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🇨🇦 Citizen Keen 🇺🇦 @citizenkeen.bsky.social · 1d

It isn’t a grand strategy. It is reality.

🇨🇦 Citizen Keen 🇺🇦 @citizenkeen.bsky.social · 1d

I can’t argue with you at all on that. All we can do is hope. I do think PMMC would gain TONS of cred if he pulls off a decent deal with 🇺🇸. Then he has some major leverage to start addressing other important files.

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🇨🇦 Citizen Keen 🇺🇦 @citizenkeen.bsky.social · 1d

We also have to realize that, what, 40% of voters either don’t believe in climate change, or they concede that “something” is happening in our environment, but they don’t want to sacrifice anything or be inconvenienced while we address it.

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🇨🇦 Citizen Keen 🇺🇦 @citizenkeen.bsky.social · 1d

PMMC can’t do anything on climate in a 4 year term if he’s not elected.

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🇨🇦 Citizen Keen 🇺🇦 @citizenkeen.bsky.social · 1d

You said it much better, but that’s my point 👍.

🇨🇦 Citizen Keen 🇺🇦 @citizenkeen.bsky.social · 1d

Some con ones too.

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🇨🇦 Citizen Keen 🇺🇦 @citizenkeen.bsky.social · 1d

I agree. But the 🇺🇸 situation right now is more important. That’s undeniable.

Maybe the 🇺🇸 relationship improves within a few months and PMMC can start looking at climate more. That’s what I’m hoping.

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🇨🇦 Citizen Keen 🇺🇦 @citizenkeen.bsky.social · 1d

Exactly.

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🇨🇦 Citizen Keen 🇺🇦 @citizenkeen.bsky.social · 1d

I agree. But the 🇺🇸 situation right now is more important. He’s got his priorities straight in year one. If he’s doing nothing on climate in years 2, 3 and 4, that’s a different story.

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🇨🇦 Citizen Keen 🇺🇦 @citizenkeen.bsky.social · 1d

Sorry, but he can’t do anything about the climate if he puts it at the top of the agenda and gets the cons elected. That’s a fact. And cons would do nothing on climate in a 4 year term. Maybe they even go backward. Can you say that about PMMC after a few months? No, you can’t.

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🇨🇦 Citizen Keen 🇺🇦 @citizenkeen.bsky.social · 1d

Maple MAGA looking skyward after their king fawns over PMMC. 😂
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Joël.Arts.Paints on X: "Not that Trump’s opinion matters, but for all the MAGAs saying Carney is a bad leader, watch this video, Trump says quote “Great Prime Minister, I mean, he can represent me anytime. I will tell you, I’m not saying that because he’s, he is, very strong, very good leader, he’s a https://t.co/02iQA72wBV" / X

Not that Trump’s opinion matters, but for all the MAGAs saying Carney is a bad leader, watch this video, Trump says quote “Great Prime Minister, I mean, he can represent me anytime. I will tell you, I’m not saying that because he’s, he is, very strong, very good leader, he’s a https://t.co/02iQA72wBV

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🇨🇦 Citizen Keen 🇺🇦 @citizenkeen.bsky.social · 1d

He’s not a career politician so why did he want to get elected? He doesn’t need the job, right?

Perhaps he realizes that the current moment does not demand a full court press on climate change. I’m not saying he’s right to ignore it, but he definitely was reading the room properly.

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🇨🇦 Citizen Keen 🇺🇦 @citizenkeen.bsky.social · 1d

I bet they’re thinking “what a wonderful country” today 🙄.

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🇨🇦 Citizen Keen 🇺🇦 @citizenkeen.bsky.social · 1d

I guess we are all free to be completely disruptive, treasonous assholes without a care for the impacts on innocent citizens.

For once I agree with convoyers that law and order in 🇨🇦 ain’t what it used to be.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Freedom Convoy leaders Chris Barber, Tamara Lich given conditional sentences | CBC News

Tamara Lich and Chris Barber, two major figures of the 2022 "Freedom Convoy," have been handed conditional sentences and spared further jail time.

