#canadian border politics

[fatfemmefreaquency]

i hate it here. fuck

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Quebec Premier François Legault wants Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to appease Donald Trump by tightening border security and clamping down on the illegal drug trade in response to the president-elect's threat of imposing 25 per cent tariffs on Canadian and Mexican imports. Legault held a news conference in Quebec City Tuesday afternoon, telling reporters tariffs of 10 per cent, as Trump had previously threatened during his campaign, or 25 per cent, as he threatened Monday, would have disastrous effects on Quebec's economy. "Twenty-five per cent tariffs would mean tens of thousands of lost jobs for Quebec and for Canada so we have to take it very, very seriously," Legault said.

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[griancraft]

Question for Americans who genuinely will not be voting or are choosing to vote third party, what do you think will happen to you if the Republicans win? You cannot realistically fight for others if you yourself are in a bad situation. Genuinely, what do you think will happen when protections for marginalized people are rolled back?

Do you think you will actually be able to protest anything, let alone stuff not happening on US soil like the war in Gaza? We already see heavily armed police at protests and it's just been getting worse. I'm struggling to find the logic in not voting for the only viable option that won't kill you. I'm aware it's maintaining a shitty status quo but that's better than the alternative, isn't it?

[anghraine]

Very serious post:

The bff and I were thinking of alternate names for our country (the USA) but are currently favoring "Under-Canada."

We are in no way biased by growing up on the international border, where basically anything you could get on the US side you could also get on the Canadian side, but it would be better and less expensive and more fun to get to.

[poolsidescientist]

You know things are looking bad down south when even the Quebecois separatists are starting to talk about Canadian national unity.

[head-post]

Canada vows to strengthen border and immigration restrictions to appease Trump

The Canadian government on Tuesday announced a new plan to strengthen border security and the immigration system. Such a plan comes in response to US President-elect Donald Trump’s threat to impose 25 per cent tariffs on all Canadian imports unless Canada stops the flow of illegal immigration and fentanyl smuggling into the US.

As part of a new C$1.3 billion (US$908 million) plan to address US President-elect Donald Trump’s concerns about migrants and fentanyl coming across the northern border, Canada is deploying what it calls an “aerial reconnaissance task force.”

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police will operate the task force, which consists of helicopters, drones and mobile observation towers. It’s one of many measures unveiled by the Canadian government on Tuesday in an attempt to stave off Trump’s threat to impose 25 per cent tariffs on all goods from the country unless it strengthens border security.

The announcement came a day after the country’s Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland abruptly resigned, accusing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of failing to seriously prepare for a Trump presidency. She was replaced by Dominic LeBlanc, the minister of public safety, who unveiled a border management plan on Tuesday.

The funding was first announced in the government’s budget update on Monday. Trudeau has promised to strengthen measures at the border after Trump threatened Mexico and Canada with tariffs if they don’t – though problems at the northern crossing pale in comparison to those at the southern crossing.

The plan would also expand the intelligence-gathering capabilities of the RCMP and the Communications Security Establishment’s cybersecurity agency. The Government plans to increase fines and criminal penalties for money-laundering and to establish a task force on the issue involving law enforcement and the financial sector.

In addition, the government intends to increase information sharing between Canadian and US officials, as well as between the federal government and the provinces. The Trudeau government said it will propose that the US create a new “North American Joint Strike Force” to combat transnational organised crime.

RCMP Commissioner Mike Duhem explained that the “strike team” would work with the US to train officers and law enforcement partners who specialise in fentanyl. They will work both domestically and in source countries of the deadly drug to disrupt its illegal trade, he said.

Immigration Minister Marc Miller announced changes to end a practice known as “flagging,” where a temporary resident leaves Canada and immediately returns to the point of entry to receive immigration services. He also said the government plans to expand its ability to cancel, amend or suspend immigration documents and stop accepting new applications.

In addition, the government will use artificial intelligence and visualisation tools and train new canine teams to help detect illegal drugs before they enter Canada. In addition, the government plans to create a new unit within the country’s health department to crack down on the importation of precursor chemicals, and will speed up the process of banning these materials to six months from three years.

