Juno News - November 21, 2025JD Vance BLASTS Canada’s mass immigration agenda
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Well, don t blame us for your problems, Canada. So says U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance in a shot across the bow to liberal voters, wide open immigration, and the CBC. In a post on Medium, Vance writes, And with all due respect to my Canadian friends whose politics focus obsessively on the United States, your stagnating living standards have nothing to do with Donald Trump or whatever boogeyman the CBC tells you to blame. The fault lies with your leadership elected by you.
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And welcome to Straight Up with Mark Petrone. I'm your host.
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Well, don't blame us for your problems, Canada.
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So says U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance in a shot across the bow to liberal voters,
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And with all due respect to my Canadian friends whose politics focus obsessively on the United States,
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your stagnating living standards have nothing to do with Donald Trump
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or whatever boogeyman the CBC tells you to blame.
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The fault lies with your leadership elected by you.
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Vance was responding to economic data suggesting living standards in Canada have declined because of leftist policies.
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no nation has leaned more into diversity is our strength.
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We have a salad bowl, immigration insanity, than Canada.
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It has the highest foreign share of the population in the entire G7,
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The U.S. economy has continued to outperform Canada over the last decade,
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leading to a widening living standard gap between the two countries.
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Well, B.C. Premier David Evey says Alberta, Saskatchewan, and the Kearney government
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He's already voiced his opposition to a pipeline
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and a proposed lifting of a ban on tanker traffic off the northern coast of B.C.
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We have four times more major projects on the board than any other province in Canada,
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and the vast majority of those projects rely on the support of the coastal First Nations,
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for whom the oil tanker ban is the sole reason why they're able to tolerate those other projects.
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So this is a broadside attack on an oil tanker ban
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that is the foundation of economic growth mapped out for the entire country
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For his part, Conservative House leader Andrew Scheer says
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considering the Americans have been going there for years.
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While the Liberals have made it illegal for Canadian companies
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U.S. tankers can continue to travel off B.C.'s coast
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and take their oil to countries around the world.
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As we speak, the U.S. crude oil tanker California
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is traveling from Tacoma to Alaska along that west coast.
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Why are the Liberals keeping in a law that prevents Canada from exporting our oil
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while U.S. tankers travel through the exact same place?
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Well, despite the setbacks and opposition to a pipeline from B.C. and Ottawa,
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Alberta Premier Daniel Smith says she remains hopeful.
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What else would it take then for you to get to that MOU with Ottawa,
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which was one of the deadlines he'd set for new major projects.
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We know that we've got a little bit more work to do on the technical side
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for consideration to the major projects office.
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And if we do get to an agreement with the federal government,
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But I remain very hopeful as our negotiations continue.
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Now, British Columbia has offered to support increasing oil capacity
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but Daniel Smith says that's just not good enough.
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I'm now joined by former public affairs officer for the Air Force
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Well, we're going to get to the F-35s in a minute,
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but I've got to ask you about this J.D. Vance clip,
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which shows that Canada, in terms of our standard of living,
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has been on the decline now for at least 10 years.
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He says, you know, you're the ones who pick these leaders,
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And this started with Justin Trudeau 10 years ago in October.
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It's continued with his successor, Mark Carney,
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I hear this from conservatives saying, no, I'm sorry.
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He's smarter than Justin Trudeau, a lot smarter than Justin Trudeau,
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His end game has nothing to do with Canadian sovereignty against the U.S.
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His end game has nothing to do with a stronger economy.
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His end game is the absolute destruction of the Canadian economy
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and the subservience of the United States to China.
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Because for a decade now, Mark Carney has argued that the Chinese yuan
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should replace the U.S. dollar as the global currency,
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and that China should replace the United States as the economic engine of change
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So Mark Carney is certainly achieving his ends.
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What people don't understand is that those ends have nothing to do
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with why Mark Carney was elected as prime minister.
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These 65 years and older people who voted for Mark Carney in large numbers,
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they thought he was going to be a return to normalcy.
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That's the last thing Mark Carney wants is a return to normalcy.
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This is a takeover of your economy by Brookfield and other agents who Mark Carney controls.
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And I think what this says is that Vance and others in the United States
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are getting tired of Canada using Donald Trump as an excuse,
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your stagnating standards have nothing to do with Donald Trump.
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Or whatever boogeyman the CBC tells you to blame.
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The fault lies with your leadership elected by you.
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And so he's basically pointing a finger at the electorate,
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saying you're responsible because of who you voted for.
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And so this is going to speak directly to Canadians.
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You know, you made your choice and you are paying for it.
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And the other side of it, as I said, is the Americans probably growing a little weary
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with the fact that, you know, everything that happens in Canada somehow is their fault.
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Well, clearly, that's the message from the liberal media,
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They love to blame Canada for all the bad things that happen.
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Canada exports a lot of its crazy ideology, its crazy woke policies.
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And as much as you don't like Donald Trump on tariffs right now,
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and I think he's, I think just like he did on Epstein,
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Epstein, excuse me, he's going to, he's going to wake up one day and say,
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you know, I don't think the tariffs are such a good idea the way I've applied them.
