My Off-road Toyota Tundra has a very solid skid plate to protect the engine and transmission.
Not sure why there wouldn’t be a manufacturer available skid plate to protect a battery that could burn up the car and everyone in it in seconds. Looks like aftermarket option only
Note to self Never ever go into a grocery store between 10:30 and 1:30 on a Thursday again It’s peak zombie apocalypse with the living dead shuffling around, completely oblivious
Things that make you say hmmmmm !
Carnage had to know that this was waving a red flag in front of a bull.
Grab your popcorn folks , this is going to be highly entertaining!
Dans le film « Le Temps des bouffons », Pierre Falardeau mettait en lumière, avec dérision, le fait que les Québécois sont traités en porteurs d’eau sur leur propre territoire, condamnés à se laisser dicter les décisions fondamentales de leur société par des élites financières qui n’ont aucune légitimité démocratique.
La lutte des Québécois pour être « maîtres chez eux », c’est-à-dire pour prendre eux-mêmes les décisions qui orientent leur développement économique et social, a pris son essor lorsque Jean Lesage a fait comprendre aux banquiers de la rue Saint-Jacques que ce serait désormais le gouvernement du Québec, et personne d’autre, qui déciderait au nom des Québécois. Son message était clair : le Québec n’était plus à vendre, et son peuple devait être respecté.
Cette posture a notamment permis la création d’Hydro-Québec et de la Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec, qui demeurent parmi les leviers les plus importants de l’économie québécoise. La démarche de réappropriation de nos institutions démocratiques s’est poursuivie sous les gouvernements de René Lévesque, de Jacques Parizeau et de Bernard Landry.
Or aujourd’hui, le gouvernement fédéral a décidé d’entreprendre des négociations avec l’Union européenne, qui touchent directement le Québec, sans consulter le Québec ni lui permettre d’avoir une place à la table des négociations, contrairement à ce qui s’était fait lors des négociations ayant mené à la création de la zone de libre-échange avec l’Union européenne. Souvenons-nous également que c’est aussi le Québec qui avait joué un rôle de précurseur dans l’appui à l’ALÉNA.
Ainsi, non seulement le gouvernement fédéral refuse de consulter le Québec et de le faire participer aux négociations, il cherche à lui imposer des décisions économiques qui touchent à ses champs de compétence, en rupture complète avec la doctrine Gérin-Lajoie. Il va même plus loin sur le plan symbolique en refusant au premier ministre du Québec de prendre la parole dans le cadre d’un événement sur son propre territoire où les intérêts économiques du Québec seront négociés.
Pire encore, le gouvernement fédéral voudrait nous faire croire que le fait, pour le premier ministre du Québec, d’obtenir la permission de servir des crevettes cocktail lors d’une réception constitue une forme d’influence acceptable et suffisante dans la représentation des intérêts du Québec.
C’est non seulement un manque de respect grave, mais c’est surtout un important recul pour la capacité du Québec à agir de manière autonome et à défendre lui-même ses intérêts.
La vision du Canada défendue par Mark Carney est celle d’un État fédéral centralisateur, voire unitaire, qui impose ni plus ni moins aux provinces un rôle d’observatrices dans des discussions qui touchent pourtant leurs intérêts fondamentaux et leurs champs de compétence.
Cette vision entre directement en contradiction avec les principes défendus par notre gouvernement, notamment précisément le respect de notre autonomie et de nos champs de compétence.
En début de mandat, il est essentiel d’établir clairement notre position pour la suite des choses : le Québec doit être la table des décisions pour défendre ses intérêts. C'est non négociable. M. Carney l'a bien dit lui-même : « Si on n’est pas à la table, on est au menu. »
14% of eligible voters chose Chow . The 63% who couldn’t get off their ass and voted deserve everything they get
The world leaders who recognized this scam of an election showed who they really are
Let’s make sure the entire world understands. In Brazil, judicial rulings in connection with federal elections are made by the court that has been in place for that very purpose, the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE).
