A prime minister who keeps calling this a war with the United States

Says he will use the emergency powers of the federal government to take on the Americans


Does not get to hide in a permit clause. Most people do not read Bill C-5. They hear the head of the country say war, then emergency powers, then the neighbour.

The sentence in the clip is about speeding major projects. Cabinet stamps a project national interest and pieces of federal law get stepped over. That is not a mobilization order. It is also not nothing. He has already told the New York Times the military is looking at the tail risk of an annexation threat. Sept 29 he said he has no plan to add trade pressure before the US midterms. So the war word is for the microphone, and the statute is for the desk.

Leaders do not get to use that word loosely. The Americans hear it. Our own people hear it. The insinuation is the point, and he has left it open.

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