam minister? And whose to say what offshore news services constitute "misinformation" just for being offshore. Middle East Eye, Russia Times? Or do you prefer the Jerusalem Times supporting starvation genocide in Gaza and resettlement in West Bank after Canadian government recognises Palistine?
The US arrested operators of Chinese overseas police stations in New York. No arrests in Canada though the RCMP was sued for defamation by a community group in Canada.
The Hogue Inquiry regarded China influence as a major threat to Canadian democracy, but no prosecutions emerged from its findings. Canada has become consistent at producing findings but not consequences for China influence and interference. Beijing has correctly priced its cost for these activities in Canada at zero.
Canada consistently and repeatedly faced hostile activity from China: hacking, influence, interference. But Canada continues to lack the will to defend itself and only appears moved to act when the United States steps in.
While valid arguments can be made for Canada lacking political will, at the working level structural impediments are built into Canada’s law enforcement and intelligence ecosystem. CSIS collects intelligence but can’t arrest, the RCMP arrests but can’t use intelligence.
Canada lives with a structural flaw more than 40 years old: the removal of all domestic security intelligence collection from the federal police service, introduced by the McDonald Commission.
Prime Minister Carney had claimed that Canadians should deal with the world as it is. Canada has consistently done the opposite. It has viewed China in the way it wants to see it, not how it actually is.
https://www.todayville.com/priced-at-zero-what-beijing-pays-for-operating-in-canada/
Canadian security continues to be muzzled by Stinchcomb Law:
The fruits of the investigation which are in its possession are not the property of the Crown for use in securing a conviction but the property of the public to be used to ensure that justice is done."
So then CSIS needs to call RCMP if anything needs to be done but seemingly doesn't bother. Canadian case law review needs to be undertaken. Can't go on letting isolated judges who likely quit reading newspapers halfway through law school go on inflicting outcomes of unrelated cases. An apples to oranges comparison comes to mind over Stinchcomb case law. A legal insider facing a theft conviction in 1991 gets all Crown evidence pretrial and now foreign drug cartels run rampant as offshore allies watch Canada turn over evidence for nefarious players in an ongoing investigation.
The Hogue Inquiry regarded China influence as a major threat to Canadian democracy, but no prosecutions emerged from its findings. Canada has become consistent at producing findings but not consequences for China influence and interference. Beijing has correctly priced its cost for these activities in Canada at zero.
Canada consistently and repeatedly faced hostile activity from China: hacking, influence, interference. But Canada continues to lack the will to defend itself and only appears moved to act when the United States steps in.
While valid arguments can be made for Canada lacking political will, at the working level structural impediments are built into Canada’s law enforcement and intelligence ecosystem. CSIS collects intelligence but can’t arrest, the RCMP arrests but can’t use intelligence.
Canada lives with a structural flaw more than 40 years old: the removal of all domestic security intelligence collection from the federal police service, introduced by the McDonald Commission.
Prime Minister Carney had claimed that Canadians should deal with the world as it is. Canada has consistently done the opposite. It has viewed China in the way it wants to see it, not how it actually is.
https://www.todayville.com/priced-at-zero-what-beijing-pays-for-operating-in-canada/
Canadian security continues to be muzzled by Stinchcomb Law:
The fruits of the investigation which are in its possession are not the property of the Crown for use in securing a conviction but the property of the public to be used to ensure that justice is done."
So then CSIS needs to call RCMP if anything needs to be done but seemingly doesn't bother. Canadian case law review needs to be undertaken. Can't go on letting isolated judges who likely quit reading newspapers halfway through law school go on inflicting outcomes of unrelated cases. An apples to oranges comparison comes to mind over Stinchcomb case law. A legal insider facing a theft conviction in 1991 gets all Crown evidence pretrial and now foreign drug cartels run rampant as offshore allies watch Canada turn over evidence for nefarious players in an ongoing investigation.
No shit.