@LulaOficial requested to the TSE that the polls be extended by two more hours in the entire country, citing “transportation problems.” Who controls the transport system? Lula’s government surely more so than a senator running for president.
Instead of waiting for a TSE ruling. @LulaOficial immediately asked Brazilian Supreme Court (STF) justice @Cristianozaninm to order the polls remain open WITHOUT any TSE ruling. Within minutes (did Zanin even read the filing?), the polls were ordered to remain open by Zanin.
The STF has 11 justices. What did Zanin do before becoming an STF justice? Oh yes, he was Lula’s criminal defense lawyer in his corruption cases.
If this blatant rigging of the elections will be used to announce that Lula won, is Lula seriously expecting anyone in the international community to recognize that as a free and fair election? He knows nobody will.
Has the desperation reached a point that today is the day the mask fully comes off and Lula becomes the next Nicolas Maduro? For the sake of Brazil, I pray that is not the case.
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It would have been a brilliant move. I also think the morons didn't have the ability to distinguish between this and an actual vote for separation. This would have been the negotiating tactic that brought them everything they wanted PLUS staying in the country.
What absolute fucking idiots.
Underbid $80k on a $12 million contract. What are the odds that two companies could have bids so close. Makes you wonder , doesn’t it.
#REPORT: The Canada Revenue Agency has fired the Commissionaires, a Canadian security company that specializes in hiring ex-soldiers, and replaced them with Allied Universal, an American company which underbid them by $80,000.
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With respect,
The problem so many people continue to have is that they have faith in their fellow citizens.
They believe that - if only media would stop manipulating - Canadians would see the light. They believe that the 85% can't be real because it seems so unbelievable.
If only the right "leader" would come along - or be given a chance by the media - Canadians would shift course.
They will not.
What they need to understand is that we are the 15%.
The others are not like us. They will never be like us. The 85% are government-loving pseudo-socialists, who believe that more government intervention is always the answer to everything. They understand nothing about economics. They can't add or even do simple math. They don't understand perspective. They can think only about the next 6 months. They believe national mythologies that are not real. They believe the worst situation is a situation without (enforced) rules: a bylaw without a bylaw officer.
A vast majority of them also have a financial stake in the status quo, in one way or another.
They feed off handouts. They benefit from 'programs' - and structure their household's entire economics around them (here's lookin' at you, East Coast).
They start their own businesses to feed off government largesse.
They work directly for government - or did - and now live off the benefits that it provides.
They went to university over the last 30 years and were educated by educators who were themselves educated by leftists.
There will be no shift or "great awakening" in this country. Canadians do not want one. Even as things deteriorate around them, they will cling even tighter to the status quo.
They ignore problems - or they always find an excuse - Covid, Inequality, Climate, War in Ukraine, Donald Trump - an enemy that is always "unprecedented"
They never consider that their own policies/responses to these issues may be responsible for their lives becoming harder - more expensive - more difficult for their children. They will not self-reflect. They cannot.
So, stop having faith in these people. Stop thinking they can be helped. Stop thinking it can get better. It can't get better because the 85% want it to be exactly how it is - or, at least - they think they do.
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Thank you all for your engagement to responding to my post about Carney’s comments.
Canadians really are sad angry bitter little people.
I am sad for Alberta that Albertans chose to go down with ship. Canada treated you like shit before and now it’s going to be way worse given that Dear Leader Carney doesn’t have to deal with the separation issue.
Doesn’t matter what Carney thinks.
If the US recognizes Alberta as new country, there is sweet fuck all that Canada can do.
And if Canada doesn’t want to play ball with Alberta with negotiating its share of CPP and access to deep water , then Alberta can block all road and rail between BC and eastern Canada.
Doesn’t matter what Carney thinks.
If the US recognizes Alberta as new country, there is sweet fuck all that Canada can do.
And if Canada doesn’t want to play ball with Alberta with negotiating its share of CPP and access to deep water , then Alberta can block all road and rail between BC and eastern Canada.


























