The US stock market is shitting the bed, there is not a whole lot of business confidence being built there.

That said, Canadians are over invested in US equities and a reliable way to keep the pressure up is for Canadians to swap their retirement portfolios out of the US market.

No need to install puppet leaders when Canadians massively voluntarily consume American media.

Just got it an hour or so ago.

Can someone explain the con?

“Canada’s liability would be no greater than US$346.7 million” – the difference between what it had already contributed and what was remaining of the original US$551 million commitment.

Since the analysis was produced, the Liberal government has paid another US$33 million.

Considering that there are Canadian companies that have contracts related to the f35 and they would almost certainly be cancelled or not renewed, running down the clock isn't a terrible idea. The $300+m is already a sunk cost.

Canada has hummed and hawwed about electoral reform for decades. It just hasn't been worth the required political capital to make it happen for any of the leaders.

This could be key to finally getting it done.

If your only goal was to win, why would you want to be handcuffed by the responsibility?

Increasing domestic drone and munition (mortar shells, AT mines, grenades) production would be valuable too.

"Education" doesn't really feel like a solution to things that people often lean into cognitive dissonance on.

Everybody has the opportunity to know how reprehensible the conditions the meat that ends up in supermarkets (and probably your local market too) is but very few people are willing to change their diets. Many people talk about caring about 'loving animals' but when it comes down to making changes, the head just usually goes into the sand.

Kurzgesagt did a good video recently on what the cost to improve animal welfare for things that end up on peoples plates would be but the truth is the only reason why we know what those numbers are is because some places have banned certain practices. The only way to realize those benefits is through legal changes, not 3% of people paying 3 times as much for fancy free range eggs.

That said, I'm also generally against banning things, I just don't know how you make that sort of thing less attractive- a Twitter Tax?

Ironic that we'll likely have tariffs on the US for longer than they'll have them on us.

I can't believe I've been baited into supporting tariffs but I agree with the current course of action. No flip flopping, no accepting 'pauses'.

The resentment I've built up towards America is substantial enough that tariffs or not I'll be actively avoiding and bad-mouthing American products and businesses for a long time.

I'm still buying US produce when they hit the clearance shelf but I've put back far more items than I've purchased.

By switching at renewal.

I'm assuming you went through a broker?

"The Resistance" needs to move off of Twitter and onto Telegram or some other messenger that doesn't have a massive backdoor to the Feds.