Canada withdrawing fighter jets from Iraq, Syria, Trudeau tells Obama

[MowCowWhoHow III]

Source: AFP

Ottawa (AFP) - Canada's prime minister-elect Justin Trudeau said Tuesday he told US President Barack Obama that Canadian fighter jets would withdraw from fighting the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria.

But he gave no timeline.

"About an hour ago I spoke with President Obama," Trudeau told a press conference.

While Canada remains "a strong member of the coalition against ISIL," Trudeau said he made clear to the US leader "the commitments I have made around ending the combat mission."

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/canada-withdrawing-fighter-jets-iraq-syria-trudeau-tells-220007010.html

[Plucketeer]

1. Time to move to Canada

before we get King Donald.

[saturnsring]

7. i thought they dont take american citizens anymore

[Plucketeer]

23. I'll play up my Bulgarian background. nt

[Marie Marie]

32. Can you blame them?

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

41. There is certainly no one outside the US that does!

Nor many within.

[abelenkpe]

36. Work in VFX?

You can move to Canada and get a job.

[malthaussen]

38. Pretty sure they'll taka anyone with $250,000. n/t

[jeff47]

57. They'll take people who are young, healthy, and/or wealthy. (nt)

[yurbud]

60. after 9/11, their quota was filled by fleeing Muslims, mostly Pakistani.

[Sunlei]

63. They will,-the process to get a permanent resident card is much stricter now.

To get into the excellent Canadian health care system even stricter rules.

[geek tragedy]

19. He also loves the Keystone Pipeline. This guy ain't Jesus nt

[Plucketeer]

25. Jesus might could hold office in the Vatican

Most other places he'd have a tough time methinks.

[Fred Sanders]

35. If not being Jesus is the major concern, that is OK, but not-Jesus has a month before taking office.

So the source of "loving Keystone" is dubious.

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

42. Doesn't much matter what he thinks about it.

It's a US issue. The pipeline is all our risk for virtually no gain. Even if the politicians OK the pipeline it is ultimately the people that possess the power, if not the will, to prevent it from ever coming online.

[Fred Sanders]

44. Keystone oil being drained is a risk to Canadians as well..do you really not know why?

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

45. No - I'm not sure what you mean, but it's irrelevant.

Are you in favor of it?

[Fred Sanders]

46. I will answer my own question first:

This is the area around the Athabasca Oil Sands, former old growth coniferous forest and marshlands:

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

48. And your point is? Do you want that for us too?

[Fred Sanders]

49. ......yeah, that is why I posted the picture......why else, it is so obvious.

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

50. OK, good night.

[Sunlei]

64. Utah has leased out our public lands & now starts the same Tar Sands Filth

Plenty of the same shale/tar-sands in Utah and that state has leased up/ 20 year leases! through our DOI, thousands of acres of our public lands for Tar Sands 'mining' and processing.

The only saving grace is the much lower price of, much better quality crude oil. Its expensive and dirty to get the oil out of shale and sand.


Utah has more (shale) oil than the entire of Saudi Arabia google that and see for yourself.

[Bigmack]

21. We tried to when GWB was elected

And the Canadian consul we talked to VERY politely said - really NOT in these words - "Sorry, you're too old and you'll suck off the health care!" I can't remember the polite phrases he used, but THAT'S what he was saying! Oh well. Ms Bigmack

[Plucketeer]

24. I'll brandish my toy airplane patent

tell 'em I'm gonna start producing therm there Gotta have an angle.

[Fred Sanders]

40. Move to a Canada that rejected the socialist party for a liberal moderate party? Why not just

wait for Clinton to get elected and stay put?

[Plucketeer]

43. LOL!

We need another smiley. A "tongue-in-cheek" smiley. I'd use it alot!

[Doctor_J]

55. no, the one that kicked conservatives out of power. you think Clinton will withdraw our

Air force from the middle east?

Fred, you make even less sense than the rest of the du conservatives, and that is no small accomplishment.

[Fred Sanders]

59. Withdraw the US Air Force from the ME? How many bases does America have, versus Canada???

[delrem]

2. I'd have to see verification of that before I believed it.

I couldn't find any verification in my short search. All links go to this DU OP or the tweet.

[MowCowWhoHow III]

3. But the tweet is from the verified AFP News Agency account, 'innit.

I'm 99% sure a few more paragraphs will be following presently.

[delrem]

15. Well I doubt the story.

The election was only yesterday, Trudeau hasn't had time to put his pants on yet. He won't be sworn in for awhile - tho' I hear rumors it'll be sometime before mid November. He hasn't even assembled a cabinet yet, or taken stock of the talent available.

