Ten years ago Justin Trudeau pledged to resolve indigenous boil water advisories within 5 years. There are currently 33 unresolved boil water advisories still in place and new ones being implemented. It is time to resolve this national embarrassment. There are three major issues restricting resolution to these decades old problems, bureaucracy, geography, infrastructure and…
With the U.S. nuclear umbrella that the western democracies have relied on for the past 80 years becoming less reliable by the day, and Russia’s threats not by any degree decreasing, the remaining European nuclear powers of France and Great Britain have begun to assert their intention to use their resources to build a nuclear…
The problem with Trump is that he has a view of the world that is common to many Americans. He thinks that only the U.S. actually exists and that all other countries aren’t actually real. There is no European history since 1776, etc. I met a lady in Branson Missouri who had no idea where…
The pundits and talking heads in Canada are all saying that we will soon have an election. Considering that for months now Canada has been a ship on stormy seas with a drunk captain and sea sick crew, putting an actual government in place cannot happen soon enough. But considering the current political climate, this…
CANADA SHOULD OFFER TRUMP A GRAND DEFENCE AND ECONOMIC BARGAIN? My answer to this is a resounding ‘NOT A CHANCE’ You don’t deal with a bully by trying to appease him. The result will be two-fold, he will take advantage and let you appease him, and then, when he has what he wants, he will…
Recently I’ve heard several American commentators on news programs or on-line, state that “Obviously Canada relies on the U.S. far more than the U.S. Relies on Canada and therefore Canada will suffer much more from Trump’s tariffs than the U.S. will. Trump has stated multiple times that the U.S. doesn’t need anything from Canada. But…
On Thursday. February 27th, 2025, during a presser with Donald Trump, one member of the British press pack asked PM Keir Starmer whether he had raised Trump’s “repeated statements of desire to annex Canada” during their meeting. Starmer made the unintelligible and Trump ‘suck up’ comment shown here. I have noted his response for clarity…
The Times: US Urges UK To Reduce Its Dependence On American Weapons We’ve been trying to tell people to readjust. The old confidence is gone,” The Times writes, citing American officials. It is reported that the US administration might impose restrictions on the supply of equipment from the US because (so that) “missiles and planes won’t…
Many on the left, particularly in Canada have taken to portraying Pierre Poilievre, Canada’s Conservative party leader to Donald Trump, an American ultra-conservative, want-to-be dictator. This essay is meant to point out the obvious inaccuracy of this portrayal. I will look at the background of the two men, the policies that they propose, and their…
In the event that a long-awaited election should result in the hoped for Conservative majority, I propose the following: THE – ISSUES Conservatives will have to address the empty bank account that is always a remnant of Liberal governments The Trump Factor – Tariffs or not, Canada must address an adversarial or at least unreliable…