John Helmer — Defecation in Public – Was It Soft or Hard When White House Officials Did It on the Canadian Prime Minister? Is Chrystia Freeland Also Aiming at Justin Trudeau?

US-Canada relations and Canadian politics. 

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Defecation in Public – Was It Soft or Hard When White House Officials Did It on the Canadian Prime Minister? Is Chrystia Freeland Also Aiming at Justin Trudeau?
John Helmer

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The G-7 summit once again made it clear that U.S. President Donald Trump is intent on treating America's allies worse than its enemies. Europe must draw the consequences and seek to isolate Trump on the international stage.

Spiegel Online
The G-7 Fiasco — It's Time to Isolate Donald Trump

Roland Nelles

John Helmer — The Canadian Establishment and Prime Minister Trudeau Aim at Ousting Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland

More on the political drama in Canada.

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The Canadian Establishment and Prime Minister Trudeau Aim at Ousting Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland
John Helmer

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On 10 January 2017 Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau fired his minister of external affairs, Stéphane Dion, and replaced him with Chrystia Freeland, who was then minister of international trade. This cabinet shuffle might not have gotten much public notice except that Dion is a distinguished parliamentarian, former leader of the party and leader of the opposition, and a former key minister in the Liberal government of Jean Chrétien. Freeland, on the other hand, is a well-known Ukrainian ultra-nationalist and self-declared Russophobe and hater of Russian President Vladimir Putin....

Strategic Culture Foundation
Will Chrystia Freeland Finally Ruin Canadian-Russian Relations?Michael Jabara Carley | Professor of history at the Université de Montréal

Phil Butler — What’s Wrong in Canada’s Halls of Power?

Justin Trudeau was banking on a Clinton presidency. Now that Trump is POTUS...?

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What’s Wrong in Canada’s Halls of Power?

Phil Butler

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Dr. Reynaldo Ileto, a leading Filipino historian, is concerned about Duterte’s survival, should he move too quickly with the regional realignment:

“He cannot break up with the United States too abruptly… he’d be killed.”

For a while, in Manila, we were discussing the pattern established; the way the West treats the ‘rebellious’ countries and their governments: Ukraine, Brazil, and even the former President of the Philippines, Gloria Arroyo.

“Arroyo moved closer to China”, explained Dr. Ileto: “They got her indicted for corruption. Only Duterte managed to release her.”

Antagonizing China, even provoking it into a military conflict, has been the mainstay of US foreign policy in Asia, at least during the later years of the Obama administration. This dangerous trend will most likely continue, even accelerate, since Donald Trump has already taken office.

President Duterte’s stubborn determination to reach a peaceful arrangement with China may put him squarely on the hit list of the Western Empire.

Prof. Roland Simbulan from the Department of Social Sciences of the University of the Philippines confirms what Dr. Ileto suggested above:

“If Duterte moves too fast, he will be overthrown, by the military. He is an outsider. Police and army hold grudges against him. Many top military commanders here were trained by the US, and often even corrupted by the US. Duterte’s anti-US and anti-imperialist policy goes beyond rhetoric; it is real. He is confrontational, he is against the US foreign policy towards the Philippines and the world.”

The Philippines in the Center of Asian Realignment

Andre Vlchek

Richard Kochetov — Chrystia Freeland Is The Body Double – Canada Plays Hillary Clinton Card At Russia; Kremlin Suspects Freeland Putsch Against Justin Trudeau

Meet Chrystia Freeland — the Victoria Nuland of Canada.

Justin Trudeau appears to be somewhat of a Barack Obama, engaging but useless, with high popularity but low performance ratings.

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Chrystia Freeland Is The Body Double – Canada Plays Hillary Clinton Card At Russia; Kremlin Suspects Freeland Putsch Against Justin Trudeau
Richard Kochetov

Justin Trudeau...with liberals like these who needs Conservatives?

Canada's newly elected supposedly "liberal" Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, is apparently a big fan of the Keystone Pipeline and the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement.

However, Trudeau supports the Keystone XL pipeline—Canada's bid to find new markets for its vast carbon reserves in the Alberta tar sands—a position that puts the Liberal leader at odds with campaigners and with Barack Obama.

Trudeau has close ties to Keystone. David Gagnier, his campaign co-chair, was forced to step down last week after it emerged he had written a memo to TransCanada, the company building the pipeline, offering lobbying advice.

And this...

During the campaign, Trudeau came under attack by the Conservatives and the New Democrats for declining to make up his mind on the TPP.

Day 9... did Trudeau take a position on TPP yesterday? No... will he today?... #elxn42

— Trudeau TPP Watch (@TrudeauTPPWatch) October 14, 2015

The Liberals’ leader has criticized the secrecy surrounding the pact and said he would have to read the text of the agreement before making up his mind. His party, however, endorsed the TPP on principle when it was announced October 5, saying it “strongly supports free trade.”

Sounds like a "Hillary Clinton" type of liberal to me.