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Now, daily sales have hit roughly 300 flags, and that’s not counting her larger online business. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZZXEY6BGCZBLDHAHYRDLAUMBAI","additional_properties":{},"content":"US president <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/donald-trump/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/donald-trump/\">Donald Trump</a>’s plan to impose crippling tariffs on Canadian exports is seen as a devastating threat to many Canadian businesses and workers. His warning on trade – combined with his repeated calls for the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/united-states/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/united-states/\">United States</a> to annex <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/canada/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/canada/\">Canada</a> – have the country’s flag makers struggling to keep up with suddenly soaring demand.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NTEFWUPUYNG4ZMH2PIXLETGYAQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"“Isn’t it wonderful?” said Hartlen, who owns The Flag Shop Nova Scotia. “Thank you, Trump. Who would have thought we’d be saying that?”","type":"text"},{"_id":"T5RDMFJ3JJCPJMMUUBCSELXZGA","additional_properties":{},"content":"The renewed interest in Canada’s maple leaf flag, fuelled by intense opposition to Trump’s idea of making Canada the 51st state and his economic threats, comes as the red and white Canadian banner marks its 60th anniversary.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HCR4BMDQYFAGJMSHMJV3AOD6WU","additional_properties":{},"content":"And for a nation where flag waving is less a part of life than in the United States and flags are generally less conspicuous, the Trump-fuelled resurgence of Canadian patriotism has also revived the Canadian flag’s image.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PEGIC3DQX4UDZZWCUIU7TTSGKQ","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"D4MQVQVQZ5H2PKDBGTC3FARGNI","additional_properties":{},"content":"The maple leaf flag, often flown upside down or from hockey sticks, became the defining symbol used by <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/maple-leaf-flags-conspiracy-theories-and-the-matrix-inside-the-ottawa-truckers-protest-1.4799797\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/maple-leaf-flags-conspiracy-theories-and-the-matrix-inside-the-ottawa-truckers-protest-1.4799797\">protesters who occupied and paralysed Ottawa</a>, Canada’s capital, for nearly a month in 2022 in response to Covid-19 restrictions.","type":"text"},{"_id":"E2JA7OMTKBBCZDNKUC64O6DN3U","additional_properties":{},"content":"As a result, many Canadians have shied away from displaying their national flag out of concern that they would be seen as endorsing the protests.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BHPDTSAWLRHWRGWFKJBYG7KXDY","additional_properties":{},"content":"But things started to change as national flag day in Canada, which is celebrated February 15th, approached. Usually, the day passes by largely unnoticed. This time, against the backdrop of tariff threats and Trump’s criticisms of Canada, including referring to prime minister <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/justin-trudeau/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/justin-trudeau/\">Justin Trudeau</a> as Governor Trudeau, five former prime ministers have called on Canadians “to show the flag as never before”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4PKBXYULBVA75I6LEEE4AYAKQQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"The government held 60th birthday celebrations, which included skaters holding aloft a giant flag down a 19th-century canal in Ottawa that doubles as a giant ice skating rink during the winter. And throughout the country, Canadians are doing something many rarely do: flying flags outside their homes.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Y6QPGTXR4RFGHIDQA4DUKTI7MQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"L’étendard Flags and Banners, a company based in Quebec City, makes about 25,000 Canadian flags for the federal government and 10,000 more for other customers and uses what is typically the slow winter season to build up inventory leading up to Canada Day on July 1st.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ENKBPIJDP5B2NODA3UAUNSRPVA","additional_properties":{},"content":"This year demand for flags is so high that the company may need to hire extra workers to cope with the surge, said Mario Trahan, one of the company’s owners.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LKMLZZN6ERDBXONHP7NISAE75A","additional_properties":{},"content":"“There’s a peak just before July 1st but it’s always the same pattern every year,” said Trahan, whose company has been in the flag business for 30 years. “But we haven’t seen a rush like this.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"N4Q3G5AL7YCWPC7TTVJAJX3EFE","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"I5W6AJIKZJCGHDMA3TYYIGXLIE","additional_properties":{},"content":"Before the current version of the flag was adopted, Canada had spent nearly a century trying to create and agree on a national flag that was not simply carried over from its past as a British colony.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QOPGMCX2CJDIBBAU6M6Z2AFSYM","additional_properties":{},"content":"“English Canadians in particular were divided about their identity,” said Forrest Pass, a vexillologist, or flag scholar, at Library and Archives Canada, the national archive. “British imperial identity still loomed large.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"EFN2Y6VCFFC6JH2VP3S4IG5TRY","additional_properties":{},"content":"The result, he said, was that Canada first used Britain’s Union Jack, which is officially known as the royal union flag, as its national flag. In 1892, the British Admiralty officially allowed Canadian commercial ships to fly a red flag that was known as the Canadian Red Ensign, with the Union Jack in one corner and a smaller shield of Canada that underwent many design changes.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6JSDNOXIEJACJCOGS6TCL5FEDA","additional_properties":{},"content":"Soon, the Canadian Red Ensign was being used on land, particularly by the military during the first World War, before gaining official status in 1946.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZSROJDP76FB6DGHGFJP4YIDXRQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"Many Canadians regarded the red ensign as mostly a “place holder”, said Pass, whose dissertation was on flags.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6CZGO6JYUVHXZO3JXOEZGXTTVE","additional_properties":{},"content":"Various committees at various times considered thousands of proposed Canadian flags, including one, Pass said, that featured a woman in a bikini. “It was something of a cottage industry, the production of new flag designs,” he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2KQL64OHKFDEXG2VASCDPJGNPM","additional_properties":{},"content":"It was Lester B Pearson, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate for his work resolving the Suez crisis and past Liberal prime minister, who ultimately selected the single Maple Leaf design.","type":"text"},{"_id":"D5VPOBIE5JE7FL432NVUQX7JI4","additional_properties":{},"content":"But it was a hard sell at first. The debate in Parliament to adopt it was described by one historian as “among the ugliest in the House of Commons history” because of the strong opposition from members of parliament to diluting British heritage.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IW2NNA7PLVFE7I43TG2YV5ZYYE","additional_properties":{},"content":"But once the debate was settled and the design approved, Canadians quickly warmed to their new flag, Pass said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UOGQEUSFNVAUTBOF56RB27ARXM","additional_properties":{},"content":"During the Vietnam War, anecdotal stories about American travellers sewing maple leaf patches on to their backpacks before heading abroad became a source of cross-border resentment, particularly given Canada’s strong opposition to the war.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RVDY7BDSZRFYHGTMZKD2IXTX2A","additional_properties":{},"content":"But the protests in Ottawa in 2022, which became known as the trucker convoy – and that polls showed most Canadians strongly opposed – hurt the country’s romance with its flag.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LL5WGZZYMFHRZP6DPSCJZNY4V4","additional_properties":{},"content":"“The co-option of the flag by a small segment of the population created a lot of discomfort for Canadians,” said Heather Nicol, the director of the Canadian studies school at Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario. “A lot of people felt like: ‘Well I don’t know if we want to look at that flag or fly that flag again.’”","type":"text"},{"_id":"K5AQU3O3PZCBVIPWEFXM7QPG5I","additional_properties":{},"content":"Still, in one downtown Ottawa neighbourhood that endured the earsplitting, late-night air horn honking by protesting truckers, Sam Hudson never took down the four Canadian flags that largely cover the window of the tailor shop he opened 15 years ago after emigrating from Jordan. (There is also a Scottish flag in the window in honour of his first customer.)","type":"text"},{"_id":"T3PFOXT53JEE5OP3QWH4HR376Q","additional_properties":{},"content":"“I kept them because they are the symbol for our country,” Hudson said. “It’s not a symbol for certain people. I respect this flag. 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A sustained chorus of booing broke out during the singing of the Star Spangled Banner.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GNKWKLA36FBLTIUFCJP77VK4WE","additional_properties":{},"content":"Mandia, the Ottowan R’n’B artist who performed the song, confirmed afterwards that she knew the jeers were coming and that as they weren’t directed at her, “didn’t give a f**k” about what happened. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"X2XINS7HJNBKZKFXZSLH66FQTM","additional_properties":{},"content":"There are a million and one US quips and jokes about Canada’s dependable boringness and otherness but on Sunday, the ideologically sundered citizens of the US got a glimpse of what national unity looks and sounds like.","type":"text"},{"_id":"R2ORNOOJ6FHJFHSGNIU63LAXAQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"The response to US president <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/donald-trump/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/donald-trump/\">Donald Trump’s</a> announcement of a 25 per cent tariff on imports from Canada and <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/mexico/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/mexico/\">Mexico</a>, and 10 per cent on <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/china/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/china/\">China</a>, met a perplexed but determined response from their northern neighbours. Tariffs on the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/european-union/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/european-union/\">European Union</a> are expected to follow.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HZNXVSRRVRBTZIBDC3PEFDURN4","additional_properties":{},"content":"“The path the US is on right now is a lose-lose path,” warned Chrystia Freeland, the former Canadian deputy prime minister and a front-runner to succeed prime minister <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/justin-trudeau/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/justin-trudeau/\">Justin Trudeau</a>, in a TV interview on Sunday.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IUR2PTYYL5E2JONWYC3QFKUZ4I","additional_properties":{},"content":"“And at the end of the day you cannot defy the laws of economics. The people who are going to suffer from this the most are Americans, including the Americans who are voting for Trump. The president has decided now to make gas in the United States more expensive. He has decided to make groceries in the United States more expensive. And our retaliation is going to cost Americans jobs. That is completely ridiculous. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"2NG5SYJTRNDC3HXX6WBDZBPOMY","additional_properties":{},"content":"“We do not want to do this. And the right thing for the Americans to shake their heads and go guys, the Canadians are actually great partners, they are great neighbours. Let’s not do this. Because I want to tell you. Canada is formidable. We are resolute. We know what we are fighting for. We don’t want to have this fight but we are not going to lose it.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"OCWDTVPDENHQDHAHKDK3RCTYMQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"The Canadian response – the imposition of 25 per cent tariffs on the $30 billion of imports originating in the US, is effective immediately and in place until such a time as the US lifts its tariff measures. 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","type":"text"},{"_id":"VZXLSK27WNAZ7PU6MRT6YHO5NM","additional_properties":{},"content":"Trade tariffs, Boston and Berlin: How exposed is Ireland to the US economy?","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"75N43IPFQRHYLDXBQC3W5CBY5M","additional_properties":{},"content":"Harris warns of ‘significant challenges’ for Ireland if Trump places tariffs on EU","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"5JN6REAK3ZDURHKJSBKGKMXLRA","additional_properties":{},"content":"The editorial board of the Wall Street Journal, which posted positive editorials on Trump during his election campaign, gave its view under <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/us/2025/02/02/dumbest-trade-war-in-history-us-reacts-to-trumps-tariffs/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/us/2025/02/02/dumbest-trade-war-in-history-us-reacts-to-trumps-tariffs/\">the headline “The Dumbest Trade War In History”</a>.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Z4RQUDPNHNBAVHW52Q74YRPATE","additional_properties":{},"content":"“Tariffs will also cause mayhem in the cross-border trade in farm goods,” it warned.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KCJT6S4OYNGPXNV2VTNELOCEMI","additional_properties":{},"content":"“In fiscal 2024, Mexican food exports made up about 23 per cent of total US agricultural imports while Canada supplied some 20 per cent. Many top US growers have moved to Mexico because limits on legal immigration have made it hard to find workers in the US. Mexico now supplies 90 per cent of avocados sold in the US. Is Mr Trump now an avocado nationalist?”","type":"text"},{"_id":"OUSHIRUECBFNXGMID5U75J2K5Q","additional_properties":{},"content":"There is a fair chance that the absence of avocado from the presidential breakfast menu would not cause Trump undue concern. But the tariff war is likely to have an immediate impact on the American consumer. Mexico’s president Claudia Sheinbaum stated on Sunday that while her country “doesn’t want confrontation” with the US, details of retaliatory tariffs will be announced on Monday.","type":"text"},{"_id":"P27NEWQXWJAU3OPOFXXXBBKDVU","additional_properties":{},"content":"“Problems are not addressed by imposing tariffs, but with talks and dialogue,” Sheinbaum said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KO6VBNFIEZERPJMQVPBUILAUZE","additional_properties":{},"content":"What will be the impact of Trump’s North American trade war?","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"OVJLJ5JVLNHG5ME6DQXILFUEVY","additional_properties":{},"content":"The wilful provocation of a trade war and the attendant rise in gas and grocery prices – key promises of Trump’s election campaign – generated individual responses from the Democrats, but the party lacks a cohesive message – or a recognisable leading voice. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"XSVM6W27QZHS3LPJYTGJJCWORE","additional_properties":{},"content":"Trump turned to social media to explain his rationale by stating that the US is paying “hundreds of billions of dollars to subsidise Canada. Why? There is no reason. We don’t need anything they have. We have unlimited energy, should make our own cars, and have more lumber than we can ever use. Without this massive subsidy, Canada ceases to exist as a viable country. Harsh but true!”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DEEBOENLQU656P7DNTIYBT52Q4","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"4K6UGEQXLZCENKXU2IH3YDXR5I","additional_properties":{},"content":"The post contains echoes of Trump’s remarks after meeting Trudeau in Mar-a-Lago last November, when he said that his visitor conceded Canada couldn’t exist without US import business. Conceding that the tariff orders may involve “some pain” for US consumers in the short-term, Trump will argue that tariffs are tied to his broader vision of a self-sufficient domestic economy. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"PFDKTWMSQVDW5JTA5MSFJTFAMQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"But the initial announcement of the tariffs was tied to border security and the new administration’s promise to halt the flow of fentanyl into US towns and cities, as well as its programme against undocumented immigration. 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The president has been very clear from the beginning that there is a new sheriff in town,” Noem said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VON7JSY5RFBJ5CWQZVEQBNBURI","additional_properties":{},"content":"Sheinbaum, meanwhile, denounced the insinuation that Mexican authorities were colluding with drug cartels operating in their country.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VFIQVOZKMVBIZC3UYEDA4H5SBI","additional_properties":{},"content":"“We categorically reject the White House’s slander against the Mexican government of having alliances with criminal organisations as well as any intention of intervention in our territory. Sovereignty is not negotiable.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"DEBAP5LPOBG53A2CBEA33REVBE","additional_properties":{},"content":"Trump warns tariffs may bring ‘pain’ to Americans, as Canada and Mexico retaliate","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"7GPYK3ZREJBYPF6YXXKETKJJOE","additional_properties":{},"content":"The global impact of the latest Trump administration initiative was instantaneous, with markets in <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/japan/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/japan/\">Japan</a> and <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/south-korea/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/south-korea/\">South Korea</a> falling 2 per cent and presaging the slide expected on Wall Street when markets opened there on Monday. The steepest share-price declines were in Japanese auto manufacturers, with Nissan falling by more than 7 per cent, as one of the key providers to the Mexican and Canadian car part supply chains. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"RIWASP52VRGPXCCW7XZOQTQ2ZE","additional_properties":{},"content":"Share valuations rise and fall, but the damage to relations on the northern US border is inestimable. 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Because Canada is so big and so diverse, divided by language and geography, the Liberals long played an unusual brokerage role, a centrist party that managed to dominate because it formed a coalition between French and English Canada, winning the votes of Catholics and immigrants, much to the frustration of the largely rural-based protestant anglophone voters, particularly those in western Canada, where the farmers and oil workers can’t believe they rarely get to run the country.","type":"text"},{"_id":"A6MM65H34RHTTHDRYNRJE5Q4XM","additional_properties":{"_id":1736265260812},"content":"While the United Kingdom and the United States divided along ideological and class lines, Canada was dominated by a centrist blob that carefully maintained the balance between regions, religions and language groups, advancing progressive social programmes when that seemed politically advantageous, punctuated by the occasional Conservative interregnums.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7ZDQQSX7R5CBPPPK37GO5E2KSM","additional_properties":{"_id":1736265260813},"content":"The system shifted after the election of 2011, when Conservative Stephen Harper won a majority, the left-wing New Democrats formed the opposition and intellectual Michael Ignatieff returned briefly to Canada to lead the Liberals to a disastrous third-place showing.","type":"text"},{"_id":"L4MKQJXVIZA5ZM6J3NEUOVC4MQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1736265260814},"content":"That’s where the Liberal Party was when Trudeau decided to take it over. The telegenic, energetic and supremely confident eldest son of former prime minister Pierre Trudeau, Justin single-handedly brought the party back from the brink of ruin.","type":"text"},{"_id":"B56RMM7LK5AO3JDN3QRIAHIU7A","additional_properties":{"_id":1736265260815},"content":"He had always seemed like he was destined for greatness. Born on Christmas Day, 1971, he was famous from birth. Canadians started to think he would one day govern when he stole the show at his father’s televised state funeral in 2000, which featured Jimmy Carter, Fidel Castro, Leonard Cohen and the Aga Khan as pallbearers. Justin gave the eulogy, concluding with a plaintive “Je t’aime papa”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JNLQWU4IOBDIHJ7G3YC4UHRN7E","additional_properties":{"_id":1736265260816},"content":"After that, he bided his time, worked as a bouncer, snowboard instructor, back-country rafting guide and, eventually, a teacher — living as a carefree playboy — until he eventually decided to buckle down and seek election in Papineau, a gritty working-class immigrant neighbourhood in Montreal, a quartier of shawarma shops, curry houses, mosques, and temples. He defeated an incumbent separatist and served without much distinction in the House until after the election in which his party was relegated to third place.","type":"text"},{"_id":"L2AFYOXTDRDXNGHNW7SNZRAF7U","additional_properties":{"_id":1736265260817},"content":"Before he launched his leadership bid, he first made his name with a <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/trudeau-s-boxing-ring-prowess-shows-danger-of-underestimating-canadian-leader-1.3632285\" target=\"_blank\">charity boxing match</a> against Conservative senator Patrick Brazeau, a muscle-bound Algonquin with a black belt in karate.","type":"text"},{"_id":"I6U2LPTYZBHVJM2WRLG7CUWCVA","additional_properties":{"_id":1736265260818},"content":"The smart money was on Brazeau, who looks like a tougher guy than Trudeau, but Trudeau, who had been boxing regularly for 25 years, says he knew he could beat him. “He’s got a black belt in karate, but we’re not doing a karate fight,” he told me later.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WWBPWWIN5FAM3MFBKPZUNTFZ3A","additional_properties":{"_id":1736265260819},"content":"Trudeau ended up bloodying Brazeau’s nose, establishing himself as sufficiently masculine and courageous, and he easily took the leadership of the party. The scion of a famous family, having demonstrated his courage with his fists, handsome and open, he was interesting<i>, </i>a glamorous figure skateboarding to the Canadian parliament buildings, doing yoga poses in caucus rooms<i>. </i>Canadians felt they knew him, and although his opponents attacked him as an intellectual lightweight in the 2015 election, Canadians liked him, didn’t want him to fail, and were ready to believe he had what it took.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZA4BDJTEGJGHFN7TSCVWZWV6DA","additional_properties":{"_id":1736265260820},"content":"He made mistakes, often had to apologise for callow or ill-considered statements, but people were ready to give him the benefit of the doubt, and they had grown weary of the dour Harper, who was grimly warning — accurately, it would turn out — that Trudeau would be a big spender.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6VPGEJ4C5RBAJI6AM4GTK22RXE","additional_properties":{"_id":1736265260821},"content":"Trudeau won a majority and was briefly a global media darling, getting thronged on overseas trips and winning glamorous coverage in Vogue and Rolling Stone. His first cabinet was half female. When reporters asked him why, he said: “Because it’s 2015” and won praise from feminists around the world.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QIZ7WI3FRFBBLPUMXLF3BUIMM4","additional_properties":{"_id":1736265260822},"content":"He legalised marijuana, reduced child poverty, was notably inclusive toward new Canadians and women, brought in a carbon tax to reduce emissions, worked toward reconciliation with Canada’s long-mistreated Indigenous people. For a while, he was much-loved, but political gravity eventually did its work.","type":"text"},{"_id":"W3RH5CNON5EIPNPF6REV4XU754","additional_properties":{"_id":1736265260823},"content":"He made errors of judgment, broke ethics rules over a holiday on the Aga Khan’s Caribbean island, made a disastrous trip to India, where he was mocked for his excessive costume changes. More seriously, he eventually lost two ministers and several senior aides in a scandal over an attempt to sideline the prosecution of SNC Lavalin, a Montreal-based engineering firm that had been involved in corrupt business with Muammar Gadafy’s family.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CMG7JQTYRJFCZHUMAZWZHKHAVE","additional_properties":{"_id":1736265260824},"content":"Trudeau did a good job negotiating the first presidency of Donald Trump in the US, successfully managing to keep his cool and maintain the vital trade relationship in the face of Trump’s juvenile provocations, and saved a lot of lives during the Covid pandemic, paying people to stay home, which kept the death rate in Canada much lower than in the US.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HYRZXQJRBFBDNLYOTLLHMCELUA","additional_properties":{"_id":1736265260825},"content":"But the post-Covid cost-of-living crisis wore away at his popularity, and to many conservatives, in Canada and abroad, he came to seem like a woke hypocrite, virtue signalling as an anti-racist although he had worn blackface, for example, flying in a private jet while imposing a carbon tax. His post-pandemic surge in temporary immigration exacerbated a housing crisis, and suddenly there were tent cities everywhere. For young people especially, Trudeau looked like a barrier to housing.","type":"text"},{"_id":"X45FJLC5FZCPBNRNLES7MLAJ3Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1736265260826},"content":"So for the past two years, he has been on borrowed time, and everyone but him seemed to know it. He lost once-safe seats in Toronto and Montreal in byelections, weathered an aborted caucus rebellion, brought in a gimmicky sales-tax holiday and then, suddenly, lost his deputy prime minister Chyrstia Freeland, when he tried to replace her with central bank superstar Mark Carney.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JUY7P57BAZCJFNTABF4YOPJY5I","additional_properties":{"_id":1736265260827},"content":"On December 16th, the morning she was supposed to release a fall economic statement, Freeland, who was a vital guarantor of competence in the public mind, resigned and denounced him, leaving the government suddenly without a finance minister.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NV64YFTN75B45HYIDIYRSCQBRI","additional_properties":{"_id":1736265260828},"content":"It was all over but the crying. Trudeau had hung on too long, and over the holidays he was forced to make his peace with that.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3FB6BWZJ3BDDBP4YG2T3F4YIEI","additional_properties":{"_id":1736265260829},"content":"That’s politics. He is not the first politician to refuse to read the writing on the wall, but this is an unusually difficult moment for the country to be led by an ineffectual lame duck.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4HOFWU6BXBEWZFJKELCEJ6BW5E","additional_properties":{"_id":1736265260830},"content":"Trump, who is promising to bring in ruinous tariffs on Canadian imports to the US, is to take office January 20th. If he follows through on his threat, Canada would immediately be plunged into a recession.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KNVQM2L2LBGD5HSTR6K73GGNMI","additional_properties":{"_id":1736265260831},"content":"He likely won’t do that, because the economic pain would be brutal in the northern states that Trump needs to keep sweet, but the threat is rattling Canadians, whose livelihoods depend on the smooth transhipment of goods across the 9,000km border. In December, Trudeau flew down to Mar-a-Lago to try to smooth things over, a mission that led Trump to launch an online bullying campaign, repeatedly proposing that Canada be annexed.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TYFUQ32ZM5GSHCP3CVEXKPMN54","additional_properties":{"_id":1736265260832},"content":"Trudeau’s election in 2015 was in a sense a restoration of a vision of a bilingual, multicultural, tolerant welfare state, the kind of Nordic country that would be at home in the European Union if it wasn’t for an inconvenient ocean.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VLNX3KO5QJBKFG7ZYTSN44AFNA","additional_properties":{"_id":1736265260833},"content":"He leaves it rudderless at a moment of great uncertainty because he was a fighter who didn’t know when to throw in the towel.","type":"text"},{"_id":"D3LJBGWQ45APJNVG2IGZOWP4SE","additional_properties":{"_id":1736265260834},"content":"<i>Stephen Maher is a longtime Canadian political journalist and the author of The Prince, The Turbulent Reign of Justin Trudeau</i>.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YCDY6C2IB5FUNMX3YVDX7FFP3I","additional_properties":{},"type":"list"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Stephen Maher"}]},"description":{"basic":"Trudeau’s election in 2015 was in a sense a restoration of a vision of a bilingual, multicultural, tolerant welfare state, the kind of Nordic country that would be at home in the European Union if it wasn’t for an inconvenient ocean, writes biographer Stephen Maher"},"display_date":"2025-01-09T16:00:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"Justin Trudeau: A fighter who didn’t know when to throw in the towel","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"3FPUXYWGS3UOQ7AI3553BJCX74","auth":{"1":"0a3f93a59c322282cd08cfaae9c37604d053caacc0b207e452cb1ba55dce4fcb"},"focal_point":{"x":1375,"y":855},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/3FPUXYWGS3UOQ7AI3553BJCX74.jpg"}},"subtype":"opinion","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Canada"},{"name":"Culture"},{"name":"Books"},{"name":"World"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/world/canada/2025/01/11/justin-trudeau-a-fighter-who-didnt-know-when-to-throw-in-the-towel/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/world/canada","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Canada"}}}},{"_id":"VWWCMLAMMRAANCHCRKLZI72ZGE","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":208,"audio_url":"https://beyondwords-cdn-b7fyckdeejejb6dj.a03.azurefd.net/audio/projects/5469/podcasts/716aa1e4-6a03-4b1c-8fea-c79ab7c088fa/versions/1736267910/media/408da00da8eae4a5a5e8399d4ed588eb_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/world/canada/2025/01/07/mark-carney-considering-run-to-replace-justin-trudeau-as-canadian-pm/","content_elements":[{"_id":"6PZFEBTJ4NGZDMAYXPSFS3OUJY","additional_properties":{"_id":1736266374469},"content":"The former <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/bank-of-england/\" target=\"_blank\">Bank of England</a> governor Mark Carney, a climate-focused economist who became the first non-<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/uk/\" target=\"_blank\">Briton</a> to run the bank, is considering entering the race to replace <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/justin-trudeau/\" target=\"_blank\">Justin Trudeau</a> as <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/canada/\" target=\"_blank\">Canada</a>’s prime minister.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XJ7XAB3LGBGRLPH243KQKTPILM","additional_properties":{"_id":1736266374470},"content":"Mr Trudeau <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/canada/2025/01/06/canada-pm-justin-trudeau-likely-to-announce-resignation-within-days/\" target=\"_blank\">announced on Monday</a> he would step down after nearly 10 years in power once his ruling Liberal Party chose a new leader, throwing open the doors to a fierce party race before a general election later this year.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Z26CFH2IRBA6ZDXIFTD3JWW6YY","additional_properties":{"_id":1736266374471},"content":"Mr Carney (59), in a statement quoted by <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/bloomberg/\" target=\"_blank\">Bloomberg</a>, where he is a chair of the board of directors, said he would be “considering this decision closely with my family over the coming days”. A long-time and prominent member of the Liberal Party, Mr Carney said he was “encouraged” by the support of Liberal lawmakers and people “who want us to move forward with positive change and a winning economic plan”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4LSYPDBFNJBEBIH237XLD4TWTQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1736266374472},"content":"Speculation that Mr Carney, who ran the Bank of Canada from 2008 to 2013 and the Bank of England from 2013 to 2020, could be seeking high office has grown over the past few months as Mr Trudeau’s popularity plummeted amid record inflation, an acute housing crisis, high food prices and voter fatigue.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2TAZ3U47VZGMNJ624O5UXZ2QUY","additional_properties":{"_id":1736266374473},"content":"Mr Carney holds Canadian and Irish citizenship, and gained British citizenship in 2018.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7BZ4GRUIXFFTXCM7BNC7EOTNVE","additional_properties":{"_id":1736266374474},"content":"Mr Trudeau’s decision to resign came amid fears that tariffs imposed by Donald Trump, the incoming US president, could devastate Canada’s economy.