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Not sure why this is getting downvoted, the Canadian housing market has been the place to park foreign money for years. Is one of the main reasons why Vancouver is so expensive. You can correlate the price of housing in BC to Xi’s crackdowns, Brexit, or MBS taking over in Saudi. Also true for BTC.

Send some goofball nephew from China/India/Russia/etc. to school at Simon Frasier or whatever D-tier local school is in Richmond BC so that the proiperty is occupied, then take a reverse mortgage out against that and buy more property. Funnel money through said nephew to pay off the mortgage, then rent out the other properties. Or create shell companies in BC, have them cut deals with foreign companies, fail to deliver, lose a court case, and then have the court rulings sent to the BC company tax free since settlements aren’t taxed.

Generally true in the GTA, and the big Alberta cities to lesser extents.

eh not so sure. China has explicitly tried very hard to portray the west as racist and crime ridden to ensure that their best and brightest who go to foreign schools come home. They then started setting up secret policing in Canada and the US when those efforts didn’t work well.

India has been doing the same, trying to claw back their own and limit the influence of their citizens abroad. Especially cuz those citizens are often educated and wealthy. Saw something in the US about how Indians are, overall, the wealthiest group since there are relatively few of them compared to other minorities, and they’re overwhelmingly in STEM or other lucrative fields.

it ain’t the white ones who are going, it’s the 2nd generation (or later) Indians in Canada who may have issues. “with us or against us, pick a side, otherwise you’re not going to visit Grandma”

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Plenty of sit down restaurants too. Your side of veggies or mash potatoes came in a plastic container with butter and salt added, and is then microwaved. Nicer places will often finish some of those sides on a grill or stovetop, but you already got plastic’d

the wax was a sealant to make it easy to ship and prevent rotting. “one bad apple spoils the bunch” literally, so coat em in wax so the mould doesn’t spread as much.

Since we’re adding wiki articles, this sort of threat feeds into the idea of Stochastic Terrorism

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

credit to @sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz who posted it before

It would make sense for them to double and triple check everything, dot all their i’s and cross all their t’s, and make sure everything is as utterly airtight as they can make it.

absolutely. and he got impeached twice, so he’s been playing safe.

The president also is ultimately the head of the “Departments” to include the Dept of Defense. All of the clearances and document classifications exist via presidential authority, so there are some genuine questions as to if a President can snap his fingers and change a classification, and how those rules interact with other laws about unauthorized disclosures. Which is also why Trump getting elected was such a coup for the Russians, as was a strongly Republican Supreme Court (who could bail him out if/when it gets to SCOTUS).

The largest voting bloc is independent, by a significant margin

If “Left Blank” was a candidate in the 2016 election it would have beaten Trump and Hilary in several states.

Which is also a sign of how hilariously unpopular the Hil-Dog was.

Everything the GOP does makes sense when you filter it through a “do our big domestic or foreign doners ?” lens.

And remember the biggest foreign doners would be folks like China, Putin, and the House of Saud, who wanna get paid and see the US Gov collapse.