I did a train trip years ago Winnipeg to Churchill VIA Rail, then a few days on the tundra with polar bears. Pretty awesome trip, made better because there was this very spicy petite thing on board that made my cabin nice and cozy. But I digress.
The rail tracks keep shifting as the permafrost heaves so maybe, the fastest speed was about 50km/hr. More than half the time you could hop off and walk beside the train it was going so slowly.
It does sport a "space port" ..... I'd have to look up some history to find out when, why etc that was put there, all decayed now.
At any rate, all shipping etc aside, if you ever get a hankering for big big bears and northern lights, its the place to go.
How many times have Melanie Joly and her fellow politicians misled us or outright lied?
But don't take the train, nobody takes the train to Churchill, fly. Unless you have lots of time and a spicy petite thing with you.
My father worked on some of the experiments. They dispersed specific isotopes to measure the magnetic fields and radiation at high altitudes. Relevant to radio signals being relayed by satellites and safety of astronauts.
At the time it was the northernmost launch site for those missions.
He had pics of the Black Brant rockets being launched. I don’t know how they got the rockets to Churchill though. Likely on a ship.
Carney and his 55-person entourage spent about $160,000 on airplane food during one week-long trip to Athens, Abu Dhabi, Johannesburg and the Canary Islands.
For breakfast, passengers could choose between a sundried tomato and mozzarella omelette or French toast with cinnamon and berries.
Main courses included beef tenderloin with pepper sauce, chicken breast with morel sauce and “dauphinois gratin” and slow roasted cod with tarragon cream sauce.
For dessert, they had tiramisu, blueberry cheesecake and a “parfait” with two types of chocolate mousse and maraschino cherries, along with a treat described as “death by chocolate.”
Former defence minister Bill Blair and his entourage billed taxpayers $2,350 on airplane food during a 12-day international trip in 2025.
The chief of defence staff went to Washington, D.C., with members of the Canadian Armed Forces in 2025. They billed you zero dollars for airplane food, according to government records.
Former governor general Mary Simon spent $100,000 on airplane food during a week-long trip to the Middle East in 2022.
The government conceded that spending was “problematic” and promised to take “steps to offset recurrences of high costs associated with the governor general’s travel.”
https://www.todayville.com/carney-c...rd-for-taxpayer-funded-mile-high-fine-dining/
Should realize some economy of scale on a limited 2 choise menu. Maybe keep the same menu on all flights if we're expected to act like plutocrates going overseas.
Case in point is our current prime minister, who in large measure was elected because of his impressive resume and economics training (Oxford PhD in economics, governor of Bank of England and Bank of Canada) and how that experience and knowledge was assumed to guide Canada through the troubled waters of the Trump presidency. Unfortunately for Canadians, Carney has proven the rule that when economists enter politics, they forget their economics and become politicians.
The most poignant example of politics overtaking economics for Prime Minister Carney relates to his government’s energy policies. Carney and his energy minister have been adamant that increasing costs through mandated carbon capture and a higher industrial carbon tax will make Canada’s energy sector more competitive.
Canadian oil producers and distributors don’t get to set their prices; we're what economists call price takers.
A recent study, which examined both the costs of carbon capture and the new higher industrial carbon tax, concluded it would increase the costs of Alberta oil by 19.6 per cent and natural gas by 39.1 per cent, and render Alberta uncompetitive.
And there’s the more recent announcement by Carney and British Columbia Premier David Eby on a bailout of condo developers in B.C.
Someone holding a PhD from Oxford should understand the layers of problems with the announcement. First and foremost, economists worry about incentives and how they influence our decisions to work, save and invest, be entrepreneurial, and take risks such as starting a business. The Carney-Eby announcement essentially indicated that private firms could take risks and if they’re right, they profit, but if they’re wrong, they can go cap-in-hand for bailouts from governments.
The incentives for privatizing profits and socializing losses through governments are terrible. They encourage private firms and even entrepreneurs to take excess risks and approve ill-advised projects because they assume they’ll be bailed out by governments.
