Very disappointed with Canada's shift away from official policy. At least abstain.
Especially with continued expansion of occupied areas and Israel's treatment of NGO projects that benefit Palastinian villages that are not being serviced.
As for Trump. He's already defunding a lot of international programs and is on track to kill NAFTA anyway. We shouldn't allow him to shouldn't kill our principals when so much has been made of them with the newest version of the TPP. The US should be spending that saved international funding for similar programs (education, sanitation) in poverty stricken states or infrastructure. Instead the government is considering rolling back to gravel roads in some areas where paving has not been maintained.
http://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.4459354
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Better get in line...they're taking names.
ReplyDeleteSchool yard bullying.
I hope the world stands up to this bully and sends him a message. Then decentralizes their influence in their country and moves on to Independence, rather than being beholden to them.
ReplyDeleteAllies don't threaten each other. I don't think Trump considers us his ally based on the way he treats us. We are more like an asset he is trying to purchase/coerce to do what he wants. Every time he deals with anyone or any country, it's about what he can get out of it. He never seems to care about anyone else.
ReplyDeleteI agree ... Canada should not compromise our principles, nor weaken our policy just because we are threatened by the moron POTUS that he's going to defund international stuff. He can do whatever he wants with his country's money; it's the American voters that have to decide what they want. In my opinion, the international community needs to find a way to stop feeling dependent on US money.
ReplyDeleteMichael Ireland "He can do whatever he wants with his country's money..." - HE thinks that...but embargoing or sanctioning the nations who voted "yes" will involve his having to inform a huge wide variety of multi nationals that they "may not commerce with "yes vote nations". Multi nationals that are also intimately tied into the US markets and economy. That's when the Markets will choose - and they may shift radically away from US markets if their interests are better served elsewhere. Trump is not playing that far up the greens, so to speak.
ReplyDeleteTime for the world to shake things up, and move away from the USD as the standard for international trade. Make a statement. They don't want to care about the world, the world can return the favour.
ReplyDeleteSo we did abstain and I think it is the only course we had available considering NAFTA and they are right next door with the world's biggest military. Happily it wasn't even close.
ReplyDeleteCass Morrison that NAFTA Factor...you watch him dumpf both NAFTA Partners...for no reason I can conceive of, at some random point in the future.
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