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HYEGH7WWJJBLXIPKT3J45CWHC4","additional_properties":{"_id":1736266374475},"content":"US president Joe Biden expressed his appreciation for Mr Trudeau in a phone call on Monday.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZTTQ5PBHPZEGVB43UHI67C5GR4","additional_properties":{"_id":1736266374476},"content":"“Over the last decade, prime minister Trudeau has led with commitment, optimism and strategic vision. The US-Canada alliance is stronger because of him. The American and Canadian people are safer because of him. And the world is better off because of him,” Mr Biden said in a statement.","type":"text"},{"_id":"343R7LDKJZEN3AIDE362MBJCXU","additional_properties":{"_id":1736266374477},"content":"Mr Carney’s supporters see him as having the experience to guide the country through a period of instability. The former banker has a diverse, internationalist resume, including as chair of Brookfield Asset Management, a large Canadian alternative asset manager, and as UN special envoy for climate action and finance.","type":"text"},{"_id":"U3WVK6U2KFECLOLXMO2JLS65LY","additional_properties":{"_id":"7B7TFQQWJVBFLNPZ5PCFVQQQQ4"},"content":"Mark Carney: ‘The more a country asks of its citizens, the greater their devotion to it’","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"2TAZ3U47VZGMNJ624O5UXZ2QUY","additional_properties":{"_id":1736266374478},"content":"In September the Liberal Party announced Mr Carney would lead a taskforce on economic growth.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SY7M2KUX65ABNJQF26TR6TJ4BQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1736266374479},"content":"However, the party is in a tough position, with the opposition Conservatives expected to win a majority government under current polling. The Conservative Party leader, Pierre Poilievre, has dismissed the former central banker as Carbon Tax Carney, a reference to a levy on consumer fuel Mr Trudeau brought in.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7L56DNAOSZHELH4WDFB2FT6SQY","additional_properties":{"_id":1736266374480},"content":"A <a href=\"https://angusreid.org/the-freeland-factor-liberal-leadership/\" target=\"_blank\">poll by the Angus Reid Institute</a> on Friday, before Mr Trudeau’s announcement, found Mr Carney was in second place among candidates likely to replace Mr Trudeau as Liberal leader. The former deputy prime minister <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/16/chrystia-freeland-resigns-canada-trump\" target=\"_blank\">Chrystia Freeland, whose resignation last month</a> increased calls for Mr Trudeau to go, was top.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AQDQ347VSVC3JJQY2XKCYSSA4M","additional_properties":{"_id":1736266374481},"content":"If he were to win the leadership race, Mr Carney would be in the unusual situation of becoming prime minister without holding a seat in the House of Commons. Party leaders are not required to be members of parliament when they win but convention requires they run for a seat as quickly as possible. It took Jagmeet Singh 16 months to become an MP after winning the leadership of the New Democratic Party.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RBXDIULONBB7LI53RPWKK4BJGI","additional_properties":{"_id":1736266374482},"content":"With a spring election widely expected, the new Liberal leader will hold the post of prime minister for only a handful of months before the country votes. – Guardian","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Oliver Holmes and Leyland Cecco"}]},"description":{"basic":"Former Bank of England governor holds holds Canadian, Irish and British citizenship"},"display_date":"2025-01-07T16:33:25.843Z","headlines":{"basic":"Mark Carney ‘considering’ run to replace Justin Trudeau as Canadian PM","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"5469"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"2TRWKMQEVORFI7NAGVNAGFAPOI","auth":{"1":"c2d3770aaa674552ca78a9b244858db8a85cc8f3317d6cb09d8b8e07274d2721"},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/2TRWKMQEVORFI7NAGVNAGFAPOI.jpg"}},"subtype":"default","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Canada"},{"name":"World"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/world/canada/2025/01/07/mark-carney-considering-run-to-replace-justin-trudeau-as-canadian-pm/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/world/canada","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Canada"}}}},{"_id":"GSUOMTT6XJCU7FWQHVIWVYOKFA","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":520,"audio_url":"https://beyondwords-cdn-b7fyckdeejejb6dj.a03.azurefd.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/323f2e50-bab4-4f06-945d-c09c6b92149a/versions/1736192206/media/ff5da09904887bdecf409a46743db45f_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/world/canada/2025/01/06/justin-trudeau-promised-sunny-ways-but-could-not-fulfil-his-lofty-ambitions/","content_elements":[{"_id":"6ABXRN7HIVHYFBNALT5WX3ERXE","additional_properties":{"_id":1736183156476},"content":"He swept into parliament at the helm of surprise majority, promising change, hope and “sunny ways” as he charmed Canadians and much of the world with a brand that sought to embrace feminism, welcome refugees and reset <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/canada/\" target=\"_blank\">Canada</a>’s relationship with Indigenous peoples.","type":"text"},{"_id":"P62E74J6FZEW3IETGIUC5HQ7MA","additional_properties":{"_id":1736183156478},"content":"Nearly 10 years later, however, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/justin-trudeau/\" target=\"_blank\">Justin Trudeau</a>’s political career has come to a halt, with the 53-year-old on Monday <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/canada/2025/01/06/canada-pm-justin-trudeau-likely-to-announce-resignation-within-days/\" target=\"_blank\">announcing his decision to step down</a>.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HDT4PUT2PVA45GM3RQJWOFNW3Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1736183156480},"content":"“Last night over dinner, I told my kids about the decision I’m sharing with you today,” he said, adding that while he was a “fighter” he saw no path forward. “This country deserves a real choice in the next election, and it has become clear to me that if I’m having to fight internal battles, I cannot be the best option in that election.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"A6YYUJPXF5BW3IVCF6SPC64IEE","additional_properties":{"_id":1736183156482},"content":"Trudeau said he would remain as prime minister until a new leader is chosen. He also made the decisions to request a prorogation of parliament, buying his ailing Liberal Party precious months to avoid disaster when an election is called.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4WM76TH2HBBO3H5KN7X7EJ45D4","additional_properties":{"_id":1736183156486},"content":"In the end, Trudeau’s boyish charisma was not enough to reassure Canadians facing enormous jumps in housing prices, rocketing groceries inflation and the prospect of huge tariffs imposed by the country’s main trading partner, the US.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VB5FPX2QXRGMBEQATXIUSRNFBQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1736183156488},"content":"The decision capped off a stunning, years-long turn of fortune for Trudeau, a former high schoolteacher and the eldest son of Pierre Trudeau, one of Canada’s best-known prime ministers. For months he had fended off calls to resign, insisting he would stay on even as a swelling chorus of his own party members urged him to go and after Chrystia Freeland, one of his most powerful and loyal ministers, delivered a scathing blow as she announced her own resignation.","type":"text"},{"_id":"L7ZQYURGHUWDKNI5GTOZKFLYIU","additional_properties":{"_id":"3BKAHAPF3FDK5KZF2XL3WFZM34"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"BSX7UQ5CLZFHLKHJNP36WNPEPU","additional_properties":{"_id":1736183156490},"content":"The swirling questions over Trudeau’s resignation sharpened after Jagmeet Singh, the leader of the New Democratic Party, recently vowed to present a parliamentary motion to topple Trudeau’s government.","type":"text"},{"_id":"P5ZX6FHJSVG7JJGX5N6UHMQ74Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1736183156492},"content":"The long, drawn-out end was a sharp contrast to his meteoric rise; in 2015, after catapulting his party from third in the polls to a first-place finish, he became the country’s prime minister, making headlines around the world as he ushered in the country’s first gender-balanced cabinet with the pithy line: “Because it’s 2015.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"B2GH4X3UXNERNNFR2CVEZ5OR7M","additional_properties":{"_id":1736183156494},"content":"As media requests for the young leader poured in from around the world, Canadians appeared to embrace his habit of snapping selfies with supporters and revel in his global star power, highlighted during the 2016 G7 summit in Japan, where he was nicknamed “ikemen shusho”, or hunky PM, by local media and swooning fans who lined up for a glimpse of him.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DX3RBRNEWNEG5KKGME2P6RGN5U","additional_properties":{"_id":1736183156496},"content":"Just shy of a decade on, his popularity had plunged among Canadians. “I think part of it is that he stayed too long,” said Lori Turnbull, a professor of political science at Dalhousie University, pointing to those who opposed his pandemic-era restrictions, and affordability issues that had steadily chipped away at his popularity over the past two years. “He could have read the writing on the wall and walked away, but that is not the way he operates. He has his own vision.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"YDMLQL2JUZCTHBZDUNO3DLKHLY","additional_properties":{"_id":1736183156498},"content":"In his wake, Trudeau leaves a weakened Liberal Party, with scant chances of success in the federal election expected by October.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NCNJYEHOPNBONHOG3UWLVEI6HI","additional_properties":{"_id":1736183156500},"content":"“When he took over the party in 2013, they had 34 seats,” said Turnbull. “And he really built the party up in his own image. And now it’s not clear what would be left of the Liberal Party and the Liberal brand without him.” Polls have consistently suggested that, were an election to be held today, the opposition Conservatives, led by Pierre Poilievre, would win a majority.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DVTNALAKNJC6RORPQS7EIK3HR4","additional_properties":{"_id":1736183156502},"content":"The political drama has dominated headlines across Canada and beyond, offering a glimpse of a governing party in disarray as Canadians brace themselves for <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/donald-trump/\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump</a>’s return to power. Last month the US president-elect announced plans to slap a 25 per cent tariff on all products coming into the United States from Canada, sending the Canadian dollar tumbling as analysts warned that exports to the US had climbed to about 77 per cent of the country’s total exports.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AXFMSLZQSUC4YOQR7K75OZJG6I","additional_properties":{"_id":"O2PJGWMFSZFKHCMSWDMJ6RXWLQ"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"AXXBN6PC5JDY5CMOUNFOJT4NRM","additional_properties":{"_id":"QXSZSEPMQ5CNJDGNV27WNFF5KA"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"T4P33U2T6REHDCGD4FYIPQKGVU","additional_properties":{},"content":"The fast-approaching possibility of an economic crisis comes as affordability already ranks among the top concerns of many across Canada. While most Canadians agreed with the direction the Trudeau-led government had taken when it came to issues such as equality and diversity, many felt that he had failed to deliver when it came to economic issues, said Nik Nanos of Nanos Research. “As the rising cost of living – especially the rising cost of housing – has gripped many Canadians, there’s a sense that the Liberals were flat-footed on this issue,” he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BK52LE2PGNEGXFB2QGLGVY5BKY","additional_properties":{"_id":1736183156506},"content":"This clumsiness also extended to some of Trudeau’s most-vaunted promises, said Nanos. “Even on things like reconciliation, I think it would be fair to say that for many Indigenous peoples, Justin Trudeau said all the right things about reconciliation. But they don’t feel that there’s actually been a positive change in the day-to-day lives of Indigenous peoples in the last 10 years.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"755QQ5TVGFBB3ETQP7GACPVI5M","additional_properties":{"_id":1736183156508},"content":"When Trudeau first entered politics, his critics scrambled to define him, describing his teaching experience and stints working in youth advocacy and as a snowboard instructor as part of a CV that was “too thin” for a political leader. The criticisms seemingly failed to land, as many in the country voted to allow him the chance to write his own story.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6O7DQZWKNBD7HFXTSBPJHZMNLQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1736183156510},"content":"Ten years later, everyone in the country had a strong opinion on Trudeau, said Nanos. “There are very few people who are undecided, or ambivalent, about Justin Trudeau.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"JBQ7VFI6O5AV5CHWZRD2XAIAII","additional_properties":{"_id":1736183156512},"content":"He was swift to note, however, that Poilievre, the conservative leader who has a double-digit poll lead over Trudeau, is just as polarising. “We’re in a world where all of the choices are polarising, but people are looking to punish someone,” said Nanos. “And Justin Trudeau, as the incumbent prime minister, is at the top of the list for a significant proportion of the population, because of their worries about paying for groceries, paying for housing and wondering about what’s happening on 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Canadian officials increasingly fear US tariffs will devastate the Canadian economy and a prorogued parliament is unlikely to ease these fears.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TY4SLK7NY5GUZHWDHR4JR2RLCI","additional_properties":{},"content":"Mr Trudeau had attempted to placate the incoming US president, both with an array of policy concessions and with a visit to Florida, where they posed smiling for a photograph, and he told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation that he promised Mr Trump Canada would shore up border security.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LSU4BNWEUNEJZCT7F6CLFXTVYU","additional_properties":{},"content":"Days later, however, Mr Trump publicly mocked Mr Trudeau, belittling him as the “governor” of Canada, as if his country were merely a US state rather than an independent nation, and musing that it could become part of the US.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EWGKZRRVMFEPVMEDL7FPBRZHEM","additional_properties":{},"content":"In Canada, reaction from the prime minister’s political rivals on his decision to step down was swift and unforgiving.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DH7LZ2ACFNATXLFE6FGLTGW7IY","additional_properties":{},"content":"“Nothing has changed,” said Pierre Poilievre, the Conservative leader. “Every Liberal MP and leadership contender supported everything Trudeau did for nine years, and now they want to trick voters by swapping in another Liberal face to keep ripping off Canadians for another four years, just like Justin.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"KO7HPES62JDPJFDKX3LCCJCKOY","additional_properties":{},"content":"Jagmeet Singh, leader of the New Democratic Party, said in a statement the Liberals “do not deserve another chance, no matter who is the leader”. Mr Singh propped up the Liberals’ minority government for three years under a confidence and supply agreement but withdraw his support at the end of 2024.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HCWZXP5CNNEABOPF3EMN3K4CJA","additional_properties":{},"content":"Earlier in the day, Mr Trudeau met the governor general, Mary Simon, and requested the prorogation of parliament until March 24th in order to give the party sufficient time to find a new leader. Lawmakers were due to return in late January and the Conservatives had pledged to bring down the government with a vote of non-confidence, which could have forced an election.","type":"text"},{"_id":"54KZEIZ3B5H3NEWWFKK54OOGQQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"XWVBIJLBT5CBHMFZJWS25D4BLM","additional_properties":{},"content":"Mr Trudeau (53) has led the ruling Liberal Party since 2013 and became prime minister in November 2015. 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Her scathing resignation letter accused Mr Trudeau of “costly political gimmicks” and cast doubt on his understanding of the “gravity of the moment”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XB3YR44JIFAVFDZEJHWZ7M5H2A","additional_properties":{},"content":"Federal law requires an election be held by October 2025 but with all opposition parties saying publicly they no longer have confidence in the governing Liberals, an election is certain when parliament returns in late March.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ERPKQQ2G5RBRTPSESHY5ET4MUY","additional_properties":{},"content":"TheConservatives are expected to win a majority government given current polling. 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While he drew fawning reviews in the news media – including over his poster boy looks – his honeymoon with Canadians really lasted only about two years. By 2017, a series of controversies had already tarnished his picture-perfect image.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SZC7PYX5JVDCFDOXD2VBW4FSDA","additional_properties":{"_id":1734953467160},"content":"His party went on to lose the popular vote in two elections, in 2019 and 2021, requiring him to form minority governments propped up by a left-wing opposition party. 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The former leader asked not to be identified discussing past diplomatic meetings.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6KELKOWPVNF5DED5XFYT7WJDTU","additional_properties":{"_id":1734953467179},"content":"As the United States switched from the Obama to the Trump presidencies in 2016, Trudeau seemed to offer continuity with Obama’s politics. Few moments exemplified this more than Trudeau’s decision to offer refugees an open welcome in 2017 as Trump cracked down on immigrants.","type":"text"},{"_id":"L7ZQYURGHUWDKNI5GTOZKFLYIU","additional_properties":{"_id":"7RCFCRWT5VEFZHAW4LOLOLF7VQ"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"YVEMZGOAFNDR7F3AO3NJKX4T4I","additional_properties":{"_id":1734953467180},"content":"“To those fleeing persecution, terror & war, Canadians will welcome you, regardless of your faith,” Trudeau posted on the social platform X, then known as Twitter. “Diversity is our strength.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"4ISXDQRUXJH6PETGSPQ5M2TEHU","additional_properties":{"_id":1734953467182},"content":"At the time, Trump had issued his so-called Muslim ban curtailing travel to the United States for people from some Muslim-majority nations. 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While Trudeau has been criticised for not going far enough, it has been during his tenure that a reconciliation with indigenous populations in Canada began in earnest.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PKVGQEFCZZCRFMDICPKXGWZHMA","additional_properties":{"_id":1734953467184},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"6SRH44IXXNFDXIB3ML3BJUAPTQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1734953467185},"content":"<b>Change All Around</b>","type":"text"},{"_id":"GB6RE67J4RHAXGLISYIZKQYHUY","additional_properties":{"_id":1734953467186},"content":"But starting in 2017, his political fortunes at home had already started fading.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2OZOZ5UW6JDFXGC3I3UVAOJJ2Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1734953467187},"content":"As he headed to the polls in 2019, Trudeau was rocked by scandal, including a luxurious free vacation he took that he failed to declare and videos from the 1990s and 2001 that surfaced showing him dressing up in blackface.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AHFNE6YZBVCEHOFZ4ATKUUXDHQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1734953467188},"content":"It took a toll; he could secure only a minority government, leaving his party dependent on allies to pass legislation.","type":"text"},{"_id":"H2XSIM7ICVERZH5HBUTM6QEWDI","additional_properties":{"_id":1734953467189},"content":"And then came the pandemic. Critics describe Trudeau’s push for restrictive measures as a key reason for the animus against him.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EOCJ4NOAMBGW5EMCOLYSZKC3GI","additional_properties":{"_id":1734953467190},"content":"Within two years, in the middle of the pandemic, Trudeau called an early election, believing it might return him to a majority government. He was wrong. He ended up again commanding only a minority of representatives in Canada’s House of Commons.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UZNGRLU5GFAZFGAOIXMXUYXJO4","additional_properties":{"_id":1734953467191},"content":"By that point, the western world’s centre of political gravity was already shifting to the right over vaccine and restrictive mandates. In Canada, that set off protests in various parts of the country that came to be known as the Freedom Convoy, including weeks of demonstrations in Ottawa, Ontario, the capital, that paralysed the city’s downtown.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4IOEMGU2JFCVVLRNYOZOCNLWPE","additional_properties":{"_id":1734953467192},"content":"Canadians found themselves battered by persistent inflation, setting off an affordability crisis, while an open migration policy to bring in workers backfired, turning one of the world’s most immigrant-friendly societies against newcomers.","type":"text"},{"_id":"47UCUDONUVDXZFYGAOAOV2JRJY","additional_properties":{"_id":1734953467194},"content":"Trudeau also faced turmoil on the family front, last year separating from his wife of 18 years, with whom he has three children.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6BBAE5ZFEJCSLLQXF3PUFJCEKY","additional_properties":{"_id":1734953467195},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"2AFL25CUNVFZNKELQVTFFEZ2Y4","additional_properties":{"_id":1734953467196},"content":"<b>A Walk in the Snow</b>","type":"text"},{"_id":"NTEP6XLIJZDZTGWJONV6Y7EZ7M","additional_properties":{"_id":1734953467197},"content":"Trump’s election victory in November has brought into focus Trudeau’s weakened position. Trump has threatened to impose blanket 25 per cent tariffs on Canadian goods, which would devastate Canada economically. Trump has also been mocking Trudeau online, referring to him as a governor, and to Canada as the 51st state.","type":"text"},{"_id":"I6BBLQL3AZG6PKCDJPACQEGLKQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1734953467198},"content":"This time, a political brand that appears antithetical to Trump’s isn’t working for Trudeau.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XAFKSD6FMNGXNGR5UK76H4HRSI","additional_properties":{"_id":1734966537351},"content":"“He caught a wave on his way in, and when you catch a wave, it can lift you up,” Bricker said. “But on the other side, if you don’t get off, it will ground you.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"ICAEHEN7C5F6HCYWGKDIHJL77A","additional_properties":{"_id":1734953467199},"content":"With elections required by October because of Canada’s electoral rules, Trudeau’s departure is increasingly seen as a foregone conclusion. 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The latest Ipsos poll, published Friday, found that the Liberals trail the Conservatives by 25 percentage points.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UVMV4KUR4BG3DMHQICGVVCO7HY","additional_properties":{"_id":1734953467200},"content":"Last Monday his deputy prime minister and finance minister Chrystia Freeland resigned with a bombshell letter, accusing him of engaging in “costly political gimmicks” and being ill-prepared to face the challenge posed by Trump.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SOB3STL2W5DLTKIYOQQHXD5I2U","additional_properties":{"_id":1734953467202},"content":"Then on Friday, the opposition party that has propped up his Liberal minority administration said it would bring a no-confidence vote against it after parliament resumes in January.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AKBLXVC6TNC5HNROG6QPITX6WY","additional_properties":{"_id":1734953467203},"content":"“Like most families, sometimes we have fights around the holidays,” Trudeau mused at a party for Liberal staff in Ottawa on Tuesday, in a nod to Freeland’s departure.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MPUOJZC3UJFPNMF4O7I3AWAFUI","additional_properties":{"_id":1734966537356},"content":"“But of course, like most families, we find our way through it. You know, I love this country. I deeply love this party. I love you guys.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"NB5RTPJZLNDFVL657L46KD63DA","additional_properties":{"_id":1734953467204},"content":"But the party, like the country, may no longer love him back. Trudeau’s allies say the prime minister will take time over the holidays to decide his next steps.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7I5LCJP3NZAZTNOUZ24GSL5QQY","additional_properties":{"_id":1734953467205},"content":"A growing chorus is asking Trudeau to “take a walk in the snow”, a phrase that became part of political lore after his father, in February 1984, facing calls to resign, took a long walk in the snow.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LOGUDE66TRA6DK2I3GHSELMDCQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1734953467207},"content":"When he came back, he had decided to resign. – This article originally appeared in <a href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/21/world/canada/justin-trudeau-canada-popularity-decline.html\">The New York Times</a>","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Matina Stevis-Gridneff in Toronto"}]},"description":{"basic":"With the Liberal Party trailing the Conservatives by 25 per cent in the polls, Canada’s long-serving prime minister will soon either step down as leader or call elections that he’ll most likely lose"},"display_date":"2024-12-23T15:09:18.985Z","headlines":{"basic":"From liberal icon to Maga joke: the waning fortunes of Justin Trudeau","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"RHATNICAMJLJAIBZH4RGSUL6WA","auth":{"1":"e65731bafb6cf9d846192b7a3d7b2207b66088b03366e1c91e7d5afd1b395964"},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/RHATNICAMJLJAIBZH4RGSUL6WA.jpg"}},"subtype":"feature","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Canada"},{"name":"World"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/world/canada/2024/12/23/from-liberal-icon-to-maga-joke-the-waning-fortunes-of-justin-trudeau/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/world/canada","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Canada"}}}},{"_id":"TYCVQQOYL5CV5M5SD3LBX474K4","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":518,"audio_url":"https://d22tbkdovk5ea2.cloudfront.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/ad3b932f-b579-4b5b-a230-1345a7459fbc/versions/1732460340/media/e657b4118503ad923b6fd7f89b1f0e3f_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/world/canada/2024/11/24/canada-fears-donald-trumps-promised-mass-deportations-will-push-migrants-north/","content_elements":[{"_id":"WUFR3H27T5D6LAISYJN37HWD74","additional_properties":{"_id":1732299960998},"content":"At 8,900km, it is the longest border between any two countries. And that border – separating the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/us/\" target=\"_blank\">United States</a> and <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/canada/\" target=\"_blank\">Canada</a> – seems set to become a flashpoint between the close allies as president-elect <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/donald-trump/\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump</a> prepares to take power.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DJK4GDOFHZGPNHPN5TTADUJ5S4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732299960999},"content":"Canadian authorities fear that Trump’s promised mass deportations will push migrants north, while allies of the incoming president headed for key roles in his administration have raised alarms over a recent spike in migrants crossing from Canada to the US without legal permission.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Y3NEIBMWONA4JFGTHU6BHS257M","additional_properties":{"_id":1732299961000},"content":"Canadian officials are drawing up plans to add patrols, buy new vehicles and set up emergency reception facilities at the border between New York state and the province of Quebec to prepare for what they expect to be a surge in migrants because of Trump’s hard line on deportations.","type":"text"},{"_id":"U2FDQWJL6BHT7EOSY4C34JRMKY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732299961001},"content":"The northern border is also a focus of people named to <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/us/2024/11/14/trumps-cabinet-whos-been-picked-whos-in-the-running/\" target=\"_blank\">top positions in the Trump administration</a>, including his new border tsar, Tom Homan. 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The agency would also seek to add more patrol vehicles and use land along the border to set up trailers or other types of temporary detention and processing facilities.","type":"text"},{"_id":"P5EVKNP4LJDAROUYYWNJFF2ZRM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732299961011},"content":"Canada’s national security agencies “have been preparing for a number of months to be ready to respond and adapt to any situation that might arise”, said Gabriel Brunet, a spokesperson for Dominic LeBlanc, Canada’s minister of public safety.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KTW75KA2PRH7RIL5YWNW4SZ65I","additional_properties":{"_id":1732299961012},"content":"Canadian authorities also intend to wield a key agreement between the two countries to send back people crossing into Canada to seek asylum. The agreement designates Canada and the US as “safe third countries” in which to make asylum claims, so when asylum seekers travel from one country to the other, they can be sent back, with few exceptions.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LXKMFWYQHBDFXG2Z5MDI6BPXCE","additional_properties":{"_id":"WS66MQ22MVCG7HNRXI7F4Y3X3U"},"content":"Justin Trudeau facing ‘iceberg revolt’ as calls grow for embattled Canadian PM to step down","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"ZZUINHT5ARHDVA4GRWXILQKC3E","additional_properties":{"_id":1732299961013},"content":"“The reason that exists is that the United States is deemed to be a safe country for people to make their initial asylum claim,” Marc Miller, Canada’s immigration minister, told reporters recently. “So too with Canada – it’s a two-way street. 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The provider says it can take travellers from Brampton, a city outside Toronto with a large South Asian population, to New York by taxi.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RSI2FJGZ5BCMPB4V2MMM7FUP7I","additional_properties":{"_id":1732299961024},"content":"Despite the immigration agreement between the US and Canada, the process to turn back people claiming asylum can take weeks at a time as migrants try to find a lawyer and gather evidence to make a case to avoid being sent back to Canada.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IIAUR2IEM5BOBOX4CCRUD3UC6I","additional_properties":{"_id":1732299961026},"content":"With minimal resources at the northern border, few people were being sent back to Canada earlier this year. Instead, migrants were being released from custody with notices to appear in US immigration courts, which face an enormous backlog.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WWF3TEOHUZGJDK6FGZJHJ6O7BE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732299961027},"content":"But starting this summer, US officials deployed more federal officials to the northern border to help process people and transferred more people into detention.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZS5ZXYIGNZEJJCRYHU2OLHRKGY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732299961028},"content":"They also made a key change to make the process to return migrants to Canada easier. Starting in August, migrants who had been detained had only four hours to find a lawyer and collect evidence for their case, according to an internal email sent to asylum officers working for the Department of Homeland Security and reviewed by The New York Times. 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Instead, he is now struggling to come up with other options.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DKC7FJFGDVBYNO2H56TR4SNSAA","additional_properties":{"_id":1728751221858},"content":"He could go back to a Canadian college and pay the higher tuition fees for international students in exchange for being allowed to work and keep seeking permanent residency. Or he could apply for a visitor’s visa, though it would not give him the legal right to work. He could go back to India, his least appealing possibility, given the years and the money he has invested in Canada.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6VVLS57TOJGSNNNLN77A7B6K2U","additional_properties":{"_id":1728751221860},"content":"The limbo facing many temporary residents whose permits have expired, or soon will, was pushing some into harmful or illegal paths, said Gurpreet Malhotra, chief executive at Indus Community Services, a government-funded group helping migrants.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4C7D7IJQJJAEHDIZZ5MPR3I6DU","additional_properties":{"_id":1728751221861},"content":"Some, he said, ended up staying illegally and working as cleaners, in warehouses or restaurant kitchens, for a fraction of the minimum wage. 