Peter H Ratcliffe

World peace cannot happen if we allow the biggest enemies of world peace to choose which countries we allow into purely defensive alliances.

NATO is a defensive alliance. Putin must have no say over which countries can join NATO.

Any less accomplishes nothing. Bring Ukraine in.

At the present trend, @PierrePoilievre will deliver a huge majority to the @MarkJCarney Liberals.

At a time when Canada unites, the @CPC_HQ chooses to continue baseless character assassinations and divisive sloganeering, and ignores the calls for security clearance.

LOSERS.

The US is now actively assisting Putin killing Ukraine’s people by shutting down intel data.

Because the President and VP didn’t feel Zelenskyy was appreciative enough.

All those who voted Trump are complicit in these deaths. You voted for Russia.

Canada provides about 9% of the electricity the US uses, at deep discounted rates.

I don’t recall the US or States ever thanking the Provinces or Canada for investing our money into the infrastructure to supply their needs.

In 2025, I feel we have been taken advantage of.

Our US Snowbird trip was locked in and non-refundable and we arrived before Trump was inaugurated. So we stayed. We have bought virtually nothing to bring home.

We are exploring every option to not come to the US next year, we will spend our money in a Canada friendly country.

@MarkJCarney ,when he becomes Prime Minister should immediately appoint @JustinTrudeau as Canada’s Free Trade and Tariff Tsar.

The best of both of these leaders would remain available to Canada 🇨🇦 at this critical time.

Ontario and Quebec are subsidizing Americans by selling significantly discounted electrical power to the US.

US utilities profit.

End these subsidies immediately and charge market value for all exported electricity.

@JustinTrudeau @MarkJCarney
@francoislegault @fordnation

Donald Trump has disgraced the United States of America in countless ways since he first entered political life ten years ago.

But he had never disgraced the nation as badly as he did today.

He has brought shame on this country to an extent I had never thought possible. And he has only just begun.

Never forget this day, February 28, 2025, when an American president abused and betrayed a democratic ally in the midst of a barbaric war with Russia. This grotesque stain will never wash away.

Trump, Putin, Modi, Modi, O’Leary, and Gretzky prefer that Pierre Poilievre become Canada’s Prime Minister.

They want someone that they can control.

They know that they can’t control @MarkJCarney

Vote #MarkCarney4PM

If Ford wins a third term, it’s significantly the fault of the OLP and the ONDP choosing to battle over the left leaning voters while offering the centre and slightly right voters nothing of substance.

Egos and entrenched thinking ensures that this keeps happening.

Go Vote.

World leaders have today shown their support for Ukraine’s truth and courage.

They haven’t folded for Putin, they’re not folding for King Trump.

World leaders know the truth and respect the honesty and courage of Ukraine.

They will do this together without the US.

I have sympathy for the kids who get measles because their parents didn’t vaccinate them.

I have sympathy for doctors and HCW who care for kids with measles.

I have zero sympathy for any parent who loses a child to measles and must grieve a lifetime for their deadly stupidity.

Every monarchy in history began when one man said “I am your king”. And the weak accepted that.

Every dictatorship in history began when one man said “ I am your law”. And the weak accepted that.

The US is teetering on this edge, right here, right now.

When the irrational and dangerous voices become louder and more powerful than reason, it is incumbent on those who have chosen silence as their peace to speak clearly and often.

Silence of the majority will be the death of democracy.

Happy Valentines Day.

Those of us fortunate to have built lifetime loves celebrate our shared love each and every day, essentially 365 Valentines Days per year.

Show someone that you love them, today and every new day.

Love is built by two, one day at a time, for a lifetime.

I have terminated email discussions and social contacts with everyone in my circle who I know supports MAGA.

Not just going dark.

In each case I have advised them, given a clear reason, and then simply ceased the relationship.

You know what?

It’s freeing and empowering.

Ukraine, under attack by Russia, has developed low cost high production rate drones that are proving quite successful.

Canada 🇨🇦 should license this simple effective technology, ramp up manufacturing and provide drones to Ukraine, and also for our own possible border wars.

When the US Aluminum industry stopped investing in new technology and production, sometime in the 1980s, the world and especially Canada become lower cost and higher quality producers.

As demand rises for aluminum more and more needs to be imported and the US will pay the tariff.

Idiocy.

Please enjoy my cartoon for Friday's Toronto Star

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So, while no blows were actually struck, the threat cannot be ignored.

In fact, the threat has a timeline, and if we don’t satisfy the abuser, he may strike us hard.

No leader before has abused Canada in this way.

We will not tolerate abuse, we must not trust an abuser.

We are warned.

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Canada 🇨🇦 is geographically married to the US, but we are completely different ideologically and socially.

So you understand better, the threatened tariffs were a betrayal, a raising of a fist threatening economic violence.

Simply put, US abuse of our geographic marriage.
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Do this:

Every piece of softwood lumber should bear a red printed Canadian flag every few feet. Make it law.

Fly our flag proudly at every US building site using Canadian lumber. Raise awareness.

Subsidize the printers as export advertising.

The Hogue Commission report highlighted the necessity for Canada’s Political Party Leaders to have Top Secret Security Clearance.

Today’s s question is for @PierrePoilievre:

Four out of five Canadian Party leaders have top secret clearance, what the hell are you waiting for?

As a parent who lost a son in a firefighter training accident, I know exactly what authorities should and shouldn’t say

They should say: We will find the exact causes of this accident, and the immediate family will be informed before the public is.

Everything else is shouldn’t

🧵9/9 Canada’s Aluminum
more global, because our production is relatively low carbon emissions and very efficient. In a relatively short period of time, we will replace the convenient and local US customers with a network of global customers with more stable trading policies.

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automobiles, production machinery, appliances, and a massive list of products.

It is the US consumer who will bear those increased costs, so it will be inflationary without adding jobs for US workers.

Canada’s sale of aluminum will grow and become
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take years to decades to design, approve and build.

So, the net result of tariffs on Canada’s aluminum will be a significant raising of production costs and selling process for everything using aluminum being built in the US.

That includes airplanes
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electricity will make building power to expand aluminum production nearly impossible to finance. Also, US capital markets will place AI ahead of primary metals production, so capital will be difficult.

No matter, because these major metals plants
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aluminum production in the US in the short term or likely the longer term.

You need a massive capital investment and you need low cost power to make aluminum, and best if you have access to sea freight for raw materials.

The burgeoning AI needs for
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