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226 attempt ii) walk away from the 2014 Canada-US tax treaty ( FATCA agreement between Canada and the United States ) ( ie Americans and american businesses in canada will have to pay US taxes on their income in addition to their canadian taxes )
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227) Malicious / no compliance with the Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters Act -- either have ministers stop fulfilling requests by US law enforcements/courts or slow response time to as slow as possible. Which for canadian bureaucracy: can be very, very slow
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228) Mandated 10 days of paid sick days MINIMUM. 24 unpaid days of sicktime MINIMUM. For ALL provinces including #saskatchewan.
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229) Migrate ALL systems at Telefilm Canada away from using NSA/Microsoft software -- from desktop use of Windows to email using Microsoft to use of Copilot/365 to the OXML document formats used to use of ANY other NSA/Microsoft software -- complete transition away to GNU+Linux
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230) Explicitly exit the #ChristchurchCall.
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231) Massively increase the funding to the canadian coast guard: at least double the number of people / ships involved.
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232) expand the plans for #Alto high speed rail system from toronto to #Oakville, ON (or somewhere right near it). ie provision / plan for #QuebecCity to #Oakville instead of just #Toronto
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233) resist pressure to expand the entities covered by the anti-terror list, and generally resist the temptation to expand the reach and generalize our anti-terrorism laws to cover more people/things/activities than they already do.
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234) 5 years free university for canadian auto workers. (any worker with less than 5 years of seniority could get an equivalent amount of free university to their seniority). Tuition, books, plus a small poverty-level stipend for student living. Pre-approved student loans for any more that they need (ie in case they have a family to support).
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235) send Mark Carney & a trade delegation to Spain to supplant/replace the US/act as a go-between for all the US-Spain trade that Trump is cutting
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236) along with partner nations in #iran #france #germany and #japan build a nuclear submarine incubator project in some university in eastern canada, along with the navy, to cultivate generational and institutional knowledge of how to build, maintain and operate nuclear submarines. Fund a decade-long effort at R&D, education and knowledge-sharing with partner nations to position canada so that in a decade or so, we can have our own nuclear submarine infrastructure and know-how. (If need be, work with the government of iran to temporarily evacuate and transport any nuclear submarine experts who are in harms way right now)
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237) require that the chief justice of the supreme court not be a US dual citizen. ie require that if a US-canadian dual citizen wishes to become the chief justice of the supreme court, that they renounce their US citizenship first.
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238) hire some ukranian teachers/students/curriculum designers as consultants to create a curriculum module for canada similar to #Ukraine 's "defend ukraine" module outlined in https://poa.st/objects/cb06d303-f90f-439a-8f15-8f27df827a3d - ie a ukranian-language course module for students in #yxe #yqr #ywg ukranian schools to learn how to engage in drone warfare, and use the ukranian tech stack effectively.
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239) publicly agree with Russia/china that UN resolution 2231 is dead and that "snapback" sanctions don't need to be placed on iran because of it, and because the US has walked away from the negotiating table.Generally : walk back from the march 6, 2025 extra sanctions placed on #iran by #canada on the grounds that resolution 2231 required them, and work with UN to bring the US/Israel back to the negotiating table.
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240) 3 partsi) negotiate an agreement with iran to back off selling drones to russia for use in ukraine ( this may involve negotiating with iran/russia to back off *canadian* material support )ii ) remove the rank and file from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) from the *expanded* sanctions list -- ie keep the leadership on for now but make membership in the revolutionary guard no longer a sanctionable offenceiii) with (i) and (ii) in place, make the Special Economic Measures (Iran) Regulations, changed on February 26 & Sept 17 2025, to *no longer apply to Iran* generally: lower the amount of sanctions on iran, work *with* iran to de-escalate the situation in Ukraine.
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241) actually enforce the criminal code sections relating to treason/sedition.
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242) just outright get rid of the Integrated Cross-border Law Enforcement Operations Act. Repeal the law entirely.
