Does anyone think for a second that a man [(Trump)] who brags about attacking his own citizens will let Canada off with a gentleman’s trade agreement?
The rhetoric from Washington is escalating. FBI director Kash Patel accused us of flooding the United States with terrorists. Homeland Security director Kristi Noem says our border represents a threat to American safety. Now Attorney General Pam Bondi is accusing Canada of creating a crisis in human trafficking.
These are orchestrated outbursts of falsehood to demonize Canada. This is the part of the fascist playbook. The stakes are frighteningly high so I understand the PM’s desire to tread carefully. But there are areas where we can’t cede ground. If we do, the fascists will take it. That is how they operate.
What keeps me up at night are the words of Louis Fischer, a journalist who documented the Nazi rise to power. He wrote that Hitler’s opponents couldn’t comprehend the real nature of the Nazi threat. As reasonable and democratic people, they made the mistake of believing that they could negotiate with Hitler. Or they thought that they were wiser than Nazi street thugs. They reassured themselves that Hitler was “just being Hitler.”
And so, they willingly ceded ground, believing it was a strategy to bring the Nazis into the democratic fold or outwit them. In ceding ground, they fell into the abyss.
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This is what concerns me about the Roberts’ invitation. It signals either naivety or desperation. If Roberts was the one who blew off the meeting, it’s because he didn’t need to take the measure of the new government. The invitation alone gave him all he needed to know.
In writing this, I feel the need to state that I am rooting for Prime Minister Carney. Everyone knows that I am not a Liberal. I never will be. But he won the election by offering himself as a wartime prime minister.
We need him to be that war time prime minister now.
I’m Canadian. While I agree with my country about Trumps US aggression and trade war theatrics, I always disliked the phrase “elbows up!”.
He made an agreement with us in his last term that he’s thrown out the window. He’s a two bit conman and a double dealer. He’d turn his own crank anytime he feels like it, why bother making any deal.
I am trying to argue with the G20 meeting taking place at Trump’s resort so I have been sending emails places. This is the reply I have most recently received from my do nothing MP:
In my opinion, it doesn’t matter where the G20 is held. The point is that the host country picks their location based primarily on security issues. The location is entirely their choice.
Our country currently relies and will continue to rely heavily on the United States for our economic success. Our priority must be to retain access to our largest trading partner not arguing about whose house to meet at.
I mean… What are Canadian MPs supposed to do about US corruption? It’s up to them to figure it out. It’s the host country’s choice where to host it; if the US administration chooses to line their own pockets, it’s up to US legislators/courts to hold them to account.
Or am I missing something?
I am trying to get Canada to make a move to boycott it and to get the other members to do the same and then to host an alternative in Canada.
Charlie Angus is a Meidas guy now? I’m now sick of seeing him all over the place since he joined Meidas. Meidas beats dead horses for clicks and revenue, desensitizing us with their constant bombardment. I like both of their messages but sheesh!
Listen, as much as I do find Ben Meiselas and MTN very sensationalized and it’s hard for me to listen to them for long periods of time, I do think Mr. Angus is right to team up with them and lead the Canadian branch of Meidas.
The fact that you see him annoyingly often means that some Canadians that were completely unaware of the resistance movement will come across it and consider it.
Of course, we can all have our little gatherings on how the world should really be, in Gastown, Kensington Market or Le Plateau but without reach it is very difficult to be a nationally coordinated social movement.
When Fox News and corporate billionaire backed media dominate the airwaves and stories, the message that resistance is possible is easy to cover up, if the speakers of it aren’t coordinated. To illustrate, Ben Meiselas got an interview with California Governor Newsom. So did Charlie Kirk (may he rest in piss). Without some functional equivalent of a left-wing Fox News, right-wing propaganda is going to take all the airtime.
This article doesn’t contain a point. What does the author want the government to do?
Not cede ground. Seemed pretty clear.
Outright call out falsehoods. Say when they are lying.
What do you mean by “not cede ground”?
I already explained this.
Outright call out falsehoods. Say when they are lying.
Do you want me to explain what that means?
So just fact check? The Canadian government should fact check the US government?
Wow, I always kind of thought the “just asking questions” thing was overblown, but your obtuseness is impressive.
You haven’t answered a fucking thing to be honest. You’re clearly hostile.
Your explanations written in crayon with backwards letters: no cede ground! Call out!
I still haven’t received an answer of what people want the government to do. Fact checking is something the government can do but I don’t see that being what people are asking for.
You’re talking to a hostile ignoramus, I’m reading the thread, and you’ve done nothing wrong here, the other person is just a jerk.
At a minimum, yes.
Are you sure you’re smart enough to be having these conversations?
I just didn’t see what point the author was trying to make. What did they mean by saying Carney needs to be a “war time prime minister”? I see now that he meant Carney needs to fact check more.
PM Carney ran (and won) on a platform of not giving in to Trump’s manipulative tactics, of keeping Canada strong and independent, of protecting Canada’s best interests. Now the author (Charlie Angus, btw) is asking him to keep those promises, to be the strong prime minister he said he would be, and not back down from what he said he would do.
Hope that helps.
I see a point;
This is the story of fascism. And you either stand up to fascists . . . or you will end up in the cages yourself. In the case of Canada, our options are either resistance or accommodation.
. . . The risks of antagonizing Trump are clear, but so are the risks of trying to accommodate the profoundly anti-democratic and thinly-veiled violence of a gangster regime.
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We need [Carney] to be that war time prime minister now.
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. . . The PM needs to bring his case to the people and tap into their determination to hold our ground. We need to show men like Kevin Roberts that the Canadian people and government are not going to be worn down.
The PM used the term “elbows up” in the election - Canadians are not willing to put them down now.
(Emphasis mine)
To summarize: do not accommodate. Resist.
Seems pretty clear to me.
Resist what?
Lies and attacks on sovereignty
Has the government not been doing that?
Are you a bot, or literally that obtuse?
I’m that obtuse apparently. As far as I know every Canadian politician has denounced Trumps 51st state rhetoric. Is there something I’m missing?
There’s a lot more than just the 51st rhetoric, and not all Canadian politicians have been proving they have a backbone.
See: Danielle Smith, Scott Moe, Pierre Pollievre, and Andrew Scheer, among others.
I mean, read the article.
