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Yup, I am not particularly well-versed in geopolitics. On the other hand, I don't feel it's necessary to respond to trollers with any semblance of serious discussion.

The only country that could invade Canada is the US. Like that is going to happen. We belong to NATO to protect Western Europe, not Canada or the US. Where was the US from 1939 - 1942? Where was the US from 1914 to 1917? This is not to say that when the US finally entered the WW2, they did not contribute, but it could be said the US was the dead-beat while we spent our blood and treasure. I don't agree with that, but is is one arguement. Why does the US need such a huge military? I agree with Bush-Cheney, the US should put a big chunk of it's Defence budget into healthcare. As Gwynne Dyer famously said, "If you can't take a joke, you should not have a defence budget."

If America wanted to take care of it's citizens rather than wage war in other countries, it would. America has aggressively pursued it's destiny; whining about it now just makes you look foolish.

The problem with the EU is that it is a bureaucratic dictatorship with very little accountability to the average man and woman on the street. Canada and the US are also bureaucratic dictatorships, with slightly fewer bureaucrats per capita. The problem with bureaucracy is that it governs in its own interest, and not in that of the producers of society. If you want to learn more about this phenomenon, read up on Social Choice Theory. It is an exact science, and every Canadian intuitively knows that "they are only in it for themselves". Social Choice Theory is correct. Socialism and bureaucracy are incorrect. Politicians spend money on the basis of the next election. Not because it is economically efficient. This should be outlawed. In Canada, taxes are double what they should be, because of bureaucracy. The more bureaucrats per thousand people, the higher the taxes, and the poorer your state becomes. Quebec is a perfect example of this. The highest taxes in North America, constant leeching off of the rest of Canada, and only 1 US state is poorer, which is Mississippi. Considering the territory, resources, and education of the Quebec people, this is completely ridiculous. Quebec should be pitching in, not taking out. In that case, all of Canada would prosper even more. And I am in Quebec, living by my own means. The basic problem of Quebec is that unions think they own the place. I have always hated unions. They pay lazy people the same as hard workers, and then the hard workers unconsciously say "Who is John Galt?" and become lazy themselves. As Jordan B. Peterson points out, when you put good disadvantaged kids with bad disadvantaged kids, the good kids become bad. Still, I find Peterson very lukewarm compared to pure Objectivism. A step in the right direction, but you do not criticize Ayn Rand for literary style. Anyone can do that! You learn Objectivism and make it your life's philosophy. Otherwise you are a mewling socialist, whether you call yourself a Conservative or not. Unilateral free trade worked brilliantly for Britain in 1851. It is widely argued this led to the Victorian boom which lasted until the 1920s. Living standards rose greatly. Many new technologies were invented. It may sound counterintuitive, but we have been brainwashed by collectivism and communism, which can even be found in the Conservative Party of Canada as it supports supply management (in Quebec, of course.) Trump says our supply management is killing US farmers, but it is also killing poor people in Canada as well, who bear the burden of this supply management monopoly the worst. Unintentionally or not, Trump is a friend of poor people in Canada, which is why many poor people in Canada are wearing MAGA hats, despite what snowflake SJW extreme-leftist victim groups want. What happens with unilateral free trade is that cheap goods will flood the Canadian market, raising Canadian living standards, and forcing Canadian companies to be more efficient to compete. This is why I like what Trump is doing. There is no way we can beat Trump at his game, however we can up our own game and let the chips fall as they may. Trump is forcing us to act like adults, instead of complacent government-dependent socialist collectivist communist babies. The problem for all of these foreign suppliers in unilateral free trade, then, is that they are now stuck with Canadian dollars. I tried to explain this to the PC Party in 1987, but they were having none of it. There is only one place you can spend Canadian dollars. And that is in Canada. Because our companies have somehow become more competitive (to compete with the flood of foreign goods), they are now able to supply all these foreigners with the goods and services we can supply. All and all, we still have a $2 trillion market, and that is something people all over the world will want a piece of. New technologies get invented, supply goes up, demand goes up, investment comes flooding in, and wages rise on the basis of hard work and not unions. In the current trade dispute with Donald Trump, by taxing on a 1-for-1 basis in "retaliation" to US actions, our extreme-left Liberal government is punishing Canadian consumers TEN TIMES AS MUCH PER CAPITA. Can you people get this into your thick skulls? The US action was an attempt to lower Canadian economic activity. The response should not be to lower it even more. Canada should have LOWERED tariffs, LOWERED corporate taxes, and LOWERED GST, while firing thousands of useless bureaucrats. To make matters even worse than that, now the extreme-left Liberal government is planning to subsidise these steel and aluminum producers to the tune of $800 million, which could have easily been spent on severance packages for bureaucrats. Oh, and guess where the aluminum producers are. Quebec. What the extreme-left Liberal government does not want to understand is that every time they interfere in the normal course of business in Quebec, they are taking away opportunity from the Quebec people. The people in Alberta are exactly right to complain about transfer payments always going to Quebec. It should be extremely embarrassing to be leeches like this. Every government handout makes it more difficult for the Quebec people to succeed. If we need to fire more bureaucrats, we simply abrogate their union contracts using the notwithstanding clause. If they resist, we bring in troops, police, replacement workers and AI software. Our freedoms are more important than their so-called collective rights. If there are agitators who are trying to foment socialist revolution, we put them in jail for treason. There is no compromise with Marxism. It is really sad that after all these years, I was able to get the nickname 'objectivist' on this site. Please learn Objectivism. It is the only pure capitalist philosophy. Please stop defining yourself on the political spectrum with left-wing Marxist murderers and looters. It is either right or wrong, and that is all we need to know. Socialism has murdered tens of millions of people, and there should be no compromise with socialism at all. Do you think it would ever happen, say once in a billion years, when a Canadian would say, "No, Ms. Government, I do not WANT your free stuff?" NULLUM GRATUITUM PRANDIUM.

