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I don't know how it is in the United States, but in Canada, most immigrants live in the big cities, and the big cities consistently vote for left wing parties which raise taxes and promise big spending programs on the poor. So I'm afraid I see no evidence to support your belief. Actually now that I think about it, most immigrants to the US go to the big cities too. And the big cities mostly vote for the Democrats, not the Republicans. So the rule holds there too.

So apparently the progressives are pulling out their hair and gnashing their teeth again because the Tories tried to run an attack ad against the Liberal government on the theme of migrants crossing the border. Why are they upset? The ad depicted a black man. Gasp! The horror! The horror! Apparently the fact almost all the illegal migrants so far have been Black, mostly from Nigeria and Haiti, is no reason at all to show a Black man illegally crossing the border! Why, the conservatives must be RACIST! The ad should have featured blonde Scandinavians! Or at least, a perfectly racially mixed grouping of all races and nationalities! https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-conservative-party-pulls-attack-ad-depicting-a-black-man-walking-over/

Trotsky is turning in his grave.

While the nation is hungry and thirsty thanks to the Islamic regime's policies and corrupt politicians using extreme repression against its own people to remain in power a while longer, the IRGC plans to produce 800 more tanks!!!!!! https://defence-blog.com/army/irans-army-plans-procure-800-karrar-advanced-battle-tanks.html Yes they will ask Iranian people to eat tanks. A regime that delivers bullets and guns and tanks in the heart of its people instead, when its people ask for food and water!!!!

I didn't see any fellatio. What channel were you watching?

Iran"s islamic regime arrests many more innocent people for having their pictures on Instagram.!!!!!! https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/iran-arrests-instagram-models-immoral-crackdown-a8451631.html While rapists and muderers and thieves all associated with the regime are going free and protected by the regime.

I'm watching CBC Power and Politics and they are questioning the merits of the inquiry. Firstly, lets remember it was a campaign promise - but secondly and most important, it was the Auditor General who called their Fair Hydro Plan "bogus accounting". Never in Canadian history has an Auditor General issued such strong opinions. Yet CBC did not focus on those facts - nor did their "Power Panel". Is one required? Absolutely! Link: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-auditor-general-blasts-bogus-hydro-accounting-strategies-in-ontario/

Yes but what flavor of nationalism is the question Michael was asking. Economic Nationalist best describe the Trump agenda. I'm pro American anything, american rocks, air, toilet paper, what ever.

Trump has stated his priorities clearly, if you can hear him through all the damned noise. Trump gave a statement to cameras from the White House Tuesday in which he outlined in general terms some of his discussion with Putin.- The two men discussed "the range of issues," Trump said, "starting with the civil war in Syria and the need for humanitarian aid and help for people in Syria." They also discussed the need to halt Iran's nuclear ambitions "and the destabilizing activities taking place in Iran," as well as Israel's security, North Korea and "the reduction of nuclear weapons throughout the world," Trump said. Link But hey, the guy is a "megalomaniac who wants to hand the world over to Putin"., next Hitler, etc. coming from people who are having an emotional fit. Yet can't stop talking about Trump. Turn on the news, Trump, Trump, Trump. Your opinion, my opinion about Trump. And yet what they talk about is really - nothing! Still waiting for world war 3 to break out, let me know when. Trump is nearly two years in, didn't Obama already attack somebody by then? With his Nobel prize tucked away in the bottom drawer of the Oval office, so he didn't have to look at it.

Astonishing how many people criticise Trump because he had a meeting with Putin and sought to improve relations, commit in principle to collaborate on security and seek better economic relationships, rather than oppose and threaten. The same outrage came from the left when Trump sought to meet Kim Jong Un and did likewise, to offer a possible way out of conflict and to improve relations. Perhaps people would rather have open conflict and war.

Are you clueless or what. During the Obama years illegal alien parents were separated from their children and many children were put in cages. It was not Trump who made the policy nor responsible for this. It was the American immigration system that was behind the separating of parents from children long before Trump arrived on the scene. Get your facts straight before you start spreading your bull chit. Geez, some people kids.

