• corsicanguppy
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    8 months ago

    The nooses and Nazi flags do seem a little recent in Canada as well, so, yeah.

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    8 months ago

    Gee, I wonder if this has anything to do with the CPC not taking a strong public stance against political violence and vigilantism? Maybe the fragile losers in the “Fuck Trudeau” flag waving crowd shouldn’t have had their paper-thin egos stroked quite so hard?

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    8 months ago

    it cost only $10.4 million to protect Prime Minister Jean Chrétien

    It’s cheating when you don’t count the PM’s salary; we need to figure out the dollar value of a Shawinigan handshake to do a fair comparison.

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      Also when you ignore someone breaking in to Cretien’s fucking house in the middle of the night. Maybe they should’ve been spending a bit more back then too.

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    8 months ago

    Can’t wait till Lil PP hears this and promises to cut it if the Con can stop pissing on their own shoes and get elected. C’mon, little man, show us that you don’t need no steenkin’ badges!!!

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      Cons are safe because it isn’t their counterparts that are sending the death threats and driving to sensitive locations with guns. They’re are also geopolitically buddy buddy with assassin-happy aggressors like Modi and Putin so no fear there.

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        8 months ago

        There’s plenty of unhinged people all over the political spectrum. All you need is one person with enough motivation and little to lose.

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          Yes, but it wasn’t one person who decided to have a ‘rally’ in Ottawa and disrupt everyone’s lives for weeks, was it?

          That said, it’s also worth noting that one unhinged guy got into Chretien’s bedroom one time. I suspect protection procedures, and costs, started getting reassessed around then.

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            No it wasn’t, but you only need one to fuck shit up.

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              8 months ago

              One can fuck shit up. Thousands, or millions, will fuck shit up. And one is easier to stop.

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    8 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    The cost to Canadians of protecting the prime minister and his family shot up over the last two fiscal years to its highest level in two decades, an analysis by CBC News reveals.

    The analysis by CBC News, based on figures tabled in Parliament or released through access to information to Thompson Rivers University assistant professor Matt Malone, only includes the cost of RCMP protection.

    His family’s Easter weekend trip to Big Sky, Montana this year cost more than $228,000; nearly $205,000 of that sum paid for the RCMP officers who accompanied them.

    Canada’s current tense relationships with India and China could also be factors in the RCMP’s assessment of threats against the prime minister, Bourduas added.

    “I think with more and more global threats, we’re seeing the conflict in the Middle East, we’re seeing more friction among states, inflation, climate change, we’re seeing more stressors that are happening on a macro level and I think impacting communities, individuals,” he said.

    Malone said he filed access requests for the cost figures and shared them with CBC News because he fears political violence is becoming more of a threat in Canada.


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