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Actually, Moody's downgraded Ontario because of Wynne's policies, not Doug Ford: http://lfpress.com/news/economy/ontario-government-financial-outlook-changed-to-negative-moodys/wcm/3bf1d405-1ebf-44ee-914d-8edfacfc6b2a

Behind the scenes of G7 Summit! Hahahaha Like I've mused before......what better place to have them all lined up in one room than in that summit? At one point, he described migration as a big problem for Europe, before telling Abe: “Shinzo, you don’t have this problem, but I can send you 25 million Mexicans and you’ll be out of office very soon.” The jab created a sense of irritation in the room, an EU official said. The source added that when the topic turned to Iran and terrorism, Trump took aim at French President Emmanuel Macron, saying: “You must know about this, Emmanuel, because all the terrorists are in Paris.” European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker also came under fire and was repeatedly described by Trump as a “brutal killer” in reference to the bloc’s billions of dollars in antitrust and tax fines against U.S. tech companies. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/16/national/politics-diplomacy/trump-threatened-send-25-million-mexicans-japan-report/

There has always been a strong anti-American undercurrent in Canada from the very beginning. The disdain and outright hatred stems partly from the dichotomy of opposing U.S. foreign and domestic policies while being utterly dependent on the U.S. economy. Trump vs. Trudeau is just the latest version of the "elephant vs. mouse" relationship...the mouse has been vocally anti-elephant many times before....and the elephant usually just ignores the mouse's screaming. When the elephant shouts back...it shocks the mouse...BOYCOTT !! Canadians attacked Trump viciously and continuously even before he became president...as if it mattered.

You will never silence his critics. They love to hear themselves bitch and moan. As to he and his party being "divisive", I guess you could say he divided the living shit out of the Libs, but you need to realize and admit he united the voters of Ontario as SHOULD have happened 15 years ago. Instead, all of the meeley-mouth wimps pandered to the poltically correct left and destroyed the province. As to party status? That has to be earned, not given. Same rules for everyone. When it comes to worrying about Liberal/ NDP as opposition, it makes no difference. Same-same.

It depends on what you mean by the word "hate." There's been an increasing tendency in the West to equate the meaning of hate merely with perceived offense. This is untenable in the Western intellectual context, which is grounded in a philosophy of challenge and objective criticism. In Canada, for instance, criticism of some religious practices and beliefs is often conflated these days with "phobia" or fear and is thus held to be promoting hatred, even where there's no obvious justification for this conclusion. Even defending secularism, which an eminently reasonable concept in a pluralistic society, gets lumped by some into the category of promoting hatred. We need to get back to basics here, and acknowledge the primacy of free speech before we lose sight of the virtues of Western intellectual inquiry and criticism.

Generally speaking, I oppose the concept of censorship. I do, however, believe it necessary to restrict speech that's intended to incite violence against members of any specific group, which historically has been the intent of hate speech laws in democratic countries. In a free and democratic society, there must be no topics that are presumptively deemed to be beyond the realm of public discourse. The role of a responsible citizenry is to ensure that debate is fairly and civilly conducted. The tendency to bully others into silence has seemingly increased, and particularly so in academia, which is disturbing. Democracy can't survive without freedom of speech and anybody who says otherwise is either a fool or is taking the rest of us for fools.

They are not as expensive as rationing. If we are going to be re-building the rail system and building nuclear power plants across the country, the governments will need money. A bureaucratic nightmare to govern rationing would be expensive. Carbon taxes, if they are steep enough, will work, and they rely on the free market to work. They have already been shown to be effective in BC. The sooner we start cutting oil production, the more oil we will have for the future. Sorry for the thread drift.

No one is blaming women, but they are saying that society should acknowledge and maybe even try to help with some of the issues that men face, rather than brushing it off and saying "man up." When I was in university (in the 2000's) there was talk of creating a counselling center specifically for men (like the ones they have for women, indigenous students, LGBT) so that maybe they could deal with things like high drop out rates, high suicide rates, the fact that mentally ill men are less likely to seek treatment, domestic abuse (it happens to men, but they rarely talk about it because they are expected to "man up") etc. It was squashed by the student union. They said men aren't a marginalized group. The word "misogyny" came up. You get the idea. Saying that "men as a group are facing their own specific issues and maybe we should try to offer them some help" is not the same as "blaming women."