Canada

Going over some of the more ridiculous details of the Liberal government's 'Strong Border Bill'. This is not what people voted for.

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Write your MP ASAP. This bill is unacceptable, unconstitutional, and unCanadian.

cross-posted from: https://scribe.disroot.org/post/3001955

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Senior German and Norwegian defence officials say they're confident Canada will sign on to the ReArm Europe plan in the coming weeks and such a move will make it easier for the Liberal government to buy new submarines from allies.

Jasper Wieck, the political director of the German Ministry of Defence, and Norway's program director of submarines, Capt. (N) Oystein Storebo, spoke with CBC News recently about the pitch for Canada to join their existing partnership, in which the two nations are constructing cutting-edge boats that will begin to enter service in 2028.

Competition for the multibillion-dollar defence program is heating up and their remarks come weeks after two South Korean shipyards, in a joint venture, submitted a detailed, unsolicited proposal worth up to $24 billion, to build 12 submarines for the Royal Canadian Navy.

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Wieck says that agreement, plus the rearmament program, are important for both Europe and Canada as the West tries to face down the threat of potential Russian aggression.

"It's a partnership that has so many benefits from both sides," Wieck said. "Once Canada would have signed the security and defence partnership with the European Union, Canada will be considered as an EU member state in all these European schemes and all these European incentives."

Both Norway and the U.K. are not members of the EU but are deeply involved in the rearmament plan.

"It is about [the] collective effort by Europeans, not only to buy collectively, but to maintain collectively and train collectively and operate collectively," Wieck [said].

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On est pas bien là, détendus de la démocratie ?

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Canada’s lawmakers are urging the government to implement a recently adopted law against foreign interference following reports by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, CBC News and other media partners that the Chinese government has targeted dozens of Chinese dissidents living in Canada and other countries over the last decade.

Jenny Kwan, a member of the left-leaning New Democratic Party who herself is an “evergreen” target of the Chinese government according to Canda’s intelligence agency, told ICIJ media partner CBC News that countering transnational repression has become an urgent matter.

“In light of the CBC investigation and the reports that have now come out, you would think that this would be a priority for the government,” Kwan, who was born in Hong Kong, said in an interview. “But so far, I have yet to hear the prime minister say foreign interference, transnational repression is a top priority for them.”

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China Targets, an ICIJ-led investigation in collaboration with 42 media partners worldwide, exposed how Chinese authorities as well as Chinese Communist Party supporters and other government-backed individuals and organizations use surveillance, pressure on family members, hacking and other tactics to target regime critics living overseas.

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Do you think that we could convince Damien Kurek to run as an independent?

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