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Ryan Hillier

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Marxist. Internationalist. Writer. osedax-writer.blogspot.com “Capitalism carries war within it, just like clouds carry rain.”

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Davide Mastracci @davide.readthemaple.com · 5h
NEW: Here are the names and profiles of the people who make up the Israel lobby in Canada. www.readthemaple.com/here-are-the...
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Here Are The People Behind The Israel Lobby
These are the lobbyists working for pro-Israel groups in Canada.
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Yuen Pau Woo @ypwoo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
AI is increasingly being discussed in the context of nuclear command and control. A UN resolution calling for human control and oversight over its use was supported by 118 countries, but not Canada. I asked the government why Canada did not support it. #CdnPoli #NuclearDisarmament #AI
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P.O.W.E.R. @policeoversight.ca · 06/10/2026
NEW: Behind the Vancouver Police distortion of hate crime statistics The VPD "altered their posted press release after the publication of my story, and added a new, more accurate graphic that aligned closer to the data obtained via FOI" @brishti.bsky.social www.policeoversight.ca/p/behind-the...
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Behind the police distortion of 2023 hate crime statistics
How VPD pushed the (false) claim that antisemitism was rising faster than other hate crimes in 2023
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Alex Cosh @alex.readthemaple.com · 06/10/2026
NEW: Canada's Department of National Defence has already more than doubled the value of its new contracts with American tech giants this year. Mark Carney pledged to cut back on contracts with American tech giants as part of a “Buy Canadian” strategy. www.readthemaple.com/national-def...
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National Defence Has Doubled New Contracts With U.S. Tech Giants
DND has signed new contracts worth a total of $67.7 million with Microsoft, Amazon, Google and their Canadian subsidiaries.
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Ryan Hillier @ryanhillier.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Having finally been able to read and digest this work, it is a masterful and vital piece of writing. "The modern financial system must be understood as inseparable from the genocide in the Americas, the trade in enslaved people, and the plantation system built on enslaved labour […]."
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 01/10/2026
it's actually quite striking to me how much the illiberals are starting to argue, quite directly, "we want a fragmented chaos on our frontier, so we can dominate it more easily" feels like decadent roman empire frontier management tbh here's one about canada:
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The Centrifugal Strategy
Fragmentatation as strategy in the northern Monroe Doctrine.
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NB Media Co-op / Coop Média NB @nbmediacoop.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Ottawa is "literally embracing the tech bro slogan: move fast, break things," says Avi Lewis. "We want the government to slow down and f—king fix things." The NDP leader spoke to the NB Media Co-op this week in Saint John, during his For The Many, Not The Money Tour of Atlantic Canada.
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Interview: NDP Leader Avi Lewis talks migrant labour, mega-projects, AI and military spending
Avi Lewis, the leader of the federal NDP, spoke to a crowd of about 70 people in Saint John on
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The Breach @breachmedia.ca · 30/09/2026
As youth unemployment rises, it is hard to find a decent job—unless you want to enlist. Gabriela Calugay-Casuga explores how the Carney government is making military jobs more attractive while it cuts the public sector and abandons a pledge to fund youth climate jobs breachmedia.ca/no-youth-job...
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No youth jobs? Mark Carney says join the military ⋆ The Breach
The Carney government is making military careers more attractive even as public-sector jobs disappear and a promised youth climate jobs program remains unfunded
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Derek Silva @derekcrim.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
1/9 We cannot accept the findings of the federal CASE report. The methodology is fundamentally broken. Its data is highly questionable, but the resulting political weaponization is actively harmful. We unpack why for @canadiandimension.bsky.social. canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...
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Campus antisemitism report is based on fundamentally flawed methodology
Students deserve protection from bigotry. Antisemitism exists in Canadian society and must be confronted, and this study documents real examples. However, its methodology is flawed: by merging critiq...
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Derek Silva @derekcrim.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
5/9 The report claims 95.7% of respondents experienced or witnessed antisemitism. Predictably, media repeated this ad nauseum. But the authors buried a crucial finding. 92% of students who said Zionism was not important to them reported their campus was safe and inclusive.
