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I'm hesitant on solar in the first place. It's marginally economical in Southern Ontario, but far worse so anywhere else and will require quite a lot of land clearing to make work even before considering the usual issues with it. Wind is good, but I'm with you on nuclear. That's the way to go, and Canada is making good progress on new nuclear projects. We're one of the tops in the world for nuclear technology and have one of the world's largest uranium reserves.

That said, I think it's only the prairies that even have coal plants anymore? Ontario hasn't had coal in two decades, and Quebec is virtually a hydro superpower. If I remember right, for electricity generation, 70% is already non-carbon emitting. The real problems I believe are the vehicles and heating homes with natural gas. Oh, and apparently resource extraction is the second greatest source of CO2 in Canada.

But really, 20% comes from cars and trucks and is the single greatest source of CO2 in Canada by a massive margin apparently. And we just scrapped the only effective way to fight that source.

While as stupid as separation is when the biggest Albertan customer is already gouging the province in oil prices, I really think it's the scandals we should really be concentrating on.

This is all just a distraction, and Albertans need to call for a public inquiry on all the corruption allegations, the healthcare scandal, her bribery charges, etc. A ten second search and the number of scandals and allegations regarding this person is staggering and makes Doug Ford look like he's just stealing cookies from the public in comparison.

While true, quite a few provinces have massively reduced traffic at the border. Ontario's the lowest at 40% reduction, but some provinces are as high as 80%.

Of course, that doesn't include air since the most uncancellable trips are those done by air, but unlike air traffic, ground traffic is a greater combination of Canadian and American traffic, while I think air is more purely Canadians going to the US, with US business in Canada making up a smaller portion.

An 80% drop in traffic is even worse than it sounds when you realize that there's a ton of Americans coming over to grab cheap medicine and other small things that won't change much just because of all the Tariff stuff that's going on.

Frankly, I've been growing to care less about news related to Alberta separatism and other absurd stuff coming out of the province, especially after I heard a particular opinion on it: that it's just deadcatting. Smith's got a bunch of lawsuits and corruption investigations going on that she's been doing tons of shady things to push back these last few years, and is doing everything she can to avoid public attention so that Albertans don't start rallying for a public inquiry.

She's literally diverting public attention at things that could get her arrested for life with all this separation talk, because no matter how corrupt and unethical her behaviour is on this issue, it's not illegal so nobody can do much about it beyond booting her on the next election.

Rather than the shitty laws she's putting in place and calls regarding separation, people should be calling her out for all the investigations she's under and calls to make such investigations public rather than to confidentially report to her own party and even block federal investigators.

For me the second 50% was so that we get a leader that wasn't calling specifically to erode Canadian rights and services while giving billions in handouts to the rich.

Frankly, while it's early on, it is impressive how Carney really is focusing on Canada first over parties or personal interest. Even if I don't agree with many of his views of how to fix the country, so far he's shown to have integrity and the right heart, and that's enough for me to respect him, something I don't do for PP or Singh.

Honestly, I think every successful meeting with him is basically just this. It's what Russia did until he started to realize they've been fucking with him for the last few months. Zalinsky too, until Trump said some stuff he couldn't let go.

Carney's two for two on this one for sure.

I wasn't the one you originally responded to, but I do appreciate the acknowledgement.

And yea, I wish more people in Saskatchewan thought for themselves and the alignment of their interests verses those around them. Especially when Alberta keeps treating your province like their little brother and drags you guys through all their shit. I mean, they keep going "Oil Oil Oil" and yet Saskatchewan isn't even a major producer. The province has completely different strengths yet so many are content blindly following Alberta, and Alberta taking that sentiment entirely for granted.

I get that you guys have the same "not being heard" issues, and can feel it since I hear so little being an Ontarian myself. Just wish that sometimes when I hear anything about Saskatchewan, Alberta isn't in the same sentence.

I return the same words. What about the Uyghurs, or the Tibetans?

That still doesn't account for the roughly 40% of votes that went to him during the election.

I think foreign interference was real and quite pervasive, but people didn't realise it was foreign interference because it was so blatant. I mean, most of the big social media companies are owned by far right US companies, and all private Canadian news outlets are owned by far rights as well. And every single one of those touted far right rhetoric constantly with almost no left representation.

Hell, just ask the average Canadian where they get their Canadian news, and I'll bet a third will say Facebook, despite Meta banning Canadian news from the platform because they didn't want to pay taxes.

Banned pesticides and fertilizers are banned because they leave traces that are harmful to the human body. Otherwise they generally won't be banned in the first place. So all they have to do is take random samples and do proper checks. If it was impossible to detect the presence of after effects of such banned substances, there would be no point in banning them since the end product would be no different from normally grown varieties, hence no reason to ban them.

That said, I don't know how good our processes are, but I do think that more funding needs to be allocated now since the FDA won't be doing any of their own testing. Turning cargo back at the inspection centers would be an easy way to ban US foods without changing a single law or policy in the country with a high degree of deniability that this was the intent in the first place.

Raise it's people out of poverty, right after starving the entire country almost into oblivion you mean? Rural Chinese aren't even that much better than where they were a hundred years ago. Hell, parts of rural China is far worse than it was back then since at least there wasn't any government interference beyond taxation back during the previous government.

Emperor Xi is not doing a single thing for the benefit of the Chinese people. Every single metric that can be backed up with physical evidence shows that China is in a serious decline right now, and it's entirely caused by their government. You say that China is justified in doing what it is doing, then you say that their aggression towards their neighbours in the South China Seas is justified? Ramming their fishing boats against coast guards? Sending thousands of fishing boats just outside of the EEZ of Argentina? Performing highly aggressive and potentially lethal stunts to harass neighbouring patrol planes doing completely legal and globally standard regional patrols because China decided to enact territorial laws that haven't been enforced the entire time the CCP had existed?

You are making completely bad-faith arguments. I'm not the one being racist here. Especially since I am a pure-blooded East Asian myself.

I don't think this is Carney's intent at all. I think this is done fully expecting PP to be just as petulant as he's been all this time. It's to show that he's just as terrible as everybody who voted against him knows him to be, and to make his supporters start to really think about who they voted for. Not to mention that PP will accomplish absolutely nothing as the official opposition leader, since Carney only needs three seats to vote for anything, and he can get that from the NDP that's most closely aligned to the Liberals, or even the Bloc that have openly stated to form a ceasefire as long as Trump continues to attack Canada.

It's far better than risking the Conservatives getting an actually competent leader that can rally their constituency when they're already looking like they're breaking at the seams. By allowing PP to have a seat and be official opposition leader, it makes it harder for the Conservatives to remove PP and put someone else in, which puts further strain on their cohesion.

I feel like Carney's move is an attempt to make the Conservatives break apart with the realization that this election was the best chance they had at gaining power in a long time, and things will look worse because it's almost impossible for Carney to screw up in ways that'll make his support weaker the next election as long as he continues to play hardball against Trump.

At the very worst, he can treat the guy like a mild annoyance, since no matter how loudly he yells, it's easy to ignore him when the Conservative vote means nothing in this virtual majority government.