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Some 13,000 international students made asylum requests in the first eight months of this year, according to government data, more than double the figure for all of last year.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6V4KKCM5ENCPVH36ASJBYRDB3Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1728751221864},"content":"Some also decide to head to the United States, where illegal crossings from Canada at the northern US border have surged to record levels.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YZLBQMDC6BFNFKCJNS5PDCAOJU","additional_properties":{"_id":1728751221865},"content":"In Brampton, Singh and dozens of international students mostly from India gather every afternoon at a parking lot to commiserate, exchange information about the policy changes and stage protests.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GXIYZQBYVBEPPK6ZIJNSFBZOWY","additional_properties":{"_id":1728751221867},"content":"They hold up signs that say, “Good Enough to Work? 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Such things shouldn’t matter. But the argument gave cinema watchers an opportunity to run through the performances that deserved to have been so honoured.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JJZLMRCABVFELMPDEVH4G4RMJM","additional_properties":{"_id":1718911879039},"content":"Think of his anarchic turn as Hawkeye Pierce in Robert Altman’s M*A*S*H from 1970. How did they ignore his icy cop in Alan Pakula’s Klute from 1971? Everyone else in the cast seemed to get nominated for Robert Redford’s 1980 best-picture winner Ordinary People. Best of all, perhaps, was his 1973 performance as a bereaved father haunted among Venetian shadows in Nicolas Roeg’s Don’t Look Now. One saw the full range there. He could wrap stentorian importance about himself, but there was, even in such harrowing material, always a sliver of sly wit poking through. Sutherland forever seemed to be in on a secret.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KTMEU55SNVHT3NL6DHBJHUUDXI","additional_properties":{"_id":1718909443565},"content":"<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/kiefer-sutherland/\" target=\"_blank\">Kiefer Sutherland</a>, his son, himself a busy actor, spoke for many who never met the man. “With a heavy heart, I tell you that my father, Donald Sutherland, has passed away,” <a href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C8cgckJJ548/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==\" target=\"_blank\">he wrote on Instagram</a>. “I personally think one of the most important actors in the history of film. Never daunted by a role, good, bad or ugly.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"AZPMRXWNOBE37DESOL5TZ54H6E","additional_properties":{"_id":"TMTOSJIYKFE4ZMK6BGGSCGU4R4"},"content":"Donald Sutherland, Hunger Games and Don’t Look Now actor, dies at 88","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"LJITASHB4FG2RLHNXB2W4F3HAA","additional_properties":{"_id":1718909443566},"content":"Donald Sutherland, who received the Order of Canada as far back as 1978, was born in New Brunswick to middle-class parents. Plagued with illness as a child, he moved with his family to Nova Scotia at the age of 12. He graduated in drama and engineering from Victoria University in Toronto before making for the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.","type":"text"},{"_id":"A7NGNAISFFA7BDXQ46UVEFCNGY","additional_properties":{"_id":1718909443567},"content":"“I don’t think anybody of my generation became an actor to make money,” he told the BBC in 2015. “It never occurred to me. I made £8 a week here. When I starred in a play at the Royal Court, I made £17 a week, that was in 1964.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"DDIQ7XR5GFCIVD7V72KEPNLFT4","additional_properties":{"_id":1718909443568},"content":"His first screen roles were in British films and television. He can be seen in the enjoyable anthology Dr Terror’s House of Horror from 1965 and opposite Christopher Lee in the historical shocker Castle of the Living Dead from 1964. His breakthrough came as one of 12 hoodlums sent on a commando raid in Robert Aldrich’s The Dirty Dozen.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EWTJU427XZHNNFKK2QPOTG6IHE","additional_properties":{"_id":1718909443569},"content":"Then came Altman’s M*A*S*H. That film, with its salty language and overlapping dialogue, was among those ushering in a new era for Hollywood. Alongside Elliot Gould, he played an army doctor driven to cynicism by the apparently pointless war in Korea (an unmistakable stand-in for Vietnam).","type":"text"},{"_id":"RRAWRYN77VBVXHQJ2HH52X72GI","subtype":"instagram","type":"oembed_response"},{"_id":"Z2F72GHXERAU5HJWSHYVLKZZCY","additional_properties":{"_id":1718911879047},"content":"More challenging work came as American cinema continued to map out its post-classical route, but Sutherland was in a different category to gnarlier talents such as Al Pacino and Robert De Niro. He had a restraint and a stillness that, if he wasn’t speaking in his own accent, could easily be mistaken for the product of an English upbringing.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TA6GNJVA5NGYZC2QDIYTMVTDXU","additional_properties":{"_id":1718911879048},"content":"Solid and inhibited opposite Jane Fonda’s freethinking call girl in Klute, he looked to be in total control, but, in a later interview, he revealed he didn’t fully connect with Pakula’s technique. He said Klute “was a film where the director had a specific idea, which I didn’t particularly understand, nor was I particularly interested in”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NQQ5WOBDEVCKHKMCHVULG4ORQ4","additional_properties":{"_id":1718909443570},"content":"Everything came together in Don’t Look Now, a film rich in mystery that, infuriatingly for the cast, generated absurd rumours that a famous sex scene between Sutherland and Julie Christie was “unsimulated”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UR2O6EVB2FE43KXTPPNML42GTU","additional_properties":{"_id":1718909443571},"content":"Sutherland was never again short of work. He did not have the dashing elan of a matinee idol, but that warm – sometimes frightening – energy found him endlessly satisfying character roles for the succeeding 50 years. He is delightful as a conspiracy theorist in Oliver Stone’s JFK from 1991. 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They now perform together under the shared name Hearts Beat, and they hope to come to Ireland once funding can be found – though the frail health of some members make planning precarious. The last two years have seen the death of two members of lexwst’í:lem.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WFC6R5RXXVCXHJZTBEHUVBSYJY","additional_properties":{"_id":1714483488219},"content":"This melding of Irish and indigenous musicians in a part of the city renowned for its high numbers of traumatised First Nations people is strangely appropriate, as the Irish had a role to play in the development of the trauma that is so apparent here. Firstly, through the behaviour of some unscrupulous and racist Irish settlers over the last 150 years, and by the discriminatory practices and policies of leaders, politicians and clergy of Irish descent in Canada over the centuries. But, most tangibly, in the formation of the Indian residential schools.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HUBKSU2RTBH33KZEGPYSRYDU4Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1714483488220},"content":"Linger a while in the company of Vancouver’s First Nations people and you’ll hear stories of the tragedy these “schools” inflicted upon their lives, or those of their parents and siblings. Many of them were forcibly separated from their families and sent away to be indoctrinated into white culture. They suffered punishment for any expression of their indigenous heritage and spiritual practices, or for speaking their languages. Their links to identity and community were irrevocably broken.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3HB4MFM5IRA77B3CZA6RVQGMVE","subtype":"youtube","type":"oembed_response"},{"_id":"7YEEBHIECRHRBACKGZ23WRSLXE","additional_properties":{"_id":1714483488221},"content":"It was an Irishman, Nicholas Flood Davin from Kilfinane, Co Limerick, who oversaw these institutions. His 1879 Report on Industrial Schools for Indians and Half-Breeds, otherwise known as the Davin Report, was the catalyst for the federal government in Canada to develop an entire network of facilities whose purpose was to “sever children from the tribe” and “civilise” them. Many were run by priests and nuns from Ireland and elsewhere. Not until 1998 did the last of them close. In 2015 the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada concluded that their assimilation policy amounted to cultural genocide.","type":"text"},{"_id":"F7NAWR2D7NBJNGHWKVDBYCHXMI","additional_properties":{"_id":1714483488222},"content":"It is hard to know what to do with such knowledge, although an Irish organisation, known as Landspeak, associated with the <a href=\"https://www.icuf.ie/\" target=\"_blank\">Ireland Canada University Foundation</a> and the <a href=\"https://www.ucd.ie/englishdramafilm/research/centreforcanadianstudies/\" target=\"_blank\">Centre for Canadian Studies</a> in University College Dublin, consulted with indigenous Canadian elders and came up with the idea of arranging a public reading of the entire executive summary of the report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. They began reading on Canada’s National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, September 30th, 2021, and continued every Monday for three months. It was a simple act of acknowledgment and empathy; a recognition of our nation’s role in these dark centres of abuse and neglect, but also of the fact that we too have reports by commissions into child abuse and oppressive juvenile institutions sitting unread in our libraries and government offices here in Ireland.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6URW46OMDVGOLCSEYKSXIPVT74","additional_properties":{"_id":"U7Q5URCOFVHV7OSZB5Y7ER6YN4"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"ZBDJKQONFVFSHODVYZ6BUHGRCY","additional_properties":{"_id":1714483488223},"content":"The elders in Vancouver I talked to about Landspeak’s project were moved by the gesture. For many of them, the contents of the report have been too traumatising to read. They and members of their extended families showed courage by testifying to the commission, but many have not yet been able to share their experiences with their own families and friends – the sadness and shame is too great.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OOSMRKNK2RGUROZO4PXTKWAETA","additional_properties":{"_id":1714483488224},"content":"In recent years, thousands of undisclosed deaths that occurred within these schools are coming to light. Archaeologists uncovered 215 unmarked graves at an Indian residential school in Kamloops, British Columbia in 2021 – victims of overcrowding, malnutrition, poor sanitation and abuse. Weeks later, a further 751 unmarked graves were detected across from a residential school on the Cowessess reserve in Saskatchewan.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FHGKSGEDSZGXJOAIH6X4FLPBLI","additional_properties":{"_id":1714483488225},"content":"There can be no equivalence between the suffering Irish children endured in workhouses under British rule, or in Catholic care institutions, and the cultural genocide inflicted on First Nations people, but there are similarities. Institutionalised Irish children and First Nations children in Canada suffered physical, sexual, emotional and psychological abuse. The process of healing the trauma is beginning in both places.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4EKKKTU3CBEPLF5ORQN7J2DTSQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1714483488226},"content":"I was invited to a full moon spirit dance on reserve land of the <a href=\"https://www.squamish.net/\" target=\"_blank\">Squamish Nation</a>, on the outskirts of Vancouver, in October. An elder of the Anishinaabe people led a group of indigenous and non-indigenous locals around the fire in a healing ceremony of drumming, singing and dance. Those gathered tried to use the few words of the Squamish language they had to reconnect with what has been lost. The language is classified as severely endangered, with no young people who can speak it fluently. Older Squamish residents were patiently trying to pass on to the children aspects of the ceremony that they could still remember – elements that hadn’t been forgotten during the missing decades of the residential schools.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SWYMD5BPLJDSJHPDVDK5C4JOBE","additional_properties":{"_id":1714483488227},"content":"For the elders, fire keepers, pipe carrier and ceremonial leaders of the community this work of healing and cultural remembering is paramount. They are dedicated to upholding the traditional law of nawt’samat (one heart, one mind, one soul), which can be summarised as “we are all related”. By this, they mean both the natural world and the human are one, such that many of the elders I met are involved with protests against the Trans Mountain pipeline which they say threatens numerous drinking water sources and ecosystems in the area, as well as the nearby Burrard Inlet and the orca whales that shelter there. Their campaigning work, and the bouts of imprisonment it can lead to, is a further burden on top of the challenges of healing communities and aiding the revival of their languages and cultures. Yet, as custodians of their ancestral lands and the animals that shelter there, they feel this too is a responsibility they cannot shirk.","type":"text"},{"_id":"666ZQ5244BGEJKRKBSMWYG4744","additional_properties":{"_id":"6OZEDMPYQNERZHW5FIKWOLWJQA"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"CZ2LKFQBLNBJRFLBBYB7SLNDTY","additional_properties":{"_id":1714483488228},"content":"This notion of the interconnection between all beings in the natural world also leads Squamish leaders to regularly invite homeless people from the Downtown Eastside out to the surrounding woodlands for bathing ceremonies and sweat lodges. Where aspects of old rituals have been lost or forgotten, they try to be guided by the blood memory of their ancestors. But they acknowledge that the old healing ceremonies struggle to cope with the devastation caused by the likes of fentanyl and crack cocaine.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XX72ERJ2RBFDHATSYLZFNE5V3U","additional_properties":{"_id":1714483488229},"content":"The day after the full moon circle I was invited to a Sundance sweat lodge on land belonging to the <a href=\"https://twnation.ca/\" target=\"_blank\">Tsleil-Waututh Nation</a>, which has also been subsumed by the city of Vancouver. Their land abuts the Burrard Inlet where the oil pipe is due to run. As scalding steam arose from the lava rocks in the centre of the lodge, I learnt of the severity of the trauma tribal members are suffering and the urgency to find workable solutions. At one time, the Tsleil-Waututh Nation consisted of thousands of people, but that dropped to just 13 surviving members. It is now back at around 600 people, many of whom are dealing directly or indirectly with the psychological and sociological legacy of the trauma endured in the residential schools, where children were raped, murdered and starved. All of them have family or friends who are caught in addiction in the Downtown Eastside, and the traditional healing modalities of sweat lodges and vision quests are not always enough to confront such profound intergenerational trauma.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VYWOUXYV7REPJGZ4XJY6BIBW5Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1714483488230},"content":"Maintaining or reviving traditional tribal languages is recognised by many of the cultural elders I met as a key way of connecting people to their heritage and their place in the world. Healing and wisdom is often encoded within the old language. The <a href=\"https://www.musqueam.bc.ca/\" target=\"_blank\">Musqueam Indian Band</a> is the third major indigenous nation whose land has been subsumed by Vancouver. Their website offers a comprehensive cultural teaching kit, with pronunciations and insights into the Musqueam language, hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓. The language is also taught at the University of British Columbia, which now occupies former Musqueam hunting grounds.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IPXJPSC6PFHQLOZCY2KM2LPVWU","additional_properties":{"_id":1714483488231},"content":"All three indigenous nations of Vancouver face the extinction of their language. There are only a few dozen native speakers left in the Squamish Nation, while the Tsleil-Waututh Nation has about 40 fluent speakers of Hunq’eme’nem, and 80 conversational speakers. More people are now beginning to study it, and the nation’s 35 children are all learning their mother tongue. The hope is to raise a generation of first-language speakers, through language immersion camps, innovative techniques such as “hunting” for words, as well as more conventional classes. Such programmes require funding, which is where Ireland and settlers to Turtle Island (or North America, as the settlers called it) in general may have a role.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HWYOYXQFBFA2FMMLPMVHFTJA4I","additional_properties":{"_id":1714483488232},"content":"Some Irish-Americans across the border in Seattle have teamed up with the local <a href=\"https://www.duwamishtribe.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Duwamish Tribe</a> there to establish the Real Rent Duwamish initiative, in which people agree to pay a token monthly rent in acknowledgment of the fact that the land and resources they depend on were stolen from previous inhabitants. Tribal chair Cecile Hansen has commented that if each citizen of Seattle donated one dollar the revival of Duwamish culture and the vitality of the Duwamish Tribe could be secured.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GK4WB3QIARAX5CVZPFPDBIM2KY","additional_properties":{"_id":"WMIVH3GWB5HARJVOWH6H5R3CXY"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"3LTQQZNFFNGULAOIDBRHJWUCAM","additional_properties":{"_id":1714483488233},"content":"I had lunch overlooking the Puget Sound with Ken Workman, a direct descendent of the last Chief Seattle, and heard how he had learnt fluent Lushootseed by going to classes, listening to old recordings and reconnecting with the places that were most important to his ancestors. Having retired from a career at Boeing, Workman had the time and resources to acquire these skills, but for others it seems that Irish-speaking organisations could have a part to play.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2AUHML4OAREMZJUHPCIA4UQD7M","additional_properties":{"_id":1714483488234},"content":"There are more than 70 distinct indigenous languages in Canada and hundreds of mutually unintelligible dialects, according to government statistics, and more again across the border in Washington state. In total, they are not getting even a tiny fraction of the money an Ghaeilge gets from the EU and the Irish Government. We are an affluent, independent, sovereign nation with nothing to stop us learning our language ourselves, if we really want to. 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The involvement of the private sector in development of lunar mobility and communication services promises to do the same.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MTISEIW3QJHDBOJ7YO2WIUJ5UM","additional_properties":{"_id":1693234461007},"content":"Interest has also been heightened by the fact that the lunar programmes of both China and the US are finally maturing after years of delay, says Bleddyn Bowen, associate professor of international relations at the University of Leicester and author of Original Sin: Power, Technology and War in Outer Space. “They finally have the technology ready to do this.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"62DEDUALKNDJJIQUGK4OGMDI5A","additional_properties":{"_id":1693234461008},"content":"But while today there is roughly 100,000 times more processing power packed into an iPhone than was used by the computer that first landed man on the moon, getting to the moon is still a risky business. “Space is a place of shattered dreams and broken promises,” says Bowen. “It is still extremely difficult to get everything just right, in the moment, on the day.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"COPRK5QIVDHJZIZASSYVGEG7GI","additional_properties":{"_id":"OS3OXWVAUBH3NPY3JJGON4PB6I"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"LA674RGV2FEMLKWHYGHTIUAXGU","additional_properties":{"_id":1693234461009},"content":"There is no satellite navigation to guide a spacecraft, no atmosphere to slow down a vehicle descending at very high speeds towards the moon’s surface. The moon is pockmarked with craters and rubble and the shadows they cast can easily be misread by sensors.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WYIZCIVNFNCVPCAEJ742SO33KE","additional_properties":{"_id":1693234461010},"content":"India was successful last week, but only after a previous mission in 2019 failed. Days before the Chandrayaan-3 craft touched down, Russia’s Luna-25 lander spiralled out of control and crashed.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FIYYK4JPSREHVHHNZHFCCUUAEQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1693234461011},"content":"Yuri Borisov, head of Russia’s space agency Roscosmos, blamed a 50-year hiatus in the country’s lunar programme for the failure. “The invaluable experience that our predecessors accumulated in the 1960s and 1970s was practically lost during the interruption of the programme,” he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MKBGDFBDTFGENBOBD5L4TKAIEI","additional_properties":{"_id":1693234461012},"content":"But the risks of failure have not daunted China, the US or those such as India seeking the prestige that a successful lunar mission brings. Nor do they seem bothered by the uncertainty over what these costly projects will deliver. To many, the greater draw is first-mover advantage in a realm where the potential is still unknown.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MNDETDY3VNHQHM6BJ7BVAACI64","additional_properties":{"_id":1693234461013},"content":"“If you are a big power on the moon, then you will have a big influence in setting the details for lunar governance,” says Bowen. “The governance of the moon will be the foundation for everything else that may follow over the next 100 years and ... if the moon becomes somewhat more economically viable, then you are already on the ground floor.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"LLVTPY35KVBW3JBEPJBBI6AP5Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1693234461014},"content":"Lunar governance","type":"header"},{"_id":"T2BRJDSBWREZLEHRANUB7KJDP4","additional_properties":{"_id":1693234461015},"content":"It was fear of losing out to China that drove the US to refocus its space exploration efforts away from Mars and back to the moon in 2017. Within two years, China had demonstrated its lunar capability with the world’s first successful landing on the far side of the moon.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ATMX52PWNNG4DGKI6PDZDWOWZQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1693234461016},"content":"Now China and the US are targeting the south pole and even some of the same landing sites, and their plans have sparked concerns about potential conflict.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ELRQSBPEEJCJXOHHJT3THELXJY","additional_properties":{"_id":1693234461017},"content":"“The dominant power will be able to stymie the ambitions of others by occupying territory and attempting to police it,” writes Tim Marshall in his book on power and politics in space, The Future of Geography. “The first to establish themselves will be the first to access the potential wealth of the moon.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"YZSMW4ZQKVEQDBTY74CLOF4OPY","additional_properties":{"_id":1693234461018},"content":"Nasa chief Bill Nelson warned early this year that China could begin staking claims to territory on the moon under the guise of scientific research, an allegation dismissed by the Chinese.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NJTY2WTLNJFSDDYU7EVDYFIBSA","additional_properties":{"_id":1693234461019},"content":"But his comments have highlighted the urgent need to devise new international guidelines for exploitation of the moon, if the planned lunar missions are to succeed peacefully. The Moon Agreement of 1979 has not been ratified by Russia, China or the US, which has instead devised its own rules known as the Artemis Accords. Neither China nor Russia has signed the accords.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GFKTHR2TK5AF7DFFGM6SNAFFPI","additional_properties":{"_id":1693300134204},"content":"“It’s going to be very important that all the countries going to the moon demand a set of rules and that they are well implemented,” says David Avino, chief executive of space engineering company Argotech, which has ambitions to develop a thriving lunar business.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DY3OYH5XWFDIHMLEC66LCMFAOU","additional_properties":{"_id":1693234461021},"content":"But the contest has already begun. And it is no longer just between the US and China. India too has ambitions to fly humans into space and its low-cost approach has so far proved highly successful. The Chandrayaan-3 mission cost a reported $73 million (about €68 million), a fraction of the cost of other landings.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZYH6VRE5VEBWG3APBL2XEACBVE","additional_properties":{"_id":"CFUINEABMBBMRNFBAUXHFL2T3M"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"7LJ77I43U5FMVGB4GOCP6YO2ZU","additional_properties":{"_id":1693234461022},"content":"India’s 54-year-old space programme was originally focused on domestic development – helping to build communications infrastructure, improve crop surveillance and warning systems for cyclones. But its priorities shifted with the rise of China.","type":"text"},{"_id":"L7XV4IPL5ZDZTJZTLQS22WSQEQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1693234461023},"content":"Beijing’s first anti-satellite missile test in 2007 “resulted in a unanimous consensus that India needs to do something about protecting its own assets in space”, says Rajeswari Pillai Rajagopalan, an analyst at the Observer Research Foundation think tank in New Delhi. India finally tested its own anti-satellite missile in 2019.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LKMQDHEL6VH67ED3OBOYMJFH7M","additional_properties":{"_id":1693234461024},"content":"India has also sought to counter China’s power by forging space exploration partnerships, including potential future missions to the moon with Japan and to Venus with France.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IZSBPOUVHVGZTMVNQIJCNKDVLQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1693234461025},"content":"Along the way it has built substantial capability in space. “India is not a new space power. 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He wasn’t sure what to do, if anything, with his new identity.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3R5ACSIL2NHZ3GA4QJ3CLO7ISM","additional_properties":{"_id":1691086441631},"content":"“I’m 67 years old, and all of a sudden I’m Ukrainian,” he said. “I’ve never been around Ukrainian people.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KTOFXF75BFDNHGDN6W3CFIDLB4","additional_properties":{"_id":1691086441632},"content":"“I’ve told Ukrainian jokes, you know, but do I really want to look forward to it?” he said of the possibility of looking into his newly discovered ancestry.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Z4Z6PWVQSZGHTKNFJ6WQAVOSQ4","additional_properties":{"_id":"EI6YGBREUVD7JDUNTVLAJYKMVQ"},"content":"Who is the half-Irish woman leading a farmers’ party that has rocked politics in the Netherlands?","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"IMFLSIEEJ5HENMOOADEAMX4FBI","additional_properties":{"_id":1691086441633},"content":"Since that first phone call, though, Ambrose has embarked on an intense search for himself, bonding with a biological sister who happened to live nearby and starting beadwork, a traditional Métis craft. He is the driving force behind a lawsuit that their lawyer, Bill Gange, has filed against the province of Manitoba, seeking an apology and compensation.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3PMHZGYVFZCRVE33CALNSPE64M","additional_properties":{"_id":1691086441634},"content":"An official for the provincial government said it had no comment because the hospital where the mistake occurred was owned and operated by the town of Arborg at the time. A spokesperson for the hospital’s current owner, Interlake-Eastern Regional Health Authority, said records of the births were no longer available.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KT2R5HN7BZFQNMNE7O52XPUL3I","additional_properties":{"_id":1691086441636},"content":"Ambrose wants to be officially recognised as a Métis, partly so that his grandchildren can qualify for grants earmarked for the group – even though he acknowledged that he had never suffered discrimination as a Métis.","type":"text"},{"_id":"G65VLJVUNVFVRLWGDJIOFTBZMA","additional_properties":{"_id":1691086441637},"content":"“I can get what’s rightfully mine,” he said. “I didn’t ask for this – switched at birth.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"4VOHDZRZA5AUVBZZNVX5OHRKFY","additional_properties":{"_id":1691086441638},"content":"As for Beauvais, he said he wouldn’t change the life that he had led.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TRT7EHLJ7RB6NM6RSZFIOJWWQY","additional_properties":{"_id":1691086441640},"content":"“If I could go back today into that hospital room and switch, I wouldn’t do it, because I got two beautiful daughters, a beautiful wife, three beautiful grand-daughters,” he said. “Sure, you would have that with somebody different. 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But the boy was too young to go on the dive; OceanGate required passengers to be 18, so Dawood planned to accompany her husband.","type":"text"},{"_id":"V3Y5PCLE7BAWLHZLTO7T5ERCS4","additional_properties":{"_id":1688551270760},"content":"The pandemic delayed all plans. Suleman Dawood was now old enough. And OceanGate waived a rule to allow the 17-year-old Alina Dawood aboard the support ship. The family wanted to experience the dive together. 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This was the opportunity to see, firsthand, through a 21-inch porthole, the world’s most famous shipwreck at the bottom of the sea.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BOJ563WA6JBG5LDEFSEQN2RJIM","additional_properties":{"_id":1688551270763},"content":"The cost was not a golden ticket, but $250,000 (€230,000), though that advertised rack rate proved negotiable.","type":"text"},{"_id":"J7M3ZRAH3RA7FMYWZPMRO6J3OA","additional_properties":{"_id":1688551270764},"content":"Rush considered himself more a scientist than a salesman, but much of his effort was in the marketing of his company and the selling of spots on the submersible. He wanted a mix of clients who offered validation and buzz. Potential customers dealt directly with him.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NH5UH7HUBNA7TDJOIMPTD3EZIQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1688551270765},"content":"Alan Stern, a planetary scientist from Colorado, inquired about a Titan dive last July. After Rush learned of Stern’s background – jet pilot, polar exploration, leader of Nasa’s New Horizon exploration of Pluto and the Kuiper belt – he offered a free ticket. Stern accepted.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZCTWC53UANDS5MFK3O2RUHSCX4","additional_properties":{"_id":1688551270766},"content":"“Stockton said, ‘I don’t care if you give a talk – do you want to be the co-pilot?’” he recalled. “‘We’ll get you trained. 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He also told the group a story about how he had once been “stuck down there for three days and the sub was out of communication”, Christine Dawood recalled.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BLA5W4VCOFHCFFB4Z3XP2UGOQI","additional_properties":{"_id":1688551270771},"content":"After the lecture, her husband grinned at her. “Oh, my God, this is so cool,” Christine Dawood recalled him saying.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IYND4QXG2VCG3H4KST4NXBIZPQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1688574757673},"content":"“He was lapping everything up,” she added. “He had this big glow on his face talking about all this nerdy stuff.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"NEIZMM467BCVNDJ3MTNPW2MZTQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1688551270774},"content":"And so they came, these wealthy tourists and curious scientists, sold on the promise of a rare adventure provided by a company that considered itself “SpaceX for the ocean.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"4YVKUCE3TRCMNFZTXID4QKYBCE","additional_properties":{"_id":1688551270775},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"5N4HZHYJPVAGZOB5MFHKAWF6RY","additional_properties":{"_id":1688551270776},"content":"OceanGate spoke in the language of space travel: There was “command central”, a “mission director”, the “launch and recovery platform (Lars)” and a “countdown to launch”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YGIQRXTDMZEN3NV2HVLPQMYCYE","additional_properties":{"_id":1688551270777},"content":"The paying passengers were called “mission specialists”, and the company requested that they not be referred to as “customers” or tourists” – or “passengers”. 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The Blooms declined, Bloom says, because of scheduling issues and safety concerns.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NGEA7EEJXJGITFXIOYMTCQIHLQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1688551270780},"content":"OceanGate’s plan since 2021 was to run a series of eight- or nine-day expeditions in the late spring and early summer: about two days to the Titanic site, five days over it, two days back. Each expedition might have several dives – but just one for each client – depending on demand, technical difficulties and weather conditions.