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M C Wilson 🇨🇦🍁

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Descendent of Barrett's Privateer 🍁 Nova Scotia, Quebec, Ottawa. Public Servant. Wedding Officiant.⛵, 🥌, 🎸 writer of stories and some are true. St.FX.

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M C Wilson 🇨🇦🍁 @barrettsprivateer.bsky.social · 4h
The rupture between Canada/usa will be intergenerational. I voted against free trade in'88 and 38 years later can point to it as an policy failure. Mulroney's legacy must at the very least footnote the failure and John Turner's legacy must highlight that he was 100% right in opposition. 1/2
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Jason Markusoff @markusoff.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Stephen Harper has, as we've long awaited, weighed in against Alberta separatism. But man oh man, do I have to strongly quibble with him claiming sentiment was zero when he was PM. Here's a 2014 poll putting belief in separation at 23%, which is where it sits now. nationalpost.com/opinion/step...
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Cult MTL @cultmtl.com · 30/09/2026
Donald Trump is trying to spread as much disinformation about Canada as possible in his remaining time in office. And Canada’s mainstream media is happily giving him a platform to do it.
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CBC needs to stop livestreaming Trump’s disinformation
CBC News needs to stop livestreaming Trump’s disinformation.
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M C Wilson 🇨🇦🍁 @barrettsprivateer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
How will Canada possibly survive? www.cbc.ca/news/busines...
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Deloitte Canada cuts GDP growth forecast by 20% as tariffs grip economy | CBC News
Deloitte Canada has shaved 20 per cent off its growth forecast for Canada's economy in 2027, citing increasingly tough conditions for consumers and businesses. The accounting firm's latest outlook com...
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M C Wilson 🇨🇦🍁 @barrettsprivateer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
True. Alcohol, which is at the centre of our trade war!
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M C Wilson 🇨🇦🍁 @barrettsprivateer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Everything stops making sense when a product that rots your gut and eats your liver is at the forefront of an international dispute???? www.cbc.ca/news/busines...
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U.S. bans on Canadian booze hit producers on one of the trade war's thorniest fronts | CBC News
As of Tuesday, some Canadian products, including dairy, motorcycles and alcohol can no longer cross the border to the U.S. at all thanks to an American import ban. It's the latest escalation in the Ca...
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M C Wilson 🇨🇦🍁 @barrettsprivateer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Ice cold silence. Ignore this ignoramus. Grey stone. www.ctvnews.ca/world/trumps...
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Trump says he expects Canada trade deal within weeks as import ban looms
With just hours to go before his import bans on certain Canadian goods take effect, U.S. President Donald Trump says he thinks he can make a trade deal with Canada in the coming weeks.
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Don Cochrane 🇨🇦 @doncochraneyow.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Ottawa’s greenbelt is a treasure. Wonderful for walks (or skiing) all year long.
A trail in the Mer Bleue sector of Ottawa’s greenbelt. The photo shows a boardwalk with vegetation growing on the edges.
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M C Wilson 🇨🇦🍁 @barrettsprivateer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It is encouraging to see Canada's *media class* finally starting to understand what the vast majority of Canadian voters undersood 20 months ago in January 2025.
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M C Wilson 🇨🇦🍁 @barrettsprivateer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The media needs to hunt down Smith, Moe and all premiers to confirm. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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CAQ Leader Christine Fréchette warns of risk of U.S. interference in Quebec election | CBC News
Quebec's incumbent premier says she is "very concerned" about possible interference in the provincial election by the United States.
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M C Wilson 🇨🇦🍁 @barrettsprivateer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The PBO is NOT a watchdog and is an unnecessary function in its current mandate because it's a duplication of the roles of the Auditor General and The Treasury Board. Parliament is the fiscal watchdog. The PBO as is should be eliminated. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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Carney government is inconsistent in how it labels spending, budget watchdog says | CBC News
Ottawa's fiscal watchdog says the way the Liberal government defines certain types of spending in its new budget framework can be inconsistent and contradictory.
