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28) Exclude the US from the Three Amigos Summit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Leaders%27_Summit - consider replacing trump with the president of the EU/prime minister of Denmark instead. -
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27) explicitly drop out of the 1971 copyright convention / Paris convention (Which was required to ratify upon entry to NAFTA #1
it will interfere with dropping copyright protection for US materials - if we are serious enough to drop out of WIPOCT, NAFTA2/USMCA, TRIPS and want to do this we're going to have to drop out of the 1971 paris convention
but realistically, so many of our problems with copyright stem from this 'universalizing' agreement that attempted to bridge the gap between berne and non-berne copyright systems and internationalize copyright control over global culture. Even on its own merits -- the goals which it set out to accomplish by existing, it has miserably failed -- canada should have long since recognized this openly and been talking about getting rid of it, but there's one reason why we won't: pressure from the USTR to make our copyright system more restrictive, more maximalist. Well that pressure should now be ignored. -
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30) leave WIPO
fun fact: there's an essay that I wrote back in the very early days of being on the WWW [ it's terrible ] - but we need to leave WIPO if we're going to stop the spread of "intellectual property" rhetoric in our nation's laws. The US is going to have an issue with our doing this, but that would be the point - it would be better to leave WIPO than to have retaliatory tariffs. ie leaving WIPO should be our response to the trump tariff on canadian steel, aluminum, etc.
https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/richard-stallman-against-the-concept-of-intellectual-property/2007/01/18 -
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29) Provide explicit legal shelter for the #fourthievesvinegar collective, possibly funding them/providing government employees for them to work alongside with the goal of having at the very least a pilot project in a hackerspace like sktechworks having their manufacturing process online to manufacture drugs like beta blockers. -
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32) Create a national language program with the goal of adding 100,000-300,000 new farsi speakers in canada through immersion programs, exchange programs, (within canada/ideally within provinces), official education support ie classes in highschool/elementary school/university and generally: make it a national priority to expand the canadian language skill with farsi at the national level.
There's about 250,000 farsi speakers in canada already: you could pair each of them with a monolingual person (ie from the prairies). Maybe state-assigned-farsi-gf goes too far but just saying: there's plenty of young farsi women and young monolingual english saskatchewan farmboys/alberta oil workers who could be learning a language, and vice versa. Something like an english-farsi katimavik-like program maybe. All voluntary of course. -
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31) Bring in everyone involved in truemaple and put them under watch. Ankle bracelets or prison. -
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34)
@rms 's idea:
Promote a made-in-canada, ****free software**** app store as official government policy for all 'smartphones'. Require apple/android to both support it.
Release all government apps on it. Maybe work directly with @fdroid@floss.social or even @pluralistic / @fsf to make this happen and make sure it's not just a step backwards into a dystopian hellscape.
https://mastodon.xyz/@rms/114152643997620888 -
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33) Invoke Article 4 of the North Atlantic treaty. -
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36) Remove the part from the preclearance act of 2016 (C-23 2017) where it says that canadian police/CBSA are authorized to do what US officials tell them in carrying out the duties required to make prescreening work. Let the americans do their own busywork with their own employees if they want prescreening work to be done at all. -
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35) x-post from fb:
Instead of proposing an alternative solution to the tariff situation(which I've been posting every day for awhile) I'm going to go in a slightly different direction today. For suggestions on "what to do instead" see just about anything I've posted in this thread and for "but we have to do something" see above in this thread.
Apparently on the TV news, especially the business news networks, the americans have brought in a variety of business "experts" and propagandists. What they are saying to their viewers, one after another is that "canada can't win, the US is too strong, trump's dick is too big, US tariffs are harming us too much, we have to give in and do everything trump wants us to and kiss his ring"
This is somewhere between a black and white fallacy/false dillema[2]("our choice is either to tariff back or kiss his ring"), a argumentum ad baculum[4]("let us grab you by the beaver [or we'll hurt you]") a hasty generalization[5]("we can't win with tariffs therefor there's nothing we can do") and generally not the *only* way to look at the situation.
