andrewwinstanley.bsky.social
🇨🇦🇯🇲🇲🇽, B.A., LL.B. (Dalhousie), LL.M. (Harvard). Living in Vancouver, B.C. (au Pays de Voyageurs). Long in the tooth but still capable of scepticism and wonder, except when watching “footie”
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I’m all for not poking the pig, but here the pig is doing the poking
Mass timber, not softwood lumber
Potash from Russia would have to run the Baltic Sea gauntlet of NATO sanctions, like their ghost fleet of oil tankers presently
Note I’m concerned about 🇨🇦 being forced to export items 🇺🇸 lacks.
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In a world where 340 million people claim a right to bully 7 billion 860 million people, it’s time for a new international order.
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IMO, a new free trade agreement must protect areas where we are strongest (freshwater, primary aluminum, potash, mass timber, hydro and wind power, critical minerals and rare earths) by offering up “victories” in areas we cannot defend (assembly of ICE vehicles for US companies and steel exports).
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Trump’s subsequent backsliding on his trade “agreement”/“deal”/“back of envelope” agreement to agree with the UK, his country’s 8th largest trading partner and with which it had no trade deficit, proves your point. Like pinning jelly to a wall.
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An summary of where 🇨🇦 finds itself in trade talks with 🇺🇸. Of particular note, its conclusions on the non-futures of our steel industry and US-owned auto industry, plus the insistence that we join them in their battle with China over critical minerals. This is not about some puny tax on Big Tech!
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The level of support for Independence in Québec has fluctuated over the years, but has rarely fallen below 35%. Support for secession of 18% in a rural Alberta riding said to be a hotbed of anti-Canada sentiment is simply laughable, no matter how hard Premier Smith wants to pretend the opposite.
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Not only is the CPP Investment Board menacing our children’s future with their fossil fuel investments, but they are actually earning a lower rate of return on their total investment fund than is their QPP counterpart, la Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec, taking the opposite approach.
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If it’s not the imposition of a digital services tax, it will be some other far-more-consequential concession, like Columbia River or Lake Superior water, hydroelectric export guarantees or first dibs on our aluminum and rare earth minerals. Our objective must be a COMPREHENSIVE free trade agreement
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Substituting Canada for the United States, here are those implications.
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I don’t think Canadians have fully absorbed the implications of Sweden and Finland joining NATO.
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Why not one penny of Canada’s $52 billion boost to its annual contribution to NATO should go to building warships, submarines, tanks and fighter jets.
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Next up, consultations with First Nations, followed by the Inuit and Métis; then, hopefully by August, unveiling of the first project of national interest…
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“If the U.S. no longer wants to lead, Canada will.”
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One of the positives of transitioning to net zero lies in its ability to bring out the best in our tinkerers, inventors, engineers and scientists.
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What PM Carney really has Canada agreeing to…
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*of Labrador’s Churchill River and Manitoba’s Nelson River [gremlins]
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What makes the author think Michael Sabia is there to reform Canada’s civil service? The man is nearly 72-years old. Does anyone seriously think he would forego a comfortable well-earned retirement to take on such a hopeless, reputation-destroying task?
He has bigger projects in mind.
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Dear Donald,
Bad Lucky, mon.
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Excellent discussion of the efforts being made by Indigenous People to advance renewable energy projects in their communities. Another reason to stabilize their wind, solar and thermal power generation facilities via inter-ties with a Trans-Canada Transmission Link.
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Descendants of the Thule People, the Inuit of Canada and Greenland remain the key to NATO’s ability to defend both Greenland and our own Arctic…even from one of the organization’s own members.
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Anything that helps Canada convey what makes it unique both home and abroad is most welcome.
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It will be nice to finally start hearing from the opposition in Alberta.
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Following in the footsteps of Newfoundland & Labrador, Cape Breton and Nova Scotia are now seeking a pivotal role in an emerging military and (green) energy alliance with Western Europe.
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I’m 100 per cent behind the idea, but it would be nice to read of some concrete solutions: for example, should the infrastructure and personnel of CBC/Radio Canada be mobilized in support of this (to my mind) more pressing task?