More Canadian millionaires are seeking to move abroad. Why do so many never take off?

Lawyers and financial planners across the country are fielding more calls from Canadians asking what it would take to leave the country. But while interest in emigrating appears to be rising, many of those inquiries never turn into an actual move.

Rahul Sharma, a partner at law firm Fasken, describes many would-be emigrants as “tire kickers.” They’re typically wealthy Canadians over the age of 50 who explore their options, imagine a different lifestyle and shop around for a new country, only to stay put in Canada once they confront the true costs and legal complexity of leaving.

Canadian peso?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Uncategorized

Most Canadians want their cars made domestically, KPMG survey shows

Many Canadians are looking to buy a new car in the near future — but amid the trade war, the majority say they would prefer that their cars be made entirely in Canada.

As many as six in 10 Canadians (61 per cent) said they are looking to buy a new car in the next five years, with more than three-quarters (76 per cent) worried that trade tensions and U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs will make vehicles unaffordable, a new KPMG survey released Monday showed.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada - USA Tariff Wars"

Mélanie Joly likes to talk tough. Now she has to deliver

OTTAWA—Mélanie Joly — the lawyer and former foreign affairs minister now industry minister on the economic front lines of a trade war — talked tough all fall.

She threatened to sue Stellantis after it halted Canadian auto production plans in Brampton. She warned a British mining giant poised to take over one of Canada’s last big diversified mining companies that its offer on Teck Resources wasn’t good enough. And she declared that Lockheed Martin, the American jet maker building the F-35 fighter plane, must up its pitch because Canada is not getting enough economic benefit and is weighing the purchase of Swedish planes instead.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Black French MP Boasts About Outbreeding Native Population

An African-heritage lawmaker in France has sparked outrage by seemingly hailing the so-called ‘Great Replacement’ of the native people of the country by foreigners.

Carlos Martens Bilongo, a member of the National Assembly for the far-left La France Insoumise (France in Rebellion/LFI), in an appearance on the “African Bookstore” podcast, appeared to boast that minorities are outbreeding the native French people, Le Journal du Dimanche reported.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

‘Most dangerous period that we’ve been in’: Carney urged to bolster ‘Team Canada’ approach ahead of CUSMA review

With Canada entering into a pivotal review of its North American trade deal in the new year, the kind of unified support for Ottawa’s position which was seen during the NAFTA renegotiations has yet to take shape, says a member of the prime minister’s Council on Canada-United States Relations.

Prime Minister Mark Carney (Nepean, Ont.) and Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc (Beauséjour, N.B.) have conducted trade talks with the Americans without broad engagement from opposition parties or consultations across Canadian society.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada - USA Tariff Wars"

Walz Finally Responds to Viral Video Showing Empty Somali Childcare Center That Received $4 Million in State Funds

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz is finally attempting to defend fraud allegations sparked by a viral video showing a childcare center sitting largely empty despite pocketing millions in state funds.

A spokesperson for Mr. Walz’s office said the governor has spent years working to “crack down on fraud” and has strengthened oversight of state programs, launching investigations into multiple facilities. The statement came in response to questions about a video posted by independent journalist Nick Shirley.

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

At Windsor’s Titan Tool and Die, workers fight an outsourcing push

At the end of March, tensions erupted at Titan Tool and Die, an auto parts company with operations in Windsor and nearby Warren, Mich.

On the Canadian side, unionized workers tried to block the company from shipping products to the United States. Titan, which makes custom stamping tools used to shape vehicles, wanted to rush those products across the border ahead of imminent U.S. tariffs targeting the auto industry.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada - USA Tariff Wars"

US offered Ukraine 15-year security guarantee, Zelensky says

The US has offered Ukraine security guarantees for 15 years, Volodymyr Zelensky has said, during talks on a revised peace plan with Donald Trump in Florida on Sunday.

The US president said an agreement on this point was “close to 95%” done, but Ukraine’s leader has since said he would like guarantees for up to 50 years.

President Zelensky outlined territorial issues and the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant as the last unresolved matters, with little said on the future of Ukraine’s contested Donbas region.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Ukraine - Russia"

Poilievre on ‘challenging year’ and what lies ahead

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre paused when asked how he’d describe the last year.

He was speaking with The Globe and Mail as part of a run of year-end interviews, many of which focused on the news of the two MPs who quit his party and joined Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberals.

The surprise defections brought the minority Liberals to within one seat of a majority, and no one knows for certain whether another MP will go and if they do, whether Mr. Poilievre can remain as leader.

Well relocating his seat to Alberta may turn out for the best.

h/t Mauser

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inConservative Party

DC pipe bomb suspect Brian Cole Jr.’s possible motive revealed: ‘Something just snapped’

DC pipe-bomb suspect Brian Cole Jr. told authorities he wanted to “speak up” for people who believed the 2020 election was stolen and target the country’s political parties for being “in charge” after his arrest earlier this month, prosecutors said Sunday.

Cole, 30, told agents that “something just snapped” in him before he allegedly placed two pipe bombs by the Republican and Democratic National Committee headquarters on the eve of the Jan. 6 riots, according to a newly filed Justice Department memo.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBatshit Crazy Homicidal Progressives