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Justin Trudeau hints at boosting Canada’s military spending
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Also, look at the revenue gathered by this - 7 EURO or about 11$ CAD - not cost for those under 18 or over 70. Over 1.4 BILLION people travel yearly to the 30 EU countries will be apply to. Using easy math, lets say this affects 1 billion out of the 1.4 billion people - that brings in 7 billion EUR or 11 Billion CAD a year - that's alot of Socialism Trudeau and company can implement.Canadians do not have a 'right' to enter the US, just like Americans don't have a 'right' to enter Canada.
When you enter another Country you are in fact a 'guest' in their house and must follow their laws and customs. A person or a country can make a decision at any time to limit the guests or the numbers of guests coming into their house, its their right to do so.
The US could easily decide to do this. Look at what the Europeans within the EU have done to us and the Americans starting next year -
ETIAS
Official EU website on ETIAS, the new travel authorisation for visa-exempt travellers to enter 30 European countries. Applications should be filled in this website from mid-2025.travel-europe.europa.eu
This could easily, easily be applied here by the Americans to us.
- Say about 25,000 Federal employees added to the Federal Government employment levels
- Maybe even a 'Guarantee Basic Income of say 40k to all those living in certain urban areas with systemically high unemployment levels or large numbers of seasonal workers (East Coast and parts of Quebec)
- Expand free Dental care for even more people
- Increase the GIS to even higher levels
Man, Trudeau and company are chomping at the bit to implement something like this on the Americans.
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Im aware of an eTA, I work in immigration civvie side. They're also not visas and very different matters. eTA are shakedowns essentially, they're issued on arrival with no human checking them. Visas have to be approved one by one with an immigration officer who can refuse them at any time. I'm saying it's completely unfeasible economically for US Canada visas especially if you consider the impact on some very powerful corporations/industries.Canadians do not have a 'right' to enter the US, just like Americans don't have a 'right' to enter Canada.
When you enter another Country you are in fact a 'guest' in their house and must follow their laws and customs. A person or a country can make a decision at any time to limit the guests or the numbers of guests coming into their house, its their right to do so.
The US could easily decide to do this. Look at what the Europeans within the EU have done to us and the Americans starting next year -
ETIAS
Official EU website on ETIAS, the new travel authorisation for visa-exempt travellers to enter 30 European countries. Applications should be filled in this website from mid-2025.
This could easily, easily be applied here by the Americans to us.
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FIFY
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GK .Dundas
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There may be something to this conveying stuff after all. How often do you see both Republicans and Democrats agreeing on anything.Recorded warning administered to the defaulter in chief
Trudeau gets an earful on defence spending from nearly one-quarter of the U.S. Senate
Lawmakers from both parties tell PM to come to NATO summit with plan to meet target
He's managed to bring them together.
What a guy !
Seriously I don't care how much the Canadian government keeps telling us just how Joe Biden loves us ( and he most certainly doesn't)
If you want something from the American government you better be nice to both Houses of Congress.
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I’m surprised 1/4 of the US Senate knows where Canada is, let alone our budget.Recorded warning administered to the defaulter in chief
Trudeau gets an earful on defence spending from nearly one-quarter of the U.S. Senate
Lawmakers from both parties tell PM to come to NATO summit with plan to meet target
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Even more to the point, how did NATO grow to 32 nations and yet remain challenged to meet 1 adversary head on.
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Spine’s have been on back order for years at the QM…
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Actually the last published figures show Canada was the only outlier that didn’t have a 2% target date in the next three years.
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All the US border states (and Senators) are well aware of Canada, that covers the 1/4 stated above.
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Best line out of the entire interview - 'we are going to be continued to be slapped around' -
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There is a way for Trudeau to take this head on- "sure, I'll give you 2 and probably 3% commitment right now-- if you let us into AUKUS, I'll cut a cheque for our membership tomorrow, otherwise bugger off."
wouldn't work. Either the cheque would bounce or the recipient would find it post-dated until after the next election
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Would you trust a guy that said he was going to join your hockey team, then delayed his dues and only played in the defensive end of the rink? And refused to engage in checking and chirping? And used old skates and wooden sticks that were pre owned?
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Well, exactly. I don’t trust DND with a 2% budget either. But for him, he never does what he says, but he always says enough to dodge the issue. I don’t know if he can on this one, we’ll see. Maybe he will pull us out of NATO and pony up all of our defence cash for NORAD. No submarines, tanks and infantry battalions needed. Bailing on NATO has been a longtime ambition of the Trudeau family anyway.
Rest assured he’s not going to move the needle much on defence spending, but he will say and do whatever it takes to make it look like he is “taking bold action”, and of course blame everyone else.
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This would be the most disastrous foreign policy move in Canadian history.
Our NATO participation is intertwined within everything from trade deals with the EU, the G7, and NORAD. The U.S. would close doors Trudeau never knew were doors, and our economy and way of life would somehow be further in the shitter. NATO and our participation in it is far more than an annoying insurance policy we pay into for little perceived gain.
The fact that Canadian politicians for the last 60 years haven't been able to see the forest for the trees in this regard is a separate matter all together.
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