In introductory economics, students learn about “moral hazard,” which basically refers to situations wherein one party takes on risks knowing they won’t bear the full costs of failure because government will absorb costs.
https://www.todayville.com/when-an-economist-is-no-longer-an-economist/
Incidentally, neither of Alberta's promised new pipes, one to the BC coast nor replacement of Enbridge Line 5 to Sarnia Ontario have any private enterprise onboard with cash available.
The most poignant example of politics overtaking economics for Prime Minister Carney relates to his government’s energy policies. Carney and his energy minister have been adamant that increasing costs through mandated carbon capture and a higher industrial carbon tax will make Canada’s energy sector more competitive.
Canadian oil producers and distributors don’t get to set their prices; we're what economists call price takers.
A recent study, which examined both the costs of carbon capture and the new higher industrial carbon tax, concluded it would increase the costs of Alberta oil by 19.6 per cent and natural gas by 39.1 per cent, and render Alberta uncompetitive.
And there’s the more recent announcement by Carney and British Columbia Premier David Eby on a bailout of condo developers in B.C.
Someone holding a PhD from Oxford should understand the layers of problems with the announcement. First and foremost, economists worry about incentives and how they influence our decisions to work, save and invest, be entrepreneurial, and take risks such as starting a business. The Carney-Eby announcement essentially indicated that private firms could take risks and if they’re right, they profit, but if they’re wrong, they can go cap-in-hand for bailouts from governments.
The incentives for privatizing profits and socializing losses through governments are terrible. They encourage private firms and even entrepreneurs to take excess risks and approve ill-advised projects because they assume they’ll be bailed out by governments.
In introductory economics, students learn about “moral hazard,” which basically refers to situations wherein one party takes on risks knowing they won’t bear the full costs of failure because government will absorb costs.
https://www.todayville.com/when-an-economist-is-no-longer-an-economist/
Incidentally, neither of Alberta's promised new pipes, one to the BC coast nor replacement of Enbridge Line 5 to Sarnia Ontario have any private enterprise onboard with cash available.
Well, you have to think that if there was private money available for the pipeline, every john, dick and harry, aboriginal tribe and provincial government would cry foul..... but as soon as its taxpayers money involved nothing is said...
Make you wonder if the government isn't the enemy here.
At some point and time oil in the ground will become nil.... No more oil. (history : oil price was rising until the US started to frak it dry wells, squeezing what is left in the well, to drop the prices). Oil prices are only going to get higher, as oil in the ground disappears...
When oil is gone, what happens....,
1. Plastics will disappear.
2. Energy for car (gas now) will have to be hydrogen (2 H2 + O2 = 2 H2O). hydrogen will come from water (using solar to use electricity to separate hydrogen and oxygen).
3. another solution for energy is what Nickola Tesla invented (and scrapped because it wouldn't make the investors money)
Today Elon musk idea of using lithium batteries to run cars is with our infrastructure today; is the most efficient transfer of energy. But the energy he is using comes from where the US is getting its energy (natural gas, oil, coal electricity stations). Today there is a big search for how to make big battery banks to store solar and wind for use at another time (when the wind and solar are working).
So if you want to eliminate CO2 from the equation, hydrogen engines will be the best overall, despite the loss of efficiency. There is no infrastructure for it, and people think hydrogen is dangerous just like nuclear energy....
Every day, thousands of shipping containers move through Vancouver and Prince Rupert. They carry lumber, canola, potash, and consumer goods. They also carry methamphetamine, fentanyl precursors, and contraband bound for overseas markets, because Canada has left its ports dangerously easy to exploit.
Fewer than two per cent of containers arriving in Metro Vancouver are X-rayed and fewer than one per cent are physically opened and searched. Radiation scanning detects radiological material but not narcotics, weapons, or prohibited goods. At those rates, traffickers are not deterred. They calculate the odds and ship anyway.
No single federal body owns the problem. Responsibility is scattered across port authorities, border services, federal police, and transport regulators.
