Mastodawn

This same US company made the assault rifle used to kill 20 children and six adults at the Sandy Hook Elementary School; trained the four Saudis who murdered Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi; was fined $1.5 million US for a kick-back scheme around Iraqi security contracts.

What wonderful friends and allies Mark Carney is making for #Canada! 🙄

#ElbowsUp #ElbowsDown #Quebec

atomicker 3d ago

Mark Carney is committing $175 million of our dollars to a major US investor closely linked to Donald Trump, to mine rare earth minerals in Nunavik.

What was that about the "Owners of #Canada", again?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nunavik-rare-earth-mining-project-9.7138515

#ElbowsUp #ElbowsDown #Quebec

Canada backs rare earth mine in Nunavik with close ties to Trump White House | CBC News

Amid Prime Minister Mark Carney’s calls that the Canada-U.S. relationship is ruptured, Ottawa has committed $175-million to a mining project in northern Quebec whose major U.S. investor is closely linked to the Trump administration.

CBC

atomicker 5d ago

RE: https://mstdn.ca/@atomicker/116285738153948981

The vast majority of Canadians want to reduce our reliance on / exposure to Donald Trump's United States. Mark Carney, Danielle Smith, Tim Hodgson & co are all working to achieve the exact opposite.

https://financialpost.com/commodities/energy/oil-gas/alberta-danielle-smith-new-southbound-pipelines-us

#Canada #CDNPoli #NoPipelines #ElbowsUp #ElbowsDown #ClimateCrisis

atomicker 6d ago

Mark Carney working to resurrect Stephen Harper's long-dead #KeystoneXL pipeline to send more oil directly to Trump's United States is about as #ElbowsDown a surrender as you can get.

https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/business/2026/03/24/canada-discusses-keystone-xl-revival-with-trump-administration-officials/

#Canada #CDNPoli #ClimateCrisis #NoPipelines #ElbowsUp

Canada discusses Keystone XL revival with Trump administration officials

Canadian officials spoke to Trump administration representatives about a proposed revival of part of the canceled Keystone XL oil pipeline in a meeting in Houston this week, Canada’s Natural Resources Minister Tim Hodgson said Tuesday.

BNN Bloomberg

Émilio Gonzalez Mar 6

RE: https://mastodon.quebec/@lapresse/116184274477957754

Ouffff #ElbowsDown

atomicker Mar 2

Former foreign affairs minister Lloyd Axworthy said Canada is “abandoning” its historic commitment to preventing the illegal use of aggression.

He said it has become a pattern for Carney to show U.S. President Donald Trump that Canada can be a “complicit partner.”

“What we’re simply endorsing is Trump’s sort of new obsession with becoming an imperial power,” he said. “That’s the worst kind of situation for Canada.”

https://www.hilltimes.com/story/2026/03/01/canada-abandoning-international-law-with-support-for-u-s-strikes-on-iran-say-former-diplomats/493814/

#Canada #CDNPoli #ElbowsUp #ElbowsDown

Canada ‘abandoning’ international law with support for U.S. strikes on Iran, say former diplomats

Though Canada's approach to Iran has been 'well-aligned' with the United States for many years, Prime Minister Mark Carney's government has been reluctant to condemn any suspected violations of international law by President Donald Trump, note foreign policy experts.

The Hill Times

atomicker Feb 10

Mark Carney's government has 'discreetly' started to make payments toward 14 additional US-built #F35 fighters: 'The fact that Ottawa has started paying for long-lead items for 14 additional fighter jets has not been made public.'

If Mark Carney thinks the F-35 is right for Canada, he should be making the case for it with Canadians. Hiding this from us is not acceptable.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-f35-purchase-components-9.7081240

#Canada #CDNPoli #ElbowsUp #ElbowsDown #Gripen

Canada discreetly puts money down on 14 additional F-35s | CBC News

Ottawa has started to make payments for key components for 14 additional U.S.-built F-35s, even as the Carney government has been reviewing future fighter-jet purchases in the context of trade tensions with Washington, sources have told CBC News.

CBC

@ NovaNaturalist HAS ALSO MOVED Feb 7

Shame on you, fellow Nova Scotians. #elbowsdown

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/halifax-airport-passenger-traffic-increase-us-statscan-9.7072568

Halifax airport saw increase passenger traffic to U.S. from 2024-25: StatsCan | CBC News

Halifax's airport saw an increase in the number of travellers flying to U.S. destinations in 2025, according to new data from Statistics Canada.

CBC

atomicker Feb 3

While Mark Carney's cuts at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada 'are wide-ranging, projects that could help Canadian farmers become less reliant on the US — a major supplier of pesticides and fertilizers — and more adaptable to climate change appear to be the hardest hit.'

https://www.nationalobserver.com/2026/02/02/news/agriculture-canada-cuts-impact

#Canada #CDNPoli #ClimateCrisis #ElbowsUp #ElbowsDown

My IRL friends call me Chris Jan 26

So no proactive defense of Canada's war dead or vets. Instead Carney had to be asked by a journalist. And no rebuke. This is shamefully #ElbowsDown. Reminder: Last week "Keir Starmer has issued an unprecedented rebuke to Donald Trump for his “insulting & frankly appalling...”

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:icsgkevq6mfyuf5c357xc7dm/post/3mde5b24dp527