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Trump is reportedly taking aim at Canada and raising alarms about its ‘vulnerability’
(www.independent.co.uk)
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No. For too long your geese have flouted our border conteols with impunity. While you hide behind your fake politey. I say build the wall! /s
Seriously though canada hosts some of the worst corporarions in the world, mining conglomerates responsible for untold atrocities worldwide.
Then they have an ageing oil pipeline under the straits of mackinac, it is a when it bursts, using corrupt influence on our captured judiciary to prevent shutting it down, or even putting pressure cut off switches so if there is a leak or rupture it automatically gets cut off.
This same company, Enbridge, already had a large spill in battle creek they corruptly avoided cleaning up, same year as deepwater horizon in the gulf.
Not so polite indeed, eh?
Yeah, and American oil companies are the poster children of environmentalism. And if Al Gore and Ralph Nader tag-teamed Greta Thurnberg, had a baby, put it up for adoption, and had it raised by Captain Planet himself, you wouldn't have someone who cares more about the environment than Donald J Trump.
/s, of course.
All multinationals are as shitty as governments allow them to be I'm afraid, and despite canada's reputation, like switzerland, of being progressive, they host some of the worst companies in the world alongside the US and others. The entire west has been corrupted in the past half century, all major parties seized by monied interests and ratcheting our societies to plutocracy, and that action ultimately pulls us to fascism without a popular reform option outside of fascists now backed by the two superpowers, fully intent on helping them fix themselves in power permanently.