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Dr. Ruth Marshall is still kicking against the pricks @wtfis2bdone.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Kahanist terrorists getting column inches in our national fascist rag.
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Alex Cosh @alex.readthemaple.com · 29/09/2026
NEW: Pro-Israel voices have suggested that anti-Zionism, the pro-Palestine movement and “anti-Israel” policies were responsible for causing the Belleville attack. There is no public evidence to support any of these claims. www.readthemaple.com/how-pro-isra...
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How Pro-Israel Voices Warped The Belleville Shooting Narrative
Pro-Israel voices suggested that anti-Zionism, the pro-Palestine movement and “anti-Israel” policies were responsible for causing the attack.
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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Important thread of how every party is responsible for the flex of white supremacist organizing on Tkʼemlúps te Secwépemc reserve
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Jeremy Appel 🍉 @readtheorchard.org · 28/09/2026
NEW: Today the Parkland Institute released a 200-page report that provides the most comprehensive overview to date of the fatal Covid outbreak at the Cargill meatpacking plant in High River. www.readtheorchard.org/p/how-corpor...
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How Corporate Regulatory Capture Led to Death at Cargill
The Parkland Institute’s 200-page study provides the most comprehensive overview of the April 2020 Covid-19 outbreak at the High River meatpacking plant to date.
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Ryan Hillier @ryanhillier.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
More of your conversation would infect my fucking brain.
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Ryan Hillier @ryanhillier.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"Automating two thirds of all tasks by 2035" is the impossible future being sold to humanity by AI hyperscalers. thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2026/09/26/a...
And remember most work is physical. An AI capability explosion is first and foremost an explosion in cognitive capabilities. But only around a third of the economy consists of work that can be done on a computer (Epoch AI’s remote-work piece). The rest of GDP is produced in mines, on construction sites, in kitchens, hospitals and care homes. Automating two thirds of all tasks by 2035 therefore requires robots that do a large share of physical work. These robots would need to be designed, manufactured, installed and maintained by the billions within a decade. While progress is certainly happening, robotics development is slower than software development and robots that can do a wide range of physical tasks at close to the cost of a worker are still not on the horizon.
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Ryan Hillier @ryanhillier.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The purpose of a leak like this is usually two-fold. Plausible deniability for your own intelligence apparatus, and the preservation or restoration of the illusion of omnipotence. Maybe they knew some operation was in the works. I doubt that the crucial details were known.
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Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A war criminal, Netanyahu, is allowed to travel to New York and soil the chamber, but the Palestinians were denied a visa. See my 20 minute conversation with BreakThrough News, Rania Khalek and Zoe Alexandra - www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTnN...
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What Is the UN Actually Good For? | w/ Vijay Prashad
YouTube video by BreakThrough News
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Minister Anita Anand needs to do some explaining. Why is an international war criminal allowed to fly over our country especially when our judge on the ICC is being threatened? www.middleeasteye.net/news/canada-...
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Canada, France, Italy and Greece allow Netanyahu’s overflight despite ICC warrant
Israeli PM’s route via four ICC member states prompts fresh scrutiny over their alleged breach of international law
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Ryan Hillier @ryanhillier.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I mean, he did say he wanted a Zionist Palestinian state bsky.app/profile/midd...
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Canada continues to be shameful on this issue.
Screenshot shows the man in Canada's seat looking around at the other countries leaving the room all while staying seated. The country names are a bit hard to make out, but I cross-referenced this against the seating chart that's been published.
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Canada stayed
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
New — I had the opportunity to see NAZA, the documentary freaking out the Israeli government because of its horrifying firsthand descriptions of the way the IDF has used AI to target and massacre Palestinian civilians. My thoughts on the film’s damning revelations, and the banality of evil:
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I saw the documentary the Israeli government doesn’t want you to see
'NAZA' dispels once and for all the myth that the IDF didn't target civilians in Gaza.
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Ryan Hillier @ryanhillier.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"Carney said he speaks to Trump regularly and that they can 'compartmentalize.' He added that part of their responsibility is to work together to resolve global issues like the war in Ukraine."
