Canada 'will stand up to a bully', says Mark Carney

[jonnynny@lemm.ee]

Being an expat still comes with tax obligations to the US, no matter where you live in the world. I moved to Germany but I still have to file US taxes every year unless I renounce my US citizenship someday. That's one the most notable downsides that I can think of.

[sreudianflip@sh.itjust.works]

Yeah if you meet JT he’s just another confident politician in public and seems a bit shallow and kinda cringe, so whatever.

But everybody hates Skippy, the person. He’s a dick IRL and emptier than his résumé. The PP parade will just hold their noses and march anyway.

[nutsack@lemmy.world]

what the fuck does this even mean?

[sreudianflip@sh.itjust.works]

Isn’t that the relationship Russia had with Ukraine when Putin took over?

[voroxpete@sh.itjust.works]

OK, but we're talking about the next election, not the next ten years. And of the two examples you just offered, one of them was a case where the new leader won an election and stayed in for three more years before the other party got in.

And you used that to back up your claim that the Conservatives are guaranteed to win the next election. You see how that literally undercuts your own argument, right?

Personally, I'm not betting either way on how the next election is going to go. But that, in itself, is a drastic shift from where we were a few weeks ago when a Conservative victory was all but guaranteed. The current political reality has changed, that's a simple and unavoidable fact. Whether it has changed enough is not something that anyone can predict at this point.

[hellsbelle@sh.itjust.works]

As for dental added to healthcare, are you sure? Or was it just added for people with low-income?

Jfc. Every Canadian knows that dental care has been enacted for >18, 65+ and people with disabilities for over a year now.

Not knowing that kinda outs you as someone whose opinions mean nothing at all.

[plaidbaron@lemmy.world]

The iraq war was a rousing success.

[merc@sh.itjust.works]

Jfc. Every Canadian knows that dental care has been enacted for under 18, 65+ and people with disabilities for over a year now.

You apparently didn't. You claimed that the NDP put in policies that helped everybody.

[rottingleaf@lemmy.world]

War yes, peace no. If you know many Canadians who'd act as suicide bombers, maybe the analogy is correct.

Just - being livid about something is not the same as sacrificing your life to fight it.

People talking about savagery and brutality don't quite get, it seems, that they'll likely die very soon. But when faced with a decision. That's the point where most go to their occupations other than writing heroics in the interwebs.

There are plenty of people in the US itself calling Trump fascist etc, are they committing such acts of resistance as to force fascism out of their areas? Why would anything with Canada be much different?

In any case, I'm just getting that feel that many things in the world will be remade with pain and blood. I doubt Canada is among them.

[plaidbaron@lemmy.world]

I dont think you know anything about this country.

[gift_of_gab@lemmy.world]

Yes, and I’m showing that the action they were forced into was so small as to be essentially meaningless. So, that undermines their accomplishments, wouldn’t you say?

Not for the people who use it? You know, our poorest people?

All our lives? Again, is this dental plan open to everyone?

So just to be clear, no party has done anything ever because it didn't impact every single citizen? What the hell is this insane criterion?

This is the least Canadian response I've ever heard, where help is useless unless every person gets something. I don't care if it 'only' helped poor children, it was a massive achievement and worth doing.

[merc@sh.itjust.works]

Not for the people who use it? You know, our poorest people?

Great, you're admitting what I said. It's not available to everyone. Thanks, we're done here.

[synicalx@lemm.ee]

I don't want to be a downer, but realistically considering the impact of this Canada is probably going to have to acquiesce at least temporarily.

Trump is applying cold, calculating business logic to this; Canada needs to do business with the US to a large degree, if that becomes costly their (relatively) small economy becomes less viable without reform which they don't have time to implement.

Don't get me wrong, I'm 100% behind Canada in fighting this but realistically it's not a fight they're going to win.

[fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de]

The text is hinting at a kind of conspiracy where you deliberately cause a market to crash and then just buy everything cheaply. I don't necessarily subscribe to that theory.

The meme is saying a blanket 25% retaliatory tariff is not a good idea but targeting specific items might be beneficial. I tend to agree with this. No point applying a tariff to goods for which there is no alternative.