In Canada? Of course we will still have elections and by-elections. Wait - you mean the Americans? They still have a few years before they cancel their elections. I think Vance wants to be formally elected. Looks good in the history books.
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We are also going an 'any country but America' in our trade deals, and Europe is looking really. really good aa an alternative to America. Europe is finally getting their manufacturing mojo back again from the devastation of the Wars and their reliance on American manufacturing..
If the mid-terms drastically go against Trump, this 'no confidence' could be easily reformulated as a means for impeachment.
So we go from MAGA (Make America Great Again) to LELA (Let Europe Lead Again).
Mid-term elections in nine months. This was a 'non-confidence' vote against Trump, American style. Seems there are Republicans that are afraid their constituents do not like the tariffs. If Canadians double down on the boycotts, this could swing the House. But if Trump goes, Vance will be ten times worse.
From the 1950's to a decade ago, Europe felt obligated to America for 'liberating' them from the Nazis. Today, there are few Europeans alive that remember the 1940's and 50's, and are far less prone to being in gratitude to the US. It's no longer MAGA, Make America Great Again, it is LELA - Let Europe Lead Again.
Interac Debit is a purely Canadian operation, I think. They have Interac Direct, which Canadian financial institutions and merchants are familiar with. So if they make a move towards a credit card, the timing might be right.
https://www.interac.ca/en/payments/personal/interac-direct/
A lot of Credit Unions use them. Now if we could get a few Canadian banks to follow in their footsteps - but it will only happenn if Canadians push for it.
And then there is Europe.
A rght-wing Canadian source arguing AGAINST PP? What has Conservativism gotten to?
It's called The Hew World Order, where the old rules no longer apply. Europe needs to get over its inferiority complex, and start living in the present. Europe needs to take care of ALL Europe, including Ukraine. It should now be blatantly clear that Ukraine will never be part of Russia again, and European investments in Ukraine will not fall into Russian hands. Russia will not be able to retaliate, especially when Europe no longer needs Russian fossil fuels.
When the ESA gets around to launching humans into space, hopefully it will include Canadians. If Europe ever gets its act together and decides to become an informal republic of autonomous states, it would certainly hurry things up. There is no reason why a unified Europe could not leap over the US in space. They have the money, and they could certainly create a company to rival SpaceX. Over the last 8 decades, they became lax and put too much dependence on America. They put all their investment money into American ventures, not their own. That seems to be changing recently. CERN really did boost their confidence, and now China has decided to invest in the European next generation collider instead of building their own in China.
Maybe Canadians will see the light, and divert our investment dollars into Europe instead of America.
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And in other news - Hong Kong and mainland Chinese diaspora groups are terrorizing Chinese Canadians in extortion rings.
https://globalnews.ca/news/10333849/extortion-scams-chinese-community-york-region/
I actually got a message involving a Chinese immigration scam, in Chinese, even though I have never had any connection to China nor do I speak Chinese. It was allegedly from the Chinese embassy in Canada. How they got my text number, or expected me to speak Chinese, I will never know.
But, apparently, some posters here want the RCMP to reveal in detail the methods they intend to use to clamp down on these rings. Exactly the type of information these rings need to avoid prosecution.