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Richard White said:
That may be because of the onerous requirements to get one. Unlike here where you can go to a passport office in almost every city, some places in the US are far from a passport office.

That usually means mailing in the paperwork and US paperwork is anything but simple.
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No comment on the US application process but I don't think I've ever attended in person for a passport. We do have the advantage of Service Canada locations for assistance or non-urgent applications. If I need to attend an actual passport office, it's about 340km.
 
Admiral Beez said:
We're in a needless tariff battle with China right now, when we're getting kicked in a tariff war with the USA. We can't win a two front war, and I suggest we do anything reasonable that China wants to open up their market to Canadian goods.

www.theglobeandmail.com

Chinese tariffs come into force on $3.7-billion worth of Canadian goods

Levies on agricultural and food products add even more pressure on Canadian exporters already worried about an escalating trade war with the U.S.
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I agree we need to lift this 100% tariff on China immediately. I don't know what it was before but restore it to that level and eventually bring it to 0% if we can get China to start building EV's in Canada. Canada put the 100% tariff on Chinese EVs in October in lockstep response to Biden's 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs. This was before Trump was president and Canada was still a vasal state of the U.S. and our leaders felt compelled to act in lockstep with the Americans. Donald Trump changed everything, and we now need to start acting as a sovereign nation with our own national interests.

What most Canadians don't realize is that in the last few years China has leaped ahead of the world in producing cars. Not only in terms of quantity but in terms of quality - advanced features and price. It can be said that China is making some of the best and most desirable cars in the world. Certainly, better than anything produced by the "Detroit Big Three". Take for example the below $73,000 1550 HP EV that does zero-to-sixty in under 2 seconds! Ford CEO Chris Farley owns one and uses it for his daily drive. Farley says he "loves it". Wouldn't it be nice if Canadians could buy cars like this?
 
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lenaitch said:
No comment on the US application process but I don't think I've ever attended in person for a passport. We do have the advantage of Service Canada locations for assistance or non-urgent applications. If I need to attend an actual passport office, it's about 340km.
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Even non-urgent passports are extremely fast through the mail. In January I renewed my expired passport through the mail for a planned trip at the end of February (no appointments available at any Toronto offices until March).

It was not marked urgent; I did not pay any extra fee. I mailed my application with a tracking number. It arrived at Passport Canada the day after mailing and within a week I had my new passport in my hands. I was flabbergasted.
 
EBT said:
I agree we need to lift this 100% tariff on China immediately. I don't know what it was before but restore it to that level and eventually bring it to 0% if we can get China to start building EV's in Canada. Canada put the 100% tariff on Chinese EVs in October in lockstep response to Biden's 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs. This was before Trump was president and Canada was still a vasal state of the U.S. and our leaders felt compelled to act in lockstep with the Americans. Donald Trump changed everything, and we now need to start acting as a sovereign nation with our own national interests.

What most Canadians don't realize is that in the last few years China has leaped ahead of the world in producing cars. Not only in terms of quantity but in terms of quality - advanced features and price. It can be said that China is making some of the best and most desirable cars in the world. Certainly, better than anything produced by the "Detroit Big Three". Take for example the below $73,000 1550 HP EV that does zero-to-sixty in under 2 seconds! Ford CEO Chris Farley owns one and uses it for his daily drive. Farley says he "loves it". Wouldn't it be nice if Canadians could buy cars like this?
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Every Chinese corporation, including wholly-owned and subsidiary, are subservient to the Chinese government. That would make every Chinese foreign national, such as an executive, working in Canada, an agent of the State.

You need to get your handlers to give you better talking points.
 
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From https://www.linkedin.com/posts/roman-sheremeta-14972a50_following-press-secretary-leavitts-response-activity-7308625033583603712-1v0m

Following Press Secretary Leavitt’s response to French MEP Raphaël Glucksmann’s statement that France should reclaim the Statue of Liberty because the U.S. no longer upholds its original values, Glucksmann replied:
Dear Americans,

Since the White House press secretary is attacking me today, I wanted to tell you this:

1. Our two people are intimately linked by History, the blood we shed and the passion for freedom we share, a passion symbolized by this Statue that was offered to the United States by France to honor your glorious Revolution.

