Not that I need to provide any solution just to have the right to point out…

Sure, unless you want to be taken seriously at all. Saying that a guy who is two days into his job, and starting out as a lame duck to boot, is not doing enough is pretty outlandish. Especially since he wasn’t “elected” so to speak. Making any major moves before he goes through an election would likely lose him said upcoming election, and anything he has done in that time will just get undone anyway.

What he did do is send a clear message: we’re not interested in giving up our sovereignty and even if trump thinks it’s funny or a joke, we don’t see it that way. We will not enter any negotiations on trade until trump quits threatening our sovereignty. Period. You say we shouldn’t negotiate and trump won’t stop. So, Carney is doing exactly what you want in his opening salvo: he’s refusing to negotiate. I’m not sure what’s wrong with that based on your desires.

The other thing this does is clear up a window for Carney to turn away from the shit show down south and start focusing on what we need to do here in Canada: start looking at new trade partners, bolstering our home economy, and getting through an election so we don’t have a lame duck trying to get things done.

Now in terms of everything you want, well, you might want to get educated about some of these things before you act like you’ve solved the world’s problems.

Forbid electricity and oil export. We can use the cheap electricity and cheap plastic, aluminium, steel production to undercut everyone else on price for manufactured goods.

Electricity and oil exports don’t work that way. Exporting less isn’t going to make it cheaper for us. We will have to reduce production of both because electricity needs to be used as it’s generated, and we export our oil to the US so they can refine it to send it back to us. We just don’t have the facilities to handle the capacity (for electricity or oil) that the US takes. This is the same problem with aluminum and steel that has the auto industry freaking out. And we can’t just build such facilities overnight.

Mop up any unemployment with a massive housing building and infrastructure program.

I would be very surprised if a housing building program wasn’t already on the docket, with or without trump’s bullshit. Not sure if single-handedly solves unemployment though.

If americans look at us wrong, ration potash exports, especially during planting season.

American farmers are already getting fucked by trump. I don’t think he would care if we piled on. He’d just use it as an excuse to justify whatever else he can dream up to fuck with us, and then deflect and blame us for all the fucking of the American farmers.

Also reneg that anti satellite weapon agreement…

Not sure how quickly this kessler doomsday idea can be hashed out. I’ve never heard of it and it sounds, uh, unhinged. Maybe that’s a good way to deal with trump though. He seems to respect insanity.

Make national universal healthcare because provinces have trying to kill and privatize their public healthcare.

Really not sure how you can expect him to be jumping in with changes to the healthcare system this quick. That said, you’re right, Carney is probably not the one you’re looking for. Nor is the Liberal party in general.

You keep saying he’s doing it wrong without saying what you think he (or any leader of Canada) should do. How exactly do you want him to give Trump a bloody nose and what do you think the response from the US would be?

Thanks. I was thinking of doing it, but got pulled away.

All their baked goods are great and I enjoy their coffee. Just high quality all around.

You should put your stilted commentary as a comment so we can upvote the article and downvote your ridiculous hot take.

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Some interesting stuff in there. Nice to see Small Victory coming back, though I only ever go there as a treat. Din Tai Fung is definitely an experience. I went to the one in Taipei 101 and had xiao long bao and it was excellent.

How about a wholly-Canadian co-op? Maybe sell camping and hiking equipment.

Whatever it becomes, the answer is not: a sad department store with goods that are too expensive for the average shopper, organized in the least efficient manner for shopping, and with a perfume gauntlet you have to run to get to said inefficient shopping. Oh and don’t make it impossible to find staff to help you when you do want to pay…

Canadians have been pushing for this for a long while

How many? I’ve never heard it in a big way like we are now.

Because we don’t know the implications? Joining the EU would come with a bunch of commitments that most people who are saying yes right now don’t even realize.

This is a knee-jerk reaction. It’s not a small decision that we should make while on the rebound.

Lets start by making some really epic trade deals and go from there.

