It’s a good thing to have control of your border and it’s a good thing to break up and deport criminal gangs. As always, his methods are moronic.

yeh, I should have added that disclaimer, lol.

Smart thinking. All the best in your new life. Germany and europe should be booming for the next few years so hope you can take advantage. Cheers

I hope there’s some security guarentees in the details.
I don’t care about him getting a win. With this aggressive approach he’s going to do a lot of good things. There’s no doubt some of what he’s striving for is a valid target but his methods won’t make it a net positive.

Where are you heading, if I may ask. Is this something you’ve been thinking about for a while or just with recent developments? I’m very disappointed that Canada didn’t immediately start publicly inviting STEM people north and spending lots to create openings and programs.

That covers some Chinese departures over a period prior to trumps policies but there are a lot more nationalities to cover and more recently I would expect the number to increase substantially. Thanks for the info though. I’m sure there’s more movement to come.

Are they though? I haven’t seen many stories about it but would entirely expect this to be the case. Especially because many are suddenly unemployed.

If the choice is having them help your “enemy” or subjecting them to personal trauma, which do you think they’ll choose?

Are immigrants forced to update the vaccine status before being allowed to become a permanent resident or even be in the country? What do we do for travelers? Is it fair to even ask that someone take these things before being allowed to enter?

Just curious if anyone knows the requirement and I assume charter implications.

How long before they’re not allowed to leave?

Great bit, thanks.

This is what we call “hedging your bets”.

How’s that new mandate working out so that tool Ford can deal with trump?

I had a brief look and confirmed this is similar to our property taxes in North America. The exception being that it is tied to net worth and not just the value of the property. Overall that might mean you pay more but it depends on your wealth and the rate the canton charges. Interesting though, thanks.

I hadn’t looked closely at that. I’ll have a look, thanks.

I agree with your arguments and especially about new governments tearing up what was done under the other. This would still happen but maybe less. Bottom line is I’d vote for either when in mean getting rid of FPTP. Cheers

I agree and am not opposed to PR. I only worry about the fracturing of the electorate.

I much prefer ranked ballots to PR. IMO PR will lead to dozens of niche parties with single issue platforms that will end in coalition hell.

I wasn’t referring to our select tariffs I was referring to the orange baboon being allowed to, by Canada’s lack of response, give relief to certain industries where a tariff would hurt the U.S… If we let him pick and choose without making all his constituents feel the pinch I think we’re giving him an easy win. Now I’m not entirely against Canada doing selective retaliation against mostly red states but I question the whole approach to tariffs at all. My preference would be for Canada to add an export tax. Appease trump by saying yeh, you’re right, we’ve been totally unfair to you (or something like that), so we’re going to tax all our exports to level the playing field. Then Canada keeps the money and trump can’t raise money through this approach to trade. Now I don’t discount that he would still have tariffs and so this would be a double hit to Canadian exports, but I’m curious how this would play out.

As more and more people drift away from corporate control of our connections, I wonder when the U.S. will introduce laws to ban these user controlled environments in the name of national security.