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Trump administration 2024-2028

HavokFour said:
Having a bigger ballroom is a matter of national security now.
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It always was. The WH and its property is easier to secure than a hotel or convention centre, and they're unsatisfied with using tents on the property.
 
brihard said:
I’ll be curious to know what the legal reasoning is to assert that courts in Florida have jurisdiction on the matter.
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We do the same. There has to be a real and substantial connection. In this case the plaintiff resides in Florida, claims he suffered financial, reputational and material damages in Florida, the BBC is carried on Florida networks and is accessible on the internet from Florida, Trump did not enter UK jurisdiction at any time during the activities complained of. More generally the civil US Courts in Florida (like courts in Ontario) often assert jurisdiction over matters regardless of where the parties might reside as long as there is a real and substantial connection and prima facie, there appears to be just that. Second, no court in the world other than a US court has jurisdiction over the domestic activities of the head of state of another country. In the same regard, no court other than a Canadian court has jurisdiction over the office of the executive branch of Canada.

On the other hand, it is a very high bar to argue another alternative forum is available: Forum Non Conveniens – When Our Courts Pass The Buck - Kornfeld LLP

Courts usually do not like to pass the buck, especially to a jurisdiction of foreign law that might disfavour the plaintiff.
 
Mills Bomb said:
Meanwhile, in Canada, politicians won't even touch restoring 24 Sussex Dr for fear of the optics.
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Honestly, I think Pierre did the right thing by offering to Trudeau to agree to hear about tearing the place down and rebuilding it with a reasonable budget appropriate for a Prime Ministers home station. No idea why that did not proceed other than costs and fear of public backlash. The security costs for constructing such a building - in effect a facility - would be both enormous and necessary. Perhaps 24 Sussex property and area is no longer an appropriate or secure location???
Carney needs to open that line of discussion, it’s a relatively easy one. (Expensive but it has to be done). Likely a $500,000,000 project.
 
Cloud Cover said:
Honestly, I think Pierre did the right thing by offering to Trudeau to agree to hear about tearing the place down and rebuilding it with a reasonable budget appropriate for a Prime Ministers home station. No idea why that did not proceed other than costs and fear of public backlash. The security costs for constructing such a building - in effect a facility - would be both enormous and necessary. Perhaps 24 Sussex property and area is no longer an appropriate or secure location???
Carney needs to open that line of discussion, it’s a relatively easy one. (Expensive but it has to be done). Likely a $500,000,000 project.
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I've always maintained that the leader of the opposition should be in charge of 24 Sussex.

They want to live there eventually so they want it to be maintained, and if they have the PM living in a run down shack it looks bad on them
 
A lengthy article on how the FBI’s counterintelligence branch was rebuilt post 9/11 but is now being redirected to immigration and street crime by Kash Patel. The same guy to got FBI tactical teams to provide bodyguard services (which they’re not trained for) to his girlfriend.

www.thebulwark.com

The FBI Spent a Generation Relearning How to Catch Spies. Then Came Kash Patel.

As China’s spies grow more aggressive, the FBI is distracted and off-balance.
www.thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com
 
RangerRay said:
A lengthy article on how the FBI’s counterintelligence branch was rebuilt post 9/11 but is now being redirected to immigration and street crime by Kash Patel. The same guy to got FBI tactical teams to provide bodyguard services (which they’re not trained for) to his girlfriend.

www.thebulwark.com

The FBI Spent a Generation Relearning How to Catch Spies. Then Came Kash Patel.

As China’s spies grow more aggressive, the FBI is distracted and off-balance.
www.thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com
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What possibly could go wrong?
 
HavokFour said:
A quick about face.

apnews.com

Coast Guard reverses course on policy to call swastikas and nooses 'potentially divisive'

The U.S. Coast Guard has released a new, firmer policy addressing the display of hate symbols like swastikas and nooses just hours after it was publicly revealed that it made plans to describe them as “potentially divisive” — a term that prompted outcry from lawmakers and advocates.
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And now it's a full 360, wow.