I’m saying the opposite of “less-than”.

I’m saying they don’t put up with shit just cause of party lines. If you want to keep support in Quebec you have to bend to the will of the voters.

That’s fair, but I doubt it would last long. Quebec voters can be a bit fickle and the BQ might not be as patient as the NDP+G have been. I would guess non-confidence and a new election in about a year.

Damn, he must really hate his wife. Just get a divorce, dude!

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That graphic is not making anything clear…

Get on your knees and beg, donny.

Lol, do your own homework and stop revising history based on what we know now. Your new link doesn’t say shit about musk’s intentions, just that some people said he was out-to-lunch. That does not show him being the biggest cancer. There have been plenty of times people said what he was trying to do was impossible, for example, landing rockets.

I didn’t say and I’m not arguing that he had a product in the hyperloop and I’m certainly not defending him. He’s done plenty of shitty shit we haven’t even talked about (ahem, astrophotography). I’m defending Mark Kelly’s latest action from your holier-than-thou bullshit. There are plenty of articles talking about the change in Musk in the last three years to become hateful and right-leaning.

Before that he was publicly calling out Trump and defending things like the Paris agreement. Tesla had pushed the all-electric vehicle to being what it is today and even if it wasn’t all him, his backing/money certainly helped and he was the face of that. SpaceX changed spaceflight as we know it. Starlink was creating a whole new way for people to access the internet (again, not defending him, I know the other side of this one, but it was becoming and has become a very important thing to a lot of people). There was the big power reserve plant in Australia 2017/2018. I think it was around 2021 that things started to fall apart publicly for the solar roof stuff, but before that there was a lot of hope around it.

Just because you hated musk for however long you’ve hated him, it doesn’t mean everyone could have predicted what’s going on now. You want us to say you were right? Fine, assuming you’ve been saying for 10 years that he’s the biggest cancer, good on ya. You got it right.

But if you had said that even four years ago (like when Mark Kelly bought his Tesla), there would have been a lot of people jumping on you with all the great things he’s pushed forward, despite being a weird-ass douchebag who also did many shitty things.

So instead of focusing on calling out Mark Kelly for his mistake 4 years ago, how about saying, good, at least someone is taking an action, publicly, loudly, however small, against what’s going on now. There are plenty of them that are just sitting back and watching, focus your ire on them. Stick together and give the ones who are fighting a boost instead of trying to kick them back down because of some perceived iniquity in the past.

This is Elon in 2018 showing his butt

Yes, he was a douche, asshole, fucknut, etc. Sorry I thought I had mentioned the 2018 thing in my comment but must have forgotten. That, to me, was the point where he really started his downward slide. It’s certainly an inflection point where people who thought he was a genius started to get the picture that he wasnt. But that didn’t make him the biggest cancer we have. That was mid-Trump v1 for fuck’s sake. Plus that was 7 years ago, not a decade.

His hyperloop bullshit started around 2012-2013 and he admitted to his biographer Ashlee Vance that the Hyperloop proposal was only intended to get legislators to cancel plans for high-speed rail in California.

And we only learned that he said that in 2021 or 2022 or something like that!

The Canadian banks are big enough to build a wholly Canadian credit system for global use, especially if they could get everyone in Canada (and maybe elsewhere) to switch right now.

They probably get too many incentives from Visa and Mastercard to find it enticing though, which is why they’re always pushing credit cards and offering cashback and airmiles, etc.

I think there is a European alternative being developed. Perhaps we can get in on that.

So he went with Musk, the biggest cancer we have, a known entity for at least a decade?

Uhh, sorry, not sure what timeline you’re referring to, but Musk was being compared to Tony Stark up until about 2022. He was a weird and eccentric douche, but hadn’t gone right-wing MAGA evil yet. Tesla was on top and it was not controversial (to most centre-left) to have one. In fact it was a progressive statement until recently. Plus SpaceX was fucking rocking it and that would have been important to Mark Kelly.