This tweet doesn't ring true.

[MowCowWhoHow III]

18. Err the story's already updated, with quotes from Trudeau

[delrem]

34. Good. Now I believe it. Excuse my skepticism.

[muriel_volestrangler]

20. The OP was updated with the story - Trudeau said it in a press conference

(the update happened about 20 minutes ago, by the way)

[KamaAina]

4. Beauty, eh?

[thesquanderer]

5. Guess Trump's gonna have another wall to build. (n/t)

[moonscape]

56. No worries. It's Canada's $$$ n/t

[saturnsring]

8. take off to canada

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[Ed Suspicious]

37. Takes me back.

[saturnsring]

62. me too - when i posted this video it reminded of their movie strange brew

[Truprogressive85]

9. oh Canada

He's been PM for a few hours and already keeping his promise

[Joe Shlabotnik]

52. If he keeps another of his election promises,

Lockheed Martin won't be too happy about Canada cancelling its F35 purchase too.

[Robbins]

10. Too bad it will never happen here

especilly since liberals are ilrelvent in democratic party now.endless war is message from both partys.

[Monk06]

11. AFP are a nutball website Trudeau hasn't been sworn in yet

[gcomeau]

13. He doesn't have to be sworn in to communicate intention.

He's elected. He gets to start telling people what he's going to be doing now.

(I have no idea if he's actually directly communicated that to Obama yet, but there's nothing about not being sworn in yet that prevents him from doing so)

[Monk06]

53. I noticed that He's chomping at the bit rather unusual to be having direct diplomatic communication

while still PM designate/ Not sure I've seen that before

[Purveyor]

17. AFP is not a 'nutball website' and is as reputable as

one can expect any news source to be.

[Monk06]

54. I was thinking of African Free Press it's a strange blog run by expat Nigerians out of Norway

Should have looked closer

[muriel_volestrangler]

22. Agence France-Presse, founded 1944, is the 3rd largest press agency in the world

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agence_France-Presse

As you wrote your post, the OP was updated; he said this at a press conference.

[marmar]

58. Agence France Press is a nutball website?

Ov vey.

[uawchild]

12. Yeah! Canada has it's own foreign policy back!

The military adventurism of the Harper government is finally over. Praise be.

[geek tragedy]

26. its foreign policy under Harper was independent, it was just awful nt

[Paladin]

14. Canadian bacon will now be designated as "Freedom Bacon."

In keeping with the dumb-fuck conservatives' prior reaction against France......

[elehhhhna]

31. The have people speakin' frenchery language alllll-reddy!!1!

[DustyJoe]

51. Frenchery

Well the words 'French' and 'Withdrawl' have always been associated in militarily circles.
Just not French-Canadian till now. But Frenchery may be a new and apt descriptor.

[cascadiance]

16. I wonder where Trudeau stands on the TPP?...

I wonder if he could throw a good (and WELCOME!) monkey wrench in to that corporatist mix!

[geek tragedy]

27. given his love of the Keystone pipeline, wouldn't hold one's breath nt

[OnlinePoker]

47. He supports it.

From the Liberal Party website:

WATERLOO, ON – The Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, Justin Trudeau, today issued the following statement on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), established in principle:

“The Liberal Party of Canada strongly supports free trade, as this is how we open markets to Canadian goods and services, grow Canadian businesses, create good-paying jobs, and provide choice and lower prices to Canadian consumers.

https://www.liberal.ca/statement-by-liberal-party-of-canada-leader-justin-trudeau-on-the-trans-pacific-partnership/

[Fred Sanders]

28. If the West had not unilaterally decided to start an air war maybe the Iranians and Russians and

Iraqis and other folks much nearer the mess that the West left them the last time the West did regime change, then maybe ISIS and other terrorists in the region would have been dealt with a long time ago.

[GreatGazoo]

29. You can bomb the world to pieces but

you can' t bomb it into peace.

[elehhhhna]

30. Whoop for them

[Xolodno]

33. Writing on the wall...

Assad managed to hold on and its time to accept that. Better to accept reality, give "asylum" to those "moderate" rebels we supported...no..on second thought, let Saudi Arabia do that....no...on third thought, that still has come back to bite on the ass...shit...hell if I know what to do for them. The moderates with means fled to Europe...the ones still there, God help them.

We need to come to terms with this and accept Assad is not going to be found in a sewer like Quadaffi. Negotiate a peace and be done with it.

[DrBulldog]

39. Oh thank gawd my daughter has dual citizenship.

She'll have a decent place to go if Hillary is elected.

[yurbud]

61. wow--what do you call that when elected officials actually do what their constituents want?

I know there's a word for that...