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M C Wilson 🇨🇦🍁 @barrettsprivateer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Canadians are ignoring both *experts* and *usamericans* and it's a damn fine feeling! www.cbc.ca/news/busines...
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ANALYSIS | Trump loves Chinese trade — as long as it's with the U.S. | CBC News
American officials have scolded Canada for making a deal with China. But the numbers show the U.S. does vastly more business with China than Canada would possibly dream of.
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M C Wilson 🇨🇦🍁 @barrettsprivateer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Did the sensitive parts include the F-35 cardboard cockpit that Pete MacKay used for a photo op lol? Those nightmares were always doomed for the junk heap. Canada needs the Gripon.
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M C Wilson 🇨🇦🍁 @barrettsprivateer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Denmark caved to trump. Expansion of military bases and access to minerals relinquishes sovereignty and if the Danes think for a moment that a signature will respect limits, good luck. Only Canada, Iran and China are standing up to him. There is clearly an imbalance. www.cbc.ca/news/world/t...
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Trump is hailing his new deal with Greenland and Denmark. Here's what's changed from the old agreement | CBC News
U.S. President Donald Trump signed a new security agreement with the leaders of Denmark and Greenland on Tuesday. But the U.S. already had a security arrangement with the two parties dating back 75 ye...
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M C Wilson 🇨🇦🍁 @barrettsprivateer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I wonder what Scott Moe has to say about a lower price?? Will a demand for a lower oil price be next? Is Moe's and Smith's snivelling up to trump such a great strategy now?
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M C Wilson 🇨🇦🍁 @barrettsprivateer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Legislation should be introduced that media distributing in Canada must be majority owned by Canadians.
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Philippe J. Fournier @338canada.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Abacus Data:🍁"Would you support closer integration between Canada & the European Union, while Canada remains outside the EU, including measures to make it easier to trade, travel, work, study, and cooperate on security?" 🟢81% Support 🔴10% Oppose www.338canada.ca/p/338-sunday...
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338 Sunday Update: Canadians Want Closer Ties With Europe
Associate E.U. member? To be determined. But as Canada explores closer ties with the European Union, new polling shows Canadians overwhelmingly favour greater integration with Europe.
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M C Wilson 🇨🇦🍁 @barrettsprivateer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The Canadian good news stories keep piling up. usa not so much.
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M C Wilson 🇨🇦🍁 @barrettsprivateer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This is only partially true and misses the most key points. The president is the way he is because usamericans are the way they are! usamericans and the president destroyed Canada's trust for generations to come. Past generations of Canadians, from which I come, already mistrusted usamericans!
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M C Wilson 🇨🇦🍁 @barrettsprivateer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Scott Moe learns that kissing up to the usa gets you diddily squat! www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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U.S. shouldn't buy 'blood potash' from Belarus, Sask. premier says | CBC News
Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe defended the province's potash industry as ethically and economically superior to other international exporters after U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to source mo...
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M C Wilson 🇨🇦🍁 @barrettsprivateer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
They bought houses and made AirB&Bs so we couldn't afford the houses and apartments that were left.
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M C Wilson 🇨🇦🍁 @barrettsprivateer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
About 10 years late suggesting this but it is difficult to accuse the media being quick to grasp an issue.
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M C Wilson 🇨🇦🍁 @barrettsprivateer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
People DO NOT need or want AI. People DO NOT need or want self-driving cars; internet searches: AI assistants, etc. STOP installing and forcing AI crap that people DO NOT need or want. SIT DOWN stop talking and listen! www.cbc.ca/news/busines...
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'Fearmongering' could harm Canada’s rare opportunity in AI, says top CEO | CBC News
The CEO of one of Canada's leading artificial intelligence firms is urging the public not to buy into "fearmongering" — citing the recent uproar over an Anthropic researcher giving more than a 10 per...
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M C Wilson 🇨🇦🍁 @barrettsprivateer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
It is NOT an RCAF brass decision and they need to be reminded that all policy and spending decisions are made by Canadian taxpayers. ottawacitizen.com/public-servi...
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Canadian military won't release records discussing RCAF commander’s F-35 photo
RCAF commander Lt.-Gen. Jamie Speiser-Blanchet was photographed signing the fuselage bulkhead to be installed on a F-35 fighter jet.
