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On Mon, 4 May 2026 10:50:48 -0400, Rhino
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I am deeply skeptical that our Prime Minister will take a stand against >China in this matter. He recently went to China hat-in-hand to try to >improve our trading relationship with China. Our economy is in the
dumper after Trump's tariffs were imposed and Carney's been unable to
move the needle on that. He seems to prefer defending the Iranian regime >over its people and cozying up to China.

A big chunk of that has been the tanking of the Canadian dollar (which
is usually quoted on international markets in equivalent to US dollar
amounts).

There's been a fair bit of kvetching from Whatcom County, WA (which is
the county adjoining Canada north of Seattle) about this as their
economy has always been closely linked to Canada's but since Trump II
getting less so. Some of the Whatcom County are saying some pretty
extreme things about Canada but the REAL reason is that due to Trump's
policies the Canuck buck has dropped 5-7% against the greenback and
thus ANYTHING priced in US dollars is up that much in price. Whereas
Canadian vendors have raised prices on certain US goods, it's the
higher price (in Canuck bucks) that's the "culprit" rather than anti-Americanism.

My read on the situation is that none of the likely Trump successors
(in either party) are likely to continue the current tariffs that have
been so damaging so it's reasonable to expect whatever Canadian angst
there is to disappear come January 2029. I'm in a Facebook group
consisting of my cousins and 2nd cousins (about 2/3 of which are
American) and I certainly do not see the animus that some reporters
have claimed.

(Right now the major question in that group tends to be over a family
history my aunt - born in the US but has lived in Canada the last
45-50 years - who has compiled a family history which is extremely
good but doesn't cover anything beyond 2000-2005 - and the discussion
is (1) over making an electronic version of her book and (2) figuring
out how to update it given marriages, births, deaths since her 2005
edition - for instance both my parents are listed as alive in 2005 but
both have since passed, and marriages and children born since then)
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On Mon, 4 May 2026 15:43:14 -0400, Rhino
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But that would require a change of attitude on their part, something
that is apparently unthinkable there. They find it easier to get agents
to threaten to blow up the theatre or mow down the performers with
gunfire. That costs almost nothing and doesn't interfere with their >activities in oppressing their people, either at home or abroad.

If that is actually their intent then given 98% of the fentanyl
precursor chemicals are made in China and exported to the Mexican
gangs who then either export the precursors or the finished product
Northwards to the US. One thing that infuriates me about Trump is his
talk about Canada shipping drugs to the US because (a) it's the gangs,
not the law-abiding Canadians or the Canadian government and (b)
almost all the drug precursors are shipped from Mexico VIA THE UNITED
STATES to Canada which are then manufactured into finished product in
remote areas by the gangs then shipped either to major Canadian cities
or the US.

My point of course is that with respect to the drug situation, almost
100% of Canadian illicit drugs (both manufactured and those killing
Canadian addicts) have passed through the United States to get to the
Canadian drug labs in the first place so that if the DEA were as good
as Trump seems to think they are, Canada not only wouldn't be
exporting to the US, but Canada itself would have a drug problem at
most 5% of what it does.

In other words Trump - you have the power to end both Canadian exports
to the US AND to almost entirely end the Canadian drug crisis but that
simply didn't happen during your first term or under Biden.
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On Mon, 4 May 2026 20:29:58 -0000 (UTC), "Adam H. Kerman"
<ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

If the Chinese government is so worried about looking bad due to its >>oppression, the easiest way to remedy that is to stop oppressing people.

As I said in my previous post, the other way China could look far less
bad is to get serious about cracking down on their drug lords who are
THE major factor in the North American illicit drug trade. They're NOT
serious about controlling Chinese organized crime - and who knows how
relations might improve if they were. (My personal view is that
they're using the drug trade to debilitate North America while growing
their own economy which they hope will surpass the United States
economy in the next 20-30 years)

If they did that they might even improve relations with the US, Canada
and Mexico
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On 2026-05-08 2:29 p.m., The Horny Goat wrote:

On Mon, 4 May 2026 20:29:58 -0000 (UTC), "Adam H. Kerman"
<ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

If the Chinese government is so worried about looking bad due to its
oppression, the easiest way to remedy that is to stop oppressing people.

As I said in my previous post, the other way China could look far less
bad is to get serious about cracking down on their drug lords who are
THE major factor in the North American illicit drug trade. They're NOT serious about controlling Chinese organized crime - and who knows how relations might improve if they were. (My personal view is that
they're using the drug trade to debilitate North America while growing
their own economy which they hope will surpass the United States
economy in the next 20-30 years)

If they did that they might even improve relations with the US, Canada
and Mexico

I'm betting the CCP gets very serious kickbacks from the Chinese drug
cartels, which strongly dis-incentivizes them from cracking down.
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On 2026-05-08 2:15 p.m., The Horny Goat wrote:

On Mon, 4 May 2026 10:50:48 -0400, Rhino
<no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:

I am deeply skeptical that our Prime Minister will take a stand against
China in this matter. He recently went to China hat-in-hand to try to
improve our trading relationship with China. Our economy is in the
dumper after Trump's tariffs were imposed and Carney's been unable to
move the needle on that. He seems to prefer defending the Iranian regime
over its people and cozying up to China.

A big chunk of that has been the tanking of the Canadian dollar (which
is usually quoted on international markets in equivalent to US dollar amounts).

There's been a fair bit of kvetching from Whatcom County, WA (which is
the county adjoining Canada north of Seattle) about this as their
economy has always been closely linked to Canada's but since Trump II
getting less so. Some of the Whatcom County are saying some pretty
extreme things about Canada but the REAL reason is that due to Trump's policies the Canuck buck has dropped 5-7% against the greenback and
thus ANYTHING priced in US dollars is up that much in price. Whereas
Canadian vendors have raised prices on certain US goods, it's the
higher price (in Canuck bucks) that's the "culprit" rather than anti-Americanism.

My read on the situation is that none of the likely Trump successors
(in either party) are likely to continue the current tariffs that have
been so damaging so it's reasonable to expect whatever Canadian angst
there is to disappear come January 2029. I'm in a Facebook group
consisting of my cousins and 2nd cousins (about 2/3 of which are
American) and I certainly do not see the animus that some reporters
have claimed.

The legacy media lie as easily - and frequently - as they breathe. From
the moment Trudeau started giving the media money, money they needed
because their audiences are shrinking, they've had very little to say
against the Liberal Party, including Trudeau or Carney, because they
want them in power. If Poilievre manages to become PM, their funding
will diminish drastically and they face the prospect of going belly-up.
So they insist that the Alberta separatists all want to join the US when
it's only a small fringe that's leaning that way. They largely ignore
the economy other than vague acknowledgement that people are concerned
about the cost of living. They ignore the fact that Carney, who was
supposed to tame Trump, has proven completely unable to do so. They
ignore that he is cozying up to China or minimize the danger. Etc. etc.

(Right now the major question in that group tends to be over a family
history my aunt - born in the US but has lived in Canada the last
45-50 years - who has compiled a family history which is extremely
good but doesn't cover anything beyond 2000-2005 - and the discussion
is (1) over making an electronic version of her book and (2) figuring
out how to update it given marriages, births, deaths since her 2005
edition - for instance both my parents are listed as alive in 2005 but
both have since passed, and marriages and children born since then)

--
Rhino
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