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Canadian Government Lobbies Europe To Pass CETA (freezenet.ca)
Dangerous_Minds writes: The Canadian government isn't just siding with the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). Justin Trudeau is also actively lobbying Europe to try and pass the Comprehensive economic and Trade Agreement (CETA). Freezenet points out that the agreement contains many provisions including a three strikes law and website blocking.
Please pass the reichsermachtigungsgesetz. Kind regards, canadia, already ruled by corporations. Companies protect europe from muslim terrorists setting european parlament on fire. All hail godwin.
Apparently the sticky point that is holding up the deal is the tariff on maple syrup.
Please vote trump. You don't want clinton in the white house, who's married to a rapist?
He is the only alternative. Democrats want the hard working to pay for the lazy people.
The tone of voice here has completely changed.
Why isn't Hilary going to prison?
ITYM CETAA. Sorry.
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But the first prime of Canadhstan
This site is now so CONsevative that it makes me want to die.
today morning I feel much worse about the future of this site
Just like the old boss. People voted for a party who's interests have been well known to side with big business, so there's zero surprise here. For the uninformed, the 'party' rules the individual representatives much tighter than say the US where its common to vote against/abstain from voting on ballot measures against one's personal (or representative) interests.
Bye!
She's too rich and too powerful, of course. Prison is for the little people.
Ha ha ha ha ha, Justin Trudeau, the so called 'liberal'. He'll legalise your pot and he will oppress you in every other way imaginable.
You can't handle the truth.
Hey, you who writes 'conservative' in partial caps. Go back to whatever hole you normally troll, we expect better here.
Please vote trump. You don't want clinton in the white house, who's married to a rapist?
Canada is not part of the United States of America, yet. Keep your corrupt politicians at home and away from our corrupt politicians. We have enough problems without importing "hope and change."
Look, while it may be true the Liberals did go more left on certain issues, they were always a centrist party. It was the CPC (Tory/Communist) that went totally bonkers and ultra far right.
Expecting them (yes, I know a bunch of them) to not make deals like this is naive in the utmost.
It was a choice between the Devil and angels with dirty wings. I'm not unhappy with them.
That said, they do tend to listen to reason, so making polite arguments with them is likely to work, eh?
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All those lazy people working 80+ hours a week for peanuts. Sure.
This was actually one of the key reasons I didn't vote for him (well, his party). The Conservatives were worse in a lot of ways (they support CETA as well, but all sorts of other nasty stuff) and had a history of building oppression (G2 summit police overreach, muzzling scientists etc), but looking at how the parties voted the Libs and the Cons were both very much in the pro-surveillance anti-privacy camp. In this case it's the lesser of two evils between the two, but the third party (NDP) voted pretty solidly against this shit so it's unfortunate that they've been shoved far into the back seat now.
Why isn't Hilary going to prison?
Because despite a 30 year sustained smear campaign, coupled with special prosecutor investigations financed at taxpayer expense, forced through by the Republicans periodically since the 1990s, and every other trumped up investigation since, there is not one shred of evidence (you know, that "scientific" thing those of us who realize the world is round, the globe is warming, and that invisible friends don't clean up oil spills or atmospheric carbon) that she has ever done a single criminal thing.
They've crawled up her ass with a microscope on numerous occasions, including this latest Benghazi farce that is more reminiscent of a McCarthy witch hunt than a serious investigation, and found nothing.
Why?
Because she didn't do anything, other than stand up as an intelligent, progressive woman against whom the right goes batshit crazy.
If you look at Trudeau's stance on mass surveillance, unconditional support for Israel, support for NAFTA and so on, you will see is not much different from the Harper government. The only difference is the appearance of being forward thinking. Trudeau doesn't have enough brain cells to carve out any new ideas to pull Canada out of its rut.
Except you don't have to be a rightist to see how easily Hilary switched her politics on a pandering scale between the 90's and today,
and you certainly don't have to be a rightist to memorize her support of invading various Middle Eastern countries and supplying rebels in Syria which showcases her political incompetence and her lack of leadership talent. The woman supported overthrowing easy to deal with dictators so a much worse theocracy could replace them (Iran, Libya, Egypt, now Syria) and she did it multiple times despite history repeating itself. Not to mention her deep corporate ties and even support of Monsanto.
You Hilary supporters are no less worse than rightists and Trump supporters (who are doing it unironically) because your whole support of Hilary is not dependent on her philosophy (which is never the same), her leadership skills (which he has proven vocally time and time again in terms of what she supports in regards to foreign politics on a military angle), her person (a woman who changes politics to go with the flow rather than having her own mindset proves to be a cunning, treacherous, and double-faced person).
It solely depends on the fact that she is a woman and the symbolic jerking regarding putting a woman as a president. If a Sith Lord was a woman, you'd pick it just because of the symbolic pro-feminist jerkfest over its gender.
If you want a woman in power, pick a woman who will leave a good legacy for womankind. Hilary is not such a woman. She is just a craftier Trump who is given more validity because Feminists have latched onto her.
You don't think Trudeau has received a call from Obama "Would you mind mentioning CETA to those EU guys?"
Our PM's are like little lapdogs for the US President.
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Well since the US isn't part of CETA, I doubt Obama would have wasted the phone call (official phone calls between international leaders tends to be considered a big deal.)
Then again, CETA (for some reason) includes a lot of DMCA-like copyright laws that the US has been trying to push on us for ages. But its still unlikely Obama would have been the one to make such a call. US government might be in the hands of big business but that would be a little too obvious when the US doesn't officially get anything out of it.
The title says it all. Send them a message - with an assassin's bullet in Justin Trudeau's head. Repeat as necessary. 9 out of 10 Egyptian schoolchildren agree.
These big treaties coming out lately like TPP TTIP ACTA CETA have nothing to do with fair trade or tarriffs and everything to do with corporations bypassing national legal systems to put in place permanent laws that benefit them but certainly not the consumer or the environment or public services etc.
Well over 3 million signatures against TTIP and CETA so far:
https://stop-ttip.org/
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