I'm very concerned about Trump and his loyalist stooges passing intelligence from Five Eyes or NATO partners to Putin or Tyrant Bonesaw. I'm also concerned about activists in these countries (or in hiding in other countries) being ratted out by Musk, if they have not been already. I'm also concerned about our activists being ratted out.
You didn't mention the period tracking database, which is also part of intelligence. Trying to find out if women who travel to other countries are going for abortions or not. This part is ghoulish. Many parts of Project 2025 that I read in the 900-page document made me nauseous, but this made me the *most* nauseous. We are already in the Age of Forced Birth, where women are dying from laws that are prohibiting doctors to do their actual jobs to save their very lives with abortions in the US. The docs are also being spineless cowards and saying their hands are tied by these laws, and choosing their profession and ego, over saving lives.
I don't know who the period tracking person is going to be, or even how they're going to prove that a person is an abortion refugee at the border. Is CATSA going to make them take a pregnancy test? Is CSIS going to meet them at the border and demand deportation? Maybe someone at Health Canada has a domestic policy for this going forward?
Project 2025 is 900 pages of ridiculous Conservative fantasies, but I'm really hoping that the Canadian government has a domestic or foriegn policy in their back pocket for each and everyone.
Thank you as usual for the informed commentary. I’m surprised that I see little questioning the emphasis on China (letting South Korea fend for itself) while Russia is curiously awol in this discussion. I find I always wonder : is it because trump is now more than ever Putin’s puppet? In other words does America become like a mere Soviet satellite like Ukraine would become, owing allegiance to Putin while joining the opposition to China..? Pardon me if I’m creeped out but lately there’s nothing in the medicine cabinet to make the nasties go away.
It's ok to be creeped out, fascism is creepy unto itself. I'm not sure that America is going to be a Soviet satellite when it's still considered a "Great Power". The US still needs to be diplomatic with China, even if Trump decides to tariff everything the US imports from there. I can't even believe he's going to tariff stuff from here, which is their biggest trading partner. Someone is going to make millions off importing ketchup chips and poutine.
After Inauguration Day, the President’s Daily Brief will become the thinnest, quickest read in Washington. No more briefing up, nor sharesies with allies. Dangerous times ahead.
As Lord Palmerston has stated "Therefore I say that it is a narrow policy to suppose that this country or that is to be marked out as the eternal ally or the perpetual enemy of England. We have no eternal allies, and we have no perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and perpetual, and those interests it is our duty to follow". That is America today my friends. Canada, and many other NATO members, have been content to let the US do the heavy lifting when it comes to military spending and troop deployments. Even President Obama commented on our continued refusals to meet our requirements. I would ask Mr Wark to explain what exactly is our strategic interest in Eastern Ukraine? How many Canadians do you think even know where the Donbas is? Of course, diaspora politics play a role in our actions (remember the standing ovation Mr Hunka received). I, for one, recall when our country was not satisfied to simply be a hewer of wood and drawer of water for our neighbours to the south. Perhaps a little economic independence would not be such a bad thing.
I'm very concerned about Trump and his loyalist stooges passing intelligence from Five Eyes or NATO partners to Putin or Tyrant Bonesaw. I'm also concerned about activists in these countries (or in hiding in other countries) being ratted out by Musk, if they have not been already. I'm also concerned about our activists being ratted out.
You didn't mention the period tracking database, which is also part of intelligence. Trying to find out if women who travel to other countries are going for abortions or not. This part is ghoulish. Many parts of Project 2025 that I read in the 900-page document made me nauseous, but this made me the *most* nauseous. We are already in the Age of Forced Birth, where women are dying from laws that are prohibiting doctors to do their actual jobs to save their very lives with abortions in the US. The docs are also being spineless cowards and saying their hands are tied by these laws, and choosing their profession and ego, over saving lives.
I don't know who the period tracking person is going to be, or even how they're going to prove that a person is an abortion refugee at the border. Is CATSA going to make them take a pregnancy test? Is CSIS going to meet them at the border and demand deportation? Maybe someone at Health Canada has a domestic policy for this going forward?
Project 2025 is 900 pages of ridiculous Conservative fantasies, but I'm really hoping that the Canadian government has a domestic or foriegn policy in their back pocket for each and everyone.
Thank you as usual for the informed commentary. I’m surprised that I see little questioning the emphasis on China (letting South Korea fend for itself) while Russia is curiously awol in this discussion. I find I always wonder : is it because trump is now more than ever Putin’s puppet? In other words does America become like a mere Soviet satellite like Ukraine would become, owing allegiance to Putin while joining the opposition to China..? Pardon me if I’m creeped out but lately there’s nothing in the medicine cabinet to make the nasties go away.
It's ok to be creeped out, fascism is creepy unto itself. I'm not sure that America is going to be a Soviet satellite when it's still considered a "Great Power". The US still needs to be diplomatic with China, even if Trump decides to tariff everything the US imports from there. I can't even believe he's going to tariff stuff from here, which is their biggest trading partner. Someone is going to make millions off importing ketchup chips and poutine.
The USA govt/bureaucracy has become politicized, anti-Trump, anti-Republican, and should be made neutral, dealing only with facts.
After Inauguration Day, the President’s Daily Brief will become the thinnest, quickest read in Washington. No more briefing up, nor sharesies with allies. Dangerous times ahead.
Who appointed comey and Mueller? Busted Cuban spies Clintons and obamas.
As Lord Palmerston has stated "Therefore I say that it is a narrow policy to suppose that this country or that is to be marked out as the eternal ally or the perpetual enemy of England. We have no eternal allies, and we have no perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and perpetual, and those interests it is our duty to follow". That is America today my friends. Canada, and many other NATO members, have been content to let the US do the heavy lifting when it comes to military spending and troop deployments. Even President Obama commented on our continued refusals to meet our requirements. I would ask Mr Wark to explain what exactly is our strategic interest in Eastern Ukraine? How many Canadians do you think even know where the Donbas is? Of course, diaspora politics play a role in our actions (remember the standing ovation Mr Hunka received). I, for one, recall when our country was not satisfied to simply be a hewer of wood and drawer of water for our neighbours to the south. Perhaps a little economic independence would not be such a bad thing.