This Week's Just A Minute Thoughts

JAM Thoughts From This Past Week - June 2nd - June 6th 2025. Follow the Daily JAM at justcaws.ca

June 2nd

With June now upon us it has to get warm soon - right? Looks like more rain this week, well at least the farmers and my grass will be happy. Must be a sign of getting older, I know I didn’t give a damn about the weather when I was younger - unless it was a rainy summer. 😶

As predicted, Trump is back playing spin the tariff wheel and Canada’s number came up again. Now exports of steel and aluminum are going to be hit with an increased tariff of 50%. Our response should consume most of the oxygen in the Canadian news this week unless the wildfires out west get out of hand.

One thing I am looking forward to this month is the U.S. The Supreme court has the final say in a number of rulings related to executive power and authority of the President. That country does need to establish a better rulebook for what a President can and can’t do. There are too many unwritten laws or obscure clauses that Trump and his team exploit to their advantage. Too many times when you ask if it is against the law - the experts reply with “it depends” or “this in unchartered territory”. Here’s hoping SCOTUS lays down the law.

June 3rd

The pro build talk coming out of the First ministers conference is more than frustrating after we spent ten plus years sitting on our hands for the good of the planet. Still much doubt if anything fossil fuel related will ever get built, but the idea that we all governments are discussing fast tracking projects now does show a country that obviously was never that committed to fighting climate change. It looks like we were only in for the T-shirt.