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An "existential threat to our sovereignty" would be the US setting up bases and settlements on land and in waters we claim, and us not being able to do anything about it.

A presidential administration is four years long. This is only the fourth week. Buckle up and settle down. Much of the criticism is foundering on the rocks of "whataboutism", which is what critics deserve when they decline to acknowledge the past behaviour of the alternatives they favour or...

I suppose they approve his deeds more than they disapprove of his misdeeds. There's no "this one thing" rule that applies to people.

I referred to the prior Trump administration as a guide to the behaviour to expect from this one. Of course, this time around everyone involved knows more about the system and its processes. If the administration starts defying court orders - and impossible/impractical demands to have...

The prior administration goaded opponents into seeking - and obtaining - an unprecedented number of injunctions, including many nation-wide ones, and respected the courts. We can go on past behaviour, or we can make up sh!t to worry about.

The point is to have corridors pre-approved (environmental, political, etc) for all the purposes cited and maybe a few we haven't thought of, in order to eliminate many of the usual long litigation/negotiation processes that delay project completion. For that, it would be prudent to have enough...

I conclude differently when I observe the behaviour of Democrats and other Democratic party supporters.

Big country, small corridor.

A utilities corridor could - and should - mean a swath of land tens of kilometres wide.

I could wish people would stop mixing up "Trump" and "Americans".

Don't have to imagine anything. Biden's administration obviously had people with "power and access" calling the shots and pulling strings. This is not a novel situation.

So he's not much better than any of the other people in government?

Quite a bit more spicy than "Trump wants to talk about nuclear arms limitations", which would have been soft music in the ears of 1980s leftists. We'll see how it is presented today.

The only thing this distraction - that US Republicans would admit a single state with approximately the population and voting habits of California to the union - provides is to illustrate how obstinately Trump can commit to a ridiculous fantasy. That should give pause to people believing that...

Amusing that we tolerate people not yet elected to Parliament receiving privileged information but join the rest of the world in losing its collective nut when it happens in the US.

Naked political appeals are populist when a governing class yields what it would prefer to what most voters claim to want. The more questions are answered democratically, the more inherently populist a system is. Theoretically a polity of technocrats could exist and govern themselves...

An unweighted aggregate is usually better than a weighted aggregate. A weighted aggregate is usually better than any single polling agency.

"To crush your grifters, see their rice bowls broken before you, and to hear the lamentation of their lobbyists."

Business and finance are two different things. Experience and "credentials" are not readily transferable between them. The fundamentals of prudent trade policy can be easily understood. Advanced education is not a requirement. Tariffs and embargoes are self-inflicted damage; the lower you go...

"Would you take up arms to defend the Canadian establishment?" Who crosses the borders determines whether it's an existential fight or merely a change of governance followed by life pretty much the same as before.