It’s a joke that simply points out how stupid they are. I don’t think it’s trying to suggest they’re race traitors, nor is it validating Hitler’s ideology.

Personally I hope it comes back in a much more reasonable fashion.

They botched the rollout.

When you introduce new technology you have to get buy in from the users. That means transparency (open publishing of error models, printing speed error on the tickets issued), warning periods for a driver during which tickets are issued but without payment required (eg first ticket is a warning), and there should have been regulations against municipalities putting them everywhere, even in places that were nowhere near schools or other CSZ buildings.

If they had put in a bit of care, they could have built goodwill without giving the impression right out of the gate that it was a cash grab and if you contest it or ask for details, it’s “trust me bro”.

I disagree with them too, and I worry about the implications of this ruling with respect to justice for the people and the city of Ottawa. Looks like the convoy and the organizers get off with no legal repercussions so I’m fairly certain this will happen again, and there will be no money to pay for the damage and the disturbance.

What should have come out of this were clear limits on reasonable protest, police powers and legal expectations, and regulations on foreign funding in our politics and NGOs, including, in particular, American funding.

You don’t know anything about me, or what I believe. In particular you have no reason to think you have any insight into my psychology, or my family, or my past.

You might be surprised to discover we share beliefs about wealth inequality and the necessity of unions. But that doesn’t mean I think the NDP is the right party right now.

That’s all I’m going to say because while I criticized your behavior you’ve chosen to insult me personally, and moreover you’re not that interesting champ. You’re really not going to teach me anything, and the way you write sounds like a forehead vein. Maybe take some bennies and calm down.

Your question was rhetorical and I already explained that he is skilled and experienced in the exact fields required to navigate an economic war. But clearly I need to be specific for you, so economics, banking and actually running two national banks.

I assume you will not fight, and you will not even contribute, but instead sit back and complain about things you don’t understand. Just try not to get in the way of the people who are fighting and who are contributing.

I’m ready to sacrifice and fight for this country. I was in the reserves and I’m reapplying even though I’m nearly at the age cap. What are you doing? You seem to be itching for war and the fracture of the country. I’m going to be pragmatic about this instead…I’ve gone through my beliefs on all of it many times, and still go in and out of righteous anger, but I temper it against reason.

Unfortunately for you, I’m not part of the left that thinks we need to burn the whole thing down, and thankfully for me, my beliefs align with the majority.

I’m fairly certain I know far more about these topics than you do, but no I’m not willing to discuss them with you. I see where you’re coming from. Cheers!

I’m not convinced the NDP are going to be able to navigate this, and I say this as a past NDP voter.

Carney has skills and experience in exactly the fields and jobs suitable for where we find ourselves right now. Frankly, I trust him over the opinions of a random internet stranger. And, without knowing anything, I expect that our best strategy is to slow play all of this as much as possible, so he’s going to get a lot of leeway from me on economic and foreign policy even though my response would be far more emotional and extreme. Since I know nothing and have no access to information, this is why I’m glad I’m not running things… And why I’m glad you’re not either.

Hard to believe the (viable) alternative is worse.

Preface: I am solidly on the left, and I have over a dozen guns.

This is probably the only thing that I wish Carney wasn’t doing. Not because I love my guns - in fact I could use the money from a buy back, I don’t hunt any more, and I have been too busy to go shooting recently.

But staring down the Trump threats, I’m starting to reconsider what I’m going to do.

I am looking to rejoin the reserves part time, even though I’m old now, so in a military conflict I expect I would have some access to weapons. However, I want my family to have them if they need them.

This situation with the US has changed everything.

By the way, I’m getting my RPAS and learning to build and fly drones. It seems those skills can be as useful, perhaps even more useful.

FUCK YES.

Someone get on this right away and catalogue how many of these fuckwit numpties are also Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, neo-Nazis, 3%ers, Boogaloos, Patriot Fronters, etc.

I notice a lot fewer of these people anywhere now, it’s like they just disappeared…where are the counter protests? Whatever could be keeping them busy?

Unbelievable.

Americans are always simultaneously victims and saviours.

And once they justify their victimhood, anything is justified in retaliation. Like another country that shall remain unnamed. Their fundamental psychological foundation is fear.

Too bad for both of us, I guess.

Exactly what every sane and reasonable person was saying for decades, but 2A cultists wouldn’t hear it, and preferred to have dead kids so they could look like cool badasses carrying an AR.

Maybe people should start flying drones and join an improv group, IYKWIM

I would love to see a Canadian EV, but I can recognize that this may be quite difficult unless the government is willing to spend lots of money. You and I might be okay with this but as with everything it will be trade-off of how much risk we want to incur in a long term diversification that drains short term funds that we may need in short order for other priorities, versus get the industry up and running again with assembly plants building Chinese vehicles so we don’t completely collapse this year if the US decides to shit the bed.

I suspect Carney has this kind of decision to make.

Keep in mind that Carney is under attack for Stellantis. Imagine how much right wing dopes would foam at the mouth if billions were spent on a Canadian EV. Again I would probably be willing to listen to such a proposal, but I know there is more to this than me and my limited knowledge.

The floor is yours, you can nitpick semantics and discuss esoteric constitutional law, and in the end we will end up at the fact that it protects the President far far outside anything reasonable. It was a sycophantic ruling that was put in place by a corrupt court.

Well, we can open the market to the Chinese, which you claim will destroy the Canadian market, but also get access to inexpensive Chinese cars, or wait until we have no market anyway since the US is going to fuck us, in which case we have no market and we won’t have access to inexpensive Chinese cars. The first sounds better to me.

I would prefer to get commitment to build Chinese cars in Canada, for sure. We already built BYD buses but we fucked ourselves on that in respect of the US as well.

Regarding losing our industry, I’m not sure that’s the case. We would lose the US but that’s probably already going to happen.

I’m guessing Carney is going to discuss with Xi in the trip. He’ll hold any potentials in his back pocket for leverage against the US in CUSMA talks.

I personally think we should be discussing a much deeper relationship with China, including military. Forget that US, they’re finished.

Not sure what you’re talking about. I’m not a nihilist. I believe in democracy and the rule of law, among many other beliefs and principles.

On the topic of Trump, I happen to think most Americans are not ready to do what must be done. I don’t believe there is nothing that CAN be done. Do you understand the difference?

I have hope that there are individual Americans, or institutions, that will push back. But if it’s successful I doubt it will be because Trump followed the law. There’s no indication he cares about the law.

The same Supreme Court that gave him license to do whatever he wants without any legal repercussions as long as he calls it presidential affairs?

That’s a king. He’s a king.

As an aside by doing this the Supreme Court effectively retroactively exonerated Nixon. The US is a joke.

Whenever he says “They say I’m not supposed to talk about X, I’ll get into big trouble, but maybe we should X”, then you know they’re planning to X.