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A banana republic is a (usually tropical) country that relies on a single export product for its economy. For examples, bananas.
Regardless of the location, that's not Canada.
Yes and such countries are governed in a very poor manner - that's the whole analogy. Trudeau is governing in an extremely incompetent manner. The sympathetic local police are refusing to come down on the peaceful protesters in Ottawa, and he's having a complete meltdown over it
All he had to do was negotiate, instead he came down with a self inflicted case of COWARD-19 and went into hiding
aside from its geographic location, what does not fit? declaring a war powers act against a bunch of parked truck cabs?
Amazing, isn’t it. It won’t stand of course but Trudeau can do a lot of damage before the Parliament moves to stop him.
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How soon can they vote this idiot out of office?
Trudeau called a Snap Election several months ago. Next Elections are years away.
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So do you think that this might be why Biden indicated that he wants the IRS to have info on the personal bank accounts of U.S. citizens? Or is that too far-fetched?
(Sorry, but I am having trouble actually believing that what I am reading is actually real and happening.)
And, FWIW (if it is worth anything at all), that is similar to how the Nazis were able to get control of Jewish money and property, according to the following: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/histo...eal-180968894/ -- only, in that case, according to the link, the Jews were forced/coerced to submit a statement of their holdings of more than $34k in today's money.
Nobody can guess what TeamO’Biden will do next.
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I’m grateful for our constitution, so far it kept Biden in check.
Wake up - our Constitution is clear about following Laws, they don’t.
Our Constitution is clear about Protecting our Borders - they don’t.
And it could direct individuals and companies to render essential services, perhaps ordering tow-truck companies to lend their services and clear the roads of demonstrators and their vehicles.
In other words, Canada can compel slavery upon its citizens.
In response to detrimental rioting, vandalism, and looting which cost billions in damages, with dozens killed and who knows how many businesses and buildings destroyed or pilfered. It's not the state governors were doing much to prevent those acts which Trump expressly noted in his statements on the matter.
Some idea of Trudeau's mindset can be gleaned from past statements he's made with respect to his "admiration" for China's dictatorship due to their ability to "turn their economy on a dime". It seems to be generational thing too as his father, Pierre, wrote a book about his experiences in China including meeting Mao Zedong whom he referred to as a "superb strategist".
Something like this shouldn't come as too much of a shock. I think the prior generation Trudeau invoked similar emergency powers, didn't he? Amazing the similarities those two share with each other.
The first Trudeau had at least somewhat justified reasons for doing it, considering the FLQ (Quebec separatist extremists) detonated bombs, stole tons of dynamite, were conducting bank robberies for financing purposes, kidnapped a British diplomat, and kidnapped a later murdered the Depute Premier of Quebec. Invoking the Emergencies Act for something as mundane as a protest is completely unprecedented.
It had previously only been invoked during the World Wars and FLQ crisis. Actually, technically those three instances involved the use of the War Measures Act. The use of the War Measures Act during the FLQ crisis was deemed sufficiently controversial that it was scrapped and replaced with the Emergencies Act. The Emergencies has therefore never been used until now. It was proposed to be used by Trudeau during the covid pandemic, but the provincial premiers were opposed to it because they thought it was too extreme.
A banana republic is a (usually tropical) country that relies on a single export product for its economy. For examples, bananas.
Regardless of the location, that's not Canada.
well we have always used a different definition, its a small country whos leader is essentially a despot. Countries like this tend to be located around the equator, hence the banana mention - they just happen to be know for bananas. I guess if they were a thousand miles more north, we might call them wheat or soybean republics. canada has approximately the same landmass as the US, but about 1/10 the population. people are oft surprised to hear how few people actually occupy it.
But here we are, give the responses here and around the world....this country has declared an emergency powers act, for a bunch of parked trucks (which in itself is but a small fraction of the trucks in the nation)
Yes and such countries are governed in a very poor manner - that's the whole analogy. Trudeau is governing in an extremely incompetent manner. The sympathetic local police are refusing to come down on the peaceful protesters in Ottawa, and he's having a complete meltdown over it
All he had to do was negotiate, instead he came down with a self inflicted case of COWARD-19 and went into hiding
Eh, kind of a third-degree stretch of the use of the term. Just sayin'.
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