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BCHVFQLATNEJPKKWG3JNNZFFBM","additional_properties":{"_id":1688551270782},"content":"The final trip was Mission V. None of the first four this year got close to the Titanic, largely because of rough weather in May and early June.","type":"text"},{"_id":"E6NFC33ULZBGNAPEPD5G6ND3SM","additional_properties":{"_id":1688551270783},"content":"“I am proud to finally announce that I joined @oceangateexped for their RMS TITANIC Mission as a mission specialist on the sub going down to the Titanic,” Harding posted on his Facebook and Instagram pages the afternoon before the dive.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EHZNRCVDXVCBLBOZOIJZBR3DYU","additional_properties":{"_id":1688551270784},"content":"Harding (58) was the chair of Action Aviation, a sales and air operations company based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. 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Within circles of submersible experts, there were criticisms of the cylindrical design (most deep-water submersibles are spherical); the relatively large porthole (18cm thick and made of Plexiglas, according to Rush); and the use of mixed materials, such as carbon fibre and titanium, that might not bond well or withstand the immense pressure of a deep-sea dive.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YTN7LZIEING35CFTWV76DIZ6Z4","additional_properties":{"_id":1688551270796},"content":"In 2018, Will Kohnen, chair of the Marine Technology Society’s manned underwater vehicles committee, drafted a letter to Rush, saying that OceanGate’s “experimental” approach could lead to “catastrophic” consequences. It was signed by dozens of experts.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NKHMSA6XNJBLFGVA3OW5EVA2GU","additional_properties":{"_id":1688551270797},"content":"The next year, a submersible expert heard cracking sounds during a Titan dive in the Bahamas and, in an email to Rush, begged him to suspend operations. Rush made some revisions but kept taking customers.","type":"text"},{"_id":"METZ6YEOOFAYRFC76H6JQWBQRE","additional_properties":{"_id":1688551270798},"content":"Bill Price, retired from running a family travel business in California, went on a Titan dive in 2021. During the descent, Rush realised that Titan had lost its propulsion system on one side. He aborted the trip, Price said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WUD5ZA52CFBQRELRMBJV3RO44A","additional_properties":{"_id":1688551270799},"content":"But he could not get what he called the “drop-weight mechanism” to release ballast for the ascent, as designed, Price said. 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It also housed and ferried about two dozen OceanGate divers and staff members, plus a revolving set of clients. This spring, it was seen going in and out of the harbour towing a floating platform, about two metres square, on which the 9,000kg Titan submersible rode.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UYVDMQLLV5FM5JTTYQOAV2U43Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1688551270824},"content":"The Dawoods found the cabins tight. The husband and wife slept in bunk beds, she on top. The kids each got their own cabin. Meals were eaten together, everyone on the ship, in the galley, buffet-style and on trays.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VKZGGWCPYVHHXDFL5QSCID5D3A","additional_properties":{"_id":1688551270825},"content":"There were all-hands meetings every day at 7am, and again at 7pm, lasting an hour or more. 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Divers and the submersible crew made last-minute preparations in the water.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NU24G6QIG5CXPIWQLD7QFBMDZU","additional_properties":{"_id":1688551270836},"content":"“It was like a well-oiled operation – you could see they had done this before many times,” Dawood said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HNHVN6PF7JEWFGEXF3XOBQUHCQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1688551270837},"content":"By then, the three first-time divers had been told what to expect and how to prepare for the expected 12-hour trip.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LRERYZ3EAFFWFPVWH63THYBRYU","additional_properties":{"_id":1688551270839},"content":"Rush always recommended a “low-residue diet” the day before a dive, and no coffee the morning of one. 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The only glow would come from computer screens and light-up pens used to track the descent on paper.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CG2K7FHYTNFFXLKEYKAEO4ZPOY","additional_properties":{"_id":1688551270843},"content":"And, Rush would ask, please load some of your favourite songs into your phone to share with others to play on a Bluetooth speaker. But please, he would add: No country music.","type":"text"},{"_id":"C7BVY6JSDRFZFJRYIO6K7S6KKY","additional_properties":{"_id":1688551270844},"content":"(The divers of June 18th were told to be ready to board by 7.30. 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A floating platform that had been used to carry the Titan was brought in separately by a large ocean-vessel supply ship.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KR5LGSS57RH6FCT2B5WIXQPXQ4","additional_properties":{"_id":1687671270278},"content":"On Friday, the Transportation Safety Board of Canada announced the investigation and arrived in St. John’s.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BGSDYMSSFZA2BMBLMA2Q4ZYUAU","additional_properties":{"_id":1687671270279},"content":"Kathy Fox, the chairwoman of the safety board, said that family members of the five people who were inside the submersible when it was destroyed were among the 41 people on the ship when it sailed on June 18th.","type":"text"},{"_id":"A7UZKCOSRVDEDE74VZ2NPUV5ZE","additional_properties":{"_id":1687671270280},"content":"Ms Fox said that the US Coast Guard would be in charge of recovering and examining the remains of the Titan now on the ocean floor, but that her agency would analyse any of its findings.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MSC3JHMN4NB5PMTY3FN6SLSJOY","additional_properties":{"_id":1687671270283},"content":"The Polar Prince, built in 1959 as a light icebreaker and buoy tender for the Canadian coast guard, set off from its home port of St. John’s on Sunday for the trip to the Titanic wreck site.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GTGSVUFALNHXDC3OQX24WJIPCQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1687673305242},"content":"The ship had lain in dock several weeks before that as it was preparing for the voyage, which was delayed under inclement weather.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PKFIMQUKPFF3XHZLTZRC3ALH7U","additional_properties":{"_id":1687671270288},"content":"This article originally appeared in <a href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/24/world/canada/polar-prince-titan-newfoundland.html\">The New York Times</a>.","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"name":"Ian Austen"}]},"description":{"basic":"Launch vessel Polar Prince returns to St John’s, Newfoundland, after five die in submersible implosion"},"display_date":"2023-06-25T06:07:00.739Z","headlines":{"basic":"Titan sub tragedy: Canadian investigators board supply ship to interview crew, examine logs ","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"TVFE7PGYOYAUWZJJKLKS22ALII","auth":{"1":"85b829d49ac423b0c7bb2a99056d551bbae1ae1c8cc2979328ff6d28751e73fd"},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/TVFE7PGYOYAUWZJJKLKS22ALII.jpg"}},"subtype":"default","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Canada"},{"name":"World"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/world/canada/2023/06/25/titan-sub-tragedy-canadian-investigators-board-supply-ship-to-interview-crew-examine-logs/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/world/canada","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Canada"}}}},{"_id":"RAZIJLKNCZGYLE2P34FMSSSBBM","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":358,"audio_url":"https://d22tbkdovk5ea2.cloudfront.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/7088832/media/56ae80f0d541ef5c11cffc7bae639710_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/world/2023/06/19/tourist-submarine-with-five-on-board-goes-missing-on-dive-to-wreck-of-titanic/","content_elements":[{"_id":"OVNXDKYIXBCO3JC7RPIVKHXDEI","additional_properties":{"_id":1687190257239},"content":"A tourist submarine with some prominent maritime experts and explorers believed to be on board has gone missing in the North Atlantic while on a dive to view the wreck of the Titanic.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7KY5C4FCOBEEBEEBKEGYS4VAKU","additional_properties":{"_id":1687208170567},"content":"A search and rescue mission was under way on Monday, involving aircraft and underwater equipment, with more help on the way as concern grew after the return of submersible was “overdue”, according to the US coastguard.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4BBJYRIYFJBGDEAPHFEEKK4KPY","additional_properties":{"_id":1687208170568},"content":"A British explorer and a French military veteran and submarine expert are believed to be among those on board and the coastguard tweeted on Monday that contact was lost with the sub just one hour and 45 minutes into its dive on Sunday afternoon.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7KY5C4FCOBEEBEEBKEGYS4VAKU","additional_properties":{"_id":1687208170569},"content":"A spokesman for the Boston coastguard confirmed that “a small submarine with five persons on board had gone missing in the vicinity of the Titanic wreck”. 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Harding is married and Brian Szasz, a stepson, posted on Facebook about “thoughts and prayers” as “his submarine has gone missing” and then later deleted the post.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3ZET7T4KGNBTBDH5B3YIUWKU2M","additional_properties":{"_id":1687208170581},"content":"Harding (58) posted on Instagram on Saturday that: “Due to the worst winter in Newfoundland in 40 years, this mission is likely to be the first and only manned mission to the Titanic in 2023. A weather window has just opened up and we are going to attempt a dive tomorrow. 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Large earth movers are carving a new road through the spruce and Douglas fir trees, and gouging out from the mountainside a flat area upon which a new building will emerge shortly, a sister to the two large buildings that are already on site and fully functioning.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZXPMFGJ3UZAWXJKQZKYPZECTFA","additional_properties":{"_id":1686663404616},"content":"The new building is costing about 2 million Canadian dollars, or €1.4 million. The other two, which are only a couple of years old themselves, each cost between 1 million and 1.5 million Canadian dollars.","type":"text"},{"_id":"I5BOOMU6UFEYBCIEYBK2CT6D34","additional_properties":{"_id":1686663404617},"content":"Welcome to the new reality of the cannabis industry in Canada, a rapidly emerging major player in the economy of British Columbia (BC), poster child of the country’s adoption of a different approach to previously illegal drugs. 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Short term, however, the effect is that in a city such as Vancouver several streets are littered with half-dead addicts, unconscious on the pavements or zombie-like from smoking fentanyl, the prescribed drug for managing extreme pain, such as can be experienced by cancer patients, but which is 50 to 100 times more potent than heroin.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SWJ2UKX5ZNCMXPMFZRKWXKD6GM","additional_properties":{"_id":1686663404620},"content":"Cannabis, however, is in an entirely different category since 2018 and several people interviewed for this report envisage a future in which tourists will come to places like Nelson, and the wider Kootenay region of southeastern BC, to tour growing farms and visit craft cannabis producers. A sort of Route du Reefer, mimicking the<i> </i>routes du vin of France and places closer to home, in California and Oregon for instance.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6H75TOTTUFE37PIK4JZZ5NSOH4","additional_properties":{"_id":1686663404621},"content":"“We can have farm gate cannabis tourism, just like wine” says Mathieu (Matt) Trépanier, operations manager at Sweetgrass Cannabis, the operation being expanded just off Highway 6, about 30km south of Nelson. “We can be the first. It would be just like whisky tourism in Scotland. That’s how all of this now feels to me..... We are at the birth of an industry. There’s more testing to be done but there’s a green rush now, like the gold rush, and everybody’s jumping into it.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"BRFYGCP235EUBNRBKRYAFXCWKY","additional_properties":{"_id":"LT5JUAW76ZFTZL5DNPDBFHAY6Q"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"5U3VOL7LHZHANI5SW7SKUGTEIM","additional_properties":{"_id":1686663404622},"content":"Visiting Sweetgrass is an eye-opener. Trépanier, who is 45 and was involved in pre-legalisation (that is, formerly illegal) cannabis production, takes me into one of the production buildings. It is nearly brand new and has that freshly painted, gleaming clean feel about it. Passing through security doors, we enter an almost hermetically sealed world of cannabis plant growing and harvesting.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RDQT4XHESVARFEVHI457MLXUO4","additional_properties":{"_id":1686663404623},"content":"A corridor runs the length of the building, which is similar in size to perhaps two temporary school classroom portable buildings. Off the corridor is a row of separate, windowless rooms where cannabis plants, in neat rows and elevated on growing trays off the ground, are at various stages of their eight to 10 week lifespan, from seedling to adolescent to full-bloom flowering plant ready for harvest. 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He explains how cannabis comes in two main genera – sativa<i>,</i> which tends to invigorate the user, and indica, which is a sedative – and are often crossbred to produce, on consumption, a slightly different effect or taste. This is reflected in the grow rooms where the trays are identified as containing different strains, such as mendoza stomper, mint or mint chocolate chip.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PZGWCNS6BNHRHDFWW6AGFUDHVE","additional_properties":{"_id":1686663404626},"content":"The plants in Grow Room 1 will be cut down and taken to a curing room along the corridor where they will be racked and dried for 10 days. After that, the flower, which contains either THC (tetrahydrocannabinol) or CBD (cannabidiol), the two main psychoactive compounds, or active ingredients, of cannabis, will be plucked off the plant.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WYDWZ4OI25C2BOEYUC2NQGSPQ4","additional_properties":{"_id":"GMJ4LPGNNFAGPFURGGJIDQFVHU"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"SRIOO466OBGZXMBNHIYHHGSIMU","additional_properties":{"_id":1686663404627},"content":"“Then the dried flower gets trimmed by hand with a scissors, bud by bud, so that all the leaves are removed,” Trépanie explained.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HXAUETJBMRFMNLYCVRRDBZ7D4E","additional_properties":{"_id":1686663404628},"content":"Room 210 is a small secure store room where the harvested dried flowers, and the leaves (which will also be used but are not as effective as the flower) are kept in labelled bags, a bit like in a bonded warehouse. With them are reams of stickers that will be applied to packaging like seals before any product is delivered for retailing, showing that the sale is revenue compliant. In fact, much of the production process reminds of a bonded warehouse where security and traceability are paramount. Every time anything moves between the rooms at Sweetgrass it has to be recorded so there is full traceability.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HLIKDKJCFVEPXD5U6QBMOGUPRQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1686663404629},"content":"Flower heads are packed for sale into opaque plastic pouches, about the size of a small envelope. Cannabis for smoking is rolled into cigarette-style lengths off site but slipped into individual labelled container tubes at Sweetgrass. The company, which has 18 employees, 50/50 part-time and full-time, does not sell directly to consumers (except to medical users, for which it has a licence to dispense prescriptions) but it does supply to licensed sellers across Canada and is looking to expand overseas, supplying the medical-use market in Europe and Australia, for example.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TGZAIPHB4NHFBB3DK4H76Q4X7I","additional_properties":{"_id":1686663404630},"content":"It’s a profitable business: sales revenue is roughly double production costs, which at Sweetgrass is about 2 Canadian dollars per gram of cannabis. A 3.5 gram sachet, sufficient for three or four joints, retails for around 40 Canadian dollars. The company has been going legit for three years, running at a loss in year one, breaking even in year two and, last year, turning a profit of around 1.5 million Canadian dollars.","type":"text"},{"_id":"U3OKMU4V3BDKNMNB6O4MGI6ZDA","additional_properties":{"_id":"3VVBPNJQABAF7HKRBUPMKLJRM4"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"QOSOUGEOVRELVGKYS7ZMDKUVZ4","additional_properties":{"_id":1686663404631},"content":"The Kootenays, and Nelson in particular, are the centre of BC’s growing cannabis industry largely for historical reasons. In the late 1960s and 70s there was a major influx of young men from the United States determined to avoid being called up for the Vietnam War. Many were part of the counter-culture movement of the time which was at its core anti-authority, and with a “back-to-nature” world view, that included small-scale cannabis growing.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EUI6SUE7JNEUZIHK7VZ6KX5CW4","additional_properties":{"_id":1686663404632},"content":"Inevitably, larger growers emerged to supply the local market, albeit illegally, and, in parallel, there developed in the Kootenays a deep understanding and expertise about the plant itself. Such growers as have not come forward to continue under regulation, are referred to as legacy growers and traders. The Canadian authorities, federal and provincial, hope this cohort will either eventually come on side, as it were, or give up.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3JY5GQTHLZARXA5DUWWM2CVFRU","additional_properties":{"_id":1686663404633},"content":"It is not difficult to imagine small legacy growers finding the new regulations difficult and opting to remain illegal. Matt Trépanier shows me a lengthy list of compliance tasks under various headings that reads like a never-ending excel sheet of must-dos - GPPs, or good protection practices. It covers keeping records, pruning, transplanting, harvesting and drying, watering and quality control, sanitation, personal hygiene and security.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3RYGOXCBT5H5HDLPSF7B5HNIDQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1686663404634},"content":"“We have maybe 100 or 150 standards of procedure,” says Trépanier. “For instance the scissors used to trim the flower heads – how to clean them; the records we keep – how to keep them, written down or digital...I worked in bunkers [before going legit] where you struggled to get down the stairs, and crawling through spaces with no ventilation. There’s a lot of people in the Kootenays who just don’t want government telling them what to do.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"4JA43DRPAJF6DN5TAMC3YDWKIU","additional_properties":{"_id":1686663404635},"content":"The authorities would argue the regulations are all part of going “legit” [legitimate], being accountable and protecting the public.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DKEY7GL6UFBQ5POAQDDZ3P465M","additional_properties":{"_id":1686663404636},"content":"Cameron Derksen is a manager for cannabis policy and legislation in BC, which comes under the general auspices of the public safety minister , sees legalisation as a big opportunity for business and employment, especially in areas where such opportunities have traditionally been few.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HGWAOVNA5VCMLAN7BILYORW7X4","additional_properties":{"_id":"KETXV54F6FEYDOOC3677AXPP34"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"RFVMFB2MOJGLPDZLB74Z3SIIDY","additional_properties":{"_id":1686663404637},"content":"“Cannabis legalisation is the biggest new policy area for provincial governments [in Canada] for a long time and I definitely wanted to be involved,” he said of his job.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3QCBI7LXIRHAXDL3OTNGYU5JGM","additional_properties":{"_id":1686663404638},"content":"An indication as to the degree to which the cannabis industry has become an accepted part of the BC economy came when the public safety minister, Mike Farnworth, who is also BC’s solicitor general, visited Sweetgrass shortly before this reporter to see for himself the burgeoning new economy of the region.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HIWXOXF5BNGFBN7CGCHM2SOQ2U","additional_properties":{"_id":1686663404639},"content":"Derksen, who emphasised in our interview that he was speaking personally and not reflecting government policy, said that in his view cannabis production, sale and use was now over-regulated, a situation that was holding the industry back. Growing and production is regulated according to federal government laws (that is, Ottawa), while distribution and sale is a matter for individual provinces, such as BC.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7PBVX2TONZHHNEAXHFOA5WRVLY","additional_properties":{"_id":1686663404640},"content":"“Small growers have years and years of experience,” says Derksen, who agrees regulation is necessary, because of the health risks attached to cannabis consumption. However, some small growers “mortgage their house to set up as legal growers but find themselves descended upon by regulators....I want to help the industry to succeed, not sink the ship....The biggest harm [in consumption] is on the brains of young people and so all efforts are on reducing that.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"NBEGOQKVFVCMTHMPBW5YLMV2JU","additional_properties":{"_id":1686663404641},"content":"To that end in BC you have to be over-19 to even enter a cannabis shop. Initially, retailers were forbidden to use the word cannabis outside their premises, or project images of the plant, and had to have frosted windows, or another visual blocker, preventing people seeing inside the shop. Those regulations have been relaxed recently but shop fronts remain unusually bland and with little on display that is eye-catching.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BCNQYRI3YNEW7MS2BYIH7Q6XXY","additional_properties":{"_id":1686663404642},"content":"Inside they are often somewhat sombre places as well, lacking any in-your-face advertising or sales pizzaz.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ESZH4LCWS5E3TGSPP7VJ64LU4M","additional_properties":{"_id":1686663404643},"content":"Gabi Mattoso runs Canntina in downtown Vancouver which offers the full range of cannabis products – joints, dried flowers, oils, “bath bombs”, drinks and other oral consumption items which include sweets and biscuits. “We are a recreational store,” she says.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YGZMGIGTVBGDBMD4255SJWOMRE","additional_properties":{"_id":"X5FU2PXDVRDYFLCOE32VG4HBFY"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"GBYRUL3BVRFSJPNYJG3TQWBMPE","additional_properties":{"_id":1686663404644},"content":"Cannabis vapes are “super popular” now, she says, and some customers want cannabis for pain. “I can’t really suggest anything for that,” she points out. “I’m not a doctor but sometimes I can share my own experience. I can’t give [any] medical advice whatsoever.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"7IULCYZN4ZFXBMZHF4PEFLD6TY","additional_properties":{"_id":1686663404645},"content":"Her customers are 60 per cent men and 40 per cent women, she says, both young and old, and many tourists. “Oh they love it; it’s like a whole new world for them.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"B5RCXO5PDZFI7FHCF6CGT43GLE","additional_properties":{"_id":1686663404646},"content":"“Because we are downtown, we do get a lot of people who want a joint on the go, on the way to work,” she says.","type":"text"},{"_id":"N657F6HGQBBXTEBF7LWY3LUOVA","additional_properties":{"_id":1686663404647},"content":"That joint will cost 6 Canadian dollars. An eighth of an ounce of flower for roll-your-own aficionados costs 40 Canadian dollars, while edibles cost between 5 and 7 Canadian dollars.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WBEZ26466FGN5OVAODSB2HW67M","additional_properties":{"_id":1686663404648},"content":"Jim Leslie, who works at The Potorium on Nelson’s Baker Street, is passionate about the medical benefits of cannabis use, highly critical of the regulations, and is poised to get out of cannabis into the mushrooms and LSD business.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6SQNHXYM6VBA7KTBHEGJCSG33I","additional_properties":{"_id":"25RDT6X3DVBIHH6BYZD7RTZJRU"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"CF6QD7DYHNHZ7J4EJ7BRAB6PTU","additional_properties":{"_id":1686663404649},"content":"“We [in BC] had a billion dollar business without the Feds’ help,” he says. “There was no oversight and less than 5 per cent [of those involved] had any ties to organised crime which means that the vast majority of those involved were otherwise law abiding people . . . But the Feds control our growing now and we don’t like that.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"5ZAQT3XTRZCV3BGY2UEPENVB3A","additional_properties":{"_id":1686663404650},"content":"He is a former border patrol police officer himself who says he resigned to get into cannabis. He was involved in an 80 kilo seizure of cocaine – “there was so much we had to go to the maternity hospital and use a baby scales to weigh it” – but came to believe in the medical benefits of cannabis.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5ASHJRGZHJH35ADYXT2TYYF42M","additional_properties":{"_id":1686663404651},"content":"“I quit on father’s day in 2014 to get into medical cannabis and we helped a lot of sick people, including children, across Canada,” he says, arguing that unlicensed dealers supplying cannabis for medical use “have a moral obligation to stay open” despite what the law says.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NS4SSP4KXNG7ZHREYDVHPXOVO4","additional_properties":{"_id":1686663404652},"content":"The Potorium has counter displays of little coloured sweets in pyramids on circular mirrors but joints, oils and other containers of cannabis are packaged in labels cluttered with regulation-ordained information and advice and are visually uninviting.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DA2IPJ3FBNEKLETSSECXQEG53Q","additional_properties":{"_id":"LQ7E5ILT3BA5HGMLOGLBNOQ3B4"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"5T7KKFSVMFDAFIFFSZNOMQYF3A","additional_properties":{"_id":1686663404653},"content":"Cameron Derksen is sympathetic to accusations of government heavy-handedness. Cannabis is the highest-taxed product in Canada, he says, and “it would cost a person da1 million to set up a federally licensed cultivation facility and [they must] be fully inspected and approved for production even before growing a single plant.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"AW7IAXTYLZE3DHLFYWBQHVL7YM","additional_properties":{"_id":1686663404654},"content":"He feels that generally people’s risk assessment is “badly misaligned” when compared to other potentially harmful products. “People see little danger in a glass of wine or getting smashed,” he suggests, and adds that, by comparison with getting drunk, “nobody has a joint and then starts a fist fight”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5345URHTR5EOFFFRGIXZ3WSWVM","additional_properties":{"_id":1686663404656},"content":"The effects of consumption of hard drugs, graphically on display on Vancouver’s Granville Street and in the city’s Chinatown area, are horribly evident but BC government policy now is to treat this problem as a health, and not a law and order, matter.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DAXVO5CQGJCWVNXGDBQTU7DQLI","additional_properties":{"_id":1686663404657},"content":"Kristina Del Aguila is operations manager of a former backpacker hostel on Granville that is now a refuge for the chronically addicted, who are almost invariably also homeless. About 80 people live in the hostel, many of them slumped comatose on the pavement outside for most of the day having smoked fentanyl or ingested some other substance.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MFRPJIBFANC43GM44AXXDH7WXE","additional_properties":{"_id":1686663404658},"content":"Del Aguila is non-judgmental. “Everyone has their own journey,” she says. “For us the goal is to support people no matter what their path is....out of shelter and into supportive housing to get their lives back on track.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"J5H7SFZ3RZFY7CSKFOEEUVJDEA","additional_properties":{"_id":1686663404659},"content":"Even the most optimistic, the most sympathetic, would be hard pressed to see many, if any, of the addicts of Granville Street returning to conventional living. The decriminalisation policy aims to “remove the stigma” of drug addiction and while it may do that it has also placed the reality of chronic addiction out there for all to see – a possible deterrent to others?","type":"text"},{"_id":"SW6EX7AXIVEZPE4GWQ6BODGX5Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1686663404660},"content":"Crime statistics for 2020 – two years after cannabis legalisation – suggest offences have plunged, which is not surprising given that it is no longer illegal . In that year, 2,550 adults were charged with cannabis-related offences, a decrease of 85 per cent on the figures for 2017, the year before legalisation.","type":"text"},{"_id":"W5BIHLAR5JA3HC6PZ7WISJQ3BQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1686663404661},"content":"Cannabis shops are commonplace. For instance, on Nelson’s main drag, the kilometre-long Baker Street, at least two cannabis outlets sit neatly alongside more colourful locally-owned cafes, restaurants, tourist, clothes, craft and other outlets.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YCCU6KVVIFFH7FSVAMYHOWCVZI","additional_properties":{"_id":1686663404662},"content":"The people going into them are what we might call very ordinary people, a mix of retirees and others in their 60s, middle-aged couples and younger people, perhaps mainly in their 30s. They are all well but casually dressed, relaxed, and might as well be buying a bottle of wine for the weekend, as they seek recommendations or information as to the relative merits of a Laughing Turtle, Johnny Chronic, Pure Sunfarms or All-Nations joint.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DFVIECWML5GDVEYX447MVPU264","additional_properties":{"_id":1686663404663},"content":"“Is this good for society?” Cameron Derksen repeats my question back to me. “Time will tell. But the time and energy and money spent on arresting and putting into jail people for something less harmful than getting drunk on a Friday night hasn’t been much good either.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"EWIQHAKBWBDV7C4BGVSYXUHBVI","additional_properties":{"_id":1686663404664},"content":"<i>Peter Murtagh is travelling by motorbike from Tierra del Fuego, at the tip of South America, to Alaska, at the top of North America, and </i><a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/tip2top/\"><i>writing here</i></a><i> regularly. 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Trump “wants to break us so America can own us. We will not let that happen”, the prime minister said on Sunday as he called the upcoming election for April 28th.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EMHMDVOJEBHCXHIQN4BDDKLJTU","additional_properties":{},"content":"Carney (60), who ran the Bank of England and Bank of Canada, is touting his technocratic experience and status as a political outsider while riding a wave of anger and patriotism to edge ahead of Pierre Poilievre, the Conservative opposition leader.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UC7S4L3GDFE67IEX2AZ44WWX6Y","additional_properties":{},"content":"Poilievre, a Trump-aligned darling of the Maga right, had channelled discontent over the cost of living under Trudeau into a 24-point poll lead by the start of January. 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We may be harsh on him. But he’s our president,” said Olena Halushka of the Kyiv-based non-profit International Centre for Ukrainian Victory.","type":"text"},{"_id":"U3CS7DMNTVGV3JOBKKQKYPNJFA","additional_properties":{},"content":"Zelenskiy’s overall approval rating has shot to 67 per cent while his net approval is 38 per cent – the highest scores since December 2023 – even as he seeks to mend relations by accepting Trump’s proposed minerals deal and partial 30-day truce.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AEPJQL237FBTZJMP55XLVCZ2ZY","additional_properties":{},"content":"Trump’s comments were seen as “unfair, a stab in the back” and “a wider attack on the country, rather than just criticism targeting the president”, said Anton Hrushevsky of the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4G6ZXLHNKJANFCN5DSY6RG6CVI","additional_properties":{},"content":"The fracas poses a dilemma for opposition groups looking to avoid siding with Trump. Even ex-president Petro Poroshenko, whom Zelenskiy sanctioned last month, stopped short of repeating Trump’s claim that Ukraine’s leader is a dictator.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TJ442L5VHZG3XAUWDIBIQEVXXQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"Whether Zelenskiy’s popularity bump lasts could depend largely on the trajectory of the war and outcome of peace negotiations.