Coast Guard enacts policy calling swastikas, nooses ‘potentially divisive’​

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U.S. lists demands Canada must meet to extend CUSMA, and dairy will be a non starter.

www.ctvnews.ca

U.S. lists demands Canada must meet to extend CUSMA

U.S. trade officials are signalling that Canada will need to make policy changes if it wants long-term certainty under the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA) when the pact comes up for mandatory review next year.
www.ctvnews.ca www.ctvnews.ca
 
MilEME09 said:
U.S. lists demands Canada must meet to extend CUSMA, and dairy will be a non starter.

www.ctvnews.ca

U.S. lists demands Canada must meet to extend CUSMA

U.S. trade officials are signalling that Canada will need to make policy changes if it wants long-term certainty under the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA) when the pact comes up for mandatory review next year.
www.ctvnews.ca www.ctvnews.ca
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I’m actually ok with some of those, especially the dairy and streaming and online news regulations. I wasn’t a fan before Trump and my mind hasn’t changed.

As for the booze…m’eh. Just because it’s stocked doesn’t mean it will be bought. I never bought much of their swill beforehand anyways. Not really a fan of mandating the provinces to stock a foreign import in their Crown stores.
 
RangerRay said:
I’m actually ok with some of those, especially the dairy and streaming and online news regulations. I wasn’t a fan before Trump and my mind hasn’t changed.

As for the booze…m’eh. Just because it’s stocked doesn’t mean it will be bought. I never bought much of their swill beforehand anyways. Not really a fan of mandating the provinces to stock a foreign import in their Crown stores.
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Some of the online regulations I agree with, I think they could be tweaked. Outside of dairy though, this is the Trump administration really trying to bend domestic policy alot in canada
 
MilEME09 said:
Some of the online regulations I agree with, I think they could be tweaked. Outside of dairy though, this is the Trump administration really trying to bend domestic policy alot in canada
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Most likely. I was just saying that for some of the arm bending, we could have a rubber arm. 😉
 
MilEME09 said:
If Washington is going to demand more in our dairy, then I'd hit back with a simple caveat, all dairy must meet or exceed our food safety standards to be imported. That would automatically eliminate 80% of US dairy any way.
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Considering that the USA already does not use their full allotment of dairy exports allowed under CUSMA, Canadian food regulations are going to be the target of any negotiation.
 
Altair said:
Considering that the USA already does not use their full allotment of dairy exports allowed under CUSMA, Canadian food regulations are going to be the target of any negotiation.
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so then where do we hit back? imo softwood lumber is a lost cause, they will just break that deal within 12 months
 
MilEME09 said:
so then where do we hit back? imo softwood lumber is a lost cause, they will just break that deal within 12 months
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CUSMA/USMCA/T-MEC have been passed by the legislatures of all 3 countries.

USMCA is an act of Congress.

The US president cannot leave USMCA without passing a bill through Congress to make it no longer the law of the land.

I believe that requires 60 senators.

And while CUSMA/USMCA/T-Mec is up for negotiations in 2026, the actual expiry date is 2036. If no deal is struck, it leads to yearly renegotiations until 2036 or a new deal is struck, whichever comes first.

Wait.

Him.

Out.
 
HavokFour said:
So the $1776 bonus is really just a bit of creative accounting.

Trump will use military housing money for $1,776 Pentagon bonuses​

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www.defenseone.com

Trump rebrands Congressionally-approved troop housing subsidy as ‘warrior dividend’ bonus

More than $2.9 billion in reconciliation funds was allocated to beef up troop housing allowances. Now it’s being used for $1,776 checks.
www.defenseone.com www.defenseone.com
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Yellow warning lights....

“A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.”

Gerald R. Ford
Address to a Joint Session of Congress
August 12, 1974
 
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