Qatar has been accused of allowing terror financiers to operate within its borders, which has been one of the justifications for the Qatar diplomatic crisis that started in 2017 and ended in 2021. In 2014, David S. Cohen, then United States Under Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, accused Qatari authorities of allowing financiers who were on international blacklists to live freely in the country: "There are U.S.- and UN-designated terrorist financiers in Qatar that have not been acted against under Qatari law."[1] Accusations come from a wide variety of sources including intelligence reports, government officials, and journalists.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qatar_and_state-sponsored_terrorism

by harboring hamas, as it has been for decades, qatar is a state sponsor of terrorism, and should be called out for it and treated as one.

nobody should be "negotiating" with the leadership of hamas. this is a designated terrorist organization. they should be hunted down, arrested and extradited to israel.

what are you "negotiating" with? there hasn't been a election in gaza in decades, and these people don't even live in the country.

this is a group with not a shred of any sort of democratic legitimacy. it's an organized crime syndicate. these are criminals and they should be treated like it.

qatar's response to israel's attack on hamas in qatar should be to arrest the hamas leadership and charge them with terrorism.

...in case qatar wasn't sure where they were?

israel has just shown you where they are. so, send them to jail.

i generally would not make israel a ballot issue. it doesn't affect me directly.

mark carney is making it a ballot issue, and inciting me to vote him out of office on it.

canadians clearly need to be re-evaluating their relationship with the liberal party.

i applaud israel for it's actions in aggressively prosecuting the war against terrorism and condemn qatar for providing safe haven to terrorists.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-evaluating-relationship-with-israel-1.7630349

the way to understand this is to realize that the liberal party has essentially reorganized itself as a free market corporation, rather than a political party. if you talk to people in the liberal party, they apparently reject the westminster-democracy rule that sitting mps can vote for their own leader. this is wrong and delusional, and i'd like to see a caucus revolt in the canadian liberal party that does result in a change of leader just to re-establish the actual rules, rather than these make believe rules the liberal party invented in a back room somewhere, but it demonstrates what carney is: he's the ceo of the liberal party first, and prime minister second. the way he became prime minister demonstrates that.

keeping that in mind, noam chomsky explains mark carney in the following clip:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/liberal-climate-change-environment-caucus-1.7625657

history will blame the massive recession or depression we're heading into on these tariffs, but i think it's actually going to be because the banks won't cut rates. interest rates have no effect on inflation, and aren't going to undo tax increases (which is what a tariff is). however, they will always cause recessions.