When confidence in Canadian ports erodes, investment follows more secure gateways. The message already has a price tag. Last year, [Saskatchewan based] Nutrien, the world’s largest potash producer, identified Longview, Washington as the preferred site for a new export terminal worth up to one billion dollars, after evaluating Canadian West Coast options and passing them over.
Canada already knows what to do. Expand inspection capacity. Put one agency clearly in charge. Vet port workers more rigorously. Publish the results so Canadians can measure progress.
https://www.todayville.com/canadas-...e-states-exploit-canadas-pacific-ports-daily/
For federal government efficient port security looks as simple as printing up dollars in spite of dreaded inflation of more money in circulation. Seems government decided no savings could be had to balance the cost. Cold blooded outcome for anyone who might have a loved one die of illicit drug overdose. Suppose you can't expect much else in a nation practicing assisted dying. Since the population explosion financed by 1913 fiat banking, human life appears to have become very cheap. Nations trade commodities with regimes practicing slavery and trade in body organs to appease complaints of high consumer costs at home. Sell arms to regimes killing their neighbours. And wage war on nations supporting their own banking system. Suggest corporate shippers be held to monitor loading and unloading of bulk containers and have some accreditation in security and dog handling.
Fewer than two per cent of containers arriving in Metro Vancouver are X-rayed and fewer than one per cent are physically opened and searched. Radiation scanning detects radiological material but not narcotics, weapons, or prohibited goods. At those rates, traffickers are not deterred. They calculate the odds and ship anyway.
No single federal body owns the problem. Responsibility is scattered across port authorities, border services, federal police, and transport regulators.
When confidence in Canadian ports erodes, investment follows more secure gateways. The message already has a price tag. Last year, [Saskatchewan based] Nutrien, the world’s largest potash producer, identified Longview, Washington as the preferred site for a new export terminal worth up to one billion dollars, after evaluating Canadian West Coast options and passing them over.
Canada already knows what to do. Expand inspection capacity. Put one agency clearly in charge. Vet port workers more rigorously. Publish the results so Canadians can measure progress.
https://www.todayville.com/canadas-...e-states-exploit-canadas-pacific-ports-daily/
For federal government efficient port security looks as simple as printing up dollars in spite of dreaded inflation of more money in circulation. Seems government decided no savings could be had to balance the cost. Cold blooded outcome for anyone who might have a loved one die of illicit drug overdose. Suppose you can't expect much else in a nation practicing assisted dying. Since the population explosion financed by 1913 fiat banking, human life appears to have become very cheap. Nations trade commodities with regimes practicing slavery and trade in body organs to appease complaints of high consumer costs at home. Sell arms to regimes killing their neighbours. And wage war on nations supporting their own banking system. Suggest corporate shippers be held to monitor loading and unloading of bulk containers and have some accreditation in security and dog handling.
Joe Rogan REACTS TO Based Chinese DESTROYING Gun Advocate on Gun Control
When governments try to take guns away from the people...The US is a good example of this, not that they are trying to take guns away from their citizens, but the fact that people in the USA want more gun controls; mostly to prevent mass shootings.
In Canada growing up in the 70/80s there was no concern about guns (families would have rifles, few would have handguns); most had rifles for hunting...
But as time goes on, and crime increases, people stop trusting each other, people are feeling a need for guns... (drugs and hand guns are a big issues)
Why?
The video is good at pointing out that if the government goes bad/tyrannical, then guns give the populace a chance.
When governments try to take guns away from the people...The US is a good example of this, not that they are trying to take guns away from their citizens, but the fact that people in the USA want more gun controls; mostly to prevent mass shootings.
In Canada growing up in the 70/80s there was no concern about guns (families would have rifles, few would have handguns); most had rifles for hunting...
But as time goes on, and crime increases, people stop trusting each other, people are feeling a need for guns... (drugs and hand guns are a big issues)
Why?
The video is good at pointing out that if the government goes bad/tyrannical, then guns give the populace a chance.
Holy shitsnacks, 439 guns. WTF was he thinking?
