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that white guy better get in line then cuz he's gonna have to pry them from that mainland chick's mouth first

Your thoughts on Carney's list of major projects for fast track approval?

https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2025/0...or-investment/

EDMONTON — An expansion to the Port of Montreal and doubling production of liquefied natural gas in British Columbia are among the first five major projects the federal government intends to approve under its fast-tracking major projects legislation.

Prime Minister Mark Carney will discuss the list in Edmonton today.

A draft news release obtained by The Canadian Press lists five projects that will be considered for speedy approval by the government’s major projects office, and five additional projects that require further development.

The other three projects in line to be fast-tracked are construction of a small modular reactor in Ontario, a new copper mine in Saskatchewan and an expansion of the Red Chris Mine’s copper operation in northwestern B.C.

Some of the projects identified for further development include enhancements to the Port of Churchill in Manitoba and a high-speed rail line between Toronto and Québec City.

Bill C-5, which moved through Parliament at lightning speed in the spring, is meant to streamline and speed up approvals for large infrastructure projects as the federal government looks to shore up Canada’s economy against the tariff hits from the United States.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/car...list-1.7630470

"Canada's new government now starts by asking ourselves for major projects: How?" Carney said. "How can we build? How can we do it bigger? How can we do it faster?"

The list was initially printed in a draft news release and shared with CBC News Wednesday and then confirmed by Carney himself in Edmonton. The projects are:

Phase two of LNG Canada in Kitimat, B.C., doubling its production of liquefied natural gas.
The Darlington New Nuclear Project in Clarington, Ont., which will make small modular reactors.

Contrecœur Terminal Container Project to expand the Port of Montreal.

The McIlvenna Bay Foran Copper Mine Project in Saskatchewan.

The expansion of the Red Chris gold and copper Mine in northwestern B.C.

"Combined, these five projects will generate more than $60 billion for the Canadian economy and create tens of thousands of high-paying careers for our workers," Carney said. "These five projects are just the beginning."

Carney also confirmed CBC News' exclusive Wednesday report that his government would name additional projects that are at an earlier stage of development and require further development, but could be part of the next wave for consideration:

Wind West Atlantic Energy, supporting wind power in Atlantic Canada.
The Alberta-based Pathways Plus carbon capture project.
An Arctic economic and security corridor.
Upgrades to the Port of Churchill.
All-weather road infrastructure in Northern Canada.
The Alto high-speed rail corridor between Toronto and Quebec City.
Carney also unveiled a "critical minerals strategy" that he said will help projects "get to final investment decisions within a two-year window

It all means nothing until someone defines what "fast tracking" means.

Even their own release is non-sense:

the Projects will be "considered" for "speedy approval". So after all this time coming up with this list, they've come up with 5 projects, and those five are still in consideration, and still zero definition on what speeding them up even means.

The press release and this whole process basically will amount to nothing. I welcome the Fed proving me wrong.

I'd rather talk about this:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saska...says-1.7630608

Absolutely ridiculous. Corrupt fucks.

That’s a pretty good read. Interesting and comprehensive story that shows how easily the government can cover its ass when having bids for these projects. Insanity to choose a plane with worse features and less capacity for more money, but I do have to say I don’t know shit about fuck when it comes to other possible reasons they would have needed to go with the other planes, if they did, but the info seems like they didn’t.
On another note about that, shows that CBC covers bases and why they are so important.

At the same time the complaint coming from their only competitor based on what they could "likely" build them for sounds an awful lot like those companies that bid low and then jack up the price once they're partway through the project.

FaceBook gets my politics

https://i.imgur.com/rswHK0L.jpeg

More time has passed and Canada is no where closer to achieving a trade deal with a US. With the liberals, you can expect empty promises and nothing delivered. Sad!!!!

he's just waiting for trump to die

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Originally Posted by yray (Post 9193804)

he's just waiting for trump to die

its okay. they are now texting buddies now. That is the best carney could do.

https://globalnews.ca/news/11428877/...estion-period/

Is this remotely interesting? Chrystia Freeland resigning from cabinet ... appointed special envoy / ambassador to Ukraine. Don't like Carney? Hard to work under someone whom you were running against? Any fire under the smoke? Publicly, they look like they are hugging it out.