Jeeze man take a chill pill, I'm not attacking you, I'm attacking your ideas. True the border wall won't help those who got in legally through the visa process and over stayed. LOLS They are not the problem and we aren't prosecuting them as illegals when it comes to immigration. It's the people who crosses the border through neighboring countries using human traffickers that's the concern. Those "rednecks" are working class blue collar workers. They need jobs that trump is bringing back to lift themselves out of poverty. Same for the Latinos. Stop bringing up race or ethnicity, poverty doesn't discriminate, poverty doesn't care about your ethnicity, race, religion, sexual orientation etc.... I don't buy the identity politics bull shit.

The development of border controls and immigration policies is actually quite recent. The Indians (Indigenous in Canada, unless you want to be subjected to scorn) didn't have an immigration policy and neither did anybody else at the time. On a more amusing note, when I asked one of my American relatives why Indian/Indigenous relations are far less controversial in the U.S. than in Canada despite the fact there are far more North American Indians living in the U.S. and Canadian Indigenous peoples are afforded greater government support on a per capita basis, he said "we defeated them so our rules apply." Wow, I thought, that's pretty forthright.

Can you point to s single thing Trump has done which deserves any credit for a strong US economy? I'm curious, because his only legislative accomplishment (not that it was him, but rather, the Republicans in Congress) is the tax cuts which will add trillions to the debt, and weaken America in the future. BTW, when did debt and deficit become irrelevant to the Republicans? When did the Republicans stop being fiscal conservatives? The US, and indeed, the whole West, has strong claims on China's predatory trade practices, and have for years. I don't fault Trump going after them. here is much less of a case to be made against the EU, and none against Canada. As I've said before, under NAFTA, 99% of trade between the US and Canada has no tariffs. What few remain - on both sides - were negotiated into the agreement. In terms of steel and aluminum, the US exports more steel to Canada than it imports from Canada. It does import more aluminum but it hasn't got the capacity to supply its own market. The tarrifs are mostly simply increasing prices for all manufactured goods across the board in the US which then makes them less competitive. As to Mexico, their inclusion was also strategic, as you say. Since NAFTA, and the jobs it has brought to Mexico, more Mexicans are crossing the border headed south than north. And many of the jobs which went there would have wound up in China anyway.

They don't put any conservatives on these panels. The panels consist of an NDP rep, a Liberal rep, and someone they sort of push forward as 'semi conservative' but in the way of an old red tory, from Progressive Conservative days who was more liberal than conservative.

If the NATO deadbeats are feeling the fire that President Trump lit under their asses, then it is "mission accomplished". Trump is hardly the first U.S. president to criticize and threaten NATO deadbeats. I still think NATO is obsolete, but if it must endure as is, then it should be properly funded by all members.

I tend to agree with you on the public facilities issue. A good friend of mine - now, sadly, deceased - tried after completing his first lengthy round of cancer treatments to go back to his local recreation facility to work out but was told he'd have to change his schedule due to an arrangement that provided "religious" accommodation for a small group of female users. He wouldn't use the facilities in high-use periods because of self-consciousness about his physical deterioration and other times of day were simply impractical as I believe he was receiving scheduled home care visits and had various appointments. So, he simply gave up. e could no longer enjoy the benefits of a taxpayer-funded facility he had used for about a decade even though I believe his doctors said he could resume his workouts, which could have been medically and psychologically beneficial to him. You have to ask whose rights were really trampled on here? Had he requested accommodation on grounds of disability, would it have been accorded him? He doubted it would, which demonstrates the moral inconsistency in our accommodation regime. I believe we have developed an artificial hierarchy of accommodation rights, where some rights are rendered more politically important than are others.

The Germans have been doing it for years. The Meko class Frigates are of a modular design that allows quick changes in weapons, sensors and other systems to be made easily. Way back in the early eighties I thought these ships would be a good fit for Canada rather than our own Canadian designed ones. They would have been cheaper too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MEKO

Are you kidding? Putin basically walked right up to Trump and grabbed him by the pussy.

That is the conservative way. Especially works like a charm on other conservatives.

I don't think so....Trump is doing that which he has always done, and others have seemingly lost the plot. Jimmy Carter paid a much higher price for the "Iran debacle".

I believe that Trudeau is beholden to the globalist agenda although I suspect he doesn't understand the degree to which he's simply a front man. I think the big problem with all politicians, whether intelligent or otherwise, is that they pay little attention to the real impacts of their actions and policies on ordinary people.

You seem unusually facinated by Canadians...for which we are very happy.

President Trump has reached that point where, to paraphrase Joe Clark, if he walked on water, they would say "Look, President Trump can't swim." I don't see any way he can overcome the opposition.

