The CEBA loan program would not have been necessary if all businesses would have told the Gov’t to go fekk yourself and refused to close BUT they didn’t and instead “borrowed” money they KNEW had to be repaid, well 50% anyways. That was a $20,000 gift out of the taxpayers purse for businesses thank you very much. NOW all the boohooing commences because business owners aren’t paying back their debts and leaving it to the taxpayer to shoulder their default resulting rampant inflation and impending poverty. I can’t tell you how annoyed I am at the moment
https://www.westernstandard.news/news/canadas-pandemic-loan-program-faces-31-billion-in-defaults/55091
https://c2cjournal.ca/2025/02/not-bluffing-donald-trump-and-canadas-role-in-the-defence-of-north-america/
“The geopolitical stakes could not be higher for the U.S. No longer fully protected by two vast oceans and all-but impenetrable expanses of Arctic ice and tundra, the world’s threats are lapping at its shores and encroaching upon its land borders.”
“ It is also worth noting that Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, whose idea for a Canadian “border czar” became the basis for the recent creation of a Canadian “fentanyl czar”, recently suggested that Canada and the U.S. jointly build a large NORAD operating base in the Arctic. So far, just one small Canadian base of this sort is actually under construction.
Whatever one might think of Donald Trump the man – and it seems millions of Canadians have chosen to hate him – people need to set aside their emotions sufficiently to at least recognize that Trump the President is dead-serious in his foreign policy goals, including or...