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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Carney's approval rating is 70+%. He's become so popular by treating people like intelligent adults. No populism, no appealing to base instincs, no talking to us as if we're children. He doesn't make stupid people his core audience. He understands there's a supermajority beyond the knuckle-draggers.
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M C Wilson 🇨🇦🍁 @barrettsprivateer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Would there be any possibility in bloody hell that the Danes could be this gullible? www.cbc.ca/news/world/t...
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Trump says deal struck to boost U.S. military presence in Greenland | CBC News
U.S. President Donald Trump said Friday he has a deal with Denmark to bolster the U.S. military presence in Greenland after months of threatening to take island by force from the NATO ally.
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M C Wilson 🇨🇦🍁 @barrettsprivateer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Hendrix was so groovy.
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Stephen Lautens @stephenlautens.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
One of Canada's advantages is that we know a lot about the US. We follow their news and politics, get their TV channels, travel there. But Americans know nothing about us. They don't understand our politics, history or values. They constantly misjudge us, but we understand them completely. #cdnpoli
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Flavio Volpe, C.M. @flaviovolpe.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
At the opening reception of the Canada Investment Summit the PM spoke of an aspirational 🇨🇦. You could hear a pin drop. It wasn’t a pep rally, it was a challenge. Be ambitious, for each other. He walked off stage & shook my hand. I simply said “I’m proud of you”. 🇨🇦 forever.
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M C Wilson 🇨🇦🍁 @barrettsprivateer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Canada needs to join this nuclear deterence initiative. Hopefully a part of the upcoming meeting with Macron in SPM.
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M C Wilson 🇨🇦🍁 @barrettsprivateer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
trump always caves!
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M C Wilson 🇨🇦🍁 @barrettsprivateer.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
This is important. Canada and trust.
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Ken Wood part owner of 🇨🇦 @madhat59kenwood.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Absolutely right then, still right now. I have still not heard any supposed experts, economists, pundits tell 🇨🇦 why Mr.Turner was wrong & how 🇨🇦 has benefited having #NAFTA. They all can tell us we must renew must negotiate. But WHY? Current integration hard to untie not an answer. #cdnpoli
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Charles G. Watson @cgwatson.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Please, no. I do not want to elect an MEP to Brussels. I do not want to be covered from Belgium. Cooperating with Europe is one thing. Becoming part of the European Union would be absurd for Canada.
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M C Wilson 🇨🇦🍁 @barrettsprivateer.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Ignore! Ignore! Ignore! Repeat, ignore! www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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ANALYSIS | Trade 'war' or not, are Canada and the United States now dug in? | CBC News
Jamieson Greer, the U.S. Trade Representative, might not like to think of it as a trade 'war.' But whatever you call it — a difference of opinion? an incongruity? the unpleasantness? — it's been going...
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Rock and Roll Garage @rockandrollgarage.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Iron Maiden went to see Rush playing in Montreal recently 📸Richard Sibbald
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Sharon 🇨🇦🇺🇦🦋 @gingerwhinges.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
When I saw that interview & heard his 🇨🇦s are feeling "wounded and confused" comment it ticked me off. He sounded so needy and weak. We're way past wounded & confused. We're deep into enraged territory now with our heels dug in. He's so out of touch with reality and an embarrassment. #CanPoli
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M C Wilson 🇨🇦🍁 @barrettsprivateer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Canadians are *focused* and *determined* to win this war! What a dolt! The least God Damned things Canadians are feeling are *wounded* and *confused*! This is begging and Canadians DO NOT beg or take a step backward to anyone! www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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Poilievre tells U.S. TV Canadians are 'wounded' and 'confused' to be in America's crosshairs | CBC News
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is telling Americans their northern neighbours are feeling "wounded" and "confused" over how Canada and its economy became a key target for U.S. President Donald T...
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Richard Price 🇨🇦 @voscovery.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I’m wondering if Trump and his America First Gestapo are realizing that Canada isn’t messing around in the Arctic. Smrs for the Arctic 7 years ahead of schedule? www.vanguarddefence.ca/p/csmc-unvei...