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ITHPE5OYBFEXLIYHEDRFDOBNNI","additional_properties":{},"content":"“When people see Zelenskiy resisting aggression, they trust him more; but when we have a more healthy relationship with partners, they start focusing more on internal issues,” Hrushevsky said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WGZZFL7XZZBZ5FM3BRLIPRIBUM","additional_properties":{},"content":"France","type":"header"},{"_id":"GQNF55XUXHZGPU7UEI54COQV6M","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"YT4VNNTJ45AHJA67573NIHHUX4","additional_properties":{},"content":"Emmanuel Macron, president of <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/france/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/france/\">France</a>, showed his diplomatic nous in Washington last month as he combined flattery of Trump with gentle rebuttals of false claims that Europe is supporting Ukraine solely through loans.","type":"text"},{"_id":"D3NX3FETSNDP3LNB6OPAELA55U","additional_properties":{},"content":"Although his work to shore up support for Kyiv was undone by the bust-up with Zelenskiy the following week, the visit won the French president plaudits across Europe. 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The Conservatives dropped five points to 36 per cent over the same period.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DVS7TKW3NBFZNG6IXSCXLKLOG4","additional_properties":{},"content":"“It is the first time the Liberals are in the lead for four years,” said Darrell Bricker, global chief executive of Ipsos.","type":"text"},{"_id":"W2RDWRXJHNFZZD6GR3MAOUW5BU","additional_properties":{},"content":"The change has energised the contest to replace Trudeau, with former finance minister Chrystia Freeland and Mark Carney, the former governor of both the Bank of Canada and Bank of England, going head to head over who can best negotiate with Trump.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6LIXA2K2AZ7GDK5C57EZNIO22U","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"MN2LMMLLKVGVBMJPHUHF7UEMAE","additional_properties":{},"content":"Carney, who is unelected and would have to win a seat to assume the leadership, is respected for heading the country’s central bank during the 2008 financial crisis and record at the Bank of England.","type":"text"},{"_id":"G4DYKSBQHNHOTIGYCJ65K4QJC4","additional_properties":{},"content":"Freeland, a former journalist who was foreign minister during Trump’s first presidency and helped renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement, has adopted the US president’s comment that she is “totally toxic” as a badge of honour – and evidence she can drive a hard bargain.","type":"text"},{"_id":"N6QQNPPPN5BN5ABU5NMKOTZ6G4","additional_properties":{},"content":"In a televised debate on Tuesday evening, Freeland said Trump posed “the gravest challenge our country has face since the second world war”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NR4U6SZGSBGFRG4RMXTC5F5MEY","additional_properties":{},"content":"“Trump is unleashed and empowered. As your prime minister, I will be too,” she said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FF4ZX2ECKNB4TBRCESJZ7WHLEY","additional_properties":{},"content":"Carney, who stressed he was “not a politician” in an effort to distance himself from the record of the Trudeau government, told viewers that “in a situation like this you need experience in terms of crisis management, you need negotiating skills, but you also need economic expertise”. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"YSMSKNQGZBBQRNRTIPLDVPXERM","additional_properties":{},"content":"Nanos Research surveys carried out between January 31st and February 3rd found that just under 40 per cent of Canadians considered Carney the best qualified leader to negotiate with Trump while only 26 per cent of those asked thought Poilievre was best suited; 13 per cent chose Freeland.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KF6PVOB55ZG3PEKTLKJBZ5GKYA","additional_properties":{},"content":"A separate poll by Leger released earlier this month found that 68 per cent of Liberal voters supported Carney.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YFMDMLTTDJHRNNGZV43XIYZ7L4","additional_properties":{},"content":"The Liberal leadership vote will take place on March 9th and a general election must be held by October, although Tuesday’s Ipsos poll found that 86 per cent of respondents wanted an election to be held as soon as possible so the new prime minister had a strong mandate to counter Trump. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"6O4LV3HGQZBVBN4RU5OJJYXSVA","additional_properties":{},"content":"“Whether this momentum will stick around remains to be seen, but for now, the Liberals are riding high,” said Semra Sevi, a political-science professor at the University of Toronto. − Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2025","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Ilya Gridneff in Toronto"}]},"description":{"basic":"US president’s taunts galvanise governing party and upend Conservative opposition’s strategy"},"display_date":"2025-02-28T06:00:01Z","headlines":{"basic":"Donald Trump revives Canada’s Liberals in electoral turnaround","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"PW3QLN3IA2AC4W5T6EMXK224HA","auth":{"1":"bb9ec703a2c79ddfc54373ce81fcac327c9e8724a170c6208ef408769ff4616f"},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/PW3QLN3IA2AC4W5T6EMXK224HA.jpg"}},"subtype":"feature","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Canada"},{"name":"World"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/world/canada/2025/02/28/donald-trump-revives-canadas-liberals-in-electoral-turnaround/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/world/canada","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Canada"}}}},{"_id":"4XSSJIQAOVDSNBCYDMY4XF3OQA","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":413,"audio_url":"https://beyondwords-cdn-b7fyckdeejejb6dj.a03.azurefd.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/c0465d1c-de17-4b55-81a4-3e5354c76770/versions/1740778068/media/5b9a5b6881082694ca97cfb25eec6010_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/world/canada/2025/02/27/rejecting-trumps-call-to-annex-their-nation-canadians-rally-around-the-flag/","content_elements":[{"_id":"LZ3GUGDD6FANFFYQGMBTXZOC54","additional_properties":{},"content":"On a good day in February, Debbie Hartlen might sell one Canadian flag at her workshop in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. Now, daily sales have hit roughly 300 flags, and that’s not counting her larger online business. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZZXEY6BGCZBLDHAHYRDLAUMBAI","additional_properties":{},"content":"US president <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/donald-trump/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/donald-trump/\">Donald Trump</a>’s plan to impose crippling tariffs on Canadian exports is seen as a devastating threat to many Canadian businesses and workers. His warning on trade – combined with his repeated calls for the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/united-states/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/united-states/\">United States</a> to annex <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/canada/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/canada/\">Canada</a> – have the country’s flag makers struggling to keep up with suddenly soaring demand.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NTEFWUPUYNG4ZMH2PIXLETGYAQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"“Isn’t it wonderful?” said Hartlen, who owns The Flag Shop Nova Scotia. “Thank you, Trump. Who would have thought we’d be saying that?”","type":"text"},{"_id":"T5RDMFJ3JJCPJMMUUBCSELXZGA","additional_properties":{},"content":"The renewed interest in Canada’s maple leaf flag, fuelled by intense opposition to Trump’s idea of making Canada the 51st state and his economic threats, comes as the red and white Canadian banner marks its 60th anniversary.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HCR4BMDQYFAGJMSHMJV3AOD6WU","additional_properties":{},"content":"And for a nation where flag waving is less a part of life than in the United States and flags are generally less conspicuous, the Trump-fuelled resurgence of Canadian patriotism has also revived the Canadian flag’s image.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PEGIC3DQX4UDZZWCUIU7TTSGKQ","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"D4MQVQVQZ5H2PKDBGTC3FARGNI","additional_properties":{},"content":"The maple leaf flag, often flown upside down or from hockey sticks, became the defining symbol used by <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/maple-leaf-flags-conspiracy-theories-and-the-matrix-inside-the-ottawa-truckers-protest-1.4799797\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/maple-leaf-flags-conspiracy-theories-and-the-matrix-inside-the-ottawa-truckers-protest-1.4799797\">protesters who occupied and paralysed Ottawa</a>, Canada’s capital, for nearly a month in 2022 in response to Covid-19 restrictions.","type":"text"},{"_id":"E2JA7OMTKBBCZDNKUC64O6DN3U","additional_properties":{},"content":"As a result, many Canadians have shied away from displaying their national flag out of concern that they would be seen as endorsing the protests.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BHPDTSAWLRHWRGWFKJBYG7KXDY","additional_properties":{},"content":"But things started to change as national flag day in Canada, which is celebrated February 15th, approached. Usually, the day passes by largely unnoticed. This time, against the backdrop of tariff threats and Trump’s criticisms of Canada, including referring to prime minister <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/justin-trudeau/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/justin-trudeau/\">Justin Trudeau</a> as Governor Trudeau, five former prime ministers have called on Canadians “to show the flag as never before”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4PKBXYULBVA75I6LEEE4AYAKQQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"The government held 60th birthday celebrations, which included skaters holding aloft a giant flag down a 19th-century canal in Ottawa that doubles as a giant ice skating rink during the winter. And throughout the country, Canadians are doing something many rarely do: flying flags outside their homes.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Y6QPGTXR4RFGHIDQA4DUKTI7MQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"L’étendard Flags and Banners, a company based in Quebec City, makes about 25,000 Canadian flags for the federal government and 10,000 more for other customers and uses what is typically the slow winter season to build up inventory leading up to Canada Day on July 1st.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ENKBPIJDP5B2NODA3UAUNSRPVA","additional_properties":{},"content":"This year demand for flags is so high that the company may need to hire extra workers to cope with the surge, said Mario Trahan, one of the company’s owners.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LKMLZZN6ERDBXONHP7NISAE75A","additional_properties":{},"content":"“There’s a peak just before July 1st but it’s always the same pattern every year,” said Trahan, whose company has been in the flag business for 30 years. “But we haven’t seen a rush like this.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"N4Q3G5AL7YCWPC7TTVJAJX3EFE","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"I5W6AJIKZJCGHDMA3TYYIGXLIE","additional_properties":{},"content":"Before the current version of the flag was adopted, Canada had spent nearly a century trying to create and agree on a national flag that was not simply carried over from its past as a British colony.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QOPGMCX2CJDIBBAU6M6Z2AFSYM","additional_properties":{},"content":"“English Canadians in particular were divided about their identity,” said Forrest Pass, a vexillologist, or flag scholar, at Library and Archives Canada, the national archive. “British imperial identity still loomed large.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"EFN2Y6VCFFC6JH2VP3S4IG5TRY","additional_properties":{},"content":"The result, he said, was that Canada first used Britain’s Union Jack, which is officially known as the royal union flag, as its national flag. In 1892, the British Admiralty officially allowed Canadian commercial ships to fly a red flag that was known as the Canadian Red Ensign, with the Union Jack in one corner and a smaller shield of Canada that underwent many design changes.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6JSDNOXIEJACJCOGS6TCL5FEDA","additional_properties":{},"content":"Soon, the Canadian Red Ensign was being used on land, particularly by the military during the first World War, before gaining official status in 1946.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZSROJDP76FB6DGHGFJP4YIDXRQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"Many Canadians regarded the red ensign as mostly a “place holder”, said Pass, whose dissertation was on flags.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6CZGO6JYUVHXZO3JXOEZGXTTVE","additional_properties":{},"content":"Various committees at various times considered thousands of proposed Canadian flags, including one, Pass said, that featured a woman in a bikini. “It was something of a cottage industry, the production of new flag designs,” he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2KQL64OHKFDEXG2VASCDPJGNPM","additional_properties":{},"content":"It was Lester B Pearson, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate for his work resolving the Suez crisis and past Liberal prime minister, who ultimately selected the single Maple Leaf design.","type":"text"},{"_id":"D5VPOBIE5JE7FL432NVUQX7JI4","additional_properties":{},"content":"But it was a hard sell at first. The debate in Parliament to adopt it was described by one historian as “among the ugliest in the House of Commons history” because of the strong opposition from members of parliament to diluting British heritage.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IW2NNA7PLVFE7I43TG2YV5ZYYE","additional_properties":{},"content":"But once the debate was settled and the design approved, Canadians quickly warmed to their new flag, Pass said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UOGQEUSFNVAUTBOF56RB27ARXM","additional_properties":{},"content":"During the Vietnam War, anecdotal stories about American travellers sewing maple leaf patches on to their backpacks before heading abroad became a source of cross-border resentment, particularly given Canada’s strong opposition to the war.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RVDY7BDSZRFYHGTMZKD2IXTX2A","additional_properties":{},"content":"But the protests in Ottawa in 2022, which became known as the trucker convoy – and that polls showed most Canadians strongly opposed – hurt the country’s romance with its flag.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LL5WGZZYMFHRZP6DPSCJZNY4V4","additional_properties":{},"content":"“The co-option of the flag by a small segment of the population created a lot of discomfort for Canadians,” said Heather Nicol, the director of the Canadian studies school at Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario. “A lot of people felt like: ‘Well I don’t know if we want to look at that flag or fly that flag again.’”","type":"text"},{"_id":"K5AQU3O3PZCBVIPWEFXM7QPG5I","additional_properties":{},"content":"Still, in one downtown Ottawa neighbourhood that endured the earsplitting, late-night air horn honking by protesting truckers, Sam Hudson never took down the four Canadian flags that largely cover the window of the tailor shop he opened 15 years ago after emigrating from Jordan. (There is also a Scottish flag in the window in honour of his first customer.)","type":"text"},{"_id":"T3PFOXT53JEE5OP3QWH4HR376Q","additional_properties":{},"content":"“I kept them because they are the symbol for our country,” Hudson said. “It’s not a symbol for certain people. I respect this flag. 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A sustained chorus of booing broke out during the singing of the Star Spangled Banner.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GNKWKLA36FBLTIUFCJP77VK4WE","additional_properties":{},"content":"Mandia, the Ottowan R’n’B artist who performed the song, confirmed afterwards that she knew the jeers were coming and that as they weren’t directed at her, “didn’t give a f**k” about what happened. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"X2XINS7HJNBKZKFXZSLH66FQTM","additional_properties":{},"content":"There are a million and one US quips and jokes about Canada’s dependable boringness and otherness but on Sunday, the ideologically sundered citizens of the US got a glimpse of what national unity looks and sounds like.","type":"text"},{"_id":"R2ORNOOJ6FHJFHSGNIU63LAXAQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"The response to US president <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/donald-trump/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/donald-trump/\">Donald Trump’s</a> announcement of a 25 per cent tariff on imports from Canada and <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/mexico/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/mexico/\">Mexico</a>, and 10 per cent on <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/china/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/china/\">China</a>, met a perplexed but determined response from their northern neighbours. Tariffs on the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/european-union/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/european-union/\">European Union</a> are expected to follow.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HZNXVSRRVRBTZIBDC3PEFDURN4","additional_properties":{},"content":"“The path the US is on right now is a lose-lose path,” warned Chrystia Freeland, the former Canadian deputy prime minister and a front-runner to succeed prime minister <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/justin-trudeau/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/justin-trudeau/\">Justin Trudeau</a>, in a TV interview on Sunday.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IUR2PTYYL5E2JONWYC3QFKUZ4I","additional_properties":{},"content":"“And at the end of the day you cannot defy the laws of economics. The people who are going to suffer from this the most are Americans, including the Americans who are voting for Trump. The president has decided now to make gas in the United States more expensive. He has decided to make groceries in the United States more expensive. And our retaliation is going to cost Americans jobs. That is completely ridiculous. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"2NG5SYJTRNDC3HXX6WBDZBPOMY","additional_properties":{},"content":"“We do not want to do this. And the right thing for the Americans to shake their heads and go guys, the Canadians are actually great partners, they are great neighbours. Let’s not do this. Because I want to tell you. Canada is formidable. We are resolute. We know what we are fighting for. We don’t want to have this fight but we are not going to lose it.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"OCWDTVPDENHQDHAHKDK3RCTYMQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"The Canadian response – the imposition of 25 per cent tariffs on the $30 billion of imports originating in the US, is effective immediately and in place until such a time as the US lifts its tariff measures. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"M4TIGYKXA5AAVHGEHN2KCCCV6U","additional_properties":{},"content":"Some 75 per cent of Canada’s exports travel across the border to the US. Just 12 per cent of US exports are to Canada. It’s an uneven battle but the rationale behind it has drawn dismay and general warnings for inflation of up to 3-4 per cent within the US, in addition to international upheaval. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"VZXLSK27WNAZ7PU6MRT6YHO5NM","additional_properties":{},"content":"Trade tariffs, Boston and Berlin: How exposed is Ireland to the US economy?","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"75N43IPFQRHYLDXBQC3W5CBY5M","additional_properties":{},"content":"Harris warns of ‘significant challenges’ for Ireland if Trump places tariffs on EU","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"5JN6REAK3ZDURHKJSBKGKMXLRA","additional_properties":{},"content":"The editorial board of the Wall Street Journal, which posted positive editorials on Trump during his election campaign, gave its view under <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/us/2025/02/02/dumbest-trade-war-in-history-us-reacts-to-trumps-tariffs/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/us/2025/02/02/dumbest-trade-war-in-history-us-reacts-to-trumps-tariffs/\">the headline “The Dumbest Trade War In History”</a>.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Z4RQUDPNHNBAVHW52Q74YRPATE","additional_properties":{},"content":"“Tariffs will also cause mayhem in the cross-border trade in farm goods,” it warned.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KCJT6S4OYNGPXNV2VTNELOCEMI","additional_properties":{},"content":"“In fiscal 2024, Mexican food exports made up about 23 per cent of total US agricultural imports while Canada supplied some 20 per cent. Many top US growers have moved to Mexico because limits on legal immigration have made it hard to find workers in the US. Mexico now supplies 90 per cent of avocados sold in the US. Is Mr Trump now an avocado nationalist?”","type":"text"},{"_id":"OUSHIRUECBFNXGMID5U75J2K5Q","additional_properties":{},"content":"There is a fair chance that the absence of avocado from the presidential breakfast menu would not cause Trump undue concern. But the tariff war is likely to have an immediate impact on the American consumer. Mexico’s president Claudia Sheinbaum stated on Sunday that while her country “doesn’t want confrontation” with the US, details of retaliatory tariffs will be announced on Monday.","type":"text"},{"_id":"P27NEWQXWJAU3OPOFXXXBBKDVU","additional_properties":{},"content":"“Problems are not addressed by imposing tariffs, but with talks and dialogue,” Sheinbaum said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KO6VBNFIEZERPJMQVPBUILAUZE","additional_properties":{},"content":"What will be the impact of Trump’s North American trade war?","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"OVJLJ5JVLNHG5ME6DQXILFUEVY","additional_properties":{},"content":"The wilful provocation of a trade war and the attendant rise in gas and grocery prices – key promises of Trump’s election campaign – generated individual responses from the Democrats, but the party lacks a cohesive message – or a recognisable leading voice. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"XSVM6W27QZHS3LPJYTGJJCWORE","additional_properties":{},"content":"Trump turned to social media to explain his rationale by stating that the US is paying “hundreds of billions of dollars to subsidise Canada. Why? There is no reason. We don’t need anything they have. We have unlimited energy, should make our own cars, and have more lumber than we can ever use. Without this massive subsidy, Canada ceases to exist as a viable country. Harsh but true!”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DEEBOENLQU656P7DNTIYBT52Q4","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"4K6UGEQXLZCENKXU2IH3YDXR5I","additional_properties":{},"content":"The post contains echoes of Trump’s remarks after meeting Trudeau in Mar-a-Lago last November, when he said that his visitor conceded Canada couldn’t exist without US import business. Conceding that the tariff orders may involve “some pain” for US consumers in the short-term, Trump will argue that tariffs are tied to his broader vision of a self-sufficient domestic economy. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"PFDKTWMSQVDW5JTA5MSFJTFAMQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"But the initial announcement of the tariffs was tied to border security and the new administration’s promise to halt the flow of fentanyl into US towns and cities, as well as its programme against undocumented immigration. 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The president has been very clear from the beginning that there is a new sheriff in town,” Noem said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VON7JSY5RFBJ5CWQZVEQBNBURI","additional_properties":{},"content":"Sheinbaum, meanwhile, denounced the insinuation that Mexican authorities were colluding with drug cartels operating in their country.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VFIQVOZKMVBIZC3UYEDA4H5SBI","additional_properties":{},"content":"“We categorically reject the White House’s slander against the Mexican government of having alliances with criminal organisations as well as any intention of intervention in our territory. Sovereignty is not negotiable.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"DEBAP5LPOBG53A2CBEA33REVBE","additional_properties":{},"content":"Trump warns tariffs may bring ‘pain’ to Americans, as Canada and Mexico retaliate","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"7GPYK3ZREJBYPF6YXXKETKJJOE","additional_properties":{},"content":"The global impact of the latest Trump administration initiative was instantaneous, with markets in <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/japan/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/japan/\">Japan</a> and <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/south-korea/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/south-korea/\">South Korea</a> falling 2 per cent and presaging the slide expected on Wall Street when markets opened there on Monday. The steepest share-price declines were in Japanese auto manufacturers, with Nissan falling by more than 7 per cent, as one of the key providers to the Mexican and Canadian car part supply chains. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"RIWASP52VRGPXCCW7XZOQTQ2ZE","additional_properties":{},"content":"Share valuations rise and fall, but the damage to relations on the northern US border is inestimable. 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They hope that a leadership race will give them a champion who might stand a chance against Pierre Poilievre, the pugnacious Conservative leader, who is all but certain to become prime minister whenever Canadians get a chance to vote.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YBRPHWUR2ZBITH66EJTCRSDJPM","additional_properties":{"_id":1736265260810},"content":"Trudeau no longer has many people in his corner. Ever since Poilievre was elected Tory leader, two years ago, Trudeau has trailed in the polls by double digits. Liberal MPs want Trudeau gone because they are all going to lose their seats. Unless a new leader can miraculously win over Canadians, the Liberals are going to find themselves after the election where they were when Justin Trudeau rescued the party back in 2013 — in third place.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SC5YHSVM6ZGBRFJ5WC7HUVTMSE","additional_properties":{"_id":1736265260811},"content":"The Liberal Party of Canada used to be known as the Natural Governing Party because of its long dominance. Because Canada is so big and so diverse, divided by language and geography, the Liberals long played an unusual brokerage role, a centrist party that managed to dominate because it formed a coalition between French and English Canada, winning the votes of Catholics and immigrants, much to the frustration of the largely rural-based protestant anglophone voters, particularly those in western Canada, where the farmers and oil workers can’t believe they rarely get to run the country.","type":"text"},{"_id":"A6MM65H34RHTTHDRYNRJE5Q4XM","additional_properties":{"_id":1736265260812},"content":"While the United Kingdom and the United States divided along ideological and class lines, Canada was dominated by a centrist blob that carefully maintained the balance between regions, religions and language groups, advancing progressive social programmes when that seemed politically advantageous, punctuated by the occasional Conservative interregnums.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7ZDQQSX7R5CBPPPK37GO5E2KSM","additional_properties":{"_id":1736265260813},"content":"The system shifted after the election of 2011, when Conservative Stephen Harper won a majority, the left-wing New Democrats formed the opposition and intellectual Michael Ignatieff returned briefly to Canada to lead the Liberals to a disastrous third-place showing.","type":"text"},{"_id":"L4MKQJXVIZA5ZM6J3NEUOVC4MQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1736265260814},"content":"That’s where the Liberal Party was when Trudeau decided to take it over. The telegenic, energetic and supremely confident eldest son of former prime minister Pierre Trudeau, Justin single-handedly brought the party back from the brink of ruin.","type":"text"},{"_id":"B56RMM7LK5AO3JDN3QRIAHIU7A","additional_properties":{"_id":1736265260815},"content":"He had always seemed like he was destined for greatness. Born on Christmas Day, 1971, he was famous from birth. Canadians started to think he would one day govern when he stole the show at his father’s televised state funeral in 2000, which featured Jimmy Carter, Fidel Castro, Leonard Cohen and the Aga Khan as pallbearers. Justin gave the eulogy, concluding with a plaintive “Je t’aime papa”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JNLQWU4IOBDIHJ7G3YC4UHRN7E","additional_properties":{"_id":1736265260816},"content":"After that, he bided his time, worked as a bouncer, snowboard instructor, back-country rafting guide and, eventually, a teacher — living as a carefree playboy — until he eventually decided to buckle down and seek election in Papineau, a gritty working-class immigrant neighbourhood in Montreal, a quartier of shawarma shops, curry houses, mosques, and temples. He defeated an incumbent separatist and served without much distinction in the House until after the election in which his party was relegated to third place.","type":"text"},{"_id":"L2AFYOXTDRDXNGHNW7SNZRAF7U","additional_properties":{"_id":1736265260817},"content":"Before he launched his leadership bid, he first made his name with a <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/trudeau-s-boxing-ring-prowess-shows-danger-of-underestimating-canadian-leader-1.3632285\" target=\"_blank\">charity boxing match</a> against Conservative senator Patrick Brazeau, a muscle-bound Algonquin with a black belt in karate.","type":"text"},{"_id":"I6U2LPTYZBHVJM2WRLG7CUWCVA","additional_properties":{"_id":1736265260818},"content":"The smart money was on Brazeau, who looks like a tougher guy than Trudeau, but Trudeau, who had been boxing regularly for 25 years, says he knew he could beat him. “He’s got a black belt in karate, but we’re not doing a karate fight,” he told me later.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WWBPWWIN5FAM3MFBKPZUNTFZ3A","additional_properties":{"_id":1736265260819},"content":"Trudeau ended up bloodying Brazeau’s nose, establishing himself as sufficiently masculine and courageous, and he easily took the leadership of the party. The scion of a famous family, having demonstrated his courage with his fists, handsome and open, he was interesting<i>, </i>a glamorous figure skateboarding to the Canadian parliament buildings, doing yoga poses in caucus rooms<i>. </i>Canadians felt they knew him, and although his opponents attacked him as an intellectual lightweight in the 2015 election, Canadians liked him, didn’t want him to fail, and were ready to believe he had what it took.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZA4BDJTEGJGHFN7TSCVWZWV6DA","additional_properties":{"_id":1736265260820},"content":"He made mistakes, often had to apologise for callow or ill-considered statements, but people were ready to give him the benefit of the doubt, and they had grown weary of the dour Harper, who was grimly warning — accurately, it would turn out — that Trudeau would be a big spender.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6VPGEJ4C5RBAJI6AM4GTK22RXE","additional_properties":{"_id":1736265260821},"content":"Trudeau won a majority and was briefly a global media darling, getting thronged on overseas trips and winning glamorous coverage in Vogue and Rolling Stone. His first cabinet was half female. When reporters asked him why, he said: “Because it’s 2015” and won praise from feminists around the world.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QIZ7WI3FRFBBLPUMXLF3BUIMM4","additional_properties":{"_id":1736265260822},"content":"He legalised marijuana, reduced child poverty, was notably inclusive toward new Canadians and women, brought in a carbon tax to reduce emissions, worked toward reconciliation with Canada’s long-mistreated Indigenous people. For a while, he was much-loved, but political gravity eventually did its work.","type":"text"},{"_id":"W3RH5CNON5EIPNPF6REV4XU754","additional_properties":{"_id":1736265260823},"content":"He made errors of judgment, broke ethics rules over a holiday on the Aga Khan’s Caribbean island, made a disastrous trip to India, where he was mocked for his excessive costume changes. More seriously, he eventually lost two ministers and several senior aides in a scandal over an attempt to sideline the prosecution of SNC Lavalin, a Montreal-based engineering firm that had been involved in corrupt business with Muammar Gadafy’s family.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CMG7JQTYRJFCZHUMAZWZHKHAVE","additional_properties":{"_id":1736265260824},"content":"Trudeau did a good job negotiating the first presidency of Donald Trump in the US, successfully managing to keep his cool and maintain the vital trade relationship in the face of Trump’s juvenile provocations, and saved a lot of lives during the Covid pandemic, paying people to stay home, which kept the death rate in Canada much lower than in the US.