Canada never backs down...

A couple of days after the greatest American President in history delivered his tour-de-farce at the UNGA, it was the turn of Canada's dimwitted FM to take the podium. There followed a predictable litany of platitudes extolling Canada's exceptional virtue. We stand with our allies. We don't retreat from our duty. We'll stand with Ukraine as long as it takes... and so on. According to her, over the past three and a half years since Russia's illegal and totally unprovoked full-scale invasion, we've already stood with Ukraine to the tune of $22 billions. Canadians need to ponder that. Given all the things we're told we can't afford, like proper staffing for schools and hospitals, like affordable housing, like pensions our elders can live on, like supports for Canadians with disabilities, like universal daycare,like so many other social supports citizens in a supposedly advanced nation should be able to rely on, does it make sense to shovel $500 millions to Ukraine every month? And to promise to continue doing so "for as long as it takes?" No! And spare me the nonsense about Putin coming for the rest of the free world when Ukraine collapses. At the rate he's going, I figure another five years to victory over Kyiv, then ten years to fight his way through Poland, then at least another ten years each for the core NATO nations of France and Germany, plus a few years rolling up the minor players like the Baltics and the Netherlands. Hell, it's gonna be the turn of the next century before we have to worry about fighting the Russians on the beaches of Nova Scotia! In the meantime, the duty of our government is to the Canadian people, not people on the other side of the world.