03-04-2025, 08:19 AM
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#21281
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Originally Posted by Paulie Walnuts
Yes they sold Trump on a plan that we already announced in December and would name a fentanyl czar.
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I wasn't asking what we did to appease the orange ####wit. I was asking what was done to soften the blow to Canadians of the tariffs. Basically we got a one month reprieve, which should have been (and maybe was) used to put the country in a better position to deal with the impacts of the tariffs now that they're being imposed. PP is saying they did nothing to put us in that better position and I'm asking, ok, what DID they do?
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Originally Posted by direwolf
Absolutely they were. From what I understand, Canadian officials have been meeting with their EU and UK counterparts over the last several weeks. Trudeau also met with Macron when he was in Brussels recently, and has had private conversations with British PM Starmer in that time as well.
Ecuador is another country that we just signed a new trade deal with in late February.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americ...ed-2025-02-02/
Around the same time, we also sent a trade delegation to Australia.
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Trudeau should be on TV as soon as possible to trumpet this stuff and explain how it will help. They should also be moving as quickly as possible. Normally these sorts of negotiations take a while, but every day is costing people their livelihoods so whatever solutions or mitigative measures are available, perfect or not, they need to hurry the hell up and do them, and then tell everyone about them.
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03-04-2025, 08:25 AM
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#21282
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: wearing raccoons for boots
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He has a press conference this morning...supposed to start in approx 10 minutes
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03-04-2025, 09:01 AM
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#21283
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Franchise Player
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Come onnnnnn! 100% tariff on Teslas!
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03-04-2025, 09:17 AM
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#21284
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Cranbrook
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"Donald, you're a very smart guy, but this is a very dumb thing to do"
This is how I talk to my child. You're a good kid but you did a bad thing.
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03-04-2025, 10:12 AM
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#21285
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They've now been pointing a camera at an empty podium waiting for PP for 45 minutes.
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03-04-2025, 10:17 AM
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#21286
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: wearing raccoons for boots
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Quote:
Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
They've now been pointing a camera at an empty podium waiting for PP for 45 minutes.
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Still workshopping a slogan
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03-04-2025, 10:21 AM
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#21287
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Loves Teh Chat!
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Originally Posted by puffnstuff
Still workshopping a slogan
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What's the over/under on how many times he says "Canada First"? How many comments will he make about "Carbon Tax Carney"?
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03-04-2025, 10:28 AM
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#21288
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Franchise Player
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Torture
What's the over/under on how many times he says "Canada First"?
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First sentence of the speech and last, hahaha.
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03-04-2025, 10:32 AM
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#21289
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Powerplay Quarterback
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PP has no choice but to go after Trump. The election is going to be about who is best able to lead Canada against Trump. The carbon tax, over-regulation, years of Liberal political baggage are all secondary now. I’m not sure how the Cons can’t see that.
Doug Ford is no genius. And he loves Trump. But he played the anti-Trump card perfectly. I’m really not sure why PP can’t do the same.
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03-04-2025, 10:37 AM
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#21290
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It was an adequately cromulent speech from PP but basically just a tighter, better delivered version of the one from a month ago with marginally less (but still some) griping about the Liberals. Meh.
I heard three "Canada first"s.
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03-04-2025, 10:38 AM
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#21291
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Loves Teh Chat!
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03-04-2025, 10:53 AM
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#21292
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Farm Team Player
Join Date: Apr 2009
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Quote:
Originally Posted by puffnstuff
Still workshopping a slogan
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Just gotta find something that rhymes . Common sense conservatives will Dump the Trump Tarrifs. Carbon tax Carney has no chance with Vance negotiating an end to tarriffs
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03-04-2025, 11:02 AM
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#21293
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Somewhere down the crazy river.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
It was an adequately cromulent speech from PP but basically just a tighter, better delivered version of the one from a month ago with marginally less (but still some) griping about the Liberals. Meh.
I heard three "Canada first"s.
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Kind of disappointed that he took an almost campaign-mode tone during this.
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03-04-2025, 11:07 AM
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#21294
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Wormius
Kind of disappointed that he took an almost campaign-mode tone during this.
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This is what I've been saying. He is a politician through and through. He can't be anything else.
Watching Ford, interesting comment that he says the response to support Canadians through this will essentially be like COVID again.
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Last edited by CorsiHockeyLeague; 03-04-2025 at 11:09 AM.
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03-04-2025, 11:13 AM
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#21295
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Wormius
Kind of disappointed that he took an almost campaign-mode tone during this.
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His representative did the same during the Calgary Ukrainian rally last week. Can't recall who it was, but the Conservative representative who spoke made it a campaign rally, blamed the Libs, and rah rah vote Conservative. All to a group where 99% of the people in attendance were on refugee visas and have no vote.
Say what you will about Trudeau, but he's handled this as perfect as one could expect. I appreciate him starting to use less formal language towards Donald, as Donald himself does not speak formally, much less understand it. Sucks lowering to a child's level to get your point across, but that's the world we live in. Hopefully more world leaders begin to do the same.
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03-04-2025, 11:27 AM
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#21296
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Trudeau has done well, but Ford is really emboldened having just been re-elected to say and do whatever the hell he wants. He's basically just said he'll rip up existing contracts with US companies and if they want to sue Ontario, we'll see you in Court. He has no ####s to give.
As Trudeau is on the way out, and there's no clear answer anymore in light of polling trends who will be the next Prime Minister (I still think Poilievre will win but I'm no longer in any way certain), Ford might be the single most powerful person in the country at the moment.
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03-04-2025, 11:29 AM
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#21297
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Calgary, Alberta
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr.Coffee
Pipeline should have started construction Feb 4. Every day is a wasted day.
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Okay, not that I disagree, but which pipeline and which corporation is ready to build this? This "solution" keeps coming up, but Energy East was abandoned years ago, and Gateway was quashed before it even got out of the blocks.
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03-04-2025, 11:31 AM
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#21298
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Monster Storm
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Calgary
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Would it be possible for The feds to resurrect these pipelines (buy the plans) and have a nationalized pipeline network?
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03-04-2025, 11:34 AM
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#21299
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Oooh. Ford finished his speech defending Gretzky. That's a rough look.
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03-04-2025, 11:42 AM
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#21300
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Franchise Player
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Quote:
Originally Posted by surferguy
Would it be possible for The feds to resurrect these pipelines (buy the plans) and have a nationalized pipeline network?
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Unlikely with Carney's long history with net zero and being against Canadian pipelines like Northern Gateway nevermind Guilbeault being the usual economic terrorist throwing is support behind him already. Didn't he also promise Quebec no pipelines?
Maybe with the other liberal candidates though. Or another party.
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