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Gaza was a spoil of war from the 6-day war. Israel shouldn't have given it back. Things had changed when Hamas took over. Nothing Israel will do, will be good enough for people who simply want to see you annihilated.

She tended to equally see capitalism and socialism as scourges in their own right, particularly if taken to their logical extremes. She believed that people had a right to basic services like health care, for instance, and that if the private sector couldn't adequately serve this need there was a role for government to play to ameliorate the influence of private sector monopoly. However, she was equally skeptical of government monopoly. She tended to see ideological conflict as pertaining to conflicting forms of monopoly and felt the only legitimate role of the state when acting to serve the people was to serve as a referee on behalf of the broad public interest.

That's an interesting list. As a birthright Canadian-U.S. dual citizen raised by an American mother, your second point touched on something my mother often noted, which is that Canadians expect far too little in return for their money. She felt this applied both to private sector transactions as well as to interactions with government agencies. She felt that Canadians were too docile and too willing to accept mediocrity. At heart, she was a libertarian although she accepted that government, if carefully watched and monitored, could provide limited benefit to the broader population. I never felt she was inward looking. In fact, she was very intelligent and despite growing up in a working class environment acquired a university degree before reaching the age of 20 in an era where it was uncommon for women, especially in her economic class, to be university educated. She was self-critical where what she perceived to be America's faults were concerned just as she was of those of her adopted country. She felt it was an obligation of all citizens in a democracy to be skeptical of the motives of those in power in business and in government as well as of those representing special interests. She was a democrat and a rebel to her core and to this day I tend to view the U.S. through the prism of her attitudes and values.

What Ontario needs is more freedom from an over bloated bureaucracy full of so many rules and regulations that stifle growth to have to deal with. Way too many taxes and fees that have been placed on the Ontario taxpayer. A hiring freeze would be the first thing to do. Then as people retire or quit or die off do not replace their jobs with new people. Move government employees around from one department to another. Downsize the dam place. Privatize a lot of government services. Stop all kinds of immigration legal and illegal into Ontario which is costing the taxpayer's of Ontario billions of tax dollars every year. Stop the encroachment of bilingualism and end multicultural programs and agendas. If you want to see Ontario prosper once again then the people must demand more freedom, less government, and less taxes. Government is the problem never the solution. Having in place citizen initiated referendums and the right to recall must become the law of Ontario. Implement those things mentioned above and I believe that Ontario will be the place that people will want to run to and not run away from. Ontario is not broke, it is bankrupt. How it keeps running is amazing.

It will be the usual suspects....many from the Republican Gang of 16 that Trump absolutely destroyed in the 2016 primaries. Mitt Romney may have another go at it, too. Win or lose...Trump really enjoys the game and all the media attention. He already proved Barack Obama wrong.

David Frum is another "Canadian American" who came to prominence during the Bush #43 administration, and seeks to continue milking that gig. I guess politics is far more exciting and significant in the United States. Trump has nothing to apologize for compared to who got played by the DPRK during Clinton, Bush, and Obama terms.

I think I'm like a lot of Ontarians who simply believe the province is broke. What can any party do to fix this other than strip the role of government down to basics? I have siblings who live in the U.S. who are shocked at how much we pay for things, including taxes, and how little average middle class people get in return. In particular, our health care system in Ontario is in shambles. Transit is a mess. Affordable housing for middle class people has evaporated. But where has all the money gone? What have we to show for it? I'm pessimistic about this province's future unless we adopt the approach that the role of government must be limited. It can't lead to a worse situation than now exists, in my opinion.

What is a real right winger in the Canadian context? The current mass immigration program commenced during Mulroney's regime and he was a right-winger by Canadian standards. It's continued unabated without much critical analysis throughout the ensuing decades with the support of Canada's entire political class including all the mainstream parties - left, centre and right. I suspect many Canadians, including many immigrants, have misgivings about the policy yet debate about it is virtually forbidden. I'd like to see a federal party from any part of the political spectrum encourage research, analysis and fulsome public debate on the matter. I suspect that if any party did pursue such a strategy it would garner significant public support.

Israel gave the gaza strip to hamas 12 yrs ago, what has hamas done with it ti help its people, nothing. But just moved thier mortars even closer. Sorry people but trying to defend hamas is the same as defending the Nazi's.

Omar was a child soldier brought over there by his parents. The evidence used to convict him was unreliable since it was gained through torture and lack of witnesses. His legal rights violated for 10 years as he had no trial when he was first taken in.

Trudeau's brother is a big palestinian activist and anti Israel.

Just like his bro Obama, Trudeau is not a friend of Israel.

First of all, only productive people pay for sick care in the US. Between Medicare, Medicaid and government employment, a significant percentage of the population enjoys sick care at the cost of taxpayers. What we have in Canada is a sick system where everyone has medical insurance (most hidden cost by tax but in some cases with a monthly premium) provided by each province. There is a wide array of service delivery that is 100% government funded, some 100% government delivered, some delivered by private contractors to the state sick care plan and others that are "out of scope" and must be paid by the patient...IF it is allowed (some services are restricted to government delivery). Within the former G7, only Canada and the US stand out at the two opposite extremes. All of the rest have some version of government insurance, but an unrestricted mix of private and/or public service delivery.

These same evangelicals were calling for Bill Clinton's head when his sexual improprieties were brought to light. The hypocrisy of the religious right knows no bounds.

Any religion can be used to justify any views. They're all BS.