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CSMC unveils three reactor platforms for the Arctic, defence and the moon
This is CSMC's clearest signal yet that its Arctic microreactor work is maturing into a multi-platform business.
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Laura Babcock 🇨🇦 @laura-babcock.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Will “Canadian” corporate media ever learn how to combat USA propaganda or will they just keep publishing Trump’s lies unchallenged!? It’s why independent media like 🇨🇦 The OShow are crushing it. TheOShow.ca
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The OShow – with Laura Babcock and Guests
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M C Wilson 🇨🇦🍁 @barrettsprivateer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Trumps caves!
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M C Wilson 🇨🇦🍁 @barrettsprivateer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I will fix this headline for you CBC. trump Caved! Tariffs Removed on Salt, Toilet Paper, Lead and FISHING RODS! trump caved! www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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Trump banning import of Canadian booze, motorcycles, other goods into U.S. | CBC News
U.S. President Donald Trump is banning the import of Canadian alcohol, motorcycles and various other products into the U.S. as of Sept. 29. This latest move in an escalating trade war between Canada a...
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M C Wilson 🇨🇦🍁 @barrettsprivateer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
usa removed tariffs on salt, toilet paper, refined lead, and, FISHING RODS LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL! Talk about caving! trump caved! www.cbc.ca/news/politic....
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Trump banning import of Canadian booze, motorcycles, other goods into U.S. | CBC News
U.S. President Donald Trump is banning the import of Canadian alcohol, motorcycles and various other products into the U.S. as of Sept. 29. This latest move in an escalating trade war between Canada a...
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Raywat Deonandan 🍁🇨🇦 @deonandan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Canadian small businesses have a problem with dependency on US tech firms. Methinks this is an opportunity for European and other providers to swoop in and offer preferential deals. Are you listening, other countries?
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Pat G🇨🇦 🍁🏳️‍🌈🍉 @pguist.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This is how I respond now to Americans who say Canada better smarten up because America is so much more powerful. ~ Joel Shapiro
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Justehgirl 🇨🇦 @justehgirl.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
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John Turner Has Been Utterly Vindicated On Free Trade With The U.S. | Dominion Review
If John Turner (1929-2020) was still alive today, it would be one of Canadian history's most iconic "I told you so" moments. The 1988 electio ...
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M C Wilson 🇨🇦🍁 @barrettsprivateer.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Really? Sure, some weeks might seem more important than others but any week without a trade agreement with the usa is far better than a week with one! Canada was unquestionably better off before 1988, Mulroney and NAFTA. www.ctvnews.ca/world/trumps...
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Why this could be the ‘most important’ week of the Canada-U.S. trade war
With Canadian counter-tariffs set to come into effect just after midnight on Tuesday, Canada and the U.S. could be entering the ‘most important’ week yet in their ongoing trade dispute.
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M C Wilson 🇨🇦🍁 @barrettsprivateer.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Finally! The obvious is stated outloud! "The F-35 has actually failed to meet almost every critical point along its development." www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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Stephen Fuhr’s journey from staunchly opposing the F-35 to leading Canada's defence procurement | CBC News
Former RCAF fighter pilot Stephen Fuhr drew mockery from members of the military community after he retired from the Armed Forces in 2009 when he vigorously opposed the purchase of American F-35 aircr...
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Laura Babcock 🇨🇦 @laura-babcock.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
This is leadership: direct, principled, fearless. This is why PM Mark Carney now is Leader of the Free World. We discuss on The OShow 🇨🇦 Pro Democracy Podcast youtu.be/Cje22Y-jR_g?...
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M C Wilson 🇨🇦🍁 @barrettsprivateer.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Fear not Alberta separatists! CBC is here to support and amplify your propaganda strategy! www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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Elbows up or down? Why Alberta is diplomacy-first in the trade war | CBC News
Nathan Cooper, Alberta’s senior representative to the United States, told CBC’s West of Centre that compared to provinces that have taken a more aggressive approach, Alberta has come out ahead.
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