I haven’t heard specifics, but it entirely depends on where it is. A lot of US national parks are literally in the middle of nowhere, so if there isn’t any accessible roads to them, the entire idea is pointless. No logging company will make the trip offroad since doing so will be most costly than the logging areas they already use.

Exactly. Canada isn’t some third world country who’s ability is capped at only selling the most basic of commodities at low prices.

We’re not only in the top 10% most educated, skilled, and industrialized nations of the world, but also our financial power means that it’s impossible to compete solely on resource if third world competitors get their shit together.

Hell, we’re at the point that industrial production is only barely profitable due to the education level and power of our currency. Canada needs to keep pushing the upper side of profitable markets, which is the service industry, as we become less and less competitive in the raw commodities market year by year.

Not to mention that there’s a high chance that we’ve already hit peak oil, so that entire sector is going to dwindle over the next few decades. And even if it hasn’t, all the pushes towards non-carbon based energy means that fewer and fewer sectors are reliant on oil every year, making peak an inevitability.

It’s best to presume that anything done won’t satisfy him, but instead to give him just enough that he can claim some sort of victory and walk away from the entire issue. Just flatter him and tell him that the increased NATO spending is all because of him, despite the fact that in reality is has nothing to do with him or even the US.

Then do what’s best for the rest of NATO, presuming that the US won’t be helping, and may even hinder at inopportune times.

In other words, he’s gonna follow the DOGE playbook. No surprise when he spent so much of last year ranting about cutting everything he can in the government. All public spending gone, and in its place will be the exploitation of raw resources.

PP is oil and minerals first, everything else a distant second.

I just hope that the NDP actually starts feeling like a leftist party after this. Lately, it feels like the NDP’s been even more right wing than the centralist Liberals. Aside from the occasional policy, most of the NDP’s talking points feel either centralist or right wing than anything.

What’s the point in having two centralist parties and an extreme right party? NDP was doing its best being the hard leftist party to balance things out, and started its collapse when they tried to out Liberal the Liberals. Of course that wouldn’t work.

Hopefully this will have the NDP closely look at what it’s doing and find a new voice that resonates to those unsatisfied with what the Liberals and Conservatives stand for, rather than trying to appeal to hardcore Liberal and Conservative followers.

Be the third way, not an alternate second way.

You say the electricity growth is 8%, yet night time luminosity in China’s never actually kept up with such numbers the entire time. Not even close. This is the single most objectively reliable source for determining the affluency of a region, since you can’t hide the lights used by the average citizen at night.

And I mean, you call it all a smear campaign, but it’s a well known fact that China’s been faking its population numbers. That 1.3 billion population was entirely faked and completely impossible, not to mention that the COVID coverup is also a well known and documented phenomena. In fact, there’s strong evidence to show that not only was those numbers vastly different from reality, but the degree of which is staggering. Most studies, both internationally and within China, state that the total population in 2020 was likely under a billion, with most estimates being closer to 800 million. This is in line with the police database that was leaked around the same time.

Not only that, but the death rate wasn’t the usual single digit percentage the government has been insisting, but rather, it might be as high as 50% of the population. While there isn’t much concrete evidence for this since the level of suppression means that it’s insanely difficult to get concrete numbers, the estimates are based on the amount of cremations done during the last five years compared to past trends. And if that’s not enough, imports of common staples like table salt has gone down by 50% despite no signs of any increase of local production.

You keep insisting that everything is swell in China and that anything that says otherwise is just propaganda, but you completely ignore easily verifiable evidence of the contrary like their own publicly release stock market numbers, or their actual trade volumes reported by other nations.

China is a nation that states things first, then expects the evidence to follow what the government says. That’s why they put GDP growth targets, unlike pretty much every country in the world.

I’d like to add that you don’t have to try to eliminate a group physically to be considered a genocide. Cultural genocide is a thing as well. The act of deliberately erasing a cultural identity, or to erase cultural practices is a form of genocide.

Of course, there is leeway here, since certain things aren’t protected, like racial superiority, or cultures that promote hostility against other groups.

Considering PP’s words, he’s always seen raw resources as more important than the people of this country, regardless of their skin colour. Notice that before the election started, he pretty much never talked about jobs or public services, or living affordability, but instead the only times he didn’t attack the Liberals, he was talking about exploiting raw resources.

He sees this country as nothing more than a giant mine and oil well. Nothing else matters to him and anything not related to those two things are simply platitudes. You can tell since he barely spends any time on anything else, and it’s always so half hearted.

Just need three different news outlets to ask about the guy and when PP’ll remove him in a single press conference. When people are spending more time asking about one of his party candidates than whatever he was giving a speech about, he’ll have no choice.

I really wonder which of us is deluded by propaganda.