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/inky-mark-mp-dauphin-firearms-trafficking-9.7268271
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/inky-mark-mp-dauphin-firearms-trafficking-9.7268271
haha Inky Mark
I think half the story should be how the fuck this guy got his name!
In June, more than 120 organizations endorsed a declaration opposing new pipelines “not here or anywhere.”
Environmental Defence responded to the July 2 West Coast pipeline announcement by declaring the proposal would fail. Stand.earth has promised lawsuits, street protests and national and international resistance, saying opposition could exceed the campaigns against Trans Mountain, Enbridge and Keystone XL.
The objective is often not to improve a project, strengthen environmental safeguards or negotiate better benefits. The objective is to indefinitely delay a project or have it outright cancelled.
A pipeline can offer Canadian producers access to world markets, reduce dependence on the United States, strengthen domestic energy security, create construction and operating jobs, generate government revenues and support Indigenous ownership.
Groups such as Stand.earth, Environmental Defence, Ecojustice, Climate Action Network Canada, the David Suzuki Foundation and West Coast Environmental Law have become highly skilled at influencing the national conversation.
Their tactics differ. Some organize public demonstrations. Some intervene in regulatory proceedings. Some launch court cases. Some pressure banks, insurers and investors. Others produce studies and communications designed to frame projects as economically reckless, environmentally catastrophic or incompatible with reconciliation.
Projects deserve to be assessed on evidence, engineering, economics and environmental performance, not rejected automatically because they involve hydrocarbons or industrial development.
Supporting development does not mean abandoning environmental responsibility. Canadians expect credible impact assessments, enforceable standards, safe construction, emissions reduction, meaningful Indigenous consultation and transparent economics.
https://www.todayville.com/canada-b...lopment-campaign-machine-is-mobilizing-again/
Third globally, Alberta holds an estimated 167 billion barrels of proven and established oil reserves or 140 years at current production levels. Mostly sold at discount to one customer.
Offshore environmental activists all too inconveniently benefit offshore business interests. Canadians need to prevent offshore groups at the border. Pipelines in Canada the business of Canadians. Stop non-Canadians from filing court proceedings. Canada suffered too much already not just from environmental groups driving up cost of Trans Mountain Pipeline but also a long history of labour and business issues. Offshore unions activating in Canada driving up cost of Canadian manufacturing throughout the post-WW II years, shuttering Canadian manufacturing taking jobs and eventually whole careers south along with skilled Canadians. Offshore business convinced a Canadian prime minister to abandon fighter aircraft production in 1957 because ballistic missiles said erroneously to make fighter aircraft obsolete. The Canadian engineering staff went south and the Canadian aircraft manufacturer ceased to exist. Keep activists out, keep wealth in Canada.
Environmental Defence responded to the July 2 West Coast pipeline announcement by declaring the proposal would fail. Stand.earth has promised lawsuits, street protests and national and international resistance, saying opposition could exceed the campaigns against Trans Mountain, Enbridge and Keystone XL.
The objective is often not to improve a project, strengthen environmental safeguards or negotiate better benefits. The objective is to indefinitely delay a project or have it outright cancelled.
A pipeline can offer Canadian producers access to world markets, reduce dependence on the United States, strengthen domestic energy security, create construction and operating jobs, generate government revenues and support Indigenous ownership.
Groups such as Stand.earth, Environmental Defence, Ecojustice, Climate Action Network Canada, the David Suzuki Foundation and West Coast Environmental Law have become highly skilled at influencing the national conversation.
Their tactics differ. Some organize public demonstrations. Some intervene in regulatory proceedings. Some launch court cases. Some pressure banks, insurers and investors. Others produce studies and communications designed to frame projects as economically reckless, environmentally catastrophic or incompatible with reconciliation.
Projects deserve to be assessed on evidence, engineering, economics and environmental performance, not rejected automatically because they involve hydrocarbons or industrial development.