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243) set up about 2 dozen colt factories & manufacture about 8-16,000,000 C7/C8/CAMRs
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From UNIFOR's Unifor's Aerospace Industry Policy ( https://aerounifor.ca/en/blog/policy/#pillar-2-workforce-attraction-training-and-adaptation ):>Recommendation 9: Develop and provide gap training>In 2023, Canada added Aerospace jobs to its list of in demand occupations opening up new pathways for internationally trained aerospace maintenance engineers to immigrate and contribute to Canada’s thriving aerospace sector. The program has largely been a success, however, there are sometimes gaps in training and experience that mean some internationally trained aerospace engineers who are new Canadians don’t have the full training needed to perform the work of AMEs in Canada – in other words their previous training meets some but not all of the requirements necessary to meet Canada’s qualification standard.>Stakeholders must work together to design training solutions for workers who have been internationally trained and have most of the skills to achieve a Transport Canada certificate but are missing some key qualifications.[ This is especially true for american imports (eg of humans) -- we want to snap up as much of the american aerospace talent pool as we can ]> This training must safely and fully fill the training gaps to ensure these capable personnel get the training needed to meet the Canadian standard and take on jobs in the aerospace industry.
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245) National standard for semi truck trailer lengths. This might involve increasing quebec's (and reducing red tape), increasing the national standard for safety/driver training, decreasing the standard for atlantic canada, and previously mentioned increases in municipal/provincial attention on road condition/maintenance, as well as bridgesBut generally: as per Trevor Tombe / Ryan Manucha's https://macdonaldlaurier.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/20240430_Roadblocks-ahead-Manchua_Tombe_PAPER-v3-FINAL.pdf -- a national standard
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246) More investment in rail travel. ( https://www.unifor.org/news/all-news/unifor-aviation-council-statement-us-trade-war )
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247) Privatization of public infrastructure cannot be a part of any response to the current climate All levels of government must work together to invest in expanding public infrastructure in our communities and across the country https://www.unifor.org/news/all-news/unifor-aviation-council-statement-us-trade-war
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248) "Diversify inter-provincial transport infrastructure options to overcome geographical barriers to east-west energy movement by connecting industrial programs." https://www.unifor.org/news/all-news/energy-sector-council-position-tariffs
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249) "Establish a Canadian energy and energy products transport system that connects all provinces without transport through the USA."ie replace existing north-south energy supply chain connections such as enbridge line 5 mainline with canadian alternatives.
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250) [from fb:]Continuing on UNIFOR's "what to do about Trump's Tariffs" suggestions [ie that don't involve countertariffs] ...UNIFOR has a suggestion for the short term > The strengthening of sustainable domestic supply chains Seems like a reasonable ask. What would this look like? UNIFOR has some ideas but those aren't particularly important for this post.I think the first step is *identifying* sustainable domestic supply chains. What I would consider to mean 'sustainable domestic supply chains' would be * parts of supply chains that are *entirely* within canada (or canadian waters, or in international spaces such as canadian-involved outer space/Antarctica) * using materials that are sourced entirely within canada[/abovementioned spaces] (perhaps special permission could be used for materials that are sourced from outside of canada (but also outside of the US) where canada has a superfluous and cheap supply of them) * using renewable energy [+nuclear fission/fusion] only (including for transportation)* involving materials that are recycleable using infrastructure available to do so with *some* thought to how it will get there[ie at least a potentially closed-loop process]* made with labour by canadian citizens + PRs (eg no TFWs) (+ refugees/***maybe*** prisoners)* that do not otherwise cause damage to the environment in some lasting way that i am not thinking of currently(ie no stuff like spilling canadian polonium satellite parts all over the northern tundra)If any finished good comes out of such a supply chain perhaps it could qualify for a 1% GST "sustainability" exemption (this would not be a lot of things).A small bureaucracy could be set, perhaps as part of Industry Canada to regulate these supply chain certification. And a small green (sustainably made) ribbon could be made and distributed to any employee who participates in one(as a token of appreciation).There's also other generally useful things that could be done including a bunch of stuff already discussed(transportation, rest areas for truckers, east west-energy grid, dealing with covid, more reliable/renewable energy, working with international partners, having a functioning healthcare system, having a clearinghouse for industrial designs, getting out of restrictions on our sovereign right to have our own legislation by international trade agreement, etc etc), but also in principle "AI" [as Mark Carney is betting the house on, though we may disagree on the "how"]. Open for ideas on specific supply chains that could use extra help beyond this (and beyond mentioned thus far) and other ways that supply chains can be strengthened