I'd be looking to get out of the public political eye too as someone like her, who's no doubt been accosted, threatened and probably just generally unappreciated for pretty hard work that she's done like negotiating with that fat orange fuck. Might be a tactical move when it comes to tariff/CUSMA renegotiation since dump has been vocal about his distain for her. Maybe she wanted to get out cause she didn't want to deal with all that again if there was pressure to.
Pretty sure they are quite close. Carney is her kids godfather or something?

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Originally Posted by VRYALT3R3D (Post 9193803)

More time has passed and Canada is no where closer to achieving a trade deal with a US. With the liberals, you can expect empty promises and nothing delivered. Sad!!!!

If I were Carney, I'd wait it out a little longer on the trade deal bcos:

1) We are still covered under CUSMA for now.

2) With the lower level US courts ruling that Trump has exceeded his executive power in issuing broad-based tariffs, the tariff issue might just go away on its own. So why expend energy and resources unnecessarily when it is still unclear how things will play out? We still have time for now (see #1), so we can afford to wait a little longer.

The cesspool SCOTUS will almost certainly try its best to find some obscure BS reason to invalidate the appeal court's ruling even though the power to issue tariffs clearly lies with Congress and only Congress, not with the President. But nobody knows how things could pan out for now. And that means the safest course of action is to not take any drastic action other than just observe.

The Chinese have a saying, "If the enemy doesn't move, we don't move"

This perfectly exemplifies what's happening right now as the collective world is just holding it's breath for the next shoe to drop. No one knows what the next shoe is going to be, whether if Trump gets reigned in, or he still continues doing whatever he wants, or he has a heart attack. Also in the mix, interim elections.

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Originally Posted by Traum (Post 9193831)

So why expend energy and resources unnecessarily when it is still unclear how things will play out? We still have time for now (see #1), so we can afford to wait a little longer.

lmfao that makes total sense. We will just sit on our hands and act in bad faith by not trying to resolve legitimate concerns that the US may have. This will totally not back fire during the negotiations for USMCA.

Slightly off topic but this just showed up on my feed.

New bill will define hatred in the Criminal Code, make glorifying terror groups illegal (Might be paywalled)
Marie Woolf
Ottawa
Published 33 minutes ago
Updated 4 minutes ago

Spoiler!

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Originally Posted by The Globe and Mail

A new anti-hate bill, to be introduced on Friday, is expected to make it a crime to intentionally promote hatred against Jews, Muslims and other groups by displaying symbols of terrorist groups in public, for example waving a Hamas, Hezbollah or swastika flag outside a synagogue.

A senior government source told The Globe and Mail that the coming bill, to be shepherded through the House of Commons by Justice Minister Sean Fraser, would make it a crime to intimidate or obstruct someone at a place of worship, a school, a community centre, or other places where Jews, Muslims, members of the trans community or another identifiable group gathers.

The Globe and Mail is not identifying the source as they were not authorized to speak on the matter.

The bill is also expected to make it easier for the police to pursue charges for a hate propaganda offence, including promoting genocide, by removing the requirement to get the attorney-general to approve laying charges first.

Hatred is referred to in laws but not defined in the Criminal Code, although it has been defined in cases before the Supreme Court, including as “detestation” and “vilification.” The bill is expected to define what constitutes hatred in the criminal code.

The source said the bill is designed to target hate toward specific groups, but not to dampen the right to protest in Canada. The bill would comply with the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, the source said.

Civil liberties advocates have argued that laws already exist to prevent violence, intimidation and harassment, including enabling the police to bring charges against protesters who obstruct safe access to buildings.

Anaïs Bussières McNicoll, director of the Fundamental Freedoms Program at the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, said “our concern is that if the federal government lowers existing thresholds they may very well end up capturing peaceful protests.”

“I would say that a level of disruption is part of the constitutional protection awarded to freedom of peaceful assembly, and to some extent and within reasonable limits, it is a price of living in a democracy,” she added.