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Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East @cjpme.org · 23/09/2026
“It feels deeply unserious for Canada to champion its humanitarian projects for Palestinians when it won’t even hold Israel accountable for bombing or demolishing those very same initiatives”: CJPME www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...
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Carney promises $100 million for Palestinians in humanitarian aid, police training
Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canada is pledging $100 million in new aid for Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank.
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Ryan Hillier @ryanhillier.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Anand pictured here pleading with Canadians not to have a shred of dignity, much like herself.
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Davide Mastracci @davide.readthemaple.com · 23/09/2026
NEW: There’s no evidence tying the pro-Palestine movement to shootings at synagogues and Jewish schools in Canada. I go through each case and outline what we currently know to prove my point. www.readthemaple.com/theres-no-ev...
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There’s No Evidence Tying Palestine Movement To Shootings
Pro-Israel groups have blamed shootings at schools and synagogues on anti-Zionists
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Ryan Hillier @ryanhillier.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Canada is less a nation and more a patchwork of capitalist fiefdoms established through violent displacement. It's a colony with an alternative history. Carney as narrator just isn't convincing enough to compensate for the truth.
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Alex Cosh @alex.readthemaple.com · 23/09/2026
NEW: Prime Minister Mark Carney today downplayed U.S. President Donald Trump’s threat to completely destroy Iran as simply “the language of war.” www.readthemaple.com/carney-downp...
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Carney Downplays Trump’s Threat To Destroy Iran As ‘Language Of War’
“Well, there is a war underway, and he’s speaking the language of war.”
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 22/09/2026
CBC News verified this photo floating around social media is, in fact, the man arrested in connection with the shooting at the Belleville synagogue last night CBC says he lived with his mother in Quinte West, Ontario and “formerly” served in the Canadian armed forces www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
CBC News: “This photo of the shooting suspect, Sean Ward, was posted to his father's Facebook page in 2017. (Facebook)”
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Ryan Hillier @ryanhillier.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"Peace requires restraint from both sides, but restraint cannot mean that the United States surrounds China with military bases and warships and then demands that China alone remain calm. Security cannot be achieved through the permanent insecurity of another country."
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Collaboration, not confrontation: Xi Jinping’s visit to the United States - BT News
Vijay Prashad writes about Chinese President Xi Jinping's upcoming trip to the United States and what it means for the future of US-China relations.
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Ryan Hillier @ryanhillier.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This is the "division of labour" policy of US imperial planners being implemented. As outlined in early 2025 by Pete Hegseth:
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Ryan Hillier @ryanhillier.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius praised the appointment, […] highlighting an escalating threat from Russia as European partners take greater responsibility for conventional deterrence while the United States broadens its strategic focus to other regions […]."
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NATO elects German General Carsten Breuer as top military advisor
Germany’s defence chief Carsten Breuer was elected as the next chair of NATO’s Military Committee. He will take office in July 2027 for a three-year term, serving as the alliance’s top military advise...
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Fared Al Mahlool | فريد المحلول @faredalmahlool.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This video was filmed in Palestine. My heart struggles to comprehend such cruelty and the heartbreaking disregard for human life. No human being should have to endure this.
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David Gordon Koch @davidgordonkoch.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
People who took part in the reading included Saint John resident Helmi Alfarra, who was born and raised in the Gaza Strip. “I lost 280 members of my family in this genocide, including my uncle and his nine children... In the ‘Say Their Names’ list there were 103 from my family."
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Names of more than 21,600 children in Gaza killed in Israeli attacks read aloud
Volunteers gathered in Saint John recently to read out the names of more than 21,600 children killed during Israel's prolonged
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Ryan Hillier @ryanhillier.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
"[A] former senior national-security official who has been speaking with top U.S. military officers, said American support will not be forthcoming for Gen. Carignan. This represents an insurmountable obstacle to her candidacy, the official said."
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Canada not counting on win at NATO vote to pick alliance’s new military leader
Apparent lack of U.S. support for country’s top soldier, General Jennie Carignan, may block her path to victory Saturday, sources say
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Ryan Hillier @ryanhillier.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
It's US control over Greenland no matter how you slice it.
