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4 hours ago

SO we have an Incompetent & possibly corrupt/criminal government but also have an Incompetent, corrupt RCMP, Border control & criminal National Banks in Canada? This report appears to confirm this & tells us WHY the US government does NOT trust this Government as a credible & trustworthy five eyes participant! What do you think Canadian Taxpayers??? I found this not surprising after 10 years but shocking nevertheless & but for the honesty of Sam Cooper, investigative reporter, might have doubted the total Hypocrisy of the Federal Government in their dishonesty…..

nor the entrenched culture of non-cooperation between Canadian agencies and U.S. enforcement that intensified under Justin Trudeau’s government and, according to several U.S. officials including Donald Im, appears to have worsened under Carney — at a time of public criticism and activism from the Trump administration. “Cooperation between Ottawa and the DEA has never been lower than it is right now,” one source said.

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10 hours ago
August 20, 2025

It’s unusual for voices from opposite ends of Canada’s political spectrum to issue the same warning. Andrew Coyne—a CBC mainstay and veteran establishment journalist—has often defended positions I’ve strongly opposed, from the Freedom Convoy crackdown to the government’s handling of COVID. Yet despite those differences, his recent analysis and mine converge on the same unsettling truth: Canada’s democracy is not what it seems.
The representative Canadians believe they are electing—the legislator who speaks and votes on their behalf—has largely become a fiction. In practice, the system operates in a rigid, top-down fashion that bears little resemblance to the civics-class ideal. The gap between perception and reality has never been wider. That is the real dissonance at the core of Canadian politics. And when people who rarely agree begin to trace the same cracks in the foundation, it becomes clear that what’s being defended as “our democracy” is less a shared possession of citizens than a private preserve of insiders. Or, ...

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