I feel like the best defence is to build at home. With drones playing such an important role, it opens the door for Canadians to innovate. This is where the need to rebuild so much of our military could end up being beneficial as the ways people make war are shifting dramatically.

Canada could learn a thing or two from Ukraine. Well much more than two right now.

I agree with this sentiment, governments do not represent the citizens but the capital of those nations. Which often times devolves to simply, what can you do for me?

The ability to enforce double standards based on political affiliation is a big feature of fascist governments.

I don’t like hearing our PM parrot US propaganda, and going directly against his speech in Davos.

I realize there might be political reasons for what he is doing, but the cynical side of me assumes this is more due to Israel lobbying our government for support.

There is a power vacuum on the right, since both of Canada’s right wing parties have abandoned right wing principles to chase Trumps tail. Which means the LPC can drift right, and there is no alternative for those on the left to vote for, while the CPC’s media machine can gaslight enough moderates that if the LPC drifts left, they can make the CPC seem like good old fashioned common sense conservatives of 20 years ago.

It sucks.

“So, I’m just calling because I’m obligated to for this investigation. I’ll just need you to swing by my office and sign a form saying I questioned you. We can grab a few beers too, write it off as business expense.”

Cops that are willing to hold other cops accountable don’t end up having much upward mobility within the ranks. You don’t get to a position where you are investigating the police, but being good at investigating the police.

These are the kind of cops that end up having long careers with multiple promotions.

It’s wild to me how police will say they don’t have the authority to break up Nazi rallies until they “do something illegal”. University students, homeless people or visible minorities on the other hand are never an issue.

Wouldn’t it be nice if Canadian politicians used a Canadian platform with Canadian moderators and Canadian algorithms?

If the platform is designed to get voters engaged in local policy then even better.

the goose is also golden.

I also came from Reddit, I’ve spoken highly of Lemmy in a few subs, canadianidiots, and ehbuddyhoser.

Might just be best trying a DM, but Reddit is definitely been going downhill for a while, they keep making it easier for people to engage in bad faith, and post misinformation under the guise of driving more engagement.

CPC saying they want to collaborate while they send another MP to bend the knee at one of Trumps prayer breakfasts on the taxpayer dime.

I predict PP said something like this… “You better give Trump what he wants because we’ve spent the last year lobbying the Trump regime, convincing them that Canada would be an easier target than Greenland, and we will support him if he tries to replace you.”

The CPC have been clear, they see the problem of US aggression as an LPC issue. The CPC has always advocated for giving Trump everything he wants, just have to remember with all of their statements, they come from a place that believes Trumps rhetoric that Canada would be a greater, stronger country through submission to his demands.

From a business standpoint it makes perfect sense, any money the government invests into preventative medicine now, is money they miss out on from treating the symptoms once healthcare is privatized.

Pretty sure the Trump regime had its heart set on Greenland, but I think some rigorous campaigning on the part of Alberta separatists and Smith over the holiday break was able to convince them there was a softer target.

That and the EU saying “don’t come here or we’ll shoot.” After all these are bullies, they feed on attacking those who they think can’t or won’t fight back.

The part that makes me so angry is the UCP goes into this knowing it’s going to get people killed, but they do it anyways, and they misappropriate funds from the AHS coffers to line their pockets while their doing it. They need people to get killed though so enough Albertans will say to themselves “well, I’d rather pay for healthcare than die in a waiting room”. Then the UCP can sell off all the healthcare infrastructure we’ve spent decades accumulating for pennies on the dollar to whoever hands them the best gift basket.

These folks have to be sociopaths, or so utterly detached from the consequences of their policy decisions, kids dying of measles, waiting rooms falling apart, and they’re focused on excluding trans people in the province.

I keep repeating myself, this isn’t just stupidity or incompetence at this point, it’s full blown kleptocracy enabled by political psychosis.

I suspect it’s because he can get a foot in the door through Alberta, and he has the official opposition in his pocket. If he moves on Canada compared to other countries he’s threatened(?), there are people in positions of power willing to legitimize his actions. I’m not sure if the same can be said about Greenland, Columbia, or Mexico.

Again?

Free speech to the CPC = Freedom for me to spout whatever I want without anyone being able to disagree with me, and freedom for me to shut down your speech when it conflicts with my opinion.

The words free and speech are both in there, just not in the way you’d expect. Thats the beauty of marketing with tribal based double think, it’s meaning to them is different based on who is saying it.

This is normal for the CPC same thing happened in London Ontario during the last election.

If CPC supporters are contacting her saying this isn’t what this party represents, then they haven’t been paying any attention to what their party has been saying over the last decade. Not that it’s surprising at all, the Reform wing of the CPC simply erased what was left of PC influence in the party over the pandemic. Which is how they’ve been trying to market extreme ideas to moderate voters, by just lying to them.

Political actors want to paint this as a failure of the federal government but fact of the matter is, it was a failure of enforcement, and we simply do not have the means in which to hold that enforcement accountable the same way we do the federal government, which is another issue entirely.

We should have high standards for the EA’s use, but the same people who will justify state sponsored violence that targets people they don’t like, are celebrating this ruling as government overreach, because it’s about the narrative not reality, and I find it exhausting.

Police should’ve done their jobs and the federal government shouldn’t have used the act, that’s the real story.