Who do they think THEY are that their repressive and oppressive ideologies should have a place in Western society?

What "debacle," exactly?

Is it possible Trump's biggest supporter and enabler is wavering because of his kowtowing before Putin? Putin eats Trump's lunch http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2018/07/16/putin-eats-trumps-lunch-in-helsinki-this-is-no-way-to-win-against-russia.html Trump should stop praising America's enemies and blaming former presidents http://insider.foxnews.com/2018/07/16/neil-cavuto-rips-donald-trump-russia-putin-summit-and-election-interference Trump scored on his own goal http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/07/16/trump-scores-on-his-own-goal.html

If freedom of religion is a central tent of liberalism than Trudeau needs to give his head a shake as he tries to impose his liberalism and views on people who are religious, particularly when it comes to gov't grants. As far as the groper goes, no I don't think he should step down over that one confirmed incident, (I don't think any man should step down until there has been a hearing, as in Steve Paiken) I do however believe he as a lot of 'splaining to do over his convoluted answers and attempts to deflect with his egregious double speak. Trudeau is a liar, narcissist and hypocrite. This says it better than I can https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/hassan-trudeaus-flaky-feminism-is-pure-hypocrisy

I have so much of respect for a woman's choice that I am ready to tolerate that as ridiculous and out of place as they may look. My tolerance ends when they want to change our way of life or try to force their way on other muslim women. This is a free country. They are free to live the way they wish but if they try to impose their way on others then I say to them get the hell out of here and go back to hell house they come from.

Interesting article entitled "Change coming to Iran" https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/07/change_is_coming_to_iran.html The current situation in Iran is indeed dire. Resentment of the Islamic regime aside, political, economic, and social grievances have driven Iranians into the streets. The protests are the largest in the country since 2009. Protesters' chants and attacks on government buildings upended a system that had little tolerance for dissent, with some demonstrators even shouting "Death to the Khamenei!" – referring to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei – and asking security forces to join them. The protesters have been chanting for the return of Prince Reza Pahlavi, the eldest son of the former shah of Iran, Muhamad Reza Pahlavi. This is particularly significant. For now, there is no unifying force among the anti-government protesters. The time for a change has arrived. The majority of the Iranian people refuse to be fooled and intimidated any longer. They refuse to obey orders from the beasts of Allah currently ruling Iran. Iranians have recognized the fundamental weaknesses of their oppressors. With a little help here and little help there, they can be transformed overnight from seemingly subdued and helpless sheep into mighty lions. It is time for the Iranians to strike, gather forces, organize, and especially demonstrate in the streets in increasing numbers, even in the face of massive, gruesome, bloody repression by the Islamic rulers who still have a powerful armed apparatus at their disposal. It is time to unleash the wrath of the Iranian people on the Islamic zealots. It is time to become even more defiant and end the barbaric theocratic regime by massive participation in a freedom revolution.

Bad enough these immigrant deadbeats have no skills, but now we're welcoming people with "mental illness" as well? The word must be out on the wonderful treatment afforded Vince "the head chopper" Li in good old Canada? Our motto: Send us your old, sick, uneducated, stupid, give us your mental patients, your tuberculosis infected, oh what the heck: Just send us every useless, diseased parasite on society you can round up. We will take care of them, don't worry. The "poor" people of Canada live better than 90% of the planet. Thanks,

I hate how Moonlight Graham uses profanity all the time. What an asshole!

Here we go again. So if someone voices legitimate concerns and questions about Islam they're automatically Islamophobic? Before tossing the racist card around willy nilly perhaps you should learn the definition of the word. Islam is a system that encompasses social, legal, military and religious conventions and rolls them up into one philosophy. Would you care to explain how one can be racist against a philosophy? Not to mention the fact that one can be Muslim no matter what their race. Are you suggesting that those who criticize Islam are racist against all races, including their own?

Yes, this absolute failure and laughing stock unfortunately matters much more than Canada I concur. Only something as big as America could fail on this scale, I can't argue.

Russia is taking control of the USA, an independent nation in the Americas. That is a clear violation of the Monroe Doctrine. If this is merely an alliance, then, with Russia on our side, who are we defending western europe against? Terrorism is a matter for the constabulary and if the Presidents of Russia and the United States ally with China, we will have Peace in our Time. What a wonderful age we live in.