· by snarkysteff.bsky.social ·1d ago · view on bsky.app ↗

Canada is sleepwalking into a national security crisis - Power Lines with Max Fawcett (youtu.be)

YouTube video by National Observer

People should watch this conversation between @maxfawcett.bsky.social & national security expert Patrick Lennox, about unspoken dangers in the Alberta Separatist referendum. We forget that it was a separatism referendum in Ukraine's Donbas that Putin used as justification for the war.

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4 comments — live from bluesky

TRIFAN · 4 · 22h ago

This was an illuminating conversation. Canadians need to stand on guard.

LOT'S WIFE, THE CHAIR LEG OF TRUTH, PhD · 1 · 1d ago

good thing there's been such a huge influx of foreign capital buying canadian bonds to the tune of a quarter trillion dollars and counting this year

Steffani Cameron 🇨🇦 · 1 · 1d ago

how does that figure into this? to what end?

LOT'S WIFE, THE CHAIR LEG OF TRUTH, PhD · 2 · 1d ago

the bond buying spree is not boosting the CAD due to it being bonds issued in non-CAD currency. a huge amount of provincial and federal debt is being bought while investment in equities is flat, and without confidence in the CAD. we have record capital inflow, but it's /all/ going to bonds.

LOT'S WIFE, THE CHAIR LEG OF TRUTH, PhD · 2 · 1d ago

this could mean - nothing, total coincidence - foreign investors are gambling on an alberta separation - foreign investors are eating up as much debt as we can issue in advance of a separation

LOT'S WIFE, THE CHAIR LEG OF TRUTH, PhD · 1 · 1d ago

hedge funds have been increasingly scooping up bonds and are now at about 40% of purchases. one of the risks with this is that those funds rely on repo markets for leverage, so if a separation occurs, the funds dump the bonds as a safety net to remain liquid - draining liquidity from everywhere else

LOT'S WIFE, THE CHAIR LEG OF TRUTH, PhD · 0 · 1d ago

this /could/ be an indicator that hedge fund managers and foreign investment firms predict a separation and are building up a store of bonds in advance to shield themselves from the market disruption this would probably cause. the CAD would undoubtedly plummet

LOT'S WIFE, THE CHAIR LEG OF TRUTH, PhD · 1 · 1d ago

or, they just predict a market crash like has been predicted since forever and are hedging against that. hard to say but also hard to ignore given the turmoil a separation would cause anyway here's the statscan chart / data. $163.9 billion net inflow on government bonds may 2025 - 2026

Grateful Organic Matter 🇸🇪 🇨🇦 🇪🇺 · 3 · 17h ago

🎯 Just wait for the false flag operations “Separatists harmed in attack, Canadians burn down couple of their houses, etc” Pedo comes to the rescue Stay alert 🍁

MillyMia 🇨🇦🇪🇺💙🌻 · 1 · 9h ago

Every time, it goes back to the same roots. Brexit, too.