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I seem to notice that no matter what the thread these days, I keep seeing a tse tse fly show up singing: "blame America". Never mind the topic of the thread, just throw in a blame America comment. Its a one size fits all approach. So for example when Chinese or Indians migrate its not because of water shortages. When there is a huge migration of Africans its not because of water shortage creating wide spread famine. Its the fault of the US. If Trudeau allows illegal migrants to make a mockery of Canadian immigration law, its America's fault. If Syria has a civil war generating refugees, its America's fault. So this brings me to my new rap so what's new do you blame a jew or to be frank blame some Yank well now wait you could blame Kuwait or get all quirky and blame it all on Turkey hey now you could take a stance and piss on France or wouldn't it be grand to blame Finland or blame your diaheria on North Korea and don't make be go on about Lebanon and who can really give a hand to Aghanistan and who could forgo that evil Mexico and do I need to play my Tuba to get you to criticize Cuba and need I get all weighty about that country Haiti and man what about all them mentally ill yah you know they call themselves Brazil oh just fine but what about Leuchenstein now I end this and go but not before blaming it all on Togo

These are fair questions, and ones that SHOULD have been asked of immigration authorities before ANYONE gets into Canada in any way. That no longer happens. Immigrants and "refugees" simply pay an immigration consultant to be told what to write and what to say, and our bureaucrats just rubber stamp and let them in (I am exaggerating a very small amount on that count - I am sure they cash their paycheques, takes a holiday and coffee break, check their benefits and penion funds and THEN rubber stamp whatever is on their desk). My friend and business partner managed a major government owned company, had 80,000 people under him, and was paid very, very well for his expertise. I know him quite well and can verify how he made his money. Why would they come to Canada? Because there is no way he and his wife wanted to raise their son in the filthy environment of Beijing. He had left government for private business, and had the top job in the world in his field for GE - but based in Beijing. He wanted a life for his family similar to what we expect here, and that is what they have now - and are very happy to enjoy. One comment I will never forget: kids in Chinese society are under HUGE pressure to accomplish - and have no time or chance to simply be kids. He can and does work anywhere in the world - endless opportunity for someone with his skill and experience, but his home is now Saskatoon - by careful choice. BTW: we live here for similar reasons: worked internationally and spent two years looking for best place on planet to raise kids - chose here. Another factor you haven't considered: people in China over 40 clearly remember living under Maoist version of communism. They are STILL ruled by the CPC, and it could swing any way, any time. A lot of Chinese immigrants/residents to Canada are only "sort of" here as an insurance policy should things to sideways at home.

Yup, that's the ultimate meaning of life... to have fun.

I guess now I have to open a thread on Russia's war crimes. Wait Russian crimes exceeds the whole page.......... When I was a child/teenager my slogan was "Down with Soviet Union" and my curse worked and now I am chanting "Down with Russia". US has committed plenty of crimes all over the world not limited to Vietnam and Middle East and plenty of people know it and talk about it but few talk about all the crimes Russians have committed in the past (even against their own people) and are still committng as we speak.

I nominate HE to get in touch with all the media outlets and ask why nanothermites have not been been included in the coverage of this tragedy.

This may actually be a mental health issue as dude escaped a mental facility. Laws should have prevented him from obtaining the gun he used as well. Seems a lot of balls were dropped here.

The original cultural of Canada was aboriginal. He have a reluctant recognition of this but a lot of lipservice towards it but we are at least openly admitting this now as part of Canadian identity. Then we have British and French. These two countries and their legal systems after the aboriginals, formed this country. The basis of our laws is a British Parliamentary system amd a mix of British and French legal traditions and yet anything associated with either or for that matter the ethnic groups that came from Europe seem to be automatically labelled oppressor and "white" these days and I do not like that so I agree with you Blackbird. My culture Jewish, is one of many that came after the British and French and I have no problem with that chronology and conforming to and paying deference to British legal traditions. Zero problem. I don't expect otherwise. I don't have a damn problem with the aboriginal parallel legal imperative either. To me all us minorities Jewish, Chinese, Greek, Italian, West Indian, Siekh, Filippino, Ukrainian, I would say the vast majority of us minorities so to speak have zero problem with the founding cultures. Why would we? We came here to start again and the British legal system provided a stability to enable that. I don't get today's political trend where anything from Europe is defined as white and racist. Its not white and its not racist. People can be discriminatory against other cultures, ethnicities, gender, etc., but those beliefs can't be magically erased by using government to engage in reverse bigotry. The question is we may have goen too far in trying to show just how tolerant we are of anyone other than someone not from a supposed visible minority or non Christian country. I am not sure. The immigration policy claims to be colour and religious blind but its clearly not. The decision of this government to enable the collapse of the borders at this time to allow thousands of illegal migrants from the US to swamp and undermine and make a mockery of our immigration system in my personal opinion is based on ethnic pandering at its worst which I would argue is a form of discrimination in favour of certain ethnicities. Its a very tough issue because I want a country that welcomes immigrants for their new contributions. When I see it being used to enable unqualified people to jump the lines and break the law to get the law's benefit, I get angry,

Did I say that Muslims have a religious requirement to kill people? Did I say Christians have a rleigious requirement to kill people? Did I say Athiests have a religious requirement to kill people? No, I said he did not have a religious reason for doing this. And yet, You ddidn't have any kind of problem with Altai for saying OUTRIGHT that he had a Christian requirement for doing this. Take a chill pill and untwist your shorts there, before you have a heart attack over nothing.

What I don't like to see my tax dollars going to, aside from wastage and overpaid, overbureacratized public servants includes anything like funding for the arts of any kind. That includes money for large institutions like ballet, orchestras and theaters. I'll make an exception for the NAC as something the capital of the country could use. But that's it. If you look around in history at great music halls from previous centuries you find they were mostly constructed with no public money. Hey, if you think you can get enough customers for the ballet to make it worth your while then fine, form one, and set yourself up. Good on you. But why the hell should I pay for it? Same goes for opera houses or musicians, artists and writers of various sorts. If they have the talent to get people to pay them, then great. If not, I don't see why I should. That goes for television networks, too. I see no reason why we need to fund the CBC. Let it survive or not on how many people are willing to watch it and advertise on it. You want to have some ethnic celebration? Fine. Just don't ask for taxpayer money for it. I don't care if it's Carribana or St. Patrick's day. Nor do I want to contribute one dime to your kid's special language school so he can keep up his ancestral language.

Agreed. But culture matters

No, he's speaking in the context where he doesn't care that he lives on the graveyard of a people that were almost completely exterminated, while taking joy in criticizing every action of another nation that is simply trying to survive. And unlike Canada and the US, where European colonists exterminated 95-99% of the existing population (through a combination of deliberate extermination and disease), the Palestinian population in Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank is growing and the people there are safer from being killed due to violence than in most of their neighboring countries.

Taxme, I used to think allot like you do now then I started wondering why these people are the way they are. I opened up my mind and my ears and really started listening and a whole new world was opened up to me. Today I understand a lot more why these people are the way they are. You think there is no racism? Paint your skin red, go out and look for work, get a loan, even stand in line or walk down the street or in a mall and get back to us. The past is the only evidence we have, it's all we got to determine how we act today and in the future. Money is only part of the overall solution, it's going to take effort on everyone's part to fix this. Obviously I won't convince you in these few posts but you never know, I may have planted a seed. Next time you see, interact with or hear something about these people you may actually pay attention

Kim Campbell became a federal PM, but later she relied on Chretien (and taxpayers) to pay her rent. IOW, despite leftist claims, I question whether Harper is worth $7 million. I reckon that Harper is smart; but not dishonest.