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#41

Off the Record / Re: What does a TRUMP presiden...

Last post by viper37 - January 13, 2025, 10:44:27 PM

Civil servants are being asked who they voted for in 2024 election

Project 2025?  Never heard of it.  Don't know what it is.  I've no idea what's this thing you're talking about.

#42

Off the Record / Re: Israel-Hamas War 2023

Last post by Grey Fox - January 13, 2025, 08:49:43 PM

I wonder what will happen to the new wave of homeless people following the 1-2 trillion budget cuts in the new Musk-Trump administration?  Will they be moved in camps too?

We will be given new land in newly annexed Quebec.

And the average level of wealth in both US and Quebec would increase.

 

Their land is Rugged Canadian Shield. They will die.

#43

Off the Record / Re: [Canada] Canadian Politics...

Last post by Grey Fox - January 13, 2025, 08:48:47 PM

What a shit show that's going to be.

#44

Off the Record / Re: Israel-Hamas War 2023

Last post by Razgovory - January 13, 2025, 07:25:25 PM

I wonder what will happen to the new wave of homeless people following the 1-2 trillion budget cuts in the new Musk-Trump administration?  Will they be moved in camps too?

We will be given new land in newly annexed Quebec.

Nah, Trump only wants Alberta.  You'll be living in outside Fort McMurray and forced to work in the oil fields to earn your social security check.

I am having a trouble understand what your point in this is.

#45

Off the Record / Re: [Canada] Canadian Politics...

Last post by crazy canuck - January 13, 2025, 06:50:42 PM

It would hurt Quebec too, our Premier is also against using energy to retaliate.

It would also have a significant negative impact on BC.  Oil, gas and hydro would be impacted.

One fun fact is the major natural gas line that supplies Greater Vancouver dips through Washington State simply because of the local geography.  That would be a nightmare to figure out if our countries had a trade war over energy.  Not to mention how integrated BC electrical energy is within the American Grid on the West Coast. 

#46

Off the Record / Re: Brexit and the waning days...

Last post by HVC - January 13, 2025, 06:23:42 PM

Won't someone please think about the cyber bats

#47

Off the Record / Re: [Canada] Canadian Politics...

Last post by Barrister - January 13, 2025, 06:16:04 PM

They're not doing it for Russia.

Exactly.

I believe Ukraine still received some transit fees, plus of course they didn't want to hurt European allies who were dependent on Russian gas.

Now that calculus changed this year, but I don't know the exact details.  But it definitely wasn't appeasement.

#48

Off the Record / Re: Brexit and the waning days...

Last post by PJL - January 13, 2025, 06:15:58 PM

By the time all these AI project get rolling, they'll probably cost twice as much if not more than originally intended and then get cancelled half-way by the next Tory government, just like HS2.

#49

Off the Record / Re: [Canada] Canadian Politics...

Last post by viper37 - January 13, 2025, 06:08:02 PM

... And Smith is opposed to any heavy handed response to the US tariffs, saying it will provoke a unity crisis.

If we didn't before, now we know where the traitor lies.

If you look closely at what Smith said - she is opposed to export taxes or limits on exporting energy.

Because, not surprisingly, that would hammer one sector and one region of Canada.

I don't think anything should be off the table for now.  We are at war, and sacrifices will be needed.

If Ukrainians had acted like that, their country would have fallen by now.

Ukraine has continued to transit Russian gas across their territory up until this year (as in 2025) - almost three years after the full scale invasion, 10 ears after the initial annexation of Crimea.

They're not doing it for Russia.

#50

Off the Record / Re: [Canada] Canadian Politics...

Last post by HVC - January 13, 2025, 06:05:33 PM

appeasing Russia didn't help them, and appeasing the US won't help us.