(Bloomberg) -- Canada is deploying what it calls an “aerial intelligence task force” as part of a new C$1.3 billion ($908 million) plan to address US President-elect Donald Trump’s concerns about migrants and fentanyl flowing across the northern border. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police will operate the task force, made up of helicopters, drones and mobile surveillance towers. It’s one of multiple measures unveiled by the Canadian government on Tuesday in an effort to avert Trump’s threat of 25% tariffs on all goods from the country unless it boosts border security. The announcement comes a day after the country’s finance minister, Chrystia Freeland, abruptly resigned, accusing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of failing to seriously prepare for a Trump presidency. She was replaced by Dominic LeBlanc, the public safety minister who released the border plan on Tuesday. https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/business/2024/12/17/canada-expands-aerial-border-surveillance-to-pacify-trump/

Trudeau blows another budget to smithereens with latest fiscal update! 'Outside of this government, there is no government in the history of Canada that has ever run a $62 billion deficit,' Poilievre told the House of Commons. 🇨🇦 #NoMoreLiberalsAndNDP 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 #SayingTheQuietPartOutLoud 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 #resigntrudeau 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 #JustSayNoMore 🇨🇦 https://www.rebelnews.com/trudeau_blows_another_budget_to_smithereens_with_latest_fiscal_update

"You failed Canada," shouted conservative commentator 'Right Blend,' as Trudeau grinned like an idiot. "You've ruined our country! You're done! Walk away, you don't have an ounce of your father's integrity..." https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/youre-done-trudeau-mercilessly-heckled-government-implodes

(Bloomberg) -- The Canadian dollar slid to its lowest level since March 2020 as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government slips into crisis after the shocking resignation of his finance minister. The currency extended its recent losses to slide another 0.4% on Tuesday past 1.43 per US dollar, the weakest level since the Covid-19 pandemic first shuttered cities. The loonie has been declining as the US’s northern neighbor’s economy lags and officials struggle to come up with a plan to respond to President-elect Donald Trump’s tariff threats. https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/investing/2024/12/17/canadas-dollar-slumps-to-covid-era-low-as-political-risk-mounts/

Trump’s return to the world stage – even though his official inauguration is on January 20 – is already claiming numerous victims. Arguably, even the fall of both the French and German government in recent months have been given some impetus by the political events in the US. But one of the clearest victims appears to be Canadian Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, who resigned yesterday, citing differences with PM Trudeau’s Cabinet over how to prepare for a looming trade war with its big neighbour. Observers say her comments in her resignation letter on “eschewing political gimmicks” likely refer to the temporary tax cuts and pay-checks planned by the government to support consumption. She sees handing out money as fiscally imprudent. Given that she announced her decision just hours before she was due to speak in Parliament on the fiscal and economic outlook, markets reacted with a fall in the Canadian dollar (depreciating some 0.4% vis-à-vis the US dollar) and rising bond yields (some 7bp on the 10y note) https://www.zerohedge.com/political/trumps-return-world-stage-already-claiming-numerous-victims

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was mercilessly heckled on Monday after a Liberal Party fundraiser at the Canadian Museum of History, as his administration teeters on the verge of collapse. "You failed Canada," shouted conservative commentator 'Right Blend,' as Trudeau grinned like an idiot. "You've ruined our country! You're done! Walk away, you don't have an ounce of your father's integrity..." https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/youre-done-trudeau-mercilessly-heckled-government-implodes

Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc has taken over the finance portfolio following Chrystia Freeland’s surprise resignation from cabinet. LeBlanc was sworn into the new role at Rideau Hall Monday afternoon shortly after the government tabled its fall economic statement, which Freeland was slated to present prior to her announcement Monday morning. https://tnc.news/2024/12/16/trudeau-to-name-leblanc-finance-minister2/

The federal government’s fall economic statement blows past the previously announced “fiscal guardrail” that was supposed to keep the deficit below $40 billion. The government’s revised deficit for the 2023-24 fiscal year is $61.9 billion – over 50% more than the limit Chrystia Freeland set out previously. https://tnc.news/2024/12/16/62-billion-deficit-no-balanced-budget/

We discuss the new contracts between SpaceX and the Biden administration for rolling out an all-encompassing satellite spy network around the world with the NRO and how this overlaps with the rapidly growing control grid that is being implemented. We also discuss the Israeli government dominated spyware field and how this is set to explode in the next Trump administration. https://activistpost.com/2024/12/derrick-broze-interview-manufacturing-consent-for-the-incoming-technocratic-control-grid.html

Government “spiralling out of control,” Poilievre says as Freeland resigns 🇨🇦 #NoMoreLiberalsAndNDP 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 #SayingTheQuietPartOutLoud 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 #resigntrudeau 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 #JustSayNoMore 🇨🇦 https://tnc.news/2024/12/16/government-spiralling-out-of-control-poilievre/ via @truenorthcentre