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Osna.FM @[email protected] · 2026-07-06 · 20:53 UTC

The Kiel-based shipbuilder Thyssenkrupp Marine Systems (TKMS) has secured a massive contract from Canada, valued in the billions of euros. According to announce... https://news.osna.fm/?p=54301 | #news #canada #deal #dollar #multibillion

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C. @[email protected] · 2024-12-16 · 21:59 UTC

So, Justin Trudeau, Canada's Prime Minister almost single-handedly dragged the #Liberal party's support from the public into the basement. The party is unpopular, but #Trudeau, the party leader, is amazingly, incredibly unpopular.

This has been going on for some time. He's got far too much #pride and #ego to resign and let new blood take over the party; he's going to take them into the next #election, where the party will be absolutely decimated [*].

He's getting desperate. Not desperate enough to resign, but desperate enough to be throwing anything and everything at the problem, hoping something will stick.

A few months ago, he announced the #government would be sending working Canadians a one-time $250 #cheque. There is no more obvious vote-buying attempt than this (though it won't work). The country is already running #multibillion-dollar #deficits, so this is just borrowing more money from future generations, with #interest, to give to voters today.

#Chrystia #Freeland, Canada's Finance minister, was against it. The government's financial position then got worse. They *needed* to cancel this plan, but Trudeau wouldn't budge. So she resigned today, hours before she was to give an update on the country's economic status in the House of #Commons, as she refused to endorse his vote-buying plan.

#Astute observers will note this is yet another female minister forced out of his #cabinet. This makes at least 3.

[*] not the literal 10% version, you pedant.

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