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He did a U-turn on Epstein because he realized he couldn't get away with it.
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Few presidents realize that they survive on the basic goodwill of their core supporters.
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there's a hint or more than a hint of greatness here
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because great presidents and Joe's don't just make great decisions.
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And Donald Trump admitted he made a bad decision about Epstein.
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And I think what is happening here is Donald Trump is,
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I think is sitting there in the White House right now.
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And what I've seen on his recommendations for Ukraine, for instance,
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he's realizing if he wants to sustain and enrich the Make America Great Coalition,
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Few presidents, and they're all people with huge egos,
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and they're all people who are very narcissistic.
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And Trump is perhaps the worst among them for those characteristics.
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But Trump is realizing he cannot go it without the people.
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And I think this is a very, very important juncture in his presidency.
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you know, you're a country that has leaned more into this diversity as our strength,
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and we don't need a melting pot, we have a salad bowl immigration insanity,
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Nobody has gone in that direction quite as much as we have.
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He points to the fact that we have the highest foreign-born share
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and its living standards, meaning our living standards, have stagnated.
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So here he is, seems to be drawing a parallel here,
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and a cause and effect, if I understand it correctly,
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he says, you know, the reason why your living standards have stagnated
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is because of this immigration insanity, as he calls it.
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The fact that so many of the people who now inhabit Canada are foreign-born
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more so than in countries where we think are a complete disaster,
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And yet he's saying, we're the worst of the lot.
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And he says, that's why you have a stagnating level
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40% of people living in Canada were born outside of the country.
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That's how bad it got during the Trudeau years.
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We still are tabulating the absolute assault on Canada
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that Justin Trudeau did, and Mark Carney is continuing.
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We literally went from 30 million to 40 million people in this country,
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10 million new people during Justin Trudeau's reign.
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And we don't even know where the hell most of them came from.
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Do they want to adhere to democratic principles?
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Do they understand what freedom and democracy are all about?
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This was the same policy that Joe Biden had during four horrendous years
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of tens of millions of illegal immigrants going into the United States
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because Joe Biden or whomever was making his decisions
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And Canada was just as bad in terms of allowing illegals into the country
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and allowing mass immigration, legal mass immigration into the country
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And I'm not sure that our official opposition has any real desire to deal with that problem either.
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They know that a lot of Canadians have now decided that immigration has gone way overboard.
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like the amount of money we've spent on, quote, unquote, free health care for the newcomers.
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And of course, we're talking about people who are not Canadians.
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We're talking about, you know, people claiming refugee status somewhere between, you know,
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five and nine hundred million dollars, depending on which numbers you want to believe,
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And, you know, and the level of health care that they're offered,
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that we're offering the foreigners is better than that being offered citizens themselves.
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So that to me tells you a whole lot about where our government stands,
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what they think of us versus what they see as their future voting bloc.
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You know, once the boomers, I guess, get so old that they don't know which end is up anymore,
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you know, they can't be relied on to vote liberal forever.
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And so you've got to replace them with a new voting bloc of people.
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Just bring them in in the numbers, the numbers that, you know, are astronomical,
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to your point earlier, and then give them free stuff.
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And the beautiful part of it from their vantage point is that you Canadian suckers,
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the taxpayers, get to pay for the fact that we're bringing in our next voting base.
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But I want to shift gears a little bit because you, of course,
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were in public affairs for the Air Force in Canada.
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And I know you have some strong views about the F-35s,
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because now, of course, you have the elbows-up crowd in the Liberal Party and elsewhere
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saying, yeah, let's stick it to Trump and go with the gripper, the Saab gripper,
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And obviously there's going to be complications because we are bound,
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I believe, and you can correct me if I'm wrong,
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and we are bound to buy 16 of the F-35s from America.
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Now, rather than going for the full 88, the talk is, let's have, you know, a split fleet,
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a fleet, rather, a divided fleet where you got, you know, some planes from Sweden
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Well, you know, as I told you on your radio show yesterday, Mark,
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I don't know where to begin about how stupid, how absolutely catastrophic this decision could be.
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And I'm not convinced, by the way, that Mark Carney is actually going to do it.
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But if he does, why should we not buy Gryphon jets from Saab in Sweden?
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Well, to begin with, they're not interoperable with our principal allies.
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And our principal ally with defense, yes, Mark Carney, is the United States,
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not just through NATO, but more importantly through NORAD,
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the North American Aerospace Defense Agreement,
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which has basically defined our security arrangements,
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And the ambassador to Canada has been saying repeatedly,
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U.S. ambassador to Canada has been saying repeatedly that,
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I don't know if we can entertain you guys in the alliance anymore
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because they're not interoperable with the F-35,
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We've got the U.S. Marines and the United States Navy
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Canada does not have a large enough Canadian armed forces
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And that means we're going to have pilots trained for the F-35,
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Somebody has to look after these aircraft when they land.
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They make sure they're ready to fly again the next day.
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So that means we're going to have air crews and ground crews