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[nokingsonlyfooles]

My eyes hurt and now my brain hurts

...but screaming with laughter helps, so I had to share. (And after this I'll stop reading and take a break.)

It's Vivek, rhymes with "there's a LAKE!" Several, I believe. I haven't been in Canada that long, I'm not positive, but I believe there would be more than one lake. Aren't they having enough trouble building that wall over the river? And wildlife habitats? And SAND?

Build a wall over a lake to stop an amount of fentanyl that would fit in my purse? It's not the dumbest thing my country or origin has attempted, so let's see how it shakes out.

I would, if anyone is interested, appreciate a wall that keeps US dollars out of Canadian politics. It seems like that would be much easier to build, legislatively. But you do you, US.

Get safe out there, America. Get as safe as you can. This fever isn't going to break without doing a lot more damage.

[cooking-with-hailstones]

Americans "having a single iota of sympathy for the literal thousands of Canadians who have had their homes and communities destroyed by fire instead of yelling at us for making their sky orange" Challenge (impossible)

[tacobellebandit]

Harris: we need to increase penalties for illegal immigration

Because that definitely stops human trafficking. Steep penalties as a threat definitely doesn't just lead to them being exploited more heavily because they can't go to the police for help

[awesomecooperlove]

🇨🇦🙏🏻🇺🇸

[allthecanadianpolitics]

A majority of Canadians would be hesitant to buy U.S. goods in response to the proposed American tariff on products from Canada, according to a new survey. The findings of a recently released Nanos Research survey suggest a tariff on Canadian exports into the U.S. would, for two-thirds of Canadians, negatively impact the likelihood they'd purchase U.S.-made goods.

On Nov. 25, U.S. president-elect Donald Trump said he would impose a 25 per cent tariff on imports from Canada and Mexico until the two countries clamped down on drugs, particularly fentanyl, and migrants crossing the border.

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[hurgablurg]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/deal-roxham-road-migrants-biden-trudeau-1.6788358

So the liberals have decided that Canada is no longer a safe haven for immigrants and people fleeing violence. The one thing we can actually be proud of with certainty in our 300+ shitty years of monarchy-masturbating history, stamped out to make a dementia-ridden freak-puppet who buries dogs feel better about his standing with the american troglodytes.

I’m SOOOOO sure this will totally keep people from coming to Canada, rather than say, force people to enter illegally through dangerous and unscrupulous methods, the same ones that saw the corpses of children wash up on the shores of the Mediterranean not long ago.

But no! PLEASE tell me more about how the liberal party is actually A Very Good All Time and has human rights and social liberties at the heart of all their policy decisions.

I’m sure this won’t be any kind of slippery slope into rightoid-ism or anything for the spoiled frenchie rich kid who loves putting on blackface. I can take a guess at who the “15,000 immigrants from the western hemisphere” he’s allowing are going to be - wealthy americans looking for new tax loopholes to take advantage of and who’ll tickle Trudeau's ballsack with a loonie whenever he needs money for his reelection campaign.

@liberalsarecool Should probably change their url.

[drizzledrawings]

It’s weird watching American politics as a Canadian

I was 15 when he was first elected, I remember walking into school the next day and it was silent

Now I’m 23 and he’s president again, and it feels surreal, cause for the past 8 years I’ve watched Canada follow America’s footsteps, copying their bills, and watching my peers and neighbours slowly get radicalized by the propaganda from a country that isn’t their own

Canada sucks in its own right, we have awful policies and a long awful history of racism of our own, but I remember in my youth I thought things were better, I thought they would continue to get better. But half of the Conservative Party wants to ban abortion and contraceptives, and most of them hate trans people too.

The liberal party is just a done up version of them, just less forward about their bigotry. Saying the right words but with no actual action. Why do a lot of reservations still not have clean water Trudeau?

