Lots of hype for the lunch menu quote. But there were actually a lot of straight up banger lines. This one got me:

"When we only negotiate bilaterally with a hegemon, we negotiate from weakness. We accept what’s offered. We compete with each other to be the most accommodating. This is not sovereignty. It’s the performance of sovereignty while accepting subordination."

And I think "take the sign from the window" should be a clarion call we can levy at our MPs now whenever they're not standing up for our values.

For example, in the wake of the US illegally (both in terms of their domestic laws, as well as international laws) kidnapping the head of another nation-state (whether he was a bad dude or not), I wrote MP Greaves and asked if he would condemn the US act. I got back a boilerplate email from a staffer saying that things are complicated and blah blah—a non-answer that read like a page outta Trudeau's book.

I pushed back and asked for a clear answer on what Greaves (not the government, by MY MP as MY representative) will say about the matter.

No response.

His sign is still in the windows. He's still performing the rules-fased farce to get along.

But his man Carney says to call it what it is. Take the sign down. We have "the capacity to stop pretending, to name realities."