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Richard Robertson: Carney’s Palestine recognition a foreign policy blunder

Last week, Prime Minister Mark Carney announced that Canada intends to recognize a Palestinian state in September. This would be a dangerous, highly premature decision — and a foreign policy blunder that could embarrass Canada while compounding the crisis in the Middle East instead of bringing Israelis and Palestinians anywhere closer to a lasting peace.

If it means winning the Muslim-Left vote bloc then Carney is happy.

Canada’s reputation was destroyed under Trudeau’s reign.

There are no eggs left to break so Carney may as well go along to get along with whoever he might strike a deal with.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Palestinian state

Anti-Palestinian racism report calls for Canada to recognize May 15 as Nakba Day

A new report from the Islamophobia Research Hub at York University calls on governments across Canada to increase oversight on how universities, schools, police forces and Parliament deal with the recent spike in instances of anti-Arab and anti-Palestinian racism.

The report also calls on all levels of government in Canada to officially recognize May 15 as Nakba Day. Palestinians mark the day after Israel declared independence in 1948 as the beginning of the destruction of their homeland.

NO.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Canada, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Mark Carney has a golden opportunity to redefine Canadian identity and defence

What do the two words “national defence” really mean in Canada? What are our core values and vital interests today, and how can we invest responsibly in their promotion and protection going forward? These are core questions for all Canadians to debate. They speak to the security we must now strengthen at home, and the sacrifices that will be required to support these efforts. Canada needs a modernized strategic culture that reflects a renewed understanding of and approach to security and defence, and is firmly grounded in active public debate and clear national priorities.

I don’t think the defence of Canada is feasible without the US.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces", Canada, USA

The Canadian drone industry is spinning up — with lessons from Ukraine

It’s been 24 years since what is widely considered the first lethal drone strike: a Predator UAV attack on an al-Qaeda vehicle convoy in Afghanistan just nine weeks after the Sept. 11 attacks.

The strike killed Mohammed Atef, son-in-law of Osama bin Laden and head of the group’s military operations, and made clear to all that 21st century warfare was going to see a large role for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).

Large, expensive fixed-wing drones such as the Predator and Reaper still have their place. Canada has ordered a fleet of similar drones expected to be up and running in 2033.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces", Canada

Supreme Court of Canada weighs appeal application from Muslim convicted in Via Rail terror case

OTTAWA — The Supreme Court of Canada is set to decide Thursday whether to hear the appeal of Raed Jaser, who was convicted of planning to commit murder for the benefit of a terrorist group.

It’s the latest chapter in a long-running legal saga that began 12 years ago with charges against Jaser and Chiheb Esseghaier for plotting attacks, including the planned sabotage of a Via Rail passenger train.

The Crown alleged that Jaser and Esseghaier had agreed to kill Canadian citizens to force Canada to remove its military troops from Afghanistan.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Canada, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Carney suggests he’s considering rescinding Online News Act

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney suggested Tuesday he is considering substituting or rescinding the Online News Act to ensure local news is disseminated wider and faster two years after Meta banned access to news on its platforms.

Carney made the unexpected suggestion while announcing over $1 billion in loan guaranteed and long-term supports for the softwood lumber industry at a mill in West Kelowna, B.C.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

‘Canada, When Terrorists Applaud You, It’s Time to Ask What You’ve Become’

When a senior Hamas terrorist praises your country by name, it’s not a diplomatic gesture. It’s not a political milestone. It is a stain. A warning. An indictment of a nation that has lost its moral compass, its democratic voice, and perhaps even its future.

Carney knows. He just doesn’t care.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, Israel

Carney promises new trading relationships, can’t handle U.S.

Mark Carney showed up at Gorman’s Mill in West Kelowna, B.C., on Tuesday promising to change Canada’s trading relationship. If we judged that promise based off his promise to strike a deal with Donald Trump, he’d get an automatic fail.

