however, the bill to lift inter-provincial trade barriers is likely a mistake and should be slowed down, amended or blocked by the senate.

this is a change that will have winners and losers and is being rushed through without study and requires some sober second thought.

it is extremely important that canada maintain good relations with india. trudeau's butthurt response to not getting a trade deal with india was childish, immature and stupid. carney is right on this.

i also support the parliament sitting through the summer. these kids blew the semester; they should go to summer school to catch up.

almost all trade in and out of china goes through the malacca strait in indonesia. if india and the us could together blockade that narrow strait, the chinese would be fucked.

for that reason - and this isn't the only issue but it's currently the most important one - the chinese are trying to smash their way through myanmar to the indian ocean to build a port, much as the russians were trying to do in afghanistan during the great game. they face overt and covert opposition to this by british, american and indian forces operating in myanmar. british infiltration of myanmar is particularly profound and particularly deep; this is the most recent iteration of a conflict between the british and chinese that goes back to the 1700s, and predates the revolutionary war in the united states.

it's not well known that there were indian regiments in the british garrison during the american revolutionary war - that indian troops fought on the side of the british. this is in addition to the native american forces.

however, that isn't what the order is about. the order is about overstays. it is reasonable for the americans to send a strong message to countries that don't respect their international agreements. canada also has a serious overstay problem that needs to be addressed, but i wouldn't propose a total ban, as that is neither fair to those that do follow the rules, nor is it really in our self-interest.

it's not a policy i would support, advance or implement if i were running the world (i would rather focus on foreign aid work and nation-building, which was working in afghanistan before dhimmi joe pulled out), but i can understand why some of the countries are on the recently published travel ban list. i couldn't understand why some of the others were. i understand that burma is undergoing some political instability, and that this is tied into a geopolitical struggle between the us-uk and the chinese (people forget that burma (myanmar) was the easternmost section of the british india, and split off because it was buddhist (while pakistan and bangladesh were split off due to being muslim)), but i have never heard of any kind of burmese instability exported to the west in any way.

so i looked up the order.

(i)   According to the Overstay Report, Burma had a B‑1/B-2 visa overstay rate of 27.07 percent and an F, M, and J visa overstay rate of 42.17 percent.  Additionally, Burma has historically not cooperated with the United States to accept back their removable nationals.

(ii)  The entry into the United States of nationals of Burma as immigrants and nonimmigrants is hereby fully suspended.

well, presuming that is actually true, it's a reasonable justification.