“The Supreme Court of Canada has recognized that there is no room in a democracy for a right not to be offended. So again, freedom of expression and the right to peaceful assembly are not absolute, but we should all be very concerned of extending limits on those cornerstones of our democracy.”

The bill would establish buffer zones outside mosques, synagogues, community centres and religious schools to stop intimidation and harassment by protesters of people entering and leaving.

It is expected to make it a crime to intentionally promote hatred against an identifiable group by displaying certain terrorism or hate symbols in public. The terror groups would be those on an official list in Canada of proscribed groups including Hamas, Hezbollah, the Islamic State and the Tamil Tigers.

The law would likely ban waving a swastika flag outside a synagogue or Jewish community centre. But it would not extend to individuals, for example, dressing up on Halloween or appearing in a play or film dressed in Nazi uniform.

In Britain, it is already illegal to glorify terror, for example, by displaying an Islamic State flag at a protest.

The bill is not expected to go as far as measures in the online harms bill, which failed to become law in the last Parliament, and included raising the maximum sentence for advocating or promoting genocide against an identifiable group from five years to life imprisonment.

Its wording is expected to be closely scrutinized by civil liberties advocates who have challenged existing municipal and provincial bubble zone laws, saying they suppress the right to protest. The definition of what amounts to intimidation is expected to be debated in the Commons after the bill is presented.

Jewish community groups, who met with the Prime Minister this weekend, have been calling for more protection in law for community members amid a rise in antisemitism, harassment and violence.

I read the US negotiator saying as part of a broader defence deal that they can’t seem to agree on, they are making progress on a renegotiated trade deal. Not sure what else you want, that’s coming from the USA side too.

Maybe you should get in there and show em how it’s done!

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Originally Posted by 68style (Post 9193996)

Just as you posted, I saw this below.

https://i.imgur.com/d1Q355a.png

Carry on. :accepted:

Nope, will be 2050 when things get done, we will probably run out of money with over budgets and Indians will say no.

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Originally Posted by EvoFire (Post 9193948)

The Chinese have a saying, "If the enemy doesn't move, we don't move"

as a CBC, i appreciate i get to learn all of the great chinese saying/proverbs from my asian brethren here on RS.

unfortunately there's only so much room on my sig to capture them all

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Originally Posted by GLOW (Post 9194090)

as a CBC, i appreciate i get to learn all of the great chinese saying/proverbs from my asian brethren here on RS.

unfortunately there's only so much room on my sig to capture them all

Gotta read Sun Tzu's Art of War for the best quotes: https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/3200649

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“Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.”

“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”

“Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.”

One for Hobz

"He that takes medicine and neglects diet, wastes the skills of the physician".

They honestly do not translate well to English. Chinese is such an amazing language with so much depth.

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Originally Posted by mikemhg (Post 9194104)

One for Hobz

"He that takes medicine and neglects diet, wastes the skills of the physician".

Fuck you 2000 year old dead chinaman. I ain’t listening to your horseshit. Here’s a tid bit of wisdom. DEAD FUCKS, NO TALK. YOU DEAD.

Lousy dead chink… fucking tell me what to do…. Grumble grumble grumble….

I think Canada needs to roll out an excise tax for obese people like our old friend Hobz.

All this talk about the Chinese and Brownies ripping off our beautiful Canadian system, but what about the fat fucks?

Why should we be paying the burden for them under our universal healthcare system as they shovel Costco chicken strip poutines down their enlarged gullets?

Fuck this shit.

Article revealing that Canada's fast track immigration program for HK residents was abused. Apparently, many faked degrees to get in.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/briti...ials-1.7634729

A Canadian visa program set up to fast track educated immigrants from Hong Kong appears to have been abused by applicants accused of using ghostwriters or plagiarism to obtain academic credentials.

CBC News has found at least seven Federal Court decisions involving applicants rejected for misrepresentation, after immigration officers grilled them about hastily issued diplomas and master's degrees obtained with scant schoolwork and suspicious essays.