It's clear that the trumpists PR agencies are masters at framing and what they are trying to do is to instill Fear and Doubt into canada at the prospect of taking our future into our own hands. Also it's trying to tie a bad response (retaliatory tariffs) as the *only* response because sooner or later it's going to be clear to us that our own response *is harming us* and so we will eventually stop doing it. Once we stop with the retaliatory tariffs there will be some in canada who will be tempted to just give in everything and give trump and the american government whatever they want -- but this is a mistake.
because it is possible to hold these two premises
* We shouldn't *have* retaliatory tariffs
AND
* We should resist trump's attempt at taking over the country
as well it is possible to admit two things
* It is a bad idea to have retaliatory tariffs (IS)
* We should resist trump's attempt at taking over the country (OUGHT)
(Note the existence of an "IS" and an "OUGHT" above - one of them is a positive claim, the other is a call for action -- this is an is-ought problem[1] - again something that could in principle be bridged but which at least as stated above, and which as stated on TV by appeasers/propagandists certainly isn't).
Generally: don't believe the hype. North Korea survived as an independent nation for generations against the fact of US attempting to overthrow its government and replace it with a friendly regime. Granted: their standard of living is low, and they have a dictator, and have allied themselves with china to some extent, and now have nuclear weapons... but they are living proof that just about no matter what trump does it is *our choice* at the end of the day what happens to our nation. We *can* survive trump's tariffs, and we can even survive our own stupid retaliatory tariff response (though both will be painful). We can also make life increasingly difficult for the US government via a lot of actions of our own. Resistance is fertile[6] for generating more solidarity, more ideas for resistance and for getting closer to having more practice at self-government generally. We *never* need to "kiss the ring" and acquiesce to the demands of trump and his totalitarian allies for full submission. This is true even if we "choose our battles" wisely and strategically, both in terms of "trade war" (in Melanie Jolie's terms) and otherwise - there may be things that we have to agree on that makes sense on their own terms, or in terms of strategic losses that put us in a better position but those *should be considered on their own merits*. We have a lot going for us as a nation and a lot of potential that is as of yet unrealized - we've got potentially years to go before Trump's inevitable one-big-mac-too-many-event to make his life, and the life of those who oppose our existence very difficult.
Especially as Trump is picking fights with nations around the world -- Canada is increasingly not alone. Every time Trump opens his mouth about Iran(see above) or Panama or France -- it offers us another nation that has every interest in working together with us more closely. Every time Trump acts to restrict trade with other nations it empowers Canada to replace them and grow our economy to counterbalance them. The scales, globally are already close to tipping. If we can continue to mostly have peace(outside of regions like ukraine) we can continue to reap dividends that will buffer us against US pressure. And the fact that we are so close already to a global order shift is a sign worthy of hope that their strength will falter.
Canada should not relish struggle over our own independence with the US government. What we're going through is already ugly and can get more ugly. We should be working together with the US to pursue our shared, common goals as two nations with a somewhat shared history, similar cultures, similar aspirations, similar problems and similar limitations. But if Trump and the GOP want to pressure us into bending to his will, we can resist. We should expect the US to use PR and propaganda against us. We should expect that PR to make it look like not just victory but our own survival as an independent nation is impossible. Because that's what Trump wants.
And we should never confuse what Trump wants for what we're going to do.
[1] is https://yewtu.be/watch?v=-44Xnj93Lag&pp=ygUNdXJlZ2luYTEyMCBpcw%3D%3D
[2] false dilemma https://yewtu.be/watch?v=5DmxB9UFFcg&t=1s&pp=ygUQdXJlZ2luYTEyMCBmYWxzZQ%3D%3D
[3] false equivalent https://yewtu.be/watch?v=uMGuCke3wvQ&t=1s&pp=ygUQdXJlZ2luYTEyMCBmYWxzZQ%3D%3D
[4] baculum https://yewtu.be/watch?v=DeOkjDEgWy4&t=5s&pp=ygUSdXJlZ2luYTEyMCBiYWN1bHVt
[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faulty_generalization
[6] anarchism, sec j 15 (apt-get install anarchism to install) -
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38) support rural broadband, including but not limited to places where starlink use is largest [ie work on replacing starlink with other, more reliable options]. Consider making high speed rural broadband / wireless internet connections *free*, a perk of living in the north. -
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37) Explicitly end and forbid JTF2 participation in US military related activity. -
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40) work with other nations who have rocket launch platforms, such as japan, instead of NASA/cape Canaveral both for potential canadian rockets and for their nations rockets to launch canadian objects into space, and their own objects into space.