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HYRZXQJRBFBDNLYOTLLHMCELUA","additional_properties":{"_id":1736265260825},"content":"But the post-Covid cost-of-living crisis wore away at his popularity, and to many conservatives, in Canada and abroad, he came to seem like a woke hypocrite, virtue signalling as an anti-racist although he had worn blackface, for example, flying in a private jet while imposing a carbon tax. His post-pandemic surge in temporary immigration exacerbated a housing crisis, and suddenly there were tent cities everywhere. For young people especially, Trudeau looked like a barrier to housing.","type":"text"},{"_id":"X45FJLC5FZCPBNRNLES7MLAJ3Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1736265260826},"content":"So for the past two years, he has been on borrowed time, and everyone but him seemed to know it. He lost once-safe seats in Toronto and Montreal in byelections, weathered an aborted caucus rebellion, brought in a gimmicky sales-tax holiday and then, suddenly, lost his deputy prime minister Chyrstia Freeland, when he tried to replace her with central bank superstar Mark Carney.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JUY7P57BAZCJFNTABF4YOPJY5I","additional_properties":{"_id":1736265260827},"content":"On December 16th, the morning she was supposed to release a fall economic statement, Freeland, who was a vital guarantor of competence in the public mind, resigned and denounced him, leaving the government suddenly without a finance minister.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NV64YFTN75B45HYIDIYRSCQBRI","additional_properties":{"_id":1736265260828},"content":"It was all over but the crying. Trudeau had hung on too long, and over the holidays he was forced to make his peace with that.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3FB6BWZJ3BDDBP4YG2T3F4YIEI","additional_properties":{"_id":1736265260829},"content":"That’s politics. He is not the first politician to refuse to read the writing on the wall, but this is an unusually difficult moment for the country to be led by an ineffectual lame duck.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4HOFWU6BXBEWZFJKELCEJ6BW5E","additional_properties":{"_id":1736265260830},"content":"Trump, who is promising to bring in ruinous tariffs on Canadian imports to the US, is to take office January 20th. If he follows through on his threat, Canada would immediately be plunged into a recession.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KNVQM2L2LBGD5HSTR6K73GGNMI","additional_properties":{"_id":1736265260831},"content":"He likely won’t do that, because the economic pain would be brutal in the northern states that Trump needs to keep sweet, but the threat is rattling Canadians, whose livelihoods depend on the smooth transhipment of goods across the 9,000km border. In December, Trudeau flew down to Mar-a-Lago to try to smooth things over, a mission that led Trump to launch an online bullying campaign, repeatedly proposing that Canada be annexed.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TYFUQ32ZM5GSHCP3CVEXKPMN54","additional_properties":{"_id":1736265260832},"content":"Trudeau’s election in 2015 was in a sense a restoration of a vision of a bilingual, multicultural, tolerant welfare state, the kind of Nordic country that would be at home in the European Union if it wasn’t for an inconvenient ocean.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VLNX3KO5QJBKFG7ZYTSN44AFNA","additional_properties":{"_id":1736265260833},"content":"He leaves it rudderless at a moment of great uncertainty because he was a fighter who didn’t know when to throw in the towel.","type":"text"},{"_id":"D3LJBGWQ45APJNVG2IGZOWP4SE","additional_properties":{"_id":1736265260834},"content":"<i>Stephen Maher is a longtime Canadian political journalist and the author of The Prince, The Turbulent Reign of Justin Trudeau</i>.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YCDY6C2IB5FUNMX3YVDX7FFP3I","additional_properties":{},"type":"list"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Stephen Maher"}]},"description":{"basic":"Trudeau’s election in 2015 was in a sense a restoration of a vision of a bilingual, multicultural, tolerant welfare state, the kind of Nordic country that would be at home in the European Union if it wasn’t for an inconvenient ocean, writes biographer Stephen Maher"},"display_date":"2025-01-09T16:00:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"Justin Trudeau: A fighter who didn’t know when to throw in the towel","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"3FPUXYWGS3UOQ7AI3553BJCX74","auth":{"1":"0a3f93a59c322282cd08cfaae9c37604d053caacc0b207e452cb1ba55dce4fcb"},"focal_point":{"x":1375,"y":855},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/3FPUXYWGS3UOQ7AI3553BJCX74.jpg"}},"subtype":"opinion","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Canada"},{"name":"Culture"},{"name":"Books"},{"name":"World"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/world/canada/2025/01/11/justin-trudeau-a-fighter-who-didnt-know-when-to-throw-in-the-towel/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/world/canada","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Canada"}}}},{"_id":"VWWCMLAMMRAANCHCRKLZI72ZGE","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":208,"audio_url":"https://beyondwords-cdn-b7fyckdeejejb6dj.a03.azurefd.net/audio/projects/5469/podcasts/716aa1e4-6a03-4b1c-8fea-c79ab7c088fa/versions/1736267910/media/408da00da8eae4a5a5e8399d4ed588eb_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/world/canada/2025/01/07/mark-carney-considering-run-to-replace-justin-trudeau-as-canadian-pm/","content_elements":[{"_id":"6PZFEBTJ4NGZDMAYXPSFS3OUJY","additional_properties":{"_id":1736266374469},"content":"The former <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/bank-of-england/\" target=\"_blank\">Bank of England</a> governor Mark Carney, a climate-focused economist who became the first non-<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/uk/\" target=\"_blank\">Briton</a> to run the bank, is considering entering the race to replace <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/justin-trudeau/\" target=\"_blank\">Justin Trudeau</a> as <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/canada/\" target=\"_blank\">Canada</a>’s prime minister.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XJ7XAB3LGBGRLPH243KQKTPILM","additional_properties":{"_id":1736266374470},"content":"Mr Trudeau <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/canada/2025/01/06/canada-pm-justin-trudeau-likely-to-announce-resignation-within-days/\" target=\"_blank\">announced on Monday</a> he would step down after nearly 10 years in power once his ruling Liberal Party chose a new leader, throwing open the doors to a fierce party race before a general election later this year.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Z26CFH2IRBA6ZDXIFTD3JWW6YY","additional_properties":{"_id":1736266374471},"content":"Mr Carney (59), in a statement quoted by <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/bloomberg/\" target=\"_blank\">Bloomberg</a>, where he is a chair of the board of directors, said he would be “considering this decision closely with my family over the coming days”. A long-time and prominent member of the Liberal Party, Mr Carney said he was “encouraged” by the support of Liberal lawmakers and people “who want us to move forward with positive change and a winning economic plan”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4LSYPDBFNJBEBIH237XLD4TWTQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1736266374472},"content":"Speculation that Mr Carney, who ran the Bank of Canada from 2008 to 2013 and the Bank of England from 2013 to 2020, could be seeking high office has grown over the past few months as Mr Trudeau’s popularity plummeted amid record inflation, an acute housing crisis, high food prices and voter fatigue.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2TAZ3U47VZGMNJ624O5UXZ2QUY","additional_properties":{"_id":1736266374473},"content":"Mr Carney holds Canadian and Irish citizenship, and gained British citizenship in 2018.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7BZ4GRUIXFFTXCM7BNC7EOTNVE","additional_properties":{"_id":1736266374474},"content":"Mr Trudeau’s decision to resign came amid fears that tariffs imposed by Donald Trump, the incoming US president, could devastate Canada’s economy.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HYEGH7WWJJBLXIPKT3J45CWHC4","additional_properties":{"_id":1736266374475},"content":"US president Joe Biden expressed his appreciation for Mr Trudeau in a phone call on Monday.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZTTQ5PBHPZEGVB43UHI67C5GR4","additional_properties":{"_id":1736266374476},"content":"“Over the last decade, prime minister Trudeau has led with commitment, optimism and strategic vision. The US-Canada alliance is stronger because of him. The American and Canadian people are safer because of him. And the world is better off because of him,” Mr Biden said in a statement.","type":"text"},{"_id":"343R7LDKJZEN3AIDE362MBJCXU","additional_properties":{"_id":1736266374477},"content":"Mr Carney’s supporters see him as having the experience to guide the country through a period of instability. The former banker has a diverse, internationalist resume, including as chair of Brookfield Asset Management, a large Canadian alternative asset manager, and as UN special envoy for climate action and finance.","type":"text"},{"_id":"U3WVK6U2KFECLOLXMO2JLS65LY","additional_properties":{"_id":"7B7TFQQWJVBFLNPZ5PCFVQQQQ4"},"content":"Mark Carney: ‘The more a country asks of its citizens, the greater their devotion to it’","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"2TAZ3U47VZGMNJ624O5UXZ2QUY","additional_properties":{"_id":1736266374478},"content":"In September the Liberal Party announced Mr Carney would lead a taskforce on economic growth.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SY7M2KUX65ABNJQF26TR6TJ4BQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1736266374479},"content":"However, the party is in a tough position, with the opposition Conservatives expected to win a majority government under current polling. The Conservative Party leader, Pierre Poilievre, has dismissed the former central banker as Carbon Tax Carney, a reference to a levy on consumer fuel Mr Trudeau brought in.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7L56DNAOSZHELH4WDFB2FT6SQY","additional_properties":{"_id":1736266374480},"content":"A <a href=\"https://angusreid.org/the-freeland-factor-liberal-leadership/\" target=\"_blank\">poll by the Angus Reid Institute</a> on Friday, before Mr Trudeau’s announcement, found Mr Carney was in second place among candidates likely to replace Mr Trudeau as Liberal leader. The former deputy prime minister <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/16/chrystia-freeland-resigns-canada-trump\" target=\"_blank\">Chrystia Freeland, whose resignation last month</a> increased calls for Mr Trudeau to go, was top.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AQDQ347VSVC3JJQY2XKCYSSA4M","additional_properties":{"_id":1736266374481},"content":"If he were to win the leadership race, Mr Carney would be in the unusual situation of becoming prime minister without holding a seat in the House of Commons. Party leaders are not required to be members of parliament when they win but convention requires they run for a seat as quickly as possible. It took Jagmeet Singh 16 months to become an MP after winning the leadership of the New Democratic Party.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RBXDIULONBB7LI53RPWKK4BJGI","additional_properties":{"_id":1736266374482},"content":"With a spring election widely expected, the new Liberal leader will hold the post of prime minister for only a handful of months before the country votes. – Guardian","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Oliver Holmes and Leyland Cecco"}]},"description":{"basic":"Former Bank of England governor holds holds Canadian, Irish and British citizenship"},"display_date":"2025-01-07T16:33:25.843Z","headlines":{"basic":"Mark Carney ‘considering’ run to replace Justin Trudeau as Canadian PM","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"5469"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"2TRWKMQEVORFI7NAGVNAGFAPOI","auth":{"1":"c2d3770aaa674552ca78a9b244858db8a85cc8f3317d6cb09d8b8e07274d2721"},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/2TRWKMQEVORFI7NAGVNAGFAPOI.jpg"}},"subtype":"default","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Canada"},{"name":"World"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/world/canada/2025/01/07/mark-carney-considering-run-to-replace-justin-trudeau-as-canadian-pm/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/world/canada","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Canada"}}}},{"_id":"GSUOMTT6XJCU7FWQHVIWVYOKFA","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":520,"audio_url":"https://beyondwords-cdn-b7fyckdeejejb6dj.a03.azurefd.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/323f2e50-bab4-4f06-945d-c09c6b92149a/versions/1736192206/media/ff5da09904887bdecf409a46743db45f_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/world/canada/2025/01/06/justin-trudeau-promised-sunny-ways-but-could-not-fulfil-his-lofty-ambitions/","content_elements":[{"_id":"6ABXRN7HIVHYFBNALT5WX3ERXE","additional_properties":{"_id":1736183156476},"content":"He swept into parliament at the helm of surprise majority, promising change, hope and “sunny ways” as he charmed Canadians and much of the world with a brand that sought to embrace feminism, welcome refugees and reset <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/canada/\" target=\"_blank\">Canada</a>’s relationship with Indigenous peoples.","type":"text"},{"_id":"P62E74J6FZEW3IETGIUC5HQ7MA","additional_properties":{"_id":1736183156478},"content":"Nearly 10 years later, however, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/justin-trudeau/\" target=\"_blank\">Justin Trudeau</a>’s political career has come to a halt, with the 53-year-old on Monday <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/canada/2025/01/06/canada-pm-justin-trudeau-likely-to-announce-resignation-within-days/\" target=\"_blank\">announcing his decision to step down</a>.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HDT4PUT2PVA45GM3RQJWOFNW3Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1736183156480},"content":"“Last night over dinner, I told my kids about the decision I’m sharing with you today,” he said, adding that while he was a “fighter” he saw no path forward. “This country deserves a real choice in the next election, and it has become clear to me that if I’m having to fight internal battles, I cannot be the best option in that election.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"A6YYUJPXF5BW3IVCF6SPC64IEE","additional_properties":{"_id":1736183156482},"content":"Trudeau said he would remain as prime minister until a new leader is chosen. He also made the decisions to request a prorogation of parliament, buying his ailing Liberal Party precious months to avoid disaster when an election is called.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4WM76TH2HBBO3H5KN7X7EJ45D4","additional_properties":{"_id":1736183156486},"content":"In the end, Trudeau’s boyish charisma was not enough to reassure Canadians facing enormous jumps in housing prices, rocketing groceries inflation and the prospect of huge tariffs imposed by the country’s main trading partner, the US.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VB5FPX2QXRGMBEQATXIUSRNFBQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1736183156488},"content":"The decision capped off a stunning, years-long turn of fortune for Trudeau, a former high schoolteacher and the eldest son of Pierre Trudeau, one of Canada’s best-known prime ministers. For months he had fended off calls to resign, insisting he would stay on even as a swelling chorus of his own party members urged him to go and after Chrystia Freeland, one of his most powerful and loyal ministers, delivered a scathing blow as she announced her own resignation.","type":"text"},{"_id":"L7ZQYURGHUWDKNI5GTOZKFLYIU","additional_properties":{"_id":"3BKAHAPF3FDK5KZF2XL3WFZM34"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"BSX7UQ5CLZFHLKHJNP36WNPEPU","additional_properties":{"_id":1736183156490},"content":"The swirling questions over Trudeau’s resignation sharpened after Jagmeet Singh, the leader of the New Democratic Party, recently vowed to present a parliamentary motion to topple Trudeau’s government.","type":"text"},{"_id":"P5ZX6FHJSVG7JJGX5N6UHMQ74Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1736183156492},"content":"The long, drawn-out end was a sharp contrast to his meteoric rise; in 2015, after catapulting his party from third in the polls to a first-place finish, he became the country’s prime minister, making headlines around the world as he ushered in the country’s first gender-balanced cabinet with the pithy line: “Because it’s 2015.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"B2GH4X3UXNERNNFR2CVEZ5OR7M","additional_properties":{"_id":1736183156494},"content":"As media requests for the young leader poured in from around the world, Canadians appeared to embrace his habit of snapping selfies with supporters and revel in his global star power, highlighted during the 2016 G7 summit in Japan, where he was nicknamed “ikemen shusho”, or hunky PM, by local media and swooning fans who lined up for a glimpse of him.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DX3RBRNEWNEG5KKGME2P6RGN5U","additional_properties":{"_id":1736183156496},"content":"Just shy of a decade on, his popularity had plunged among Canadians. “I think part of it is that he stayed too long,” said Lori Turnbull, a professor of political science at Dalhousie University, pointing to those who opposed his pandemic-era restrictions, and affordability issues that had steadily chipped away at his popularity over the past two years. “He could have read the writing on the wall and walked away, but that is not the way he operates. 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And now it’s not clear what would be left of the Liberal Party and the Liberal brand without him.” Polls have consistently suggested that, were an election to be held today, the opposition Conservatives, led by Pierre Poilievre, would win a majority.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DVTNALAKNJC6RORPQS7EIK3HR4","additional_properties":{"_id":1736183156502},"content":"The political drama has dominated headlines across Canada and beyond, offering a glimpse of a governing party in disarray as Canadians brace themselves for <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/donald-trump/\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump</a>’s return to power. Last month the US president-elect announced plans to slap a 25 per cent tariff on all products coming into the United States from Canada, sending the Canadian dollar tumbling as analysts warned that exports to the US had climbed to about 77 per cent of the country’s total exports.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AXFMSLZQSUC4YOQR7K75OZJG6I","additional_properties":{"_id":"O2PJGWMFSZFKHCMSWDMJ6RXWLQ"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"AXXBN6PC5JDY5CMOUNFOJT4NRM","additional_properties":{"_id":"QXSZSEPMQ5CNJDGNV27WNFF5KA"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"T4P33U2T6REHDCGD4FYIPQKGVU","additional_properties":{},"content":"The fast-approaching possibility of an economic crisis comes as affordability already ranks among the top concerns of many across Canada. While most Canadians agreed with the direction the Trudeau-led government had taken when it came to issues such as equality and diversity, many felt that he had failed to deliver when it came to economic issues, said Nik Nanos of Nanos Research. “As the rising cost of living – especially the rising cost of housing – has gripped many Canadians, there’s a sense that the Liberals were flat-footed on this issue,” he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BK52LE2PGNEGXFB2QGLGVY5BKY","additional_properties":{"_id":1736183156506},"content":"This clumsiness also extended to some of Trudeau’s most-vaunted promises, said Nanos. “Even on things like reconciliation, I think it would be fair to say that for many Indigenous peoples, Justin Trudeau said all the right things about reconciliation. But they don’t feel that there’s actually been a positive change in the day-to-day lives of Indigenous peoples in the last 10 years.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"755QQ5TVGFBB3ETQP7GACPVI5M","additional_properties":{"_id":1736183156508},"content":"When Trudeau first entered politics, his critics scrambled to define him, describing his teaching experience and stints working in youth advocacy and as a snowboard instructor as part of a CV that was “too thin” for a political leader. The criticisms seemingly failed to land, as many in the country voted to allow him the chance to write his own story.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6O7DQZWKNBD7HFXTSBPJHZMNLQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1736183156510},"content":"Ten years later, everyone in the country had a strong opinion on Trudeau, said Nanos. “There are very few people who are undecided, or ambivalent, about Justin Trudeau.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"JBQ7VFI6O5AV5CHWZRD2XAIAII","additional_properties":{"_id":1736183156512},"content":"He was swift to note, however, that Poilievre, the conservative leader who has a double-digit poll lead over Trudeau, is just as polarising. “We’re in a world where all of the choices are polarising, but people are looking to punish someone,” said Nanos. “And Justin Trudeau, as the incumbent prime minister, is at the top of the list for a significant proportion of the population, because of their worries about paying for groceries, paying for housing and wondering about what’s happening on 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Canadian officials increasingly fear US tariffs will devastate the Canadian economy and a prorogued parliament is unlikely to ease these fears.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TY4SLK7NY5GUZHWDHR4JR2RLCI","additional_properties":{},"content":"Mr Trudeau had attempted to placate the incoming US president, both with an array of policy concessions and with a visit to Florida, where they posed smiling for a photograph, and he told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation that he promised Mr Trump Canada would shore up border security.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LSU4BNWEUNEJZCT7F6CLFXTVYU","additional_properties":{},"content":"Days later, however, Mr Trump publicly mocked Mr Trudeau, belittling him as the “governor” of Canada, as if his country were merely a US state rather than an independent nation, and musing that it could become part of the US.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EWGKZRRVMFEPVMEDL7FPBRZHEM","additional_properties":{},"content":"In Canada, reaction from the prime minister’s political rivals on his decision to step down was swift and unforgiving.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DH7LZ2ACFNATXLFE6FGLTGW7IY","additional_properties":{},"content":"“Nothing has changed,” said Pierre Poilievre, the Conservative leader. “Every Liberal MP and leadership contender supported everything Trudeau did for nine years, and now they want to trick voters by swapping in another Liberal face to keep ripping off Canadians for another four years, just like Justin.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"KO7HPES62JDPJFDKX3LCCJCKOY","additional_properties":{},"content":"Jagmeet Singh, leader of the New Democratic Party, said in a statement the Liberals “do not deserve another chance, no matter who is the leader”. Mr Singh propped up the Liberals’ minority government for three years under a confidence and supply agreement but withdraw his support at the end of 2024.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HCWZXP5CNNEABOPF3EMN3K4CJA","additional_properties":{},"content":"Earlier in the day, Mr Trudeau met the governor general, Mary Simon, and requested the prorogation of parliament until March 24th in order to give the party sufficient time to find a new leader. Lawmakers were due to return in late January and the Conservatives had pledged to bring down the government with a vote of non-confidence, which could have forced an election.","type":"text"},{"_id":"54KZEIZ3B5H3NEWWFKK54OOGQQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"XWVBIJLBT5CBHMFZJWS25D4BLM","additional_properties":{},"content":"Mr Trudeau (53) has led the ruling Liberal Party since 2013 and became prime minister in November 2015. 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While he drew fawning reviews in the news media – including over his poster boy looks – his honeymoon with Canadians really lasted only about two years. By 2017, a series of controversies had already tarnished his picture-perfect image.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SZC7PYX5JVDCFDOXD2VBW4FSDA","additional_properties":{"_id":1734953467160},"content":"His party went on to lose the popular vote in two elections, in 2019 and 2021, requiring him to form minority governments propped up by a left-wing opposition party. That support, too, has now evaporated.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XLALHPTSUNEL7MKL7QIUM4LN2I","additional_properties":{"_id":1734953467161},"content":"Today, Trudeau finds himself – like other western leaders – facing an angry constituency and losing control.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2BKXOVIMU5DBTJR6CRE42DVP3I","additional_properties":{"_id":1734953467162},"content":"He will soon either call elections that he’ll most likely lose, or he’ll step down as leader of his party and as prime minister and let a different leader take the Liberals to the ballot box next year.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7JMK2EB5YFG6HN4XA2ERQAGYXE","additional_properties":{"_id":1734953467163},"content":"<b>The Prince</b>","type":"text"},{"_id":"DCRVJ7HPHZEEHNU7GPYZMFNNSU","additional_properties":{"_id":1734953467164},"content":"In Stephen Maher’s 2024 biography of Trudeau, the author recalls separate occasions in which Trudeau’s family members called him a “prince”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TQSRZ4KA4NBPJBQGNXCIGO252U","additional_properties":{"_id":1734953467165},"content":"“I’ve always known my whole life that this would be available to me if I want,” Maher quotes a young Trudeau as saying about entering politics.","type":"text"},{"_id":"57RFVQJEIVCMJK3XPAFNBQTQ7Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1734953467166},"content":"When deciding where to start telling Trudeau’s political story, chroniclers have several choices.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CINFEE34QVGTDEHL37Q3YH5CZQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1734953467167},"content":"There’s a <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/trudeau-s-boxing-ring-prowess-shows-danger-of-underestimating-canadian-leader-1.3632285\" target=\"_blank\">2012 charity boxing match</a> that he, then a young member of parliament, won against a tough Conservative who had a black belt in karate. People still bring up the fight.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GDN4HLZD3BCIBIFWGY7FZRXTRE","additional_properties":{"_id":1734953467168},"content":"Or the moment in 2015 when he, as prime minister, unveiled the country’s first gender-balanced cabinet and – asked why this mattered – quipped, “Because it’s 2015”. Male leaders around the world were put on notice.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Y4K6VFPITFFXPOBKMJ6OSELD7Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1734953467169},"content":"One might also look back to the eulogy he delivered in 2000 for his father, former prime minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau, for an early glimpse of Justin Trudeau the politician.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CNISEELJDFF5PLQKNPPQJ257FA","additional_properties":{"_id":1734953467170},"content":"“We have gathered from coast to coast to coast. From one ocean to another, united in our grief to say goodbye,” Trudeau, then 29, told a packed cathedral of mourners. “But this is not the end.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"4BBVJAJ6IJD2LHZFLJSHSTI3VE","additional_properties":{"_id":1734953467171},"content":"Trudeau, who turns 53 on Christmas Day, was born while his father was in his first of four terms in office.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DBWNR4FAQ5BR7EEZZLW3HT5LVY","additional_properties":{"_id":1734953467172},"content":"The elder Trudeau had swept Canada off its feet in the late 1960s, in what came to be called “Trudeau-mania”. Eventually, voters soured on him too, though he stayed in power for 16 years, and his legacy helped launch his son’s career.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HHQLLF32NFHF3CK6VL66B2MBAU","additional_properties":{"_id":1734953467173},"content":"“There was this nostalgia that was associated with the name that really worked for Justin,” said Darrell Bricker, a seasoned pollster and chief executive of Ipsos Public Affairs.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MQN5A2BJURHAZMBMZA4KUDVZVE","additional_properties":{"_id":1734953467174},"content":"“We were coming out of the time of tempestuous Canadian politics run by a lot of old men,” he added, “and even young men who just seemed old. So Justin was like a breath of fresh air.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"HMJHOT3XOZCT7AEI7EOQF45UDE","additional_properties":{"_id":1734953467175},"content":"<b>Liberal Icon</b>","type":"text"},{"_id":"AJEDW5BLCRDPFA4L4PHMCTY3FM","additional_properties":{"_id":1734953467176},"content":"The “Because it’s 2015” comment on his cabinet’s gender parity catapulted Trudeau to global political renown.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SNSCB2ILGFHIVMNQZFE6I4WHBY","additional_properties":{"_id":1734953467177},"content":"Glossy magazines swooned; Vogue ranked him as one of 2015’s 10 “convention-defying hotties,” referring to him as a “Canadian politician-dreamboat”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KCH6COXTJVHX7N5C3YLNWHQ4JA","additional_properties":{"_id":1734953467178},"content":"One former European leader from the Group of 7 industrialised democracies said early meetings with Trudeau were marked by people lining up to take selfies with him and treating him like some kind of rock star. The former leader asked not to be identified discussing past diplomatic meetings.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6KELKOWPVNF5DED5XFYT7WJDTU","additional_properties":{"_id":1734953467179},"content":"As the United States switched from the Obama to the Trump presidencies in 2016, Trudeau seemed to offer continuity with Obama’s politics. Few moments exemplified this more than Trudeau’s decision to offer refugees an open welcome in 2017 as Trump cracked down on immigrants.","type":"text"},{"_id":"L7ZQYURGHUWDKNI5GTOZKFLYIU","additional_properties":{"_id":"7RCFCRWT5VEFZHAW4LOLOLF7VQ"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"YVEMZGOAFNDR7F3AO3NJKX4T4I","additional_properties":{"_id":1734953467180},"content":"“To those fleeing persecution, terror & war, Canadians will welcome you, regardless of your faith,” Trudeau posted on the social platform X, then known as Twitter. “Diversity is our strength.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"4ISXDQRUXJH6PETGSPQ5M2TEHU","additional_properties":{"_id":1734953467182},"content":"At the time, Trump had issued his so-called Muslim ban curtailing travel to the United States for people from some Muslim-majority nations. Trudeau even went to the airport to personally welcome Syrian refugees arriving in Canada.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EUHA5P743ZCX5BLAJQEC7QLU5A","additional_properties":{"_id":1734953467183},"content":"Trudeau was also at the forefront of postcolonial nations reckoning with the legacy of their treatment of indigenous populations. While Trudeau has been criticised for not going far enough, it has been during his tenure that a reconciliation with indigenous populations in Canada began in earnest.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PKVGQEFCZZCRFMDICPKXGWZHMA","additional_properties":{"_id":1734953467184},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"6SRH44IXXNFDXIB3ML3BJUAPTQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1734953467185},"content":"<b>Change All Around</b>","type":"text"},{"_id":"GB6RE67J4RHAXGLISYIZKQYHUY","additional_properties":{"_id":1734953467186},"content":"But starting in 2017, his political fortunes at home had already started fading.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2OZOZ5UW6JDFXGC3I3UVAOJJ2Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1734953467187},"content":"As he headed to the polls in 2019, Trudeau was rocked by scandal, including a luxurious free vacation he took that he failed to declare and videos from the 1990s and 2001 that surfaced showing him dressing up in blackface.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AHFNE6YZBVCEHOFZ4ATKUUXDHQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1734953467188},"content":"It took a toll; he could secure only a minority government, leaving his party dependent on allies to pass legislation.","type":"text"},{"_id":"H2XSIM7ICVERZH5HBUTM6QEWDI","additional_properties":{"_id":1734953467189},"content":"And then came the pandemic. Critics describe Trudeau’s push for restrictive measures as a key reason for the animus against him.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EOCJ4NOAMBGW5EMCOLYSZKC3GI","additional_properties":{"_id":1734953467190},"content":"Within two years, in the middle of the pandemic, Trudeau called an early election, believing it might return him to a majority government. He was wrong. He ended up again commanding only a minority of representatives in Canada’s House of Commons.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UZNGRLU5GFAZFGAOIXMXUYXJO4","additional_properties":{"_id":1734953467191},"content":"By that point, the western world’s centre of political gravity was already shifting to the right over vaccine and restrictive mandates. In Canada, that set off protests in various parts of the country that came to be known as the Freedom Convoy, including weeks of demonstrations in Ottawa, Ontario, the capital, that paralysed the city’s downtown.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4IOEMGU2JFCVVLRNYOZOCNLWPE","additional_properties":{"_id":1734953467192},"content":"Canadians found themselves battered by persistent inflation, setting off an affordability crisis, while an open migration policy to bring in workers backfired, turning one of the world’s most immigrant-friendly societies against newcomers.","type":"text"},{"_id":"47UCUDONUVDXZFYGAOAOV2JRJY","additional_properties":{"_id":1734953467194},"content":"Trudeau also faced turmoil on the family front, last year separating from his wife of 18 years, with whom he has three children.