I’ve only watched the first 30 seconds or so (short on time, but will watch the rest later), but they said they want to refute what most Americans believe: that we want to join the US. But… do most Americans actually think we want to do that? I haven’t really heard of Americans generally holding that belief.
Some do.
My YouTube feed has basically exploded with this, and most of what I watch there these days are medieval history, cruise videos, and an American guy named Tyler who does reaction videos to do with Canadian culture, history, news/politics, and stupid internet memes. But suddenly I'm getting a whack of news clips and some channel called The Meidas Touch (or something like that) that has Americans talking about what Trump said to Justin, and that they think it's awful.
The Americans who think we should become a state tend to turn up in the comments. The flip side is that there are other Americans who are cheering us on.
Charlie Angus has become a hero to some of these Americans, for what he said about Trump:
(sorry if any ads turn up; just fast forward past them, because Charlie Angus' speech is EXCELLENT - I don't think even Jack Layton could have said it better.)
What a disaster. My understanding is Trudeau told her he wanted to move her out of Finance, and offered her another cabinet position instead. (I haven’t heard what the other position might have been.) So instead she resigned from cabinet altogether.
I know I’ve said it before, but Trudeau needs to resign now. Freeland basically got us through Trump round 1, and honestly I’d rather have her in charge than Trudeau anyway.
Freeland doesn't go off on irrelevant emotional tangents, and she doesn't have a record of diplomatic faux pas that Trudeau does. Trudeau needs to take that long walk in the snow - Ottawa must have some by now. He should have resigned a year ago.
Unfortunately that’s not going to happen, they’re looking at the polls and only see Poilievre as their ticket into power. And all of us will pay the price when the inevitable happens.
And the bat-shit crazy sociopath we have running Alberta just can't wait to scamper down to Washington for the inauguration, hoping for a pat on the head from Trump. She's not backing the other premiers. It's a bizarre day in Canada when Doug Ford looks like a statesman and our own premier yaps on that of course Alberta will send the U.S. anything they want in terms of power and resources.
shades of jane philpot but she was offered indigenous affairs where should have done something important (dismantle the Indian Act was mentioned in the media at the time).
only person who doesn't think that trudeau should go it is trudeau.
In both Australia and the U.K the partiess have mechanisms to get rid of unpopular leader and we need something like that hear.
On Global News tonight, they speculated on what the trudeau's actions would be with one option is to resign but prorogue parliament on his way out the door to return once the new leader and thus P.m has been chosen.
I don't know if a new leader would save the govt but it could put a big dent on poiliervre's chance for a massive majority (known in some parts as saving the furniture).
Ah, yes. The Jody and Jane Show that the right-wingers are still ranting about, as though they actually give a damn about how women Liberals are treated. Those two did their best to undermine Trudeau, and he gave them chance after chance after chance - many more chances than he'd have given anyone else.
With shenanigans like that, it doesn't matter what party it is - when you're a party leader and two of your more prominent cabinet ministers shoot their mouths off and try to undermine you, you kick them out of cabinet. I would expect that of any leader, no matter what party it was.
If Jody and Jane had been men, the Reformacons wouldn't have said a word. They just wanted to throw Trudeau's gender-balanced, "because it's 2015" cabinet in his face.
Proroguing Parliament is a legal move, but it opens the Liberals up to accusations of hypocrisy, given how they (rightfully) raked Harper over the coals for that. I wonder if Mary Simon would go for it. I lost all respect for Michaelle Jean when she let Harper get away with that BS. She should have said no.
But then Mary Simon got a cushy job out of this even though she doesn't have one of the main qualifications for it (she still can't speak French, from what I've heard). She might go along with proroguing for that reason.
Question: What does "saving the furniture" mean?
I've come across a few in my time online. I wouldn't say it's too widespread, but it does exist, and it comes down to a lack of respect in us having our own distinct culture, and in thinking we need saving. It became a prevalent sentiment during the blockade in Ottawa a few years ago.
If you want to feel like throwing up your supper, go read some of Danielle Smith's stuff on her FB page. Between her and her sycophants, Alberta is infested with right-wing separatists and American wannabes.
It's so frustrating to be accused of being like them just because I was born, raised, and still live in Alberta. I've never voted right-wing in my life.