After everything he said about sexual assault and how he has treated members of his own government over whispers, he at least needs to own up to this groping allegation. Now personally I don't want him to resign, I prefer him to go down hard in 2019.

Then you might be interested in this:

Miracles do happen my friend. Don’t give up hope If/ should that be the case I will definitely buy another pint on your behalf and drink to that.

So, men are starting to......act like........women?

Thanks! I was hoping it would catch your eye. It was very specifically worded to offend as many Canadian/European liberals as possible. As much as I hate you all I still think it is a hate worth preserving. Hence I am pro NATO, pro post world war 2 rule based order. Otherwise there'd be nobody left worth hating...they'd just be enemies. This is a great topic to discuss, one that requires another post to thoroughly dissect, so I will say this, the dissolution of the soviet union brought on different challenges to world security and America for the most part was winding down during the late 90s as a result. But with the advent of non-state actor(terrorists etc...) and aggression below the threshold of war (cyber attack, political subversion, election interference etc...) america's strategic calculus needed a hard rethink one in which the Trump administration has acknowledge and is aggressively pursuing. Yes and no, yes in that we should not have invaded Iraq , but as for Syria and much of the middle east the Arab spring has proven that the dictatorship were no longer sustainable in maintaining peace. Environmental concerns are overburdening industry and needed to be scaled back from Obama levels, Same for world trade, too many issue with supply management and tariff should commit to free trade as proposed by trump. Though his negotiation tactic are somewhat controversial. Putin---false, He's an American president. He serves America's interest, if we want to do deals with Russia or china to offset the cost of defending dead beat allies then that's what we shall have.

The history of NATO doctrine says otherwise....long gone are the large American divisions and tank battalions. What used to be 300,000 U.S. troops is now 30,000....to deter, not stop a Russian invasion. NATO does not have the capacity to respond in such a manner, even with forward deployed U.S. forces. This is Trump's point....Europe cannot / will not defend itself at such expensive levels, preferring to finance social welfare states instead. NATO command does not have strategic nuclear forces...they chop to respective national command authorities, and with good reason. Nobody wants to start nuclear armageddon because the Russians just invaded Estonia. If this is so important, why doesn't Canada spend more on defence ? Why can't America demilitarize to fund universal health care and the welfare state just like Canada/Europe ? These are the frustrations that Trump and previous U.S. presidents have articulated...why is it a U.S. burden ?

From Mediabiascheck Your News Wire publishes some legit news, however most stories are related to conspiracies and/or simply misleading fake news. Your News Wire is a clickbait website that is listed on Factcheck.org’s fake news list. Not even Fox News has repeated this false 'news' story. A Joel Davis was arrested, but his claim to fame was that he started an anti-abuse organization, while abusing children himself. For accurate news, go mainstream.

Hoping to pick up a few votes in this fall's municipal elections, Ottawa City mayor Jim Watson declined the US Embassy's invite to July 4th party. Idiot. The one saving grace is that outside Ottawa nobody knows who Watson is.

Amazing that a "top Clinton advisor" is only 22 years old and not out of college yet. So he was just graduating high school when he was putting Hillary's campaign together?

Sure, but she has "cultural appropriation" issues to deal with: http://thefederalist.com/2016/07/26/6-instances-of-cultural-appropriation-during-elizabeth-warrens-night-at-the-dnc/ Nominating Sen. Warren would guarantee a second term for Trump.

Democrat Al Franken is available to run for president, now that he is no longer a U.S. senator. Oh wait, he was caught as a #MeToo pervert, so maybe that won't play well with "progressives". Keep searching......