JFC, people...just rake the bloody forests already. Problem solved. /s

Kowalski, analysis!!

JFC. I can't believe there are still folks out there that fall for this crap.

This is so stupid. Since when does US foreign policy overrule the 1st amendment? The government is literally penalizing this man over his speech.

Honestly, though...what is there to talk about? Trump's rationale for doing all this makes no logical sense. What good is it to negotiate with an idiot that doesn't even understand basic economics?

Just slap more tariffs on him and wait for him to either grow the fuck up, or back the fuck down. Either way, a "conversation" is not required.

Well, serves them right for getting married, then. /s

I know for a fact that BC is not going to allow this to happen. The BC Conservatives (Social Credit) did this back in the 80's, and the result was a bunch of American companies strip mining and clear cutting their way through the province. It created a lot of temporary employment and even started up a bunch of small towns...but once those companies had taken what they wanted, they all fucked off back to the US and took all the extracted wealth with them, leaving folks without work, and a ton of environmental damage to clean up.

Needless to say, the BC Conservatives have never gained another majority since then.

Oh, man...you almost had me. I got at least two paragraphs in before I thought, "this can't be true...can it?" Checked the header...oh, thank God.

PP: "I am nothing like Trump."

Also PP: runs on the exact same policies, word for word.

Every time I listen to Poilievre talk about "deregulating resource extraction"...all it reminds me of, is how back in the 80's, Conservatives in BC allowed the province to be strip mined and clear cut by US companies, who shipped all those resources south of the border for refinement...then sold it all back to us at a premium.

The government got their cut off the top, and didn't have to spend a dime...but Canada lost a ton of wealth, and not one long term job was produced.

It's short-sighted and wasteful policies like that, that basically ended the Conservative party in BC. Let's not repeat their mistakes on a National scale, please.

That's not "lifesize". That's more like "half-size".

Well, that escalated quickly.