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retired meathead and business owner

[bob @norlake01]

@brianlilley Don't the Chinese want to use carbon free steel?

[bob @norlake01]

@MarkJCarney The Carney curse lives on

[bob @norlake01]

@RiseOfAlberta Colour me shocked

[bob @norlake01]

@DLeBlancNB I trust you will be as successful at this as you have been on the US trade deal. And, did we not hear this same announcement a year ago? Hard to keep up to the announcements, easy to tally the successes.

[bob @norlake01]

@MarcMillerVM Stop thinking start doing Mr √><

[bob @norlake01]

@NightShiftMD Exactly how much does the CBC pay you every year?

[bob @norlake01]

@sarobertson_ Oh yeah, Joe Biden was a genius

[The Food Professor @FoodProfessor]

Mark Warner, one of Canada’s best trade lawyers—and a friend—dismantles, one by one, every argument used to defend Canada’s current negotiating strategy with the United States.

A masterclass of an interview.

Watch the whole thing. Oh, and the midterms won’t make a difference...

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 OMG. Secretary Scott Bessent just bodied the crap out of Canada!

"At war with Canada? What are they gonna do, take their 2 submarines from the Edmonton Mall and sick 'em on us!?"

😭😭

"[Carney] came to power on an anti-American, anti-Trump agenda. He was 20 points behind in the poll, and then he started this, and it's unfortunate that he's not doing what's best for the Canadian people."

"He's doing what is best for the Liberal Party, what's best for Mark Carney, and in the long run, the Canadian people are going to see through that."

Bessent doesn't miss.

[Andrew Lawton @AndrewLawton]

Reminder: When Justin Trudeau was asked about all the churches that were being burned or vandalized, he called it “understandable.”

[Inevitable West @Inevitablewest]

🚨BREAKING: It's over, Iceland has decisively voted AGAINST joining the EU

Ursula is furious that they want national sovereignty. Globalism is DYING. 🇮🇸

[Conrad Black @ConradMBlack]

Regrettably, an exchange on social media between two former CBC journalists, Keith Boag and Travis Dhanraj, was inflicted upon me today and it perfectly captures the invasive rot afflicting and spreading forth from the CBC's newsroom and college campuses into the collective consciousness of our society.

For reference, Mr. Dhanraj was given the high jump from the CBC last year when he attempted to gently nudge that organization in the direction of diversity of opinion. Mr. Boag, on the other hand, was a CBC lifer, retiring after 35 years of blissful ignorance to any opinion outside the CBC's ideological monoculture. The exchange comes within the context of a recent revelation (by Warren Kinsella) that the CBC’s senior director of journalistic standards was demanding avoidance of the t-word in describing the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

Mr. Boag seems to be defending this position by categorizing 9/11 as a run-of-the-mill "attack on civilians for political purposes,” giving several other examples to imply there is no clear distinction between any instance of civilians being killed in pursuit of some political purpose. By implication, Osama bin Laden and Nelson Mandela (an implication Boag made explicitly in a subsequent exchange with Ezra Levant) are morally equivalent; they are either both terrorists or neither are. It is not a serious position. It is moral illiteracy formatted into the CBC's perverse style guide. Sadly, the idea is not original, or unique. In fact, it is the pervasive view on campuses and among large swathes of the Canadian media landscape. It is also very dangerous, and it needs to be answered.

Mr. Boag's position is bunk. If the “political purpose” in question is to kill and terrorize civilians in the service of global jihad or the extermination of a people, it belongs in a distinct category. That was 9/11. That was October 7. That was the Holocaust. These acts were genocidally motivated and carried out by groups that would never accept any peaceful resolution.

On the other hand, using decisive force to destroy war criminals who will never make peace, belongs in a completely different category. It is not terrorism. Israel’s campaign to destroy Hamas is a righteous cause. Israel is not only within its rights, but morally obligated to uproot the terrorist apparatus that hides behind its own population. And Israel should be lauded for the strategically disadvantageous lengths it has gone to limit Palestinian casualties, even while Hamas has tried to maximize them. Accusing Israel of genocide is either credulous stupidity or intellectually flaccid anti-Semitism attempting to disguise itself in a threadbare cloak of righteousness.

