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Trump administration 2024-2028

brihard said:
Indeed. It’s wold what an external threat will do to catalyze action.
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After decades of ignoring polite requests and diplomacy, I suppose the next step is the threat. Embarrassing it had to come to that with an ally we used to value and rely on so heavily.
 
QV said:
After decades of ignoring polite requests and diplomacy, I suppose the next step is the threat. Embarrassing it had to come to that with an ally we used to value and rely on so heavily.
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'Decades' implies 2 or more. I don't believe this to be the case.

If you had written 'for over a decade', I believe that this would be accurate and correct.

100% agree that its a total embarrassment, goes back to Stephen Harper and him letting us go below 1% of GDP on defense spending and sadly grew worse every year from there.
 
Czech_pivo said:
'Decades' implies 2 or more. I don't believe this to be the case.

If you had written 'for over a decade', I believe that this would be accurate and correct.

100% agree that its a total embarrassment, goes back to Stephen Harper and him letting us go below 1% of GDP on defense spending and sadly grew worse every year from there.
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It goes back much further than Harper. The decade of darkness was in the 90's, for example.
 
Halifax Tar said:
Who ever Stuart Currie is seems to be onside with you, an I.

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IMHO our problem is since the 1960s we have let Canada slide into being a welfare state. And part of the correction of this means changing that. Who is the willing political party to tackle that ? For Christ sakes we just created a federal school food program, day care and dental.

I am not sure Canadians are willing to walk away from the teat they are suckling from. Our in ability in getting Canadians to care more about what they can give the country than what the country can give them is probably our eventual downfall.
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The 1952 Fiscal Federalism agreement was the beginning of this situation. And then when St Laurentian left office, a recession and the zeal of The Chief and our failure to marginalize domestic Marxism- all within 5/6 years - laid the groundwork for PET to gleefully deliver the kill shot.
 
Czech_pivo said:
Oh, your talking about the time period after the Cold War when every single country in NATO cut back defense spending, including the US?
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I'm talking about the continued degrading of the Canadian military post WWII all the way to today. Nothing is going to justify the state Canada has found itself in these past decades. It was stupid then, and remains stupid today. And now we are scrambling and the threats are growing.
 
QV said:
I'm talking about the continued degrading of the Canadian military post WWII all the way to today. Nothing is going to justify the state Canada has found itself in these past decades. It was stupid then, and remains stupid today. And now we are scrambling and the threats are growing.
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Yes and No.
There was no way that a country of our population size could continue the defence spending from WWII through the late 1950s after Korea settled down.
But, with that being said, by the 2005-2010 time period there should have been a definite shift back towards taking our responsibilities as a G7 and founding NATO member seriously. Sadly, outside of the US, we had no other role models with NATO to follow as they all were doing the same thing as us.
 
daftandbarmy said:
Meanwhile something seems to be going right, for some reason...
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Any kind of stress tends to accelerate the failure of weak players in the game. I'd expect to see depressed bottom line numbers in an employers' hiring market and improved numbers in an employees' hiring market. We currently have the latter, if all the screaming from public agencies and private enterprises is to be believed. People unwilling to remain unemployed should be snapped up and their time moved from lower-value to higher-value outputs.

And then there are all the other factors which render any speculation on single factors, including the above, into mere guesswork. It's very difficult to know why things haven't cratered to match doom-and-gloom "trade war" predictions. If a (predicted by some) post-Christmas slump doesn't happen, those predictions can pretty much be discarded.
 
Cloud Cover said:
When did Canada get responsible between 2011 and Q1 2025.
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We didn't, I was trying to say that during the years when we were dealing with the demands in Afghanistan, a complete end to end overhaul of the CAF resource/spending needs should have been done and then naturally carried forward with the 2% baseline become the floor.
 
This is madness.....and will completely kill the tourist based hospitality industry

www.theguardian.com

Tourists to US would have to reveal five years of social media activity under new Trump plan

Proposed plan would apply to tourists of all countries, including those not required to get a visa to visit the US
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All tourists to the United States would have to reveal their social media activity from the last five years, under new Trump administration plans.

Customs and Border Protection (CBP), an agency under the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), would also require any email addresses and telephone numbers visitors have used in the same period, and the names, addresses, birthdates and birthplaces of family members, including children.


The proposal was published on Tuesday in a Federal Register notice, the official publication of the US government, which is put out daily. This called the new disclosures “mandatory” for entry into the US. It would apply to people of all countries, regardless of whether they require visas or are currently permitted to complete an Electronic System for Travel Authorization (Esta) instead. That includes visitors from Britain, Australia, Germany and Japan, who are not required to get a tourist visa before visiting the US.
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You can bet the social media search will be to detect any negative Trump posts.

The US should check Putin's posts /correspondence. Bet there would be tons of super negative Trump posts.
 
It would be applicable only to ESTA applications. It's a ridiculous proposal and strikes me as impractical as well as illiberal, but it's only a proposal at present.
 
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