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You claimed that the Trudeau was fearmongering. That was a patently ridiculous claim. As for the issue of lack of drilling Canadian oil and gas drilling activity to reach 10-year high in 2025: industry group Canada’s oil and gas well drilling sector is poised to employ more people next year than it has in a decade, but the job growth could be derailed if president-elect Donald Trump makes good on his tariffs threat. The Canadian Association of Energy Contractors (CAOEC) — which represents drilling and service rig companies across Western Canada, as well as offshore drilling rigs in Atlantic Canada — on Friday said Trump’s recent threat of 25-per-cent tariffs across the board on goods coming into the U.S. from Canada and Mexico should be taken “very seriously.” CAOEC president and CEO Mark Scholz said while his organization hasn’t formally crunched the numbers, punitive tariffs would be a blow to the sector. https://globalnews.ca/news/10894541/canadian-oil-and-gas-drilling-2025/

Well, since I've been replying to you, that would be a given.

I analyzed what you said. Nothing about you. As for others not liking mel, I believe that I am almost universally beloved in this forum. I'm pretty sure that Aseannow,com is about toi offer me its equivalent of the Nobel Prize. But the few who don't like me feel that way because I expose the flaws in their evidence and/or reasoning. Or in some cases, as in my exchanges with you, point out the lack of both.

So, are you claiming that a comment here can only be personal if someone knows your real name and where you live. So, if I were to call you an ignoramus, a thing I would never do, that wouldn't be a personal insult. I know that the mods take a dim view of personal insults. So given that virtually all of us here are anonymous, I guess that means whenever they cite that rule to remove a comment or a poster, they are mistaken?

And the irony continues. You continue to make me the focus of your comments rather than offer something even tangentially relevant to this topic. And now you offer crystal-ballism as well. The last refuge of the resourceless.

Thanks for your concern. I hope you have something better to do than offer such empty comments that have nothing to do with the issues and everything to do with me personally.

I can't be held accountable for that party's spelling and I didn't want to misquote them.

You want a reward for offering vacuities?

Oh the irony. You're the party who engaged in repeating the same characterization and I'm the one who's time wasting. Trying looking closer to home if you want to find the party guilty of that.

Funny. A member calls me "mr no it all" and you have no problem with that. But I throw it back at him and your alarm bells ring.

I see you are still a mind reader and still missing the point.

And, no, Canada is not "catching the "drill baby drill" fever too". Its problem isn't the amount of oil or gas it produces. The problem is getting it to world markets unimpeded by the USA. This wasn't a rational fear until the advent of Trump 2.

"He is trying the well-used Liberal trick of fearmongering about the USA." Are you kidding? Are you actually claiming that Canadians have nothing to fear from Donald Trump? Underpinning the energy issue, the poll found 91 per cent of respondents think Canada needs to reduce its reliance on the U.S. as a trading partner It found 79 per cent of Canadians agree the country needs to “ensure it has oil and gas pipelines running from sea to sea across the country.”... Majority support was seen among Canadians of all ages, income and education levels, according to the online poll of 1,811 Canadians, conducted on Sunday and Monday. https://calgaryherald.com/opinion/columnists/varcoe-canadian-support-sea-to-sea-pipelines-trump-tariffs-threat

I'm not sure that the people who actually drill for oil or natural gas would agree with you. But as for Trudeau playing politics, first of all he's not running. And secondly, Canadians overwhelmingly don't trust the US anymore.

I would call counting somebody else's posts obsessive. Don't you have anything better to do with your time?

I'm sure this means something to you.

Actually, you're doing here what you falsely accuse me of. You've got nothing. Not even shame.

As usual, you've got nothing.

You're still mind reading. And still missing the point.

You should tell that to the Republicans who blamed Biden for the egg shorters when he was in office.

Thanks for whatever that was, Mr know nothing

The issue is about the commissions they charge their clients. If the hedge fund isn't putting up its own money, then it shouldn't qualify as a capital gain. It wasn't their capital in the first place.

First off, Trump hasn't ruled out tariffs. Second, he campaigned on them. He said they could reduce or even eliminate income taxes. He repeatedly cited William McKiinley. What's more, he claimed that Americans wouldn't have to pay for them in the form of increased prices. He got huge support from Trumpistas on this. But if he drops it, that's A-OK according to most of his supporters.. Sounds like a cult to me.

More nonsense.

Are you claiming that Donald Trump is such a snowflake that allegations of illegitimacy would derail him from achieving his legislative goals even though he had majorities in the Senate and House? Wow! You've pointed out to Democrats a powerful new weapon to use to oppose his agenda. Thank you so much!