Daryl

“Some of the detection technology employed by the CBSA includes ion mobility spectrometry, x-rays and Narcotic Identification Kits. These tools, in combination with the officer’s knowledge, experience, training, enable successful enforcement actions.”

In other words, they found it by pure luck.

New Prime Minister, new relationship with China.

China's playbook seems to consistently follow this pattern. If they get in a spat with anther country, the grudge continues until a new state leader comes into play, then all past grievances are reset. Sort of like Union-management - when a new collective agreement is signed, past active grievances tend to be voided.

Given that Carney is devout Catholic, we shall see if his dedication to the Pope, given the very tumultuous relationship between the Roman Catholic Pope and China, gets in the way of Good Governance in Canada's policy decisions towards China.

During Covid, there was a strong movement towards firms allowing their workers to work at home, especially in the IT industry.

Now, we read that many of them are demanding their workers return to the office.

I have discovered one very real reason for this. Nothing to do with productivity or staff cohesion or supervisory efficiency.

The following newsletter article from WealthSimple spells it out.

https://tldr-archive.wealthsimple.com/archive/33-%F0%9F%8C%AE-trump-vs-tacos

The second article. North Korean operatives are applying remotely for these IT jobs, and succeeding in getting them. Once they obtain this job (in large part, through AI manipulation in the employment interview process), not only do the salaries paid to these employees go back to North Korea, but North Korean operatives gain full back door insider employee access to all of the data of that company. An interesting twist on insider hacking -instead of hacking the account of a legitimate employee, the agents ARE the employee. It is apparently prevalent and widespread in major American firms. If the company never sees the employee, exactly how do they know the employee is resident in Canada? Only way to be really sure, is to require them to regularly show up in person at the office.

Although the article is mainly about this phenomena in America, it is also undoubtedly happening in Canada.

As far as we can tell, Canada hasn’t arrested any laptop farmers yet, but we tend to be a step behind the Americans on these sorts of things.

I can easily see why firms would not want to be open about these security breaches, but one just has to wonder if many of the 'insider' data breaches that have been publicly acknowledged by some Canadian corporations and government organizations were not the result of these North Korean laptop farms? Especially the ones that are heavily involved in the 'work at home' culture, or have a large exposure to US-based cloud data services.

This is exactly how the marginalized are 'pushed out' of society. Not by direct legislation, but by legislation that targets them nonetheless.

So let the price drops begin.

Or not.

We can go two ways. Either we squander the lead, or we grow it.

Fortunately, very little in this strategy depends on American investment or American technology. For instance

"Shell’s Scotford Upgrader captured 77% of its carbon emissions in 2022 ..."

"ArcelorMittal Dofasco in Ontario plans to end the use of coal in its plants,..."

"inclusion of hydrogen in the Canada-EU High-Level Energy Dialogue, active since 2007, where Canada and the EU collaborate on mutual goals ..."

"the Canada-Japan Energy Policy Dialogue, active since 2019, which signed an updated Action Plan for 2023 to 2025 ..."

"the May 2023 Memorandum of Understanding with South Korea on cooperation in critical mineral supply chains, the clean energy tran..."

"the August 2022 Joint Declaration of Intent to establish a Canada-Germany Hydrogen Alliance, which seeks to create ...

"the 2021 Memorandum of Understanding between Canada and the Netherlands on cooperation in the field of hydrogen energy, w..."

"In the East, Atlantic Canada’s abundant and untapped wind resources and immediate proximity to Atlantic shipping routes will allow wind-to-hydrogen electrolysis projects to become reliable suppliers of clean hydrogen to Germany and other European markets. Germany has announced its intention to import up to 50-70 percent of its hydroge..."

Are all points that reflect a Canadian strategy to globalize our hydrogen policies.

Incidentally, recent developments and explorations on naturally-occurring free (unbound to other elements) hydrogen deposits, once thought impossible, now indicate that Canada's unique geology of natural rock formations could make it one of the world's largest sources of naturally-occurring free hydrogen. Enough to power the world for hundreds of years.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/bakx-white-hydrogen-natural-mali-1.7094645

And Newfoundland-Labrador, with its abundance of renewable electrical generation, could make it a world center for hydrogen from electrolysis (it is now one of the leading world centers for current projects).

Let's not drop the ball on this one,, or let the Americans take it away from us like they did the Avro.

In other words, some Republican senators still want to insert the knife into Caanda, to drain our lifeblood, but they want it done compassionately.

Take that, America.

Never underestimate the strength of Canadian resolve in the face of enemy action.

The irony is, the only country that has EVER, in Canada's entire history as a nation, shown any intent or interest. either by word or deed, into attacking Canada is ... the United States of America.

No other country has even hinted, ever, that it wants to or will or is planning to attack Canada the Nation.

England and France had a tiff over who would control the land that would be called Canada, and both ended up having a partnership in the new Nation of Canada. After that, they showed no interest. Well, maybe a comment or two from Chuck DeGaul.

Not even in either of the two World Wars.

In fact, it was not until the mid 1940's that America proposed that Canada and the United States should be friends and partners in the military sense. Before that, we always had a healthy fear of the military intentions of America towards us.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogdensburg_Agreement

And here a slightly different bias

https://tbaw.ca/2024/05/08/the-ogdensburg-agreement-part-i-introduction/

Could THIS is the beginning of Canada finally standing o its own two feet in national Defense, after the Avro disaster? A home-grown defense industry using home-grown technology?

The public sentiment is ripe for this initiative to NOT be suppressed by American narcissism.

Dontcha just love it when Trump tries to tell CANADIANS what we want and don't want?

Rather than collapsing, the Canadian economy seems to be holding up quite well to the American fascist aggression.

Canada survives and prospers, America falters and their decline continues.