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Current: Founding Partner, Meredith Boessenkool & Phillips Policy Advisors
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Adjunct, University of Lethbridge
Former: Alberta NDP MLA and Minister of Environment, Parks & Climate Change
Substack: https://shannonphillips.substack.com
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Also, and I can’t believe I have to say this, NPR and CBC, but annexing sovereign countries isn’t a “proposal.” Not Poland, not Iraq, not Canada - no “proposals” in any of these cases. It’s not a grant application, it’s a violation of international law and an abomination.
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This isn’t hard, so CBC needs to stop being obtuse. The Commander In Chief of the most powerful military force the human race has ever produced has threatened to annex Canada. That’s against the law. And a big effin problem. Apparently it needs to be explained to BOTH Canadians and Americans.
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It does in fact look like some folks may have been “taking notes on a criminal conspiracy…”
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You have no idea what you’re talking about and neither does that idiot Dem strategist you interviewed. None of this is a game to us. We wouldn’t rest awake while your despicable country ruled here. We would vote for separatists. Get lost and take the editor who green lit this bad piece with you.
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“Ontario Province” is exactly how anyone who has a passing familiarity with this country speaks. Completely expert opinion here.
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I agree they should come here, but I hold two opinions:
1. We should treat them like France-French people treat tourists, like when Cnd Francophones speak French & they respond in English. Straight rude should be the vibe;
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2. Nat’l Parks should be free for Cnds and let’s charge Yanks double.
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A really important addition: Manitoba got a meeting with the Secretary of the Interior. That’s an excellent development.
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…and what happens to Poilievre - in caucus, among candidates, and in his relationship with his accessible voter pool - when disinformation starts to rile up that flank of his party…
An interesting question a couple of chess moves from now.
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You can take that 75% among CPC supporters as lower than the overall, sure, but you can also see it as a vast majority. Also, the 25% who don’t - the question now is how does Poilievre handle them. That’s the hard-right maple MAGA base. They’re a minority in the CPC movement but they’re loud. 🧵
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Still, you can see why Poilievre has had to pivot their message and adjust to the new reality:
“Overall, Cnds (82%) are concerned that Donald Trump could use tariffs to pressure Canada…Concern is highest among Liberal (93%) & NDP (92%) voters… Conservative supporters are less worried (75%). 🧵
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Now, this won’t translate all the time - planning to increase Cnd-made products is different from actually doing it for more than a week or two. Same goes for travel plans. 🧵
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“In response to [tariff{ threats, a majority of Canadians (81%) plan to or have increased purchases of Canadian-made products, while 59% say they will or did stop buying U.S. alcohol, and 56% will or avoid traveling to the U.S.”
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And there are some Cnd Premiers that are absolute pros at patriotic comms - Eby, Kinew and Furey come to mind. Deploy them in to regional media where they can make a difference.
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A media tour is and effective use of time for strong communicators who are also patriots like Kinew, Eby and Furey, in my view.
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I think the real lesson out of this is that cross-border relationships at the state and Congressional level are really important for the provinces and the Premiers can have influence there. But all the lobbyists and consultants the conservative govts have hired aren’t delivering. They can’t.
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A low-level meeting is worse than no meeting in the GR world. We taxpayers are on the hook for big dollars to hire professionals to do this work on our behalf. We got less than nothing for our money yesterday. We paid a lot of money to fall flat on our faces
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The rando staffers they met were basically stacked kids in a trenchcoat. If that’s all they could get for all that money AB and ON spend, the Premiers should have taken a pass on the meeting and done a media tour instead.
This outcome is embarrassing. Makes us look weak. Provincial, even.
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This is now more than a decade old. When I was in govt, I would often read it once a month and, even more often, refer it to exhausted staff and colleagues. Now I go back and read it a few times a year. www.thenation.com/article/arch...
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The inimitable Carla Beck, Leader of the Saskatchewan NDP, enters the chat:
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Musk and Trump are both in the habit of stiffing people they owe money. If markets even suspect that this habit will extend to Treasuries, God help us 2/