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6BBAE5ZFEJCSLLQXF3PUFJCEKY","additional_properties":{"_id":1734953467195},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"2AFL25CUNVFZNKELQVTFFEZ2Y4","additional_properties":{"_id":1734953467196},"content":"<b>A Walk in the Snow</b>","type":"text"},{"_id":"NTEP6XLIJZDZTGWJONV6Y7EZ7M","additional_properties":{"_id":1734953467197},"content":"Trump’s election victory in November has brought into focus Trudeau’s weakened position. Trump has threatened to impose blanket 25 per cent tariffs on Canadian goods, which would devastate Canada economically. Trump has also been mocking Trudeau online, referring to him as a governor, and to Canada as the 51st state.","type":"text"},{"_id":"I6BBLQL3AZG6PKCDJPACQEGLKQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1734953467198},"content":"This time, a political brand that appears antithetical to Trump’s isn’t working for Trudeau.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XAFKSD6FMNGXNGR5UK76H4HRSI","additional_properties":{"_id":1734966537351},"content":"“He caught a wave on his way in, and when you catch a wave, it can lift you up,” Bricker said. “But on the other side, if you don’t get off, it will ground you.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"ICAEHEN7C5F6HCYWGKDIHJL77A","additional_properties":{"_id":1734953467199},"content":"With elections required by October because of Canada’s electoral rules, Trudeau’s departure is increasingly seen as a foregone conclusion. The question is where this leaves his Liberal Party. The latest Ipsos poll, published Friday, found that the Liberals trail the Conservatives by 25 percentage points.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UVMV4KUR4BG3DMHQICGVVCO7HY","additional_properties":{"_id":1734953467200},"content":"Last Monday his deputy prime minister and finance minister Chrystia Freeland resigned with a bombshell letter, accusing him of engaging in “costly political gimmicks” and being ill-prepared to face the challenge posed by Trump.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SOB3STL2W5DLTKIYOQQHXD5I2U","additional_properties":{"_id":1734953467202},"content":"Then on Friday, the opposition party that has propped up his Liberal minority administration said it would bring a no-confidence vote against it after parliament resumes in January.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AKBLXVC6TNC5HNROG6QPITX6WY","additional_properties":{"_id":1734953467203},"content":"“Like most families, sometimes we have fights around the holidays,” Trudeau mused at a party for Liberal staff in Ottawa on Tuesday, in a nod to Freeland’s departure.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MPUOJZC3UJFPNMF4O7I3AWAFUI","additional_properties":{"_id":1734966537356},"content":"“But of course, like most families, we find our way through it. You know, I love this country. I deeply love this party. I love you guys.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"NB5RTPJZLNDFVL657L46KD63DA","additional_properties":{"_id":1734953467204},"content":"But the party, like the country, may no longer love him back. Trudeau’s allies say the prime minister will take time over the holidays to decide his next steps.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7I5LCJP3NZAZTNOUZ24GSL5QQY","additional_properties":{"_id":1734953467205},"content":"A growing chorus is asking Trudeau to “take a walk in the snow”, a phrase that became part of political lore after his father, in February 1984, facing calls to resign, took a long walk in the snow.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LOGUDE66TRA6DK2I3GHSELMDCQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1734953467207},"content":"When he came back, he had decided to resign. – This article originally appeared in <a href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/21/world/canada/justin-trudeau-canada-popularity-decline.html\">The New York Times</a>","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Matina Stevis-Gridneff in Toronto"}]},"description":{"basic":"With the Liberal Party trailing the Conservatives by 25 per cent in the polls, Canada’s long-serving prime minister will soon either step down as leader or call elections that he’ll most likely lose"},"display_date":"2024-12-23T15:09:18.985Z","headlines":{"basic":"From liberal icon to Maga joke: the waning fortunes of Justin Trudeau","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"RHATNICAMJLJAIBZH4RGSUL6WA","auth":{"1":"e65731bafb6cf9d846192b7a3d7b2207b66088b03366e1c91e7d5afd1b395964"},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/RHATNICAMJLJAIBZH4RGSUL6WA.jpg"}},"subtype":"feature","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Canada"},{"name":"World"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/world/canada/2024/12/23/from-liberal-icon-to-maga-joke-the-waning-fortunes-of-justin-trudeau/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/world/canada","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Canada"}}}},{"_id":"TYCVQQOYL5CV5M5SD3LBX474K4","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":518,"audio_url":"https://d22tbkdovk5ea2.cloudfront.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/ad3b932f-b579-4b5b-a230-1345a7459fbc/versions/1732460340/media/e657b4118503ad923b6fd7f89b1f0e3f_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/world/canada/2024/11/24/canada-fears-donald-trumps-promised-mass-deportations-will-push-migrants-north/","content_elements":[{"_id":"WUFR3H27T5D6LAISYJN37HWD74","additional_properties":{"_id":1732299960998},"content":"At 8,900km, it is the longest border between any two countries. And that border – separating the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/us/\" target=\"_blank\">United States</a> and <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/canada/\" target=\"_blank\">Canada</a> – seems set to become a flashpoint between the close allies as president-elect <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/donald-trump/\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump</a> prepares to take power.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DJK4GDOFHZGPNHPN5TTADUJ5S4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732299960999},"content":"Canadian authorities fear that Trump’s promised mass deportations will push migrants north, while allies of the incoming president headed for key roles in his administration have raised alarms over a recent spike in migrants crossing from Canada to the US without legal permission.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Y3NEIBMWONA4JFGTHU6BHS257M","additional_properties":{"_id":1732299961000},"content":"Canadian officials are drawing up plans to add patrols, buy new vehicles and set up emergency reception facilities at the border between New York state and the province of Quebec to prepare for what they expect to be a surge in migrants because of Trump’s hard line on deportations.","type":"text"},{"_id":"U2FDQWJL6BHT7EOSY4C34JRMKY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732299961001},"content":"The northern border is also a focus of people named to <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/us/2024/11/14/trumps-cabinet-whos-been-picked-whos-in-the-running/\" target=\"_blank\">top positions in the Trump administration</a>, including his new border tsar, Tom Homan. He has described the frontier as a major security vulnerability because of what he described as insufficient checks on people entering the US.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DJ6KKD4ST5DZ3CTPUKHVNION6M","additional_properties":{"_id":1732299961002},"content":"Concerns over the northern border highlight a key shift in Canada’s view of migration between the first and second Trump administrations. During the first, prime minister <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/justin-trudeau/\" target=\"_blank\">Justin Trudeau</a> of Canada made clear that asylum seekers were welcome in Canada just as Trump was tightening asylum rules and introducing policies like family separation at the US southern border.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VZXGIANDWFBSDK5O7HMOAKM4IE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732299961003},"content":"“To those fleeing persecution, terror & war, Canadians will welcome you, regardless of your faith. Diversity is our strength #WelcomeToCanada,” Trudeau posted on social media at the time.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZTXUOJQ7C5CGFFVJJWP442QATE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732299961004},"content":"Today, the mood in Canada is very different. Many Canadians believe the arrival of more legal migrants since the end of the pandemic has strained resources such as housing, and have blamed Trudeau’s government, which is now <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/americas/2024/09/02/justin-trudeau-retreats-from-canadas-liberal-immigration-regime/\" target=\"_blank\">taking steps to significantly limit legal immigration</a>.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WTXF7FZVNNC4RK3VDU4OKPCE54","additional_properties":{"_id":1732299961005},"content":"Trump, for his part, has become more aggressive on immigration, making clear that he intends to crack down and deport millions of migrants illegally in the country. His allies have criticised Canada for not controlling the northern border, where arrivals of migrants into the US without legal permission hit a record high this summer.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HVKTOI3SMIH6DUP74I6WB7WKKA","additional_properties":{"_id":"MQSQGQTMYNDGXG7ZUEFT4UTI5Q"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"Y4FJGVEWZZGULMJKP3BCQJR3M4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732299961006},"content":"Still, Canadian officials say they are fortifying the border and will deport migrants who attempt to enter Canada to escape Trump’s crackdown.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4R6ZD2I5LJDB3JFYYOKYL2NJPU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732299961007},"content":"The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), which guards the border, is preparing to beef up its numbers if there is a surge in three key ways – more staff, more vehicles and more detention and processing facilities – said a spokesperson for the agency, Sgt Charles Poirier.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MB32IUPOINHO3B53S4WKBPZGOU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732299961009},"content":"Officials are anticipating an increase in migrant crossings even before Trump’s inauguration in January. “We knew that, if Mr Trump came into power, the status quo at the border would change,” Poirier said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"643WZG6LC5AP5MEPQWARNGHHJE","additional_properties":{"_id":"MXA7T6AD6RA3LFUBORPLDS5VX4"},"subtype":"pullquote","type":"quote"},{"_id":"WEJ4IEMTVFHG3MTCKNFMHJOOQA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732299961010},"content":"The RCMP has identified enforcement agencies that could be tapped to divert extra staff to the border. The agency would also seek to add more patrol vehicles and use land along the border to set up trailers or other types of temporary detention and processing facilities.","type":"text"},{"_id":"P5EVKNP4LJDAROUYYWNJFF2ZRM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732299961011},"content":"Canada’s national security agencies “have been preparing for a number of months to be ready to respond and adapt to any situation that might arise”, said Gabriel Brunet, a spokesperson for Dominic LeBlanc, Canada’s minister of public safety.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KTW75KA2PRH7RIL5YWNW4SZ65I","additional_properties":{"_id":1732299961012},"content":"Canadian authorities also intend to wield a key agreement between the two countries to send back people crossing into Canada to seek asylum. The agreement designates Canada and the US as “safe third countries” in which to make asylum claims, so when asylum seekers travel from one country to the other, they can be sent back, with few exceptions.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LXKMFWYQHBDFXG2Z5MDI6BPXCE","additional_properties":{"_id":"WS66MQ22MVCG7HNRXI7F4Y3X3U"},"content":"Justin Trudeau facing ‘iceberg revolt’ as calls grow for embattled Canadian PM to step down","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"ZZUINHT5ARHDVA4GRWXILQKC3E","additional_properties":{"_id":1732299961013},"content":"“The reason that exists is that the United States is deemed to be a safe country for people to make their initial asylum claim,” Marc Miller, Canada’s immigration minister, told reporters recently. “So too with Canada – it’s a two-way street. We expect that agreement to continue to be fully enforced.’’ ","type":"text"},{"_id":"LKKX4X77OZAFTHEJ3U7UAJQFRU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732299961015},"content":"Provincial leaders in Quebec are also anxious about the need to harden the border with New York and have already raised complaints about the growing number of legal immigrants and refugees who have settled there in recent years.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WHQVBQWHXSD7JKW5HDJ34LSLXQ","additional_properties":{"_id":"NOVUTWL33REEDCU6UXSIX37J7E"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"D2T4S77UBZDQ3OMZ3JONYM6NC4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732299961016},"content":"“The problem isn’t immigrants, it’s the number,’’ François Legault, the premier of Quebec, said at a recent news conference. “We already have too many. So we shouldn’t add to the problem.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"DW5C54R6TNDK7AV77GUTGSUC4I","additional_properties":{"_id":1732299961017},"content":"The border has come under scrutiny in both countries over the past year because of a surge in arrivals from Canada to the US.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MU4JIKXPANBVDI4XTK5AOCTPYE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732299961019},"content":"Official data from the US Borders and Customs Protection agency shows that from October 2023 to September 2024, more than 19,300 migrants illegally in the country were apprehended by US authorities at the border between Quebec and Vermont, New York state and New Hampshire – almost triple the 6,925 apprehended during the same period the previous year. The figure for October 2020 to September 2021 was just 365 people.","type":"text"},{"_id":"A4SCAWZRARB4VNCVNT22UJXU4Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1732299961020},"content":"More than 12,000 of the 19,300 people detained were Indian nationals, underscoring a booming migrant smuggling route from India to the US via Canada.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HASKSRSTRFFUPHKRV5TH7QX54Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1732299961021},"content":"Some of this smuggling is encouraged online. Indian nationals in Canada say videos circulate on TikTok from “travel agencies’’ marketing smooth transport to the US. These videos are also flooding social media in India, promising a route to the US in exchange for thousands of dollars.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JAUUBZSECZBMRA4OXGERRBTGVA","additional_properties":{"_id":"MGYM4GZVDJH3NAEWIENPWX2SMM"},"content":"Justin Trudeau retreats from Canada’s liberal immigration regime","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"IDZ6WYSX3VGDVCQSTJJHZARQ3U","additional_properties":{"_id":1732299961023},"content":"One TikTok ad shows a group of men with US flag emojis hiding their faces advertising a “100% safe route”. The provider says it can take travellers from Brampton, a city outside Toronto with a large South Asian population, to New York by taxi.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RSI2FJGZ5BCMPB4V2MMM7FUP7I","additional_properties":{"_id":1732299961024},"content":"Despite the immigration agreement between the US and Canada, the process to turn back people claiming asylum can take weeks at a time as migrants try to find a lawyer and gather evidence to make a case to avoid being sent back to Canada.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IIAUR2IEM5BOBOX4CCRUD3UC6I","additional_properties":{"_id":1732299961026},"content":"With minimal resources at the northern border, few people were being sent back to Canada earlier this year. Instead, migrants were being released from custody with notices to appear in US immigration courts, which face an enormous backlog.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WWF3TEOHUZGJDK6FGZJHJ6O7BE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732299961027},"content":"But starting this summer, US officials deployed more federal officials to the northern border to help process people and transferred more people into detention.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZS5ZXYIGNZEJJCRYHU2OLHRKGY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732299961028},"content":"They also made a key change to make the process to return migrants to Canada easier. Starting in August, migrants who had been detained had only four hours to find a lawyer and collect evidence for their case, according to an internal email sent to asylum officers working for the Department of Homeland Security and reviewed by The New York Times. Before, migrants were given at least a day to do both.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7Z5YK2U5OBCGBAFQNCANU6ODUQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732299961029},"content":"Since then, the number of crossings has dropped dramatically – from roughly 3,600 crossings in June to around 1,800 in September – while the number of migrants returned to Canada has increased.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MHHINF67P5FHPILDRG3CFQKDMY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732299961030},"content":"More than 400 people were returned to Canada between August and October, according to US Customs and Border Protection.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OW35THETBFEYNGQG754EMPWRGM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732299961031},"content":"<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/republican-party/\" target=\"_blank\">Republicans</a>, including Trump’s allies, criticised the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/joe-biden/\" target=\"_blank\">Biden administration</a> repeatedly for the high number of crossings at the northern border. 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Such things shouldn’t matter. But the argument gave cinema watchers an opportunity to run through the performances that deserved to have been so honoured.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JJZLMRCABVFELMPDEVH4G4RMJM","additional_properties":{"_id":1718911879039},"content":"Think of his anarchic turn as Hawkeye Pierce in Robert Altman’s M*A*S*H from 1970. How did they ignore his icy cop in Alan Pakula’s Klute from 1971? Everyone else in the cast seemed to get nominated for Robert Redford’s 1980 best-picture winner Ordinary People. Best of all, perhaps, was his 1973 performance as a bereaved father haunted among Venetian shadows in Nicolas Roeg’s Don’t Look Now. One saw the full range there. He could wrap stentorian importance about himself, but there was, even in such harrowing material, always a sliver of sly wit poking through. 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When I starred in a play at the Royal Court, I made £17 a week, that was in 1964.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"DDIQ7XR5GFCIVD7V72KEPNLFT4","additional_properties":{"_id":1718909443568},"content":"His first screen roles were in British films and television. He can be seen in the enjoyable anthology Dr Terror’s House of Horror from 1965 and opposite Christopher Lee in the historical shocker Castle of the Living Dead from 1964. His breakthrough came as one of 12 hoodlums sent on a commando raid in Robert Aldrich’s The Dirty Dozen.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EWTJU427XZHNNFKK2QPOTG6IHE","additional_properties":{"_id":1718909443569},"content":"Then came Altman’s M*A*S*H. That film, with its salty language and overlapping dialogue, was among those ushering in a new era for Hollywood. Alongside Elliot Gould, he played an army doctor driven to cynicism by the apparently pointless war in Korea (an unmistakable stand-in for Vietnam).","type":"text"},{"_id":"RRAWRYN77VBVXHQJ2HH52X72GI","subtype":"instagram","type":"oembed_response"},{"_id":"Z2F72GHXERAU5HJWSHYVLKZZCY","additional_properties":{"_id":1718911879047},"content":"More challenging work came as American cinema continued to map out its post-classical route, but Sutherland was in a different category to gnarlier talents such as Al Pacino and Robert De Niro. He had a restraint and a stillness that, if he wasn’t speaking in his own accent, could easily be mistaken for the product of an English upbringing.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TA6GNJVA5NGYZC2QDIYTMVTDXU","additional_properties":{"_id":1718911879048},"content":"Solid and inhibited opposite Jane Fonda’s freethinking call girl in Klute, he looked to be in total control, but, in a later interview, he revealed he didn’t fully connect with Pakula’s technique. He said Klute “was a film where the director had a specific idea, which I didn’t particularly understand, nor was I particularly interested in”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NQQ5WOBDEVCKHKMCHVULG4ORQ4","additional_properties":{"_id":1718909443570},"content":"Everything came together in Don’t Look Now, a film rich in mystery that, infuriatingly for the cast, generated absurd rumours that a famous sex scene between Sutherland and Julie Christie was “unsimulated”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UR2O6EVB2FE43KXTPPNML42GTU","additional_properties":{"_id":1718909443571},"content":"Sutherland was never again short of work. He did not have the dashing elan of a matinee idol, but that warm – sometimes frightening – energy found him endlessly satisfying character roles for the succeeding 50 years. He is delightful as a conspiracy theorist in Oliver Stone’s JFK from 1991. 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But, most tangibly, in the formation of the Indian residential schools.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HUBKSU2RTBH33KZEGPYSRYDU4Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1714483488220},"content":"Linger a while in the company of Vancouver’s First Nations people and you’ll hear stories of the tragedy these “schools” inflicted upon their lives, or those of their parents and siblings. Many of them were forcibly separated from their families and sent away to be indoctrinated into white culture. They suffered punishment for any expression of their indigenous heritage and spiritual practices, or for speaking their languages. Their links to identity and community were irrevocably broken.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3HB4MFM5IRA77B3CZA6RVQGMVE","subtype":"youtube","type":"oembed_response"},{"_id":"7YEEBHIECRHRBACKGZ23WRSLXE","additional_properties":{"_id":1714483488221},"content":"It was an Irishman, Nicholas Flood Davin from Kilfinane, Co Limerick, who oversaw these institutions. His 1879 Report on Industrial Schools for Indians and Half-Breeds, otherwise known as the Davin Report, was the catalyst for the federal government in Canada to develop an entire network of facilities whose purpose was to “sever children from the tribe” and “civilise” them. Many were run by priests and nuns from Ireland and elsewhere. Not until 1998 did the last of them close. In 2015 the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada concluded that their assimilation policy amounted to cultural genocide.","type":"text"},{"_id":"F7NAWR2D7NBJNGHWKVDBYCHXMI","additional_properties":{"_id":1714483488222},"content":"It is hard to know what to do with such knowledge, although an Irish organisation, known as Landspeak, associated with the <a href=\"https://www.icuf.ie/\" target=\"_blank\">Ireland Canada University Foundation</a> and the <a href=\"https://www.ucd.ie/englishdramafilm/research/centreforcanadianstudies/\" target=\"_blank\">Centre for Canadian Studies</a> in University College Dublin, consulted with indigenous Canadian elders and came up with the idea of arranging a public reading of the entire executive summary of the report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. They began reading on Canada’s National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, September 30th, 2021, and continued every Monday for three months. It was a simple act of acknowledgment and empathy; a recognition of our nation’s role in these dark centres of abuse and neglect, but also of the fact that we too have reports by commissions into child abuse and oppressive juvenile institutions sitting unread in our libraries and government offices here in Ireland.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6URW46OMDVGOLCSEYKSXIPVT74","additional_properties":{"_id":"U7Q5URCOFVHV7OSZB5Y7ER6YN4"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"ZBDJKQONFVFSHODVYZ6BUHGRCY","additional_properties":{"_id":1714483488223},"content":"The elders in Vancouver I talked to about Landspeak’s project were moved by the gesture. For many of them, the contents of the report have been too traumatising to read. They and members of their extended families showed courage by testifying to the commission, but many have not yet been able to share their experiences with their own families and friends – the sadness and shame is too great.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OOSMRKNK2RGUROZO4PXTKWAETA","additional_properties":{"_id":1714483488224},"content":"In recent years, thousands of undisclosed deaths that occurred within these schools are coming to light. Archaeologists uncovered 215 unmarked graves at an Indian residential school in Kamloops, British Columbia in 2021 – victims of overcrowding, malnutrition, poor sanitation and abuse. Weeks later, a further 751 unmarked graves were detected across from a residential school on the Cowessess reserve in Saskatchewan.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FHGKSGEDSZGXJOAIH6X4FLPBLI","additional_properties":{"_id":1714483488225},"content":"There can be no equivalence between the suffering Irish children endured in workhouses under British rule, or in Catholic care institutions, and the cultural genocide inflicted on First Nations people, but there are similarities. Institutionalised Irish children and First Nations children in Canada suffered physical, sexual, emotional and psychological abuse. The process of healing the trauma is beginning in both places.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4EKKKTU3CBEPLF5ORQN7J2DTSQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1714483488226},"content":"I was invited to a full moon spirit dance on reserve land of the <a href=\"https://www.squamish.net/\" target=\"_blank\">Squamish Nation</a>, on the outskirts of Vancouver, in October. An elder of the Anishinaabe people led a group of indigenous and non-indigenous locals around the fire in a healing ceremony of drumming, singing and dance. Those gathered tried to use the few words of the Squamish language they had to reconnect with what has been lost. The language is classified as severely endangered, with no young people who can speak it fluently. Older Squamish residents were patiently trying to pass on to the children aspects of the ceremony that they could still remember – elements that hadn’t been forgotten during the missing decades of the residential schools.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SWYMD5BPLJDSJHPDVDK5C4JOBE","additional_properties":{"_id":1714483488227},"content":"For the elders, fire keepers, pipe carrier and ceremonial leaders of the community this work of healing and cultural remembering is paramount. They are dedicated to upholding the traditional law of nawt’samat (one heart, one mind, one soul), which can be summarised as “we are all related”. By this, they mean both the natural world and the human are one, such that many of the elders I met are involved with protests against the Trans Mountain pipeline which they say threatens numerous drinking water sources and ecosystems in the area, as well as the nearby Burrard Inlet and the orca whales that shelter there. Their campaigning work, and the bouts of imprisonment it can lead to, is a further burden on top of the challenges of healing communities and aiding the revival of their languages and cultures. Yet, as custodians of their ancestral lands and the animals that shelter there, they feel this too is a responsibility they cannot shirk.","type":"text"},{"_id":"666ZQ5244BGEJKRKBSMWYG4744","additional_properties":{"_id":"6OZEDMPYQNERZHW5FIKWOLWJQA"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"CZ2LKFQBLNBJRFLBBYB7SLNDTY","additional_properties":{"_id":1714483488228},"content":"This notion of the interconnection between all beings in the natural world also leads Squamish leaders to regularly invite homeless people from the Downtown Eastside out to the surrounding woodlands for bathing ceremonies and sweat lodges. Where aspects of old rituals have been lost or forgotten, they try to be guided by the blood memory of their ancestors. But they acknowledge that the old healing ceremonies struggle to cope with the devastation caused by the likes of fentanyl and crack cocaine.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XX72ERJ2RBFDHATSYLZFNE5V3U","additional_properties":{"_id":1714483488229},"content":"The day after the full moon circle I was invited to a Sundance sweat lodge on land belonging to the <a href=\"https://twnation.ca/\" target=\"_blank\">Tsleil-Waututh Nation</a>, which has also been subsumed by the city of Vancouver. Their land abuts the Burrard Inlet where the oil pipe is due to run. As scalding steam arose from the lava rocks in the centre of the lodge, I learnt of the severity of the trauma tribal members are suffering and the urgency to find workable solutions. At one time, the Tsleil-Waututh Nation consisted of thousands of people, but that dropped to just 13 surviving members. It is now back at around 600 people, many of whom are dealing directly or indirectly with the psychological and sociological legacy of the trauma endured in the residential schools, where children were raped, murdered and starved. All of them have family or friends who are caught in addiction in the Downtown Eastside, and the traditional healing modalities of sweat lodges and vision quests are not always enough to confront such profound intergenerational trauma.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VYWOUXYV7REPJGZ4XJY6BIBW5Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1714483488230},"content":"Maintaining or reviving traditional tribal languages is recognised by many of the cultural elders I met as a key way of connecting people to their heritage and their place in the world. Healing and wisdom is often encoded within the old language. The <a href=\"https://www.musqueam.bc.ca/\" target=\"_blank\">Musqueam Indian Band</a> is the third major indigenous nation whose land has been subsumed by Vancouver. Their website offers a comprehensive cultural teaching kit, with pronunciations and insights into the Musqueam language, hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓. The language is also taught at the University of British Columbia, which now occupies former Musqueam hunting grounds.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IPXJPSC6PFHQLOZCY2KM2LPVWU","additional_properties":{"_id":1714483488231},"content":"All three indigenous nations of Vancouver face the extinction of their language. There are only a few dozen native speakers left in the Squamish Nation, while the Tsleil-Waututh Nation has about 40 fluent speakers of Hunq’eme’nem, and 80 conversational speakers. More people are now beginning to study it, and the nation’s 35 children are all learning their mother tongue. The hope is to raise a generation of first-language speakers, through language immersion camps, innovative techniques such as “hunting” for words, as well as more conventional classes. Such programmes require funding, which is where Ireland and settlers to Turtle Island (or North America, as the settlers called it) in general may have a role.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HWYOYXQFBFA2FMMLPMVHFTJA4I","additional_properties":{"_id":1714483488232},"content":"Some Irish-Americans across the border in Seattle have teamed up with the local <a href=\"https://www.duwamishtribe.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Duwamish Tribe</a> there to establish the Real Rent Duwamish initiative, in which people agree to pay a token monthly rent in acknowledgment of the fact that the land and resources they depend on were stolen from previous inhabitants. Tribal chair Cecile Hansen has commented that if each citizen of Seattle donated one dollar the revival of Duwamish culture and the vitality of the Duwamish Tribe could be secured.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GK4WB3QIARAX5CVZPFPDBIM2KY","additional_properties":{"_id":"WMIVH3GWB5HARJVOWH6H5R3CXY"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"3LTQQZNFFNGULAOIDBRHJWUCAM","additional_properties":{"_id":1714483488233},"content":"I had lunch overlooking the Puget Sound with Ken Workman, a direct descendent of the last Chief Seattle, and heard how he had learnt fluent Lushootseed by going to classes, listening to old recordings and reconnecting with the places that were most important to his ancestors. Having retired from a career at Boeing, Workman had the time and resources to acquire these skills, but for others it seems that Irish-speaking organisations could have a part to play.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2AUHML4OAREMZJUHPCIA4UQD7M","additional_properties":{"_id":1714483488234},"content":"There are more than 70 distinct indigenous languages in Canada and hundreds of mutually unintelligible dialects, according to government statistics, and more again across the border in Washington state. In total, they are not getting even a tiny fraction of the money an Ghaeilge gets from the EU and the Irish Government. We are an affluent, independent, sovereign nation with nothing to stop us learning our language ourselves, if we really want to. 