Putting aside the fact that I seriously doubt that 5% declared is rooted in reality, there is zero doubt that the Chinese population is drowning in debt. When it takes a half decade of work just to put a down payment for a home, and they have hundreds of millions of home units verifiably existing, and entire cities of completed homes with only a small fraction of which are being used, with evidence of such popping up all the time, saying that the population isn’t in a desperate financial situation is ludicrous.

I do agree that Asia is a low hanging fruit, but that’s mostly India and southeast Asia. China has no ability to import anything beyond base commodities and any decent scale. Just look at their stock markets and how they’re all wildly fluctuating like a gambling addict at a craps table. Not to mention that many of their greatest corporations are either going under or fleeing the country.

Foxconn of all companies have mostly moved out have set up base in India and the Philippines. Not to mention the top five construction companies are all going under with debts in the billions.

And if that’s not enough for you, what about all the refugees that are crossing over from Colombia? That the US declared last year that Chinese made up the greatest single group seeking asylum via one of the world’s most dangerous migration paths.

More surprised it took this long for lumber. We’ve been fighting to get lumber tariffs down for decades.

That said, the US is going to find everything to have to do with wood, especially for building houses, to skyrocket. Even the smaller tariff increase a few years ago added something like 10-20% to all housing projects the same year.

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I actually don’t think China will be a significant benefactor for the US imposed power vacuum. Frankly, their economy is going to shit and they just don’t have anything to fill in the bottom that’s falling out. Apparently it’s starting to look like their population is only a third of what they claimed it to be, and most of their factories are shutting down. Their ghost cities are now not even being completed as everybody’s three generations investments are becoming worth less than the dirt it was built on. Even the refugees illegally entering the US through the Mexico boarder last year were majority Chinese.

Russia as well is now a borderline third world country, and the middle east is falling apart with decades of infighting and hate, not to mention that the oil they funded everything with is becoming harder and harder to sell between the green transition and Canada entering their markets as we pull out of the US.

Amazingly, I think that the stagnating EU is going to be the greatest benefactors of this power vacuum, if for no other reason than that nobody else is in a position to take advantage. Maybe Rwanda or another African nation can fill in the gap with how some of them are modernizing at an incredible pace, but considering all the wars they are fighting, not to mention that Rwanda is participating in another genocide right now, I have little expectations there for the next decade or two. South-east Asia and India stands a far better chance of becoming major world powers in that time, but they have their own internal problems to get over before having the power and influence on a world level.

So yea, EU is likely the next world leader and potentially the sole super power as the US crumbles under the weight of a rotting orange.

Yea, while I don’t agree with a lot of things Carney is planning on doing, I have to admit that he is quite mature and actually acts like an adult when under pressure. It’s good to see a cool head to lead this country when people have such a habit at instant knee-jerk reactionary actions lately.

Well, except maybe chaos and malice.

The one good thing about this mindset is that building high density housing actually increases the value of any one specific plot of land, since the land is worth like 80% of a home’s sales price in the first place nowadays. Even a low-rise apartment will increase the number of units of a single plot of land by a dozen or more, even if each individual unit is worth a tenth of the original plot, it will still come out to an overall higher value. Hundreds of times more if you build a high rise.

So if you can convince people that if you can approve the building of a high rise in any neighborhood at the place of a handful of houses, that those who sell can get double the value of their plot all at once, we can do this.

Even when people think of housing in the insane way as an investment, there are ways to spin things so that they can be convinced it’s a good thing even for them. Either that, or we go the way of Japan and China, and the housing prices will collapse to only a quarter of what they are currently worth in less time than they can notice what’s going on and sell them.

That said, I do believe that Teslas actually contain very little if any Canadian parts, so even a flat-out ban on Tesla imports will likely do little harm to Canadian workers. And while we don’t really make much electric vehicles locally, we can import European ones which would help tighten our relations with them as a bonus.

He’s an independent, so unfortunately nothing can remove his candidacy unless if he gets arrested again.

This is why I mentioned France and UK’s nuclear umbrella. It’s effectively the power of having nuclear weapons without actually having them.

Ukraine had the unfortunate fact that they only got a promise of nonintervention rather than a security guarantee backed by arms when they gave up their nukes.

Either way, while not having nukes might not entirely prevent others from pushing harder to get nukes of their own, at the very least, I believe we shouldn’t be the ones starting this trend. It only takes one country with an itchy trigger finger to normalize using nukes in armed conflicts, which is one step away from preemptive nuclear war.

Incredible. His plan is to make us more economically dependent on our current greatest enemy, to make our military even more dependent on them.

I don’t know if this is pure unawareness, or deliberately traitorous. But considering what Daniel Smith’s been doing, the latter won’t be surprising.