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My first one was Visual Source Safe.

I will never go back to it for any amount of money.

Good job… but could we work on getting those numbers up?

As a BCer I’d agree that is normally the case but there’s significantly more independence between provincial and the federal parties than exists in the US. My example? Christy Clarke, the BC Liberal party former Premier who was more deeply conservative than Doug Ford.

Yup! Also, Chinese intelligence work is insane - the chances that America could keep a kill switch out of Chinese hands is so vanishingly thin that anyone with a brain would prefer that such a kill switch didn’t exist so it couldn’t be used against the US.

I’m a Canadian-US dual citizen - the US can only exist in two forms: supermajority and dysfunction. Trump is an outcome of this binary choice because either someone can do everything they want or nothing - majority governments are a terrible outcome because the divisions of us, the populace, get subsumed by the party platform and policies that may represent just over a quarter of the population can get forced through.

When you have a minority government you need to give and take and policies end up better aligned to the public will - including priorities that the plurality party may not focus on (like the NDP’s new dental plan).

Everyone except the CPC is united in rejecting American expansionism. If we have a minority government there will be no hesitation when it comes to telling Americans to fuck off.

Canadian here - it’s unclear. Doug Ford is a slimey politician first and an everything else second… smöl PP is floundering in the polls, and had he taken the tactic of Ford (taking a strong stance against American aggression), it’s possible we could still be expecting a CPC majority government in the next election. I suspect this is Ford saying “You made your bed now sleep in it” and that he doesn’t want to tarnish his image standing by a clearly sinking ship - it may also be a setup for a national party run but I think Ford is aware that he’d struggle in such a campaign so that seems less likely.

Doesn’t seem super noteworthy. It does seem like yet another nail in smöl PP’s coffin, but nothing close to a party fracture or anything of the kind.

Archive link: http://archive.is/https://www.thestar.com/politics/provincial/insiders-say-pierre-poilievre-called-doug-ford-for-help-and-the-premier-turned-him-down/article_d969be45-5286-48b3-b582-86acf6c37836.html

This aligns exactly with what I expect is the real truth. I have doubts there’s any actual killswitch because that’d be dumb - but a constant devouring of proprietary parts is absolutely the case.

I maintain that what actually happened is an airforce general bragged to Trump about how every F35 sold means decades of political dependence and service fees that would act like a kill switch to keep our allies in line and Trump heard the words kill switch and just ran with that.

A minority government composed of LPC and NDP or BQ.

The LPC shouldn’t have unilateral control but should be required to sell their policies to the other policies.

Please fucking no - majority governments suck.

Compromise is a necessary part of the political process.

Can we knock the last three words off that title?

Person agrees with other person who says they don’t agree.

Alignment indentation like that makes my eyes bleed. Please never push an LoC further to the right than nesting would imply.

I’d say the chance is about 100% since it happened - there are plenty of locally run Canadian coffee shops that you should prefer over Timmies.

Absolutely, they’ve been trying this line from the start of the tariffs and think that they can repaint pipelines to the US as patriotic.

Please see through this bullshit and reject their narrative. Canada can be strong without needing to be a petrol state.

Come on up here Trump, say that to our faces!

I just got a box full of Yupik goodies, and I’m as happy as a clam!

Wikipedia considers them to be, but I consider that an error. Tim Horton’s is foreign owned.

Not I!