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The involvement of the private sector in development of lunar mobility and communication services promises to do the same.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MTISEIW3QJHDBOJ7YO2WIUJ5UM","additional_properties":{"_id":1693234461007},"content":"Interest has also been heightened by the fact that the lunar programmes of both China and the US are finally maturing after years of delay, says Bleddyn Bowen, associate professor of international relations at the University of Leicester and author of Original Sin: Power, Technology and War in Outer Space. “They finally have the technology ready to do this.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"62DEDUALKNDJJIQUGK4OGMDI5A","additional_properties":{"_id":1693234461008},"content":"But while today there is roughly 100,000 times more processing power packed into an iPhone than was used by the computer that first landed man on the moon, getting to the moon is still a risky business. “Space is a place of shattered dreams and broken promises,” says Bowen. “It is still extremely difficult to get everything just right, in the moment, on the day.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"COPRK5QIVDHJZIZASSYVGEG7GI","additional_properties":{"_id":"OS3OXWVAUBH3NPY3JJGON4PB6I"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"LA674RGV2FEMLKWHYGHTIUAXGU","additional_properties":{"_id":1693234461009},"content":"There is no satellite navigation to guide a spacecraft, no atmosphere to slow down a vehicle descending at very high speeds towards the moon’s surface. The moon is pockmarked with craters and rubble and the shadows they cast can easily be misread by sensors.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WYIZCIVNFNCVPCAEJ742SO33KE","additional_properties":{"_id":1693234461010},"content":"India was successful last week, but only after a previous mission in 2019 failed. Days before the Chandrayaan-3 craft touched down, Russia’s Luna-25 lander spiralled out of control and crashed.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FIYYK4JPSREHVHHNZHFCCUUAEQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1693234461011},"content":"Yuri Borisov, head of Russia’s space agency Roscosmos, blamed a 50-year hiatus in the country’s lunar programme for the failure. “The invaluable experience that our predecessors accumulated in the 1960s and 1970s was practically lost during the interruption of the programme,” he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MKBGDFBDTFGENBOBD5L4TKAIEI","additional_properties":{"_id":1693234461012},"content":"But the risks of failure have not daunted China, the US or those such as India seeking the prestige that a successful lunar mission brings. Nor do they seem bothered by the uncertainty over what these costly projects will deliver. To many, the greater draw is first-mover advantage in a realm where the potential is still unknown.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MNDETDY3VNHQHM6BJ7BVAACI64","additional_properties":{"_id":1693234461013},"content":"“If you are a big power on the moon, then you will have a big influence in setting the details for lunar governance,” says Bowen. “The governance of the moon will be the foundation for everything else that may follow over the next 100 years and ... if the moon becomes somewhat more economically viable, then you are already on the ground floor.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"LLVTPY35KVBW3JBEPJBBI6AP5Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1693234461014},"content":"Lunar governance","type":"header"},{"_id":"T2BRJDSBWREZLEHRANUB7KJDP4","additional_properties":{"_id":1693234461015},"content":"It was fear of losing out to China that drove the US to refocus its space exploration efforts away from Mars and back to the moon in 2017. Within two years, China had demonstrated its lunar capability with the world’s first successful landing on the far side of the moon.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ATMX52PWNNG4DGKI6PDZDWOWZQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1693234461016},"content":"Now China and the US are targeting the south pole and even some of the same landing sites, and their plans have sparked concerns about potential conflict.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ELRQSBPEEJCJXOHHJT3THELXJY","additional_properties":{"_id":1693234461017},"content":"“The dominant power will be able to stymie the ambitions of others by occupying territory and attempting to police it,” writes Tim Marshall in his book on power and politics in space, The Future of Geography. “The first to establish themselves will be the first to access the potential wealth of the moon.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"YZSMW4ZQKVEQDBTY74CLOF4OPY","additional_properties":{"_id":1693234461018},"content":"Nasa chief Bill Nelson warned early this year that China could begin staking claims to territory on the moon under the guise of scientific research, an allegation dismissed by the Chinese.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NJTY2WTLNJFSDDYU7EVDYFIBSA","additional_properties":{"_id":1693234461019},"content":"But his comments have highlighted the urgent need to devise new international guidelines for exploitation of the moon, if the planned lunar missions are to succeed peacefully. The Moon Agreement of 1979 has not been ratified by Russia, China or the US, which has instead devised its own rules known as the Artemis Accords. Neither China nor Russia has signed the accords.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GFKTHR2TK5AF7DFFGM6SNAFFPI","additional_properties":{"_id":1693300134204},"content":"“It’s going to be very important that all the countries going to the moon demand a set of rules and that they are well implemented,” says David Avino, chief executive of space engineering company Argotech, which has ambitions to develop a thriving lunar business.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DY3OYH5XWFDIHMLEC66LCMFAOU","additional_properties":{"_id":1693234461021},"content":"But the contest has already begun. And it is no longer just between the US and China. India too has ambitions to fly humans into space and its low-cost approach has so far proved highly successful. The Chandrayaan-3 mission cost a reported $73 million (about €68 million), a fraction of the cost of other landings.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZYH6VRE5VEBWG3APBL2XEACBVE","additional_properties":{"_id":"CFUINEABMBBMRNFBAUXHFL2T3M"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"7LJ77I43U5FMVGB4GOCP6YO2ZU","additional_properties":{"_id":1693234461022},"content":"India’s 54-year-old space programme was originally focused on domestic development – helping to build communications infrastructure, improve crop surveillance and warning systems for cyclones. But its priorities shifted with the rise of China.","type":"text"},{"_id":"L7XV4IPL5ZDZTJZTLQS22WSQEQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1693234461023},"content":"Beijing’s first anti-satellite missile test in 2007 “resulted in a unanimous consensus that India needs to do something about protecting its own assets in space”, says Rajeswari Pillai Rajagopalan, an analyst at the Observer Research Foundation think tank in New Delhi. India finally tested its own anti-satellite missile in 2019.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LKMQDHEL6VH67ED3OBOYMJFH7M","additional_properties":{"_id":1693234461024},"content":"India has also sought to counter China’s power by forging space exploration partnerships, including potential future missions to the moon with Japan and to Venus with France.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IZSBPOUVHVGZTMVNQIJCNKDVLQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1693234461025},"content":"Along the way it has built substantial capability in space. “India is not a new space power. 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He wasn’t sure what to do, if anything, with his new identity.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3R5ACSIL2NHZ3GA4QJ3CLO7ISM","additional_properties":{"_id":1691086441631},"content":"“I’m 67 years old, and all of a sudden I’m Ukrainian,” he said. “I’ve never been around Ukrainian people.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KTOFXF75BFDNHGDN6W3CFIDLB4","additional_properties":{"_id":1691086441632},"content":"“I’ve told Ukrainian jokes, you know, but do I really want to look forward to it?” he said of the possibility of looking into his newly discovered ancestry.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Z4Z6PWVQSZGHTKNFJ6WQAVOSQ4","additional_properties":{"_id":"EI6YGBREUVD7JDUNTVLAJYKMVQ"},"content":"Who is the half-Irish woman leading a farmers’ party that has rocked politics in the Netherlands?","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"IMFLSIEEJ5HENMOOADEAMX4FBI","additional_properties":{"_id":1691086441633},"content":"Since that first phone call, though, Ambrose has embarked on an intense search for himself, bonding with a biological sister who happened to live nearby and starting beadwork, a traditional Métis craft. He is the driving force behind a lawsuit that their lawyer, Bill Gange, has filed against the province of Manitoba, seeking an apology and compensation.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3PMHZGYVFZCRVE33CALNSPE64M","additional_properties":{"_id":1691086441634},"content":"An official for the provincial government said it had no comment because the hospital where the mistake occurred was owned and operated by the town of Arborg at the time. A spokesperson for the hospital’s current owner, Interlake-Eastern Regional Health Authority, said records of the births were no longer available.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KT2R5HN7BZFQNMNE7O52XPUL3I","additional_properties":{"_id":1691086441636},"content":"Ambrose wants to be officially recognised as a Métis, partly so that his grandchildren can qualify for grants earmarked for the group – even though he acknowledged that he had never suffered discrimination as a Métis.","type":"text"},{"_id":"G65VLJVUNVFVRLWGDJIOFTBZMA","additional_properties":{"_id":1691086441637},"content":"“I can get what’s rightfully mine,” he said. “I didn’t ask for this – switched at birth.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"4VOHDZRZA5AUVBZZNVX5OHRKFY","additional_properties":{"_id":1691086441638},"content":"As for Beauvais, he said he wouldn’t change the life that he had led.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TRT7EHLJ7RB6NM6RSZFIOJWWQY","additional_properties":{"_id":1691086441640},"content":"“If I could go back today into that hospital room and switch, I wouldn’t do it, because I got two beautiful daughters, a beautiful wife, three beautiful grand-daughters,” he said. “Sure, you would have that with somebody different. 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But the boy was too young to go on the dive; OceanGate required passengers to be 18, so Dawood planned to accompany her husband.","type":"text"},{"_id":"V3Y5PCLE7BAWLHZLTO7T5ERCS4","additional_properties":{"_id":1688551270760},"content":"The pandemic delayed all plans. Suleman Dawood was now old enough. And OceanGate waived a rule to allow the 17-year-old Alina Dawood aboard the support ship. The family wanted to experience the dive together. 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This was the opportunity to see, firsthand, through a 21-inch porthole, the world’s most famous shipwreck at the bottom of the sea.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BOJ563WA6JBG5LDEFSEQN2RJIM","additional_properties":{"_id":1688551270763},"content":"The cost was not a golden ticket, but $250,000 (€230,000), though that advertised rack rate proved negotiable.","type":"text"},{"_id":"J7M3ZRAH3RA7FMYWZPMRO6J3OA","additional_properties":{"_id":1688551270764},"content":"Rush considered himself more a scientist than a salesman, but much of his effort was in the marketing of his company and the selling of spots on the submersible. He wanted a mix of clients who offered validation and buzz. Potential customers dealt directly with him.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NH5UH7HUBNA7TDJOIMPTD3EZIQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1688551270765},"content":"Alan Stern, a planetary scientist from Colorado, inquired about a Titan dive last July. After Rush learned of Stern’s background – jet pilot, polar exploration, leader of Nasa’s New Horizon exploration of Pluto and the Kuiper belt – he offered a free ticket. Stern accepted.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZCTWC53UANDS5MFK3O2RUHSCX4","additional_properties":{"_id":1688551270766},"content":"“Stockton said, ‘I don’t care if you give a talk – do you want to be the co-pilot?’” he recalled. “‘We’ll get you trained. 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He also told the group a story about how he had once been “stuck down there for three days and the sub was out of communication”, Christine Dawood recalled.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BLA5W4VCOFHCFFB4Z3XP2UGOQI","additional_properties":{"_id":1688551270771},"content":"After the lecture, her husband grinned at her. “Oh, my God, this is so cool,” Christine Dawood recalled him saying.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IYND4QXG2VCG3H4KST4NXBIZPQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1688574757673},"content":"“He was lapping everything up,” she added. “He had this big glow on his face talking about all this nerdy stuff.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"NEIZMM467BCVNDJ3MTNPW2MZTQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1688551270774},"content":"And so they came, these wealthy tourists and curious scientists, sold on the promise of a rare adventure provided by a company that considered itself “SpaceX for the ocean.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"4YVKUCE3TRCMNFZTXID4QKYBCE","additional_properties":{"_id":1688551270775},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"5N4HZHYJPVAGZOB5MFHKAWF6RY","additional_properties":{"_id":1688551270776},"content":"OceanGate spoke in the language of space travel: There was “command central”, a “mission director”, the “launch and recovery platform (Lars)” and a “countdown to launch”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YGIQRXTDMZEN3NV2HVLPQMYCYE","additional_properties":{"_id":1688551270777},"content":"The paying passengers were called “mission specialists”, and the company requested that they not be referred to as “customers” or tourists” – or “passengers”. 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The Blooms declined, Bloom says, because of scheduling issues and safety concerns.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NGEA7EEJXJGITFXIOYMTCQIHLQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1688551270780},"content":"OceanGate’s plan since 2021 was to run a series of eight- or nine-day expeditions in the late spring and early summer: about two days to the Titanic site, five days over it, two days back. Each expedition might have several dives – but just one for each client – depending on demand, technical difficulties and weather conditions.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BCHVFQLATNEJPKKWG3JNNZFFBM","additional_properties":{"_id":1688551270782},"content":"The final trip was Mission V. None of the first four this year got close to the Titanic, largely because of rough weather in May and early June.","type":"text"},{"_id":"E6NFC33ULZBGNAPEPD5G6ND3SM","additional_properties":{"_id":1688551270783},"content":"“I am proud to finally announce that I joined @oceangateexped for their RMS TITANIC Mission as a mission specialist on the sub going down to the Titanic,” Harding posted on his Facebook and Instagram pages the afternoon before the dive.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EHZNRCVDXVCBLBOZOIJZBR3DYU","additional_properties":{"_id":1688551270784},"content":"Harding (58) was the chair of Action Aviation, a sales and air operations company based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. 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Within circles of submersible experts, there were criticisms of the cylindrical design (most deep-water submersibles are spherical); the relatively large porthole (18cm thick and made of Plexiglas, according to Rush); and the use of mixed materials, such as carbon fibre and titanium, that might not bond well or withstand the immense pressure of a deep-sea dive.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YTN7LZIEING35CFTWV76DIZ6Z4","additional_properties":{"_id":1688551270796},"content":"In 2018, Will Kohnen, chair of the Marine Technology Society’s manned underwater vehicles committee, drafted a letter to Rush, saying that OceanGate’s “experimental” approach could lead to “catastrophic” consequences. It was signed by dozens of experts.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NKHMSA6XNJBLFGVA3OW5EVA2GU","additional_properties":{"_id":1688551270797},"content":"The next year, a submersible expert heard cracking sounds during a Titan dive in the Bahamas and, in an email to Rush, begged him to suspend operations. Rush made some revisions but kept taking customers.","type":"text"},{"_id":"METZ6YEOOFAYRFC76H6JQWBQRE","additional_properties":{"_id":1688551270798},"content":"Bill Price, retired from running a family travel business in California, went on a Titan dive in 2021. During the descent, Rush realised that Titan had lost its propulsion system on one side. He aborted the trip, Price said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WUD5ZA52CFBQRELRMBJV3RO44A","additional_properties":{"_id":1688551270799},"content":"But he could not get what he called the “drop-weight mechanism” to release ballast for the ascent, as designed, Price said. 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It also housed and ferried about two dozen OceanGate divers and staff members, plus a revolving set of clients. This spring, it was seen going in and out of the harbour towing a floating platform, about two metres square, on which the 9,000kg Titan submersible rode.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UYVDMQLLV5FM5JTTYQOAV2U43Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1688551270824},"content":"The Dawoods found the cabins tight. The husband and wife slept in bunk beds, she on top. The kids each got their own cabin. Meals were eaten together, everyone on the ship, in the galley, buffet-style and on trays.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VKZGGWCPYVHHXDFL5QSCID5D3A","additional_properties":{"_id":1688551270825},"content":"There were all-hands meetings every day at 7am, and again at 7pm, lasting an hour or more. 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Divers and the submersible crew made last-minute preparations in the water.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NU24G6QIG5CXPIWQLD7QFBMDZU","additional_properties":{"_id":1688551270836},"content":"“It was like a well-oiled operation – you could see they had done this before many times,” Dawood said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HNHVN6PF7JEWFGEXF3XOBQUHCQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1688551270837},"content":"By then, the three first-time divers had been told what to expect and how to prepare for the expected 12-hour trip.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LRERYZ3EAFFWFPVWH63THYBRYU","additional_properties":{"_id":1688551270839},"content":"Rush always recommended a “low-residue diet” the day before a dive, and no coffee the morning of one. 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The only glow would come from computer screens and light-up pens used to track the descent on paper.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CG2K7FHYTNFFXLKEYKAEO4ZPOY","additional_properties":{"_id":1688551270843},"content":"And, Rush would ask, please load some of your favourite songs into your phone to share with others to play on a Bluetooth speaker. But please, he would add: No country music.","type":"text"},{"_id":"C7BVY6JSDRFZFJRYIO6K7S6KKY","additional_properties":{"_id":1688551270844},"content":"(The divers of June 18th were told to be ready to board by 7.30. 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A floating platform that had been used to carry the Titan was brought in separately by a large ocean-vessel supply ship.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KR5LGSS57RH6FCT2B5WIXQPXQ4","additional_properties":{"_id":1687671270278},"content":"On Friday, the Transportation Safety Board of Canada announced the investigation and arrived in St. John’s.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BGSDYMSSFZA2BMBLMA2Q4ZYUAU","additional_properties":{"_id":1687671270279},"content":"Kathy Fox, the chairwoman of the safety board, said that family members of the five people who were inside the submersible when it was destroyed were among the 41 people on the ship when it sailed on June 18th.","type":"text"},{"_id":"A7UZKCOSRVDEDE74VZ2NPUV5ZE","additional_properties":{"_id":1687671270280},"content":"Ms Fox said that the US Coast Guard would be in charge of recovering and examining the remains of the Titan now on the ocean floor, but that her agency would analyse any of its findings.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MSC3JHMN4NB5PMTY3FN6SLSJOY","additional_properties":{"_id":1687671270283},"content":"The Polar Prince, built in 1959 as a light icebreaker and buoy tender for the Canadian coast guard, set off from its home port of St. John’s on Sunday for the trip to the Titanic wreck site.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GTGSVUFALNHXDC3OQX24WJIPCQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1687673305242},"content":"The ship had lain in dock several weeks before that as it was preparing for the voyage, which was delayed under inclement weather.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PKFIMQUKPFF3XHZLTZRC3ALH7U","additional_properties":{"_id":1687671270288},"content":"This article originally appeared in <a href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/24/world/canada/polar-prince-titan-newfoundland.html\">The New York Times</a>.","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"name":"Ian Austen"}]},"description":{"basic":"Launch vessel Polar Prince returns to St John’s, Newfoundland, after five die in submersible implosion"},"display_date":"2023-06-25T06:07:00.739Z","headlines":{"basic":"Titan sub tragedy: Canadian investigators board supply ship to interview crew, examine logs ","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"TVFE7PGYOYAUWZJJKLKS22ALII","auth":{"1":"85b829d49ac423b0c7bb2a99056d551bbae1ae1c8cc2979328ff6d28751e73fd"},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/TVFE7PGYOYAUWZJJKLKS22ALII.jpg"}},"subtype":"default","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Canada"},{"name":"World"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/world/canada/2023/06/25/titan-sub-tragedy-canadian-investigators-board-supply-ship-to-interview-crew-examine-logs/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/world/canada","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Canada"}}}},{"_id":"RAZIJLKNCZGYLE2P34FMSSSBBM","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":358,"audio_url":"https://d22tbkdovk5ea2.cloudfront.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/7088832/media/56ae80f0d541ef5c11cffc7bae639710_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/world/2023/06/19/tourist-submarine-with-five-on-board-goes-missing-on-dive-to-wreck-of-titanic/","content_elements":[{"_id":"OVNXDKYIXBCO3JC7RPIVKHXDEI","additional_properties":{"_id":1687190257239},"content":"A tourist submarine with some prominent maritime experts and explorers believed to be on board has gone missing in the North Atlantic while on a dive to view the wreck of the Titanic.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7KY5C4FCOBEEBEEBKEGYS4VAKU","additional_properties":{"_id":1687208170567},"content":"A search and rescue mission was under way on Monday, involving aircraft and underwater equipment, with more help on the way as concern grew after the return of submersible was “overdue”, according to the US coastguard.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4BBJYRIYFJBGDEAPHFEEKK4KPY","additional_properties":{"_id":1687208170568},"content":"A British explorer and a French military veteran and submarine expert are believed to be among those on board and the coastguard tweeted on Monday that contact was lost with the sub just one hour and 45 minutes into its dive on Sunday afternoon.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7KY5C4FCOBEEBEEBKEGYS4VAKU","additional_properties":{"_id":1687208170569},"content":"A spokesman for the Boston coastguard confirmed that “a small submarine with five persons on board had gone missing in the vicinity of the Titanic wreck”. 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Harding is married and Brian Szasz, a stepson, posted on Facebook about “thoughts and prayers” as “his submarine has gone missing” and then later deleted the post.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3ZET7T4KGNBTBDH5B3YIUWKU2M","additional_properties":{"_id":1687208170581},"content":"Harding (58) posted on Instagram on Saturday that: “Due to the worst winter in Newfoundland in 40 years, this mission is likely to be the first and only manned mission to the Titanic in 2023. A weather window has just opened up and we are going to attempt a dive tomorrow. 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Large earth movers are carving a new road through the spruce and Douglas fir trees, and gouging out from the mountainside a flat area upon which a new building will emerge shortly, a sister to the two large buildings that are already on site and fully functioning.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZXPMFGJ3UZAWXJKQZKYPZECTFA","additional_properties":{"_id":1686663404616},"content":"The new building is costing about 2 million Canadian dollars, or €1.4 million. The other two, which are only a couple of years old themselves, each cost between 1 million and 1.5 million Canadian dollars.","type":"text"},{"_id":"I5BOOMU6UFEYBCIEYBK2CT6D34","additional_properties":{"_id":1686663404617},"content":"Welcome to the new reality of the cannabis industry in Canada, a rapidly emerging major player in the economy of British Columbia (BC), poster child of the country’s adoption of a different approach to previously illegal drugs. 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Short term, however, the effect is that in a city such as Vancouver several streets are littered with half-dead addicts, unconscious on the pavements or zombie-like from smoking fentanyl, the prescribed drug for managing extreme pain, such as can be experienced by cancer patients, but which is 50 to 100 times more potent than heroin.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SWJ2UKX5ZNCMXPMFZRKWXKD6GM","additional_properties":{"_id":1686663404620},"content":"Cannabis, however, is in an entirely different category since 2018 and several people interviewed for this report envisage a future in which tourists will come to places like Nelson, and the wider Kootenay region of southeastern BC, to tour growing farms and visit craft cannabis producers. A sort of Route du Reefer, mimicking the<i> </i>routes du vin of France and places closer to home, in California and Oregon for instance.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6H75TOTTUFE37PIK4JZZ5NSOH4","additional_properties":{"_id":1686663404621},"content":"“We can have farm gate cannabis tourism, just like wine” says Mathieu (Matt) Trépanier, operations manager at Sweetgrass Cannabis, the operation being expanded just off Highway 6, about 30km south of Nelson. “We can be the first. It would be just like whisky tourism in Scotland. That’s how all of this now feels to me..... We are at the birth of an industry. There’s more testing to be done but there’s a green rush now, like the gold rush, and everybody’s jumping into it.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"BRFYGCP235EUBNRBKRYAFXCWKY","additional_properties":{"_id":"LT5JUAW76ZFTZL5DNPDBFHAY6Q"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"5U3VOL7LHZHANI5SW7SKUGTEIM","additional_properties":{"_id":1686663404622},"content":"Visiting Sweetgrass is an eye-opener. Trépanier, who is 45 and was involved in pre-legalisation (that is, formerly illegal) cannabis production, takes me into one of the production buildings. It is nearly brand new and has that freshly painted, gleaming clean feel about it. Passing through security doors, we enter an almost hermetically sealed world of cannabis plant growing and harvesting.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RDQT4XHESVARFEVHI457MLXUO4","additional_properties":{"_id":1686663404623},"content":"A corridor runs the length of the building, which is similar in size to perhaps two temporary school classroom portable buildings. Off the corridor is a row of separate, windowless rooms where cannabis plants, in neat rows and elevated on growing trays off the ground, are at various stages of their eight to 10 week lifespan, from seedling to adolescent to full-bloom flowering plant ready for harvest. 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He explains how cannabis comes in two main genera – sativa<i>,</i> which tends to invigorate the user, and indica, which is a sedative – and are often crossbred to produce, on consumption, a slightly different effect or taste. This is reflected in the grow rooms where the trays are identified as containing different strains, such as mendoza stomper, mint or mint chocolate chip.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PZGWCNS6BNHRHDFWW6AGFUDHVE","additional_properties":{"_id":1686663404626},"content":"The plants in Grow Room 1 will be cut down and taken to a curing room along the corridor where they will be racked and dried for 10 days. After that, the flower, which contains either THC (tetrahydrocannabinol) or CBD (cannabidiol), the two main psychoactive compounds, or active ingredients, of cannabis, will be plucked off the plant.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WYDWZ4OI25C2BOEYUC2NQGSPQ4","additional_properties":{"_id":"GMJ4LPGNNFAGPFURGGJIDQFVHU"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"SRIOO466OBGZXMBNHIYHHGSIMU","additional_properties":{"_id":1686663404627},"content":"“Then the dried flower gets trimmed by hand with a scissors, bud by bud, so that all the leaves are removed,” Trépanie explained.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HXAUETJBMRFMNLYCVRRDBZ7D4E","additional_properties":{"_id":1686663404628},"content":"Room 210 is a small secure store room where the harvested dried flowers, and the leaves (which will also be used but are not as effective as the flower) are kept in labelled bags, a bit like in a bonded warehouse. With them are reams of stickers that will be applied to packaging like seals before any product is delivered for retailing, showing that the sale is revenue compliant. In fact, much of the production process reminds of a bonded warehouse where security and traceability are paramount. Every time anything moves between the rooms at Sweetgrass it has to be recorded so there is full traceability.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HLIKDKJCFVEPXD5U6QBMOGUPRQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1686663404629},"content":"Flower heads are packed for sale into opaque plastic pouches, about the size of a small envelope. Cannabis for smoking is rolled into cigarette-style lengths off site but slipped into individual labelled container tubes at Sweetgrass. The company, which has 18 employees, 50/50 part-time and full-time, does not sell directly to consumers (except to medical users, for which it has a licence to dispense prescriptions) but it does supply to licensed sellers across Canada and is looking to expand overseas, supplying the medical-use market in Europe and Australia, for example.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TGZAIPHB4NHFBB3DK4H76Q4X7I","additional_properties":{"_id":1686663404630},"content":"It’s a profitable business: sales revenue is roughly double production costs, which at Sweetgrass is about 2 Canadian dollars per gram of cannabis. A 3.5 gram sachet, sufficient for three or four joints, retails for around 40 Canadian dollars. The company has been going legit for three years, running at a loss in year one, breaking even in year two and, last year, turning a profit of around 1.5 million Canadian dollars.","type":"text"},{"_id":"U3OKMU4V3BDKNMNB6O4MGI6ZDA","additional_properties":{"_id":"3VVBPNJQABAF7HKRBUPMKLJRM4"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"QOSOUGEOVRELVGKYS7ZMDKUVZ4","additional_properties":{"_id":1686663404631},"content":"The Kootenays, and Nelson in particular, are the centre of BC’s growing cannabis industry largely for historical reasons. In the late 1960s and 70s there was a major influx of young men from the United States determined to avoid being called up for the Vietnam War. 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Cannabis is the highest-taxed product in Canada, he says, and “it would cost a person da1 million to set up a federally licensed cultivation facility and [they must] be fully inspected and approved for production even before growing a single plant.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"AW7IAXTYLZE3DHLFYWBQHVL7YM","additional_properties":{"_id":1686663404654},"content":"He feels that generally people’s risk assessment is “badly misaligned” when compared to other potentially harmful products. “People see little danger in a glass of wine or getting smashed,” he suggests, and adds that, by comparison with getting drunk, “nobody has a joint and then starts a fist fight”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5345URHTR5EOFFFRGIXZ3WSWVM","additional_properties":{"_id":1686663404656},"content":"The effects of consumption of hard drugs, graphically on display on Vancouver’s Granville Street and in the city’s Chinatown area, are horribly evident but BC government policy now is to treat this problem as a health, and not a law and order, matter.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DAXVO5CQGJCWVNXGDBQTU7DQLI","additional_properties":{"_id":1686663404657},"content":"Kristina Del Aguila is operations manager of a former backpacker hostel on Granville that is now a refuge for the chronically addicted, who are almost invariably also homeless. 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