The atomic bomb was developed by the Allies and used to save lives and compel a surrender that would not otherwise have come. One may argue, and I would agree, that a demonstration on a remote island, a sort of nuclear warning shot, might have been preferable. Likewise, using another of Boag's examples, one could argue the ANC should have continued with their Gandhi-inspired peaceful protest movement even after the Sharpeville massacre. The fact is, no act of violence toward civilians, whether in pursuit of a greater good or not, should be whitewashed. But nor should they all be grouped lazily together, as Boag attempts to do, as if genocide and global domination were indistinguishable from self-defense or peace-through-strength. As if they can all be neatly filed away as “political reasons.”

After Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the United States did not proceed to conquer the world, though it could have with a four-year monopoly on nuclear weapons. It used it geostrategic leverage to rebuild Europe and Japan, establish the United Nations — which, believe it or not, was once a righteous and laudable organization — and strive for peace. Had the Nazis or Imperial Japan developed nuclear weapons first, no sane person believes they would have pursued the same strategy.

I should not unfairly single out Mr. Boag, as his perspective is plagiarized from an intellectually and historically illiterate world view that has been building up steam for 30 years. It is a view that dispenses with the indispensable distinction between good and evil. It is not moral seriousness. It is relativism, and it is contemptible. This mass amnesia about who the forces of good in the world are, and who the forces of evil are, is a serious problem. That this worldview has captured the CBC and so many North American campuses is not surprising, but it is a genuine cause for concern. The West has ceded too much of, and must reclaim, the moral high ground.

[Rod D. Martin @RodDMartin]

Well that was quick. Crown Royal is pulling bottling out of Ontario. Stellantis is shutting down a car factory in Brampton and moving it to Illinois. Ford is considering moving tens of thousands of jobs from Canada to the U.S.

Maybe Mark Carney and Doug Ford shouldn't have decided to hold their breath until they turned blue.

[Pierre Poilievre @PierrePoilievre]

Mark Carney was close enough to signing a deal that he had asked provinces to start putting U.S. liquor back on the shelves.

Then he walked away. From what?

We still don’t know.

He must release the deal he was about to sign. Trump has seen it. Carney has seen it.

Let Canadians see it.

[Red Squirrel 🇨🇦 🍎 @RedSquirrelFtw]

CBC called the freedom convoy a terrorist attack, and now they're trying to say 9/11 was not a terrorist attack. Make it make sense. We live in times of idiocy and insanity.

[bob @norlake01]

@MrStache9 A true Canadian stateman, God he makes Rob look good

[FBI Director Kash Patel @FBIDirectorKash]

Any agency in Canada that doesn’t publicly reject this bastardization of history, and an insult to the souls lost during our largest terrorist attack in US history will no longer have friend in this FBI… Not to mention our heroes that responded in the aftermath 🇺🇸

WE WILL NEVER FORGET 9-11

https://t.co/xTWLW9Zz0v

[Stockwell Day @Stockwell_Day]

Dear Prime Minister Carney, you brought a law into Canada, (Bill C-9) which allows preachers to be arrested for hateful language. This man is expressing his Muslim values. He is accusing Jews of rape and eating babies. Does this not qualify him to be arrested?

[Doug Boswell @BoswellDoug]

The Canadian Coast Guard will be procuring six new program icebreakers to replace its current ageing fleet of icebreakers.

The announcement was made on August 2,2019 by Canada’s Minister for Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard, Jonathan Wilkinson.

If the Trudeau government committed to this 7 years ago, why is Carney announcing it now for Quebec to build them during a Quebec byelection.

Were the ice breaker ever built and if not, why? Where did the billions allotted to the project go?