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Perhaps the shape of things to come in Canada. Dame Louise said ghettos have formed because the pace and scale of immigration has been 'too much' and some towns and cities have been transformed 'out of all recognition', it says. She said successive governments have 'ignored or even condoned regressive, divisive and harmful cultural and religious practices, for fear of being branded racist or Islamophobic'. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4000062/Swear-oath-live-Britain-Major-report-says-migrants-pledge-follow-values-soon-arrive-says-pace-immigration-communities.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4018946/The-town-immigrants-fed-migration-Failing-schools-filthy-streets-benefit-fraud-ROBERT-HARDMAN-dispatch-accuse-Brexiteers-racist-read.html

I think it's mostly an attempt to convince her dad that they're swell guys. "Ahmed! How we handle visit from de Trump? He say many bad thing about us!" "We give him big shiny medal. He love de gold. He love medals. He love de praise. We give him shiny gold medal and lots of praise." "But de orange man, he say we are de barbarian and de savage who treat de women like slave and trow de gay man off de roof. What we do about dat?" "We give money to his Jew whore daughter. She have de women charity. We give money to de women charity, he will think we are de good guys." It's just a patently obvious attempt to appeal to a guy who's shown he loves to be treated like a big deal. -k

That's probably because you, and I suspect Argus as well, actually know little if anything about what the UN has done in the world. They are not perfect by any means, I know as I have worked for them, but because of their peacekeeping efforts, there are a lot of people alive who wouldn't be without those blue helmets doing what they do.

And yet Muslim terrorists kill other Muslims in far greater numbers, constantly. It's not exclusively the fault of the west.

Scheer was an acceptable choice, pretty bland tho, but he did oppose C-16 and carbon taxes. Supply management is an issue which he wasn`t going to get into but it may be a moot point after Trump has finished with little Trudeau. As for social conservatism, not much there for them as Scheer has promised not to revisit the abortion issue. I don`t see him being strong enough to beat Trudeau and for sure he et al are not as media savvy or able to manipulate the media as well as Trudeau does.

I guess the party wasn't willing to move on from Stephen Harper. What an awful result. Trudeau might be all style and no substance but Scheer seems to be no style nor substance. After all the criticizing Conservatives did of Trudeau's resume they managed to elect someone with an even weaker one.

Most of our immigrants are either coming in under the refugee program, where there is no skill, language, or education criteria, under the family class, where there is no skill, language, or education criteria, or come in under the skills program as the relative of someone who actually qualifies. Thus only a very small proportion of our immigrants actually qualify according to the 'points' system. Of these, many will never find a job behind menial, manual labour since their academic credentials are either false, or are not recognized, or they don't have the language skills to make use of them in Canada. There is a reason why every public housing project is jammed with immigrants.

A Canadian city tried it in Manitoba in the 1970's. It started in 1974 by an NDP government and then shut down by the Conservative government in 1979. Mincome was an experimental Canadian guaranteed annual income project that was held in Manitoba, during the 1970s. The project, funded jointly by the Manitoba provincial government and the Canadian federal government under Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. It was launched with a news release on February 22, 1974, under the NDP government of Edward Schreyer, and was closed down in 1979 under the Conservative government of Sterling Lyon and the federal Progressive Conservative Party of Joe Clark. The purpose of this experiment was to assess the social impact of a guaranteed, unconditional annual income, including whether a program of this nature would cause disincentives to work for the recipients and how great such a disincentive would be. Post-Mincome research An important motivation of Mincome and the negative income tax experiments in the U.S. was to determine the impact of a guaranteed income plan on incentives to work. University of Manitoba economists Derek Hum and Wayne Simpson analyzed labour supply or work disincentive issues in Mincome during the 1980s and published their results in a series of papers and a monograph. Their results showed a small impact on labor markets, with working hours dropping one percent for men, three percent for married women, and five percent for unmarried women. Indeed, the largest impact appeared to be changes in family composition not the experimental treatments, as preschool children increased the labour supply of husbands and reduced the labour supply of wives by roughly the same modest amount. Even these decreases in hours worked may be seen to be offset by the opportunity cost of more time for family and education. Link

Former house speaker. He's a sort of happier, smilier version of Harper.

That might have worked in the past. Maybe... However, nuclear weapons and nerve agents are not to be taken lightly. You want a nightmare? One litre of VX agent is enough to render the heart of a city unlivable for your lifetime. Be it Damascus or Montreal. It is not possible to leave them to better...or not...their crappy societies.

I think we (as Western society/culture/whatever) really should just remove ourselves from the political/military machinations in the Middle East. We don't need to 'save' people or the world for democracy or social justice or whatever has been claimed in the past; the only time we should engage militarily is if/when someone directly threatens us. If we focused on bettering our own society and let them focus on bettering (or not) their society, we'd all be better off. I think we can still provide humanitarian aid, and engage in trade without also engaging in all the other BS. We could start by reducing and removing our reliance on ME oil.

Ny dream is to hope we can get back to the idea of "I may not agree with what you're saying, but I'll defend your right to say it". That we can have good open dialogue and put forth an argument without a group of people shutting down free speech, looting, breaking windows, setting fires and attacking people with bike locks because they choose to support a different idea. My dream is to send my kids to a rock concert or sporting event without the presence of the military and know that they'll come home. My dream is to golf at St. Andrews in Scotland.