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39)
change the recommendation for the GHPIN 1.4 of the auditor general's 2021 final report on the failure at GHPIN from
> > 1.4 The Public Health Agency of Canada should actively seek out partnerships and collaboration to leverage for the GPHIN platform more sophisticated technology and methodology used by different sectors, including academia and the private sector, while ensuring retention of key intellectual property and the ability to modify and improve the system in a timely manner.
to
1.4 The Public Health Agency of Canada should actively seek out partnerships and collaboration to leverage for the GPHIN platform more sophisticated technology and methodology used by different sectors, including academia and the private sector, while using free software, run on publicly owned infrastructure, sharing data with canadian academia under free licenses
or something like it
generally (from fb):
> In other words what they are really talking about by using the term "intellectual property" is the use of outsourcing contracts to restrict what GHPIN can do with their own data, and what academics can use of *their* data using things like reachthrough agreements[3]. Their use of software/platform from the unfortunately named proprietary OpenText was the problem -- they are yet another example of a government organization that relied on proprietary software from a vendor as a central point of failure. This reliance on outsourced IT infrastructure (which, incidentally occurred under Harper's watch) was part of why GPHIN was allowed to fail. It's a lesson that GHPIN hasn't learned yet, since their solution to "OpenText" was to originally bring in more infrastructure in-house to Shared Systems canada, but that failed, so they went back "to the cloud". AKA someone else's computer system, probably Amazon/Google.
> We should ensure that the software that they use is free software, run on canada's *own* infrastructure and not "the cloud". Trusting "the cloud" when the US is capable of turning off canada's access to it is a huge mistake.
ie : what canada has been trying to do since 2021 or so is migrate GHPIN "to the cloud", and to restrict what academics can do when they work with GHPIN. Both of these things are broken and shortsighted, and we should stop both, and fix the issues that would cause either to be a problem rather than group the whole set of problems under "intellectual property"
[3] #sciencemart https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2124675550 -
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46) Get rid of any group on the terrorist group list that was put there at the behest of the US government. [This includes the cartels] -
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47) require all US citizens (incl dual citizens) to register with the government like canadians have to do in the US within the next 30 days. [And of course, get [anal] tested for covid while they are reporting] -
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50) no US-VISIT use on canadian soil. ie no biometric tagging of canadian citizens who travel to the US by canadian officials for the US government or US officials on canadian soil #USVISIT -
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(3 things today because 1- yesterday was april fools day 2- new wave of tariffs today 3- your normal "what we should be doing instead of retaliatory tariffs" thing)
52) invoke the 1984 Convention Against Torture against the US both in the UN and on the government of canada website (ie especially the part about
"Ongoing Designation of the United States : The United States continues to meet the requirements for designation as a safe third country." https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/corporate/mandate/policies-operational-instructions-agreements/agreements/safe-third-country-agreement.html )
53) invoke the 1951/1967 Conventions for Refugees against the US both in the UN and on the government of canada website (ie especially the part about
"Ongoing Designation of the United States : The United States continues to meet the requirements for designation as a safe third country." https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/corporate/mandate/policies-operational-instructions-agreements/agreements/safe-third-country-agreement.html )
54) walk away from the the Canada-US Safe Third Country Agreement -
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57) ban canadian government departments from using twitter. Use either fedi, bluesky or threads or their own website -- no more using twitter by the government. -
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58) side note: 100% tariffs on tesla: are OK because they *only* affect proprietary software, which should probably be illegal anyway
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