Canadians are playing defense. They really need to start playing offense.
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Cancel all Microsoft Office contracts. Cancel all Microsoft Windows contracts. Switch all government departments and Crown corporations to Linux.
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Announce $100 million fund to support Open Source software such as Krita, Gimp, Inkscape. Time to assassinate Adobe.
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Ban all government departments from using foreign consulting firms. No more McKinsey or Bain.
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Cancel all F-35 jet orders. It’s better to have 5 F-16 than 1 plane that can’t fly.
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Put all the top 50 executives from Fox News on a no-travel list. Put their spouses on the list.
“Canada condemns the fact that the Israeli government has allowed a catastrophe to unfold in Gaza”
Right, like Canada condemns the fact that the German government has allowed a catastrophe to unfold in concentration camps.
Okay.
And then they sent troops to help liberate Europe from the nazis.
I’d say they have a pretty good track record.
The point of this talkie talkie from the Canadian PM now is exactly to delay effective actions like that until it’s too late, by which point he’ll pivot to “it’s too late to do anything now”.
One thing is the Canadian people, a totally different thing are Canadian politicians in this era: this kind of talkie-talkie delaying technique is exactly because the government doesn’t want to do what the people want, so they do “promises of near meaningless action in the future” instead to look like they’re “doing something” whilst avoiding like the Plague actual effective action (which in this case means immediate Sanctions on Israel).
I’m intimatelly familiar with this kind of shit because I lived in Britain and this delaying technique was frequently used there (though doing it to allow a nation to keep on mass starving children to death is a new low, even for British politicians).
(Unsurprisingly, if you read the articles about it, you’ll see that this latest political move was started by the British PM).
What will we say about what happens in American concentration camps?