Supporting development does not mean abandoning environmental responsibility. Canadians expect credible impact assessments, enforceable standards, safe construction, emissions reduction, meaningful Indigenous consultation and transparent economics.
https://www.todayville.com/canada-b...lopment-campaign-machine-is-mobilizing-again/
Third globally, Alberta holds an estimated 167 billion barrels of proven and established oil reserves or 140 years at current production levels. Mostly sold at discount to one customer.
Offshore environmental activists all too inconveniently benefit offshore business interests. Canadians need to prevent offshore groups at the border. Pipelines in Canada the business of Canadians. Stop non-Canadians from filing court proceedings. Canada suffered too much already not just from environmental groups driving up cost of Trans Mountain Pipeline but also a long history of labour and business issues. Offshore unions activating in Canada driving up cost of Canadian manufacturing throughout the post-WW II years, shuttering Canadian manufacturing taking jobs and eventually whole careers south along with skilled Canadians. Offshore business convinced a Canadian prime minister to abandon fighter aircraft production in 1957 because ballistic missiles said erroneously to make fighter aircraft obsolete. The Canadian engineering staff went south and the Canadian aircraft manufacturer ceased to exist. Keep activists out, keep wealth in Canada.
Isn't the port of Vancouver run by a Dubai company?
The problem with any port is that the containers can't sit and wait to be x-rayed... Just random containers taken off the line of trucks and hauling cars. Nor can the port afford to open up every container, inspect it (move things out of it), repack container and then reseal the container. The amount of wages for that to happen is not budgeted., Companies want to make a profit.
Drugs are hidden by package, with smells that offset dogs; or is chemically treated to neutralize odors...
The main way the system works is by ticketed (vouched for) companies that are trusted to pack the container, seal it, and the container is only opened at end of transit.
The west (America, France , Britain, Canada, Germany and other western countries ) have been selling death (gun and bombs) to third world countries since the end of WW2... So have the Russians, and Chinese too.
Sex trafficking happens in Canada, US, Europe and basicly every other country in the world. Every ship is a eventual a conduit/potential for sex traffikking. At some point in time the ship will be used to transport sex slaves. Young girls from eastern europe, or south America (economic depressed areas), wanting a model job, get a job through sex traffickers who take away their passport and get them hooked on drugs... These young girls can be from anywhere. They are moved from country to country under ships (thought to be above that crime).
Companies ‘no longer in the wait and see mode’ as experts predict manufacturing exodus from Canada
OTTAWA – In a week that saw Toyota announce it’s moving some production from Mexico to the U.S., and a new KPMG survey finding four in 10 Canadian manufacturers have moved operations to the U.S. or are planning to do so, an international trade lawyer expects bigger manufacturing moves like Toyota’s on the horizon for Canada.
Sends a clear message – that Canadian manufacturers are looking for more stability in terms of the competitive outlook of manufacturing in Canada and looking for the government to take action in certain areas.
The Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters conducted their own national survey of members with similar results to KPMG: if tariffs stick around, 43 per cent of manufacturers said they would shift production, investment, or sourcing to the U.S. – with 36 per cent saying they would have to cut jobs, hours or shifts, as well as delay or cancel Canadian investments.
Almost 100 per cent of manufacturers say, the only way to ensure long-term stability and growth is to get some kind of level of certainty with the U.S. in terms of these tariffs.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...s-expect-others-to-leave-canada-trade-lawyer/
I don't have an answer for Canada’s deplorable ongong loss, Mr. Carney. I hope you have something. Cancel US arms purchases including F-35. Advise Mr.Trump about Canada’s failing finances and inability to support bilateral US agreements. Tariff cross-border Canadian shoppers. Tax corporate wealth leaving Canada.
OTTAWA – In a week that saw Toyota announce it’s moving some production from Mexico to the U.S., and a new KPMG survey finding four in 10 Canadian manufacturers have moved operations to the U.S. or are planning to do so, an international trade lawyer expects bigger manufacturing moves like Toyota’s on the horizon for Canada.
Sends a clear message – that Canadian manufacturers are looking for more stability in terms of the competitive outlook of manufacturing in Canada and looking for the government to take action in certain areas.
The Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters conducted their own national survey of members with similar results to KPMG: if tariffs stick around, 43 per cent of manufacturers said they would shift production, investment, or sourcing to the U.S. – with 36 per cent saying they would have to cut jobs, hours or shifts, as well as delay or cancel Canadian investments.
Almost 100 per cent of manufacturers say, the only way to ensure long-term stability and growth is to get some kind of level of certainty with the U.S. in terms of these tariffs.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...s-expect-others-to-leave-canada-trade-lawyer/
I don't have an answer for Canada’s deplorable ongong loss, Mr. Carney. I hope you have something. Cancel US arms purchases including F-35. Advise Mr.Trump about Canada’s failing finances and inability to support bilateral US agreements. Tariff cross-border Canadian shoppers. Tax corporate wealth leaving Canada.
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney is doubling down on Canada’s deal with the United States to open the delayed Gordie Howe International Bridge and insists toll revenue will not be shared “until all the debt is repaid.”
“Splitting of tolls, any sharing of the toll revenue won’t happen until all of the debt is repaid. We will split net revenues over the course of the first 15 years, and those net revenues are after operational costs.”
“The word ‘net’ does a lot of work in this. We are sharing after Canada is paid back,” Carney said on Sunday when asked about the agreement for the first time.
“We need to understand what the prime minister has sold that deal out with, and to provide the actual specifics around the deals that he’s made on this particular bridge, and explain why he’s in such a position of weakness when it comes to this relationship,”
According to a senior government source on Friday, Canada will get 50 per cent of the bridge’s net profits in the first 15 years, with the other 50 per cent going into an economic development fund that will be reinvested in the U.S. side of the region.
A significant shift in the agreement first signed in 2012 as part of the Canada-Michigan Crossing Agreement. In that deal, Canada agreed to front the full construction costs, which grew to $6.4 billion, and later collect 100 per cent of toll profits until it recouped its investment. The agreement estimated that recoupment would take at least 50 years after which Canada and Michigan would equally split toll revenues.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...-will-not-be-shared-until-all-debt-is-repaid/
Ambiguous presentation of Gordie Howe International Bridge outcome. Canadians built and paid for Gordie Howe International Bridge on both side of the border. Whether a wise investment or not doesn't make any difference given deteriorating Canada - US trade. The senior government source on Friday needs be sidelined for erroneous commentary against the 2012 Canada-Michigan Crossing Agreement. While Ontario burns and tariffs continue to go push Canada sideway.
“Splitting of tolls, any sharing of the toll revenue won’t happen until all of the debt is repaid. We will split net revenues over the course of the first 15 years, and those net revenues are after operational costs.”
“The word ‘net’ does a lot of work in this. We are sharing after Canada is paid back,” Carney said on Sunday when asked about the agreement for the first time.
“We need to understand what the prime minister has sold that deal out with, and to provide the actual specifics around the deals that he’s made on this particular bridge, and explain why he’s in such a position of weakness when it comes to this relationship,”
According to a senior government source on Friday, Canada will get 50 per cent of the bridge’s net profits in the first 15 years, with the other 50 per cent going into an economic development fund that will be reinvested in the U.S. side of the region.
A significant shift in the agreement first signed in 2012 as part of the Canada-Michigan Crossing Agreement. In that deal, Canada agreed to front the full construction costs, which grew to $6.4 billion, and later collect 100 per cent of toll profits until it recouped its investment. The agreement estimated that recoupment would take at least 50 years after which Canada and Michigan would equally split toll revenues.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...-will-not-be-shared-until-all-debt-is-repaid/
Ambiguous presentation of Gordie Howe International Bridge outcome. Canadians built and paid for Gordie Howe International Bridge on both side of the border. Whether a wise investment or not doesn't make any difference given deteriorating Canada - US trade. The senior government source on Friday needs be sidelined for erroneous commentary against the 2012 Canada-Michigan Crossing Agreement. While Ontario burns and tariffs continue to go push Canada sideway.