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🇨🇦 Citizen Keen 🇺🇦 @citizenkeen.bsky.social · 2d

They live in another world.

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🇨🇦 Citizen Keen 🇺🇦 @citizenkeen.bsky.social · 2d

Apparently this pipeline is the key to Indigenous prosperity 🙄. This woman will say anything.

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🇨🇦 Citizen Keen 🇺🇦 @citizenkeen.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah, THIS is why she wants a pipeline 🙄

“This wealth would equate to hundreds of billions in govt revenue that could be used to support core social programs such as health care and education, bolster 🇨🇦 national security commitments under NATO and unlock economic prosperity for Indigenous Peoples.”

🇨🇦 Citizen Keen 🇺🇦 @citizenkeen.bsky.social · 2d

financialpost.com/commodities/...

Danielle Smith: You can't build Canada without a pipeline

Canada has an opportunity to become an energy superpower, but needs regulatory reform to get there, writes Danielle Smith. Read more.

financialpost.com

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🇨🇦 Citizen Keen 🇺🇦 @citizenkeen.bsky.social · 2d

financialpost.com/commodities/...

Danielle Smith: You can't build Canada without a pipeline

Canada has an opportunity to become an energy superpower, but needs regulatory reform to get there, writes Danielle Smith. Read more.

financialpost.com

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🇨🇦 Citizen Keen 🇺🇦 @citizenkeen.bsky.social · 2d

For anti-vaxxers and science haters, yes.

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🇨🇦 Citizen Keen 🇺🇦 @citizenkeen.bsky.social · 2d

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🇨🇦 Citizen Keen 🇺🇦 @citizenkeen.bsky.social · 2d

Oh come on now, this is when PP’s Calgary high school debate club skills would come to the fore! He’s been waiting 20 years to unleash his international trade acumen!

Imagine the slogan blitz he’d unload on those poor 🇺🇸 saps.

David Hamer @davidhamer1951.bsky.social · 2d

Petulant piffleswipe Pierre Poilievre proves what a patriot he is [not], stabbing 🇨🇦Canada’s elected Prime Minister in the back on the eve of exquisitely delicate negotiations with the neofascist dictator to the south.
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'No more losing,' Poilievre tells Carney in scathing letter ahead of PM's face-to-face with Trump | CBC News

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has penned a scathing letter to the prime minister ahead of his meeting with the U.S. president on Tuesday, saying Mark Carney has been a disappointment on the tra...

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🇨🇦 Citizen Keen 🇺🇦 @citizenkeen.bsky.social · 2d

It is tough for many in 🇺🇸 who have been brainwashed to believe that they live in the best country in the world. That’s why they dismiss our health care by rambling on about our high taxes, which they know nothing about. And they somehow think we are less free, when, clearly, the opposite is true 🙄.

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🇨🇦 Citizen Keen 🇺🇦 @citizenkeen.bsky.social · 2d

It really is.

That story infuriates me. They were warned, but they fell for the conservative free market babble. So caught up in ideology that they couldn’t see their undoing coming. The “free market” is great until it eats you alive.

And now they want the govt to step in and do some socialism🙄.

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🇨🇦 Citizen Keen 🇺🇦 @citizenkeen.bsky.social · 2d

For sure. I’d argue that our system would be better off directing people to health care options that don’t necessarily require a doctor (at least right away).

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🇨🇦 Citizen Keen 🇺🇦 @citizenkeen.bsky.social · 2d

🇨🇦 appears at or near the top of countless country rankings, while 🇺🇸 does not.

I have a bird’s eye view into 🇺🇸 and it astounds me that they live next door to us, yet tolerate their deep societal flaws. But of course they know so little about us, and what they do think they know is often hogwash.

The Opinionated Retiree and Nasty Part Owner of Canada 🇨🇦 @opinionatedretiree.bsky.social · 2d

Many Americans are clueless about Canada and what our taxes pay for. They've had it drilled into their heads that we pay a lot, and get nothing in return for it. It's up to us Canadians to set the record straight...which you're doing. Let's keep educating Americans about their Canadian neighbours.

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