trump whispered about steel tariffs

[Oliver88]

Sounds like a strategic bargaining point in the NAFTA negotiations and also a major hit to China/India.

I read that China was bringing aluminum into USA via Mexico tariff free.

Now the USA will have a condition to remove steel & aluminum tariffs for Canada if we open border up to dairy or some other trade irritant.

[Crestliner]

Oh wait a minute.....Farmers do so vote Liberal!! They did in Nipawin in 2015. Bad Harper needed to go and JT in!!

I’m not going to name any names...but thanks to outstanding liberal voting farm family in Nipawin, they fought the good fight last fall and this winter got an award from the community Chamber Commerce for fighting the Monreau punitive tax measures last fall when we were all busy harvesting.

Wow, the poor mother admited on social media she felt responsible for this bad tax because she voted Liberal and it was going to really hurt junior taking over the farm.

But thanks to the efforts of dad and mom at such a busy time and thanks to radio and all social media, they went straight for the finance minister and got it stopped.

Nothing like giving yourself an award for fixing the thing you broke!!! wow can’t make this stuff up!!!

[blackpowder]

Trains gone here too now. One facility dropped bids.

Caught blurb from a talking head on lunch farm radio.
Couldnt really tell u who or what was said. Why? Cause after hearing the same problems from same people almost my entire career I dont think anybody cares or has ever cared.
I dont know why and too pissed to care myself. No political party can fix it i guess. Same story forever. Maybe until grain freight outpays all other freight?
Remember they get fined for making too much on grain. Govt owns tractive fleet? De unionize employees and cross train and retain?
I dunno. Part of Canadian DNA?

[blackpowder]

I know i am ignorant, but live on a CP line that still works. Drive along a CN line every weekend that is twinned for miles in order to take traffic. Mostly seacans, intermodals etc... 55 mph, just givener both ways.

[15444]

15444

Yes I get that but why are the conservatives ignoring it....

Because they are a shell of what they once were. Too many elites that no longer care about grassroots. Party needs a damn good cleaning just like is happening in Ontario. They are doing a good job pissing off their base and they just won't vote for them in 2019, like me. Have fun with 4 more years of Trudeau boys. Gut the party and then I may be back. Membership expires end of the month and won't be renewed. If the party needs to contact me, I'll be over with FordNation trying to make Ontario great again.

[WiltonRanch]

Because they are a shell of what they once were. Too many elites that no longer care about grassroots. Party needs a damn good cleaning just like is happening in Ontario. They are doing a good job pissing off their base and they just won't vote for them in 2019, like me. Have fun with 4 more years of Trudeau boys. Gut the party and then I may be back. Membership expires end of the month and won't be renewed. If the party needs to contact me, I'll be over with FordNation trying to make Ontario great again.

Gosh I thought you’d be a Mulroney supporter.

[burnt]

Gosh I thought you’d be a Mulroney supporter.

You're joking, right?

Mulroney was Patrick Brown's hand-picked prize.

She is Brown-Wynne lite. A perfect example of what 15444 is saying.

Ford would be best for the province but needs to connect with rural Ontario while keeping his Toronto base happy.

Elliott may have the best elect-ability but looks old and low energy.

Granic Allan is the smartest one of the bunch by a mile but likely too low a name recognition. An absolute bulldog and very articulate.

Her campaign slogan is "Conservative - For a Change".

[burnt]

And on the federal level, IPSOS says that if an election were held tomorrow, the Conservatives would win.

And that's without a real leader, LOLLLZ!

https://globalnews.ca/news/4058984/justin-trudeau-india-trip-ipsos-poll/ https://globalnews.ca/news/4058984/justin-trudeau-india-trip-ipsos-poll/

Shiny Pony has turned out to be a horse's @$$.

[15444]

Granic Allan is the smartest one of the bunch by a mile but likely too low a name recognition. An absolute bulldog and very articulate.

Her campaign slogan is "Conservative - For a Change".

Problem is that she is ultra social conservative, which scares fiscal conservatives like me far away.

Mulroney is a puppet for Brown.

Elliot is a 20 year old sack of potatoes.

Ford says it like is. Lots of supporters for him in the most rural parts of Ontario. Rural Ontario doesn't need handouts or recognition. Just want to see an end to the socialist gravy train where anything is a write-off or a bonus if you're using taxpayer money.

[WiltonRanch]

You're joking, right?

Mulroney was Patrick Brown's hand-picked prize.

She is Brown-Wynne lite. A perfect example of what 15444 is saying.

Ford would be best for the province but needs to connect with rural Ontario while keeping his Toronto base happy.

Elliott may have the best elect-ability but looks old and low energy.

Granic Allan is the smartest one of the bunch by a mile but likely too low a name recognition. An absolute bulldog and very articulate.

Her campaign slogan is "Conservative - For a Change".

I was. Nepotism has no place in politics. Friends and family plans are great for telephone plans but not politics.

[burnt]

It would be interesting to see a current-day analysis of the correlation between the retreat of social conservatism and the increased need of social programs. Specifically in the Canadian experience, since we've historically been a liberal democracy.

I doubt that there would be any interest in doing such a study, and even less appetite for publishing the results.

However, we have world history to examine at leisure and it speaks "volumes" on the matter, if you will pardon the expression.

[15444]

It would be interesting to see a current-day analysis of the correlation between the retreat of social conservatism and the increased need of social programs. Specifically in the Canadian experience, since we've historically been a liberal democracy.

I doubt that there would be any interest in doing such a study, and even less appetite for publishing the results.

However, we have world history to examine at leisure and it speaks "volumes" on the matter, if you will pardon the expression.

For me, as long as it doesn't cost the taxpayers a dime, society can be as socially liberal as it wants.

[burnt]

For me, as long as it doesn't cost the taxpayers a dime, society can be as socially liberal as it wants.

I guess that was kinda the question I was raising...