2. As the press secretary for this shameful Administration said: without your nation, France would have "spoken German." In my case, it goes further: I would simply not be here if hundreds of thousands of young Americans had not landed on our beaches in Normandy.

3. Our gratitude to these heroes and their sacrifices is therefore eternal.

4. But the America of these heroes fought against tyrants, it did not flatter them. It was the enemy of fascism, not the friend of Putin. It helped the resistance and didn't attack Zelensky.

5. It celebrated science and didn't fire researchers for using banned words. It welcomed the persecuted and didn't target them. It was far, so far from what your current President does, says, and embodies.

6. This America, faithful to the wonderful words inscribed on the Statue of Liberty, your America, is worth so much more than the betrayal of Ukraine and Europe, xenophobia, or obscurantism.

7. We all in Europe love this nation to which we know we owe so much. It will rise again. You will rise again. We are counting on you.

8. And it is precisely because I am petrified by Trump’s betrayal that I said yesterday in a rally that we could symbolically take back the Statue of Liberty if your government despised everything it symbolizes in your eyes, ours, and those of the world. It was a wake up call.

9. No one, of course, will come and steal the Statue of Liberty. The statue is yours. But what it embodies belongs to everyone. And if the free world no longer interests your government, then we will take up the torch, here in Europe.

10. Until we meet again in the fight for freedom and dignity, we will be the continuators of our shared history and the protectors of our treasure: more than a statue of copper and steel, the freedom it symbolizes.
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U.S. authorities closing Canadian access to historic library that straddles Quebec-Vermont border​

From https://www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/article/us-authorities-closing-canadian-access-to-library-that-straddles-quebec-vermont-border/

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A small town in southern Quebec says American authorities have decided to close the Canadian access to an historic library that sits on the border between the two countries.

Inside the Haskell Free Library and Opera House there is a worn strip of black tape on the floor marking the U.S. and Canadian border. The building’s main entrance is on the American side, in Derby, VT, but for decades Canadians have been able to access the library without a passport or visa by entering the Canadian side of the building, in Stanstead, Que. and following the sidewalk to the entrance.

But that is reportedly changing.

The Town of Stanstead said in a news release late Thursday evening that U.S. officials have made a “unilateral decision” to close access on the Canadian side. It’s not clear why the change was made.
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The library recently made international headlines after Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem visited it in January, stepping over the tape on the Canadian side of the building and referring to Canada as the “51st state” multiple times, the library’s executive director, Deborah Bishop, told CTV News in an interview earlier this month.

Those remarks shocked library staff, who accused Noem of showing a lack of respect to the United States' closest ally.
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“This closure not only compromises Canadian visitors' access to a historic symbol of cooperation and harmony between the two countries but also weakens the spirit of cross-border collaboration that defines the iconic location,” the Town of Stanstead said in Thursday’s release.
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Liberal MP, town’s mayor to hold press conference​

The town added that the changes will require “significant infrastructure adjustments” to comply with the new rules.

A press conference about the changes is expected to be held Friday afternoon with Boudreau, Marie-Claude Bibeau, the Liberal MP for the area, as well as Stanstead Mayor Jody Stone.
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The library was designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 1985 and was donated for the use of citizens in both countries in memory of American sawmill owner Carlos Haskell and his Canadian wife Martha Stewart Haskell by their family, according to Parks Canada.

The library, which is privately funded but receives U.S. government grants, has welcomed Canadian and American visitors for more than a century since it was built in 1901.

The changes come amid deteriorating diplomatic ties between the two countries since the 2024 presidential election and Donald Trump’s repeated threats of annexation of Canada, and his description of the Canada-U.S. border as an “artificial line.”

Vermont Senator Peter Welch called the decision to close access on the Canadian side “troubling.”

“Vermont loves Canada. This shared cultural institution celebrates a partnership between our two nations,” he wrote in a post on X.
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W. K. Lis said:

U.S. authorities closing Canadian access to historic library that straddles Quebec-Vermont border​

From https://www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/article/us-authorities-closing-canadian-access-to-library-that-straddles-quebec-vermont-border/

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I would be more concerned (but not surprised), if they started burning the books inside for ideological reasons.

That said, it boggles my mind how the GOP lets this go on. You would think that by now, someone would have said or done something.
 
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