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lenaitch said:
The lawyers and advocates can stomp their feet all they want, but the end point of a successful Charter challenge would be the elimination of the Nexus program. Canada is just a facilitating entry point for one element of the US 'Trusted Traveler Program'.
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Canada should take the patient approach of waiting for the Trump era to end. He is old, even if he intents to install himself as dictator for life, it won't be for long.
 
afransen said:
Canada should take the patient approach of waiting for the Trump era to end. He is old, even if he intents to install himself as dictator for life, it won't be for long.
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What makes you think the US post-Trump, if it exists, won't be a continuation of the same or worse? Trump is a symptom of the overarching decline of their country.
 
Exactly. Project 2025 had 307 authors and contributors. I don't see how America comes back from this.
 
PL1 said:
Hence my comment quoted below:

Indeed, application for NEXUS is done through a US CBP website with a .gov domain. Canada (as @lenaitch states) is a facilitating party. I have a pending approval that I'm contemplating completing, but with the current situation in the US....
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I applied in september for the first time and got my conditional approval in April.. Still haven't gotten around to doing the interview. Up until this year I was in the US 4-6 times a year. Haven't gone once in 2025.
 
Mihairokov said:
What makes you think the US post-Trump, if it exists, won't be a continuation of the same or worse? Trump is a symptom of the overarching decline of their country.
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Also what makes people think the Dems would even reverse half the stuff Trump has done?
 
narduch said:
Also what makes people think the Dems would even reverse half the stuff Trump has done?
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MAGA considered the Democrats to to be "Communist", which if far from the truth.
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Monarch Butterfly said:
MAGA considered the Democrats to to be "Communist", which if far from the truth.
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I'm not sure I can agree with that scale either. It misses a lot of subtlety for one. And outside of Sanders and AOC, Dems are more aligned with "centrists" than many are willing to admit (also see: Third Way, Blue Labour and Blue-tie Liberals).

...but I can agree that that anything that doesn't agree with the Trump administration is deemed "communist". That is, anything from Karl Marx to Ronald Reagan and all points in between. >.<
 
thettctransitfanatic said:

Ugh great, more interference from that mad orange king..
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In case anyone like myself who had to deal with The Paywall Times' hoops to read that, here's a brief excerpt I've found...

The president has been briefed by Mark Penn, a pollster who has worked for Bill and Hillary Clinton, and Andrew Stein, a former New York City Council president and decades-long friend of Mr. Trump, on a range of polling that showed Mr. Cuomo could still be competitive as an independent candidate. Both men have pushed Mr. Cuomo as the best candidate despite his loss in the Democratic primary, including in a recent Wall Street Journal op-ed. One of Mr. Penn’s firms did extensive work for a pro-Cuomo super PAC in the primary.

And in a previously undisclosed call in recent weeks, Mr. Trump spoke about the race directly with Mr. Cuomo, an old associate and foil, according to three people briefed on the call, who were not authorized to discuss it.
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...history has shown so far if this being an endorsement thing for sex pest Cuomo will likely work in Mamdani's favour...especially coming from that Orange Loompa Ass. And to put that mildly.
 
afransen said:
Canada should take the patient approach of waiting for the Trump era to end. He is old, even if he intents to install himself as dictator for life, it won't be for long.
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Or at least wait and see what the courts do with the current tariff challenges - and what Trump does after that. There are impacted sectors for sure but the vast majority of our trade is covered by CUSMA.
 
UtakataNoAnnex said:
And besides jobs will never be forthcoming with a jurisdiction that is hell bent on destroying it's own economy to grind axes.
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We are simply trying to protect the jobs we have. And like I've said before, it's easy to advocate somebody else's job. But you'll find come election time, a lot of those folks won't be so amenable.

UtakataNoAnnex said:
Best we go at it on our own however we can while keeping our civil liberties intact, IMO.
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Are we talking about the country that has spent the last two decades building its economy around a real estate bubble and making some mediocre efforts to export more oil?

Years ago I pointed out that all the perpetual excitement over redeveloping industrial lands in the GTA would bite us in the six. I was told it doesn't matter. People can work at banks and realtors. We don't have much of an economy these days that can employ the population gainfully. And it's only getting worse with AI. So colour me skeptical that a country with a multi-decade history of always choosing the easy way out would actually have the fortitude and discipline to build something that genuinely replaces dependence on the US.
 
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