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The USA is a fantastic ally! When a small aircraft was recently hijacked from Vancouver international airport, guess which Air Force came to our rescue? Thank you!!

While there’s a lot of news and media about trade wars with the USA, the vast majority 85% of it remains under the free trade agreement. China does not even come close to a free and open market for us and their state sponsored corporate espionage is a real and growing danger.

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Neither here nor there, but the plane was hijacked in Victoria and then flown over to Vancouver.

(Only picking this particular nit because, as a Victorian, we constantly live in the shadow of our bigger brother, so I need to shout us out when I can. And I fly out of the flying club that the plane was hijacked from, so it's a story that's particularly close to my heart.)

They might be more worried about the recent attempts to annex them.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/25/donald...

China didn't strongly suggest that Canada should become its 23rd or 24th province. Also, if the USA keeps dipping its feet into fascism every other 4 year election cycle, every other western democracy is going to start pumping lots of resources into a plan B

>China didn't strongly suggest that Canada should become its 23rd or 24th province.

China ransacked and then sank Nortel.

So? If we are going to talk about economic damage, the USA isn't going to come up looking better.

In what world? We never had free and open access to Chinas markets and they conduct massive amounts of corporate espionage and state sponsored cyberattacks against our companies daily.

I'd imagine the threats of annexation are more concerning than the tariffs.

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