Still, he wants us to believe that he’s going to turn things around and magically not make us reliant on the United States.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, USA

Carney on Trump: ‘We’ll speak when it makes sense’

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney warned Tuesday that Canadian investment in the United States — already among the highest in the world — could decline if trade relations deteriorate and a new economic and security pact is not secured.

“Canada is the second-largest investor in the United States today in the world. We have 40 million people,” Carney said while speaking to reporters in British Columbia.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Carney hints at dropping some U.S. tariffs if it will help Canadian industries hit by trade war

Prime Minister Mark Carney showed no signs of retaliating against U.S. President Donald Trump’s increased tariffs — and even suggested he’s open to removing existing tariffs if it would help Canadian industries.

Carney faced questions Tuesday about Canada’s next steps after the two countries failed to reach a trade deal by the Aug. 1 deadline, resulting in a 35 per cent import tax on some Canadian goods. The rate applies to goods not covered by the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement, which governs trade between the three countries.

The Great Negotiator at work.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

As a Jewish Canadian, I want my community to speak out about the horrors in Gaza

In the winter of 1975, I went to work on a kibbutz.

I was 17 years old. The work in the fish ponds was not glamorous: I stood for hours in a large, stinky pool of muddy water hauling spiny St. Peter’s fish out into a tank for export. But the trip was an ideological inspiration. Here was Jewish community. Here were whole neighbourhoods celebrating my holidays. The communal kibbutz lifestyle united in the building of something new, something hopeful.

The author writes of counting the vertebrae of starving Gazan children.

That would be the ill children Hamas has exploited to advance their agenda among the willfully gullible of the west.

No doubt children suffer but I have grave doubts about the alleged food shortages that come from a people who celebrate rape, murder and the ‘martyrdom’ of their own children.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023", Canada

Did Hamas write this?

Carney and Islamophobia Tsar – gets assurance daughter won’t be tossed off roof.

Why did Mark Carney choose this moment to recognize Palestine as a state?

The announcement by Prime Minister Mark Carney Wednesday to recognize Palestine as a state took many Canadians by surprise. Up until recently, Canada and other western states seemed committed to the view that the recognition of Palestine would come at the end of a lengthy peace negotiation between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. Two states for two peoples has been a central pillar of Canadian and other western countries’ Middle East policies for decades. Indeed, that is precisely what was envisioned at the time the United Nations voted Israel into existence in 1947. Unfortunately, Israel’s Arab neighbours rejected partition, attacked Israel and the rest is some very complicated, bloody history.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023", Canada

Spain dismantles smuggling ring moving migrants to Canada with fake passports: police

Spanish police say they have dismantled a criminal network that facilitated illegal entry into Canada and the U.K. using forged passports and travel documents.

In a press release by Spain’s National Police, the smuggling operation primarily targeted Yemeni nationals and involved more than 40 migration attempts.

The network allegedly charged each migrant up to C$4,400.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCamp Of The Saints, Canada, Spain, WTF?

What does Donald Trump want from Canada? We are about to find out

Where do things stand for Canada after the United States imposed a new, higher tariff last Thursday evening?

In the short run, not much has changed. In the long run, a lot may yet change.

Since the signing of the landmark Canada-United States Free Trade Agreement in 1988, the relationship has been about ever-lower trade barriers and ever-easier movement of goods and services across the border. It was part of a global trend. Under President Donald Trump, the U.S. is reversing course, hard and fast.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

‘The Fruits of October 7’: Hamas Leader Praises European, Canadian Calls for Palestinian Statehood

Senior Hamas official Ghazi Hamad on Saturday hailed Canadian, British, and French plans to recognize a Palestinian state as “the fruits of October 7,” crediting Hamas’s terrorist attack on Israel with growing Western support for such a state.

“Why are all the countries recognizing a Palestinian state today?” Hamad, a senior member of the Hamas politburo, asked during a Saturday interview on Al Jazeera, according to a translation by the Times of Israel. “Before October 7, did any country dare recognize a Palestinian state?”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government