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Ryan Hillier @ryanhillier.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
"Frederiksen said Friday that the agreement would strengthen common security in the Arctic and North Atlantic and was therefore beneficial to NATO […]." sana.sy/en/internati...
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Denmark PM says Greenland security deal with US benefits NATO and Europe
Copenhagen, Sept. 19 (SANA) Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said a planned security agreement between Denmark, Greenland and the United States would
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Ryan Hillier @ryanhillier.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
"While Trump 'backed down and settled for less' than he sought with respect to Greenland, he still 'got pretty much everything he wanted, except formal annexation' […]."
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Nora Loreto @nolore.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I think we'll discover that cops account for a non-insignificant amount of crime.
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Ryan Hillier @ryanhillier.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This just came out in the Globe this morning:
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Shooter-for-hire attacks linked to Toronto police constable’s licence plate searches, Project South documents allege
Constable Timothy Barnhardt was allegedly paid by criminal figures to search addresses that were later relayed to hired gunmen
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David Gordon Koch @davidgordonkoch.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Migrant workers are being dismissed from jobs in N.B.'s seafood industry after working for just a few weeks, with their employer blaming the layoffs on tariffs, but then hiring new workers almost immediately afterwards, according one advocate. nbmediacoop.org/2026/09/17/m...
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Migrant labour layoffs attributed to tariffs followed by new hiring raise questions about seafood sector
Temporary foreign workers are being dismissed from jobs in New Brunswick's seafood industry after working for just a few weeks,
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Amina @ayasinvan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Carney is a fascinating 🇨🇦 PM to watch on the world stage, he’s not unique, but he is quite good at playing at being “at war” with Trump. His ability to reassure the billionaire class as an asset manager while making the poor believe he’s wholesome “fighting with hockey stick in hand,” is astounding.
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The Grind @thegrindto.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
In the lead-up to the World Cup, Toronto police built up permanent surveillance infrastructure for a threat that never came. Its centrepiece is a counter-drone system that may be linked to an Israel Defense Forces’ intelligence unit. The latest Cops and the City column by @aliyapabani.bsky.social.
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FIFA Fake Out
Toronto police used the spectre of terrorism to quietly build up permanent surveillance infrastructure for a threat that never came. Its centrepiece is a counter-drone system that may be linked to the...
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Ryan Hillier @ryanhillier.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Keeping in mind that any military cooperation with another NATO member is ultimately subordinated to that command structure, which is headed by the US.
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Ryan Hillier @ryanhillier.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"CFB Suffield's 2,700-kilometre square training area in Alberta is being used by the British military for exercises and the testing of drones and other equipment."
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Canada seeks full membership in U.K.-led military coalition
LIVERPOOL — Prime Minister Mark Carney met for the first time face-to-face with British Prime Minister Andy Burnham on Wednesday, bonding over common values, a love of sports and a shared loss of thei...
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iPolitics @ipolitics.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
PM Carney outlines vision for a Canada – Europe ‘alliance for the future’ #cdnpoli #ipolitics
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PM Carney outlines vision for a Canada – Europe ‘alliance for the future’
What’s happening on (and off) Parliament Hill, plus the news you need to start your day.
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Ryan Hillier @ryanhillier.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The backlash to any criticism of a Canada-EU pact, which is really a burden-sharing arrangement which benefits the US, is unhinged. Canada is handcuffing itself to a bloc of nations in worsening debt crisis and becoming deeper embroiled in a war with a nuclear superpower with zero discussion.
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Davide Mastracci @davide.readthemaple.com · 16/09/2026
NEW: Here’s a list of Canadians who signed an open letter denying the genocide in Gaza. It includes people associated with Canadian institutions as well, such as professors. www.readthemaple.com/a-list-of-ga...
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A List Of Gaza Genocide Deniers In Canada
Thousands of people signed an open letter denying genocide in Gaza.
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Nora Loreto @nolore.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
As Jeffrey Simpson wrote in The Friendly Dictatorship, they are the most ideological of all the parties, with an ideology that drives them to do anything to get elected. That makes them Canada's natural governing party.
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