But what gets me is that so much of our politics are based on what happens on the other side of the border, it feels like we’re constantly comparing ourselves and trying to be better (liberals) or trying to be like them (conservatives)

I’ll be 27 by the time trumps second term is done, and I’m unsure if he’ll let it be over, I’m worried about how much this win will affect not only Canada but the rest of the world

I know it won’t be the end but damn it’s hard not to catastrophize

[batboyblog]

Canadian-Israeli peace activist Vivian Silver, originally thought to be among the hostages in Gaza was identified as dead today. Vivian helped found and was active in a number of peace organizations, such as the The Alliance for Middle East Peace, The Arab-Jewish Center for Equality, and Women Wage Peace an organize of Israeli and Palestinian women dedicated to bridging the gaps left by normal politics. For over 10 years Vivian met patients from Gaza at the border and drove them to treatment in Israel acting as a translator and helping with Israeli security forces.

may her memory be a blessing

[st-just]

The thing about being Canadian is that for 99.9% of your life you are so inundated in US-American culture and so lacking in obvious differentiation from it that you can just kind of assume everything but politics/healthcare/weed is more or less interchangeable without huge issues and you more or less live in the hub of the imperial core and beating heart of the global commercial economy.

And then you try to do something involving sending money across the border or just look at economics reporting and like, what the fuck. What are you guys doing with all that money.

[riflesniper]

spent enough time cooking up this guy behind the scenes and now i feel like i can toss him out here now. this big boy is aegis :3 a sapient mech that ran from his makers to a resistance militia, who plopped a gay little pilot (green) into his hands. more details below the cut

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his storyline takes place a few centuries in the future, where a small-scale war has kicked up between a newly socialist canada and a dystopian oligarchical US. aegis comes from a particularly powerful corporation called valkyrie machines, who definitely pioneered sapient AI tech some hundred years prior and definitely didn't just steal the tech from somewhere else before stealthily bribing the actual inventors into a silence or death deal

on the other side of the border is the canadian shield alliance, though most people just call it the alliance or the shield. they've played a lot of roles since their inception that was also some hundred years prior, notably aid programs, disaster assistance, fighting for land back/secure human rights/immigrant protections, scaring corporations into NOT being shitty, better economic policies, etc.

unfortunately the US did NOT like any of that. when canada's economic system is officially changed from mixed to socialist, the oligarchs of the states kick off a race to try and see who can annex it the fastest. fortunately, the shield doesn't give them an inch.

aegis is one of valkyrie's newer warden models; nimble, fleet-footed mechs with sapient AI cores to enhance battle prowess. valkyrie is Very strict about what their mechs and pilots do and don't know, and are not above both executing pilots who try to rebel and wiping AIs whose thoughts stray too far. aegis and his last pilot were able to keep sneaky about their plans to escape, but said pilot was disposed of before it could be carried out, aegis made a break for it on his own, racing from the montana base he was stationed at to the albertan border.

despite broadcasting a plea for the shield to find him, he didn't get out unharmed; valkyrie's air fighters were eventually able to catch up to him before he scaled the wall. they plucked at him for a couple hundred kliks until the shield managed to find him near a small town. a skirmish broke out to claim him, ending with one shield mech being non-fatally damaged and all of the valkyrie fighters being shot down.

aegis, battered from the run, was hoisted to a shield base near calgary for major repairs before being shipped to the edmonton for external repairs and retrofitting. it's here that he's assigned a new pilot; green reinhart, a skilled, kind man with a underlying justice-driven rage to match the heart on his sleeve. a man who would not be killed so easily, not with the transhuman tech that's available. it's here that aegis would actually get his name, and so much more that he never would have had back in the states.

the world was opening up to him now. his pilot wasn't the only one talking to him like he was a person anymore. green gets him a proxy frame to explore with. the two of them spend hours together, on and off the field; perhaps this is the best thing that's could've happened for either of them.

(first image is when they've already been partners for a long while; green's organic body does eventually get killed in a battle, and his transhuman body is activated. im still kinda fleshing out the details, unsure if i'll get much deeper into the socio-political-economic shitshow behind the worldbuilding, since i originally made this guy to just have a gay mech/pilot thing w/ green, but its kinda feeding off the current shitshow of the US wanting to annex canada in this day and age. i gotta focus more of that energy on makin characters WAUGH

if anyones got suggestions for like. videos or audiobooks that Could help add onto the worldbuilding though, im all ears. just keep in mind that i struggle with text only stuff, so audiovisual is heavily preferred)